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"Mary! and she answered, Rabboni?" Peter was wondering over his amazing love when he said: "Go tell the disciples, and Peter." And the bosom of John was filled with a silent feeling of unutterable love. All were glad but one. That one was Thomas. But now, when Christ came in-when he revealed himself a crucified but risen Redeemer-when he showed his special kindness to Thomas, the heart of Thomas could stand out no longer, and he cried out, in words of appropriating faith, before all: "My Lord, and my God."

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1. To appropriate Christ—to call him your own. It will not save you to know that Christ is a Saviour. The devils know that, and tremble. It would not have saved you from the flood to know that there was an ark. You must be in it, if you would be saved. So it will not save you that you know there is a great and glorious Saviour, if you do not call him your own: My Lord, and my God." Obj.-It would be too bold in me to call him mine. Ans. He offers himself to you. He stretched out his hands to you when you were gainsaying and disobedient. He has awakened you-followed you till now. Ah! it is daring presumption to refuse him. Take with you words and say: "My Lord, and my God." Is there any presumption in taking Christ at his word? 2. Confess him before all. Thomas had denied Christ before all, saying: "I will not believe;" and therefore it was right he should confess Christ before all, saying: “My Lord, and my God." Ah! are there none of you who have denied Christ before all? Some of you have said: I will not believe-have kept away from the table of Christ because you dare not call Christ your own. Some of you have denied him in your life, proclaiming to all who know you that you despise the Son of God. Remember, then, I beseech you, the sight of last Sabbath-day. Remember Christ has again offered himself to you, and is this day seeking you. Come, then, and let your acceptance of Christ be as open as your denial of him. Go home, tell your friends, tell your companions, he is "my Lord, and my God."

Dundee, Nov. 4, 1837.

SERMON XLVII.

HAVE I BEEN SO LONG TIME WITH YOU?

"Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?"-JOHN xiv. 9.

CHRIST had been with his disciples night and day during the three years of his ministry. They had seen him in all situations walking on the sea-feeding the multitudesraising the dead. They had heard all his words in the synagogues-in the temple-in the fields. He had fed them with milk, and not with strong meat-giving them instruction just as they were able to bear it; and yet it is amazing how blind they were to his glory and greatness. They were foolish, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets had spoken concerning him, and all that he had spoken concerning himself.

This was the last night that Jesus was to be with his disciples, and his heart was full of a tenderness which is not of the world at all. But the more full and tender his holy heart became, the more dull and stupid did his disciples become. "Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?"

Two things give this reply a peculiar tenderness: 1. He reminds Philip that he had been with him. He was equal with the Father-was in the bosom of God, and yet had come and dwelt with them. He had left the company of the worshipping angels to company with them-the King of glory dwelt with worms! Had he smiled on them from heaven, that would have been wonderful; but he says: "I have been with you—with you by the way-side and by the well-with you on the sea and in the wilderness—I have been your elder brother—and yet have you not known me?" 2. That he had been long with them: "So long time." Had it been for a moment that the Son of God had visited the earth, O it would have been wonderful! but it was for years. Three years he had gone in and out with them. He had taught them-opened the Scriptures—taught them

Doctrine. When Christ has been long with a he expects that soul to know him.

I. To Christians.

1. Christ has been with believers. He says child of God: "I have been with you." (1.) In sion. It is the revealing of Christ to the soul whic it to peace. When Christ revealed himself to Sa he fell to the ground, and cried: "Lord, what w have me to do?" So it is still. Christ is with the conversion. Are you converted? Then you have b Jesus, and Jesus has been with you. (2.) In the w Christ is with the soul. The soul leans on the coming up out of the wilderness. If you be bel all, you know what it is to have the sweet stren presence of the Beloved. (3.) In affliction. Christ liarly near in the fire and in the water: "Wh passest through the waters I will be with thee again : "I will not leave you orphans; I will come If you be Christians, you have felt that Christ is in the day of adversity. When doors are shut, Jes in the midst, and says: "Peace." (4.) In prayer: two or three are gathered together in my name, th in the midst of them." He is near at our breat our cry-to offer up our prayer with much ince never misses the simplest cry of the simplest Christians, you know that Christ is with you in pr is this which gives you boldness at the throne of g

