COLOSSIANS ii. 15.-" HAVING SPOILED PRINCIPALITIES AND ... HEBREWS X. 12, 13.-" BUT THIS MAN, AFTER HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, FOR EVER SAT DOWN ON THE 1 CORINTHIANS XV. 24, 25.-" THEN COMETH THE END, WHEN HE SHALL HAVE DELIVERED UP THE KINGDOM TO GOD, EVEN THE FATHER; WHEN HE SHALL HAVE PUT DOWN ALL RULE AND ALL AUTHORITY AND POWER. FOR HE ACTS i. 8.-" BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU AND YE SHALL BE WIT- NESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA, 2 CORINTHIANS V. 21.-" FOR HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE SIN JOHN vii. 37, 38.-"IN THE LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, JESUS STOOD AND CRIED, SAYING, IF ANY MAN THIRST, LET HIM COME UNTO ME, AND DRINK. HE THAT JOHN X. 33.-" THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, FOR A GOOD WORK WE STONE THEE NOT; BUT FOR BLASPHEMY; AND JOB Xi. 7, 8.- CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD? CANST THOU FIND OUT THE ALMIGHTY UNTO PERFECTION? HEBREWS ix. 16, 17.-" FOR WHERE A TESTAMENT IS, THERE MUST ALSO OF NECESSITY BE THE DEATH OF THE TESTATOR. FOR A TESTAMENT IS OF FORCE AFTER MEN ARE DEAD: ON SOME PARTS OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER. MATTHEW xi. 29—“ -LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND 9 from top, for Archilaus read Archelaus. 13 from top, for particulas read particulars. 5 from bottom, after himself insert a semicolon. 4 from bottom, for previous read previously. 15 from top, for Christ's read Christ. 15 from top, after all insert a semicolon, after him dele the 2 of Text, insert of God after right hand. 7 from bottom, insert to at the commencement of the line. 12 from top, for and read through. 4 from top, dele the comma after manna, and Line 5 insert a comma after wilderness. SERMONS. SERMON I. AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS, SHOWING THE DIVINITY OF JESUS AND HIS PROPITIATORY CHARACTER. HEBREWS i. 3. "WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH: ST. PAUL opens this celebrated Epistle to his countrymen in the most sublime and magnificent terms. He wrote to men who knew the nature of the true God, and worshipped him in the way of his own appointment, and whose holy Prophets, the authors of their inspired Scriptures, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. It was not necessary to explain to them as he did to the Heathen, the first principles of religion,-the providence of God, the responsibility of man, and the extreme folly of all idolatrous service. He went, therefore, at once to the point B |