with His long-suffering and compassion You are rejecting His gracious offers. You are refusing the Gift of His Son. And what think you will be the consequence of such a conduct? What must they be? I have plainly set before you the Blessings of the Gospel: let me now as plainly remind you of the Terrors of the Lord. There will be "a Day of vengeance of our God:" a Day, in which you will be called to account for this your heinous wickedness: a Day, in which you will be speechless before your Judge: a Day, in which, being convicted be yond all doubt of your desperate enmity and incorrigible hatred to the God of Love and Goodness, you will be condemned, with all His other enemies, to everlasting torments. Then the long-suffering of God, which you have here so long abused, will last no longer. His wrath will be poured out upon you to the uttermost that wrath, in comparison with which the wrath poured out upon Jerusalem and upon Anti-Christ, will have been as nothing. It will be the Day of His Vengeance; of His Indignation; of His Fury; in which you will be driven with everlasting destruction from His presence and from the power of His Glory. It will be the Day, in which you will begin to know experimentally the meaning of those aweful expressions "the second Death" "the outer Dark

ness" "the Worm that never dieth ;" and "the Fire which is never quenched." - My brethren, think not that I have any pleasure in denouncing these judgements. I denounce them with pain. But I must deliver my own Soul; that in so doing I may possibly benefit yours. And if it give you pain to hear the mention of these aweful threatenings; what will it be to feel the reality of them? O consider this, O consider this, "lest He pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you." Consider how soon these threatenings may be turned into Realities. To-day is the accepted time, the Day of Salvation to you all. But to-morrow may be the Day of vengeance to any of you. If you die this night, and die in your sins, it certainly will be so. "O that you were wise; that you understood this: that you would consider your latter end!" Let me once more beseech you to remember, that now is the Acceptable Year of the Lord. Now the Lord is knocking at the door of every heart among you, and praying for admission. Say not to Him, "Go thy way for this time, lest He cease to strive any more with you; lest He swear in His wrath that you shall never enter into His rest.

SERMON XIV.

CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CONFIDENCE AND CHARACTER OF THE TRUE CHRISTIAN STATED AND ILLUSTRATED.

ISAIAH, XXV. 9.

And it shall be said in that Day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him: we will be glad and rejoice in His Salvation.

THIS passage plainly admits, and even seems to require two distinct interpretations. The expression, in that day, may be understood as referring - either to the time of the first appearance of Christ in the flesh, and to the consequent publication of the Gospel at Jerusalem, when in "that mountain the Lord of Hosts made unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of the wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined,"or to that still more important period, the

Day of the second appearing of our great God, and Saviour Jesus Christ in glory, "when He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth.' In the former of these senses the text represents the joyful sentiments, with which these pious believers, who were waiting for the consolation of Israel, welcomed the manifestation of Christ on earth. In the latter sense (the sense in which I propose to apply the passage) the words express these exulting acclamations, with which the People of God will celebrate the second Advent of their Lord, "when he shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe." With longing eyes, with extended arms, they will hail His glorious appearance. With one heart, with one voice, they will break forth into these rapturous sounds, "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him; He will save us this is the Lord; we have waited for Him; we will be glad, and rejoice in His Salvation."

Such, "in that day," will be the triumphant Song of the Ransomed of the Lord. Such will be the exulting confidence, with which they will then lift up their heads. Who does not wish to bear a part in that triumphant song? Who does not wish with that exulting

confidence, to lift up his head? But what will wishes the most fervent profit ?-Would we, my brethren, realise these wishes; would we be partakers of the privileges of the Saints, we must be partakers of their character. Would we share in the joy and confidence, which they will then feel, we must possess the same title to joy and confidence which they will then possess. Would we, "in that Day," adopt their language, we must have the same ground for using it, which they will have. What that ground is, the language itself evidently shows. The persons are described as rejoicing in the assurance of their relation to Christ, of their interest in Him, and of the certainty of that Salvation, which He is bringing to them. "This is our God"-" He will save us"

"We will be glad in His Salvation." But whence does this assurance spring? From a consciousness of their having waited for Him. Twice they declare, as the ground of their confidence in Christ, "We have waited for Him." In the days of their flesh, they looked to Christ as their God, and Saviour. They lived in expectation of His glorious appearing. They made preparations against His second coming. Therefore it is that they now lift up their heads with joy. Therefore it is that they now are glad and rejoice in His Salvation.