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We have much pleasure in announcing for an early number, Two SERMONS by the Rev. WILLIAM CLEAVER, of Delgany ;-also, several Sermons connected with the Religious Societies.

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FUNERAL ADDRESS,

GLISH, DIOCESE OF MEATH, AT THE INTERMENT

OF A CHRISTIAN FRIEND,

FEBRUARY 12TH, 1840,

ILLIAM DROUGHT, A.B.

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reflection, with the strugglings of a nature fallen, corrupt, and beset with sin.

O my brethren! it is faith, faith only, which looks "not to the things which are seen but to those that are not seen," that can shed a bright and a cheering light even into the dark recesses of this gloomy pit, and gather out of its very dust and corruption, matter, not only for consolation, but even for holy rejoicing and triumph.-Let the eye be raised from the grave and fixed on Jesus, and should it be the grave of a believer, we have the Scripture warrant to assure us that for such "to die is gain," "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" and what stronger exhortation can be given to those assembled round this grave, "not to sorrow as men without hope."

an friend and brother: y, when the thoughts are only to the earth, and we coninplate the vacancy which death makes in the domestic circle-when we experirience that sense of desolation, which comes over the heart, as it is felt that the place of the father, the beloved relative, the endeared friend is left unoccupied, when we look down into the grave and consider the work so degrading to our nature, which is about to take place there:-but an occasion of triumph, when, raising the eye from the dark grave, we look upwards with the vision which faith gives, and see that rest which is prepared for the people of God-see not only “the earthly house of this tabernacle" laid aside, but the Christian pilgrim "clothed upon with his house which is from heaven"—the body with its corruptions, its many infirmities put off; but the spirit passing unfettered, freed from those many weaknesses and imperfections mental and moral, which it carries along with it, through its union with a body that original sin had doomed to dust, and which has in consequence been filled in its brief passage from time to eternity with pain, sickness and sorrow, and, what is a still more sad matter for

Brethren, my business is not to speak of the dead-their Lord has already spoken with them-cleansed by the blood of his Son they have entered into life-or dying, impenitent, unbelieving, unacquainted savingly with Jesus, they are beyond the reach of human exhortation and of human prayer-beyond the offer of that salvation which we are in the Scriptures directed to preach without exception to every living creature. The business of a Christian Minister, my brethren, is with the living, with those who stand yet upon that earth to which Christ descended from the bosom of the Father, in order "to seek and to save them that

JERUSALEM.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem! enthroned once on high,

Thou favor'd home of God on earth, thou heav'n below the sky,
Now brought to bondage with thy sons, a curse and grief to see,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem! our tears shall flow for thee.

Oh! had'st thou known thy day of grace, and flock'd beneath the wing
Of Him who call'd thee lovingly, thine own anointed King,
Then had the tribes of all the world gone up thy pomp to see,
And glory dwelt within thy gates, and all thy sons been free!

"And who art thou that mournest me?" replied the ruin grey,
"And fear'st not rather that thyself may prove a cast away?
I am a dried and abject branch, my place is givʼn to thee;
But woe to ev'ry barren graft of that wild olive tree!

"Our day of grace is sunk in night, our time of mercy spent,
For heavy was my children's crime, and strange their punishment;
Yet gaze not idly on our fall,-but, sinner, warned be,
Who spared not his chosen seed, may send his wrath on thee!

"Our day of grace is sunk in night, thy noon is in it's prime,
Oh! turn and seek thy Saviour's face in this accepted time !
So Gentile, may Jerusalem a lesson prove to thee,
And in the New Jerusalem thy home for ever be."

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We have much pleasure in announcing for an early number, Two SERMONS by the Rev. WILLIAM CLEAVER, of Delgany;-also, several Sermons connected with the Religions Societies.

FUNERAL ADDRESS,

DELIVERED IN EGLISH, DIOCESE OF MEATH, AT THE INTERMENT
OF A CHRISTIAN FRIEND,

ON FEBRUARY 12TH, 1840,

BY THE REV. WILLIAM DROUGHT, A.B.

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fallen, corrupt, and beset with sin.

O my brethren! it is faith, faith only, which looks "not to the things which are seen but to those that are not seen,” that can shed a bright and a cheering light even into the dark recesses of this gloomy pit, and gather out of its very dust] and corruption, matter, not only for consolation, but even for holy rejoicing and triumph. Let the eye be raised from the grave and fixed on Jesus, and should it be the grave of a believer, we have the Scripture warrant to assure us that for such "to die is gain,” “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" and what stronger exhortation can be given to those assembled round this grave, not to sorrow as men without hope."

