tary existence in the perishable body, to fit and prepare us for our everlasting state as Spiritual Natures in the glories and joys of Heaven-to Him, Who hath not only thus Created, but hath Blessed us with His Providential Care and Protection, and with the Benevolent Gifts of Peace and of Hope, amidst Spiritual and temporal comforts; Sparing us when we deserved punishment, and when in justice we might have been cut off, in the midst of our iniquities, without preparation and without repentance.

But, ABOVE ALL, for Thine Inestimable Love in the Redemption of the World by our LORD JESUS CHRIST;

The Love of The United GODHEAD to one class of Its Own Creatures in Permitting, though but for a season, Its Unity (if the expression may be allowed) to be Broken in upon, Its Glories to be Obscured, Its Peace and Its Joy to be Interrupted by the temporary Separation of The Second PERSON in The TRINITY, to Take upon Himself the Form of Man for the Salvation of Human Kind; to Become Subject to the like infirmities and passions as Man, and though in all things Himself without guile, and Blameless, yet Receiving on His Otherwise Unpolluted SPIRIT the Agonizing load of the impurities and iniquities of a corrupt and sinful World; Enduring the scoffs and persecutions of Pride, Sensuality, Infidelity and Malice; and at last Yielding up His Life in Agony on the Cross, to Atone by His Death, as well as by the Patience and Perfection of His Life for our offendings, and to Restore us to the justly forfeited Favour of HEAVEN: thus Giving us indeed a new Life and a new Nature, and Justifying the hope in Believers of a Blessed Participation in the perfect and endless Joys of a Heavenly Communion. This Love of GOD, through CHRIST, towards every One of us, and which no meditation upon It, however unceasingly or expansively employed, can sufficiently conceive, is truly Inestimable; since, sunk as we were in the scale of Being by our disobedience and impiety, and destitute of all other means of DIVINE Reconciliation, we were amenable only to Ex

communication from the Holiness and Happiness of a Heavenly State; and must have had such an awful Sentence irrevocably Pronounced against us if The DIVINE Justice had not been So Satisfied, and Mercy have been Thereby Allowed to Rejoice against Judgment. Since therefore Creation, though Intended by Its GIVER as a pre-eminent Good to Man, would on the contrary, through our own perverseness and folly and wickedness, have proved an indirect source of interminable evil, had we All fallen under the Unutterable Woe of The ALMIGHTY's Unchangeable Displeasure; we have yet most abundant reason to bless GOD for Thus, by Such A Sacrifice from Himself, Restoring to Man's Creation its Original Preciousness, and Superadding the Adoption of our So Sanctified Nature into His Own. Let us however take heed that the incense of our praise, in order that it may be truly Acceptable to GOD, be offered up from the heart as well as by the lips, in the spirit of a lively faith in CHRIST JESUS.

for the Means of Grace,

As The SON of GOD, by the Efficacy of His Offering, if we have a true and operating faith Therein, has Relieved our Souls from the Infliction of DIVINE Chastisement on our past sins, and Removed the agonizing pressure of their weight upon our peace, so through His Continued Love Vouchsafed to us, will the Grace of The HOLY SPIRIT, as the First Fruits of Such Intercession, Pervade our hearts and Enlighten our understandings; Begetting in us both a hatred and avoidance of evil, and a devotedness to good; Manifesting itself in the deepest humility and thankfulness towards GOD, and in a desire to avail ourselves at all times of the Guidance of His Word, and the Governance of His SPIRIT. The DIVINE Grace thus Freely and Mercifully Offered unto All, who will rightly use It, will also Comfort and Support us in all the trials and vicissitudes of life; Striving with our perverseness, and Strengthening us amidst our weaknesses.

and for the hope of Glory.

Since in this life we have no abiding City, all being short and fleeting and unsatisfying at the best, the Soul, in an inseparable consciousness of its Immortality, even naturally looks beyond the grave for some condition more congenial to its feelings; and, when Aided by the Light of Revelation Shining on its pathway, rests with confidence on That Anchor of its hope, The Incarnate SON of GOD. The Soul also trusts that in its highly Spiritualized State it will see its GOD and the Glories Surrounding Him, and thence takes courage, going on its way rejoicing, though it may be amidst temporal tribulation. Let us therefore gather to ourselves the joys of that hope, and patiently endure unto the end, looking to the Prize of our High Calling of GOD in CHRIST JESUS! -Conscious of our utter inability of ourselves to do anything that can be Acceptable before GOD, even the rendering Him praise in a manner becoming us, the Address then assumes the character of prayer for DIVINE Assistance in this our reasonable service.

