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1. It Is Possible For A Man To Have God For His.
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I am thy Reward,'--not merely Rewarder, but Reward.
How can one spiritual Being belong to another?-plainly, By mutual love.
The Gospel assures us of God's love, and makes it possible for ours to be fixed on Him.
Faith gives us God for ours.
The highest view of the blessings of the Gospel is that God Himself becomes our reward.
How sad the insanity of men appears, in the ordinary aims of their life, its rewards and its objects of desire I How they chase after variety!
How much loftier and truer a conception of the blessing of religion this is than notions of mere escape and the like!