He also overcame, and is set down with His Father upon His throne.

In continuing the description of our Lord, we read that "His head and His hair were as white as snow." This is a very striking peculiarity in the appearance of Christ upon this occasion; it must have rendered him totally different from the same Jesus, whom St. John had last beheld, hurried from the earth, when only three and thirty years of mortal life had been completed. There is every reason to believe that this appearance was adopted in the present instance by Christ, to mark His eternity and divinity, since it forms a complete counterpart to that description of the great Jehovah, in the 7th chapter of Daniel, where it is said, "I beheld the Ancient of days, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool." By our Lord therefore appearing thus, he seems to mark His identity with God the Father.

Again, "His eyes were like a flame of fire," piercing and penetrating into all things; this agrees well with that declaration of St. Peter, "All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do," and pourtrays therefore the omniscience and omnipresence of the "everlasting Son of the Father."

The "brazen feet" symbolize the strength, and firmness, and decision of all the footsteps of Christ, whether in providence or grace; while His "voice, described as the sound of many waters," marks at once its majesty and power. His "face shone as the sun shineth in his strength;" thus preserving while in glory precisely the same appearance witnessed by this very apostle, on the mount of transfiguration, where "His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light, so as no fuller on earth could white them." h

h Mark ix. 3.

Such, brethren, was the appearance of that wonderful Being when He delivered those important prophecies, and those valuable spiritual instructions, which we hope to place before you; that gracious Saviour, by whose name every individual among us this day is called, in whose house we are now assembled, to whose kingdom we hope we are journeying, and in whose presence we profess to desire to spend a glorious and happy eternity.

Examine, then, your knowledge of Him in all His offices, by the portraiture which has now been set before you. Dwell upon each particular, in the silence of your own chamber, until you realize His immediate presence, and actually hold converse with Himself. To assist you in this, consider-The predictions of our Lord Jesus Christ demonstrate that He is a Prophet; it is the prophet's office to instruct, as well as to predict. Have you, with a

humble, teachable heart, sought your instruction in divine things, at the lips of Christ Himself, and by the influence of His good Spirit? The "garment down to the foot" has proclaimed Him to be a Priest; are you looking for acceptance simply to the great atonement, which none but a priest could offer, and expecting answers to your prayers simply through that intercession, which none but a priest could make?

His "golden girdle" declared Him to be a King; is he then, your King? is His will your law; His word your rule of life; and can you truly say, "Other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us," but now we own no king but Thee; no ruler but Thyself? If you have thus accepted Him as your Prophet, Priest, and King, with your whole heart, every other portion of the description will well harmonize with the image of the Saviour, already formed' within your breast.

i See Galatians iv. 19.

You will rejoice that "His eyes are as a flame of fire," for you will know, that with them He watches about your path and about your bed, that no evil should come nigh your dwelling; that with them He looks into your heart, and however men may misunderstand or misrepresent you, He sees the smallest desire after holiness, the first bursting of the seed of grace which He Himself has sown, and will accept "according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not."*

Again, when those around you are changing, and earthly friends are falling from you by caprice and death, while all else is mutable, you will delight in looking upon that head "as white as snow," which recalls your Lord to you, as one who inheriteth eternity, and you will turn to Him, "the Ancient of days," who has said, "I am the Lord, I change not," "Jesus Christ, the

k 2 Corinthians viii. 12.