Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church

put forth in fighting, and the exertions that were made
anciently by combatants in the public games, John xviii,
36; 1 Cor. ix, 25, &c., and must signify to bring into
requisition all the powers and energies both of body and
mind. This we must do to enter in at the strait gate; i.e.,
to overcome. p. 114, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].
Men of this world manifest zeal in temporal things, and
shall we lack zeal in eternal things? Christ was zealous;
Paul was zealous; and all those who have made proficiency
in holiness, and have been useful in the world, have had
zeal; and it will require zeal and strength to overcome in
these last days of peril; and to get zeal and strength we
must act and be in earnest. p. 115, Para. 1, [HOLINESS].
If we manifest as much zeal and earnestness in overcoming
as the men of this world do in their worldly pursuits, we
shall not fail to overcome and perfect holiness. As our day
is, so shall our strength be. God will not leave nor
forsake us, but will meet us in the work and bid and help
us go forward. He will take us as it were by the hand, and
we shall go from strength to strength, conquering and to
conquer. And if in anything we be otherwise minded, he will
reveal even this unto us. And "if God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?" Rom. viii, 31, 32. He will help us to
be more than conquerors in all things, and over sin and all
our foes, through him that hath loved us; and in holy
triumph and joy we shall be enabled to gratefully exclaim,
Blessed be God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. p. 115, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].
BEARING Of THE LAW OF GOD ON THIS SUBJECT. p. 116, Para.
1, [HOLINESS].
By the law of God we mean the law that is commonly
designated as the moral law, and which prescribes to men
their religious, and social duties; in other words, "their
duties to God and to each other" (Webster); the law which
is based in the nature of God, and in the nature of man,
and which is composed of those obligations, that grow out
of the relations that we sustain to God, and to our fellowcreatures;
the law that God proclaimed in person on Mount
Sinai, in the hearing of all Israel, his chosen people, and
wrote with his own finger on stone; the only public address
that God ever made to his people, with the exception of the