the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the fame; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.”

SERMON VI.

OUR FATHER'S GRACIOUS ADMONITION.

Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near:

Let the wicked forfake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.-Ifai. Iv. 6, 7.

THE prophecy of Ifaiah is replete with paffages which would almost seem, by their tenor, to have been penned during or after the coming of Meffiah. We are scarcely pre

pared to find, feven hundred years before Christ's advent, fuch statements as are to be met with in this facred book. The holy prophet, moved by the Spirit of God, predicts events in terms ufually employed for contemporary narrative, and utters truths and invitations which we should expect to hear propounded by our bleffed Saviour Himself, or by one of His immediate followers. Hence, as you know, Ifaiah is commonly called the Evangelic Prophet; because it pleased the Holy Spirit to reveal to him more largely than to others thofe rich gospel bleffings which were to accompany the birth of Chrift into the world-bleffings which were not to be confined to God's ancient race, but to be co-extenfive with the wants of the whole human family.

The opening verfe of this 55th chapter we may easily picture to ourselves as being addreffed by Jesus Christ to an assembled

multitude. "Ho, every one that thirfteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price. Wherefore do ye fpend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which fatisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your foul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your foul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the fure mercies of David." "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near let the wicked forfake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Oh, that all here would hear and obey them, as from His