that angels' tongues could name. Hallelujah.

In trouble and in grief, O God,

Thy smile hath cheered my way: And joy hath budded from each thorn That round my footsteps lay.

The hours of pain have yielded good,

Which prosperous days refused;
As herbs, though scentless when entire,
Spread fragrancy when bruised.

The oak strikes deeper, as its boughs
By furious blasts are driven;
So life's vicissitudes the more
Have fixed my heart in heaven.

All-gracious Lord, whate'er my lot
In other times may be;
I'll welcome still the heaviest grief,
That brings me near to thee.

Ir has been impressed on my mind to write this letter to you, and no soul living is privy to it; God only knows it and I believe that if I had not been lately in deep waters, and exercised in a peculiar way, that but few are, this letter had not come to you. I desire to write it in the fear of the Lord, in wisdom, being guided by the unerring Spirit of truth, in love, believing you to be a partaker of grace, and in meekness to reprove you, considering myself also in the flesh.

My brother, you are certainly wrong in separating yourself from Mr. Burgess, and those that before you were in union with. You have confessed that the Lord has attended his preaching with power to your soul, both by word and by pen; and now you have turned your back on him, and on Mr. Reynolds. O my brother, beware of taking an offence at God's family; it is dangerous work for our Lord says, "" He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye;" and the eye is a tender part and, "He that despiseth whom

soever I send, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. "He that offends one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better that a millstone was tied round his neck, and that he was cast into the sea." Yon may not feel it at present. But oh, when the guilt of it comes home to the conscience, what dreadful work it will make. Besides, how God's word is against such conduct; and depend upon it that these are the leading steps to apostasy. Hence you read in John,

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, no doubt but they had continued with us but they went out, that it might be manifested they were not all of us." Again the word says, "These are they that separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit." O my friend, God will have us down, and therefore he says, "Be not highminded, but fear, for by faith ye stand; but stand not in an evil thing.' "Condescend to men of low estate, and be clothed with humility." I have been myself in such a state, that it has appeared to me as if I certainly should take an offence at Zion. O my brother, may the Lord help you and me to put up with any thing sooner than take an offence. When Simon Peter asked the Lord now oft he should forgive his brother, whether seven times? yes, says the Saviour, till seventy times seven.

You know how you advised me to go to hear Mr. B. when talking with you once in the warehouse: and if you deny the power you found under his ministry, upon the same ground you may deny what you received under Mr. H., and then you have to begin again. Look narrowly what you are about, for it is of great importance; and let me advise you to see Mr. Burgess, and submit it to him in the fear of the Lord it is mortifying to the old man and pride, but you will reap the advantage.

Never mind what people may say, God's word approves of it, and the lowest room is a sweet place, for the poor heareth not rebuke.

Now, dear brother, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. Remember we are to cleanse our way, by taking heed according to that word; but he that despiseth the word shall be destroyed. But I am persuaded better things of you, though I thus write. I shall finish with the words of Jude: "Now unto him that is able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the throne of his glory; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and honor, dominion and power, now and for ever. Amen."

Poor J. B. is near death, and in deep distress for temporal things; should be glad if you could assist him a little, if it lays in your power. God bless you.

J. RUSK.

PULPIT SAYINGS OF THE LATE REV. WILLIAM ROMAINE: TAKEN DOWN BY THE LATE REV. SAMUEL EYLES PIERCF.

To be Continued.

from Christ, or the believer from living on him.

I remember one who said, "What time I am afraid, I will think on thee."

If you want to be assured that you belong to God, go to the word of God; and if you want to draw comfort from the word of God, take the Spirit.

The more you walk with Christ, the more faith you will have; the more you will see you have obtained mercy of God, and that you are the Israel of God.

When conscience is pained on account of the dread of punishment for sin, a proper sight of Christ will take away that pain.

Adam was the root of generation : Christ is the root of regeneration. From Adam we derive sin and death, from Christ life and righteousness.

Though death look dark to nature, yet faith will brighten the prospect.

God be merciful to me a sinner." That is a prayer, which when it comes from a broken heart, never fails of entering the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth.

There is an holy act, and I could wish to learn it; and that is, to take

If

you had all the wisdom of Sir Isaac Newton, it would not help you to one single idea of Jesus Christ.

Some undertake by a course of metaphysics to prove the being of a God; I will undertake by the very same course of metaphysics to prove there is no God at all: Sirs, you must come to this book, (holding up his Bible,) to prove there is a God.

You are afraid of the interest of holiness. Indeed, Sirs, I know of no holiness but what is treasured up in the fulness of Christ, and received out of his fulness in the way of believing.

If the devil hath but one temptation, it is either to keep the sinner

All God's mercies begin at the fountain head, the mercy-seat, and flow on from everlasting to everlasting.

God has decreed that no sinner shall find any happiness but at the mercy-seat.

Sometimes the mercies of God are a long time running under ground before they break out.

Believers are the same every where. Unbelievers are branched out into two kinds; one is seeking a false happiness, the other is seeking a false righteousness.

