knows or foreloves, He has predestinated; and will call, justify and glorify. Such can never finally perish, and no foe shall ever be able to pluck them out of the hands of CHRIST.

In conclusion, I would address the unconverted, as free and responsible agents; exhorting you, in the words of my text, to use those appointed means, whereby you may receive grace, "to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live. But, if your hearts turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other Gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish everlastingly. call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: that you may love the LORD your God, and that you may

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obey His voice, and that you may cleave unto Him; (for He is your life, and the length of your days ;) that you may dwell in that heavenly Paradise, which the LORD sware unto your fathers, to give them." "Now, therefore, fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and truth. And, if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve." "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn ye at My reproof. Behold, I will pour out My SPIRIT unto you, I will make known My words unto you. Because

I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man' regarded but ye have set at nought all My counsel, and would none of My reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when will mock when your fear cometh. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD. They would none of My counsel, they despised all My reproof.” "As I live, saith the LORD GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel."

"Godliness, brethren, is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come." "Seek ye first the kingdom of GoD, and His righteousness; and all other things shall be added unto you."

But it is not by mercenary motives, and sordid self-interest, that I would urge on you the reception of the

Gospel of disinterestedness. No! I would rather bid you regard the beauty of its truths; the excellency of its precepts; the glory of its promises! I would bid you regard the love of GoD in the cross of CHRIST! I would lay before you the love of CHRIST manifested in the voluntary sufferings of His humiliation! Behold the love, compassion and sympathy of the Saviour, in His tears shed with Mary and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus! Regard him weeping over Jerusalem! Follow him into the garden of Gethsemane! Hear the cry of agony on the cross! And in these situations, realize "the length and breadth and depth of the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge!" Appropriate this love to yourselves, and feel that JESUS died and rose again for you. A friend who could thus suffer for your sakes, will never reject those who come unto Him. He will never refuse to such that grace, which only can enable them to receive the remedy He has provided, and is willing to apply. Can you then hesi

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tate in forming resolutions for the future, in reliance on His promised strength? Can you hesitate in asking in the humility of repentance, that you may receive? In seeking with the diligence of earnest prayer, in order that you may find? In knocking with faith, and in the assurance that you will be heard, that the door of heaven may be opened to receive and answer your prayer?

Yet, while I exhort you to form the resolution of seeking life and good, in reliance on the promised the promised grace of CHRIST; I would, at the same time, caution you to take heed how you trust in your own strength; how you put any confidence in the flesh for all such resolutions will pass away "as the early cloud, and as the morning dew.” We must distrust ourselves, in order that we may put our whole confidence in the assisting grace of CHRIST. We can "be strong in the LORD only, and in His mighty power;" and without His assisting Presence, we shall be unable to stand in the day of battle.