HALLELUJAH, JESUS REIGNS.

"And He shall reign for ever and ever."

HAIL, Jesus! God's eternal King,

All heaven re-echoes with thy praise; Let saints on earth sweet tribute bring, Loud may they all their anthems raise.

Eternal Ruler of the skies,

Look down on thy redeemed below;
Unto thy throne we lift our eyes,
Jesus on us thy love bestow.

All hail, ye bless'd, whose eyes behold
Heav'n's King within the pearly gates;
Jesus his love does there unfold,

Each blood-bought conquest he relates. Saviour of men, the sinner's Friend, Unite our souls to seek thy face; Soon may thy reign on earth extend, Rule in each heart by sovereign grace.

Eternal praises be to thee,

In whom inheritance we find; Grace, sovereign grace has made us free, Ne'er let ought else engross our mind. Satan our foe is bound in chains, Jesus our great Redeemer reigns. Walworth.

J. G.

And though for a season he may make them wait,

And long let them seek at his mercy's firm gate;

He knows the best time to put forth his pow'r,

And how to deliver from temptation's show'r.

His time is the best, His way the most sure, He ne'er will forsake, but make you endure ;

And though for awhile thy way may be rough,

Of his goodness and mercy thou shalt have enough.

Yes he will deliver all who on him call, Though like unto Peter, Manasseh or Paul; Yea all who are godly, his hand will uphold, And bring them securely to live in his fold. Then be not cast down, tried pilgrim, but look

To the words of sweet promise in his sacred book;

Cast all your care on him as forward you go,

And you his great faithfulness ever shall know.

Here he will deliver from men and from sin, Yes, here you shall find e'en your heaven begin;

And when the sand of your life is run out, From every temptation he 'll bring you safe out.

He'll then bring you home to the regions of bliss,

Where seasons of sin and of sorrow will

care,

Rejoicing in Jesus the fountain of love. Absorbed in the spirit of prayer, they God's word

Examine with profit, its treasures they find;

Each part teaching volumes of Jesus the Lord,

Who feedeth their souls in pastures refined.

"T is prayer which makes Satan's suggestions depart,

Turns into a palace the humblest abode; It scatters the gloom from the gloomiest heart,

To mansions of bliss it illumines the road.

The spirit of prayer, dear Jesus, bestow On worms of the earth, refresh us with

No happiness deserves the name
Apart from Jesus' love;
Earth's pageantry oft leads to shame,
But Christ to joy above.

With wings of faith, beyond the sky

Saints commune with their God; But worldlings never soared so high, Nor paths to glory trod.

How blind are they who rest content With what the world can give, Who only for its toys are bent,

And to its pleasures live.

If we by grace divine pursue

The road which leads to heaven,
All praise alone, and glory too,
Be to Jehovah given.

E. R.

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MAGAZINE,

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THE GOSPEL PULPIT.

A SERMON,

Preached at the Baptist Chapel, Bedworth.

BY MR. F. TRYON.

“I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."-Jer. xvii. 10.

IF your hearts felt something of that hymn just now sung"My God, I would not long to see

My fate, with curious eyes;
What gloomy lines are writ for me,
Or what bright scenes may rise;"

it would cause the same solemn feeling that I have, and I believe you would not desire to know what was prepared all along your future road. I know that some of the clearest marks with which the Lord has favoured me, that I was one of his peculiar people, have been connected with some of the greatest troubles both in natural and spiritual life, that I could not, if I had known, according to my feelings, have met them on any account, if I had always had the prospect of those things before my mind: because September, 1848.]

having them on your mind years before they came, you would sink and die under it. Oh, the great mercy of God, to keep us in the dark about what we have to go through, that we are led on by little and little, as the Lord sees fit: we have a little hope mingled with fearful forebodings that are never realized, yet serve to instruct us. have tried to keep my mind from thinking about the future. I have

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looked back at the past and present, and have feared my mind would give way. What a mercy to be kept by God; you do not know how, but the Lord keeps his own children. "For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." As regards our natural frame of mind, we could not go through such sufferings as many poor people have, if not obtaining immediate support. These things have made me hesitate in speaking of a bed of affliction. I have seen cases that have so baffled medical men, that they have given the sufferers up, and said, They must die. Yet they did not, but recovered. What is the reason? The Lord is pleased to take them

