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to save them — nor yet because they wanted to be saved, but could not — butbecause they would not come to Christ. Let the ground we take up be always that of the passage we are now considermg — Christ would gather men, but they will not to be gathered ; Christ would save men, but they ivill not to be saved. Let it be a settled principle in our religion, that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God ; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself. The evil that is in us is all our own. The good, if we have any, is all of God. The saved in the next world w^ill give God all the glory. The lost in the next world will find that they have destroyed themselves. (Hosea xiii. 9.)