rable and deadly sins, and the punishment which they would call for, we raise the shield of an ineffably benignant, and abundantly adequate atonement. That death unto sin, which we had to suffer, the Son of God has, in bitterness and ignominy, suffered for us. He has not only died for our sins; but he has risen for our justification. By the same mysterious power which lifted up himself, he at the same time raised his depraved and fallen servants; and has declared to them, that "because he "lives, they, through him, shall also live." And for that overwhelming weight, with which we had been so heavily laden, and beneath the pressure of which we must have inevitably sunk, what is the light burthen, substituted by that (not the less free) gift, which the Allbenevolent Donor sealed, in torture, with his blood? This easy, this alluring yoke consists of Faith, piously endeavouring to vouch its own existence, by bringing forth, however imperfectly, the fruit of works; Meekness, conscious of Man's unprofitableness, and total and necessary want of all righteousness, beyond that which is imputed; but at the same time,

exulting joyfully in the full and divine sufficiency of this; Charity, towards those, our fellow-creatures, "whom God so loved;" Hope, confident as humble, and fixing its "affections. upon things above;" Love and Gratitude, deeply seated, unspeakable and pure; and as imperishable as the happiness which they aspire to; and for which both are more than due ;in these consists that heavenly yoke, which, properly viewed, forms a part of the mighty benefit that we have received. Responsibility! -the word involves no menace to the faithful Christian. Awe puts off terrific, in the blest abodes.

There, in wise rapture whelm'd, we shall admire
The good sincere; the beautiful sublime,

That hath its awe, to elevate the soul;

But awe from terror free, and full of love.*

* ANONYMOUS VERSIFIER.

POSTSCRIPT.

I looked into the Hebrew Bible, a few days ago, for the purpose of observing whether in Genesis ii. 7, in the second of the supposed instances in which w occurred, the points were different from what they were in the first. The consequence of this examination was my accidentally discovering that I had fallen into a mistake; and that the word which I supposed that I had met with twice in that verse, occurs but once. The other word, which my Memory had confounded with it, was now; and to this extent I have to qualify and correct passages which will be found in Dialogue the First, page 56, (a note,) and Dialogue the Second, page 48 (the text.)-But I neither have to retract my assertion, that we seems equivalent to veνμа,—nor have I fallen into any error which affects my arguments; or is in any way substantial. From Winer's Hebrew Lexicon, it appears that was means, 1. Spiratio, flatus, halitus: 2. anima, quâ efficitur ut animantes vivant, cujusque indicium est halitus et spi

ratio: hinc vita: 3. animus, quo sentiunt et appetunt homines: 4. animans: hinc homo.now means halitus, spiritus hominis, quo efficitur ut vivit; also animus.-Thus the affinity between wo and now is so close, that the meaning and interpretation of Genesis ii. 7, is not substantially different from what it would have been, if I had been right in supposing that was twice occurred.

THE END.