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over the lips, but if known and felt would prove infinitely effectual in delivering you from the evil one: it is this,- 'looking unto Jesus." Such is the whole of a believer's life, from the first dawn of conversion to the last conflict with death, a "looking unto Jesus."

Would you be secure then against the dangers and deceits of the world? Your hope, your faith must be in Christ: short of this, all will be good for nothing. All your good resolutions, all your good intentions, motives, wishes, sighs and tears,-all will be in vain: but hear only God's beloved Son, "hear, and your soul shall live!"

The time, however, generally allotted to us upon these occasions, has gone. I could tell you of the reproach, of the ridicule that you must endure from giddy and ungodly acquaintances, for making a good confession. Yet, at this rejoice: for nothing speaks less favourably for a man's religious character and deportment than the absence of opposition to him from the world; for, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Here, then, we leave the matter: unfinished

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indeed, according to the plan we at first proposed; yet not so slightly touched as to be incapable of furnishing a moral.

Know then, this truth,—that the surest way of providing against future calamities, is a careful cultivation of present opportunities. We are sowing the good seed now: you may,-yes, you may reap an abundant harvest by and bye; but whether you will reap or not, depends much, depends mainly, on yourselves. take me not. Salvation is by grace, and by grace alone; but nevertheless it is so ordered, that he who will not seek, shall not find; he who will not ask, shall not have; he who will not knock, to him it shall not be opened.

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Let all, therefore-all, without one exception-even you, my little children, who seem almost yet too young to think, much more to act,—do you ever remember that God giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not. Never forget that from the number of those whom Jesus suffers to come to him, little children are not excluded; but that the lambs especially meet with his fondest consideration! ،، Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not."

We, for our parts, do suffer it: yea, we endeavour to hasten your coming. The hinderances therefore, the stumbling-blocks and impediments must be in yourselves; and if you will not come unto Christ that

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life, then there is no help for it. The oxen and the fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. But, if you will, and you are indeed desirous to accept the invitation he offers, to seek the pardon he procures, to bow before the cross on which he bleeds,-"Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Amen.

FIFTH ADDRESS.

I WOULD endeavour, this afternoon, my dear children, to say a few words to you upon the Omnipresence of God.

When we say that God is omnipresent, we mean that he is present everywhere, and that at all times.

I do not know a thought, which if carefully cherished, is better calculated to deter us from the commission of sin, aye, even from the meditation of it, than this.

When we profess to believe in the omnipresence of God, what do we profess? That God is ever looking upon us both in thought and deed; that however we may be hidden from the gaze of the world, or shielded from the observation of men,-however we may be devising deceit in retirement, or secretly laying schemes of evil,—though no eye sees, no ear hearkens, so far as earth is concerned, yet that the Lord

beholds ungodliness and wrong, and that there is no place where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

My dear children, what is the great cause of all the sins and miseries which beset and distress our lives? It is the forgetfulness, not of God's power, but of his presence. We say,

God hath forgotten, or he hideth away his face and will never see; and thus persuading ourselves that he sees not what we do, hears not what we say, knows not what we think, we foolishly run into ten thousand transgressions, and strengthen ourselves in our wickedness.

There are two principles in the heart which frequently deter from crime-I mean from open crime: shame and fear. They indeed, who have by long continuance become hardened in iniquity, are often found living without the former. Audacious and barefaced acts of dishonesty are by them perpetrated without a blush; and if they ever blushed at all, it would be at the doing of a good deed, or at the hearing of a holy expression. But you are yet children, and, as such, a portion of this principle exists in your hearts. You would not, and you know it, be seen

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