be henceforth kept in a willing captivity to him. " If Baal be God, serve him : but if the Lord be God, then serve him."]
3. Those who profess themselves his willing and devoted servants —
[Shew to the world that his service is a reasonable and a dehghtful service. Let not the difference between you and others be found merely in some foolish peculiarities, but in a holy, heavenly conversation. And be not mournful and de- jected, as if God were an hard master ; but " serve him with gladness and joyfulness of heart," that all around you may see the comforts of religion, and know, from what they behold in you, that the Church militant and Church triumphant are one ; one in occupation, and one in joy.]
Deut. xvi. 3. Remember the day when thou earnest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life.
OF all the facts recorded in the Old Testament, the Resurrection of our blessed Lord created the most general and intense interest ; because, by that, the hopes of his enemies were blasted, and the fears of his followers were dispelled. We may judge of the emotions that were excited by it from this cir- cumstance, that, when two of the disciples, in their way to Emmaus, had seen their Lord, and had re- turned to Jerusalem to inform their brethren, they, on entering the room where they were assembled together, found them all saying one to another with most joyous exultation, " The Lord is risen indeed! the Lord is risen indeeda!" Between that and the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt, there is a strict analogy. In fact, the deliverance from Egypt was typical of our redemption by Christ : and, as God required that the people of Israel should remember the one to their latest hour, so does he expect that we should remember the other " all the days of our life."
The words which I have read to you are assigned by Moses as the end for which the paschal feast, and the feast of unleavened bread, were instituted ;
a Luke xxiv. 1—3, 30—34.