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The servant, what his master's duty is, not what is his
to his master; the people, what the minister in his
place should do, rather than what is incumbent on
themselves to such as are over them in the Lord.

MARCH 20th.-God requires no more than faith-
fulness in our place. We do not find fault with an
apple tree if it be laden with apples, which is the fruit
of its own kind, though we can find no figs or grapes
growing on it: we expect these only from their proper
root and stock. He is a fruitful tree in God's orchard
that "brings forth his fruit in his season," Ps. i.-3.
MARCH 21st.-The saint's sleeping time is Satan's
tempting time; every fly dares venture to creep on
a sleeping lion. No temptation so weak, but is strong
enough to foil a Christian that is napping in security.
Samson asleep, and Delilah cut his locks. Saul asleep,
and the spear is taken away from his very side, and
he never the wiser. Noah asleep, and his graceless
son has a fit time to discover his father's nakedness.
Eutychus asleep, nods and falls from the third loft and
is taken up dead. Thus the Christian asleep in security
may soon be surprised so as to lose much of his spiritual
strength.

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ARCH 18th.-Great captains, to make their
soldiers more resolute, do sometimes cut off
all hope of a safe retreat to them that run
away: thus the Norman conqueror, as soon as his
men were set on English shore, sent away his ships in
their sight, that they might resolve to fight or die.
God takes away all thought of safety from the coward.
Not a piece to be found for the back in all God's
armoury. Stand, and the bullets light all on your
armour; fly, and they enter into your hearts. It is a
terrible place. "The just shall live by faith: but if any
man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him;"
Heb. x. 38.
MARCH 19th.-It will not profit a man to know
his way to York if going to London; yet how prone
we are to study another's way and work, than our own!

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