“For All Things Are Yours.” 1 Corinthians 3:21 (June 8, 1884)

1 Cor For all things are yours. Whether P. or d. or Cephas or His [& ye are Xts. ] world, or life, or death, or things [to come] present, or things to come 3:21 All things are yours all ye are Xts and Xt is Gods. This certainly seems like an [exaggeration] exaggerated statement. / But [And] if [it] it be a true statement, as assuredly it is how rich is every Christian for, of each one who has given his faith to the great Saviour, it is here said all the things are yours. [+ And what is [sure] quite as remarkable the belieber is so told of his prodigious] [wealth as simply as if he were told that twice 2 make four,] [or any other [proportion] [health] fact which no sane person can] [dispute. / It is, indeed, a far larger truth than] [most received truths are and a far warmer] [as well as a far weightier every way a far more] [wonderful: yet just as much a matter-of-course] [hiette as is presented by the daily rising and setting of the sun,] [which needs not to be proved, but only to be] [assented. / Accordingly the apostle employs] [it as an already established [fact] certainty: so that] [when he says all things are yours, he thinks] For all things are yours June 8, 1886 2 [it not worth his which to do more than say it.] Only be a servant of the Lord Xt., and it follows that all things are Jesus & follo[ws] as [certainly] surely as day follows night: by an inesistable [So, then, here is one of] [those [certainties] wide rocks of security upon which Xts can stand] [ a] Here then is a certainty [to which Paul was enabled to appeal] [as a [conclusions] [clinching] argument against] which which Paul [to] enforces what he had been [teaching and] reasoning about touching the folly of rusting [F]for honor or for blessedness to mere men. / Therefore but no man glory [unto] in men is his conclusion from what [he was past] had been previously said. And this conclusion he still farther supports by referring to [the] a fact which all [know] knew, but sometimes might forget: [or, by a] [little reflection, might know and ought never] [to lose sight of:] for, all things are yours. / You are not dependant upon [others] other mortals for the true riches 3 or the true glory to which you are entitled by the will of God. / Your fellow sinners can anser upon you nothing [you do not already have i.e. nothing that] that makes for your [real or] lasting welfare. / [And, if they] [But, do you] [ask [he] me, why all is yours. / I answer, [because] by [summoning you] the reminder that ye] [are Xts.] / Being [His] Xts, ye have an unchallengeable interest in [that] His infinite [Fathers] estate [for Xt. is Gods Xt., to whom every thing] [has been made over for the use & enjoyment of His] [people, to which ? [they] you have [a] night,] by a claim [at once] the highest and the honestest, [by the very] [same claim, in fact, that Xt. Himself has, who paid its] [fall price equally in His own behalf and yours:] [the inalienable claim [that seals to you are] of inviolable inheritance:] at once the highest and honestest a claim written not on perishable parchment but in imperishable promise, and sanctioned by divine [law] love as well as authorized by divine law. 3 [The pangs of dispised love, the laws delay,] [The insolence of office, and the spurns] [That patient merit from the unworthy takes ] [When he himself might his quistes make] [With a bare bodkin. Who would bundles (fardles) bear] [To grunt & sweat under a weary life,] [But that the cheat of something after death ] [The undiscovered country from whose bourne] [No traveller returns puzzles the will,] [And makes us rather bear those ills we have.] [Than fly to others that we know not of?] [Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all,] [And thus, the native tune of resolution] [Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought,] [And enterprises of great pith and moment,] [With this regard their currents him awry] [And lose the name of action.]