eleven disciples (for Judas knew who was meant) have felt! Then was that fulfilled, which had been spoken many years before, he that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me. The disciples were -exceeding sorrowful, we are told. Lord, is it I? Am I capable of so much wickedness? was what each of them said. Our blessed Lord assured them again, that he should be betrayed by one who was at that moment dipping his hand into the dish with him. And when Judas asked him, if he was the person meant, our Lord told him that he was. And as we read in another Gospel, he left the room-left it, my friends, to carry his wicked plot into execution. What a knowledge did our Lord shew of the hearts of men! He knew who his enemy was. He knew the false and treacherous friend, notwithstanding the mask which that friend wore. Lord now appointed that holy ceremony, which we call the Sacrament of the Lord's

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Supper. And as this will require a full account, I shall put it off to the next Lecture.

In the meantime, I will repeat to you, what Jesus said, when he spake of Judas's betraying him. "The Son of man," that is himself, goeth to the slaughter, "as it has been written of him" and declared, "but woe unto that man, by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man, if he had not been born." And why so? Because the punishment of hell is so great, that a wicked man suffering such punishment, will wish that he had never been born. Now it is to escape this punishment, you are all taught to know the truth as it is in Jesus. Can I use stronger words than our blessed Lord's to persuade you all to be true and sincere and good and faithful Christians? As you would not wish that you had never been born, flee to the hope set before you. Seek ye

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the Lord while he may be found: call ye upon him, while he is near.

To day, while it is called to day, seek salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, lest ye be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

And now to God, &c.

LECTURE LXXVI.

ST. MATTHEW xxvi. 26, 27, 28.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.

I promised you, in my last Lecture, to give you an account of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. We have come to that point of time in our blessed Lord's life, when he appointed it, ordered it, or as we say, ordained it. There are, as you may learn in the Catechism, two sacra

ments ordained by Christ. One is baptism, the other is the Lord's Supper. By baptism, we become Christians: by the Lord's Supper, we continue to renew our covenant asy Christians. One is as necessary to be kept as the other. What is the use of being made Christians by baptism, if we do not endeavour to continue Christians, by going to the Lord's Supper. Baptism is like the door, through which we enter into the house where a great feast is provided. But if we always remain at the door, and go not to the feast, but are like strangers and people not invited, it is the same thing as if we had never entered. We might, for any good we get, have remained on the outside of the house. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper joins us to Christ: makes us one with him gives us pardon for the past, grace and strength to keep our Lord's commandments in all time to come.

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In my last Lecture, I informed you that