prove himself the servant of Him who is invisible, the believer gives undisputed evidence that he knows Jesus, and the power of his Resurrection; and in addressing real Christians on the proofs of the resurrection, we feel that we are exhibiting the most powerful motives which can influence them "with purpose of heart to cleave unto the Lord"-the most consoling topics which can give peace to the conscience, and the most effectual remedy against the fear of death. "Come see the place where the Lord lay"-what proof does that empty tomb afford of the love of our master and only Saviour? Consider what he endured in his passage to that tomb-and attend to the admonition with which it addresses you, 66 ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price, therefore, glorify God with your bodies and your spirits which are his." Yea, brethren, while your hearts are moved by the contemplation of such love-let me ask, "shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" how shall we "who are dead to sin live any longer therein?" Here also does the empty tomb furnish consolation to the penitent," be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all who believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be

justified by the law of Moses :"-and what power can the fear of death exercise over him who stands at this place where death was swallowed up in victory, and hears it proclaimed by the voice of triumph, "Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept, for since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory ?-Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Be ye, therefore, my beloved brethren, steadfast and unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

There are, however, many persons whose judgment is convinced of the truth of the Resurrection, but in whose minds it produces no practical results, because they are not sensible

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any connexion it has or can have with their spiritual state. To such, however, we have to present the resurrection in a point of view touching them so closely, as to insure at least a momentary attention to its consequences. "The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness,

by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." If we could induce the thoughtless and the worldlyminded to join us in the contemplation of this subject, we might expostulate with them on the lamentable folly of their present conduct. Here, we can say, is the place where the Lord lay, as surely as he was laid here, so surely must your body one day be deposited in the grave-and as surely as he rose, so surely will he come again to be your judge; in that day he will enter into judgment with you, and when this great day of his wrath arrives who shall be able to stand.

Thus sanctioned by the certainty of the Resurrection, we preach repentance to the ignorant and the sinful-exhort them to seek the Lord-proclaim the necessity of a change of mind, and exhibit that truth, which man must believe, or else be lost for ever. Consider then this, the real situation in which you are placed-if thou art wise thou shalt be wise for thyself, and if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you

perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.-Amen.

SERMON XVI.

Psalm cx. 1.

THE LORD SAID UNTO MY LORD, 'SIT THOU ON MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL."

"ALL Scripture," we are told by St. Paul, "is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." This splendid eulogium, on the Sacred Volume, which points out so clearly God to be its Author, instruction to be its means, and salvation from sin and from misery to be its end; this splendid eulogium though applicable to every part and portion of the word of revelation, is more peculiarly true of the book of Psalms.-Whether we regard that portion of the Sacred Scriptures as to its variety of subject, or its intenseness of devotion-whether we consider its heart-searching