THERE is no occasion, my brethren, more | reflection, with the strugglings of a nature melancholy, and at the same time more triumphant, which collects human beings together, than that of assembling for the purpose of consigning to the tomb, the remains of a christian friend and brother: —melancholy, when the thoughts are directed only to the earth, and we contemplate the vacancy which death makes in the domestic circle-when we experirience that sense of desolation, which comes over the heart, as it is felt that the place of the father, the beloved relative, the endeared friend is left unoccupied, when we look down into the grave and consider the work so degrading to our nature, which is about to take place there-but an occasion of triumph, when, raising the eye from the dark grave, we look upwards with the vision which faith gives, and see that rest which is prepared for the people of God—see not only "the earthly house of this tabernacle" laid aside, but the Christian pilgrim "clothed upon with his house which is from heaven”—the body with its corruptions, its many infirmities put off; but the spirit passing unfettered, freed from those many weaknesses and imperfections mental and moral, which it carries along with it, through its union with a body that original sin had doomed to dust, and which has in consequence been filled in its brief passage from time to eternity with pain, sickness and sorrow, and, what is a still more sad matter for

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Brethren, my business is not to speak of the dead—their Lord has already spoken with them-cleansed by the blood of his Son they have entered into life-or dying, impenitent, unbelieving, unacquainted savingly with Jesus, they are beyond the reach of human exhortation and of human prayer-beyond the offer of that salvation which we are in the Scriptures directed to preach without exception to every living creature. The business of a Christian Minister, my brethren, is with the living, with those who stand yet upon that earth to which Christ descended from the bosom of the Father, in order "to seek and to save them that

were lost." And where can we better speak to them of this great salvation than here beside the grave of a departed brother? where can we better reason with them of time and of eternity, of sin and of judgment to come of the blotting out of sin and of the necessity of becoming new creatures, than here, where every sod beneath our feet is calculated to add force to our exhortations, and give weight to our reasoning? O brethren! amid the busy scenes of life, amid the haunts of pleasure, and the strugglings of ambition, we may perhaps speak the words of divine truth to inattentive ears and deadened hearts—but will it be so here?-do you bring the world and its madness— do you bring hearts of stone-eyes that will not see and ears that will not hear to this dwelling place of the dead; where every portion of earth you tread on once lived once was possessed of thought and feeling, once enclosed immortal souls, such as you at this moment have, souls that have now taken their place in an eternity of bliss or misery? Was it permitted us my brethren, to speak those truths, and to present those offers of salvation, which we now freely, though perhaps unattended to, declare to you, was it I say permitted us to address them to the dwellers beneath these grassy mounds that surround us, and were they permitted to hear and to embrace them, oh how many a voice of thanksgiving, how many an eager announcement of acceptance of the Gospel message of salvation would burst from these graves! And, my brethren, such as they are must you soon be. The same cold clay must shortly close over every living body that now stands in this church yard—the offers of salvation must give place to the word that welcomes to eternal bliss, or consigns to "the fire prepared for the devil and his angels," and time and all its concerns must be changed for a fixed, unalterable eternity! Oh! will you not now give your ear and heart earnestly to the word that may save your souls, and

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make that change a change of bliss to you ?-will you not now, while you may, hear that word, which, were it permitted, you would listen to so eagerly, so thankfully and so fervently embrace, when this same earth has closed over you and shut you out from the word of exhortation, and, if you die in your sins, from the possibility of salvation ?—O what an awful supposition is this my brethren, to die in your sins!-now do not mistake this : nor suppose that if you live free from the grosser sins of life-if, for example, you do not murder, or rob, or cheat, or get drunk, or blaspheme, or take God's name in vain-if you admit without contradiction the truths of revelation, and attend with tolerable regularity to your churches and your chapels, and when about to die obtain the rites of your church, that therefore there is no danger of your dying in your sins, and that your souls are safe, and your bodies may be committed to the earth "in the joyful hope of a resurrection to eternal life."-Alas! my brethren! these things will not secure the soul. Never did Satan palm a greater delusion upon men than the inducing them to rest upon such broken reeds.— The supposition is dishonourable to God's holiness, and a Satanic attempt to rob Christ of the glory of that mighty work which he came upon the earth, which he died upon the cross to accomplish, and which he alone can accomplish, the salvation of the soul-Oh! it is counting his blood a vain thing-it it telling him plainly as words and deeds can tell him, 'we have no need of you !-My brethren, it is thinking very lightly indeed of sin-it is thinking very lightly indeed of the vileness of that state in which we were born, the corrupt, sinful heart which constitutes the great feature in human nature-it is thinking very lightly of the declarations of God on this subject—it is thinking very lightly of Christ and the necessity of his work upon the cross, to suppose that the safety of the soul can be wrought out by such things

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