power, every affection, in fervent and rapturous harmony, will celebrate, the Saviour's. glory.-Uniform, sincere, zealous obedience, will attest the sincerity of the ardent devotion of the believer to his Almighty, Lord and King.

From a lively belief in the divine character and glorious offices of the Saviour, thou must derive, O my soul, the streams of peace, holiness and consolation. And the most clear and lively fervors of this sacred faith should be. excited, when, thou art to partake of that hallowed ordinance, the exalted efficacy of which will depend on thy lively apprehension of that Saviour, whom, it sets forth, as thy everlasting strength and refuge.

Contemplate, then, the Saviour, with lively faith, as the eternal Son of the Father. The acclaiming voice of the Prophets, his forerunners; the declarations of his inspired Apostles attesting his own pretensions; the exalted offices which he came to execute; the glorious triumphs of his cross; the eternal throne, on which, he governs, and will, finally, judge the world; all, proclaim his divine dignity and glory, and urge thee, with supreme faith, to adore him as thy Lord and thy God. Hear the glorious names and titles of divinity conferred by the prophets on the Messiah that was to come-"Emanuel, God with us--The Mighty God-The Lord our righteousness The Lord who shall suddenly come to his

temple-The God whose throne is forever and ever." Hear the united testimony of the holy apostles, who, in declaring that Christ was "God manifest in the flesh," and that in him "dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead," only confirm the divine pretensions of Jesus himself, "I and the Father am One-I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last, which was, and which is, and which is to come, the Almighty." The exalted offices which he came to execute-to unfold the eternal counsels of the Father; to establish the everlasting rules of truth and duty; to satisfy the inexorable and infinite claims of divine holiness and justice; to demolish the dominion which sin and death had established over mankind; to open the gates. of everlasting bliss which divine wrath had closed against a guilty world-these are offices. which a creature, stamped with native weakness and imperfection, could never executethey require the omnipotent strength of the Creator of the universe-they claim for Jesus. who triumphantly executes them, divine and eternal powers. The triumphs of his cross, which bore down the opposing prejudices, learning, and power of the world, and still reduces under its sway the stubborn and towering imaginations of the heart, proclaim the divinity of that Jesus, who, though he suffered as a malefactor, confers upon the cross, which was the mark of ignominy, these divine and

splendid powers. View finally, the glorious throne on which he governs, and will at last, judge the world. What divine splendor and majesty surround it-How extensive and resistless its dominion-How potent and irresistible its decrees-What appalling and overwhelming thunders burst from it, on the impenitent adversaries of God-What celestial and immortal felicities are dispensed from it, on his obedient subjects-What divine and immortal honors are paid to the glorious personage who is seated on it, holding" the keys of hell and death"-" Thousand thousands stand before him, ten thousand times ten thousand minister unto him"-The host of heaven present their eternal adoration to him, who is infinitely exalted above the most perfect of their celestial orders," the King of Kings and Lord of Lords." Ah! my soul! These are illustrious and resistless proofs that he, with whom thou art to confide thy everlasting salvation, is, indeed, thy Lord and thy God, claiming thy most profound homage, thy unbounded confidence, thy universal and unreserved submission. In every view, which faith opens to thee, of the Saviour, fix thy most ardent and vigorous contemplations, on the glory of his divine-nature. When thou dost repose on the omnipotent arm of a divine Saviour, the sacred glows of love shall be exalted; the ardours of hope strengthened; the triumphs of thy faith shall rise above all the

malignant enemies of thy salvation. What sublime and profound awe is shed over the symbols of the altar, when faith discloses to thee the glories of the incarnate God, whom they set forth. Oh! what reverential, yet what delightful emotions swell the bosom of the believing communicant, when, in the reception of the sacred elements, he enjoys the exalted assurance, that he is united to a divine Redeemer-that he is admitted into the most close, the most endearing, the most affectionate communion with the Son of God--that in the person of that blessed Redeemer, to whom he has committed the salvation of his soul, dwell all those divine attributes which are calculated to excite and invigorate his love, his gratitude, his joy, his holy triumphs.

The lively exercises of faith should be directed to the Saviour as the divine and illustrious Prophet, by whom we are instructed in the holy laws and counsels of God.Through him were the beams of celestial truth to be shed on a world enveloped with the deepest shades of error-through him was the benighted and blinded mind to be enlightened in that spiritual knowledge which its most exalted researches could never attain. Behold, O my soul, what infinite claims, as thy divine instructor and guide, the Saviour possesses, to thy reverence, attention and obedience: He whom thou art to receive as thy Prophet, is himself the eternal word—he was

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from all eternity in the bosom of the Fa-. ther-in him dwelt the Holy Spirit withPerfectly acquainted, therefore, must he have been with the will of his Almighty Father. To the prophetic office he was illustriously inaugurated, by the overshadowing of the Highest, by the descent of the Holy Ghost-by the solemn declaration of the Father, this is my beloved Son, hear ye him. Gloriously and fully does this divine prophet execute his office. A luminous, and perspicuous revelation of divine truth, developing the glorious attributes of the Godhead, the means of access to the throne of offended justice, the exalted and universal circle of religious, moral and social duties, the resplendent and eternal mansions beyond the grave-did this celestial prophet promulgate. By stupendous miracles, which proved that his power was from High, did he enforce his doctrinesby his own illustrious and splendid example, did he elucidate, impress, and urge his holy precepts by the shedding of his precious blood, did he put the sacred and affecting seal to the divinity of his mission. Evangelists and Apostles he inspired, to proclaim his Gospel to the world-in the hallowed oracles of the law and the testimony, we still behold the divine truths of salvation-through the ministrations and ordinances of the sanctuary, Christ our Almighty prophet, still sheds on the soul that enlightening radiance which opens to her