the undertaking would be far beyond anything that an inexperienced person could suppose. To do it as, if done at all, it ought to be and must be done, would be a task not of weeks or months, but of some devoted years. And at last it would disappoint those who might expect in it such a result as cannot be produced by man for his brother. The Bible, to be understood, must be searched, pondered, and prayed over: with this, an imperfect translation will suffice for illumination; without this, no version can give it. SERMON V. 1 CORINTHIANS XIII. 12.-For now we see through a glass, CHRIST THE STRENGTH OF THE TEMPTED. ST. MATTHEW IV. 1.-Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil. 2 JOHN 8.—Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward 193 HEBREWS IX. 14.-How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without THE MYSTERY OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. COLOSSIANS III. 1.—If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those |