THEN faith Jefus unto

him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou fhalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Mat. iv. 10.

God alone is truly worthy of our Service, Adoration, and Love. To worship, is not to say, I worship and adore Thee; but is to be really obedient to God, and from the Bottom of the Heart to prefer his Will before all Things, to live and act only for Him, and to esteem nothing but him, or with Relation to him. When we fee Men bufied and employ'd about every Thing, except their God, can we believe that there are many who worship and ferve Him only? Grant, O Lord, that, by thy Grace, I may be among the small Number of thofe, who worship Thee in Truth, and ferve none but Thee.

Infpire me, Saviour, with that Pow'r
Which caft the Tempter down,
So fhall I bear the fiery Hour,
And bid the Fiend begone!

Quell'd by the Spirit of thy Grace

Again the Foe fhall flee:
He cannot ftand before my Face
When thou refid'ft in me.

AND feeing the Multitudes, he went up into a Mountain: and when he was fet, his Difciples came unto him. Mat. v. 1.

Since all Chriftians are the Disciples of Chrift, they have All a Right to hear his Word. To this End they must have a Difciple's Heart, humble, full of Refpect, teachable, fwift to hear, eager to learn, and faithful to obey. To go up with Chrift, is to lift up one's Heart from the Earth, in order to hear the Truths of Heaven. To fit down, is to hear them with Calmnefs, Peace, and Repose of Mind. To come unto this Divine Mafter, is to be united to him, and to hear him with Faith, Attention, and Love for his Word.

Great Teacher of thy Church, we own
Thy Precepts all divinely wife:
O may thy mighty Power be shown
To fix them still before our Eyes.

Deep in our Hearts thy Law engrave,
And fill our Breafts with heav'nlyZeal,
That while we truft thy Pow'r to fave,
We may
that facred Law fulfil,

I fhall, when thou beftow'ft the Power, And ferve my God, like thofe above,

In Spirit and in Truth adore,

With perfect Purity and Love.

March 25: ( 85 ) Annunciation of the Virgin. AND in the fixth Month, the Angel Gabriel was fent from God, unto a City of Galilee, named Nazareth,--To a Virgin espoused to a Man whofe Name was Jofeph, of the House of David; and the Virgin's Name was Mary. Luke i. 26, 27.

At length the Moment is come, which is to give a Son to the Virgin, Saviour to the World, a Pattern to Mankind, a Sacrifice to Sinners, a Head to the Angels, a Temple to the Divinity, and a new Nature to his Divine One. With what holy Wonder and Pleasure should we trace this Notice of an Incarnate Redeemer? And how thankfully should we adore his condefcending Goodness, that for us Men, and for our Salvation, he did not defpife the Womb of so obscure a Virgin? This Day he is become Emmanuel God with us: The Word is made Flesh: The Holy Ghost hath wrought this Miracle: The Father hath married, and the Son is married to our poor Flesh: and this is the Wedding Day. This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our Eyes: This is the Day the Lord bath made; nay, this is the Day wherein the Lord is made: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

O ye banish'd Seed be glad,
Chrift our Advocate is made:
Us to fave, our Flesh affumes,
Brother to our Soul becomes.

Shout, ye little Flock! and bleft,
You on JESU's Throne fhall reft,
There your Seat is now prepar'd,
There your Kingdom, and Reward

BLeffed are the Meek: for they shall inherit the Earth. Mat.

v. 5.

The second Leffon of Chrift is the Meeknefs of Love, in Heart, in Countenance, and in Word. It is no fmall Victory for a Man to fubdue the Severity of his Temper. The Meekness which leads to Blessedness is not a Meekness of Constitution, of Artifice, or of Deceit; but a Meekness of Grace, of Love, and of Patience. --It is difpofed to fuffer itself to be spoiled of all in this World; but of what Treasures, what Inheritances does it not put us into Poffeffion in the Land of the Living. To poffefs the Land of our Heart in Patience, is the Beginning of the perfect Kingdom of Love, and the Fruit of Christian Meekness. Inftruct us, Lord, in this Grace, Thou who art the Mafter and the Teacher of it.

Meeken my Soul thou heavenly Lamb, My rich Inheritance poffefs,

That I in the new Earth may claim

My hundred-fold Reward,

Co-heir with the great Prince of Peace,
Co-partner with my Lord.

BLeffed are they which do hunger and thirst after Righteouf

nefs for they fhall be filled. Mat. v. 6.

This Leffon of Chrift fhews us, that a Zeal for Righteousness and Perfection, a Hatred of Sin, and the Defire of the fovereign and eternal Righteoufnefs, ought to be the fole Hunger and Thirst of our Hearts. The falutary Hunger is after That alone which can nourish and fatisfy our Souls according to God. The Hunger after every Thing elfe is a Disease of the Body, or a Folly of the Mind. May I hunger after nothing but Thee, O my God, because Thou alone canft feed me here on Earth, and fatisfy me in Heaven.

Me with a restless Thirst inspire,
That facred infinite Defire,

And feaft my hungry Heart;

Lefs than thyself cannot fuffice,
My Soul for all thy Fulness cries,
For all thou haft, and art.