can alone alter principles; of infinite importance to and to keep the mind ever the influence of evil commuadmitted, have a strong d manners.se od Joyour Rauch in prayer. The subject one thought; for all spis at the closet door. ReGod, and the worst conseO for a spirit of grace and gely poured out upon us fort is prayer!-It brings , and borrows refreshment JAMES WALKER, D. D. F. R. S. E. OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND EPISCOPAL FROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN EDINBURGH, EDINBURGH : ROBERT GRANT, LOTHIAN STREET; C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, LONDON; AND spirit with spirit that can alone alter principles; and hence it becomes of infinite importance to select our companions, and to keep the mind ever on its guard against the influence of evil communications, which, it is admitted, have a strong tendency to corrupt good manners. 4. Closet.-Be much in prayer. The subject resolves itself into this one thought; for all spiritual declension begins at the closet door. Restrain prayer before God, and the worst consequences must follow. O for a spirit of grace and supplication to be largely poured out upon us all! And what a comfort is prayer!-It brings us to the edge of heaven, and borrows refreshment from the land that is very far off. He who looks at the ocean faces the purest air: so, in the evening of hot and sultry thought, the cool breeze is to be had only from the Eternal Sea. As I have said before, 766 So I say again," that in temporals and spirituals, great mountains fall before prayer! LONDON: Printed by JOSEPH BRADFORD, 30, Pitfield Street, Old Street Road. FAREWELL SERMON, DELIVERED IN St Peter's Episcopal Chapel, EDINBURGH; ON SUNDAY THE 17TH OF MAY 1829. BY THE REVEREND JAMES WALKER, D. D. F. R. S. E. OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND EPISCOPAL FROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN EDINBURGH. EDINBURGH: ROBERT GRANT, LOTHIAN STREET; C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, LONDON; AND .1829 4. Caution. After the soul has been greatly humbled, there follows a great tenderness of conscience: a fear to offend again. My brethren, while you fear sin you will never fall into it. I have observed even in cases of illness, where a child of God has been brought back again to the family,-restored from the gates of the grave,-I have observed, in such cases, an amazing tenderness of conscience: a wish to live nearer to God than before; and in coming down into the family once more, a scrupulosity in doing this or that, as if the soul would now say, Cannot I do something more for the glory of God than this will be? So, after spiritual recovery, there will be a great dread of lapsing again. What must have been the feelings of St. Peter, when they came and told him of Judas's death? When the great Apostle was perhaps engaged in prayer or peni tence, shut in from the world with tearful eyes, while perhaps he heard at the moment the axes of the artificers hewing down the three crosses, on the middle one of which Christ had died,yea, perhaps at that very moment the soldiers might be carrying away on their shoulders, with blasphemy and halloing at each other, the very cross on which the Saviour had expiated sin,perhaps it was just then passing under his window, still clotted with purple gore...... when some of his brother-disciples came in, all aghast, and said, Have you heard what has happened?-Alas! he would say, I can hear of |