What more do we see going on at home? What greater results than these can be found in any congregation on earth where the Gospel is preached? And, after all, duties are ours, and results are God's.

I leave the whole subject with three remarks, which I pray God to impress on the minds of all into whose hands this book may fall.

For one thing, I charge every reader of this book to remember the special blessing which God has promised to all who care for Israel. Whatever a sneering world may say, the Jews are a people beloved for their fathers' sake. Of Jerusalem it is written, "They shall prosper that love thee." Psalm cxxii. 6. Of Israel it is written, "Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee." Num. xxiv. 9. These promises are not yet exhausted. We see their fulfilment in the blessing granted to the Church of England since the day when the Jewish cause was first taken up. We see their fulfilment in the peculiar honour which God has put from time to time on individual Christians who have laboured especially for the Jewish cause. Charles Simeon, Edward Bickersteth, Robert M'Cheyne, and Haldane Stewart, are striking examples of what I mean. Is there any one that desires God's special blessing? Then let him labour in the cause of Israel, and he shall not fail to find it.

For another thing, I charge every reader of this book never to forget the close connection which Scripture reveals between the time of Israel's gathering and the time of Christ's second advent to the world. In one Psalm it is expressly declared, "When the Lord

shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory." Psalm cii. 16. Where is the true believer that does not long for that blessed day? Where is the true Christian that does not cry from the bottom of his heart, "Thy kingdom come?" Let all such work, and give, and pray, so that the Gospel may have free course in Israel, and be glorified. The time to favour Zion is closely bound up with the restitution of all things. Blessed, indeed, is that work of which the completion shall usher in the second coming of the Lord!

Finally, I charge every reader of this book to make sure work of his own salvation. Rest not in mere headknowledge of prophetical subjects. Be not content with intellectual soundness in the faith. Give diligence to make your own calling and election sure. Seek to know that your repentance and faith are genuine and true. Seek to feel that you are one with Christ and Christ in you; and that you are washed, sanctified, and justified. Then, whether the completion of God's promises to Israel be near or far off, your own portion will be sure. You will stand in your lot safely, when the kingdoms of this world are passing away. You will meet Christ without fear when He comes the second time to Zion. You will join boldly in the song, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." You will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of God, and go out no more.

Able to Save.*

HEBREWS VII. 25.

"He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing that he ever liveth to make intercession for them."

READER,

There is one subject in

religion, about That subject is mighty subject

which you can never know too much. Jesus Christ the Lord. This is the which the text that heads this page unfolds,-Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ's intercession.

I have heard of a book entitled "The Story without an End." I know no story deserving that title so well as the everlasting Gospel. This is indeed and in truth the story without an end. There is an infinite "fulness" in Christ. There are in Him "unsearchable riches."

*Originally preached as a Sermon at St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, on behalf of the Irish Church Missions, in April, 1859. It has been prepared by the Author for publication in its present form from the reporter's notes.

There is in Him a "love which passeth knowledge." He is an "unspeakable gift." (Coloss. i. 19: Ephes. iii. 8; iii. 19: 2 Cor. x. 15.) There is no end to all the riches that are treasured up in Him, in His person, in His work, in His offices, in His words, in His deeds, in His life, in His death, in His resurrection. I take but one branch of the great subject this day. I am going to speak to you about the intercession and priestly office of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God the Holy Ghost bless the consideration of this subject! May He, without whom ministers preach and write in vain, apply the subject with power to your soul! If His blessing goes with this book, good will be done. If His blessing goes not with it, the words that I write will fall to the ground.

There are three points which I propose to consider, in opening the text which heads these pages.

I.-You have here a description of all true Christians - They are a people who come to God by

Christ.

II.-You have the work that Jesus Christ is ever carrying on on behalf of true Christians-He ever lives to make intercession for them.

III.-You have the comfortable conclusion built by St. Paul upon Christ's work of intercession. He says:

"He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him, because He ever liveth to make intercession for them."

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I.-You have first a description of all true Christians. It is most simple, most beautiful, and most true. Great is the contrast between the description given by the Holy Ghost of a Christian, and the description which is given by man. With man it is often enough to say that such a one "is a Churchman," or that such a one "belongs to this body of Christians or to that." It is not so when the Holy Ghost draws the picture. The Holy Ghost describes a Christian as a man "who comes unto God by Christ."

True Christians come unto God. They are not as many who turn their backs upon Him;-who "go into a far country," like the prodigal son;-who "go out" like Cain "from the presence of the Lord; "—who are "alienated, strangers and enemies in their mind by wicked works." (Coloss. i. 21.) They are reconciled to God and friends of God.-They are not as many who dislike everything that belongs to God, His word, His day, His ordinances, His people, His house. They love all that belongs to their master. The very footprints of His steps are dear unto them. His name is as ointment poured forth.-They are not as many who are content with coming to church, or with coming to chapel, or with coming to the Lord's table. They go further than that. They come unto God," and in communion with God they live.

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But more than this, true Christians come unto God in a certain peculiar way. They come unto God by Christ, pleading no other plea, mentioning no other name, trusting in no other righteousness, resting on no other foundation than this, that Jesus hath lived,