others happy, in the presence of the Lord our God, our Father, our Redeemer, and our Sanctifier.

Nor are the pleasures of the outward man, or the ease, and health, of our mortal body; less enhanced by a cheerful, and self gratulating conscience. If we avoid superfluities of dress, and luxurious food; that we may clothe the naked, and feed the hungry we harden our frame by temperance.

If we visit the sick in our daily walks, the body is refreshed, and our corporeal strength renewed by activity. And when mercy holds the cordial draught of holy Charity to the parched lips of thirst, and want; thou, O gracious Father! returnest the cordial to the very heart of the kind Samaritan!

Thy mercy is over all thy works, O bountiful Jehovah! Lord of men, and angels !— to Thee the united prayer ascends, and calls down blessings on the sick, and on his kind consoler !

O Lord our God! such feelings prove that Thou hast breathed into man the breath of life. It is a portion of Thy bounteous mercy : it is a humble, distant, imitation of Thy blessed Son's benevolence: it is the inspira

tion of Thy Holy Spirit: which, at such affecting moments, fill the glad heart of man with thanks, and praise!

0 may Christ dwell in our hearts by faith, that "it may be in us a well of water springing up into everlasting life." For if such

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joys are attainable here upon earth many a feeling heart now around me knows that they do exist, they are to be found, even among our mortal changes, and vicissitudes : if such mental converse with our God, can be given, through our conscience, here: what must be the joys of heaven!

"For here we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face!"

therefore, "I bow my

"For this cause,

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of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom the whole family in heaven, and earth, is named; that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in dwell in your hearts by faith."

For" 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!" To believe in our heart is to obey all his Commandments;

thus confessing our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, in the very way which He so constantly inculcated. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven." "Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father!

Remember that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, and is " gone forth conquering, and to conquer;" "for He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet.” Our own Cathedral Church of St. Paul, in our chief City, is the monument of His Glory, is the scene of two glorious triumphs of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The first, when His Cross, planted in Britain by His own great convert, and Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul; spread wide its banner on the ruined Temple of the Heathen Goddess Diana; the famed Idol also of Ephesus. The second glorious triumph; when the false delusions of Popery fled away, into her own dark regions of Idolatry; before the rising light of the great Protestant Reformation, and Re-establishment, of this

ancient, pure, and holy, Church of England.

Let us then rejoice in our Redeeming God, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who now sitteth on the right hand of God: for

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worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and power. Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever, and ever: Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! The kingdoms of this World are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever, and ever; King of Kings, and Lord of Lords ; for ever, and for ever!"

SERMON II.

THE WIDOW OF NAIN'S SON.

LUKE VII. 12.

BEHOLD THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW.

WE are informed by this Evangelist that our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth "went into a City called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and much people." Many witnesses, therefore, were present, when He performed the great miracle; upon which, and upon the inferences to be derived from it by the light of reason, and of Holy Writ, we will prove His Divinity as Second Person of the Godhead.

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