Out of the Depths- A revived sense of justly deserved wrath belongs also to these depths. This is as the opening of old wounds. When men have passed through a sense of wrath, and have obtained deliverance and rest through the blood of Christ, to come to their old thoughts again, to be trading afresh with hell, curse, law, and wrath, it is a depth indeed. And this often befalls gracious souls on the account of sin-

In no single feature of 'inner life,' probably, is the experience of many minds less satisfactory to them than in this. They seem to themselves, in prayer, to have little, if any, effluent emotion. They can speak of little in their devotional life that seems to them like life- of little that appears like the communion of a living soul with a living God. Are there not many 'closet hours,' in which the chief feeling of the worshipper is an oppressed consciousness of the absence of reality from his own exercises- He has no words which are, as George Herbert says, 'heart deep.' He not only experiences no ecstasy, but no joy, no peace, no repose. He has no sense of being at home with God.

Impediments which hinder souls from Coming to Christ, Removed-THERE are divers impediments which hinder poor Christians from coming to Christ- all which I desire to reduce to these following heads, -I. First, such hindrances as really keep men from coming to take hold of Christ at all, which are briefly these- A. Blind, careless, or presumptuous security, whereby men content themselves with their present condition, presuming all is well with them, when there is no such matter.-B. Being convinced of this, they think how to save themselves by their own strength, and thereupon set upon a reformation of life, thinking to make God amends by reforming some sins which they hear themselves reproved of by the ministers.

From the Saint's Everlasting Rest- -Our chief work here is to discover the danger, and that will direct to the fittest remedy. The heart will prove the greatest hinderance in this heavenly employment- either, by backwardness to it---or, by trifling in it---or by frequent excursions to other objects---or, by abruptly ending the work before it is well begun. As you value the comfort of this work, these dangerous evils must be faithfully resisted. 1. Thou wilt find thy heart as backward to this, I think, as to any work in the world. O what excuses will it make-

-I will never be guilty of founding my hopes for the future upon such a compiled mess of trash as is contained in that book -the Bible-, mother. Talk of that being the production of an Infinite mind- a boy ten years of age, if he was half-witted, could have told a straighter story, and made a better book. I believe it to be the greatest mess of lies ever imposed upon the public. I would rather go to hell -if there is such a place- than have the name of bowing to that impostor -- Jesus Christ -- and be dependent on his merits for salvation.--- -Beware- Beware- my son, 'for God is not mocked,'

For one moment let the Christian reader call to mind the period and the circumstances of his first espousals to Jesus. If there ever was a blissful period of your life, - if a spot of verdure in the remembrance of the past, on which the sunlight ever rests, - was it not the time, and is it not the place, where your heart first expanded with the love of Jesus- You have, it may be, trod many a thorny path since then- you have traveled many a weary step of your pilgrimage - have buffeted many storms, have waded through many deep afflictions, and fought many severe battles, - but all have well-near faded from your memory- but the hour and the events of your -first love,-

Were we to select a single characteristic of personal declension more marked than another, we should feel no hesitation in adopting the decay of the spirit of prayer as that feature. As prayer is the first evidence of spiritual life in the soul, and its growth in spirituality and vigor marks the healthy and advancing state of that life, so the declension of prayer in its spirit, exercise, and enjoyment, is strongly indicative of the decay of real grace in a child of God.

In the year 1854, when I had scarcely been in London twelve months, the neighbourhood in which I laboured was visited by Asiatic cholera, and my congregation suffered from its inroads. Family after family summoned me to the bedside of the smitten, and almost every day I was called to visit the grave. I gave myself up with youthful ardour to the visitation of the sick, and was sent for from all corners of the district by persons of all ranks and religions. I became weary in body and sick at heart. My friends seemed falling one by one, and I felt or fancied that I was sickening like those around me. A little more work and weeping would have laid me low among the rest- I felt that my burden was heavier than I could bear, and I was ready to sink under it.

THE SECOND QUESTION of the prophet is, -Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey- will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing-- Amos had observed that a lion does not roar without reason. By this question he brings forward the second truth, that when God speaks it is not without a cause, and especially when he speaks with a threatening voice. My brethren, our God is too gracious to send us this cholera without a motive- and he is moreover too wise, for we all know that judgments frequently repeated lose their force.

The complete title of the earlier editions of the following sermon indicates the design of the author, -- -Concerning the Kingdom of Christ, and the Power of the Civil Magistrate about the things of the Worship of God.- It was preached to the Parliament on October 13, 1652, -a day of solemn humiliation.- The sermon breathes a spirit weary of the lengthened confusion which had distracted the land. The principles contained in it raise questions as important in themselves, and as fresh in interest now, as in the days when Owen lived and preached. Whatever may be thought of his views on the relation of the magistrate to the church, this sermon, in which his judgment is declared on this topic of paramount and engrossing moment, has evidently been prepared with unusual care.