either of them by itself. For who could bear to look on to the dreadful day, without the remembrance of that merciful and saving Passion, the virtue whereof is the only thing which can bring us safely through the terrors of the judgement?

SERMON VI.

First Saturday in Advent.

Just as GOD, in His good providence, hides from us the time of our own death, so in the Gospel of His Son He hides from us the time of the Day of Judgement. And yet, in a certain sense, the Almighty has made known to us both the hour of death and also the Day of Judgement. He has hidden the exact hour and day, but He has set down certain limits, beyond which He has assured us they cannot be delayed. We know that the days of man, which were at first near a thousand years, and seem afterwards to have lessened by degrees, are now come down, taking one life with another, to seventy at the outside.

SERMON Xxii.

Second Sunday in Advent.

The Book of the law, when we are judged, will be the Holy Bible. Your Bibles, then, and the use

you have made of them, will have a very great deal to do with your standing or falling in that great and dreadful Day. I might say, all will depend on them. Ponder now on this, for on this particular Sunday especially the Church our Mother puts you in mind of it. Did you not hear what she said to you in the Epistle, that the Holy Scriptures are written for you to learn, not simply as a lesson, but so as to have hope, ¿.e. a reasonable hope, of going to Heaven, of being acquitted at the last day? And have you not been praying to the Holy Ghost over and over in to-day's service, that by His Holy Word you may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which Thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ," i.e. that you may have comfort from your Bibles in the Day of Judgement? This has been GOD's lesson to you, and this your prayer to GOD, to-day. But have you really used yourselves so to think of your Bibles and so to use them?

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SERMON iii.

Second Monday in Advent.

The Church sets before us the great Day of the LORD as the continual subject of our meditation for a full month, or near it, before Christmas Day. Advent goes before Christmas; the Second Coming

of our LORD must be in our minds to prepare us for duly regarding His First Coming. The Lessons and Collects set down in the Prayer Book for these four weeks all look that way. They are all meant to keep up in the minds of Christians the aweful image of our LORD coming in the clouds, with His Glorious Body yet bearing the marks of the Cross; of the Angels around Him; of the world burning under His Feet; of the dead, small and great, standing before Him; of the Judgement-Seat, and of the books opened.

SERMON XVI.

Second Tuesday in Advent.

Which of us has not upon his conscience many an unfruitful good intention, many a godly motion of the Holy Spirit slighted and unimproved, through slothfulness or some worse reason? It is a sad and fearful thought for us all, to look on to the hour when good intentions will all be too late: but it is saddest for those who are wilfully putting off the great work of repentance and conversion; who have never yet turned to GOD in earnest, but in some sense are continually intending to do so. What will they do, when GOD shall visit them? When the great trumpet shall sound, and they

shall be found still unprepared; still intending to amend and still putting it off; when the sudden and dreadful end shall come, as of all other worldly things, so also of their vain and empty excuses? SERMON viii.

Second Wednesday in Advent.

Every one must give account: all without exception neither man, woman, nor child, that at all knows right from wrong, will be excused from answering on that day. We must give account to GOD: not to man whom we might deceive, or who might judge of us by false measures, but to the all-seeing, unerring GOD. And we must give account of ourselves: not of others, but of our own conduct, of the whole of it, in thought, word, and deed.

SERMON XVI.

Second Thursday in Advent.

Self-examination should make the Last Day present to us, and Holy Communion, the day of Christ's Passion. That Service is so framed that if we thoughtfully use it, it may well help us to a saving knowledge of our LORD'S Sufferings, each

part of them in its order. Come to Christ's Altar, then, all you who have any true love of Christ, that you may see, and know, and feel, more and more perfectly, at what a dear cost you were saved,— what that Cross is, which we hope will save you, by His mercy, in the Day of Judgement.

SERMON vi.

Second Friday in Advent.

You have but to lift up your eyes and look, and behold Jesus Christ visibly set forth, crucified among you. He is in His Church; He is in His Scriptures; He is in your prayers; He is most especially in His Sacraments. Bring all your troubles to Him, to be cured, if such be His Will; if not, at least to be sanctified and turned to good: and be sure you will not bring them in vain. And as the con

stant presence of the Passion may soothe your sorrows, so may your joys be chastened by the consideration of the Day of Judgement, as being also, in GOD's account, present.

SERMON vi.

Second Saturday in Advent.

Our hearts, in regard of heavenly things, are so unspeakably cold, so hard and dry, that we cannot,