salvation. Man has sinned, "There is no man that sinneth not." "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Man therefore must without doubt have perished everlastingly, had not Christ died for his redemption. In virtue of that great sacrifice of love, (Jn. 15,13)-that costly price paid,-God has given unto Christ all who believe in Him and trust in His righteousness, not in their own. He draws us unto Him in His appointed way by the free and gracious promises of the Gospel, and His Holy Spirit knowing our need and "helping our infirmities." That Gospel solemnly assures us, that "Whosoever believeth shall not perish, but have everlasting life." bracing the means vouchsafed by God, become His Elect.

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subject, of Transubstantiation and Consubstantiation, should have been renewed in the present day. How is it possible that fallible men should ever resolve, by their contradictory and conflicting opinions, that which is, on all sides, confessedly a mystery? Surely, surely, it is better that the Christian should discipline and steady his mind, by trusting, in humility and singleness of heart, to Divine rather than to human authority, in a question which it is beyond human wisdom to determine. Reference to and reliance upon what Scripture has revealed of this holy mystery, entirely satisfies me, as it may well satisfy any Christian, that as the disciples partook of bread and wine at the last supper, so do we in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. This is an answer to a thousand theories. As I presume it will hardly be maintained, that the disciples did really eat a portion of our Saviour's flesh as He sat at meat with them, or literally drink of His blood, I conceive no real ground is presented by Scripture which warrants the supposition of our doing what they did not. The view taken by our Church, in her 28th Article, expresses all that can scripturally be declared on this point-"The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner.'

St. Paul

For man is not Elect by birth, but by belief; not by nature, but by acceptance of grace offered. forcibly shows this in addressing the Ephesian converts :: "In whom (Christ) ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation: in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise." (Ephes. 1, 13.) So also speaks the Lord, by the mouth of David, Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him, I will set him on high because he hath known my name." (Ps. 91, 14.) The ways of God towards man are open, clear, simple, as words of divine truth can make them, for the capacity of all men. "If thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul," is a solemn and gracious address, made alike to mankind under the new and "better covenant," as to the Jew under the old covenant. The choice of life and death is before us now as it has ever been. 'See, I have set before thee this day, life and good, and death and evil; in that I com.. mand thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them-I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not

hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it." (Deut. 30.)

Inasmuch, therefore, as all who "search the scriptures," or hear the Gospel preached, find themselves therein instructed how to " repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance," (Acts 26, 20,) we may be firmly assured, that there does not live one human being, so taught, who is shut out from the pale of christian salvation by predestiny, partial favor, or any other than his own wilful and inexcusable unbelief; (inexcusable, for it is beyond conception that man should be so earnestly appealed to, and encouraged to believe in God, holy and true, and yet not be enabled to obey the gracious bidding;) not one who is not equally and vitally interested in the offer of mercy, or who is denied sufficient means for the acceptance of that Gospel which was preached to the poor, the "glad tidings of great joy which are for all people," and who has not grateful cause to join the "Heavenly host" in their hymn of praise,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men."

G. LOVEJOY, PRINTER, LONDON-STREET, READING.