NAMES OF JESUS ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. The following names are given in Scripture to our Lord and Saviour, beginning with the letter A ADAM, 1 Cor. xv. 45. ANCHOR, Heb. vi. 19. ANCIENT OF DAYS, Dan. vii. 9, 10. ARM OF THE LORD, Isa. liii. 1. It is my design, by the help of God, to give in this juvenile work all Christ's names and titles in alphabetical order. And I shall endeavour to give the literal meaning of the names, to show what a Saviour is Jesus, and that our youthful readers may be thus taught by the Spirit to love Jesus. When you read his wonderful names, and think of the meaning of his blessed and wonderful names, may you be taught to sing in sweet and holy strains "Jesus! I love thy charming name, 'Tis music to my ear; Fain would I sound it out so loud, That heaven and earth might hear." ADAM. The name Adam is given to Jesus in 1 Cor. xv. 45. "The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." Why is Christ called Adam, and the Last Adam? It is this, because the first Adam was a type or figure of Christ. Attend, my young friends, to the following particulars, and then, you will clearly see how Adam was a type of Christ. Adam was our covenant head, and Jesus is the Covenant Head of all his people. A covenant head is one who engages to do something for others. Now, Adam engaged not to eat the forbidden fruit. He engaged this for himself, and for all his descendants. If he kept the covenant, God engaged to make him, and all his descendants, blessed for ever and ever. But Adam broke the covenant. And what was the painful, the dreadful consequence? He brought ruin upon himself and all his posterity. And you and I feel it. He lost an earthly paradise, and he lost the hopes of an heavenly paradise. More than this, he exposed himself, and all his race, to hell, and endless woe! Therefore an apostle says, (Rom. v. 12,) "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Having given you an account of what the first Adam has done, let us now consider what Christ the last Adam engaged to do, and what he has done as our Covenant Head. Unless you know, and understand this, you can never know and understand the great plan of salvation, which the Gospel makes known. Endeavour then, to pay the strictest attention. From all eternity, God the Father and God the Son entered into covenant. In this covenant, Christ engaged to come into our world, to become man, to obey, to suffer, and to die. He engaged in covenant to do all this for our salvation. Oh, never forget that! "for our salvation!" He kept the covenant. He was faithful. He became man. He obeyed the law. He suffered and died for our salvation. Thus he is the "Last Adam." He is our Covenant Head. Therefore it is said, (1 Cor. xv. 22,) " For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." How very beautiful are the following lines on this covenant into which Jesus the last Adam entered for us "Thus to his Son the Father said, WATTS, Psalm lxxxix. v. 2. p. 1. ADVOCATE. Our blessed Lord is called an Advocate, in 1 John ii. 1. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the I will endeavour to explain what an advocate is. An advocate is a counsellor, or a barrister; that is, a learned man who pleads and delivers speeches in courts of law. He stands up before the judge, and when he speaks and pleads, it is for another, and not for himself, There are four questions which you may wish me to answer. First, Where does Jesus the Advocate plead? Secondly, Before what judge does he plead? Thirdly, For whom does he plead? and Fourthly, In what manner does he plead? The Where does Jesus plead? It is in the court of heaven. In great cities, the noblest buildings are generally those places where courts of law are held. place where Jesus pleads, is the most glorious place in the universe. It is the third heaven, it is the "heaven of heavens" "Where high the heavenly temple stands, The house of God not made with hands, The Saviour of mankind appears." The second question is, Before whom does Jesus plead? The Judge before whom he appears is God the Father. There never was such Judge, there never was such Advocate. Oh, how the Judge loves the Advocate! Oh, how the Advocate loves the Judge! "He ever lives to intercede Give him, my soul, thy cause to plead, The third question is, For whom does Jesus plead? It is for his people, his children, his friends. Perhaps, some dear child is saying, Oh, I wish Jesus would plead for me! Are you in earnest? Do you really wish it? If so, ask Jesus to become your advocate, to plead for you, and he will. He will do it, without money and without price. The fourth question is, How does he plead? He pleads skilfully, for his wisdom is infinite. He pleads affectionately, for his love is boundless. He pleads most eloquently and earnestly: and he pleads most successfully. He shows before the throne the marks on his hands, and feet, and bosom, the memorials of the wounds he received on Calvary's cross. And then he says, (John xvii. 24,) "Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." Happy, happy are they who have such an advocate! Dear children, commit your soul into Jesus' hand. Then he will plead your cause in heaven. Then you will be able to sing with the holy apostle: "Firm as his throne his promise stands, And he can well secure What I've committed to his hands, Till the decisive hour."-WATTS, Book I. H. ciii. (To be continued). POETIC GEMS. THE CHRISTIAN'S GRACES, AND THEIR EXERCISE IN THE I. "Says FAITH, Look yonder,-see the crown Says HOPE, Anon it shall be mine; I'll wear it soon, says LovE. II. "DESIRE doth say, What's there? my crown! Then to that place I'll flee; I cannot bear a longer stay, III. "But stay, says PATIENCE, wait awhile, The crown's for those who fight; IV. "Thus FAITH doth take a pleasing view; |