what practical, and what wise? Unquestionably, no one who has ever attempted to legislate for mankind has involved his doctrine less in florid description, and ambiguous sublimity; has calculated his precepts so directly for practice, or addressed himself so uniformly to the common feelings, and common sense, of his followers.-Nor did our Saviour seek, by the arts of insinuation, to lead before him a deluded multitude; he ministered to no man's passion; and he flattered no man's pride; he taught not like the Scribes, and Pharisees, but as one having authority;-his resistance to the ruling powers was as far removed from intemperate violence, as his demeanor, to the people, was from seductive artifice :to be brief, there is not in the character of Christ one trait of mortality; nothing which, for an instant, bespeaks him allied to the infirmities of man; no change, no guile, no conflict of passion, no wavering of heart, no pride of spirit; without thought for himself, without love of command, a man of sorrow, rejected, and despised; who bore in his bosom the rebukes of many people, and moved silently on in the paths of affliction;

healing, and comforting, mankind; and laying the foundations of that blessed religion, the voice of which has gone out into all lands, and called man from the alternate slumber, and fury of his savage life, to the sweets, and glories of industry and peace.

So lived Jesus, the Son of God; and how he was loved, and honored in his death, we all know: Every passer by smote his breast; the daughters of Jerusalem followed him weeping; Judas flung down the thirty pieces of silver; Pilate said, I am guiltless of his blood; the thief saw he was a God; the Centurion believed and trembled; the veil of the temple was rent; darkness was over the earth; the graves were open; and many open; ́and

sleeping bodies of the saints came up to the world :--these are the miracles which carried conviction to the hearts of his persecutors, and murderers, if we can study in vain the morals of his life, we must yield, at least, to the miracles of his death; and exclaim, with the trembling Centurion, "of a truth this was the son of God."

ON THE JUDGMENTS

WE FORM OF OTHERS.

SERMON XII.

LEVITICUS XIX. VERSE XV.

In righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

THOUGH this sentiment has been, repeatedly, confirmed by our Saviour himself; and though it continually pervades the writings of Saint Paul, and the apostles; I have chosen to quote it from the Jewish scriptures, to shew, that it was an antient law among men, arising from good feeling, sanctioned by long practice, and, therefore, from its direct bearing upon human happiness, incorporated into Christian morals.