and to cry out, " Behold me, behold me, ❝to a nation not called by his name ?". And shall we see him extended in cruel agony on the accursed tree, his hands and his feet pierced with nails, his body pouring forth its precious blood, his spotless soul enduring anguish inexpressible under a sense of that wrath which was due to the sins of a guilty world?—-shall we behold him thus suffering agony for us, and for our salvation, and hear him calling out from Calvary," Look unto me, "and be ye saved, all the ends of the "earth," and yet remain unmoved, and disregard his dying voice? Shall he complain with David his type, " I looked "for some to pity, but there was none; I "looked on my right hand, and behold, "but there was no man that would know "me; no man cared for my soul?"

Oh, my brethren, can you conceive any ingratitude so black as this? Let not this, I beseech you, be your crime. The voice of your beloved ought at all times to be delightful; but when it is directed from his cross, it ought surely, in a more particular manner, to claim your attention and regard. "God forbid,"

said St Paul," that I should glory, save "in the Cross of Christ." It is this Cross in which you also ought to glory; it is to this Cross that the Saviour calls you to look; to behold how low he descended for your sake; what he endured in your stead; stead; what extent of love he bore to you; and the complete atonement which he made for your sins. He calls you to look to that place where sin was expiated; where death was deprived of its terrors; where man was reconciled to God, peace established betwixt heaven and earth, the work of redemption accomplished, and a way opened for the sons of misery to ascend to paradise.

Surely then, my friends, from love, gratitude, and duty, you ought to withdraw your thoughts and affections more and more from the world, raise them to heaven, and direct them to Jesus, through whom every blessing, temporal and spiritual, is derived. The heart is impatient when removed from the object of its love. On the wings of imagination it rejoices to fly to the place of its abode, and enjoy the delightful, though ideal society.

And thus it is with the believer,

Though absent in body, yet in spirit "he is often present with the Lord." "He walks by faith and not by sight." Here he only sojourns; here he regards himself as a stranger and pilgrim; his most serious, his most delightful thoughts are in heaven; because there the supreme object of his affection dwells. There his Saviour reigns in glory. To him he rejoices to look, and he anticipates the period, when he shall no longer see him, " through a glass darkly, "but face to face," and enjoy the unclouded light of his countenance through everlasting ages.

Third, It is salvation for which we are to look.

The object to which we are directed to look is so lovely, so glorious, that we ought to esteem it a privilege and a happiness to be permitted to make it the subject of our contemplation. The person, too, who invites and commands us to look, has laid us under such obligations as were sufficient, one should think, to compel us to comply with this duty, from a principle of gratitude, even tho'

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no farther advantage were expected. But what an immense weight does it give to these motives, to reflect that Christ is totally disinterested in this request; that it is not to enjoy our admiration and receive our praise ;-he stands in no need of us, or of our best services ;-it is solely for our sakes, that we may be saved, that he says, "Look unto me, and be ye "saved, all the ends of the earth." This is the motive that Christ holds out to men-salvation! And can the mind of man conceive a greater? No! This word includes every thing,-life, health, plea sure, honour, wealth, power; every inferior motive is swallowed up, and lost in the amazing idea.-Salvation is the release from every care, the exemption from every sorrow, the pardon of every sin, the purification from every stain, the commencement and progress of every grace and virtue, the acquisition of every joy; healing from every disease, and complete victory over death and the grave. Is it not wonderful, O sinners! that this delightful sound,-these glad tidings of great joy, reached this land, while we were dead in trespasses and

"in sins, without God, and without hope?" And shall this sound be heard, and yet after all be slighted and despis ed? Can a people so foolish and unwise expect to enjoy peace in their own mind, or the approbation of God? How shall we, how can we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?

The motive, my brethren, which I now hold out to you, stands in no need of eloquence to enforce it. There are some motives, naturally so feeble, that it requires much embellishment to impress them upon the mind. But the motive in the text, though displayed in the most simple dress, is calculated to make the deepest impression. An eternal exemption from misery, the attainment of unbounded bliss: these are two ideas comprehended in salvation, which, when viewed with calmness, cannot fail to have a powerful influence on the mind. Instead then of exhibiting, or of attempting to exhibit, the greatness of that salvation, let me call upon you, my Christian brethren, most seriously, as you value your eternal interests, to ponder this motive in your