tent to dwell in it for ever, and with no aspirations after things unseen; slothful, self-indulgent, without inward principle, and so letting things take their chance, and influenced only by accident, or fashion? Then let me beseech them to remember, that although as yet, "there is room," they have need to take heed betimes, while the day of salvation lasteth, for the night cometh, when no man can work. "Then shall it be too late to knock, when the door shall be shut, and too late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice."

Lastly: are there any, who know that they have wilfully grieved the Holy Spirit, by a deliberate breaking of their Baptismal vows, and a deliberate surrender of themselves to Satan, the world, and the flesh; and who now feel the iniquities of their past lives with an overwhelming and almost despairing sense of their deep guiltiness,-some weary and heavy laden soul, perhaps, that scarce dares to hope for pardon, nor even to "lift up his eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh his help," who is at length conscious of his responsibilities and his omissions, and who would now turn and seek for refuge, where alone is the hope of pardon ;-then, to such an one am I bound to offer the consoling reflection, that to him, and to such as he, is the word of this salvation sent. The poor, the maimed, the halt, and

the blind of the parable,-they who had been worsted by the adversary, were compelled, with gentle importunity, to fill the vacant places at the rich man's board. And even thus it is that Christ our Lord, the Seeker of the wanderers and the Saviour of the lost, invites the returning sinners. Your present sorrow for the past is a proof that He has not cast you off for ever; and though, in consequence of your grievous fall, it behoves you to go mourning all your life long, still there is no cause for faithless despondency. His word is sure; His promises fail not. His blood cleanseth from all sin which is repented of and forsaken. It will cleanse your sins as well as others'. Follow, obey, and hope in Him, and He will not exclude you from that heaven, the gates of which, when He had overcome the sharpness of death, He opened to all believers. Press on hopefully, for as yet there is room. Press on in faith, nothing wavering; in continual penitence and humiliation, in prayer and watchfulness, in charity and every other good work.

Let the errors of your life past form the subject of a daily sorrow, working in you a repentance not to be repented of. And then, though, through the guilt of former transgressions, this world can never be otherwise than a vale of tears to you, though now you must needs go weeping along your way, bearing

forth precious seed, you doubtless shall come again with joy bringing your sheaves with you. You shall stand in your lot at the end of days, with others, who like yourselves, have come out of great tribulation, redeemed by Him, Who is the Church's Deliverer from death and the grave; Who poured forth His blood like water to save you from the one, and has made the other the portal to the inheritance of the Saints in light.

SERMON XVIII.

OF DYING DAILY.

1 CORINTHIANS XV. 31.

I die daily.

THE doctrine set forth in these few words seems to be this, that we must die while we live, in order that we may live when we die; that our whole life must be a kind of rehearsal of that which is insepar ably connected with the dissolution of the body, a surrender of earthly interests, hopes, affections, passions, pursuits, and an entire indifference to those things which alone, in the opinion of the world, make life worth having; that our course of existence must be a type or shadowing forth of the agony of a dying bed in so far as that is, (or ought to be) accompanied by a patient endurance of suffering, a cheerful resignation to God, a trustful submission to His will, a steadfast faith in His mercies through Christ, a thankful receiving of His fatherly chastise