And, we beseech Thee, Give us that due sense of All Thy Mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful;

It is strange that Man, whose whole life in every instant of its existence is one wonderful and varied Display of his CREATOR's Goodness and Mercy, should require to be admonished of What GOD hath so Graciously Done and is Unceasingly Doing for him; but such is the weakness and such the perverseness of the Human heart, when not systematically yielding to DIVINE Guidance, that the Efforts and Offices of Providence and Grace are but little regarded or cherished with thoughts of thankfulness. Our perceptive powers, as well as all our other faculties of mind or body, whether we acknowledge it or not, we really owe to The DIVINE Dispensation; and our gratitude should be incessant for such Blessings. But it is because we do not spontaneously or habitually give the becoming exercise to those powers or faculties, that we are thus urged to seek for a Direction of them to GOD's Glory, by the Overruling In

fluence of The HOLY SPIRIT; for then and then only it is that the Soul is actuated by holy love and devotedness to The DIVINE Will, which constitute its richest possession.

and that we shew forth Thy Praise, not only with our lips, but in our Lives;

Miserable indeed will be the condition of Those, who have rendered unto their CREATOR and REDEEMER the offerings of their lips, while their hearts were far from Him; having neglected the weightier Matters of The DIVINE Law, Righteousness and Judgment and Mercy. But alas! how Few of us keep sufficiently alive our devotion! and how much Fewer dedicate their Lives and substance to the fulfilment of The DIVINE Purpose. Indifference to so Benevolent and Compassionate A BEING we cannot deny to be utterly unpardonable, but hypocritically to engage in the worship of GOD, to Whom, as Essentially Omniscient, the Secret workings and motives of all hearts and all acts are laid open, must be so offensive to the Purity of His NATURE, that He cannot but Regard it with Peculiar Displeasure, and Eventually Visit it with Exposure and Punishment. Faith, confined to the mere utterance professedly in the belief of Revelation and The Gospel Dispensation, is profitless; it should manifest itself, as opportunity is afforded, in correspondent action. To render thanks therefore Acceptably to GOD we must impress ourselves with the necessity of seeking to know His Will, and heartily setting about the doing Thereof; and let the Law and the Love of CHRIST Rule and Animate our Souls, that so the Truth and the Way, as They are in JESUS, may Shine forth consistently with our professions in our Lives and conversation.This we should strive to do, first by diligent and fervent prayer for DIVINE Aid therein, and then by an attentive and humble but zealous search into GOD's Will, as Laid open in His Scriptures; and by fixing in our Souls, as their invariably actuating and predominant principles and motives, the Precepts and Example of Spiritual Wisdom, and Purity and feryent zeal in all the Relationships of Man to GOD, our Neighbours, or ourselves; and by a surrender of

the whole heart and Soul pre-eminently to the service of our Heavenly FATHER, and JESUS CHRIST, as The SAVIOUR of Sinners. We should live under a continual sense and reverential fear of GOD's Presence, though to us Invisible; and in meditation on His Purity and Goodness and Power, and treading after the Steps which our Blessed REDEEMER, The Incarnate SON of GOD Trod, in all reverence and obedience unto The DIVINE MAJESTY, and in all uprightness and integrity and charity and good-will towards our Fellow-Creatures; and thus we pray we may do through the Effectual Sacrifice and Intercession of The Same JESUS, The True MESSIAH.- -We therefore supplicate that He, without Whom nothing is Good, nothing is Holy, may Lead us to the adoption of those dispositions, which may fit us for the celebration of His Praise in heart as well as word, and that He may Sanctify, by His Gracious Acceptance, this our becoming sacrifice of thanksgiving.

by giving up ourselves to Thy Service;

We cannot serve GOD and Mammon. We cannot, and it is obviously impossible that we should truly and zealously and becomingly serve GOD, if we have any object in our hearts which we prefer to Him, and make His Law give way to the attainment of desires incompatible with Its observance. We should therefore by prayer and diligent watchfulness and controul over our motives and our attachments, in subserviency to the Grand Object for which this Life was Given us, the preparation of our hearts and minds, our Bodies and Souls, through faith in the Love of CHRIST, and by the Proffered Graces of The HOLY SPIRIT, for the Acceptance of the Everlasting Mercies of JEHOVAH in the Life to Come.

and by walking before Thee in holiness and righteousness all our days, through JESUS CHRIST, our LORD;

In point of fact (and the mind of Man can never be too much impressed with this as a most Salutary Truth,) The ALMIGHTY is and Essentially must be for Ever Present