Day of Judgment shall arrive, he shall be counted worthy to escape all those things which are coming on the earth, and to stand before the Son of Man: for he has not been a mere hearer of the word, but a doer of it. His faith in CHRIST has not been that faith which is without works, and which is dead, being alone; but it has been proved to have been true faith, by its fruits. His confession of sin has not been confession of the lip; but the real language of an humble, broken, and contrite heart: his love to his SAVIOUR has not consisted in saying "LORD, LORD;" but in doing the things which He hath commanded. Being, therefore, thus safe, for life, for death, and for eternity, he may be likened unto a wise man who built his house upon a rock: and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not; for it was founded on a rock. "But whosoever heareth these sayings of mine," says CHRIST," and doeth them not, I will liken him unto a foolish man, that built his house on the sand.". It matters not what profession such a man has made; what doctrine he has heard; or what preacher he has followed. Only to hear even the best doctrine is not to build on the right foundation. His house is upon the sand: the religion of such an one is a slight and unsubstantial thing. It will not abide the test, when the storm comes, which is to try it; and there is a time approaching, when every one's building shall be tried. That fair edifice, with which he had for a while pleased himself, shall fail. All his high hopes and confidences shall be thrown down. The house, which he had reared to himself for eternity, shall fall; for he had built it on the sand and great shall be the fall thereof. THE END. FAMILY AND PRIVATE DEVOTIONS. Andrewes. THE DEVOTIONS OF BISHOP ANDREWES, TRANSLATED from the Greek, and arranged anew. 18mo. 50 cents. The forms of Devotions in this work not being fully drawn out, but given, as heads of thought, and as it were, a Brief of Prayer, are singularly sug gestive in their nature, and thereby best adapted for general use, and to most variety of cases. Their language being principally drawn from Scripture, is common and acceptable to all, and at the same time, deep, rich, and universal, and suitable to all degrees of spiritual attainment. Berrian. FAMILY AND PRIVATE PRAYERS. BY THE REV. WM. Berrian, D.D, Rector of Trinity Church, New York. 12mo. Large type. $1.00. In this large and well-executed volume, Dr. Berrian has furnished all who love the Liturgy and the spirit of the Prayer Book, with a most valuable manual; valuable alike for its freedom from all irreverent and unseemly familiarity of approach to the throne of grace, and for its deep and glowing fervour of devotion to God. The edition has been newly arranged and materially enlarged. 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This want has now been fully supplied by Dr. Berrian, in the present volume, who, in order to give the manual, of which this is a reprint, a fuller adaptation to the wants of these for whom it is more especially designed, has pruned it of its redundancies, and added to it all the Prayers for the sick and afflicted which, in the course of his long ministry, and consequent great experience, he had been led to prepare, on various occasions, for cases of sorrow and trouble as they successively occurred. Berrian. ENTER INTO THY CLOSET; OR, THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY This Manual of Private Prayers has been prepared by the experienced author, with the aid of the Liturgy, Ancient Litanies, and other sacred offices, and the devotional writings of the older divines of the Church of England; and is well calculated as a seasonable help to all who may use it, and especially to those who find it difficult to give utterance to their devout feelings in their own language, even in the secrecy of the closet. Hobart. BY JOHN THE CLERGYMAN'S COMPANION. This little volume contains the various Offices of the Church, from the Book of Common Prayer, in a size convenient for the pocket. 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Melvill SERMONS BY HENRY MELVILL, COMPRISING ALL the Discourses published by consent of the Author. Edited by the Rt. Rev. Charles P. M'Ilvaine, D.D., Bishop of the Prot. Epis. Church of Ohio. Two large octavo volumes. Ninth Thousand. $3.50. "Melvill is no ordinary man, and produces no ordinary influence. Possessing a brilliant imagination, having a great command of words, and being full of the fire of genius, he sways the hearts of crowded congregations who listen to the living voice, and of multitudes who peruse the productions of his glowing pen. It is impossible to read Melvill's Sermons and not be gratified, and, what is better, improved. 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