yourselves unspotted from the world—remember, to your comfort, that you are christians as well as men. Remember that it was to save these bodies and these souls from hell, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took our nature upon Him, bore with meekness the mockery and cruelty of His enemies, and patiently submitted to the agonies of the cross: and that as believers in and followers of Him, it is our joyful hope, that, though we must first go down to the grave, and worms destroy this body, yet in our flesh shall we see God: that the day will come when all that are in the grave shall hear His voice and shall come forth. Let it not be thought a thing impossible with you that God should raise the dead. It is as easy for His almighty power to bring us back to life, as it was to give us life at first-to raise our limbs, our bones, and flesh, from dust again, as He did before. Yes, the body and the soul, which must once be separated by death, shall be joined together again by the Lord of life and glory. Our mouldered limbs shall return again to the use and enjoyment of all their powers. The ear shall hear: the tongue shall speak: the eye shall sparkle with far greater bright

ness, and the heart shall beat again, with the pulse of everlasting life.

Oh! if this be your belief-if this be your hope that your now vile body shall be made like to your Saviour's glorious body--live so that that Saviour's sufferings may not have been in vain: that your hope may not be disappointed. If you know that you have been sinners-that you have forsaken and broken His commandmentsreturn with penitence to the Father whom you have offended. Seek His forgiveness, through the merits of Christ Jesus your Saviour, and with your own earnest endeavours to honour Him and obey Him for the future. Live as in His sight, for He is not far from any of us-it is by Him that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, in Him that we live, and mo and have our being. Thus, when the great and glorious day of Christ shall wake you from the dead, you shall be caught up to meet your Lord in the air, and so shall you be ever with the Lord: comfort one another with these words.

And may it please Thée, most gracious and merciful Father, to give to us, Thy sinful creatures, grace, to pass the remainder

of our days in Thy faith and fear, to Thy honour and glory: that our sins may be blotted out that we may serve Thee with a quiet mind and be accounted worthy at last to be received into Thy kingdom in heaven, where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for all these former things shall have passed away. We ask this, in the name and through the merits of Christ Jesus, Thy blessed Son, our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

SERMON XX.

JOHN Xi. 43.
Lazarus, come forth.

THE chapter from which these words are taken, contains an account of one of the most astonishing works which our blessed Saviour did whilst He was on earth: a work in which He shewed both the greatness of His power, and the greatness of His pity and His love to man: no less than calling back to life one who had been four days dead. The whole story is beautifully told us by St. John, and all the circumstances attending it are so affecting, and of such great interest and concern to all who believe in Christ, that they well deserve to have our attention bestowed upon them.

Lazarus, the person in whom this great

miracle was worked, was well known to Jesus. He was the brother of two sisters, Martha, and Mary: of that Mary who, as we are told in the gospel, had given great proofs of her love and duty to Christ: having, at one time, anointed His head with a box of ointment very costly; whilst at another, when He was sitting at meat in a company of strangers, with the deepest humbleness and sorrow for her sins, she threw herself at His feet, washed them with her repentant tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Lazarus was sick: and his sisters, knowing that he was dear to Jesus, and believing that Jesus was able, if He were willing, to restore him to health again, sent unto Him, saying, Lord behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. Jesus knew what He would do: and, therefore, though He loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus, He took no farther notice of their message than merely observing that the sickness of Lazarus would not be unto death, but for the glory of God, that He Himself, the Son of God might be glorified by it.

As He determined to give a proof of His power which not the bitterest and most un