2. Christ has been long time with believers : been so long time with you?" he says. Christ only three years with the disciples when he said t has been a much longer time with some of you back, dear Christians, on the way by which he has This day is an eminence-stand upon it, and lo How long time has Christ been with you? Som who are up in years were converted in youthhad a lifetime with Christ. He has been with yo surety as your strength-as your elder brotheradvocate with the Father. He has been with you many, many years. If some great nobleman wer and pay you a visit, and be an intimate friend

you would think it a great thing. But O how much greater is this! Christ has been with you-Christ knows your name-Christ has often said of you, as of Zaccheus : Today I must abide at thy house."

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Some of you may have been but lately brought to the knowledge of Christ. You have but lately opened the door and let him in. Still he hath been long with you. To have Christ with you for a single day is to have him long with you—it is so great an honour-it is so great a blessing. O there is a day at hand when you will reckon a moment spent with Christ as more than all your life besides! day spent in thy courts is better than a thousand."

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3. Christ reproves believers for knowing so little of him: "Hast thou not known me, Philip?" The apostles knew much of Christ, and yet they were slow of heart to believe all. So is it with Christians now. They know much of Christ, yet they are slow of heart to believe all. There are many signs that Christians do not know Christ.

1. Little happiness among Christians. There is very little sense of being pardoned. Some of you, who appear to be Christians, would almost start were I to ask you if you feel the forgiveness of sins. You seem to fear it, as an unlawful question-as if it were a secret not for you to know. Is this the case with you? Ah! how truly Christ may say: "Have I been so long time with you, yet hast thou not known me?" Has not Christ been revealed to you a crucified Saviour-the wrath of God all poured out on him? “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!"

2. Little communion with God. When you stand in the sunshine, you feel the warm beams of the sun; so, when you stand in Christ, you should feel the warm beams of his love. There is little of this. Believers are said to be " a people near to God." Entering through the rent veil, they draw near to the Father-they dwell in his secret place, and abide under his shadow. There is little, very little of say:

this. How truly may Christ "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?" 3. Little holiness among Christians. If Christians had an eye on a reigning, praying, coming Saviour, O how different persons they would be! What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, seeing ye look for such things? (1.) How much covetousness there is among some of you that seem to be Christians—

that seem to be Christians-how much of a proud giving spirit-keeping up the remembrance of in nursing your wrath! (3.) How much likenes world in your feasts and luxuries-in your trifling, ful amusements; and, above all, in your conversatio that hears you speak, would know that ever you h with Jesus, or he with you? Why is all this? cause ye know so little of Christ. For all that C been so long with you, yet you know almost no him. Ah! do not let this year go without res know more of Christ. He is with you still. A lit and ye shall not see him. A few days, and you no more of him. Your days of grace may be near Many of you will not see the close of another year in the light, while ye have the light. Know Ch then ye shall be like him.

II. Awakened.

1. Christ is with awakened souls. (1.) He a them. No man is naturally anxious about his sou a work of Christ on the soul. When the light passed through a wood, as you look upon one another that has been split by its mighty flash, Ah! the lightning has been here; so, when you se split and broken under a sense of its lost condition, say: Ah! Christ has been here. Are any of you ed? Christ has been with you. He saw you in and folly. He pitied you-he drew near-he your heart, and made you feel yourself lost, in o you might seek him as a Saviour. Do not dou has been with you. (2.) He is seeking awaker and therefore is with them. When a shepherd the mountains in search of lost sheep, he seeks those which are bleeding and torn, making the valley with their sad bleatings; he bends over the wound When a good physician enters the hospital, he the beds of the most diseased-of those who are groaning under their pains; he bends over such. Christ seek bleeding, groaning souls, with a pecu His word is: "He hath sent me to bind up th

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