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mercy (and instance his saving Noah from the flood, and Lot from the overthrow of the cities of the plain) and that the severest of his afflictions are attended with some advantages. Sickness gives us time for reflection, repentance, and resolutions of amendment. It ought to raise our thoughts to the cause of all human sorrow in the disobedience of man, and to consider our sins as the cause of our sufferings. That in all our sufferings God is our help and comfort, and that as Christ healed the sick who believed in him, so he will relieve those who submit to his will, either by removing their sickness, or by taking them to himself, that where he is, they may be also.

Christ the Sinner's Refuge.

Collect for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
Read Psalms 2nd, 16th, 62nd, and

118th-Numbers, 21st chapter, from verse 6 to 10th.-Job, 13th chapter, from 15th verse, and 19th chapter, from 23rd verse.-Isaiah, 26th, 43rd, and 51st chapters.-St. Matthew, 8th chapter, to · 18th verse.-St. John, 10th chapter to 19th verse, and 14th and 15th chapters. St. Luke, 7th chapter, from 37th verse, or the following texts:

Isaiah, 53rd chapter, 4th, 5th, and 6th verses. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Galatians, 3rd chapter, 13th verse. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,

for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.ly be enj

Colossians, 1st chapter, 14th verse. In whom have we redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Revelations, 5th chapter, 9th verse. And they sang a new song saying, thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and

hast redeemed us to God by his blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation of queel of liquo

Remark to the Sick Person. That all men haye sinned; but that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, and that there is no other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we can be sayed. No other way of being saved from the punishment of our sins, but by believing in his merits and mediation, and in the atonement which he has made for the sins of the world." It is he that "brought thee up from the pit of hell, reversed the sentence of thy damnation, gget frum fuo2 trotiasq oilt bas bo "

"bore the curse which thou shouldest "have borne, restored thee to the bles"sing thou hadst forfeited, and purchased "the advancement which thou must inhe"rit for ever."(Baxter's Saint's Rest.) His death gives sinners life, his sufferings release them from suffering, and his going into the grave takes away the sting of death, and opens the gates of heaven to all believers. Every sinner ought to look up to the cross for salvation, as the children of Israel looked up to the brazen serpent. And no sinner ought to despair, for Christ is able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him that truly repent of their sins, and trust to the merits of their redeemer for salvation. "In true con"trition and humiliation, the hope of

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pardon hath its birth; there the trou"bled conscience is set at rest, the grace "that was lost is found again. Man is "delivered from the wrath to come, and "God and the penitent soul meet toge

"ther with a holy kiss. The humble

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sorrow of a broken and contrite heart, "is thy chosen sacrifice; O Lord, infinitely more fragrant than clouds of "burning insence. It is the precious

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"ointment with which thou desirest to “have thy holy feet anointed. A broken "and a contrite heart thou never didst, "nor ever will despise, that is the place "of refuge from the wrath of the enemy, "and there all impunity both of the "flesh and of the spirit, is cleansed and "washed away."(Thomas a Kempis.)

For one that is in great bodily pain. Collect for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany.

Read Psalms 38th, 77th, and 88th.Job, 10th and 14th chapters.-St. Matthew, 9th chapter, to 9th verse.-St. Mark, 5th chapter, from verse 25, and 9th chapter, from verse 17th to 28th.St. Luke, 16th chapter, from verse 19th, or the following texts :-55th Psalm, and