our Tranfgreffions, he was bruifed for our iniquities: the chastisement of our Peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed."

-But, as you have heard the whole chapter recited fo lately,* I fhall omit the remainder, and close the Subject by requesting you to recollect the circumftances which relate to it, as they have been reprefented to you, in the folemn Service of the week :-a week (forry am I to fay, a too-much neglected week!) throughout which we are invited to ponder the Mercies of Chriftian Redemption. A week, truly denominated Paffion Week,-or Week of Sufferings ! For a week of Sufferings it was to the meek, the compaffionate Jefus !-Trace him through its awful duration. · Behold him at the commencement of it, with his Family, for the last time, feated around him. See him adminifter the facred Symbols of his bleffed Body and

*This Sermon was preached on the afternoon of Good-Friday, when the 53d chapter of Isaiah is appointed to be read,

Blood,

Blood, and condefcending to wash his disciples' feet. Hear him mingle his

laft advice with tender exhortations" to love one another." Follow him to the garden of Gethsemane, and behold him weeping tears of blood !-View him in the Pretorium, crowned with thorns, which tear his facred temples! See him fcourged, fpit upon, and treated with favage indignity! Attend him on his way to Calvary, whither "he is led as a lamb to the flaughter," and see him finking under his Crofs! Hear him address fome compaffionate females who lamented his fate," Ye daughters of Jerufalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and your children!". -See him lying proftrate on the Cross, while with nails they pierce his hands and feet! Yet, as a fheep before her fhearers is dumb, he opened not his mouth!" No words escape his lips, fave thofe which form a Prayer for the Pardon of his Murderers: 66 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!"Laftly, after viewing him-for fix long lingering

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lingering hours-bleeding in agony unutterable,-behold him bow down his head and give up the ghoft!

Can we be unconcerned Spectators of fuch a Scene,a Scene of Suffering endured for us?-Remember, he was thus wounded for our Tranfgreffions, he was thus bruifed for our Iniquities.

-But

need I tell you to remember these things?

No; you will remember them with Gratitude and if this Gratitude operate as it ought, it will make you think feriously of thofe Sins for which your Saviour died, and of that Salvation which he rofe again to fecure to his faithful followers. Remember, "that, as he died and rofe again for us, fo we fhould die from Sin, and rife again unto Righteoufnefs."-In particular remember, that if we would fhare in the Benefits of his Death, we must comply with his last Injunction, This do in remembrance of me. That it is our Duty to comply with it, I have fo frequently proved, that fresh arguments, I hope, are unneceffary. The Sacrament, I have told you, is the

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Teft of a CHRISTIAN: and therefore, its reception on the enfuing Sabbath, I moft earnestly recommend to you, in the NAME OF CHRIST!

PRAYER.

ALMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously to regard this thy Family, for which our Lord Jefus Chrift was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to fuffer death upon the cross: Make us evermore fenfible of this unfpeakable Goodness, that we may continue steadfast in the true Faith of the Gofpel, and be devoutly given to serve thee in all good Works, for the fake of Jefus Chrift, our bleffed Lord and Saviour.

Amen.

SERMON

ON THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST

COLOSS. ii. 8, g.

Beware left any man spoil you through Philofo phy and vain Deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the World, and not after Chrift: For, in Him dwelleth all the Fulness of the Godhead bodily.

JUDE, part of the 3d and 4th verses.

Beloved! earnestly contend for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jefus Chrift.*

AT a time when Innovations and Refinements in Religion are spreading their influence to the Subverfion of

* This Sermon was originally written and preached from the former text of Scripture. On the festival of St. Simon and St. Jude, the author applied it to, and preached it from, the latter.