not worth loving. While we are in this world, it would be a great trial to part with its comforts. Our desire should be to take whatever God gives us, and use it to his glory, but that when he withdraws it we may have faith to say, "Father, thou knowest what is best for thy children." There is one who directs us to say, "the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." I would rather suffer the loss of all men's favour than fall under the frowns of my, God.

Let earth with all its trifles go;

Give me, O Lord, thyself to know,
Give me thy precious love.

O, we could part with a thousand worlds, were we but filled with the power of the world

to come.

But further, what does converted Paul desire? That he may "win Christ, and be found in him.” Win Christ! How can I win him? If I give all, it is but little to give. I am told by my Lord to give him my heart, and I need not excuse myself by saying that it is a bad heart, for he will give me a new one. I give him my sin

The apostle also desires to "be found in him."

I can scarcely ever go through a passage of Scripture, but I find something eminently beautiful as respects the spirit of personal holiness. If I am to be in Christ, I am to be one with Christ; a member of the living head, a branch of the living vine. By union with him, I am to receive holy communications from him, and his life in me will teach me every moment how to live to his glory. I only want to be "found in him," and all will be well for time and for eternity. My dear hearers, keep up, I beseech you, a glorious union and walk with God in Christ. Being united to the Saviour, you will partake of his image and likeness, and may you and I have more and more of this glorious similitude. This is my earnest prayer for the Saviour's sake, Amen and Amen.

versal. It is our business to proclaim mercy and peace through our Lord Jesus Christ to a world of rebels; and our language in this respect cannot be more general than it should be. The words of Scripture are "whosoever will". -we know that every man acts according to the will of his mind-"whosoever will let him come;" and to this invitation is annexed the gracious promise, which Jesus himself the God of truth hath uttered, "him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." "In no wise! Alas that any should come late; but they cannot come too late; the vilest sinner living is not excluded from the offer of mercy.

5 John vi, 37.

1. What seems to be meant by the words of our text; how are we to understand them? Let us consider the expression before us, called, and then its connection. Who are the called? I have already hinted who they are; wherever the gospel is preached, there are the called. At this present moment, in the name of the Lord, I call every sinner that hears me to repent and turn to God, who has commanded "all men every where to repent," and commissioned his ministers to "preach the gospel to every creature." The proclamation to sinners at large is that "the soul that sinneth it shall die;" that "the wages of sin is death;" that "sin shall not go unpunished;" but it is equally proclaimed to every sinner who feels his danger and desires to escape, that there is pardon and redemption gloriously secured through the blood of the everlasting covenant, which rejects no one but those unhappy creatures, who seal their own condemnation by refusing the mercy so freely tendered to them.

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Some persons say, we are all fallen creatures and are without power to accept the invitation." True enough, we are fallen creatures: no language can adequately depict the exceeding wickedness of the human heart. So sure as a stone

unsupported falls to the ground, so sure are our own corrupt hearts to sink us to ruin, if left to themselves; yet though fallen creatures, we are still rational creatures. Though sin has brought us to a very bad condition, we have each a conscience, and there is no such thing as a human being who is not an accountable being before God, so that "we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ." The question, however, is not whether you can save yourselves, but whether you are willing to be saved; it is not whether you can arise and shake off your sins and claim a pardon, or whether you possess a salvation of your own, but whether you listen to the gospel voice that invites you to accept the great salvation, which is to be had "without money and without price?" Need a man continue blind when he knows of a remedy? Need a man be in debt, when a friend is ready to discharge his debt? Just so it is with you. You cannot blame God that he does not accept you, when you will not come to him. The grand point is, are you willing to come? The great complaint of the Lord against his creatures is, "ye will not come unto me that ye may have life." No man acts without a will; it is his will that causes him to betake himself to his nightly rest, and to