that hope is. It is the mercy and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour from sin, and our hope of heaven. Moved with fear Noah prepared him an ark for the saving of his house. Moved with fear do you run into the refuge which is already prepared for all who will seek shelter and safety in it. Lot hasted from Sodom to the city appointed to receive him, when the Lord rained down from heaven fire and brimstone upon the cities of the plain. Haste you from the everlasting fire of hell into that security which the rich atonement of Jesus provides for you. The manslayer fled from his house and home, and left all behind him that he might escape from the avenger of blood to the city of refuge. Flee you from the just indignation and pursuing vengeance of God to the all-sufficient sacrifice of his Son, who receiveth sinners. Escape for your lives. Even more than life is concerned. Eternity is concerned. Your soul is concerned. An eternal duration in infinite misery is the thing to be avoided. Leave all behind you to gain your refuge. Strive to win Christ and be found in him.

Remember that here is your only safety. Remember that "there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby you can be saved." Remember that you can make no compensation for your sins. No price can you pay in expiation of them. The only compensation which God's justice will accept is that which has been made by Jesus, and the only price of the least value for the redemption of the soul from sin and hell is "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." Take one more admonition. When once you have fled to Christ for refuge, then never again leave him. Never venture out of his protection or the bounds which his gospel assigns you. Never return again to folly and sin and the world, lest a worst thing happen to you. Abide continually in his church and with his people, and then nothing shall ever be able to harm you.

Rejoice, ye righteous, who have already made Christ your refuge, in the great salvation which you have secured in him. Praise him for all his goodness, and love him for

his great mercy to you. The salvation which he has provided for you cost him his own life. No escape was permitted to him, no compensation was accepted from him. The spear went deep into his flesh, and a sense of the divine wrath overwhelmed his soul. Then he stood in your place, and suffered in your stead. The vials of God's indignation against sin were poured on his head, that his members might not suffer it. Here is his love, and here is a cause for yours. Oh! love the Lord then, all ye his saints, for the great love wherewith he hath loved you, as ye rejoice in the privileges with which he has invested you. Love and joy are the appropriate emotions which belong to your state of safety in him. And am I not right in exhorting you also to abide in Christ? Oh! never leave him nor forsake him for a moment, as you trust that he will never leave nor forsake you. Draw not back, lest his soul should have no pleasure in you. Backslide not lest he make you feel what an evil and bitter thing it is to depart from him. Ever cleave closely to his side, and remain firm in his

service. Be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Give to him your grateful service. Let the first and best affections of your hearts be fixed upon him. Seek to live to him more closely. Cleave to him with purpose of heart. Go not out of Christ, lest even you also perish. You are secure as in a privileged city while you remain with him, for he is able to keep you from every evil work unto his heavenly kingdom.

SERMON XIII.

MOSES'S REVIEW OF THE HISTORY.

DEUT. I. 31, 32.

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God.

WHEN, after the flood, the nations of the earth had again lost the knowledge of God, and were sunk in ignorance and idolatry, God was pleased, as we have seen, to call out from among them the patriarch Abraham, and to choose him and his posterity to be a peculiar people unto himself. For that extraordinary people he wrought many miracles, especially at their deliverance from their bondage in Egypt, and in their journey to