dience and sacrifice are so meritorious, that law and justice can require no more. For thus saith the Lord, The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. This is that salvation which is so worthy of God to accomplish, and so necessary for sinners to receive. If but one sin had been unpardoned, or one pure command required of us, as conditional of our salvation, it would have marred the work of God, and left us without hope. We are utterly unable to atone for one offence, or perform one duty untainted with imperfection. This salvation is as irrevocable as it is complete. Jesus will never tear up that best wedding robe of righteousness which he hath wrought for his people; nor will he rase that foundation which he hath laid in his own most precious blood for their standing. He is, therefore, according to our text, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. May each of you receive that precious faith which shall enable you to cast your souls on this complete Saviour. This is the only encouragement we can pronounce to sinners who feel their guilt and misery. And no less valuable is it to the oldest and most advanced Christians to satisfy their souls, and expand their hearts in grateful praise; for Christ is all and in all; and ye are complete in him. Thanks be unto God for an unchangeable salvation in his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and thanks be unto him who hath redeemed us to God by his blood!

3. We shall now attempt to show you that the work of Christ in the CONVERSION OF SINNERS is essentially the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever: Men may be brought over to professing religious parties, and make a flaming appearance by numberless means, and from

various motives: likewise Christ's own people may be under various circumstances; and different dispensations of providence may attend them: but the efficient cause, and the rule of operation, in their true conversion, are the same. They are created in Christ Jesus; born again of the Spirit; one faith, like the vital fluid in the human body, runs through the whole; and one Gospel of truth opens the door of hope, and guides their feet into the paths of peace. It is also to be confessed, that all those who receive spiritual life from Christ, have an analogy of experience. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Conviction and condemnation by the law; a conscious inability, whether whole or in part, to obtain salvation by that law; an implicit reliance on the righteousness and atonement of Jesus for eternal life; an ardent thirst to glorify God, to live by faith on the Son of God, and to bear the most abundant fruit in all holy obedience: these may, I think, be denominated the first principles of the oracles of God. This is that pure language which the Lord promised to turn to all his people, that they may call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.-Now, from what I have said, you may readily perceive that Christ is invariably the same in the conversion of men. You may readily perceive that the efficient cause is the operation of his Spirit; the rule by which it is produced is the word of his Gospel. He has never varied. He is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. The circle of the arts, the eloquence of men, the most elaborate productions from the press, have been totally ineffectual to bring one soul to Christ. And as Jesus never deviates from his own blessed way in the conversion of sinners, so all who have been converted, have declared,

in unison with Paul, By the grace of God, I am what I am. Thus, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And, I hope, some of you who now hear me, can advance as faithful witnesses for God, that Christ, his Spirit, and his Gospel, have appeared in richest harmony in the conversion of your soul to God.

I could now enter into an investigation of the unchangeableness of Christ in his truth, his promises, and his threatenings, and prove to you that not one word which he hath spoken ever shall fail. Likewise explain the invariable method by which Christ is pleased to maintain the life, comfort, hope, and perseverance of his people under all their sufferings, and give them a triumphant passage through death to immortality; each of which would add to the weight of evidence, and illustrate this charming truth, that Christ Jesus is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, to all his ransomed race. But my concluding remark must be,.

4.. That Christ Jesus is immutable in his LOVE. This sweetens the whole, and sheds lustre upon every truth I have advanced in this discourse. If Jesus in his Person is immutable, it is impossible he should possess love which is capable of mutability. An idea that this is possible, is at once so derogatory to the pure nature of Christ, to the express declarations of his word, and to the hope of his people, that we will instantly dismiss it from our thoughts. Jesus declares, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. He is the friend who loveth at all times. He resteth in his love, and hateth putting away.. And whom he loveth, he loveth unto the end. These are scripture testimonies, which are calculated to raise the depressed mind. and warm the coldest heart. Yes, Jesus is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever in his

love. The manifestations of his love to you have been in proportion to your best interests; and if you have not always lived beneath the sensibility of his smiles, still the principle of his love is invariably the same. O how consoling the thought! Especially when we recollect our own variations and changes in mind, and in heart!' Thanks be unto Christ for his precious unchangeable: love!

Come ye who feel the burden of your sins, and the carnality of your passions. And ye backsliders in heart,. who, Peter like, with all your once flaming zeal, yet now walk afar off-come, look again to your injured Lord! O how great the mercy; how replete with consolation for you, that Jesus is unchangeable in his Person, his grace, and his love. His arms are open to receive returning sinners; his bowels melt with love. None were ever rejected who fled to his embrace. If, according to the spirit of our text, sinners of every description YES. TERDAY obtained mercy, it is with confidence I can assure you, there is no word in his Gospel to exclude you TO-DAY. Therefore, to a glorious, unchangeable Christ, may we to-day and for ever render all possible adora. tion and praise.

WINTER was the season in which the feast of the dedication was held at Jerusalem, in commemoration of the recovery of the temple from the Syro-Grecians, it was appointed, not by divine authority, but by Judas Maccabeus. The season was not only a just emblem of the unfruitful state of the Jews at the appearance of Messiah, but as they remain to the present day, afflicted and persecuted upon the face of the earth.-May their wintery state soon be succeeded by the beauties of a spring; and their souls constrained to embrace with ardour the very Christ whom they have rejected and slain.

The dreary shades of winter are a just emblem of human nature in its fallen state. Though natural life remains, sin, like the northern blast, has stripped man of his moral virtues; and, as a tree divested of its fruit and foliage, he bears the very image of death. Dryden's description of the effects of winter is so just and pertinent to our present reflections, that we cannot but recite it.