life or to godliness. Even when he prays for his daily food, he looks to him as his intercessor, through whose mediation alone he expects to be heard. Surrounded with spiritual enemies, and conscious of his own weakness, he looks up with confidence to the Captain of his salvation. It was such a look as this, that good Jehosaphat, when beset by his enemies, raised to the Lord of Heaven: "We have no might against this great

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company that cometh against us; nei"ther know we what to do ; but our eyes "are upon thee." And when the Christian falls, for fall he must in this imperfect state, to whom can he look but unto Jesus? His well-known gentleness and condescension can alone revive and encourage him to proceed in his heavenly course. And conscious of his own weakness and imperfections, he looks ever with an eye of supplication and dependence upon Him," who giveth power to "the faint, and to them who have no

might increaseth strength." " Though "the youths shall faint and be weary, and "the young men shall utterly fail, yet

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they that wait upon the Lord shall re

"new their strength; they shall mount

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up on wings as eagles; they shall run " and not be weary; they shall walk and ઠં not be faint." They, and they only who thus look to Christ shall be saved. It is they only whose lives are hid with Christ in God, who, when he appears, shall also appear with him in glory.

SERMON V.

ON LOOKING UNTO CHRIST.

ISAIAH XLV. 22.

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.

IN discoursing formerly from these words, it was proposed to shew, first, In what manner we ought to look to Jesus Christ; and, second, To mention some considerations to enforce the duty enjoined in the text.

Having illustrated the manner of looking to Christ, I come now, under the second general head, to mention some considerations to enforce the duty of looking to him.

Consider, first, Who is the glorious object to which you are required to look.

Second, Who it is that requires you to look.

Third, For what purpose he requires you to look. And,

Fourth, The facility of the duty, and extent of the invitation.

First, Consider to what a glorious object you are required to look. It is none other than the Son of God.

Whether we direct our attention to the surface of this earth which we inhabit, or to the wide expanse of the heavens above, we discover an infinite variety of objects, which the human eye is fitted to contemplate, and which it cannot behold without admiration and delight. But the object to which in the text we are invited to look, is transcendently more glorious than them all. It is he who gave to nature its attractive form, who clothes. the fields with all their beauty, who gave to the everlasting hills their grandeur and strength, who spread out the fair canopy of heaven, who adorned the night with all its shining hosts, and lighted up the glorious luminary of day. And if Christ was the Author of all that

order and beauty which Nature exhibits, how glorious must he himself be? What must be the splendour of the Sun of righteousness, who shines with uncreated eternal lustre in the highest heavens? And shall we, my brethren, behold with delight the works of his hands, and not lift up an eye of admiration to himself, their great first cause? What is it that fills the heavenly host, the shining orders of Seraphims and Cherubims, with admiration and joy; what is it that perpetuates the sunshine of their bliss, and animates to ecstacy their melodious strains; is it not the contemplation of the Creator's glory? Is it not their blest employment to surround his throne, and with united voice to sing, " Wor

thy is the Lamb that was slain, to re"ceive power, and riches, and wisdom, "and strength, and honour, and glory, " and blessing?" This is the voice of the ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands of blessed spirits, in that world where the perfections of Jesus are most fully and clearly displayed. And shall we not join in the harmony of the celestial choir ?