must not indulge security or remissness, “lest their crown should, after all, be lost.” True, the time for their sufferings and their labours was but short, because their “Lord was coming quickly,” to terminate the one, and to reward the other. But still, till he should come, and dismiss them from their warfare, they must “hold fast” every principle they had received, and every practice they had maintained: for on their steadfastness, in fact, depended the final possession of their crown. If they