out-the evil of the flesh, its inordinate affections and desires included in the word "members," by the personal glory in prospect, the hope of the resurrection; and the evil in the world, the minding of earthly things, by the hope of the kingdom. That is to say, the resurrection in incorruption and glory -not as a hope merely in the ordinary sense of the word built upon promise, but, as the anticipation of the Spirit in which we are already "quickened" and "risen with Christ". -even now "gives to death" (which is the meaning of the word "mortify") the Flesh; and the hope of the kingdom, of which also the Spirit is the earnest, crucifies the Christian to the World as it now is. And no man is true to either hope who lives after the one, or follows the present course of the other.

No man is true to his profession of faith in the resurrection who continues to live after the flesh for, What is the Christian's resurrection but (as we have heard) the transformation of "this vile body" that it may be fashioned anew, "according to the body of Christ's glory,"-its being conformed to "the Spirit which he now has from Christ, his "Life" in Him? And how shall this hope consist with walking after the flesh, with indulging our sensual desires or pampering our carnal appetites?

And, What is the hope of the kingdom-the hope

A SERMON.

S. JOHN III. 3-7.

"JESUS answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of GOD. Nicodemus saith unto Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? JESUS answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the SPIRIT is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

WHAT is it to be born again? What to be born of water and of the SPIRIT? What is meant by the Christian's regeneration? What by his entering into the kingdom of GOD? These are questions which, for the first 1500 years of Christianity received but one answer, but which in comparatively recent times of the Church's history, have agitated the minds of men. And they are questions so fundamental to the whole system of our religion, so entirely involving the very principle of the Christian life, that it is of the last importance, that they should be definitely and correctly answered. Now, in order to this, we must refer to that

* "If we consult the Fathers in this case, they will unanimously tell us that we are not only distinguished from others, but regenerated by GOD in baptism."-BISHOP BEVERIDGE. on Article xxvii.