GERM NOTES ON THE VERSES.

Vers. 6, 7. The Evidences and Effects of Revival.

I. Receivers.—With faith, with joy, not without trial.

II. Followers.—Apostolic piety. Christ-like spirit. Multiplication of Christ-like men.

III. Ensamples.—Centres of Christian influence.

IV. Dispensers.—Induced to diffuse the Gospel by their gratitude for the special grace which had brought it to them with saving power, by their supreme attachment to its vital truths and their experience of the suitableness of these truths to their wants as sinners, by their commiseration for those who were yet in a state of nature, by their love to the Lord Jesus, by the express command of God, by the hope of reward.—G. Brooks.

Ver. 8. The Power of Example—

  1. In a faithful declaration of the Gospel.
  2. In its far-reaching influence on others.
  3. Speaks for itself, rendering explanation unnecessary.

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Verses 9, 10.

Conversion and its Evidence.