but he fell under the displeasure of the king. The inventory of his goods being taken, they were found to exceed the most extravagant furmises. Of fine holland, there were found eleven hundred pieces; the walls of his palace were covered with cloth of gold and silver; he had a cupboard of plate, all of maffy gold; and all the rest of his riches and furniture were in the fame proportion; all of which were converted to the use of the king. A bill of indictment was preferred against him; he was ordered to resign the great feal, and to depart from his palace. Soon after he was arrested for high treason, and commanded to be conducted to London to take his trial. When he arrived at Leicester Abbey he was taken fick-men faid he poisoned himself. His diforder increased. A short time before he expired, he said to the officer who guarded him: " O had I but served my God as faithfully as I have ferved my king, he would not have forfaken me in my grey heirs." He died shortly after, in all the pangs of remorse, and left a life rendered miferable by his unbounded ambition for greatnefs. "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." -JOHN iii. 20. GUILT. In fplendour rifing, view "the king of day," So guilty men pursue, in devilish mood, SEE where the glorious fun is rifing in majesty and strength. Darkness has fled from his presence, and now there is nothing hid from his rosy light. See the beast of prey flinking off to his den. Stung with hunger, and athirst for blood, he roamed round in the darkness of night. Lighting upon a sheepcote, he breaks into the enclosure; the bleeting, helpless lambs become his prey; some he devours, others he leaves mangled and torn upon the ground. Detected by the light, he sneaks away; he plunges into the foreft, and hides him in its thickest shade. The birds of night-the bat and others-fly away before the rifing light. The music of the awakening choir, blooming fields, and spicy gardens, possess no charms for them. Mouldering ruins, among thickest shades, where the toad finds a shelter, and the ferpent hisses this is their favourite dwelling-place; while the gay lark, high mounting, pours forth his praises to the solar king. He is gladdened by his beams, and welcomes his approach with all the melody of fong. “Thou, O Lord, makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the foreft do creep forth. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens." The engraving is emblematical of guilt; for happy would it be for mankind, were the beafts of prey and birds of night the only disturbers of the world's repose-the only deftroyers that walk abroad in darkness. Alas! L When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the fons Then, too the robber goes forth to perpetrate his deeds of violence and rapine; then, too, the adulterer, and kindles a fire that will burn to the lowest hell; and, shrouded in the mantle of night, the man of blood stalks forth, and works his deeds of death. In this way, man, made in the image of God, becomes allied to the most malignant part of the brute creation, companions, and co-workers with them. What degradation! Alas, alas! how are the mighty fallen! Look again at the folly and ignorance of wicked men in supposing themselves concealed, because they cannot fee. It is related of the ostrich, that she covers her head only with reeds, and, because she cannot fee herself, thinks she is hid from the eye of her pursuers. Thus it is with the workers of iniquity in the night-time; they may indeed be hid from the fleeping eyes of mortals, but the ever-wakeful eye of Jehovah looks full upon them. When they say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even then "the night is light" all around them. "Clouds and darkness are round about Him;" they are Jehovah's habitation, therefore what is mistaken for a covering is the prefence-chamber of the Holy God, who "compasseth thy path, and thy lying down, and who is acquainted with all thy ways." "Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, left his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." "When men of mischief rife In fecret 'gainst the skies, Thy hand shall sweep them to the grave; And oh! beyond the tomb, Where not a hand is reached to fave!" "His enemies, with fore dismay, Fly from the light, and shun the day : |