his peace at the last? He is in danger of being "taken captive by Satan at his will," and of being " tied and bound by the chain" of unbelief. There is but one remedy.

He must come again to the scriptures of God, and submit his understanding to "his "sure testimony." He must endeavour to read them with the docility of a child who would be instructed by his father. Our Lord hath said, "except ye become as little

children, ye shall not enter into the king"dom of heaven." He ought, at the same time, to exercise his reason and acquired knowledge, in a dispassionate manner. Let him compare the state of the world with the doctrines of scripture, and endeavour to form a judgment from ANALOGY, (even as Christ hath taught ús in his reference to the flood) that is to say, let him judge of what shall probably be hereafter, from what he sees to be now.

For example, he is ready to say to him

self, "if there be a God, he is a God of

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mercy, he will not punish." But what

is the fact? Let him here exercise his reason, and refer to the evidence before him. He sees that God DOTH punish, even in this world. This life is to many persons a permanent scene of punishment and misery. Now, what is the just inference and legitimate conclusion from this fact? It is this, that, if it be consistent with the mercy of God, that there should be misery here, it will be consistent with his mercy that there shall be misery hereafter. If it be compatible with his justice, that there should be punishment in this world, we may believe that there will be punishment in the life to come. Do we behold a succession of awful events and revolutions in this world? Let us prepare burselves to behold more awful and terrible scenes in the world to come. Little of the effects of sin are to be seen here,

in comparison of what shall be seen in the eternal world. The events of this life, in regard to their importance to the soul of man, are but shadows and names, compared with the great realities which are approaching. We behold, at this time, the kingdoms of the earth desolated, new empires established, princes dethroned, and new kings created; and all this executed by the hand of man; executed with an impious spirit which would arrogate the character and power of the Deity. What, then, may we not believe shall be the scene in that Great Day, when God himself shall come to σε judge the world in righteousness," to vindicate his insulted honour, and to display his almighty power, in the presence of angels and of men in that " great day of his "wrath, when the kings of the earth, "and the great men, and the rich men, "and the captains, and the mighty men, "shall hide themselves in dens, and in the

"rocks of the mountains; and shall say

to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, "and hide us from the face of HIM that "sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath "of the LAMB; for the great day of his "wrath is come, and who shall be able to "stand ?"*

Judging from the same principles of analogy, we infer again, that if God giveth happiness and gladness of heart to believers in this world, he will give happiness to them in the world to come. If there be seasons of joy and exultation in the converted soul here, there will be unutterable joy hereafter. If there be persons now in this world, who delight in praising God, and in contemplating the blessings of redemption, by the blood of the Lamb, we are warranted to presume, that they will enjoy the delights

* Rev. vi. 17.

of that employment in a supreme degree, in the world to come.

For, as certainly as we have beheld a temporal Jubilee, on this earth, celebrated in joy and triumph by thousands of those who love their king, so surely shall we behold the HEAVenly Jubilee, celebrated by "thousands of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand" of those who have loved HIM, who is " King of Kings, and Lords of "Lords;" who have loved HIM in this world, and maintained his cause, and proclaimed his glory; and who, when "the

marriage of the Lamb is come," shall join with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven, evermore praising HIM, and saying, "Worthy is the Lamb that was

slain, to receive power, and riches, and "wisdom, and strength, and honour, and

glory, and blessing." And let us, who

are yet upon earth, follow the example " of