His Holy Spirit. Remember how often you have resolved, when in affliction, to repent and lead a new life, and how often, with returning health and opportunities, you have returned to your ungodly courses, and are yet in the "gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity." Once more I beseech you, look back on your past careless and sinful life, consider how dead you have lived to God, and how alive to the world-and then earnestly pray to God to turn your heart from sin to holiness, from earth to heaven. Pray to God to give you a feeling sense of your spiritual wants, and a deep and genuine repentance for your sins. Oh! you have need to repent, that you have sinned so long against so good a God, that you have acted so basely to your best Friend, to the Friend who has created, redeemed, and preserved you even to this hour. Come, therefore, before the Lord with weeping and prayer, come out of yourselves, renounce all self-dependence,

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and come to Christ. Believe, firmly believe in your hearts that Christ died for you, and you shall be freely justified by His grace, and receive the adoption of sons. The decree of mercy has gone forth, and it shall not be reversed-"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Delay not, then, a moment to come to a Saviour, who is so able and who is so willing to save. Recollect that Christ came into the world to save sinners, to "destroy the works of the devil," to free mankind from the guilt and the slavery of sin. Renounce, then, this hour, the devil and all his works, and come into the service of Christ. No longer stand wavering between the world and your Saviour. The smiles and frowns of the world will soon pass away-all its fascination and power will vanish at the deathbed, and in the grave. Trifle not away

eternal salvation; be not so mad as to lose your souls for any thing this poor world can give; but flee from sin, and become the faithful servants of your incarnate God and dearest Saviour, and when He, who is our Life, shall appear, you shall also appear with Him in glory.

SERMON III.

THE BENEFICENCE OF CHRIST.

ACTS X. 38.

Who went about doing good.

If there is one virtue in the human character of brighter lustre, or greater influence than another, it is the virtue of benevolence. It is this which links man to man, it is this which makes the domestic circle the seat of happiness, it is this which unites the whole community in the gentlest, and yet in the firmest bonds. What would human life be, without the felicities of love and benevolence, without the exercise of mutual charity and assistance

what would it be, if every one stood aloof from his brother in sullen and insulated independence? If such were human life, it would be a scene of misery, and the day of death would be better than the day of one's birth.

But the virtue of benevolence sheds lustre on the path of the peer, and it strews the rugged road of the poor with flowers. Consider the world as acting under the divine and all-pervading influence of love and benevolence, and what a field is there opened for the display of the moral virtues! "The difference of ranks is then only a summons to the exercise of different duties. Is there eminence? there is a privilege of beneficence! Is there lowliness? there is an obligation to gratitude. If there were no misery, there would be no mercy. It is to the extreme of physical wretchedness that we owe the most exquisite of luxuries, the luxury of doing good.'

"Blessed be God, who hath thus, when