rejoice in your Redeemer.
Come ye children of the world, behold what the Son of God
has done, consider here the certainty of His coming to judgment.
Consider and give up your rebellion, consider that the Judge is
now holding Himself forth to you as mighty to save, as able
to save, unto the uttermost. He has overcomе, and if ye but
trust Him ye shall find Him as good as His word. See in the
empty grave His triumph. He who is risen shall come again.
While He is on the throne of grace meet Him in peace, that at
His second appearing ye may not be clothed with shame and
confusion of face. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
of God who live by faith in Christ. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Consider that He who lay there was and is the Lord—your Lord—your Redeemer. Consider that your Redeemer lay there, and why He lay there. Consider what your sin deserved. Consider His abounding grace. Consider what your prison door of the grave. He has performed the grave. He has lit its darkness: He has warmed it for you. He has left it as victor, and so shall you. What He has done, He has done for you. Were it not for you, your sins, your wretchedness, and His free love, this could never have been, that the Lord should be there. But that empty grave speaks, and it tells you of the hope of glory. So come, satisfy yourselves at the empty grave, and
4; Tewaster, 1.
the 15th verse inclusive, and prayer. Mr. John Morison of Kingcrairdine was then called to the chair, and Mr. D. T. MacKenzie was appointed Secretary. There were present from Kingcrairdine, 3; Lucknow, 5; Brucefield, 2; Ashfield, 5; Ripley,
— Mr. D. M. Tewaster read the following propositions:
(1) That the Lord Jesus Christ is the sovereign and universal Ruler of every rational creature, and that every creature is bound to honour, serve, and obey Him.
(2) That the inspired Word of God, are the only true and infallible being of the Old and New Testaments,
rule of faith and life.
” (3) That the holy Scriptures, constituting one harmonious and complete system of revealed truth, are not of private interpretation, but that the only infallible Interpreter of the Scriptures is the Holy Spirit, speaking in and through them, so that passages which are in themselves obscure or of doubtful meaning, are made clear and plain by other passages that are more definite and instructing, discipline, and worship shall be conformed to the
express.
” (4) That the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, and the Directory for the Public Worship of God, are received by us as subordinate Standards, and that all
same.
” (5) That prayer be everywhere offered up by men in a known tongue, with reverential awe, in the name of Christ, for things
agreeable to the will of God,—for kings, &c.—with confession of sins and thankfulness for all His mercies.
” (6) That while, in a certain sense, posture is nothing, or the want of posture nothing, as communication is nothing, or uncircumcision nothing, but a new creature, in another sense it may have a
very important and serious signification as indicating the frame of mind in which the worshipper may be, whether of reverence and awe, or of indifference and contempt for the object of worshipped.
Now, God, being the true object of worship and fear, demands of us the most expressive tokens of reverence and fear, or humiliation and self-abasement, by presenting ourselves before Him in the humble posture of kneeling or the reverential attitude of standing,
both of which postures we have many examples of in Scripture, but nowhere that of sitting, which implies an entire absence of
reverence which is due to Him who is a great God,
and great King above all gods.
” (7) That the service of praise furnished by God to His Church in the Book of Psalms is so complete and perfect that nothing can be added to it or taken from it without impugning the wisdom of God who gave it. Having the seal of the Holy Spirit upon it, and thereby raising it infinitely above all human compositions, and having been the manual of praise with the saints in the Jewish Church, and again with Christ and His Apostles at the beginning