find out some way of evading the new duty, without exactly denying the necessity of more holiness.

I need not tell you that, in this case, the compromising spirit is the most dangerous. The fainting spirit, though painful, is not perilous. God will take care to revive it, and to enable it to look again towards His holy temple: but," with the froward, He will show himself froward," and by some means take

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vengeance on their inventions." He will drive us by rods to the image of Christ, if we do not follow the leadings of His Spirit to the glass of Revelation; just as He drives us back to the Cross of Christ, when we forsake, or stand too far off from it.

How, then, do you feel inclined towards the duty and habit of "beholding with open face the glory of the Lord, that you may be changed into His image?" You have contemplated

His glory, that you might be pardoned and accepted. You cannot afford, and you do not wish, to take your eye off from the glory of His power, which can save to the uttermost; nor from the glory of His blood, which can cleanse from all sin; nor from the glory of His righteousness, which can justify even the ungodly when they believe; nor from the glory of His grace, which is sufficient for all emergencies; nor from the glory of His intercession, which the Father heareth always with complacency; nor from the glory of His providence, which maketh all things work together for good to them who love him. In reference to all these features of the Saviour's personal and official glory, you desire “to see Jesus," and neither dread nor deprecate any evil so much, as that of any veil upon your heart," which would hide this brightness of His glory from your eye, or hide your need of

it from your conscience. Thus, Creation would be a blank to you, if you were to lose sight of the glory of Christ. Your brightest hope, yea, your fondest desire, even in regard to Heaven itself, is, "to see Him as he is." You expect far more happiness from "beholding the glory of the Lamb in the midst of the throne," than from all the unveiled scenes and secrets of the natural and moral universe. You can easily conceive how you will never weary through Eternity in looking up to Him, saying, “I beseech thee show me thy glory:" for you know that it is infinite; and, therefore, that every new form of it can only be the harbinger of still newer and nobler manifestations, “whilst Immortality endures." There! I knew how you would feel upon this point. The "melody of your heart" is now quivering upon your lips, and smiles of complacency playing amidst the sweet words,

"There shall we see His face,
And never, never sin :

And from the rivers of His grace,
Drink endless pleasures in!"

O, you are not the woman, who should be afraid that the image of Christ cannot be impressed upon your heart and character! You have no occasion to despond or dispute, in the presence of a new lesson. You cannot do well

without it, now that both the Providence and the Spirit of God have thus forced it upon your notice. Any attempt to do without it now, would be such a sin against light; and, in your case and mine, such an outrage upon conscience and reason, that we could look for nothing else than to be left to fall into some fatal error or apostacy, if we were not, from henceforth, to follow Holiness, looking to the image of Christ, as our chief model and motive.

Our Bible, remember, brings this view of Holiness before us, in a very peculiar and solemn connexion: and we have no right, whatever be our views or feelings towards the word, "Predestination," to separate it from that word; for God has joined them together thus: "for whom He did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son." Rom. viii. 29. The necessity of this conformity, or likeness, to the mind and moral character of the Saviour, is not a thing to be evaded, by proving or disproving the Calvinistic system. The Arminian and the Calvinist must equally admit that, whatever Predestination mean, no one is " predestinated," but for a holy purpose. Both the calling and election taught in the Bible, is holiness."

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I have, perhaps, less patience with the vulgar notions of Predestination than many. In