, and be ye holy even as He is holy. Stand ready to
suffer with Him, should it be needful, that you may rise together with
Him. He can make bitter things sweet to you, and hard ways easy, if you
have but the heart to desire Him to do so. He can change the Law into
the Gospel. He can, for Moses, give you Himself. He can write the Law
on your hearts, and thereby take away the hand-writing that is against
you, even the old curse which by nature you inherit. He has done this
for many in time past. He does it for many at all times. Why should He
not do it for you? Why should you be left out? Why should you not enter
into His rest? Why should you not see His glory? O, why should you be
blotted out from His book?

[1] Lent.

[2] Numb. xii. 6-8.

[3] Deut. xxxiv. 10.

[4] Exod. xxxiii. 11.

[5] Exod. xxxiv. 29, 30, 33.

[6] Exod. xxxiii. 13, 14.

[7] Exod. xxxiv. 6, 8.

[8] Matt. xi. 27.

[9] John xiv. 9.

[10] John x. 30.

[11] John i. 17.

[12] Exod. xxxii. 11.

[13] Vide Exod. xxxii. 34.

SERMON X.

The Crucifixion.

"_He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth;
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth._"--Isaiah liii. 7.

St. Peter makes it almost a description of a Christian, that he loves
Him whom he has not seen; speaking of Christ, he says, "whom having not
seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." Again he speaks of
"tasting that the Lord is gracious[1]." Unless we have a true love of
Christ, we are not His true disciples; and we cannot love Him unless we
have heartfelt gratitude to Him; and we cannot duly feel gratitude,
unless we feel keenly what He suffered for us. I say it seems to us
impossible, under the circumstances of the case, that any one can have
attained to the love of Christ, who feels no distress, no misery, at
the thought of His bitter pains, find no self-reproach at having
through his own sins had a share in causing them.

I know quite well, and wish you, my brethren, never to forget, that
feeling is not enough; that it is not enough merely to feel and nothing
more; that to feel grief for Christ's sufferings, and yet not to go on
to obey Him, is not true love, but a mockery. True love both feels
right, and acts right; but at the same time as warm feelings without
religious cond