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_`iEmoron xv.you believe? ls there one rational conviction that youwill be then convinced P No, not one. Then will younot see and leam wisdom by what is gone before ?Pharaoh had no space forrepentance under, or even justbefore the last An so it will be withplague.you; thedoor will have een shut before anylpart of the seventhvial will be poured out, for then w' 1 be heard a greatvoice reverherating through the upper vault of heaven,and, sounding even to the dark cells of the pit of woe,shaking the middle air with its deep-toned thunder, and,like thelightning, darting its vivid flush of tire from eastto west, will ierce the deafest ear, and make the hardestheart to breath, althougha thousand fold more hard thanthe adamantine rock, saying, " R is done." This bringsme to .show,II. What we may lmderstand b " It is done."The first uestion which naturally arises on the mindis, What is done? When Christ was about expiatingfor the sins of the world; when he was clos' up thework which his Father gave him to do on ealiii in theflesh; when the spirit was about leaving the tenementof clay which it had inhabited through a life of thirtythreeyears of pain, sufferings,sorrows,groans,degrivations,and tears, made more acute y temptations tryingas the arch-demon of hell could invent; sufferingreproach from the haughty Pharisee, and the more obstinateSadducee, and contempt and ridicule from thebase rabble of his ownpeople; persecuted even untildeathbg the envy, malice, and hatred of those who hadreceive boons and blessin s of life at his hands,-he hadsaved them from disease, dhath, and the rage of demons;yet, in this moment of great need, he was forsaken ofall; they stood afar otf; and when he was about givingup the ghost, he cried, " It is finished l "and bowed hishead, and died. The fratricide man could do no more;he had followed him to death; beyond that the envy ofhis brother could not reach him. The rabble, who afew days before had cried, Hosannas to the Son of David!this day were crying; Crucify him! crucify him!now could cry no more, ut with downcast looks, retumedinto the The Pharisees and rulers coulddo city;no more; they d plotted his death. and obtained