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been insisting on this favourite topic, and " Christ has been set forth crucified, as it were, before your eyes !" How many of you, while lying at Bethesda's pool, have embraced the opportunity afforded you, and plunged beneath that water to the healing of your souls ! Some others perhaps among you have been long hesitating, as it were, upon the brink, and doubting and questioning your right to wash in it : ah! chide your unbelief: know that " the fountain was opened for sin, and for uncleanness." Look not then so much at the malignity of your offences, as at the infinite value of Christ's atonement : and under every fresh contracted guilt, go to the fountain, wash in it, and be clean. Let there not be a day, if pos- sible not an hour, wherein you do not make fresh application to the blood of Jesus : go to that to cleanse you, as well from " the iniquity of your most holy things," as from the more heinous violations of God's law ; thus shall " your hearts be ever sprinkled from an evil conscience," and your '' conscience itself be purged from dead works to serve the living God." There are some of you indeed, it is to be feared, who have hitherto disregarded the invitations given you, and are yet ignorant of the virtue of this all-atoning sacrifice : you have unhappily remained dry and destitute of the heavenly dew, which has long fallen in rich abundance all around you. How long you may continue favoured with such invitations, God alone knows : but O that you might this day begin to seek the Lord ! He that once died on Calvary, still cries to you by my voice, " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else." Now then, obey his voice : say to him, " Draw me, that I may come unto thee ; draw me, and I will run after thee." Thus shall you be numbered among those, who are redeemed to God by his blood, and shall join, to all eternity, with your departed minister, and all the glorified saints, in singing, ** To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, to him be glory and domi- nion for ever and ever. Amen."