redemption of mankind. Justice and love are wedded in heaven, and these are their offspring―" Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. "He hath found out a way that he might be just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." h

You therefore who, thus far awakened by the Spirit, feel that sin is indeed a burthen: you who cannot without deep concern reflect that you live under the heavy hand of an unreconciled God: who sigh for deliverance from "the body of this death"-stretch forth the hand of faith-accept the signal deliverance thus offered, and reply to the enquiry of your restless souls with the joyful expression of St. Paul, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." So full, so rich is this gift of grace, that it leaves no want unsatisfied. Can we doubt that forgiveness has been purchased for the sins of the whole world? "It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God who maketh intercession for us.' "i Can we fear least having the promise we should

h Romans, iii. 26.

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Romans, viii. 34.

be unable to enter into his rest? "If God be for us, who shall be against us?" And that he is for us, desiring the salvation of each individual, is manifestly proved, insomuch that he designed and planned the Gospel of his Son, to satisfy the demands of his own justice, to make a way for his mercy, and "to reconcile the world unto himself." "He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Our baptism gives us a right to all the benefits of redemption through Christ; nor can we lose them, unless, disregarding the conditions of faith and repentance, we neglect to claim them. Come therefore boldly

to the throne of grace, in the full assurance of faith, leaning on this memorable promise, "he that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." But do not, as some," turn the grace of God into lasciviousness," or carnal indolence. If the mercy of God has been so rich towards us; manifesting his love in the pardon of all transgressions, in the

k Romans, viii. 32.

removal of every thing that could "let or hinder us in running the race that is set before us, shall not his indignation be in proportion tremendous and intolerable against such as hold the truth in unrighteousness, and presume to "neglect so great salvation?" If you indeed come to Jesus Christ, it will be not merely to escape punishment, but to be freed from sin. And this freedom you will obtain through his spirit, which will dwell within you. "Now any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his."1

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Thus, brethren, in Jesus Christ, and him crucified, have I set before you your Zoaryour city of refuge. "Haste ye, escape thither!" But if you still linger and look back upon the Gomorrah of carnal-mindedness, the strong holds of sin-" remember Lot's wife!" reached by the red right hand of the Destroyer, she stood a fearful example to all such as trifle with salvation.

1 Romans, viii. 9.

SERMON IV.

LIVING UNTO CHRIST.

2 COR. v. 15.

He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them.

"He died for all!" As by the sin of one man, Adam, ruin and death came upon all the generations of the world; so when Jesus Christ, as man, gave himself up to death to redeem the world, the blessing was as complete and as common as the mischief which it remedied. We need not now enter into that question, in its proper season neither too curious nor unprofitable, how far the merits of our Saviour and the advantages of his death extend to the heathen, who cannot hear him preached; but with regard to Christians, it may be said

confidently and distinctly that there is not one to whom eternal life is not given; not one to whom the gates of heaven are not spread open by the sacrifice of him "who died for all." Count the millions who are called by the name of Christ; who have the gospel of salvation; consider the nations, go round their borders-they are the called. They have access by a new and living way to the heavenly city forfeited by their first parent. They themselves, since they received the word of life, have heaped up to heaven a Babel of iniquities; their plains have reeked with human slaughter because of the wrath, the pride, the covetousness, of Christian brethren: their newspapers, the diaries of nations, make public daily their adulteries, their thefts, their mutual injuries, their blasphemies against "him who has called them to his marvellous light." Yet in the hand of each individual among them is laid the key of the kingdom of heaven; a fountain springs beside them in which all transgression may be washed away. The still small voice

which proclaims "on earth peace, good