...Greatnefs of the Prize, exprefs'd in thefe Words ; Now they do it to obtain a Corruptible Crown, but loe an Incorruptible ; the Certainty of its Acquifition...our Apprehenfions of the Glories of that Place ; A Msrriage-Feaft, a Kingdom, an Inheritance with the Bleffed Saints in Light, an incorruptible Crown,...

...nor disappoint our hopes. Of those who languish for earthly distinctions, but few can obtain them. " They that run in a race, run all; but one receiveth the prize." It is not so with those who strive for the crown of immortality. They run with the same ardour, but...

...the guilty conscience. The heart which struggles for freedom can obtain it only by right means : " they that run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize : so run, that ye may obtain." How is it to obey this injunction ? It is to search the Word of God,...

...to the training for the race, and then to the pursuit of the prize, does not apply to the result. " They that run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize." To those who had contended in vain therefore, the bitterness of disappointment might be mitigated,...

...crown is not won. He is still to be going forward, still running on, pressing towards the mark, as they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize. It is for the believer to be ever labouring, not trusting indeed to his own strength, but looking to...

...is, indeed, a race, and you know that in a race nobody wins unless he strains every muscle and sinew. They that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ; and that one is generally he who had more strength than the rest ; certainly, whether he had more...

...kicking those that are running beside him — there is not much probability of his coming in first. " Now they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize." There is one however who never gets it, and that is the man who always attends to his fellow-creatures...

...chariot, if one had received the prize before the race was run ? Could St. Paul then have written, " They that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize. So run that ye may obtain." His language, on the Scotch system, would have been, " Run, for one hath...

...reigneth, ever one GOD, world without end. Amen. SEPTUAGESIMA, And following weeks. Antiphon to Psalms. THEY that run in a •*- race, run all, but one receiveth the prize. So run that ye may obtain. 'f. LOED, Thou hast been our Refuge. 'Rf. From one generation to another....

...is, indeed, a race, and you know that in a race nobody wins unless he strains every muscle and sinew. They that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ; ami that one is generally he who had more strength than the rest ; certainly, whether he had more...