The Lord is forced to blast our fruit sometimes, lest we should look at it, and fall in love with them.

It is a great part of our experience after we have believed, to make use of our Lord's intercession.

Under the ceremonial law, the man that bad sinned brought the appointed sacrifice; the priest's office was to slay the sacrifice, sprinkle the blood, and pronounce the man clean.

The man who has his consicence kept purged by the blood of the Lamb, he has also victory over his daily infirmities and frailties.

We must live upon Christ to know his value and excellency.

Our spiritual senses are as really exercised upon him, as our bodily senses are upon the air and climate of this world.

He is upon his throne a Priest for

evermore.

Faith finds his love a sovereign remedy for guilt and guilty fears. Faith

finds him a strong tower; the righteous run here and are safe.

You are concerned about the affairs

of this life. Christ says, "Take no thought:" seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be thrown in as a matter of favour.

Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am I give unto them eternal life." And this you will have, as sure as you are now alive. The bride say, Amen, and hopes she shall soon share with him in them all, and be, like Christ Jesus, the pattern of all perfection, and be with him to see him on his throne.

Stephen fell asleep praying, and his prayer was heard and answered.

All that is done in bringing sinners to Christ, is all the Spirit's operation.

A Synopsis of the Evidences of the Second Coming of Christ, about A. D. 1843, By L. D. Fleming. 12mo. pp. 76. Boston, Massachu

setts.

THIS work has been forwarded to us by a correspondent, who requests our opinion, he himself having been much concerned on reading it, not having, he says, a clear evidence that he belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. Self-examination by perusing the word, and humble prayer for the teachings of his Spirit, will conduce more to the making our calling and election sure, by the realization of that soul-supporting truth, that it is "God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure;" than all the midnight cries which are reiterated by the modern Millenarians, who are generally more

anxious to proselyte to their favourite dogma, than to direct inquiring souls to the glorious gospel of God. Nay, it is to be feared, many of them are ignorant of it themselves.

The work before us, after adverting to the coming of Christ as yet to come as pre-millenial-the nature of his kingdom-the visions of Daniel and other Old Testament saints as to the signs preceding it; a synopsis of calculation as to the time is then introduced, and our author, who professes to possess more knowledge than even most of his coadjutors, has fixed it to take place about 1843. Although God has declared, that of the times and seasons knoweth no man; and when even Daniel inquired as to the time, he was sent his way with this promise, Thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days."

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The work closes with an inquiry a

to those signs which shall immediately precede Christ's second advent. And here a total want of spiritual perception is awfully apparent: for after enumerating several, he also instances the great success of miseionary exertions, in the conversion of sixteen thousand souls in the Sandwich Islands; five of the Polynesian Isles converted as it were in one day; in Bengal fifty-six towns received the gospel, with several other marvellous events and then to crown the whole, the crafty papist Father Mathew brings up the rear, with an army of five millions of redeemed drunkards. But we have wasted too much time already. From such teachers, and such teaching: Good Lord, deliver

us.

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Spiritual Reflections on the Several Chapters of Holy Scripture, by Robert Hawker, D. D, Nos. 1 to 10. 12mo. London: Palmers.

"IT has occurred to the Editor, that a valuable volume might be made by extracting from Dr. Hawker's Commentary on the Bible, the spiritual reflections which he has therein appended to the close of each chapter. The Commentary itself, being an expensive work, is out of the reach of the poor, for whom the Doctor chiefly wrote, but in the reflections they have the marrow of the whole, and by sending them out in penny tracts, suitable for the pockets of the poor, and for purposes of distribution by the more wealthy, the Editor flatters himself he shall be bequeathing to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a valuable legacy, as a testimony of his high esteem and veneration for the Doctor's memory."

Thus writes the gentleman at whose instance the work is being published, and we fully agree with him, that he cannot more usefully manifest his gratitude to Almighty God, for any spiritual benefit Dr. Hawker's writings may have been rendered to him,

than in thus placing within the reach of the poor, what constitutes, indeed, the chief value of Dr. Hawker's Commentary. Dr. Hawker did not write for the critic: the captious investigator of Holy Scripture will but seldom turn over his pages: but while spiritual and savoury observations. in soul animating language, continue to be preferred to a cold and dry dish of exegetical and syllogistical commentary-and such will always be prefered by such as seek in God's word the bread of life-so long will Dr. Hawker's writings find enraptured readers, and be blessed to the encouragement and establishment of God's saints.

Dr. Hawker's Commentary on the Bible forms nine good sized volumes, the cost of which places it above the reach of the Lord's poor: but here, for one penny weekly, they have twelve closely printed pages, which at the end, as we judge, will make a tolerably stout volume, and supply undoubtedly the cheapest exposition of the Holy Scriptures which has ever yet appeared.

Another purpose occurs to us for which it will we think be highly valuable: the Author's " Morning and Evening Portions have long been familiar household volumes, and the annual repetition has made, to some of us, their contents rather trite; this volume, when completed, will well give a variety thereto, being about the same length, and supplying reflections on every chapter, will of course give a short meditation for whatever chapter may have been selected for the family devotion.

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