Christ our

goat; and thus they were laid upon Saviour. Not for any thing of my own am I forgiven, for all I do needs forgiveness, but I am forgiven through the shedding of the precious blood of the Lamb, I am pardoned through him; God has taken the burden of my guilt from my head, and laid it upon the Saviour. O what did this holy Mediator of the covenant feel, when all our unholiness and sinfulness were laid upon him!

The Lord in the day of his anger did lay

Our sins on the Lamb, and he bore them away.

No description of grief can ever convey an idea of what the dear man of sorrows felt, when he groaned upon the cross. The most awful effect of sin is to be forsaken of God; and Christ when suffering for us exclaimed "my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here was the bitter misery of his soul; here "the pains of hell gat hold upon him." He became a curse that we might be blessed, and that the wrath of God might not rest upon you and me. He did the work for us, that we might be saved by what he has done. The Lord knows that after all my doings, especially after my sabbathday's preaching, I always repent, and I could not rest in my bed, had I not the atonement to

plead before my God. In the best of things I fail most, and desire to be more and more humble under a sense of my sinfulness. People that know nothing of the covenant of grace by the teaching of the Holy Ghost, call our doctrine Antinomianism, whereas it is nothing but holiness.

FRAGMENT VII.

THE SIN AND DANGER OF CARELESSNESS.

How great is the folly, how heinous the sin of neglecting matters of eternal importance! Reflect for an instant how God has revealed himself to man in his essential attributes; consider not only the glory of God the Father, but the grace of God the Son, and the invaluable riches of his redemption. What would have become of us, without forgiveness through the riches of that blood which was shed for men? The penalty of our crimes must have rested upon our own heads, and the wrath of God would have fallen upon us in all the dreadful fury of the divine indignation. O then to be careless

about forgiveness, when infinite vengeance is ready to dash each of us in pieces like a potter's vessel, while there is none to help! If we die unforgiven, we shall die to perish for ever. Perhaps, sinner, thou hast never put up one earnest prayer that the Lord would obliterate thine iniquities. How closed must thy heart have been, that thou hast not once thought of looking for forgiveness from Him whom thou hast so grievously offended! It is this spirit of indifference which paralyses the soul! I heard some time ago of a poor paralytic man, who was a prisoner in his bed when his house caught fire. He would have moved, but he could not. But if thou really desirest to escape from thy danger, Christ will come and help thee. Thy paralysed soul shall feel a sudden quickening, and thou shalt be rescued. I believe more people are lost eternally by indifference and carnal security, than by any other sins; while the best have to accuse themselves that they are not more alive. Man by a fatal partiality to himself, is unwilling to acknowledge that he has an evil heart, and is so unconcerned about his state, that he does not desire deliverance from it. What a lethargy! I knew an aged lady once who was lethargic, and when her servant

attempted to rouse her, she was angry. The servant remarked, “I never knew my mistress to be angry when she was well, but now she is ill she is very irritable." Take care of this awful state of spiritual lethargy. Tens of thousands have died and have been, I fear, lost from it. It is a fatal sign, when the sinner is angry with those who would attempt to arouse him from his danger!

FRAGMENT VIII.

THE JEWELS OF THE LORD.

JEWELS are exceedingly precious, and those of the greatest beauty lie hid in the earth, and must be searched for. Thus the Lord sends his messengers into the world, to dig his jewels from the earthly mine, and he causes them to shine to his glory. But jewels when first taken from their native bed, require the skill of the polisher to make them beautiful, and to give them their proper form and shape. O my dear hearers, when you are taken from the mine of this world, may the Lord make you to feel that

you are in the hands of your Saviour, and if he frame and polish you that you may shine in the light of the Lord, give him all the praise, be the work effected how it may. Perhaps you will be surprised if I say that I visited a lady yesterday who wore many jewels in her sick chamber, all of exquisite lustre-but they were those of meekness, patience, resignation, faith, and love, and they shone brightly. These graces of the Spirit make the King's daughters not only "all glorious within," but cause them to appear in beauteous adornment in their outward character before men. Jewels do not shine when they are hid in a casket, but only when they are exposed to light; so the Lord bids us "arise and shine," and to this end he sheds his own light upon our graces. Jewels are of various kinds, but all are transparent, and of some lovely hue. So the children of God shine in their own peculiar graces, but they are brilliant in none, but as he shines upon them. In one is set forth the beauty of patience; in another of perseverance; in another of faith. I would therefore, my dear brethren, that you should all look upon yourselves as made of very valuable materials, and that you are to shine to the praise and glory of the Lord.