ad
of using the almighty power which accompanied him, to the purpose of
exalting himself, and treading down his enemies, he makes no other use
of it than to heal and to save.

57. When you come to read of his sufferings and death, the ignominy and
reproach, the sorrow of mind, and torment of body, which he submitted
to--when you consider, that it was all for our sakes--"that by his
stripes we are healed,"--and by his death we are raised from destruction
to everlasting life--what can I say that can add any thing to the
sensations you must then feel? No power of language can make the scene
more touching than it appears in the plain and simple narrations of the
Evangelists. The heart that is unmoved by it, can be scarcely human; but
the emotions of tenderness and compunction; which almost every one
feels in reading this account, will be of no avail, unless applied to
the true end--unless it inspires you with a sincere and warm affection
towards your blessed Lord--with a firm resolution to obey his
commands--to be his faithful disciple--and ever renounce and abhor those
sins, which brought mankind under divine condemnation, and from which we
have been redeemed at so clear a rate.

58. Remember that the title of Christian, or follower of Christ, implies
a more than ordinary degree of holiness and goodness. As our motives to
virtue are stronger than those which are afforded to the rest of
mankind, our guilt will be proportionally greater if we depart from it.

59. Our Saviour appears to have had three great purposes in descending
from his glory, and dwelling amongst men. The first, to teach them true
virtue, both by his example and precepts: the second, to give them the
most forcible motives to the practice of it, by "bringing life and
immortality to light;" by shewing them the certainty of a resurrection
and judgment, and the absolute necessity of obedience to God's laws. The
third, to sacrifice himself for us, to obtain by his death the remission
of our sins, upon our repentance and reformation, and the power of
bestowing on his sincere followers, the inestimable gift of immortal
happiness.

_A Comparative View of the Blessed and Cursed at the Last Day, and the
Inference to be drawn from it._

60. What a tremendous scene of the last day does the gospel place before
our eyes!--of that day, when you and every one of us shall awake from
the grave, and behold the Son of God, on his glorious tribunal, attended
by million