down beneath the shadow of the Almighty, and to find gain in death.

With so faithful a friend do we strive, when we resist the Holy Spirit of God.

"The Spirit beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God," when we feel those sins burdensome and hateful in which we once delighted; when we are active for the honour of God our Father, our Saviour, and our Comforter; when we can commit our cause to him, and say from our heart Thy will be done."

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How God exists we cannot tell. What is eternity? When we have this knowledge, we may reject mysteries, and only then. Being baptized into the service of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whatever - be the distinction of the divine nature, we desire the love of God, the intercession of our Redeemer, the inspiring holiness of the Spirit to direct us into all goodness, to keep us in temptation, to make us true Christians, doers of the truth of

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Christ, living above the power of the world, in all sincerity and integrity of mind, as those who are the temples of the Holy Ghost which is in us unless we are reprobate, that is, willingly given up to work all sin and uncleanness with greediness. Let us then never cease to pray that the Holy Ghost may reign in us, that so our spirits may dwell now and ever with God.

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SERMON VIII.

TRINITY SUNDAY.

PSALM xlv. part of the 6th verse.
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and

ever.

WE, my brethren, are those to whom God hath spoken, not by the prophets, nor by angels, but by his Son, the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person.

Of the angels, God saith, "Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire; but unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of

thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."

The angels are called gods, thrones, principalities and powers, but the worlds were not made by them; they are not heirs or possessors of all things. "Unto which of the angels said the Father at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son." And also, when he bringeth again the first begotten into the world, he saith, "And let all the angels of God worship him."

It is my design to show that the uniform doctrine of the true religion under the patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian ages, was the same with the present doctrine of the church; that the Son of God is very and true God; and, in few words, to notice also the doctrine of the Chris

tian church respecting the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and to remark the practical importance of believing from the heart in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; seeing that the very mysteries of our religion are mysteries of godliness.

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I. From the New Testament we learn to explain many things in the old. Christ opened to his disciples the Scriptures, and they to their successors. It is plainly, therefore, our duty to learn of the first ages what is truth; to ask of them, when we read the Scriptures, as the Ethiopian did of Philip, Speaketh the prophet or the psalmist of himself, or of another? to keep the faith in the unity of the Spirit, according to the doctrine of those spiritual guides who gave up their lives in the pure and primitive ages of the church, as witnesses for their and our Lord and Master.

The Christian teacher, as a member of the ancient, universal, and apostolical church, deriving his authority, not from