me only, but to all them also that love his ap

pearing."

In this blessed hope, heavenly Father, I now resign myself to thy gracious keeping, for time and for eternity.

"Be merciful to me, and bless me, and cause the light of thy countenance to shine on me;—let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon me,and establish thou the work of my hands."

"Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit."

And to thy name, through Jesus Christ, with whom thou art always well pleased, be honour and glory, now and for evermore. Amen.

PART FOURTH.

SACRAMENTAL ADDRESSES;

OR,

THE COMMUNION SERVICE,

AS IT IS CELEBRATED

IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.

1 COR. v. 8. "Let us keep the feast."

The reader is requested to remark, that the Preliminary Discourse which follows corresponds with what is usually called the Fencing of the Tables,— and is supposed to be pronounced before the Minister descends from the pulpit to seat himself at the Sacramental Table,—and before the Elements are brought forward. It may also be observed, that the Table Addresses in this portion of the Work are so arranged as to form a comment on the words of Institution,— and that the Exhortation after the Services is founded on a peculiarity in the passage chosen for interpretation, which not only pre-eminently adapts it for being employed as the subject of Discourse on this particular occasion, but which must give it an indescribable interest to all who recollect the affecting circumstances in which the words were first used.

PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.

WHO MAY COME TO THE FEAST?

LUKE Xviii. 13, 14.-God be merciful to me a sinner.

-I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.

WHEN We think of the high and peculiar claims which our Saviour has on our obedience to all his commandments, nothing appears so strange, as the negligence of many persons, who are far from denying his mission, or undervaluing his services, in yet habitually forbearing to fulfil his last injunction. Any thing like an imputation of their denying their Redeemer would be met by such persons with horror and with indignation; they have not the slightest suspicion of

his having assumed a title, or represented himself as delegated to a work, which did not really belong to him ;—on the contrary, they firmly believe that it is through him only that they must look for acceptance with God, for the forgiveness of their sins, and for everlasting life,—that he is now the Mediator between God and man,-that the world has been infinitely benefited by the beautiful and consolatory doctrine which he taught,that his own character was suited to the divine grandeur of the title which he assumed,—that, in one word, he has been, not in theory merely or in expectation, but in fact, the best and most to be admired of all the friends whose character and labours have ever benefited mankind, -and that it is by his supreme decision that the fate of every man is at last to be determined, according to the deeds done in the body,-God having made him, for the grandeur of his enterprise, the Judge both of the Quick and of the Dead.

It is undeniable, that there are multitudes of men, in every Christian country, whose inmost souls would be startled with horror at the slightest hint of their entertaining a doubt as to the truth