It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also to take both sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David carried his

sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for he counts the hairs of your head; and your great sorrows you may commit to him, for he holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand.

All the blessings, all the mercies, all the comforts, all the riches which grace bestows flow to us from the well-head of eternal love through the covenant of which our Lord Jesus is the substance and the surety. No angels ascend or descend, save upon

that ladder which Jacob saw which united man and his covenant God: that ladder our Lord Jesus pointed out to Nicodemus as being himself, the Son of man.