Beauties of sacred literature .. . on. We are calledupon to look at Judas becoming his own accuser,vindicating his Master, and condemning himself;and while we are ready to commiserate his suffer-ings, and almost admiring his boldness, we arereminded that at that moment he w^as as much ason of perdition, as when with a treacherous kisshe betrayed his Lord. No confession could appearmore sincere, no sorrow more genuine, no fear moreagitating. And yet he perished; perished not be-cause his sin was too great for the blood of Christto cleanse, and the mercy of God to pardon it, butbecause he wanted
Beauties of sacred literature .. . on. We are calledupon to look at Judas becoming his own accuser,vindicating his Master, and condemning himself;and while we are ready to commiserate his suffer-ings, and almost admiring his boldness, we arereminded that at that moment he w^as as much ason of perdition, as when with a treacherous kisshe betrayed his Lord. No confession could appearmore sincere, no sorrow more genuine, no fear moreagitating. And yet he perished; perished not be-cause his sin was too great for the blood of Christto cleanse, and the mercy of God to pardon it, butbecause he wanted those things, without which themost severe compunctions, and Hveliest feehngs, andthe most splendid gifts are nothing worth. And 86 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE. what are those things 1 A heartfelt abhorrence ofsin, a conviction of the desperate wickedness of thesoTil, and a spirit of grace and supplication withGod for his pardoning mercy. And he who isdestitute of these, is very far from the kingdom ofHeaven. I i I, ;>. tmm-. THE YOUTHFUL SAVIOUR IN THE t TEMPLE. BY REV. SAMUEL HANSON COX, D. D., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Some things, or rather many, connected withreligion and occurring often to the mind of de-sultory man, are rarely and scantily, or not atall, regarded in the inspired oracles. The writtenword has one grand end throughout; this it suh-serves, and this alone, in all its glorious disclosures ;to this, directly or indirectly, as essential or as inci-dental, tends every thing in the total system ofrevelation. That word is eloquent in its silence,instructive in its omissions, and perfect even in itsbrevities: and that end is not to provide for world-liness, or amusement, or curiosity, or sectarianism,or any other partial conceit or imagination of men;but, it is — the glory of God in the salvation of hischurch universal, comprising all them that love ourLord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Who has not desiderated, in the biography ofChrist, something more, extensively and m
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