they have enjoyed the peace, and exercised the love, and maintained the purity of God's dear children. Let such then be thankful for the distinguished mercies vouchsafed unto them: let them remember that "all things, which pertain unto life and godliness, are communicated to us through the knowledge of Christ;"a and let them seek to "grow both in grace and knowledge," till from "beholding Christ only as in a glass darkly," they shall "see him as they are seen, and know him as they are known."b