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( 19 ) me die fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cizterns, that can held no water."

2. This doctrine may afford us matter of lamen- tation alo. That believers who are epoued to him, hould walk o unworthily of uch a huband. You know, a wie hould demean herelf conform to the character of her huband; and where her carriage is bae and mean, it reflects a dihonour on him. O how unuitable is it to ee t's bride blackened with the filth of hell! to ee thoe who have tricken hands with Chrit, in a marriage- covenant, joining hands with lut and idols, and defiling themelves with them!

(3) for examination. Let us try if we be thus married and related to Chrit; whether he be our married, and we his bride and poue.

I hail offer a few marks whereby we may know whether or not we be married unto this glorious huband; and they may be drawn from the coni- deration of the antecedents, the contituents, and the conequents of this marriage.

1t. Try by the antecedents to the marriage contract. Before ever Chrit did contract with thee, didt thou oberve him courting thy oul before this contract? Here is a courting. Now, how did Chrit court you?

I. Did he court you by the auterity of the law, as with fire and word? Did he court you by uch a word as that, Thou art a cured wretch! For, “Cured is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them2 Gal. iii 10. Did he court you by uch a word as that, “Cured is every one that doth the work of the Lord negligently?". Did he court you thus, by the pirit of bondage, with the terrors of God, as cloathed with vengeance, telling thee, thou art an air of hell and wrath, a child of the devil? Did he