The vision of the Redeemer will not only be beatific, it will be transforming; and then shall be brought to pass what is written in the oracles of divine truth, "we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the spirit of the Lord!" O! to bear the image of him whom we love, and all the angels love! to bear the image of him who is the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person! Who can conceive of the joy, the rapturous joy which this will inspire! If this were all, it might truly be said, we know not what we shall be in the matter of joy. Next comes the society of the blessed! O! to think of mingling with angels, pure angels, being made as angels ourselves! and then to have, as our companions in bliss, the whole company of the redeemed-the patriarchs, the prophets, the apostles, the martyrs! How delightful to see and converse with Abel, the first of the human family who ever entered the portals of heaven! And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who was translated, that he should not see death, having before his translation this testimony, that he pleased God! How delightful also, to see and converse with Noah, who with his family was saved in the ark, when the waters of the deluge passed over the whole earth! And

there too, we will meet Abraham, the father of the faithful; and Isaac the child of promise; and Jacob, the venerable patriarch, who, dying, leaned upon the top of his staff, and spake so sweetly of Shiloh who was to come, saying, "I wait for thy salvation, O Lord!" And there is Moses the saint of God, by whom the Law was given in Sinai's awful mount; and Joshua the son of Nun, who had the honour of leading the tribes of Israel into the promised land. But the time would fail me to tell you of Samuel the prophet, and David the sweet singer of Israel; and Isaiah whose visions of the Messiah were so clear; and of John the Baptist, who was sent to prepare the way of the Lord. And there is Peter too, the ardent one; and John, who leaned upon his Master's bosom at the pascal feast; and Paul, who was so miraculously converted on his way to Damascus; and Stephen, whose face did shine as the face of an angel, and who had the honour of leading on the noble army of martyrs under the New Testament dispensation.

And will it not be joyous to meet in glory the unnumbered millions of every age, of whom we have never heard; and our own beloved friends and acquaintances, too, with whom, in the sanctuary, in the social prayermeeting, and around the domestic altar, we mingled our prayers and songs of praise! And, what say you of the joy of meeting and greet

ing that sainted mother, who led you in tender life to the throne of the heavenly grace, and who, dying, charged you to meet her in heaven! O the sweet joys of heaven, and the fulness thereof! But why enlarge? I might mention the sweet music, the loud and harmonious songs of the heavenly world, as a source of joy, and the boundless increase of knowledge in short, I might mention as the sum of all, the absence of all evil and the possession of all good, and the stamp of immortality given to each and every source of joy! But, it is enough to say, with Paul, eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love him. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."

"A hope so much divine,

May trials well endure;

May purge our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.

If, in my Father's love,

I share a filial part,

Send down thy Spirit, like a dove,

To rest upon my heart.

We would no longer lie

Like slaves beneath the throne;
Our faith shall, Abba, Father, cry,
And thou, the kindred own."

SERMON XIV.

THE DANGER OF PROCRASTINATION.

And he said, To-morrow.-EXODUS viii. 10.

COMMISSIONED by the God of heaven, Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh and demanded the release of the children of Israel; threatening, in case of disobedience, that tremendous plagues should come upon the land. Pharaoh disobeyed; and, accordingly, these plagues came in rapid and awful succession. It was whilst one of these plagues was upon the land, (the plague of frogs,) that the monarch of Egypt sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord for me, that he would take away the frogs. And Moses said, "When shall I entreat for thee?" "And he said, Tomorrow." Is not this strange? One would think that Pharaoh would have said-Moses, what a question this is! You see with your own eyes, what an evil case I am in. Do you suppose that I can be willing to remain in this case another day, or even another hour? Do you ask, when you shalĺ pray for me? Why, of course, the sooner the better-this day, this hour, this moment.-But, no: he said, "To-morrow!" Is this strange? It certainly is. But I am strongly inclined to think, that

this incident was recorded to present, in a figure, a case very common, and which is really far more strange: I mean the case of the sinner, who puts off to some future period the great work of securing his soul's salvation. In speaking from the words of our text, I purpose to notice several points of resemblance between Pharaoh and the impenitent sinner. And, I must say, I do think that the points of resemblance are very exact.

I. Both are in an evil case.-Pharaoh was certainly in an evil case, for God was dealing with him, and the judgments of heaven were upon himself, and upon his land. The monarch of Egypt felt that he was in an evil case. He must have felt it, and that very sensibly, or, verily, he had never sent for Moses and Aaron, and entreated them to pray for him. What! a proud man, a haughty king, beg the people of God to pray for him! This is convincing proof that Pharaoh believed himself in an evil case. And, I ask, what is the case, or condition of the sinner? According to the representation of the Scriptures, he is in the open field of ruin. His pious friends have come to Him, who is declared to be a hidingplace from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; but, alas! the impenitent sinner has no such hiding-place-he is still in the open field of ruin, and what, though he may not see