they are chained like the veriest slaves, and all the personal freedom of the man, and all the fulness of the Holy Spirit's teaching is circumscribed within its trammels, its permissions, and its prohibitions.

Nevertheless God has a people in it, as He has too among the Papists, and as He has in the midst of that world which Evangelicalism looks down upon. God will honour them that honour Him in His ordinances, however obscure may be their views upon other points; and many, who in the ordinances of His church reverence the great High Priest, whom these ordinances do set forth, and who, in the king, reverence the vicegerent of the only King of kings, Lord of lords, and Ruler of princes, will be found to have a place in that kingdom on this earth, which shall be under One absolute autocrat; with a church and state inseparably united; with s a Priest on a throne; where there shall be no toleration, no republicanism, no liberalism ; ✨ and where those who say that the people are the only source of legitimate power, shall be held accursed; while many who have been

worshipping idols set up in their own hearts, and refusing to have this Man to rule over them, and trying by societies to establish a millenium without him, shall be cast out.

The Christian king knows that, as Christ's delegate, he dare not delegate again that authority, which he has received from Christ, to Christ's enemies. A Protestant Christian king dare not place Christ's church under anti-christian legislators, anti-christian judges, or anti-christian rulers. Yet the king is no discerner of spirits; he must, therefore, apply to the Church to know who are its members. The Church replies, "whoever is baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and who receives the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper." To such alone, then, dare the king entrust the exercise of any part of his kingly authority. He may extend the protection of a civilized and well-ordered police over every sojourner within his nation's gates; but the sojourner must not be admitted to the prerogatives of a member of his national family.

A Christian man is a fallen, but redeemed

creature, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, and enables, by His power, to walk in the ordinances of God blameless. If he be an insulated being, it is sufficient that he preach not only by his lips, but by his life, in that solitary capacity but if he be united in fellowship with others, he is endued with the additional prerogative of preaching also in that collective capacity. As a husband, he and his wife must preach to other husbands and wives. This sermon can only be read to those who live with them: to an intimate circle of near relations and a few friends, who know the dispositions, situations, circumstances, trials, and difficulties, which assail them in the performance of that social duty. As parents they must set forth by example, rather than by precept, the blessedness of being the willing and conscientious educators of their own children; and they must make their family preach, not as an unconnected assemblage of orderly people, but as a body: united under one head by an ordinance of God's appointment. For, as a ship-full of men do not constitute the crew of the vessel,

unless united under one commander; and as a rabble, with arms in their hands, do not compose a regiment, unless under officers of various degrees of subordination; and as a number of persons, living within certain geographical limits, do not form one nation, unless under the rule of one king, or subject to one code of laws;-so the inhabitants of the same house do not necessarily make one family, unless knit together in bonds of mutual dependance under one head, supreme within its walls.

The cross of Christ is to be taken up and borne, in all the relationships of life in which God has called us. The husband must be the ruler, and the wife the ruled; yet all with love, and by love: the sweet constraint of duty to God and affection to each other; undiminishing, yea increasing, as the shadows of life lengthen upon them. The husband must not permit the outgoings of vanity, extravagance, ostentation, and waste. The wife must frame herself and her household upon her husband's estimate of what is right and

fitting, without complaint, and without murmur. He, however, if he be either a wise or a good man, will determine nothing with respect to their mutual interests, without consulting his wife; for he may rest assured that there is no one so capable, or so willing, to give him honest and disinterested counsel. Let neither seek the advice of others, however near or dear, in what concerns themselves. They must remember that they have left all others, in order to cleave to one alone. The wife must expect to hear frequent solicitations from false friends to dispute her husband's authority; and the husband to neglect, and treat with cold indifference, his wife: but they must spurn such advisers as the direct emissaries of Satan.

In the management of their family, too, "all who will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution:" but they must not be intimidated from putting away all workers of iniquity from beneath their roof, lest they should be worse served by better principled servants; or through fear of acquiring the