Who is the image, the likeness, of the Divine nature and of the absolute moral excellence of the invisible God “whom no man has seen at any time or can see.”

So from, or rather in, our holy bondservice the Apostle has brought us to our inexhaustible life, and its resources for willing holiness. But he has more to say in explaining the beloved theme. He turns from slave to wife, from surrender to bridal, from we purchase to the vow, from the results of a holy bondage to the offspring of a heavenly union.

Let the saints have patience and never fear lest God should forget his words of promise, or the interests of his people and kingdom. He will vindicate himself as true to his words, both of threatening against his foes and of promise in behalf of his friends.