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in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his Temple."

Such is the gratification of every pious Minister of his holy Church; such was the delight of every Son of Aaron in His Temple at Jerusalem. And in that Temple did He serve God; honouring thereby both the Jewish, and the Christian Ministry; whom we confess to be the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty Founder of our Faith.

That "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews;" "born of the Virgin Mary; crucified, dead, and buried." Who "" Who "rose again the third day from the dead; remained forty days upon earth, teaching, instructing, ordaining his first Ministers of the Christian Church and giving them power to ordain successors in the Ministry of His Gospel. He then, in the presence of those Apostles, "ascended into heaven;" where He now reigns King of kings, and Lord of lords;" sitting at the right hand of God.

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I will refer you to the first Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, written by St. Luke the Evangelist, for a fuller account of our Lord's Ministry after His Resurrection; and

will here merely quote some of His words before "He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight."

He said to them; "but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria; and unto the uttermost part of the Earth.'

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Already do many of this Congregation, no doubt, refer to the immediate fulfilment of this Prediction in part, upon the Day of Pentecost. When the Holy Ghost visibly descended upon the ordained Ministers of Jesus Christ; and their zealous fellow Apostle, St. Peter, began to preach the everlasting Gospel of our Lord.

"There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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In the following verses St. Luke relates the natural astonishment of the strangers, who were then at Jerusalem, in hearing all the Apostles speak in their tongues the wonderful works of God. "And they were all

amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this?" "Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia; and in Judea; and Cappadocia ; in Pontus; and Asia. Phrygia, and Pamphylia; in Egypt: and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene; and strangers of Rome; Jews; and proselytes; Cretes; and Arabians; we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God."

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Now, however it suit the evil purposes of wicked men to deny the Truth of Christianity altogether; that idle curiosity, or a worse motive, may bring purchasers of their infamous, and futile, publications. And however it may suit those who dissent from the doctrines of the Established Church, because they dislike her authority; to pass over this stupendous Miracle by God the Holy Ghost.

Yet upon it alone, as the fulfilment of the last words of our Lord Jesus Christ to His Apostles, gathered together in His Name; I am content to rest not only the authority

of our Church, and her commission to preach the Gospel: but also the whole Truth of the Christian Religion.

And if the latter is established upon this proof; the smaller proposition being contained in the greater; the former is proved also. If upon this great Miracle Christianity is built up, and firmly sustained; upon it also the authority of our own pure, and holy, Church is established for ever.

The fundamental doctrine of all true Christianity; for there are, alas! too many spurious kinds of what are called Christian faith is that of the Holy Trinity in Unity. Without that doctrine, as a blasphemer artfully, and alas! how justly, observed in a Court of Christian Judicature; Christianity itself falls to the ground. In the words of St. Paul, "I speak boldly, as I ought to speak ;" and he was ready to appear at any Earthly Tribunal, to answer for this unchangeable opinion; because he could justify it in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, our God, our Lord, and our Redeemer.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life;" said He: meaning that assertion as a pledge of future happiness to all true believers.

Now He commanded His Apostles to wait at Jerusalem for the coming of the Holy Ghost; who should be sent by the Father in His name. In the fourteenth Chapter of St. John's Gospel we find our Saviour telling his Apostles: "The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's, which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name; He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

That Father, as our Lord Jesus always declared, was Jehovah, who was worshipped in the Temple at Jerusalem: the Lord of Heaven, and Earth. But our Lord Jesus Christ as frequently asserted that He and that Father were one that He came down from Heaven to do that Father's will.

And when He was asked "Art Thou that Christ?" He answered according to the Hebrew idiom, that He was that Christ, the Son of the blessed—" thou sayest it." That is, thou sayest that I am that Christ," by referring the decision of thy question to myself; for otherwise, when my own people,

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