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the Saviour before us again is presented to us that blessed and glorious One who came from the highest heavens, and took our nature, and died on our behalf and in our place, the just for the unjust, that he might become the propitiation of our sins, and our peace with God. Henceforth mark, my beloved brethren, as you read the gospel of St. John, how very much he is spoken of by that beloved disciple and blessed evangelist, under the title of "him whom the Father sent." Notice, I beseech you, how the great Shiloh of the nations is thus designated; and remember, Oh! gratefully and profitably remember, the great object already mentioned for which he was sent: "for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved:" "when the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons"in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his

only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." But remember also, that as he has been sent to us, so we must come to him; we must come in penitence, and prayer, and faith, personally applying for a part in his salvation, and devoting ourselves to his service.

But remember also his own words, 66 no man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him." Oh! then pray for the teaching and persuading influence of his grace that you may be drawn unto him to know him and believe in him. and love him, and honour him in sincerity, truth, and zeal. And pray further that he may come unto you in all the fulness of his mighty power, to subdue in you every corruption and sin, to destroy in you all the works of the devil, and to renew in you the likeness of his own image in righteousness and true holiness. Thus in the day when he shall gather together his elect, and his angels shall gather out of his kingdom all

things that offend, you shall come unto him with wonder and praise and joy, and enter with him into his kingdom and glory.

The second duty is, that we endeavour to promote the gathering of all nations to him. Oh! think, my brethren, how large a portion of the world still lies in heathenism; think on the sad condition of the still-unbelieving Jews; think on the numbers of the misbelieving followers of the false prophet Mahomet. Oh! let the view of such multitudes "sitting in darkness and the shadow of death,"

fainting and scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd," induce you to pray and use every other means that they may be given to Christ, not only in promise and prophecy, but in actual possession. Pray that Jesus may take unto himself his great power and reign, and be known and glorified in all the earth. Help to send unto all nations under heaven those holy Scriptures which are able to make men wise unto salvation through faith that is in him, and those holy missionaries of the cross who shall preach the unsearchable riches of Christ.

And supplicate the eternal Father continually and fervently, that, along with these outward means, he may send forth the goodness of his providence to open for them everywhere a wide and effectual door, and the mighty energy of his own divine Spirit to give them success, and to prosper them in the thing whereto they are sent. Oh! that the Father of Mercy may give you grace to pray and labour for the salvation of yourselves

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your fellow-men; and oh! that you may feel the work of God prospering in your own soul, and see it extending in your families, in your own country, and in all parts of the whole earth.

SERMON III.

JOSEPH'S DEATH.

GENESIS L. 24.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

As soon as the patriarch Jacob had finished the prophetic declarations respecting his posterity, which we considered, especially that which related to Judah, in our last exposition, he gave a solemn charge to his sons that they should not bury him in Egypt, but carry his body into Canaan, and there inter him "in the cave which Abraham had bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place." There," says he, they buried Abraham and Sarah

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