Repose? Is there anything in a guilty conscience -in a broken law-in sins innumerable—in an offended God-to afford Repose? Is there aught in a decaying body-in a dying bed-in the shroud, the coffin, and the tomb-that can give Repose? You may go to some quiet church-yard -You say, "Here let me lie beneath this shady tree! Here let the sod be green over me! Here shall be my rest!" My friend, have you, then, found repose? Are you sure that you have? Ah, what repose can be felt by a lifeless bodyby crumbling bones-by mouldering dust? Trust not the fable, though sweet it seem in its romance. Where will your spirit be the while? Will it be hovering o'er your grave, and find its rest in the soft landscape, or the summer breeze ? Reader, let not such dreams possess you. Think rather of the deep solemnity-of the grave realities— of the world to come. Think of your soul going into the presence of the living God. Think of the Judgment-day-of the Books being opened-of your name being read before an assembled world. Think of the sentence being passed-think of the yawning gulph-of the worm that dieth not—of the fire that is not quenched. Reader, is there any thing here to give Repose?

Or turn you to the attributes of the Most High

-can you find repose there? Can you think of God's all-seeing eye, and God's all-hearing ear, -and have Repose? Can you realise His holiness, His justice, His almighty power-and have repose? Can you, in an unconverted, unbelieving state, think even of His mercy, and have repose? What mercy is there for sin unrepented of, and unforsaken-what mercy for an unrenewed heart-for one dead in trespassesfor one who looks not to the Saviour with the eye of faith? The very thought of mercy, if one have not tasted mercy, will then but sting the soul to very madness--it can have no "Repose."

Reader, I hope you know the Lord. Then you have found repose. But if not, does not your conscience say, "I want repose?" Say not your fears, your misgivings, your forebodings, "We want repose?" Say not your many sinsyour broken resolutions-your wasted opportunities-your duties left undone-your neglected Bible-your prayers formal or unsaid-say they not, one and all, "you want Repose?" Does not your own heart re-echo the words, "Oh yes, I want Repose"?

Dear Reader, there is repose to be found by those who seek it aright. There is One, who saith, "The Lord hath given me the tongue of

the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary." Isa. 1. 4. There is One, who saith, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." One, who invites us, saying, "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls." Matt. xi. 27-29. And who is this but Jesus? Where can repose be found but in Jesus-in His life and death-in His precious blood, which cleanseth from all sin? "This is the rest, wherewith" we 66 may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing" Isa. xxviii. 12. rest from a guilty conscience now-"rest" from eternal judgment, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Thess. i. 7, 8,-rest, together with all the saints, "when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you." Acts iii. 19, 20. Here, and here only, can we find rest unto our souls.

It is of this Repose-Repose in Jesus-that the following pages are to treat. Reader, if you

are the Lord's, I trust that you will agree with what is here said of Repose in Jesus. I am not without hope that you may find something to cheer and encourage your soul-that you may be "comforted together" with me "by the mutual faith "—the mutual hopes-the mutual consolations-" both of you and me." Rom. i. 12." And oh, Reader, if you are not yet the Lord's -if you are not yet in Christ, and Christ in you, may God make even this volume of use to you. If you are led to read of the Repose to be found in Jesus, may it stir you up, by that which you have not, to seek after it. May the fulness of Jesus-the beauty of Jesus-the Repose that is in Jesus-be made lovely in your eyesmay you soon find Jesus to be "as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Isa. xxxii. 2. By the grace of God may you seek your rest-may you find Repose-in Jesus.

REPOSING IN JESUS, AS MADE

UNTO US WISDOM.

"WISDOM is the principal thing;" for "whoso findeth" wisdom "findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord." Therefore it is written, "get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding." Prov. iv. 7, viii. 35, 36. But, as it is written, "where shall wisdom be found; and where is the place of understanding?" understanding-to know our own heart, to see the danger of our natural condition through sin : wisdom-to seek the remedy for sin and ignorance -wisdom to flee from the wrath to come? As it is written again, "Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith it is not in me, and the sea saith it is not with me." Job xxviii. 12—14. Even Solomon, the wisest of men in all human attainment, writes of himself, "I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me." Eccl. vii. 23. "Whence then," may we ask, "cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding ?" "God under