that, by re-establishing his apostolihe might recover them from the which they had been seduced. In s, he warned them against exalting ising others, of those who had lathem. "Let a man," says he, "SO s, as of the ministers of Christ, and the mysteries of God." All Chrisnts of Christ, and the word rendered tes those servants, who wait on any ly at all times to execute his orders ed assiduity. But ministers are also he mysteries of God: they are not of morality, but they are entrusted t mysteries of revealed truth, that are them to mankind, as they have of the Lord.

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cessary for ministers to be orators, losophers, or even men of distinas or learning; but integrity and

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"judged of you, or of man's j "judge not mine own self: for " by myself, yet am I not hereby "that judgeth me is the Lord. expected, that every one who ai should thus decidedly rise super of men, especially those within church. At the call of duty, a enabled to venture giving offer luctantly and be drawn into ma the notion of prudence, which m his usefulness, Christians shou heed, that they do not inadver nisters to unfaithfulness, or re uneasy to them. The apostle n mine his own motives and cond that an appeal lay from his deci heart-searching Judge; and th rise to the caution and warni

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contemplate the coming of the Lord, mnities of that awful event.

red scriptures continually lead our this great crisis, when the important interests of the whole human species ly determined. The servants of God ginning of the world looked forward to Enoch the seventh from Adam prof these things; saying, Behold the eth with ten thousands of his saints, to idgment upon all, and to convince all ngodly among them, of all their unls, which they have committed, and of d speeches which ungodly sinners have

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In the fiftieth psalm, which is well as a prophetical description ment: we have this sublime lan "shall come and shall not keep "devour before him, and it shall ous round about him. He sh vens from above, and to the "judge his people,-And the he "his righteousness, for God "Selah. The words of Solomo "citations from the old Testa "O young man in thy youth, " cheer thee in the days of thy y "the way of thine heart, and in eyes: but know thou, that fo " God will call thee into judgm "shall bring every work into

relative to the coming of JEHOVAH, Daring to meet God, who is Judge himed to Christ by his apostles, without esitation. And with a conscious digake of himself, in his lowest abasee Judge of the world, and the arbiter ternal state, "When the Son of man e in his glory, and all his holy angels then shall he sit upon the throne of and before him shall be gathered all

ng of the Lord signifies therefore, the of Christ in human nature to judge the n he shall exercise omnipotence, omnid every divine perfection; and so nis own glory" as Mediator, " and in of the Father," as sovereign Lord of evelation of Jesus Christ will be visible

"This same Jesus, which is