No man can raise our bodies to life, much less can he raise
our souls. The physician himself cannot cure the sicknesses of our
bodies; he can only give us fit medicines, and leave them to cure us
by certain laws of nature, which he did not make, and which he cannot
alter. And though the physician can, by much learning, understand
men's bodies somewhat, who can understand men's souls? We cannot
understand our own souls; we do not know what they are, how they
live; whence they come, or whither they go. We cannot cure them
ourselves, much less can anyone cure them for us. The only one who
can cure our souls is He that made our souls; the only one who can
give life to our souls is He who gives life to everything. The only
one who can cure, and strengthen, and comfort our spirits, is He who
understands our spirits, because He himself is the Spirit of all
spirits, the Spirit who searcheth all things, even the deep things of
God; because He is the Spirit of God the Father, who made all heaven
and earth, and of Jesus Christ the Son, who understands the heart of
man, who can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, and
hath been tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.
He is the Comforter which God has promised to our spirits, the only
Comforter who can strengthen our spirits; and if we have Him with us,
if He is strengthening us, if He is leading us, if He is abiding with
us, if He is changing us day by day, more and more into the likeness
of Jesus Christ, are we not, as I said at the beginning of my sermon,
richer than if we possessed all the land of England, stronger than if
we had all the armies of the world at our command? For what is more
precious than--God Himself? What is stronger than--God Himself? The
poorest man in whom God's Spirit dwells is greater than the greatest
king in whom God's Spirit does not dwell.
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