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Lord, will not be unacceptable to such as delight to think upon the loving-kindness of their GOD; nor will nominal Christians dare to express dissatisfaction, or say, that ever man suffered as this man suffered. Every extreme of agony, mental, corporeal, and spiritual above all, was inflicted upon him, who knew no sin, and who was virtue, meekness, and resignation's self. And by whom? by the very beings for whose salvation he had taken upon him all the degradation of manhood. What a heart-rending recital! It pains us even to think of such very dreadful, such inconceivable, grief. Consider, then, what must have been the anguish of him who groaned, writhed, and at last sank under this insupportable load of suffering and execration!

Reader! whosoever you may be, are you not moved? moved to the very quick, at this awful, though brief, account of HIS sufferings? I am sure you are— you must be; and in your ready sympathy you doubtless doom that son of perdition, Iscariot, (John, xvii. 12), to all the torments which the Lord's own words justify us to declare are his. Mat. xxvi. 24. Take heed then, beloved, lest out of thine own mouth thy words shall be made to condemn thee! Job, xv. 5; Mat. xii. 37; Luke, xix. 22: for if we by any means, direct or indirect, show that we be ashamed of the gospel of Christ (contrary to St. Paul, Rom. i. 16), we shall put him to an open shame indeed, and CRUCIFY to ourselves the Lord afresh! Heb. vi. 6. Whoso is wise will ponder these things, Ps. cvii. 43. Now, in whatsoever degree our blessed Lord and Saviour has excited our commiseration, our gratitude, our entire love for him, who thus laid down his life for his friends

-friends, did we say? nay, for his very enemies! Rom. v. 8; Col. i. 18.-when we have merely considered him in his character as man, mediating for those, his fellow-men, who shamefully ill-treated and despitefully used him; what shall we feel, or how express ourselves, when come to be penetrated with the irresistible conviction that Christ Jesus, the anointed Saviour, the GOD, the Maker of all, endured to be trampled upon by the miscreant worms and caitiff reptiles of his own creation; that he, to satisfy his own divine justice, might save us? Then, indeed, is our mind lost in a glow of mixed emotion of love, of awe, of amazement, so that we are fain to exclaim to such as require the aid of reason to assist their comprehension of this divine and awful mystery, "Canst THOU, by searching, find out GOD? Canst THOU find out the Almighty unto perfection ?" (Job, xi. 7.) Thinkest THOU, vain man, that the impure ideas of thy rotten and corrupted heart, could, by possibility, amalgamate with the conceptions of the SOUL of GOD?!!]-Appendix, No. II.

and was buried;

Mat. xxvii. 59, 60. And when Joseph (of Arimathea) had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. Mark, xv. 46; Luke, xxiii. 53; John, xix. 42.

V. And the third day he rose again,

Matt. xxviii. 1. In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 5. And the angel said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. 7. Go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead, and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him. Lo, I have told you. 9. And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail! And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. I 16. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them; and when they saw him they worshipped him; but some doubted. John, xxiv. 38. Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts (doubtings) arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. And he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And he took, and did eat before them. John, xx. 24. But Thomas, one of the twelve (called Didymus), was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples, therefore, said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you! Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand and thrust

it into my side and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my GOD! Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: BLESSED are they that have not seen, and YET HAVE

according to the Scriptures.

Ps. xvi. 10. For thou wilt not leave his soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

VI. And ascended into heaven,

John, xvi. 28. I leave the world and go to the Father. xx. 17. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my GoD and your GOD.

and sitteth on the right hand of the Father;

Mat. xxii. 43, 44. How then doth David in spirit call him Lord? saying (Ps. cx. 1), The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Mark, xii. 36; Luke, xx. 42; Heb. i. 13.

Acts, vii. 56. And he (Stephen) being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly to heaven, and saw the glory of GOD, and Jesus standing on the right hand of GOD.

*How do the wretched Unitarians get over this?

Rom. viii. 34. It is Christ that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God.

Col. iii. 1. Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

VII. And he shall come again with glory,

Mat. xvi. 27. For the Son of man shall come again in the glory of his Father and his angels. xxiv. 3. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds with power and great glory. xxvi. 64. Nevertheless, I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. 1 Thess. iv. 16. For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of GOD. 2 Thess. i. 7, 8, 9. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking VENGEANCE ON THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD.

to judge both the quick and the dead,

John, v. 22. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son. 27. And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Acts, x. 42. And he commanded us to testify that it is he, which was ordained of GOD (Ps. ii. 6-9; Dan. vii. 14.) to be judge of quick and dead. Rom. xiv. 9. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be the LORD both of the dead and the living. 10. For we

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