under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body."

"d

Let, then, the recollection that "NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY" THE SON, WHO, "THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT, OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD," obtain a permanent abode, at once in the memory of our minds, and in the memory of our hearts. To our UNDERSTANDINGS, this recollection will furnish a test, wherewith to "try the spirits" of those men, who seek to move us from the stedfastness of our faith in Christ and of our allegiance to his church, "whether they are of God;" and it will, at the same time, supply a criterion, whereby we may detect and shun the sophistry of that "deceivableness of unrighteousness," both oral and printed, which daily seeks to delude us into an admission, that the immutable truth of God, as easily consents to the wayward caprice of individual or popular opinion, as the well-poised vane conforms to each changing current of the uncertain wind: and, surely, some such test, and some such criterion are requisite, when that dark Spirit-who himself is "transformed into an angel of light," "that, if it were possible, he may deceive the very elect"-has thrown, in ample folds, the specious mantle of liberality,

"FALSELY SO CALLED," at once over that Heresy, which, "denying" the Godhead of "the Lord that bought them," would leave us the bondslaves of Satan, Sin, and Death, and over that Apostacy, which, deeply fallen from "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free," would present us with the pains of penance and the fires of Purgatory, in place of that filial "service," which "is perfect freedom," and that full salvation, which is the gratuitous "GIFT OF GOD, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD."

But, lastly, as the recollection, of which I am speaking, will thus prove, under God, the best safeguard for our UNDERSTANDINGS FROM every error in doctrine, so will it also prove, through divine grace, the most powerful incentive for our AFFECTIONS TO every excellence in practice. The awakening thought, that "God, who is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on iniquity," nevertheless "so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life"-the affecting remembrance, that "God commendeth His love toward us, in that whilst we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" will lead us, whilst we humbly cease from "going about to establish our own righteousness, and thankfully

i.2 Peter. ii, 1.

1 Habak, i, 13.

j Gal. v. 1. k Second Collect for Peace.

m John iii, 16. n Rom. v. 8.

submit ourselves unto God," to "love Him, marvellously "loved us"

the righteousness of because He first" so and "the love of Christ

will constrain us" to "present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service;" "because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.'

Whether, therefore, "our adversary the Devil," solicit us with the delusions of unbelief and of misbelief, on the one hand, or, "with the pleasures of sin," on the other, to "make shipwreck of faith and of a good conscience," let memory resist him with that asseveration of Jesus, the glorified Head of the Church, the ONLY, BECAUSE THE DIVINE SAVIOUR of his mystical body, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUth,

AND THE LIFE; NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER BUT BY ME."

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Now, unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and Amen.""

ever.

o Rom. x. 3. p 1 John iv. 19. q Rom, xii. 1.

r 2 Cor. v. 14, 15.

u Jude xxiv. 25.

On the Evening of Sunday the 4th of October, 1835,

BY JAMES LOUTIT.

"Wherfore dere brother aske and demaud of your boke, the testamet of Jesus Christ, in these woful and wretched dais, what you should thinke, and what you should stay upon for a certayne truth, and whatsoeuer you heare taught, trie it by your boke whether it be true or false." -Hooper's Letter, 3d Dec. 1554.

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