good things, or promises blessings, he always brings them to pass.

And yet this greatest of all blessings, the Saviour of the world, so long promised, so long expected, and at last so graciously given, the Jews, contrary to their own doctrine, reject !

The Talmud also, in commenting upon Zechariah, chap. xii: "They shall look upon me whom they have pierced," subjoins these most remarkable words, viz. "Peace be to him who hath said that these things are to be understood of Messiah the son of Joseph, who is slain.”

The Jew, as well as the Christian, believes in a general resurrection: why then do men object to, or doubt the resurrec tion of the Lord Jesus, unless they think it a greater miracle to resuscitate one dead body than myriads.

Every thing around us proclaims a resurrection: the spring of the year, like a young child awaking from sleep, with all it sweet and smiling beauties which winter had buried. The seed thrown into the earth dies, but in harvest it again rises from the earth, and gives bread to sustain the life of man. Sleep is a temporary death; for while it lasts the sleeper is not conscious of any thing that passes around him; he is the same as dead; yet when he awakes all his thoughts and faculties return with renewed strength. Sleep may be called a living death. We go to bed, sleep seals our eyelids, and we become as insensible as a stone wall, or the dust of which we are formed. Were we unac customed to the phenomenon of sleep, what a wonder we should think it, and should hail the return of consciousness as

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a boon direct from heaven, as it really is; but because it is common, we think nothing of it. Yet our waking from sleep to life and animation, is just as great a miracle as that of resuscitating a dead body, and endowing it with returning life.

Christ referred the Jews to his resurrection, as an infallible evidence of his being the Christ; and made it a demonstration whereby they should be convinced that he was God the Son, and the great prophet and Saviour that had before been promised.

Now Christ's resurrection clearly proves three things:-It proves our own resurrection, it proves Christ's divinity, and it proves the great atonement to be complete.

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CHAPTER V.

CONCLUSION.

WE have seen in the Introduction the fulfilment of some of the more striking of the Old Testament prophecies: let us now see how far Christ's own predictions have been fulfilled. We read in St. Matthew chap. xxiv: "And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the building of the temple. And Jesus said unto them: See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down."

It is at this day known to all the world,

that this prediction has been most minutely fulfilled.

Christ foretold also the dispersion of the Jews, as well as the destruction of their temple, and the present state of that degraded people is a convincing proof to all the nations of the earth, that Christ's prophecy concerning them has been fulfilled to the very utmost tittle. Now surely fulfilled prophecies, prophecies known and admitted to have been in existence before the occurrence of the events to which they allude, ought to carry conviction with them as to the divine character of the prophet, that prophet having plainly asserted, "I and my Father are one."

We might here, perhaps, in conclusion, add another proof of Christ's divinity. He knew the thoughts, and needed not to be told what was passing in the mind of man,