this:—‘They overcame by the blood of the Lamb,’ or the last promise of all:—‘He that overcometh shall inherit all things.’ Thus bound together by that link, as well as by a great many more, are all the writings which the tradition of the Church has attributed to this great Apostle. But to come to the words of my text. They appear in a very remarkable context here. If you read a verse or two before, you will get the full singularity of their introduction. ‘This is the love of God,’ says he, ‘that