Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say ACTS xvii. 31.-" Because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righte- ousness by the man whom He hath ordained. 1 Cor. vi. 1-3.-" Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge PHILIPPIANS ii. 9, 10.-" Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name. which is above every name: that at the name of SERMON S. SERMON I. PSALM xlii. 2.—" My soul is athirst for God, even for the living God. When shall I come to appear in the presence of God?" We have no difficulty in apprehending the Saviour as a living person! His circumscription within flesh and blood makes that easy. But it is a great effort of faith so to conceive of God himself, to whom the Mediator leads us. And yet it is for God, the full Godhead, that the soul of the saints, like holy David, longs and pines! That He is a LIVING GOD will probably be the most awful discovery of the judgmentday. And that there is great reason, either in VOL. II. B 66 "Purge the nature of things or the state of the human heart, or in both,-for continually bringing this truth home to us, is manifest from the earnestness and constancy, with which Holy Writ insists upon it. For instance, "They heard the voice of the living God." 'Hereby know ye that the living God is among you." "He is the living God, and stedfast for ever." your conscience to serve the living God." “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." I merely cite these passages, that you may see what I mean, for the Bible is full of them! And in almost all the passages in which these and similar expressions occur, full of God and his essential life, you will find the application intended to be made of them, and the errors which they are framed to oppose, distinctly marked. It is the senselessness of the miserable idols of wood and stone, which the nations worshipped, though they were the work of their own hands; and this is compared with the Al |