fulfil; when we have really resigned our affections to the Saviour, we shall find "his yoke easy and his burden light." Let us only love God in the degree in which he deserves our love-let us dread, beyond all things, his displeasure-let us bestow our best and warmest affections upon the All-perfect Being, our highest Benefactor, our Heavenly Father-let us take advantage of the assistance which he offers to us in the practice of our duties; and, instead of feeling disposed to complain of the difficulties of obedience, we shall experience the noble delights of virtue, we shall taste the sweetness of piety-the charm of a good conscience the hope of eternal happiness; we shall exclaim with the Prophets and the Saints of old: Thy law, O God, refresheth the soul, thy precepts rejoice the heart, thy grace is made perfect in our infirmity-"We can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth us!" God grant that this blessed state may be ours! Amen. SERMON XII. JOHN xiii.1-16. Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that this hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end; &c. IT is approaching-the awful hour is approaching, when our Lord must leave this world, and go unto his Father; and the Saviour's actions and instructions assume a character yet more sacred. In his more marked gravity of language, in the increased solemnity of his actions, and a more touching pathos in the subjects of his discourse, we perceive the approach of the final scene of his divine ministry. One feels, in reading this portion of our Gospels, that every word which proceeds from the |