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children in the maze of infidelity; how wretched and monstrous his condition, when the fearfulness, and trembling, and horror of death, overwhelm those whose obedience is changed into apprehension and darkness! Ah, if sensibility dwell within his breastif he be not wholly blind to all the appearances and analogies of nature, and to all the manifestations of Providence; as well as dead to all the monitions of conscience-surely he will behold his rashness; prostrate himself before the throne of Grace; and, by penitence and prayer, struggle to obtain forgiveness, and salvation, through the intercession of that divine Redeemer, whose life is a perfect example of benignity and holiness; whose death is sacrificial and propitiatory for the whole world; and whose resurrection inspires the soul with a light, and confidence, and joy, which irradiate the grave, and expatiate in a blissful immortality.

5. THE SINNER.

He is exposed to his Creator's frown; to the liveliest sense of the wrath of God; whose frown is so dreadful that a dying profligate exclaimed, “O, thou blasphemed, yet most indulgent LORD GOD! hell itself is a refuge, if it hide me from thy frown!" But hell will not hide the sinner; he must bear that frown continually. There too he feels not only the loss of

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what he once loved, but the everlasting loss of what the saints enjoy. Does he look to heaven? It is lost to him! Does he think of pious friends, or pious parents? They are for ever parted from him! They dwell in life and rapture, but he in death and misery! His state is one of utter friendlessness! There is none to love him, none to help him, none to pity him! No friend to cheer one hour in an eternal night of woe-no companion to beguile a moment, or stifle the stings of a tormenting conscience ! Around him, all are equally wretched, and equally guilty! For them, no Christian prays; on them, no Sabbath shines; to them, no mercies come! Mercy is gone-Grace is gone-Hope is gone! Sin cannot be now forgiven-the compassion of a Saviour never more will reach them!-Pike.

6. VALUE OF THE SOUL.

The art of spiritual computation is not governed by the same principles and rules which guide our specuiations concerning earthly objects. The value of gold, silver, merchandise, food, raiment, land, and houses, is easily regulated by custom, convenience, or necessity; crowns and sceptres have their adjudged valuation; and kingdoms have been bought and sold for money. But who can affix the adequate price to a human soul? "What shall it profit a man if he shall

gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

The principles of value and ordinary arithmetic all fail here; and He alone who paid the ransom for sinners, and made the souls of men His purchased possession, can comprehend and solve the arduous question. They are, indeed, bought with a price; but are "not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." We shall only ascertain the value of a soul, when we shall be fully able to estimate the worth of a Saviour.Legh Richmond.

7. OMNISCIENCE.

"He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hideth his face, he will never see it."-Ps. x. 11.

These Epicurean notions, however absurd they may seem, do yet in some mea

sure take possession of every man's mind at the instant of his committing a sin; since it is most certain, that, with a due impression of the divine Omniscience upon his soul at the time, he would not commit it for all the tempter could offer him. But faith is apt to sleep, and then sin awakes.-Bishop Horne.

"Whither shall I go from We can never sin with thy Spirit? Or whither

shall I flee from thy security, but in a place where presence."-Ps. cxxxix. 7. the eye of GOD cannot

behold us: and where is that place? Heaven is the seat of His glory, creation the scene of His providence, and the grave will be the theatre of His power. Darkness may, indeed, conceal us and our deeds from the sight of men; but the Divine Presence, like that of the sun, turns night into day and makes all things manifest before GOD. Whither can I go from thy Spirit? If, as to my soul, I ascend into heaven, thou art there to receive me, if, as regards my body, I make my bed in the grave, behold, thou art there to secure me; if I take the wings of the wind, or the more expeditious ones of the morning light, and am carried by them in the midst of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me." -Bishop Horne.

8. SELF-EXAMINATION.

"Cleanse thou me from my secret faults."-Ps.xix.

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The perfection and spirituality of God's law render it almost impossible for a

fallen son of Adam even to know all the innumerable instances of his transgressing it. Add to which, that. false principles and inveterate prejudices make us regard many things as innocent, and some things as laudable, which in the eye of heaven, are far otherwise. SELF-EXAMINATION is a duty which few practise as they ought to do; and he who practises

it with the greatest care, will always have reason to conclude his confessions with this general petition, "Cleanse thou me from my secret faults."-Bp. Horne.

9. ESTIMATE OF WEALTH AND POWER.

"Be not thou afraid,when one is made rich; when the

glory of his house is increased. For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away."-Ps. xlix. 16.

Fear God, who is able to destroy both soul and body; but be not afraid of the shortlived power conferred in this world, over the body only. Strip the worldling of the pomp and parade, the connexions and relations of life; and consider him, as he is to appear on the day of his burial; when nothing shall attend him, but his shroud to the grave, and his works to the judgment seat. View him in this light, which is the true and proper light to view him in, and he will cease to be the object of fear, or envy.Bishop Horne.

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"If riches increase, set not your heart upon them." -Ps. lxii. 10.

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Of all things here below, wealth is that on which poor deluded man is chiefly tempted, even to the end of life, to place his confidence; when "riches increase," it proves a hard task for the human heart to keep its affections sufficiently detached from them. But he who by injustice acquireth the

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