16. Then may we hope that the remaining days of our pilgrimage on earth, will be crowned with joy and serenity, and that we shall finally realize those glorious scenes, and solacing anticipations, in the climes of bliss above, of which the revelation of Jesus Christ now gives us the most animating prospects.

EXER. XXIX.

Suitable for Christmas morning. On the incarnation of Christ, and merciful design of his advent into the world.

Mas. O THOU God of love, with thankful hearts we would rejoice in all the displays and exercises of thy marvelous grace and mercy towards fallen man.

Fam. Blessed be thy name, that when the first parents of the human race were cast out of paradise for violating thy holy cov enant, thou wast pleased in order to encourage their hopes in thy mercy, to make that reviving promise, "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head."

Let us give glory to God in the highest, that when the fulness of time was come, the promised seed of the woman made his appearance in this world; through whom there is peace on earth and good will towards men.

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, in his heavenly doctrines and miraculous works; the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only be. gotten son into the world, to be a propitiation for our sins that we might live through him. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath visited and redeemed his people, and raised up for them an horn of salvation in the house of his servant David, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace.

And thus hath performed the mercy promised to our fathers of old, and remembered his gracious covenant, which he bad declared by the mouth of his holy prophets, since the world began.

Our souls will magnify the Lord and rejoice in God our Saviour, who came into the world to deliver us from guilt and condemnation, and work out eternal salvation for us.

May our bosoms glow with ardent emotions of gratitude, when we recollect, that unto us a child was born, unto us a son was given, whose name was Wonderful, Counsellor, Immanuel, the Prince of Peace, who came to save his people from their sins.

O most merciful Father in heaven, imprint we beseech thee upon our hearts, the great doctrines, important instructions and momentous truths, of thy word by thy Son.

With adoring admiration, therefore, we would celebrate his condescending goodness, in becoming incarnate, on purpose that he might live among us as a divine teacher and instructor, and finally make his soul an offering for sin.

Divesting himself for a season of the glory which he had with the Father, before the world was, he came down from heaven to earth, that he might raise us from earth to heaven, and took upon him our mortal nature, that he might finally clothe us with immortality.

Though he was in the form of God, yet he condescended to take upon him the form of a servant, and to be made in all things like unto us, sin only excepted.

And being found in fashion as a man, he became obedient unto death, that he might redeem us from death, and procure eternal life for us.

He took not on him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of men.

"Hosanna to the incarnate Word,
Who from the Father came;

Ascribe salvation to the Lord,
And blessings on his name.

My Saviour, Jesus, teach this heart
To feel thy bleeding love :
And teach, O teach my wand'ring steps,
To seek thy throne above.

My lips shall glow with flame divine,
To celebrate thy praise,

And all my noblest prayers unite,
A grateful hymn to raise.

Wide be Emanuel's honours spread,
Wide let his sceptre sway;
He stoop'd a fallen world to save,
And bore its sins away.'

Let us cultivate and endeavour to preserve in our grateful hearts, those devout regards towards God's incarnate Son, which his personal excellencies, condescending goodness, and sacred relatious to us, demand.

EXER. XXX.

Concludes on the day of Judgment.

"O save me, power of powers supreme,

In that tremendous hour.”

LET us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God and keep his command. ments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

God hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ, whereof he hath given assurance to all men, in that he raised him from the dead.

Then we must all appear before the judg ment seat of Christ, to give account of ourselves to God, that every one may receive, according to his deeds done in the body.

At that day, the Lord himself, attended with a glorious retinue of angels, shall des

cend from heaven, with a shout, and the trump of God, and all nations shall be gathered before him, to receive their final destiny.

Then all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and come forth; and the dead, both small and great, shall stand before God, and the books shall be opened, and the dead shall be judged out of those things which are written in the books, according to their works.

Behold the Lord cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him, shall mourn because of him; for to them his second appearing will be a fearful event of terror and consternation.

As Christ once appeared to take away sin, by the sacrifice of himself, so, to those, who, in a way of well doing, look for him, will be appear the second time, without sin unto salvation. But, in that day, those who obey not the gospel. shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power.

That great day of the Lord will assuredly come, in which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and pass away with a great noise; and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.

Then shall every mountain, and every island, be moved out of its place; and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every free man, who have rejected the great salva