can guide you into all truth, and so become your wisdom.

Look unto Jesus. He and he only can vanquish all your enemies, and so become your redemption.

In yourself you have neither righteousness nor strength; but both are treasured up in him. Go to this divine Saviour by faith, and you shall be replenished out of his fulness with every needful

He is the friend of sinners, and will not cast you out. He is appointed to comfort those that mourn in Zion, and will not refuse his consolations. Wait upon him with believing expectation, and he will give you the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

But ever bear in mind this important truth, that infinite wisdom, in the spiritual, as in the natural world, has closely connected the end with the means.

Be diligent then, in the use of all divinely appointed means, if you would grow in fruitfulness and comfort. Yet rest not in them. Use them only as means, for the obtaining of a blessed end; the establishment of your faith, and the ripening of your graces. If you wilfully neglect them, you will most assuredly decline from the ways of God, and find an awful gloom to overcast your soul.

"Restraining prayer, we cease to fight."

Knowledge, however extensive, cannot of itself guarantee your safety.

Knowledge, alas! 'tis all in vain,

And all in vain our fear;

Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
If love be absent there."

But, if you habitually seek after God, in his own appointed way, through faith in his dear Son, he will manifest himself to you as your God and Saviour; he will dwell in you by his Spirit; assimilate you more and more to his own divine image; and

at length present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

St Paul describes the Christian life as a 66 patient continuance in well-doing." Every word is of importance; like the stones in an arch, they strengthen each other.

Without well-doing, all profession of religion is hypocrisy. Without continuance in well-doing, there can be no salvation: for "if any man draw back, my soul (saith the Almighty,) shall have no pleasure in him." And without a patient continuance in well-doing, the believer will be liable to continual agitations, which, if they do not destroy, will greatly disturb the serenity of his mind.

Do you then want peace of conscience ?—It can only be obtained through faith in a crucified Saviour, who made peace through the blood of his cross. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God."

Do you want peace in the heart?-It can only be enjoyed in the constant exercise of filial obedience. "Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children." Sin is the destroyer of inward peace. A seared conscience and sin may dwell together; but a heavenly peace cannot.

Do you want fruitfulness in the life?—It can only be produced by your abiding in Christ; for as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in him. Severed from Christ ye can do nothing.

Do you want a Scriptural assurance of your interest in Christ ?—It can only be maintained by an unshaken reliance on his atonement, and a growing conformity to his image; for we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.

Beware then of substituting an ideal for a real sanctification. Let nothing satisfy you, but a work of grace in the heart; evidencing itself, by those fruits of the Spirit, which are in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.

It is an awful delusion to speak peace to the soul, whilst unholy tempers and affections bespeak the absence of the HEAVENLY VISITANT; and whilst the cherished evils of the heart proclaim the evil one who dwells within.

Let no system of doctrine, however sweet and palatable from its abounding cordials, lead you to dislike or refuse the wholesome bitters, which the wise Physician of souls has infused, for the correction of those evils, which cleave to every child of Adam. True peace cannot be enjoyed, whilst sin predominates in the heart, and governs the actions of the life.

"If Jesus comes, he comes to reign,
But with no partial sway."

He must sit enthroned in your affections, and possess an undivided heart.

Seek earnestly, seek perseveringly for an increase of grace through the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus. "Then shall you know, if you follow on to know the Lord." "Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them."

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

Jesus himself has made the delightful promise, and none can reverse it: "Blessed are they which

do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled."

Almighty God, open thou our understandings that we may understand the Scriptures, and see wondrous things out of thy law. Take the veil from our hearts, that we may behold the glory of thy perfections in the face of Jesus Christ.

Grant that we, being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying of our corrupt affections, we may be buried with him. Mercifully grant such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure.

Make our souls, O! Lord, as a weaned child;— weaned from all creature dependences; and trusting wholly in the atonement, righteousness, and intercession of thy beloved Son. Pardon our sins, and purify our souls ever more and more; that living in a growing conformity to thy will, we may daily be preparing for the enjoyment of thyself in heavenly glory.

Extend these thine inestimable blessings, most gracious Father, to all our brethren of mankind, till all the earth shall resound thy praise, and be filled with thy glory.

Holy Spirit, heav'nly Dove,
Source of pure seraphic love;
Warm my heart with holy fire,
Kindle every pure desire.

Fountain thou of ev'ry good,
Wash me in the Saviour's blood;
Graft me, Husbandman divine,
Into Christ, the living vine.

Come, thou south wind, gently blow, Till the garden spices flow;

O beloved, at my suit,

Come, and eat thy pleasant fruit.

May thy work of grace appear,
Through each season of the year;
Let no with'ring leaf be seen;
Make me, Lord, an evergreen.

Cause the fruits of grace to grow,
Clust'ring on thy plant below;
Till each fruit in worlds above
Ripen through eternal love.

All the praise, O Lord, be thine,
Be the blessing ever mine;
Mine, thy goodness to adore,
Thine, the glory evermore.

THE END.

A. FOSTER, PRINTER, KIRKEY LONSDALE.