These are parts of those glad tidings which
are published in the gospel; and of the certainty of them, next to the express
word of God, the experience of all such as have been saved, is the best, and,
as I take it, the most undoubted proof. That God might teach us every way, he
has been pleased to leave upon record many instances of the power of his grace
exerted in the salvation of several persons, that we, hearing how he dealt with
them, might from thence infer the manner we must expect to be dealt with
ourselves, and learn in what way we must look for salvation, if we truly desire
to be made partakers of the inheritance with the saints in light.
The conversion of the person referred to in
the text, I think, will be of no small service to us in this matter, if rightly
improved. I would hope, most of you know who the person is, to whom the Lord
Jesus speaks; it is the publican Zaccheus, to whose house the blessed Jesus
said, salvation came, and whom he pronounces a Son of Abraham.
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