to thee, but thou dost reject or despise the proffered blessing. And now every sin of thine is recorded; every covetous deed, every act of uncleanness, every false oath, every blasphemy, every theft; all thine anger, malice, and hatred; all thy lying, evil speaking, and hypocrisy ; all thy pride of heart, and rebelliousness of spirit. Thou despisest the mercy that is offered thee for His sake who died. And with what feelings wilt thou behold Him, who now would be Thy Saviour, hereafter sitting as Thy Judge? whom do we so dread to meet, as a friend, whose kindness we have treated with foul ingratitude and unmerited scorn?

But I am speaking to the baptized, to those who have been washed in the laver of regeneration, to those who know the truth, and have heard long time the sound of the Gospel. I am speaking to Christians. And how will this increase the alarm, and make heavier the intolerable weight of condemnation! But yet it is so; you who once were baptized with water and the Holy Ghost, but who have since quenched the Spirit,you who once were signed with the Cross,

but have refused to fight under the banner of Christ crucified,-you must look upon Him whom you have slighted, scorned, rejected,you must behold Him whom you have pierced.

Yes, it is so; and the Son of Man will be a terror not only to the ungodly, not merely to the wicked,—I mean to those who forgat Him in their own personal lives,—but much more will He be a terror to those who have gone further even than this, and persecuted His Church, contemned His Saints, offended His little ones. If we but felt as we ought, all suffering would be an image to us of the incalculable sufferings of Christ. For poverty and want tell of Him; the naked and the hungry are types of Him; sorrowful people are emblems, in some faint measure, of the Man of Sorrows. To neglect these, to scorn these, to treat these harshly, cruelly, hardly, is to do so to Christ Himself. He has Himself in effect said so. God grant we may none of us have his feelings, who has shut up his heart to the poor, when He, Who for our sakes became poor, shall come in glory! God grant we may not faint in

heart, as he will, who has sneered at humble piety, or put a stumbling-block in the way of a soul turning to God, or has encouraged his brother in sin, slaying the soul that should not have died, when the Saviour shall come to take vengeance! God grant we may never tremble and sink utterly away, as he will, who has opposed himself to what is good, and done evil to the godly, and set snares for the righteous, and been, in his way, a persecutor of the Church, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall come, gathering together His elect, confounding His enemies.

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Every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him," and it shall add to the alarm of the wicked, that their Judge shall be the Son of Man, who died, but whom they rejected; whom they would not have to reign over them; whom, in His servants, they scorned and wounded.

But no less comfort and strong consolation shall it be to the righteous to see their Saviour, sitting as their Judge. They also shall see Him, and it must needs support their sinking spirits in that most awful day to look on Him who was pierced, to see in

the clouds of majesty that wounded side, from which He shed forth both water and blood.

"When upon the earth," says a modern writer on the Passion, "our blessed Lord emptied out all His blood for our sakes. So perfect a Sacrifice was He, that not only all the labours of His life, but all His life-blood in death, did He entirely exhaust for our sakes. After shedding it drop by drop in His bloody sweat; and afterwards in the scourging; and then from His bleeding brows; and from His bleeding hands and feet on the Cross; not even after death did His heart-blood cease to flow for us; but now even after death did the power of His ineffable charities burst forth in a continued stream, beyond nature, and contrary to nature; blended with water to wash and strengthen us, and give us life. Even after death His charity dies not, forgets us not, nor ceases to minister to us; nay, in death it becomes the more living, and full of allhealing, all-blessing, all-sustaining energy." In that sacramental stream flowed the life, and the sustenance of Christians. Thence

proceeded for a ruined world that washing which should make men whiter than snow, that shedding of blood, without which there is no remission of sins. When, therefore, the saints look on Him who was pierced, needs will it remind them whence was the life of their souls, in what manner God nourished them and supported them. It will speak to them of their living union with their Redeemer, and they will be comforted when they behold their Judge.

The children were partakers of flesh and blood, He also took part of the same, and in such wise shall sit on His tribunal. In all things was He made like unto His brethren, being tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He hath a feeling for our infirmities, He knows all our trials, and weaknesses, and frailness. He is a merciful and faithful High priest, our Advocate with the Father. Great comfort therefore will it be to the good to see the Son of Man sitting as man's Judge, able to save to the uttermost, and full of compassion. He will not forget all their strong crying and tears, all their prayers, all their holy deeds: for from Him they derived