gated; to the splendid lustre which it sheds on all the duties and all the hopes of man, on every religious and moral truth, which can awaken his desires or his fears, which can conduce to his present or eternal welfare. In the revelation of Jesus Christ, the ardent desires of the soul, seeking, with earnest solicitude, the path to duty and bliss which a blind and erring reason in vain endeavoured to discover, are fully gratified-the way is tracked out, with luminous lustre, to the throne of Godresplendent light and glory burst from the gloomy, mansions of the tomb. O my soul! adore with lively gratitude and faith, the divine teacher, who hath sealed to thee these glorious truths and hopes by the resistless and affecting testimony of his blood. While the tears of lively sympathy and sorrow are shed over the sacred memorials, which recall to thy remembrance the pungent and unparalleled sufferings of thy blessed Lord, let the altar be also the hallowed throne, where, thou dost present the grateful vows of fidelity and obedience to that divine teacher, who, from the terrors and agonies of the cross, shed light, life, and immortality on the world.

THE PRAYER.

O MOST MERCIFUL GOD! who haft given us thy only begotten Son, to be our divine guide and teacher, to lead us from the darkness of ignorance and

error into the glorious light of thy truth; grant, that the contemplation of his patience, his refolution, his magnanimity and fortitude under the various fufferings which affailed him, while it awakens my lively gratitude, may serve to cherish and confirm my faith in his glorious doctrines. May the ardent, the difinterested,. the perfevering zeal, which the Saviour displayed, in encountering the malicious calumny and perfecution with which his relentless enemies repaid him for his benevolent inftructions, excite at once my admiration, my gratitude, and steadfast confidence. I bless thee, moft holy Jefus, that thou waft not deterred, from the profecution of thy divine work of enlightening and reftoring fallen man, by the sufferings and persecutions that affailed thee-by the profpect of the ignominious death that was to close thy infinite labour of love. I bless thee, moft holy Jefus, that by the fhedding of thy precious blood in atteftation of the fublime and glorious truths thou didft promulgate, thou haft afforded the higheft evidence of thy fincerity, thy divine and difinterested benevolence and zeal.

may I evermore love and serve thee as a divine and beneficent teacher, who, in proclaiming and establishing the glorious revelation of mercy and grace, confulted only our peace, our welfare, our inftruction, and everlasting confolation; and benignantly and generoufly facrificed thy own eafe, comfort, happiness, and life. O may the commemoration of thy fufferings and death in thy holy fupper powerfully recal to my awakened feelings, the infinite condefcenfions of thy love, the painful facrifices, the awful conflicts which thou didft fuftain in the establishment of that divine difpenfation of grace, by which thou haft shed the luminous rays of immortal truth and glory on a blind and perithing world. Receiving with humble gratitude and faith the memorials of thy love, may I refo

lutely and fervently devote myself to thy fervice.Evermore following the light of thy divine inftructions, and regulating my life by thy celeftial doctrines and precepts, may I thus evidence the fincerity of my gratitude, my faith and love, and feek, in fome measure to make amends to thee for the contumely, fcorn, and fuffering, with which, while on earth, thy benevolent inftructions and labours were repaid. O thou eternal light of the world, "fend forth thy light and truth. Let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill-to God my exceeding joy," to the blissful fruition of the excellency and glory of the Father, the. Son and the Holy Ghoft, for ever and ever.-AMEN..

[Then add your usual Morning Devotions,]

Friday Evening.

MEDITATION,

THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST— CHARITY WITH ALL MEN.

THOU hast been gratefully contemplating, O my soul, the sufferings and death of Christ as affording affecting and powerful evidence of the divinity of his mission and the truth of his doctrine. Turn now thy mournful view to the sufferings and death of Christ as an allsufficient expiation and atonement for sin.

The sufferings of Christ, considered as the infinite price of the ransom of a guilty world from condemnation and misery, rise to the highest importance, and significance, and claim our most profound adoration and love. From the awful gloom of suffering and sorrow, the illustrious virtues of magnanimity, patience, and fortitude will, indeed, shine forth with the brightest and most affecting lustre. Contrasted with the awful horrors of that eventful hour, when, in the agonies of death aggravated by every painful circumstance of reproach, insult, and ignominy, our divine instructor closed his suffering life, how resplendent and endearing appear the mild and submissive patience, the ardent and benignant love which he displayed. Rising triumphantly from the dark cloud of suffering which enveloped the cross, the holy Jesus appears cloathed with the celestial radiance of divine power and glory, and with irresistible authority and conviction, proclaims to the world the everlasting dispensation of grace, and imposes the luminous and immutable rules of truth and duty. But when, with the authority of a divine Instructor, we connect the mercy and power of an Almighty Redeemer, the sufferings and death of Christ, which, before inspired admiration, gratitude and confidence, will penetrate us with emotions of the most profound adoration, and will excite the liveliest fervors of love, the most ardent triumphs of holy faith. A Redeemer, who, in

sustaining the penalties of sin, rescues us from its awful condemnation; who, in sinking under the angry stroke of death, breaks forever the sceptre of the relentless tyrant; who, in yielding for a short period to the dominion of the prince and powers of darkness, bursts forever the degrading and torturing chains which they had cast on guilty man; a Redeemerwho from the cross which was the ignominious scene of the temporary triumphs of his foes, displays the splendid banners of victory, and "proclaims liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that were bound;" a Redeemer-who thus turns ignominy, suffering, and death into triumph, victory and glory, presents a display of mysterious and divine power, which, while it transcends and confounds our feeble comprehensions, should excite the profound and grateful fervors of adoration and love. Contemplate, then, O my soul, the sufferings of Christ, as the price of thy redemption. View thyself as fallen from that exalted rectitude and glory which distinguished thy primeval state, into the awful abyss of blindness,depravity and guilt. Regard thyself as having forfeited the cheering favor of that merciful Being whose favor is the only source of bliss-as obnoxious to the indignation of that Almighty Sovereign, whose angry frown awakens misery and despair. Ah! when thou art thus abased by the humiliating and poignant conviction of thy guilt and wretched