hange of feeling--to prepare men to
dwell with God. No wonder then, that our Lord should declare with such
emphasis, _Ye must be born again_, or ye _cannot see the kingdom of
God_.

I beseech you, fellow sinners, lay these things seriously to heart. Do
any of you habitually hear the preaching of the cross with heartless
indifference--with a light and trifling temper? Beware, lest your heart
become fatally hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Are any of you conscious of disgust and aversion, produced by such
doctrines? O, beware, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the
prophets, Behold, ye dispisers, and wonder, and perish: Beware lest you
convert the bread of life into the poison of death!

Have any of you already attained such a degree of blindness and
perversity, as to persuade yourselves that the doctrines of the cross
are really irrational and absurd, and that you are doing right in
opposing and deriding them? Recollect, I pray you, with whose word you
are contending;--whose wisdom you are despising! Let the chaff contend
with the tempest, and the stubble with the devouring flame; let the
glow-worm despise all the lamps of heaven;--but Oh, let not a worm
contend with Omnipotence; let not dim reason reject all the splendours
of the Sun of righteousness. _The redemption of the soul is
precious_--Its rescue from perdition, and elevation to God's right hand,
are objects too momentous, to be sacrificed to the pride of intellect,
or to the fashion of a world which passeth away. _Receive_, then, _with
meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves_.

SERMON XXVII.

BY ELIHU W. BALDWIN, A.M.

NEW-YORK.

THE FINAL JUDGMENT.

HEBREWS, IX. 29.--_After this the Judgment_.

Whilst another year is ending, and time itself, as it respects us, is
fast hastening to its close, the question very naturally arises, _What
shall come after death_? The voice of inspiration replies, _After this
the Judgment_. There is no need of entering upon a laboured proof of the
doctrine so plainly declared, _That there will be a day of Judgment for
mankind_. It is what seems written by the finger of God himself upon the
consciences of men. The impression is nearly universal, with Pagans and
Mahomedans, as well as Jews and Christians, that _every one of us shall
give account of himself to God_. This impression is strengthened by a