from both fatigue and thirst together, he yet asked to drink, chiefly that he might lead the Samaritan woman herself to desire from him that living water, which those that drink of shall never thirst, but which becomes in him who receives it a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life, John iv. 10-14. Oh, had the Jews, when they heard Jesus exclaim, "I thirst," but asked for that living water for themselves! Oh, had they but known the gift of God, and who it was whose sufferings they looked upon! But, alas, what was revealed to the woman of Samaria was hidden from the synagogue of the Jews! Pride and unbelief were blind, while she who knew her wants, and felt her blindness, was enlightened. XXX. "IT IS FINISHED." OH! how much is comprehended in this single and sublime sentence, "It is finished!" John xix. 30. In truth, we can look for nothing beyond Christ. We are promised nothing beyond him. There is no other covenant, no other gospel. There is no other way of bringing sinners to God. All the Scriptures were fulfilled in him; he is the end of the law to every one that believeth. His single oblation of himself, once offered, is effectual for the reconciliation of all past and of all future ages. "It is finished!" He who is The Truth declares this. We may be assured, therefore, that all which Divine justice required for the remission of our sins, in order to our receiving the Spirit of adoption, has been fully offered; that our heavy debt is discharged; that the price paid has set us free; that the blood of the everlasting covenant has blotted out all our sins; that we may meet death without terror, and without fearing a repulse from the gates of paradise from the angel who guards the entrance. Oh! what refreshment there is for the souls of the faithful, who are so intimately united to their Saviour, as to live only in his life, when they reflect on those most consoling words, "It is finished!" XXXI. JESUS EXPIRES UPON THE CROSS. "AND Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost," Mark. xv. 37. Jesus cried with a loud voice, to show that he did not die as other men- - of necessity, but of his own free will; not from weakness, but from his own choice; not from the violence of his sufferings, but as being Lord and Master over nature itself, as superior to all suffering, and as perfectly independent of the injustice of men. So strong a cry, and one which showed such strength of life, followed by death, coming instantly at the bidding of the expiring Son of man, took from his punishment all that would have appeared calculated to pour shame and disgrace upon it, and turned it to a pure and volun |