Have you been shut out from all things but living to Christ? No one will come to him but the man who has lost all. The want of all things, shews the value and importance of him who is in all. While you have any thing else, you can live without Christ, and you will die in your rejection of him. O, the mercy of discovering our poverty before it is too late! The spirit of fulness and sufficiency stands in the way of coming to Christ.

If you have found all in one place, do not again wander hither and thither. Go straight to him who gives freely to all who will receive. Be frequently examining yourselves, as to where your all lies, and what you think you possess without Christ; whether any thing besides destruction awaits you. Why should your hearts be found any where besides where your treasure is, your ALL? "Abide in me, and I in you.' "He that eateth me, he shall live by me." To live on Christ, is to honour the plan of the mercy and the wisdom of God. The act of living upon Christ is pleasing unto God. This is the work of God, that ye

believe on him whom he hath sent. By this you honour God's eternal counsel: if you had no opportunity to do any thing besides this for God in the world, he would consider thy falling in with his plan an honour done to him. Christ is suitable in all that he is to supply our various wants. He is the bread from heaven, and we feed upon him he is the fountain for sin and uncleanness: the fountain was opened to cleanse from these, and it must be used. There is no way of being fruitful but by coming to him, "our fruit is of him.” “Without him we can do nothing." "We are his workmanship." "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Speak not of imperfections and failings while you have Christ at hand. He says, "I am with you always," and he is ALL. I can do all things through him.

Those that live upon Christ, making him their all, are desirous of living to Christto his glory. The woman of Samaria began to be something for Christ before she was aware of it. Come, see a man-is not

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"He that had been

possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him," but that was not allowed him at that time, but Christ commanded him at the same time to be in his service. "Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee." Two things there are, one of which occupies the thoughts of every one-self and Christ. No one cares for Christ until he has committed himself to him, until he can say, "I know in whom I have believed." Thou canst never care for thyself to any purpose; it is too great a task for theeself has wants thou canst never supply, it has guilt thou canst never remove, fears thou canst not dispel, filth thou canst not cleanse, enemies thou canst never conquer, desires thou canst never accomplish. Thou wilt surely fail in all these. "He that seeks his life shall lose it." To whom, then, will you give the care of the soul when you are dying? Stephen committed his soul to "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' Let us see, if Christ is all to us, what are we to him. The husband is all to his

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wife, and shall the wife be devoted to another man? Shall Christ be all to us, and we be all to Satan? Let us see what Christ possesses which he withholds from the believer. He possesses nothing: his blood is our ransom, his strength is to help us, his victory over death and the grave is for us, and his merits give us a claim to heaven. Have we any thing which we withhold from him? If we have, the proof that Christ is ours is insufficient. When God asked Abraham for his son, he got him: when he required of some their possessions, he received them; and when he demanded the lives of others, they were given up to him.

Do not go to judgment and to eternity poor, while all things suitable for you are within your reach; they are offered at your very doors-there is no excuse for the eternal poverty of the unbeliever. Every thing that suits the eternal world you are going to is at hand. Christ is all for his people here, and he is a suitable inheritance for the hereafter.

None are so faithful as the subjects of sin-they rush upon eternal death for its

sake. Although devils and the damned have been in flames for thousands of

years, on account of sin, yet the unbeliever in the world loves sin as much as ever. Many a subject boasts that he will lay down his life for his king; but here all do the thing without hesitation; they give their souls and their bodies to everlasting destruction for the pleasures of sin for a season.

SERMON XVII.

GOD'S WAY OF SALVATION.

These men are the servants of the Most High God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.-ACTs xvi. 17.

TRUTH is truth, whether spoken by an upright, or by a fallen creature; and these words were true of Paul and Silas, although uttered by one possessed with an evil spirit. The way of salvation was shewn unto men in every age under the old dispensation it