they incur the infliction of all punishment. And as the good that is with God is eternal, so its loss is eternal, and without end.

11. Three times did the Lord conquer Satan; three times did He repulse him (in the temptation) and drive him off, lawfully vanquished. And thus Adam's breach of the law of God was cancelled by the obedience of the Son of man, keeping the statutes of God.

12. Justly, then, was he led captive, who had unjustly led man into captivity; and man, who had been taken captive, was delivered from the power of his master, according to the mercy of God our Father, who pitied his own workmanship, and gave him salvation; restoring him through the Word, that is, Christ; that man might know by experience that, not from himself, but the gift of God, he receives incorruption.

13. As in the evening it was that God spoke to Adam, seeking after him, so is it in the last times that He has visited Adam's race, seeking after them.

14. It is by the flesh and blood of the Lord that we are saved.

CLEMENT (OF ALEXANDRIA).

BORN (ABOUT) 150-DIED 220.

I. Those who adorn only the exterior, but neglect the inner man, are like the Egyptian temples, which present every kind of decoration upon the outside, but contain within, in place of a deity, a cat, a crocodile, or some other vile animal.

2. Wealth is like a viper, which is harmless if you know how to take hold of it; but, if you do not, it will twine round your hand and bite you.

3. Remember, that unless ye become children by a new birth, the Scripture plainly testifieth that ye shall never be able to recover your true Father, nor to enter His heavenly kingdom; for that is inaccessible to the stranger and the alien; and he alone who is enrolled and made free of that city, and hath regained his heavenly Father, shall there dwell in that Father's house, receive His inheritance, and enjoy communion with His true and beloved Son. Such is the church of the first-begotten, written in the heavens, and rejoicing around the divine throne with myriads of angels. Does God freely offer so great salvation, and will you still blindly rush into destruction?

4. 'Awake,' He saith, 'thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.' 'To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;' and

this to-day shall last till that word can be used no more. For the day of instruction shall endure until the consummation of time itself; until the real and unfading day of God shall be co-extended through eternity. Oh, if an entrance into that eternity could be purchased, were not the whole of Pactolus too small a price? Yet, to you it is freely offered, and requires but the treasure of a living faith, and love placed in your own possession. Yet, how many cling to this world, as the sea-weed to the rocks of the shore, and regard not this glorious immortality; but true religion can be learned effectually from God alone. He is the only perfect teacher. He alone has power to renew in man the likeness of His own image.

5. We must impart our wealth benevolently; avoiding the extremes of meanness and ostentation. We must not let our love of the beautiful run into selfishness or excess; lest it should be said of us, ' His horse, or his farm, or his servant, or his plate, is worth fifteen talents, while he himself would be dear at three farthings.

6. The Lord has made man after His own image, that he might be a fair self-breathing instrument of sweet music. 7. The Saviour is many-voiced, and in many ways. strives to effect the salvation of man.

8. He who has opened the door, hitherto shut, will reveal what is within, and will shew those things which no one could know before, unless he entered by Christ, through whom alone God is perceived.

9. Call hither your Phidias, your Polyclitus, your Praxitiles, your Apelles, and all your noble artists; not one of them can make a breathing image, not one of them can

mould his clay into flesh.. Who softened the marrow? who hardened the bones? who swelled the veins, and poured the blood into them? who spread the skin over all? who of you all is able to construct an eye that shall see? who can breathe a soul into his work? who will bestow righteousness? who will promise immortality? He alone, who is the Creator of the universe, the great Artist and Father, who formed man to be His living image. Your Olympian Jupiter, the image of an image, is the vain work of Attic hands; but the true image of God is the WORD, the Son of the Eternal mind, the divine reason, the light given forth by the primal light of all.

Ic. I urge thee to save thyself. This is Christ's will. He presents thee with life.

II. Till the ground if thou be a husbandman; but still, amid thy labours learn to know God. If thou be a seaman, follow thy calling, but call upon the heavenly Steersman.

12. The man in whom the WORD dwells is become like God; and is fair without striving to seem so. This is real beauty.

13. Man is loved of God; for on his account was the only-begotten Son sent from the bosom of the Father.

TERTULLIAN.

BORN (ABOUT) 160-DIED (ABOUT) 240.

1. Truth set out with being hated; as soon as she appeared, she was reckoned an enemy; as many as are strangers to it, so many are its foes.

2. Christians are made, not born such.

3. Scattered abroad, wanderers, banished from their own clime and land, they (the Jews) roam about the world with neither man nor God for their king; to whom it is not permitted, even in the right of strangers, to greet their native land, with so much as the sole of their foot.

4. Two advents of Christ are declared: the first, which hath been already fulfilled, in the lowliness of the human nature; the second, which remaineth yet to come, to close this world, in the majesty of the divine.

5. Men sit not down to meat, before tasting, in the first place, of prayer to God.

6. O Glory, allowed because it has a human object! Therefore it is not deemed foolhardy to despise death and shame! And, it is permitted to men to suffer for country, for empire, for friendship, but not for God!

7. We spring up the thicker the oftener we are mowed down. The blood of the martyrs is their harvest-seed.

8. It mattereth not where you are in the world, if ye be not of the world; if ye have lost any of the joys of life, ye