From Sinai's mount he founds a loud alarmn; A fkilful counfeller in each dark cafe; Was ready ftill at hand, without request, Death! thou devourer of the human race! Muft ERSKINE too! that man of great renown, And did with freedom publifh them abroad? Yes, yes! He muft!-He's gone!-Erfkine's no more! Grim death hath fnatch'd him to the diftant fhore !These hands, elated oft to heav'n in purity, All filent in the tomb now stretch'd doth ly.- Lo! now his death has hid the fulgent light, And wrapt us in the fhades of gloomy night!'- IS ERSKINE dead! No, fure: the man of God ftill Poffeffes heav'n, in glory ftill furvives. [lives The blifs and glory he proclaim'd around, An ACROSTI C. MUCH fam'd on earth, renoun'd for piety; Religiously thy life below was fpent: Long didit thou labour in the church below, Pointing out Chrift, the Lamb who faves from wo, Heav'n's bleffednefs on finners to beftow. ERSKINE the great! whose pen spread far abroad, No friend to vice, no cloke to the profane: *Alluding to his poetical pieces. The CONCLUSION. Is this the Man whom Heav'n defign'd, And if we would thofe bleffings fhare, Which makes the faints rejoice; All vice abstain, all virtue love, And make this God our choice. Let us for ever bless the name That any of the human tribe GLASGOW, April 15th, 1765. THE The Sword of Juftice awakened against God's Fel- ZECH. xiii. 7. Awake, O Sword, against my Shepherd and against the man that is my fellow, faith the Lord After a brief introduction, clear analization, and fuccinct explica- 1. The character of the person against whom the sword doth awake, 2. The nature and quality of this fword opened up. 3. The manner how this fword did awake, and the import of it, 52 4. The fpecial hand Jehovah had in calling this fword to awake against this glorious perfon evinced, 5. The reafons of the doctrine adduced, why the Lord of holts ordered the fword of juftice to awake against his Shepherd, 56 6. The application of the fubject in fundry inferences, (1.) The nature of the facrament opened, II. 104 The Rent Vail of the Temple; or, Access to the Holy was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. The words being analized and explained, and their proper figni- 1. What that vail is that interpofed between God and us enquired The SECOND doctrine is, That purity is an excellent thing and of 1. The nature of this purity, opened up, (5) Witneffes adduced to prove the great want of purity, 365 (7.) Evidences of purity condefcended on, (8.) The mifery of thefe who are impure pointed out, The THIRD doctrine is, That felf-conceit is incident to a multitude 1. The truth of the doctrine cleared from fcripture and example. 441 ROM. xii. 2. Be not conformed to this world. The connexion, fcope, and explication of the words being difcuffed, |