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down to the gates of death, and turneth them to all appearance to destruction; bringing them into such things, on purpose to teach them what he designs. As soon as this is accomplished, he begins to deliver them out of their trouble; so you will observe in trials in providence. Some persons who have wealth are tried far beyond what I ever observed in others; probably money matters you, though possessed of thousands, or tens of thousands, may have your mind exercised in such a way, that you fear you may live to see the day you will come to want. This will cause such despair, distress and misery, that at times your life is a burden. Another poor child of God, who has not sixpence in the house, you will find not so anxious; they say, The Lord will find a way for my deliverance; the Lord will provide for them; not half so sunk as the man the Lord gives up to the trial. Again, some persons in health and strength are so afraid at every little ache and pain, that they have no enjoyment of life, always the subject of fearful forebodings, which makes them timid and miserable. You try to lift yourself out of it, but you cannot; so sensible and tender are you and I made, that we are only kept as the Lord is pleased to keep us. Again, the Lord can make the hearts of the stoutest shake, and tremble under a burning ague, so trembling and fearing at the prospect of death. When Paul was a little way from Damascus he had no thought of the trammels that would be placed by the power of God upon his sight, that he who before was such a strong one, should become such a trembler. The Philippian gaoler who put Paul and Silas in prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks, did not know what would take place in his conscience; how the earthquake would cause him so to fear that he should make an attempt upon his life, so that his soul

would be in danger of hell-this was not in his mind a few hours before. The people who came together to hear Peter speak, the three thousand who were pricked to the heart, and who cried out under his sermon, did not a little time before think about it. I knew a man myself who once made sport of the people of God, one of the most hardened, depraved wretches in that part, and took particular pleasure in cock fighting, drunkenness, and all manner of vile debauchery; he went to mock, but the Lord begun with him: such was his distress that he was determined not to bear the pain; so he got drunk for three days. But the word was as a nail fastened in a sure place; he tried to get away from God, but he could not. What an awful state of mind he was in: at length the Lord appeared for and delivered him, and I believe from that day to this the Lord has kept him walking in his fear, though it is many years ago. I know the man, and feel a union to him on account of his religion he is a wonderful different man to what he was before; he works hard, and pays great attention to his business to try and pay those debts he contracted when he lived in that awful state. He does not do as many, compound with his creditors, saying, Oh that was done in the days of my unregeneracy; he is determined, the Lord enabling him, to pay all, and he hopes to live to see the day when he shall have discharged all. Some persons have such wonderful faith to get into debt, but not faith in God to try and enable them to keep out of debt. Oh, say you, it is very well for you, to talk thus, but you are not tried as we are. I see two sorts of people as I go about the country, some have a good conscience, some have no conscience; one part beg of the Lord to support them in their walk and conversation that it may be according to his fear and his truth: the others try to bring

Scriptures to prove they are right, as if the Lord took no notice of their walking disorderly: the one are Godfearing people, the others if proved to the bottom are antinomians. It is no use, say they, to be so precise, the blood of Christ atones for all sins; this is poor work, natural persons cannot expect much of us; we may think they do not take notice; but they are more keen observers than we are aware. My bible says, and so does yours, if you read it, For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men ; teaching men not to talk only, but teaches them what a living thing grace is; and what are the fruits and effects thereof; read the chapter through, and wherever grace is, you will see the solid fruits and effects thereof are to teach the heart and conscience to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. Let men talk what they will about grace reigning, and the glorious effects, the wonderful heights of grace, he knows, if that grace does not teach him to deny ungodliness, it is not the grace of God that bringeth salvation, but merely the name of the thing. The devil can quote Scripture, he quoted Scripture to the Lord Jesus, tempting him to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple. Though he would to save his people go down to the grave, the dominions of Satan, he would not cast himself from the pinnacle of the temple to please the devil. He worked a miracle to feed his people with a little bread and a few fishes; yet would not work a miracle to please the devil, by turning stones into bread. He was miraculously supported for forty days and nights without food, though subject to pain and hunger, he would still bear it, without working a miracle to please Satan; he said, it is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro

Iceedeth out of the mouth of God shall man live." Let us look at the text, "I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." It is plain there are a people, and there may be some here who know this is the truth, by things that have taken place. "I the Lord do it." When they read their bible at certain times, at the least exercise, they want to know how they should stand when brought side by side with the Scriptures they have read. Though the children of God may be tried and exercised in their feelings about this, their cry is, Search me, O Lord, and prove me, know my heart; I am willing to be searched, sifted and tried by the Lord, to be brought to know how I stand before his word, having something of that text, "Every one that doeth the truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God." Not two or three, but every one that doeth truth, all others are lost, and are like that man who built his house upon the sand, not on a good foundation; by and by "the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." Now the man who digs deep, whose foundation was laid on the rock, he it is who hath his heart searched and tried by God, he has got grace. It is no bad mark when a man (and it may be the case with some of you) wants from time to time something very clear and distinct from God. Sometimes you will have people tell you, if they had had as much experience as you, they should never distrust the Lord, never have a doubt. Many speak of unbelief as the only damning sin, they speak of it in such a way, that they have not the slightest sympathy or pity for a poor person shut up in it, my bible says, "For God hath concluded them all in unbelief." If