remember to turn back from his former evil courses, and glorify God with the loud voice of the example of a reformed life? "Jesus, Master, have mercy on me," cries the man who is ready every moment to be overwhelmed in the waves of the sea. The Lord rebukes the waves. He is saved from destruction. And how often does such an one turn back from old untoward courses, to glorify God by the loud voice of the example of a new course? "Jesus, Master, have mercy on me," cries the man who is cast down into the dark depths of trouble of mind and affliction of soul. He is restored to the light of joy. Does he in that moment turn back, and with a loud voice of thanksgiving, sounding not only from his lips, but from every act of a holy life, glorify God? All we have been crying, in the humble and contrite strains of our Litany, "Lord, have mercy upon us." How many, alas! use them, who never turn back from an old habit of carelessness, and glorify God by that peculiar thanksgiving over bread and wine, which the Lord himself hath ordained, and plainly said to all, "Do this in remembrance of me!" O, there is no want of the cry for mercy! But where is the loud voice of glorifying God for that mercy?

Of one cry, and one only, can we be assured that it will be followed by the voice of glorification. And that is the cry of him that feels the foulness and danger of the disease of

the leprosy of sin. defiles and corrupts the body, covering it with foul blemishes, from intemperance in meat and drink, and indulgence in sinful passion; when he sees how it renders the soul and spirit loathsome with plague spots, and blotches of corruption, in the sight of heaven and before God; when he sees how it infects every thing around him also, so that he can find nothing untainted by it; and that joy is corrupted by sorrow, pleasure by pain, good with evil, life with death; when he has come to the clear sight of all this sad disease of his fallen nature, and when having cried, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on me," he has found mercy, and felt the health of salvation in a renewed mind; it is impossible for him to go away from his Saviour thankless for so great benefits. No! he will turn back indeed, he will cling to his blessed company, falling down in thankfulness at his feet, and glorifying God with the loud voice of adoration and blessing. Thus his faith hath made him whole. And thus he will await in joyful hope that glorious day, when the Lord shall put the crown to his work, and the leprosy of sin shall have become impossible to this body, glorified as it shall then be, and body, soul, and spirit, in spotless purity, in inseparable unity, shall dwell in the presence of the Lord for ever.

When a man sees how it

SERMON XXVIII.

CONCERN FOR SALVATION.

ACTS xvi. 30.

"And he brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

THE gaoler at Philippi, an ignorant heathen, put this question in a very different meaning from that in which he used it afterwards, when he had been instructed in the word of the Lord. The earthquake which had thrown open the doors and loosed the chains of the prison, made him fearful of the vengeance of the great God, whose servants Paul and Silas were, and whose hymn of praise he had manifestly answered with so tremendous a display of his power. He besought them to interfere for him, and tell him what he must do to be saved from the vengeance of their terrible Master. They took that opportunity of introducing the word of the Lord to him, and they preached it so effectually, that before the dawn of the light of this world

had returned, he and all his family were rejoicing in the light of the world to come, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he who had washed their stripes was washed with the water of baptism, and the prison-house of men became the Church of God. Then he understood indeed the full meaning of, "What shall I do to be saved?" he knew that the salvation to be sought was from eternal death to eternal life, and that it was to be found by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, as that Saviour from sin.

In this knowledge we have been instructed from our cradle the answer to the question, "What must I do to be saved?" is among the most familiar things. But on that very account, it is not thought of so deeply as it should be. Men do not consider that the question is one of such wide extent, and of such continual application, that it needs to be asked not only daily, but many times a day. For we have all a great work set before us, the work of salvation, which is to be wrought out with all the fear and trembling which ever accompanies a work in which our welfare is deeply concerned. And in what can it be so deeply, as in that of salvation to everlasting life?

It would be well if we would take for this work an example of the watchfulness and industry with which we provide for the salvation of our bodies from the many and manifold accidents of this outer world. "What shall I

do to be saved?" is a question continually satisfied there, by doing the proper answer. And thus it may be answered twenty times in a day, when we have not taken more than ordinary care of ourselves. When a man takes meat or drink, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What must I do to be saved?" When he clothes against bad weather, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What must I do to be saved?" When he hastens out of the way of a carriage, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What must I do to be saved?" When he steps aside to avoid a dangerous scaffolding, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What shall I do to be saved?" When he handles a sharpedged tool with care, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What must I do to be saved?" When he walks cautiously on the brink of rock or water, is he not answering for the body, the question, "What must I do to be saved?"

Thus, in our care for the salvation of our mortal bodies, we are continually asking and answering this question. It is true that we are not aware, until we come to think attentively on the matter, of this asking and answering. And why so? Because the salvation of the body is such a matter of course, and every thing concerned with it so familiar, that we do things without knowing, and quite mechani