peace was upon him ;" and that " by his stripes we are healed.”—And yet we learn that this despised and rejected outcast, this condemned victim for a people's sins, is our Judge and our Redeemer; that he is arisen from the prison of the grave, "to lead captivity captive, and to give good gifts unto men." That at his name, every thing in earth and in heaven shall bow down, that he is "the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." After having seen him suffer so that "no sorrow was like unto his sorrow," after having seen him drink to the dregs that bitter cup which was his appointed portion, we shall see the work of the Lord prosper in his hands." We shall see that he is the foundation on which our faith must rest; and that on this rock we may build a consoling hope against which the subtlety of the devil or man shall never prevail. Jerusalem, that stoned the prophets, that put to death those who were sent to her; Jerusalem, that crucified her Eternal King, has been blotted out from among the nations, and has left no stone upon another to tell her melancholy tale. Her homes are ravaged, her plains are desolate, her fields are neglected, her sons are outcasts, her daughters are left destitute. The tribes of Israel, her thousands and tens of thousands, are as wanderers on the earth, and the beauty and the glory of Judah are passed away as things

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that were not. But a brighter beauty-the beauty of Him "who was without form or comeliness," shall be manifest; and a higher glory shall be revealed." The religion of the persecuted God-head has gone abroad; "the Gentiles have perceived his Star, and kings have come to the brightness of its rising." It has lightened our darkness," alleviated our af flictions, and directed our desires and affections to their proper goal. "On this earth," like the son of Jesse, "we are but strangers." Let us not think and act as if it were our only sphere, but rather let us regard it as a preparation for immortality. Be it ours to choose the golden medium; to shun alike the inebriation of prosperity, and the despair of adversity. Be it ours to look down with contempt, or at least with indifference, on the frail and fickle vanities of human ambition, and to despise, as beneath the estimation of an everlasting soul, the seductive glare of this world's riches.-But, if wealth cannot be acquired without iniquity, if pleasure cannot be enjoyed without guilt, if honours cannot be purchased without a sacrifice of conscience, let us bravely spurn them all; let us tread over "the Mammon of unrighteousness" the paths of immortal glory and immortal happiness-let us forsake the earthly laurel and the bonds of deceitful society, for the heavenly crown of our Redeemer and communion of the saints of God.

Finally, my text encourages the partakers of Christ's sufferings" to look forward to that time," when his glory shall be revealed, and they shall be glad also with exceeding joy." In that hour, that awful hour of sublimity and terror, the Saviour God shall stand again upon the earth--no longer humble and lowly in his appearance; no longer wedded to the dust, and shorn of the beams of his Divinity, shall he enter the Holy City; but armed with might and radiant with infinite majesty, "the winds his chariot" and "the clouds his footstool," shall he come encompassed with a "host of Angels" to sit in judgment on the quick and dead. As the guilty Adam fled from the voice of God in the garden of Eden, so will the wicked shrink appalled from the presence of their unerring Judge. -In vain will they call to the rocks to hide, and to the sea to cover them; the measure of their iniquity is full, and it is too late for repentance. Then shall sound in their ears the dreadful sentence of condemnation foreshewn them by God himself--" Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." How different will be the sensations of the tried, the faithful, and the good! With what joy will they hail the second advent of their Saviour to break for them the bondage of the tomb, and to usher them into eternal life. -"Come, ye blessed children of my Father and

receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Then shall the tear be dried from the eye of affliction, and the pang of sorrow leave the broken and the contrite heart. Then shall the faded cheek of prayer and humiliation be renovated by the essence of eternal bloom; then shall those lips, which have breathed in worship to their God, rejoice with the melody of seraph-lyres, and resound the "hallelujah to the Lamb for ever." Then shall "this corruptible put on incorruption, this mortal put on immortality." "Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written-Death is swallowed up in victory."

SERMON XXXIV.

ON THE END OF TIME.

REVELATION X. 5, 6.

And the Angel, which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.

THE Isle of Patmos, the scene of the lonely exile of the beloved Apostle, was also the scene of his close but mysterious communion with his Master. Of that communion the book of Revelations is the glorious product. That this book was really written by St. John, there can be no doubt; Justin Martyr, who lived but sixty years after him ascribes it to his pen. Irenæus, the disciple of Polycarp, who had been himself the disciple of St. John, Papias, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, and many other ecclesiastical writers, supply the links of historic