"YE are sojourners and strangers." And surely these days of revolution may well fix the solemn truth deeply in every heart. Who, amongst us, can say, that the land he possesses is HIS, and that it will descend to his heir? "For, here we have no continuing city, but "seek one to come."-" We are strangers "and pilgrims on the earth." And we, alas, live at a period, when the pilgrimage is frequently soon ended! How many of our contemporaries, both rich and noble, have been lately cut off in the youth of life? Let those, therefore, who survive and enjoy wealth and ease, consider their responsibility; for they also will soon be called to account for the TALENTS which have been committed to them. If religion hath acquired a due influence over their minds, they will begin to consider themselves as "stewards of God;" and their desire will be to dispose of their means in such a manner as shall be most agreeable to HIS will. For the highest praise of the good man, in a practical sense, is, that he is a DISPENSER OF

THE BOUNTY OF GOD.

Let the season, therefore, of the approaching Jubilee be employed, chiefly, in cultivating these noble principles and affections. May there be peace, and joy, and forgiveness, in every house at this time. Let it be a Jubilee to the Lord in the heart of every man, who

looks, himself, for mercy and forgiveness. Let him endeavour, in this day of temporal account, to prepare for the great day of eternal account, which will soon arrive. So that, when the LAST TRUMPET shall sound, and the time which God hath fixed " for the redemp❝tion of the purchased possession," shall be fully come, he may have "an entrance minis"tered unto him abundantly, into the ever"lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour "Jesus Christ."

SERMON II.

THE BRITISH JUBILEE,

PREACHED ON THE

THANKSGIVING DAY,

25th OCTOBER, 1809.

1 KINGS viii. 66.

"And they blessed the

"KING; and went unto their tents joyful and

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glad of heart, for all the goodness that the "Lord had done for David, his servant, and "for Israel, his people."

SINCE the great Jubilee in the days of SOLOMON, to which these words refer, there has not, perhaps, been a more august festival before the Lord than the BRITISH Jubilee, which we celebrate on this day.

To constitute a Jubilee, in the highest sense, there must be a knowledge of the true God, a

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pure faith, a people exulting in the favour of the Almighty, a people animated by loyalty to their king," Peace within our walls, and pros

perity within our palaces." It will heigh ten the grandeur of the occasion, if the people be powerful and stand conspicuous among nations. 2. dul,

All these particulars centre with us." They are to be found in our nation to an extent and degree never known, perhaps, Great Britain by any other people. At the present era ra es of the world;

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stands conspicuous in the eyes she assumes a commanding attitude; a and has become, by divine providence, the constituted guardian, in a manner, of the religion and Hiberties of men. And, behold, while occupying this exalted station, she announces a grand Jubilee, to be celebrated on the occasion of an event, which rarely occurs to great empires, the arrival of the fiftieth year of her monarch's reign.

It is to be wished, that an important’use could have been made of this event; that the impression of it could have reached all nations; that the trumpet of our Jubilee could have been heard by all the world. It would have accorded well with the character of this day, that an illustrious act of national mercy had commemorated it for ever. In strict conformity to the name we have given it, EVERY DEB