peatedly, that his Father would yet cause this bitter cup to pass from him? Behold, how he needs strength from above, in order to be supported. Accompany him, the prisoner in bonds, to his trial. Behold the treatment he receives; their clamor, and his silence; their rage and madness, and his quiet and composure; hear how he is reviled and reviles not again; what lies and slanders they utter against him, and how briefly and excellently, at the proper place, he bears witness to the truth, and then no lie and no slander extorts from him one word of threatening displeasure or of vengeful wrath! See how is he mocked, despised, buffeted, spit upon, less esteemed even than a murderer, scourged, abandoned to the rude soldiery, who crown his head with thorns, and smite them in, who exhibit him to the people as a spectacle in pitiful and preposterous royal robes, and have the most malicious sport with him. And behold how he, who with a word could have dashed to earth the armed troop, endures it all, and when he suffers, threatens not, but commits himself to him that judgeth righteously. Follow him to the place of his death! see how

he totters, exhausted by vigils, and inward and outward pain; how hard it is for him to carry the cross; how they hang him between two malefactors, as if he were worse than either; how the blood-thirstiness of his enemies is not slaked, when they had nailed him by the hands and feet to the cross; how they reviled and mocked him; and how he even then promised Paradise to one of those who was crucified with him, and who manifests a confidence in him even in his deepest abasement; how considerate he is of the maintenance of his mother and his friend; and how he forgives all the mockeries, and injuries, and reproaches of his enemies, with a prayer to his Father, that he would forgive them in their blindness! Think what must have been the state of mind of him, to whom his God had been and might be so near, when he cried with a loud voice: My God! why hast thou forsaken me?' Put every thing together, which poured over him and his heart, from that last evening when he was troubled in spirit, and said: Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me; he that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me: till that moment on

the following noon-day, when he said: It is finished! and full of peace and composure, with a loud and distinct voice, commended his spirit into the hands of his Father. And have you a human heart in your breast? something then, will be stirred up therein, for him, the greatest, the most affectionate of sufferers. How can it be wholly otherwise, if you ever keep it in mind and heart: For me, even for me, did he thus suffer! even for me did he thus give his body, and shed his blood!

And that you may know in all its greatness, and feel in all its worth, what grace the Father in heaven has manifested toward you in such a giving up of his Son; what love Jesus has shown you by his sufferings and by such a death, remember why you stand in need of the mercy and grace of your God, and what it is that makes this plan of God for the pardon and redemption of men desirable for you. Look upon your sins, your impurity, your worthlessness, and criminality before your God! Yes; do it before him, the searcher of hearts, that you may not deceive yourself, and conceal nothing from yourself: and if you would see your heart and your life in their true form,

try them exactly according to the word and will of God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, and hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son and his apostles. Enlighten your heart and your life with the true light, that shall lighten every man. Hear what he, who is the Word, has said; and test yourself thereby. Compare your mind and life with the mind and life of him who has left us an example, that we should follow his steps. He holds before you a mirror in his sermon on the mount, (Matth. 5: 6, 7,) in which you may see yourself in your true form: and many a word which his apostle, Paul, said to Christians at Rome, (Rom. 12: 13), and Galatia, (Gal. 5: 6), and Ephesus, (Eph. 4: 5, 6), and Colossé, (Col. 3: 4), if laid to heart, will certainly meet your case. Mark well how far you yet fail in goodness, and wherein you are imperfect. Observe what conscience accuses, and what the heart condemns. And if you really see, and strictly notice these things, then will it be a most precious saying to you, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners: then will this sacrament, by which he

would make it plain and certain that he came into the world to save you, be to you a dear and precious memorial of his love.

Thus, then, will this self-examination naturally lead to this result, that you need what bread gives to the hungry, and wine to the faint and thirsty,-strength, and quickening. Would you learn by this examination, whether faith in Jesus, your Saviour, and an interest in the blessings of his love and the love of the Father in heaven, have hitherto manifested themselves actually and fruitfully in your dispositions? Is it indeed evident by my life and conduct, that I believe from the heart, and know how to prize the truth, that I am bought with a price by Jesus, to be his own? Was it my real purpose, from love to him, and with grateful attachment of my heart to him, to do the good which he expects of me, and which I have often undertaken, and solemnly promised him, to do? Do I make it my business, for his sake, and from hearty devotedness to him, to renounce the evil which he would have removed from me, and which I have often sacredly abjured before his face? Do I mani