distinctions shall vanish, and one great characteristic alone be important — "faith in the Lord Jesus Christ" *—" faith that *. worketh by love." + Finally, let it be a subject of earnest self-examination whether there is a sensible increase in the degree of your obedience to the scriptural command, "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Have you good grounds for hope that worldly cares, worldly hopes, and worldly enjoyments excite, day by day, a less lively interest in your heart? Do your thoughts revert more frequently, more instinctively, to the contemplation of heavenly things? Is prayer more fully appreciated as an act of communion with Him "whom having not seen you love?" Is that love becoming, day by day, a more influential principle, " constraining" to the avoidance * Galatians, iii. 26. † Galatians, v. 6. 1 Peter, i. 8. of sin, "constraining" to the practice of holiness? Are you "growing up into Him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ?"* Are you gradually becoming able, in any degree, to realize that deadness to the world described by one of those whose "faith we follow ?"+ "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”‡ * Ephesians, iv. 15. † Hebrews, xiii, 7. THE END. N WORKS OF INSTRUCTION AND ENTERTAINMENT. I. SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS: From Ben Jonson to Coleridge. With Biographical and Critical Prefaces by Dr. Aikin. A New Edition, with additional Selections from more recent Poets, by LUCY AIKIN. Medium 8vo. 18s. II. ORIENTAL CUSTOMS, applied to the Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures. By Dr. SAMUEL BURDER. New Edition, with Additions.. Foolscap 8vo. 8s. 6d. III. THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY; containing the Doctrines, Duties, Admonitions, and Consolations of the Christian Religion. By JOHN BURNS. M.D. F.R.S. 6th Edition. Foolscap 8vo. 6s. 6d. IV. PRACTICAL AND FAMILIAR SERMONS, designed for Parochial and Domestic Instruction. By the Rev. EDWARD COOPER. New Edition. 7 vols. 12mo. 17. 18s. V. A SCRIPTURE HERBAL; with upwards of 120 Wood Engravings. By LADY CALCOTT. Square crown 8vo. ll. 5s. VI. LACON; OR, MANY THINGS IN FEW WORDS. By the Rev. C. C. COLTON. New Edition. 8vo. 12s. VII. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES; with a Commentary, and Practical and Devotional Suggestions, for the Use of Readers and Students of the English Bible. By the Rev. F. C. Cook, M. A., one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Church Schools. Post 8vo. 8s. 6d. VIII. SERMONS: Chiefly designed to elucidate some of the leading Doctrines of the Gospel. By the Rev. EDWARD COOPER. New Edition. 2 vols. 12mo. 10s. IX. THE DOMESTIC LITURGY AND FAMILY CHAPLAIN; in Two Parts: the First Part being Church Services adapted for Domestic Use, with Prayers for every Day of the Week, selected exclusively from the Book of Common Prayer. Part II. comprising an appropriate Sermon for every Sunday in the Year. By the Rev. THOMAS DALE, M. A., Canon-Residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral. 2nd Edition. Post 4to. 21s. cloth; or, bound by Hayday, 31s. 6d. calf lettered; 50s. morocco. Separately, THE FAMILY CHAPLAIN, price 12s. |