blood of the guilty, Divine Love, in the perfon of Jefus Chrift, interpofed, " and poured out his foul unto death, and made interceffion for the tranfgreffors." On the hill of Calvary this wonderful scene took place. There Divine Love received the fword of Juftice-there the heart of the Son of God bled for guilty man-there he "who knew no fin, became a fin offering for Mercy and Truth now meet together, Juftice and Peace kifs each other.

us.

"Greater love than this hath no man, that a man lay down his life for his friends; but God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet finners, Chrift died for us." Shout, heaven and earth, this sum of God to man, that God can now be juft, and the juftifier of him who believes in Jefus.

"Infinite grace! Almighty charms!
Stand in amaze, ye rolling ikies!
Jefus the God extends his arms,
Hangs on a crofs of love, and dies!

"Did pity ever stoop fo low,

Dreffed in divinity and blood?

Was ever rebel courted fo,

In groans of an expiring God?

Again he lives, and spreads his hands-
Hands that were nail'd with torturing fmart,
By these dear wounds! he looks and stands,
And prays to clafp me to his heart."

Five bleeding wounds he bears,
Received on Calvary ;
They pour effectual prayers,
They strongly speak for me;
Forgive him, O forgive, they cry,
Nor let that ranfomed finner die.

He ever lives above,

For me to intercede; His all-redeeming love,

His precious blood to plead. His blood atoned for all our race, And fprinkles now the throne of grace.

by Jefus Chrift.

world unto himself.

2 COR. v. 18, 19, 20.

God was in Chrift, reconciling the

Be ye reconciled to God."

RECONCILIATION.

Between the bleeding victim, cut in twain,
Two, once at variance, meet, at one again;
Gladly the hand of fellowship impart,
And pledge the honour of a faithful heart,
And by the God of life and death agree
The past to bury in oblivion's fea;
They vow each other's interest to befriend,
And when in need, to fuccour and defend.
And as the parted victim lies in death,

So they adjudge who breaks his folemn oath.

THIS engraving reprefents two men standing between the two parts of a divided calf. They have been for a long time enemies to each other.

Now they earnestly defire to become friends again; they wish to bury all past differences in the ocean of forgetfulness, and to enter into an agreement mutually to affift and defend each other in time to come. To accomplish this object, they have met together. As a proof of their fincerity, they offer a facrifice to the object of their religious adoration. The blood of the victim is poured out, the animal is divided into two equal parts. The parts are placed oppofite to each other, space enough being left for the parties to enter between. When this is done, they meet in the middle of the divided beast, where the contract is read or repeated, and by a . folemn oath fanctioned and confirmed. This was . an ancient and almoft univerfal mode of making contracts. It is referred to by Jeremiah the prophet: "And I will deliver up the men that have tranfgreffed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and paffed through the parts thereof."

The above is a fignificant emblem of that reconciliation which is proclaimed by the everlafting gospel. The holy God and finful man conftitute the parties. Man had, by his fins, separated himself from God, and had, in fact, become an "enemy." God, the offended party, proclaims a truce, and propofes a reconciliation. The place of meeting was Mount Calvary. There Mercy and Truth met together, Juftice and Peace embraced each other; the victim, the

Lord Jefus Chrift. Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness, and without forgiveness there is no reconciliation; but "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself," and "Chrift is our peace, who hath made both one." The terms of the covenant are, He that believeth fhall be faved, and he that believeth not fhall be damned."

On this ground, i. e., " in Chrift," God has fworn to receive to friendship all who come to him. Here he opens his heart of love-here he bestows more than kingly dignities-here the kingdom of grace is exhibited, and the splendours of the kingdom of glory fhadowed forth. But for those who count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, there remaineth no more facrifice for fin, but a certain fearful looking for of fiery indignation, which fhall devour the adverfaries."

The reconciliation of a foul to God is perhaps the greatest event that can come to pass on the earth. It affects three worlds: heaven, earth, and hell. When this takes place, angels, in their flights of mercy, paffing over fields of renown, where empires are won and lost, stoop upon the wing, and stringing their harps to a loftier melody, they fing the anthem of all-redeeming love, “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, and good-will toward man.

God, the offended God Moft High,
Ambaffadors to rebels fends;

His meffengers his place supply,
And Jefus begs us to be friends.