to avoid, and to a death the most cruel, depravity could inflict, or a feeling heart deplore, to obtain the means, consistent with his plan, to raise all mankind to a participation of eternal joys with himself-is, surely, a demonstration of the affection and magnanimity of the man-in the image of God: and, on our part, of the everlasting reverence, gratitude, and love that is due to him, for the sorrows he has borne; and, for the dignity and happiness his inestimable worth has prepared for us to enjoy. The words of the Lord, speaking by Isaiah, are,

therefore, in truth fulfilled: "I will make a man Isaiah xiii. 12. 、 more precious than fine gold; even than the golden

wedge of Ophir."

Hence, "There is none other name under hea- Acts iv. 12. ven given among men, whereby we must be saved,"

than the name of Jesus Christ-the Word-and

Son of God.

Hence," Unto us a child is born, unto us a son Isaiah ix. 6. is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

Hence, "He shall be called, THE LORD OUR Jer. xxiii. 6. RIGHTEOUSNESS."

Hence the words of Isaiah," Behold God is my Isaiah xii. 2. salvation: I will trust" in him, " and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength."

Hence St. Paul's words, " By the offence of one, Rom. v. 18. judgment came upon all men to condemnation;

even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life: for as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous.” anothelem

Rom. viii. 1." There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" of God.

2 Cor. v. 14.

Heb. iii. 12.

Again, "If one died for all, then were all dead; and that he," Jesus Christ," died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again: wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature," by the regeneration of his soul by the Holy Spirit of Christ.

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"Take heed, therefore, brethren, lest there be any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God: but exhort one another daily, whilst it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end, while it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation: for some when they had heard did provoke, howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses."

"But with whom was he grieved forty years?

Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."

"Let us labour, therefore, to enter into that rest, Heb. iv. 11. lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart; neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of with whom we have to do."

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Seeing then, that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession; for we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help

in time of need."

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OF THE LAST JUDGMENT AND CHANGE OF THIS WORLD

WITH THE PREVIOUS SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Heb. 1. 10.

Isa. lxv. 17.

Rev. xx. 11.

THAT the last Judgment extends not only to this globe, but also to the whole moveable creation, is evident by the following words:

"For Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish-but Thou remainest and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

Again," Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

Again, "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no Rev. xxi. 1. place for them."-" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

We have now to show how far our inferences, from our observation of things around us, accord

with this revelation of the last judgment extending over all the moveable creation.

It has already been demonstrated, that the universal law of gravitation, which the Almighty was pleased to establish for the government of his creation, and previous to the existence of our race, is the only just law which can be formed, to regulate and support the peaceable order of society-consistently with the precepts of our Saviour! This being the case, it follows, that the same inferences we derive in all our reasonings, from this universal law, may be also derived from it by every reasonable being, upon every planet throughout the vast creation ! for, by the perception of those laws, their assent must be regulated as reasonable beings, as the conclusions of all our reasonings are in astronomy, or in any other department of knowledge, which that law regulates. And the Word of God may have adopted ways, consistently with his wisdom and beneficence to raise millions of others in the bliss of his own glory, as extended to ourselves. He says,

you :

,"In my Father's house are many man- John xiv. 2. sions, and if it were not so, I would have told that "the nations are but as a drop in a bucket” Isaiah, xl. 15. in the creation, "and are counted as the small dust in the balance" of reciprocal attraction-for this world he likened in his parables to a field, or as a part of an estate. And to suppose that those man

* See Appendix.