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THE SAVIOUR'S INTERCESSION AND THE

STRANGER'S PRAYER.

A SERMON BY THE LATE SEPTIMUS SEARS.

"Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of Thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for Thy name's sake (for they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched out arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house: hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for."-1 KINGS viii. 41-43.

THESE words form a part of Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, which he built according to God's promise to David, and by divine direction. Solomon was a lively type of the Lord Jesus. His very name is blessedly applicable to Christ -the word "Solomon" signifying peaceable, perfect, or who recompenses. And truly Jesus is peaceable; His errand to earth was an errand of " peace" (Luke ii. 14). He is emphatically called “our peace" (Eph. ii. 14). The covenant of which He is the Surety is designated a "covenant of peace" (Isa. liv. 10); the legacy He has bequeathed to His people is a legacy of "peace" (John xiv. 27). What a mercy for those who can truly say of Him, "He is our peace"! All of us who have a hope of peace with God ground our hope upon something. Rotten in itself, and perilous to the soul, is every other ground of peace but Jesus.

Jesus is indeed perfect. As a Person in the ever-adorable Trinity, He is perfection itself. As Man He is perfect; nothing of human perfection was absent from this "fairer than the children of men" (Psalm xliv. 2); and nothing of human defection (to use an obsolete word) was ever, or can ever be, present in this "holy, harmless, and undefiled One" (Heb. vii. 26). God-Man, or God and Man in one glorious Christ, He is perfect. "He is the Rock; His work is perfect" (Deut. xxxii. 4). Oh, how perfectly fitted for His work! Was obedience, human obedience, called for? The obeying Man could give it. Was human suffering demanded? The bleeding Man could endure it. Was infinite worth and almighty power required? God in human flesh had it. How perfectly fitted was this glorious Christ to pay, in human flesh, an infinite debt, to satisfy infinite justice, and exemplify and open a free and righteous channel for the outgushings of infinite mercy! And how perfectly suited is this glorious Christ to heal the gaping wounds, cleanse away the guilty stains, clothe the naked soul, and fill the empty heart of a poor sensibly-lost and No. 54, NEW SERIES, JUNE, 1883.

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ruined sinner! Truly Jesus, the great Solomon, is the "perfection of beauty"; and, in His Person, work, names, offices, and fulness, He is indeed to every sensible sinner suited, "let his wants be what they may."

Christ mystical, or Jesus, the Head, in union with all His members, is for ever perfect. "Clear as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners" (Sol.'s Song vi. 10). Jesus, the antitypical Solomon, is truly One that "recompenses." He made, by His obedience and suffering, recompense or reconciliation for the sins of His chosen people; He restored that which He took not away (Dan. ix. 24; Psa. lx. 1); and the Holy Spirit brings all the elect to be so sensible of the breadth of the holy law, and their own exceeding vileness, that they can hold up nothing else before the throne of God's holiness, and at the bar of equity, but Jesus for a recompense. And truly, when the soul has faith to lay hold of, and shelter in, this blessed Solomon as his own, it is a sweet recompense for all the painful stripping and humbling work that he has been led through. Oh, then he admires the wisdom displayed in all the Lord's dealings with him, and is thankful that ever he should have been wounded by conviction, to be cured by such a balm as Jesus' blood; stripped of his filthy rags, to make room for such a glorious dress as Jesus' righteousness; and brought off from every other foundation, and driven from every other shelter, that he might realize the blessedness of being built upon this precious foundation, and find in this great Rock, this sweet HidingPlace, a refuge from the wind and a covert from the tempest (Isa. xxxii. 2). And will He not be, in the kingdom of eternal glory, an endless recompense for all the toils of the desert? One wave of the tide of immortal bliss, flowing from His right hand, will for ever efface the deepest print that tribulation has made upon our hearts while in the desert, as the rising tide obliterates every foot-mark from the sandy beach which it covers. Oh, when He comes, "He will come with a recompense; and 66 we shall be satisfied when we awake with His likeness" (Isaiah xxxv. 4; Psalm xvii. 15).

We might, now we are upon Solomon's name, as applicable to Christ, add His name, Jedadiah, "beloved," or Lemuel," God with them," each sweetly applicable to "Immanuel, God with us," the Beloved of the Father, the beloved Object the Holy Ghost reveals, the Beloved of the heart of saved sinners, and the beloved theme of the heavenly songsters; but this we will forbear enlarging upon, and draw nearer to the text.

Solomon was a lively type of Christ in building a temple for Israel and Israel's God to commune in, and to be the object upon which God's eye should rest and Israel's eye be directed to. And the Greater than Solomon, by His incarnation, and by His resurrection,