works, when you shall lie dead in your graves, will give you that resurrection to life which he hath promised to all them that do good, and will extend to all them who, having done evil, do yet truly repent the evil they have done.

SERMON X.

JESUS RISEN.

BY BISHOP HORNE.

[GEORGE HORNE was born in the year 1730. In 1768 he was made President of Magdalen College, Oxford; and in 1790 was consecrated bishop of Norwich. He died in 1792.]

SERMON X.

LUKE, XXIV. 34.

The Lord is risen indeed.

OUR meditations for this week past have been employed on the sorrows and sufferings of the Son of God, undergone for the sins of the world. We have viewed him sold, betrayed, denied, mocked, scourged, reviled, and evil entreated, crowned with thorns, and nailed to the cross; from thence taken down and laid in the grave, as a man that had been long dead; a large stone placed at the mouth of the sepulchre, properly sealed, and the watch carefully set. During the solemn commemoration of those days, in which the bridegroom was thus taken away, the mirth of tabrets hath ceased, and the noise of them that rejoice hath given place to the penitential accents of grief and lamentation. For a little season, even the sacred music of the church hath not been heard; but her harp also, like that of holy Job, hath been turned to mourning, and her organ into the voice of them that weep; while either, with one of the Marys, she

Job, xxx. 31.

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