on our part, these glorious truths will prove of no avail. Awakened to a sense of our spiritual danger, and conscious of our inability to avert God's wrath, or satisfy his offended justice, faith interposes, and discovers, in the fulness of Jesus, ali that is necessary for justification and salvation; and reposes on him exclusively. In experience, this faith, or unreserved confidence in Christ, is found to exercise a potent influence. Our fears are quieted; our lusts are subdued; the world is conquered; afflictions are cheerfully submitted to; death is disarmed; hope is animated; and the glorious and unseen realities of heaven are made familiar to the soul.

Is our outward tabernacle trembling under the shocks of disease? Faith alone can sustain the soul, and

this is amply sufficient, when all earthly props are removed.

Hear what the Scripture saith of this wonderful principle.

"Without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Heb. xi. 6.

"This is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John iii. 23.

"If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Rom. x. 9, 10.

"The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son

of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Gal. ii. 20.

"Above all, taking the shield of faith, where with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked" one, (i. e., Satan.) Eph. vi. 16.

"Continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard." Col. i. 23.

"By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." Eph. ii. 8.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condem nation; but is passed from death unto life." John v. 24.

"Whom (i. e., Christ) God hath set forth to be a propitiation through

faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Rom. iii. 25, 26.

"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." Rom. iii. 28.

"Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. v. 1.

"Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the

law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." Phil. iii. 8, 9.

"But as many as received him, (i. e., Christ) to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John i. 12.

"The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." John xvi. 27.

"Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.' "" Acts x. 43.

"I (i. e., Christ) am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." John xii. 46.

"Unto you therefore which be