ship of thy saints, that I may sing and say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts! And, Lord, into thy hands I commit my spirit! Lord, bless these thy people, and save them from idolatry.' Thus he ended his life, looking towards heaven, praying to, and praising God, with the rest of his fellow saints. These seven martyrs were consumed, June 27, 1558."-Milner's Fox's Martyrs.

O! how blessed shall be the meeting of Elizabeth, with those holy martyrs, and glorified soldiers of their Lord, on the great day of judgment. She was, indeed, humble in her generation-she was a lowly servant, and the world, perhaps, saw not the lustre of her virtues, nor the true greatness of her soul. Instead of triumph, she had toil-instead of praise, she received of men persecution. But her crown is sure and glorious. What will be the victor's laurels -what the statesman's honors-what the splendour of the rich, and homage paid to the powerful of this world, compared with the reward and blessedness of the lowly maid servant, who turned a wandering sinner to salvation? Read, brethren, in the words of inspiration, her recompense and crown. Yourselves desire and strive for the glorious prize.

"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever." -Dan. xii. 2. 3.

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Sept. 4, 1836.-Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.

MORNING PRAYER-FIRST PROPER LESSON. Jeremiah v.

THE prophecies of Jeremiah, selected for this and next Sunday, are connected with the historical chapters, appointed for the former subjects, inasmuch, as they place on record, the repeated and awful warnings which God gave to both the people and the kings of Judah, that they were incurring his displeasure: and that before the punishment he was about to inflict on them, in delivering them over into the captivity of heathen enemies, the Babylonians, he had daily cautioned them of the consequences of their own perverseness. These same prophecies also become authentic memorials, of the reasons of God's proceedings, in this extraordinary and instructive history; and, in that point of view, teach us how to apply it to our own edification and admonition. They exhibit to us the wickedness and disobedience of the Jews, as the causes for which God permitted his chosen people to be delivered into the bondage of their heathen enemies, and to be degraded from their privileges as his elect nation. And their neglect of his warnings, punished, as he had foretold, by the Babylonian captivity, plainly, and in terrible characters, sets before us that captivity, which must be ten thousand times more dreadful and degrading than the Babylonian-the captivity under death and hell;

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into which he will certainly deliver us, if we remain Ideaf to the call of our Redeemer and his ministers, as the Jews refused to hear the warnings of Jeremiah. In the First Proper Lesson, for this Morning's Service, the prophet's warnings are addressed especially to the people. He describes their flagrant sins, their corruptions and perverseness, which deserved, and brought down, the wrath of God. Observe how he particularizes all classes, and convicts them all, from the lowest to the highest-and convicts them all of guilt and crimes, in glowing language. He begins (v. 1—5,) with a public appeal to the people in general. He challenges them to traverse all the streets-all the most crowded places of the city, and see if they can "find any that execute judgment, and seek after truth." He tells them, what they cannot deny, that they will be presented on all sides, with a scene of perjury, and every kind of wickedness. That it may not be objected, in excuse for this wretched and disgraceful picture of the national morals, that they are confined to the poor and ignorant, he next turns (v. 5) to the great, who cannot, under any pretence, be said to be ignorant of the way of the Lord. But these, he declares, are tenfold more the children of Satan. They have altogether burst the bonds, they have audaciously sinned against knowledge, and warnings, and without the least shame.

They display a living picture of the state of those, given up to work "the works of the flesh," described by St. Paul, in the Epistle for the day; and the fate denounced upon them by the prophet, illustrates the consequences which the apostle threatens to those who do these wicked works, that they "shall not inherit the kingdom of God."