light;" and if instead of despondingly poring over the dark recesses of sin, we were prayerfully to meditate on some passage of our blessed Saviour's history, we should soon have reason to exclaim, "God is the Lord who hath shewed me light," and we should then most ardently desire to be bound as a 66 living sacrifice" to the horns of his altar," with the holy "cords" of gratitude and love." I know, my dear friend, the absolute need of self-examination : but the interrogating of conscience as in the presence of God, previous to confession and prayer, is altogether a distinct exercise of the soul from the one I am now considering. I am persuaded that our views of the Lord Jesus Christ are indistinct; and that this will in a great measure account for the dulness of our minds, and the coldness of our spirits. We hear of his history as of a tale that is told; and we feel that there is a |