strengthen; to bring, even manhood itself, to maturity. Be thus engaged in the work of the Lord: it is the most delightful work in the world: it is not only the type of, but the preparation for, heaven.

66 Be ye always abounding," says the apostle, "in the work of the Lord." 1 Do not listen to those who call this legality. Shut your ears against any such false insinuations. It is a preparation for the skies. Be always active in the work of the Lord. When alone, meditate on his perfections--on his glories in the face of Jesus Christ, as well as on all the blessings he is determined to confer on his family first here, and then, for ever, above.

Be engaged in the work of the Lord comprehensively. Leave nothing undone; and to begin aright, and to end aright, let us begin with God in the heart, and end with God in the heart, and every thing that intervenes will, and must be, well done.

Mark the conclusion of all-" I WILL CON

1 1 Cor: xv. 58.

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FESS HIM;" this is what the Saviour himself says, "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." He will acknowledge them in the last day as his peculiar friends: "And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels." "Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." They will be separated from every evil, united eternally to every good; and the utmost purity, and the utmost bliss, will, and must be, their portion for evermore.

He will own the services of his family. He will take up their good works, separate them from every alloy of evil, and exhibit them in the last day to the eyes of the universe. He will bring all liars, and slanderers, to an awful account. He will bring his family before them. "Here are those whom you have ill-treated, and insulted, whom you called hypocrites in the world below, who had then your hatred and

your scorns.

Behold them now! and contrast

them eternally with yourselves."

Lastly,

He will honour them in the highest degree, and in the most public manner.

"Then shall

the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Amen.

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1 Matt: xxv. 34.

SERMON XV.

EPHESIANS i. 10.

"THAT IN THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS OF TIMES, HE MIGHT GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST, BOTH WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN AND WHICH ARE ON EARTH; EVEN IN HIM."

THIS subject is awfully and delightfully interesting-it is a subject calculated to shake sinners over the pit of everlasting destruction; and, at the same time, to lift the saint above the skies.

The Apostle, in the 3rd verse, blesses God— but, hear his own words: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath