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are naturally more averse : what our Lord said to the Jews of old may be addressed with equal propriety to the greater part of nominal Christians, " Ye will not come unto me, that ye may have life." But let it be remembered, that, however humiliating it may appear to our proud nature to renounce all self-righteousness and self-dependence, and to look for acceptance through the merits of Christ alone, it must be done : it will profit us little to have received the outward seal of his covenant, unless we possess also " the faith of God's elect." Our lofty looks must be humbled, our haughtiness must be brought down, and the Lord alone must be exalted :" we must bow before the sceptre of his grace, or we shall be " broken in pieces with a rod of iron." If we truly and cordially " re- ceive Him, we shall have the privilege of becoming the sons of God ; and if sons, then heirs ; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ." But " what shall our end be, if we obey not the Gospel?" What pro- spect have we, but to be " punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power ?" Behold then, life and death are this day set before you. Bearing, as we do, a commission from the Lord Jesus to preach his Gospel, " we are debtors both to the Greeks and to the Bar- barians, both to the wise and to the unwise." In his sacred name, therefore, we deliver our message ; we are constrained to deliver it with all faithfulness, "whether ye will hear, or whether ye will forbear." He, who with a penitent and contrite heart believeth in the Son of God, and, by virtue of that faith, is enabled to confess him before men, and to honour him by a holy life, he shall " receive the remission of his sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in Christ." But he, who believeth not on the Son of God, however moral he may have been in his external conduct, and whatever pleas he may urge in extenuation of his guilt, he, I say, " shall not see life, but the wrath of God shall abide upon him :" he hath practically said, " I will not have this man to reign over me ;" and the despised