words, which seem from the antithesis to be an allusion to the same most sacred Ordinance: "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit," with that new wine which God the Holy Spirit ministers in the Supper of the Great King. God grant that we may be able ever to come to this Blessed Sacrament with feelings suitable to the passages which I have read concerning it! May we not regard it in a cold, heartless way, and keep at a distance from fear, when we should rejoice! May the spirit of the unprofitable servant never be ours, who looked at his lord as a hard master instead of a gracious benefactor! May we not be in the number of those who go on year after year, and never approach Him at all! May we not be of those who went, one to his farm, another to his merchandise, when they were called to the wedding! Nor let us be of those, who come in a formal, mechanical way, as a mere matter of obligation, without reverence, without awe, without wonder, without love. Nor let us fall into the sin of those who complained that they have nothing to gather but the manna, wearying of God's gifts. But let us come in faith and hope, and let us say to ourselves, May this be the beginning to us of everlasting bliss! May these be the first-fruits of that banquet which is to last for ever and ever; ever new, ever transporting, inexhaustible, in the city of our God! [1] Easter. [2] Deut. xxxii. 13; xxxiii. 13-15. [3] Gen. xxi. 10. [4] Matt. xi. 19. Luke vii. 34. [5] Gen. xiv. 18. [6] 1 Cor. x. 20. [7] Ezek. xlvii. 12. [8] Rev. xxii. 2. [9] Hos. ii. 21-23. [10] Joel iii. 18. [11] Amos ix. 13. [12] Isa. xxv. 6; lxii. 8, 9, lxv. 13. [13] Jer. xxxi. 12-14. [14] Zech. ix. 17. [15] Mal. i. 11. [16] Ps. xxiii. 5; xxvi. 6; xxxvi. 7-9; xliii. 3, 4, lxv. 4; lxiii. 6-8. [17] Prov. ix. 1-5. [18] Isa. lv. 1. [19] Cant. ii. 13; iv. 6; v. 1 SERMON XIII. Love of Religion, a New Nature. "_If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him._"--Romans vi. 8.