s important view to every believer who is still
struggling with the infirmities and trials of his earthly pilgrimage.
It directs the attention of such to the crown of righteousness that
awaits him, and says, "Be ye stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in
vain in the Lord."

FOOTNOTE:

[Y] From a scriptural small work, with the style and spirit of which
we are much pleased, "The Transfiguration," an exposition of Matt.
xvii. i. 8, by the rev. Daniel Bagot, B.D., minister of St. James'
chapel, Edinburgh, and chaplain to the right hon. the earl of
Kilmorry. Edinburgh, Johnstone: London, Whittaker, Nisbet: Dublin,
Curry, jun., Robertson.

THE CABINET.

NO SALVATION WITHOUT AN ATONEMENT.--But let me turn your attention to
the sad effect which a denial of the Saviour's Deity has upon the
prospects of man for eternity. It is a truth written, as with a
sunbeam, upon every page of scripture, that man is by nature a fallen,
a guilty, a condemned creature, obnoxious to the righteous judgment of
God. We are told, that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked;"--that "all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God:" Jehovah himself is represented as looking down from
heaven upon the children of men, to investigate their characters with
that omniscient ken by which he explores the utmost boundaries of the
illimitable universe, and pronouncing this solemn verdict--"There is
none righteous; no, not one:" and the apostle Paul, when reminding the
Ephesian church of their past unregenerate condition, says that they
were "children of wrath, even as others." If man, then, be in a guilty
and condemned state by nature, it is an awful and important question,
how shall he obtain pardon and justification with God, on account of
his past transgressions? and how shall his sinful and unholy nature be
sanctified and prepared for admission into the realms of everlasting
glory? Can personal repentance, on the part of the sinner, obliterate
the crime of which he has been guilty, so as to reinstate him into the
condition of a sinless and unfallen being? Unquestionably not. For
whatever act has been performed by God, or angels, or by man, must
remain for ever written upon the pages of eternity, never to be
erased; and, therefore, no subsequent repentance on the sinner's part,
no tears of sorrow or contrition, can ever blot out his past
trans