lose your soul, if you gain not the favour of God. You will lose all that protection and care which he affords his people in life, all. that peace of conscience, all that happy confidence, all that heavenly hope, and all those spiritual joys, which a sense of his favour gives to the soul even while it sojourns in the body. You will lose all that is worth living for in life, and all that constitutes the glory and happiness of heaven. Be wise then and consult your own interest by earnestly seeking the favour of God, for you will gain, with the possession of it, all that you will lose if you gain it not.

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You know how it is to be obtained. know that Jesus is the way to it, and that those who live by the faith of him, never fail of obtaining it. Be then likeminded with the Apostle Paul, and whatever other things may be thought gain, count them "loss for Christ," yea be willing to "suffer the loss of all things and count them but dung, that you may win Christ and be found in him.”

SERMON XXV:

THE MAJESTY AND GLORY OF GOD.

DEUT. XXXIII. 26-29.

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Happy are thou, O Israel who is like unto thee, O people, saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency? and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

In our last sermon we had a most magnificent and interesting display of the privileges

and blessings of the Lord's people. This text opens with a celebration of the majesty and glory of God himself. The language rises with the subject, and scarcely any thing can be conceived beyond the sublimity of these verses. Great was the honour and happiness of Israel, and Moses described that honour and happiness in lofty tunes, but his mind is raised up to a higher flight when he speaks of Israel's God. Now, like the eagle from which he had before drawn. one of his noble similes, he soars into the regions of etherial light, and seems to behold, with naked eyes, the brightness and majesty of God in his power and glory. May that holy Spirit which inspired him to utter these exalted strains enable me to expound and you to understand and profit by them.

Moses had been pronouncing blessings upon the different tribes of Israel separately, which were also prophecies of their future character and condition. In conclusion he joins them all together, and thus breaks out in admiration of their covenant God.

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"There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun." No surely. Which of the false gods of the heathen ever was invested with such power and majesty as Jehovah? which of them was ever supposed to possess such holy attributes? Which of the nations ever worshipped such a God as he who was the God of Israel? or ever dreamt of attributing such perfections as his to those figments of their own depraved imaginations? "Who

is like unto thee, O Lord God, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Among the Gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like unto thy works." Who like him could have brought out his people, with such a mighty display of power, in opposition to all the force of Pharaoh and his armies? Who could have led them by a fiery pillar? Who have divided the red sea and made its waters to stand on a heap for them? Who could have rained down manna from heaven upon them, and brought them water out of the flinty rock? Or who could have so taught

them, or given them a law so pure and holy, so spiritual in its worship of him, so admirable in its morality towards one another? or who could have established that law on the sanction of such wonderful rewards and punishments? and who could have looked forward through such a length of years, and delivered prophecies so definite, and so accurately fulfilled as those which he made known to that people? No surely. There was none like unto the God of Jeshurun, and there is none like unto the God of the believing Christian; none that could have given such a gospel, none who could have bestowed so precious a gift on rebels and enemies as that of his only begotten Son. Where among the gods of the heathen, was one like Jesus? Who like him, ever descended from the highest heavens, sojourned so long, in such a condition of life, among men, and above all, for such a purpose? What god of idolaters ever took the form of man that he might die to save the world? Whenever any of the great gods of the heathen were feigned to come upon earth, for very different