fore, that they, who at no other time can hear any thing out of this book, should refuse to hear it on a Sunday. They turn their backs on the best master, Jesus Christ, and will hear nothing that he says. Though he says, Come unto me, and I will save you, save you from God's anger: make God your friend: reconcile you to your offended Maker.

All this shews us, in the last place, how and in what manner poor, guilty, wretched man is to be saved from hell. Can any of us expect that our good deeds will save us? Alas! how few are those good deeds! how much fewer than our bad ones. The best person in the world has done enough to deserve God's wrath and punishment hereafter. Where, then, are we to fly? Who can save us?—There is one, my friends, who is mighty to save. And that is Jesus Christ. He poured out his blood on the cross, that he might wash away all our foul and guilty deeds. Through

him we have peace with God. The end of all my preaching, the object of all these Lectures, is to make you know more of this, your heavenly friend, protector, and Saviour, and be better acquainted with him. People in general, who have some notions of God, seem to have few or none of Jesus Christ. And yet without him they can never get to heaven. If any of you, who are slaves, had ever offended your masters so much, as to deserve to be locked up in a dungeon all your lives; if the only son of your master would submit to pain and torture, and be ready to die in order to save you from this punishment, would you not look on your master's son as a saviour—a person who relieved you from a great distress? And yet Jesus Christ has done more. He expired on the cross to save us all from the dungeon of hell, where our souls would be confined in darkness and in pain for ever and ever. Can you wonder that I am so anxious to

bring you to the knowledge of Christ: to teach you to love and serve him?

You are most, if not all of you, Christians. You bear the name of Christ. But that name will not save you, unless you do as he teaches. Let it therefore be the prayer of your hearts and the endeavour of your lives to do all his commandments: to be pure as he was pure; and holy as he was holy.

And now to God, &c.

LECTURE LXXI.

ST. MATTHEW Xxiv. 1, 2,

And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple, and the disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

THE 24th Chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew gives us an account of what our Saviour told his disciples would happen to the Jews, and to their great city, Jeru

salem: The disciples shewed to our blessed Lord, the buildings of the temple, which was as grand and mighty a building as any in the world. It was a most beautiful temple. You can have no idea of it. You have never seen any thing like it. Jesus tells them, that the time was coming, when not one stone would be left upon another. The Jews behaved very wickedly in refusing to receive Jesus Christ, and in crucifying him. And as a punishment for this great sin, God was pleased to destroy their city and temple, and to scatter them over the face of the whole earth. What is very surprising it was forty years nearly before this happened, that our Lord declared that it would happen. And he was so particular in the account he gave of it, that we can only suppose he knew what was to happen, in consequence of his being the Son of God. Had he been a mere man, he could not have known, and so well, things that were

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