and undutiful attendance at the Table of the Great King, where He gives Himself to be the life of your souls. Consider well, ere it be too late, what account you will be able to give of the many invitations you have slighted this very year. Do you think you shall be able to say, as you now say too

unconcernedly, we were not fit, we were not ready"? Nay, who forced you to be unfit, and unready? You are now called on in Christ's Name to examine thoughtfully your past behaviour towards Christ present in His Holy Communion-feast. You may put off doing so if you will, but you cannot put off death and judgement; you cannot turn away the eyes of the Judge, nor stop His voice when He calls you to account. Examined, judged, sentenced you must be only a choice is mercifully given you, whether you will try and judge yourself here, or wait to be judged in that world where you can do yourself no good.

SERMON XXxviii.

Lastly, if one day is with the LORD as a thousand years;" then He can, by a great grace, do a mighty work of repentance in a very short time: and therefore, if there be anywhere amongst us a soul which goeth "stooping and feeble," brought very low through the consciousness of a more than ordinary burden of sin; let such an one take to himself this sure and unfailing comfort, that if he prays and strives in earnest, GOD can and will help him to a more than ordinary repentance, so that in a short time, whether he on earth know it or no, his sins will be forgiven in Heaven, and the Angels will rejoice over him. Let him not fear to go on, though sorrowfully as regards himself, yet with hope and consolation in respect of his Saviour, and his heart will by degrees be purified and his eyes opened to see how wonderful GOD is: wonderful in all things, but most especially wonderful in His deep condescension to such as we are.

SERMON Xxxix.

Spare us, Good Lord,

whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy most Precious

Blood,

and be not angry with us for ever.

Saints' Days.

Is it, Christ's light is too divine,

We dare not hope like Him to shine?
But see, around His dazzling shrine
Earth's gems the fire of Heaven have caught;

Martyrs and Saints-each glorious day
Dawning in order on our way—

Remind us, how our darksome clay

May keep th' ethereal warmth our new Creator brought.

CHRISTIAN YEAR.

The Prayer Book directs us to remember the Holy Saints and Martyrs of old, both for their good examples' sake, and also in token of our continual Communion by faith with that Blessed Company who have gone before us into Paradise.

SERMON i. (SAINTS' DAY VOL.).