Thou shalt find something in thee that shall allow thee to see thine enemy prosper, but not thy friend.  Something that shall keep thee from thy sleep because of his talents, his name, his income, and his place which I have given him above thee, beside thee, and always in thy sight.  It will be something also that shall make his sickness, his decay, his defamation, and his death sweet to thee, and his prosperity and return to life bitter to thee.  Thou shalt have to confess something in thyself—­whatever its nature and whatever its name—­something that shall make thee miserable at good news, and glad and enlarged and full of life at evil tidings.  It will be something also that shall give a long life in thy evil heart to anger, and to resentment, and to retaliation, and to revenge.  For after years and years thou shalt still have it in thine heart to hate and to hurt that man and his house, because long ago he left thy side, thy booth in the market, thy party in the state, and thy church in religion.  As I live, swore Emmanuel, standing up on the step of His ascending chariot, I shall show thee thyself.  I shall show thee what an unclean heart is and a wicked.  I shall teach to thee what all true saints shudder at when they are let see the plague of their own hearts.  I shall show thee, as I live, how full of pride, and hate, and envy, and ill-will a regenerate heart can be; and how a true-born man of God may still love evil and hate good; may still rejoice in iniquity and pine under the truth.  I shall show thee, also, what thou wilt not as yet believe, how thy best friend cannot trust his good name with thee; such a sweet morsel to thee shall be the mote in his eye and the spot on his praise.  Yes, I shall show thee that I did not die on the cross for nothing when I died for thee; when I went out to Calvary a shame and a spitting, an outcast and a curse for thee!  Thou shalt yet arise up and fall down in thy sin and shalt justify all my thorns, and nails, and spears, and the last drop of My blood for thee!  Yea, thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, and whether thou wouldest keep His commandments or no.

2.  It is also, the still tarrying Prince proceeded—­it is also to keep thee wakeful and to make thee watchful.  Now, what conceivable estate could any man be put into even by his Maker and Redeemer more calculated to call forth wakefulness and watchfulness than to have one half of his heart new and the other half old?  To have one half of his heart garrisoned by the captains of Emmanuel, and the other half still full of the spies and the scouts and the emissaries of hell?  Nay, to have the great bulk of his heart still full of sin and but a small part of his heart here and there under grace and truth?  Here is material for fightings without and fears within with a vengeance!  If it somehow suits and answers