from instant destruction dependant on such a remarkable truth? Oh learn that there is an evil in sin of which you have yet no conception; learn your utter insufficiency and inability to recover yourselves. The day of grace is yet continued, but it is a limited period, quickly passing away. Learn, too, that it is rash presumption for a sinner to approach God, except in the name of Jesus! Can you more mock or insult the divine wisdom, majesty, and goodness, than by slighting his provided way of salvation? Let Roman Catholics tremble for their awful guilt in saint worship, and earthly mediators! Let selfrighteous men, who think by their own tears, prayers, alms, and works, to turn away the wrath of God, learn how vain is such a ground of confidence, and what contempt, while resting on these, they pour on the only name given unto men whereby we must be saved!

But are any burdened by sin, broken-hearted under lengthened and apparently unavailing struggles with their corruptions? Do the terrors of the Lord overwhelm them? Does the law of God manifestly, and in everything condemn them? Does Satan bring many a heavy charge against them, and conscience say it is all true? I am guilty, verily guilty before God, shut up under sin! For them this doctrine is revealed as a precious balm to their wounded spirit. You have a Mediator. You have an Intercessor, an Advocate, a High Priest. He is living, he is at God's right hand; he is pleading for you. Look unto him and be ye saved all the ends of the earth.

CHRISTIANS, remember THE INTERCESSION OF JESUS IN ALL YOUR PRAYERS. Think of this before you pray. Thus may you gather holy boldness in approaching to the throne of God. It is a blessed

thing to have access with confidence to the great God as having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and no longer imputing our trespasses to us. This we gain by Jesus' intercession. In prayer, too, intermingle, as it were, with all your devotions, the fragrant name of Jesus. By him let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. The recollection and realising by faith of such a Mediator, will give life and power to prayer. And, after prayer, still let us leave all with him; not resting on their fervency, if fervent; nor being in despair for their coldness, if cold; but resting and hoping in the mighty intercession of him who is the elect in whom the Father delighteth; the beloved Son in whom he is always is well pleased.

And Christians, IMITATE THE REDEEMER also in intercession. He has washed us in his blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. It is our office to be the Lord's remembrancers. It is an exhortation given us, as a primary duty, to make supplications, prayers and intercessions, and giving of thanks for all men; for kings and all that are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty; for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. Oh that his holy pattern and lovely example may stir up every Christian, to seek to be like him in interceding for a world perishing in sin, and in enlarged supplications for all the family of God!

Thanks for Christ's Intercession.

All praise, all glory be to thee, O heavenly Father, who hast not left me to perish in my sins, but hast in thy infinite mercy and tender compassion, provided a full ransom for them all, and a merciful and faithful

High Priest, to appear in thy presence for me! Oh how can I thank thee as I ought for this unspeakable gift of thy love! Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King! Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in the fir

mament of his power. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

SCRIPTURES.

Leviticus and Hebrews generally; Isaiah liii. 12; Luke xxii. 32; John xvii; Rom. v. 9, 10; viii. 34; 1 Tim. ii. 5; Heb. vii. 25; ix. 15-24; 1 John ii.

BOOKS ON THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST.

Reynolds on Psalm cx.

Charnock's Christ's Intercession.

Jones on the Mediation of Christ.

Flavel's Fountain of Life.

CHAPTER VII.

ON THE HOLY SPIRIT.

1. Unity of the Godhead.-2. Distinctness of the Spirit.-3. Names of the Spirit.-4. Jesus receiving the Holy Spirit for us.-5. His Office in Redemption.-6. His love in undertaking it.-7. Our duty to the Spirit.-8. The enlarged outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

1. THE UNITY OF THE GODHEAD.

THE glories of the great God are beyond the limited comprehension of the wisest and best of men, or the most exalted of angels. None, by all their searching, can perfectly know Jehovah; but every increase of holy knowledge of God, is an increase of blessedness, and part of the very happiness of everlasting life.

The oneness of the true and ever glorious Jehovah is frequently and plainly stated in the Bible. The Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath, there is none else. (Deut. iv. 39.) Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. (Deut. vi. 4.) He asks, Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God. (Isaiah

xliv. 8.) An idol is nothing in the world, and there is none other God but one. (1 Cor. viii. 4.)

The full nature of this oneness we cannot comprehend. It is a perfect unity in all attributes of wisdom, love, power, and riches, and in holiness and righteousness, beyond our largest thoughts. It is the same mighty and merciful mind, the same gracious and holy Being, everywhere present, controuling, directing, sustaining, filling, and governing all things according to his own will and grace, truth, and love, with a vastness and greatness that no created being can fully comprehend or realize. But it is the true happiness of every created being to know the great God, to confide wholly in him, to see him through all his works, and, by every display which he has made of himself, to rise to communion with him, and evermore to rejoice in him.

In this unity of the Godhead, the Bible has revealed a Trinity of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; each uncreated, incomprehensible, almighty, and equally God, and "yet they are not three Gods, but one God," and we are baptized, not in many names, but in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The full nature of this Trinity in unity also is far beyond our highest thoughts. The practical use of the doctrine is, however, manifest in every place where it is revealed in the word of God. It furnishes, in the mode of its revelation to us in the scriptures, constant lessons of instruction, humiliation, confidence, holiness, comfort, and happiness, so that to know God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent is eternal life; to acquaint ourselves with God is to be at peace with him. And as there is a perfect unity of nature in the three persons of the Godhead, so God