and redeeming mercies held forth by the Creator, and, at once, the Saviour of the world. “There is one God: one Mediator— the man Christ Jesus: who gave himself up a ransom for all-to be testified in due time." From the beginning to the end of this identical chapter, we discover the singular benevolence, warm-heartedness of feeling, consoling, encouraging, and revivifying assurances of the Great Apostle, its author. All men are to be prayed and interceded for. Hence, in the true spirit of apostolical feeling, in the impressive prayer in our Liturgy for "all sorts and conditions of men," we pray-" O God, the Creator and Preserver of all Mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men: that thou wouldest be pleased to make Thy ways known unto them, Thy saving health unto all nations." This, you observe, is in perfect accordance with the enlightened views and truly christian-like principles of the Great Apostle of the Gentiles. Next, to cheer the hopes and strengthen the faith of his beloved pupil-and, through him, of the Ephesian converts,— and, as at this day, of the whole Christian world-St. Paul identifies the Power in whom is concentrated this saving Grace, this mighty salvation: namely,

the Man Christ Jesus-" who is one, and the only, mediator between God and Men.”

This illustration is the more encouvery raging; for he, who is to save us, who is to bring us into the presence of the Almighty God and Father, lived once amongst us : took on him the infirmities of our flesh, and the failings of our nature, sin excepted: made his abode with us: ate and drank among Publicans and Sinners: wrought miracles for the conviction and conversion of hardened sinners: lastly, gave up his life for us, and died the death of a common malefactor on the cross. "He descended into Hell; the third day he rose again from the dead: he ascended into heaven; and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty." what are the views and wishes of this divine Mediator, thus enthroned at the right hand of ineffable Majesty ?-that ALL mankind, by his atoning blood, may be redeemed; "who gave himself up a ransom for all."

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Sublime, mysterious, but most unerring, and unspeakably consoling doctrine! What -for ALL? for the unjust, as well as the just? Yes-for we are all sinners :- but we are to be sorry, repentant, chastised, and in great measure regenerated, from a state of sinful

ness, ere we can possibly hope to become participators of that ransom which is held out in the language of the Gospel. We are conceived and born in sin; but, by repentance, by a hearty contrition, by an earnest desire and entreaty for forgiveness, by calling on God to have " mercy upon us miserable sinners," we may, by a life led conformably to what such vows and entreaties imply, (bestirring ourselves actively and conscientiously, in this state of regeneration) cherish a rational hope, and put up a well-grounded prayer, that it may please the Almighty to admit us within the fold of the great Shepherd of Israel.

For those who live on, and die fearlessly in sin-or for those, who only put up formal, pharisaical prayers, and do not shew forth the praise of their Redeemer in their lives as well as with their lips to such, no enlightened Minister can, as I conceive, in the conscientious discharge of his pastoral functions, hold out promises of that ransom which the Apostle speaks of in his Epistle to his beloved Timothy.

But there is another point of view wherein I wish more particularly to consider the mediatory powers of the man Christ Jesus

and it is this. There are those who believe, yea, who contend, that salvation is only of PARTIAL operation: that he, who died for all -by whose death the sins of the world lost their otherwise deadly sting of everlasting perdition-who willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live- that this great, and merciful, and all-wise Redeemer, will shut out, from the pale of his flock in the kingdom of his Father, certain of those who, from the beginning were ordained to be irrevocably lost. Oh perverse, and to my humble apprehension, fallacious and monstrous conclusion! Yea, it is more-it hath in it that which chills the soul, darkens the intellect, cripples the mental energies, and renders void and worthless the noblest actions of the noblest of our fellow creatures! Where is the motive for good conduct, when I am told that all my goodness (taking it with its usual qualifications, in a scriptural point of view) that all my goodness availeth me no more than the timid, lax, and even immoral conduct, peradventure, of my neighbour?

How can I lay me down in peace, and take my rest-and pour forth my pious meditations, and hope to be forgiven through Jesus

Christ our Lord-when the benumbing influence of the ill-fated doctrine to which I allude, turns my pillow of repose into a couch of thorns --- and fixes their very points in my heart! Hath God created me for this?—and have I so narrowed the broad and universal scheme of redemption, that I must forbid its operation with the wise and the good, unless I have secret assurances, a mystical faith and belief, that they too, even with the reprobate, may be sometimes saved! Or again—as the moment of death, and thereby of a Christian's triumph, advances-as the meek spirit, guided through life by the gospel of Christ, sees that moment arrive, which is to close for ever all worldly prospects, all connections with life, with relations, friends, and possessionsin that anxious and perhaps agitated moment, such a Spirit confidently exclaims, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in flesh shall I see God:" my that moment, would you close the flood-gates of mercy?-and convert the refreshing streams of comfort into the waters of bitterness and woe? Would you thus turn hope into despair, faith into doubt, and piety into distrac

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