only detain you about fifteen minutes with this individual. I dont design to give you a discourse this afternoon. I cant do it and get through with the business which is to be done. But then, to return to this man. Suppose, when he was safely on board the vessel and was walking on the plank, after he had been taken out, he should address his Saviour thus: Master, I have been thinking about this affair. It makes me feel very uneasy. I believe I ought to have been taken up on the right side of the deck of the vessel. 'Well,' said his master, you was overboard, wasn't you, Peter? O yes-I've no doubt I should have been drowned before this time if you hadn'nt helped me out. Well, Peter, if you are only safe, why need you to care which side of the ship you were taken out on ? OI dont feel safe-I think I cant be really safe.-To tell the truth you did not take me out as I expected.' 'Well, Peter, if you aint satisfied, just jump overboard and try it again.' O no says Peter, thank you. I'd rather stay where I am!-but after all, I believe I aint exactly safe.

Some people talk just about like this. O we like salvation.-Like to see sinners converted, but then-we dont like the way you do it!' They are so wrapt up in prejudice, that they don't care if men all go to hell, if they wont be saved exactly according to their notions. They're very much

rejoiced to see sinners get into the ark of safety, if they'll only come up on the right side of the ship. What folly!-to set themselves up to domineer over God Almighty to say how his eternal spirit shall operate !!

'The wind bloweth were it listeth, we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth.' Who would think of finding fault with the wind for not blowing just to suit him? Here comes a man.-Says he 'I wont have any thing to do with such a wind. You may talk as much as you have a mind to: I wont have any thing to do with these Vermont winds. They dont blow at all as they do where I live.' Well, friend, what are you going to do about it, eh ?I dont believe your muttering and scolding will change 'em nuch one way or the other. 'Well,' says he, 'I told you I wouldn't have any thing to do with them, and I wont-that's flat!'

Well, what's the result? The poor man scolds and frets about the wind, but the wind continues to blow on in spite of him. Just so when there is a revival, and the wind of the Holy Spirit is blowing mightily, and sinners are prostrated by its influence-Some men say I wont have any thing at all to do with it-I object to it altogether. It doesn't agree with my metaphysical mind, I would say, I mean, my old fashioned notions,and so on!'

Why didn't he put me over three or four streaks

of plank says Peter? True I hope I am safe, but it aint in the way I expected. Dont you see friends, this is mere nonsense? You're a pretty fellow, aint you, Peter ?-what's the difference to you, I want to know, so long as you are safe aboard the vessel?

Secondly. Another query which might have arisen in Peter's mind. 'I don't know as I was in the water long enough. I rather think I ought to have been there about three weeks! What's that, Peter? Why-I am afraid I was not in the water long enough.-If I had only laid there three weeks, then the master might have taken me out, and it would have been a complete cure. -I should have felt perfectly safe. Well Peter, is there any other reason why you feel dissat isfied? "O yes. I dont know-I believe I didn'tfeel bad enough when I was in the water! I ought to have gone down two or three times, (I believe they drown the third time) but if I remember, I didn't go down at all. I dont believe I felt bad enough. They say it is indispensably necessary to feel like death in order to be safe,' O what nonsense! And yet people now a days talk just like this!

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No,' says Peter, 'My Saviour put me as upon a rock, and I am safe, thanks be to his name! I cried out, Lord, save me,— save me any how. I give myself away :-the Saviour was there and caught me !

A word to you sinners. You must take the

same course,

You are drowning-not in a watery grave, but in eternal hell! Just cry Lord, save me-exercise faith, for when Peter's faith failed him his feet began to sink :-throw yourselves into the arms of God's mercy, and he will put your feet in a sure place, even on the Rock Christ. And now I want every man woman and child to come forward and take these front seats. &c. &c.

SERMON IV.

I will direct your attention for a few moments to the 5th Chapter of John, 3d verse, last clause:

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of Hea.

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By these words of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the celebrated Nicodemus, a ruler of Jews, he appears to have been a very amiable man-it is not said in the text that he was not-what the world calls a good sort of a man.' He was somewhat acquainted with our Saviour, and with the miracles he had wrought. He wanted an interview with him-I say he wanted an interview with him, but the reproach was so great-so great was the disgrace of associating with him, or of being seen in his company, that he set out by night to visit the poor persecuted Jesus. Entering the house where he was, he instantly recognised him. 'Rabbi,' says Nicodemus, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou dost, except God be with him.' Now our Saviour understood all about him; he knew what was passing in his mind, and had known from eternity. He answered him, to par