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'us in the Book which God has given as the revelation and the record of His mind and will:

The discourse, XIV., on National Duty to Christ, is in substance, though in an altered form, a reprint of one delivered before the General Assembly of the Free Church, when retiring from the Moderatorship in 1869. It is inserted here because the subject deeply concerns Christ's relations, will, and glory; because our church has taken herself solemnly bound to place her principle in reference to it in the forefront of all her contendings; and because this principle must be embodied in any legal settlement of the question that is being agitated, and likely to be agitated more and more, if that settlement is to have the divine blessing resting on it, and to operate for the nation's wellbeing.

The author has only to add that the volume as a whole is an earnest however imperfect effort to show, that redemption in Christ through His blood, involving His deity and humanity, and the mysterious never-ending union of the two natures in His one person, as well as His creative preserving and governing supremacy over the universe, is the one great theme of all the divine revelations and records of which the Bible is composed, and that this glorious gospel and the Holy Scriptures, as the record of it, exhibit at once a harmony and a grandeur corresponding to the grace which they breathe.

EDINBURGH, Dec. 1881.

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CHRIST IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

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Luke xxiv. 44: "All things... in the Psalms concerning me."-FIRST.
Psalms containing more formal predictions. SECOND. Psalms

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THE WORLD LEFT TO PROVE ITS NEED OF CHRIST.

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X.

DEATH ABOLISHED AND LIFE AND IMMORTALITY BROUGHT

TO LIGHT BY CHRIST.

2 Tim. i. 10: "Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death,
&c."-I. He hath abolished death; in four particulars. II. Life
brought to light. 1. Favour of God; 2. Holiness; 3. A life
differing from other kinds of life in its fountain-channel-
agent-means-aim-hidden nature-progressive character-
duration. III. Immortality brought to light. Freedom from

sin-from guilt and fear-from ignorance and error-from Satan
-from wicked men-from sufferings caused by present state of
the church-from calamities that come on the earth-no longer
separated from Christ-have God's continual presence—life eter-
nal. Practical reflections: I. Proper effect of these realities; 2.
salvation only in Christ; 3. to many these realities as an idle tale;
4. time to awake; 5. fatal to mistake the change required

XI.

BEARINGS OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST.

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198-219

Luke ix. 31: "And spake of His decease which He should accomplish at

Jerusalem;" 1 Cor. ii. 2, “For I determined not to know anything

among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." Subject of con-

versation on the mount of transfiguration; and of Paul's preach-

ing. I. Christ's death chief manifestation of God: 1. Of His

perfections: His sovereignty-wisdom-holiness-justice—love—

truth-and power; 2. Of the manner of His existence as the

Three-One God; 3. Of His providence toward this world. II.

Christ's death essential to all parts of His mediatorial work. III.

Only channel: 1. Of all good to men; first, only channel of sav-
ing blessings, justification-adoption-sanctification-holiness-

'confidence in God-peace of conscience-progress-perseverance-

divine pity-heavenly life-heavenly hopes; second, only channel

of efficiency to outward ordinances the scriptures prayer

baptism-Lord's supper; 2. Only channel of all power of doing

good-self-denial-repentance-dying to sin-living to righteous-

ness-living to the praise of God-confessing Christ-running

the Christian race-loving others-exercising Christian liberality

-discharging relative duties of life. IV. Influence of Christ's

death over heaven and hell: 1. Over heaven; (1) Chief source

of its happiness to the redeemed; (2) Angels powerfully affected

by it; (3) Its influence throughout the blessed universe; 2. Over

hell; (1) Lost men treated as enemies of cross of Christ; (2) His

terrible power over doom of fallen angels. Practical reflections:

(1) Practical importance of Christ's death; (2) It decides the vir-

tuous or vicious character, and happy or miserable state of men, 220-245

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