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Whom resist stedfast in the faith." Is faith called a hand? Yes, in these words, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life." It is with the hand we take hold, and it is with the hand that we resist. Remember the battle. What battle? Why the battle that the Lord Jesus Christ had with Satan; who, through his death, destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. His own arm brought salvation, and he led captivity captive." Thus, we are to remember, the battle, because it was wholly for Do no more, no; hence Christ says, "If ye seek me, let these go their way." Peter wanted to assist, and poor work he made of it. Do no more. But again Paul tells us how we are to conquer this enemy, "put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." stand therefore having your loins, girt about with truth,' then loins Peter tells us are the mind, "Gird up the loins, of your mind, and it signifies, a being well established, in the scriptures of truth, for in this way, Christ overcome Satan, as you read " it is written, it is written, now Christ himself is the truth,” I am the truth, "and having on the breastplate of righteousness, that is the. imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, to guard the heart, every other way we are exposed to Satan, sin, law and conscience; but Christ is expressly called the Lord our righteousness, having your feet shod, with the preparation, of the gospel of peace;" by feet, understand faith and love by the preparation, we, understand, what took place in eternity "the counsel of peace was between them both," the Father and the Son, but not to the exclusion of the Holy Ghost. Now to be shod thus, is firm standing; holding fast the covenant of peace by faith, and our affections going out to the ever-blessed Trinity, peace flowing into our hearts.

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"Above all taking the shield of faith." Some good men tell us that this shield of faith, is faith; and if this was true, they would have but a poor shield when unbelief works so strong; besides, why are we to take this above every other part of the armour? No, as W. Huntington used to say, this shield is God him. self; and I believe it. Abraham, walk before me, and be thou upright: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." But Christ Jesus is both this peace and this shield. Hence Paul says, "He is our peace." Likewise the shield, because he is the Eternal Jehovah. This shield is to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked: and Satan uses instruments, as well as himself, in going on with these fiery darts,-blasphemous insi. nuations against the blessed Trinity, unclean thoughts, in that he stirs up the lust of the flesh, bitter malice against all that is good, both in our. selves, which we feel, and from others. They shoot their arrows, even bitter words, and therefore we need this shield. And the way it is used is this. The Lord is pleased to let us have a discovery of his love, and then for that time these fiery darts abate.

(To be Continued in our next.)

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LETTER FROM REV. EDMUND GREENFIELD TO A FRIEND.

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Edmund Greenfield, the most unworthy in himself, yet worthy in and through Jesus Jehovah, our Christ, unto the beloved of Marden, a witness of the Lord's power and blessing in and through my ministry; may the Lord God bless, preserve and refresh you, and your God's-gift, a gracious wife, which you say you have, and which is a great blessing, and may the adversary of your souls, whom you say torments you, and fills you at times with terrors, be bruised by the Lord God, whilst you have both the gift and blessing of strong faith to put your feet upon him, and to "tread down strength."

The Lord is the whole election's Keeper; if, therefore, it is the will of the Lord to permit Satan to harass and terrify you, so as you shall have great tribulation, even this shall be for your good and the Lord's glory, because as you are now renewed in the spirit of your minds, and as such have a feeling sense of sinful depravity and utter inability to preserve yourselves, you pant and sigh and groan unto the Father, in and through the Son, even whilst unbelief, doubts and darkness are about you, the blast of the terrible ones," that is, of evil spirits; and even whilst, withal, God the Father, in his paternal love to your souls, is chastening you out of his law, so that you feel sin to be exceeding sinful. Now these terrors are what the reprobate never had, be cause in all their terrors there is no filial strong crying and tears unto the Father of mercies. Oh, my dear friends, do you not know that the Holy Ghost is now your strength, and that it is he who now "worketh in

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you to will and to do of his good pleasure;" therefore I say in the Holy Ghost, as Paul did of old, Work out your own salvation," just as you are, in nights and days, that is, "with June, 1815.]

fear and trembling;" for this is the divine blessing, in the power, gifts and operations of the Holy Ghost, that you may press through the troop of evil spirits, and with the soul and spirit, hand and pen, cut and wound, and finally "work out your salvation, as the Holy One works in you to will and to do of his own good pleasure," Phil. ii. 22, 23.

So that in due time you shall say, that "We are more than conquerors through him that hath loved us. Now I pray you observe, to be more than conquerors, is to triumph in the Lord over the evil spirits, even as our Head triumphed over them on his cross, making a shew of them openly, and then cried with a loud voice, pouring out his soul unto death, and committing it into his Father's hands, and his dead body to the Holy Ghost to be put into the tomb, according to the everlasting covenant, that the divine nature and essence, which was never separated from his humanity in life or death, should rise again the third day, more than a conqueror over Satan, the world, sin and death, that we, his members, might live, die, and have as certain a resurrection of our bodies in the last day, as that our souls, like the soul of the thief upon the cross, shall, at the moment of temporal death, be with the Lord in paradise. It was thus Jesus, the resurrection and the life, after forty days, having eaten and drank with his disciples, ascended up into heaven, both divine and human, very incarnate God, and took the middle seat in the glorious high throne. And in order that all the churches might be assured he is the same for ever, he appeared in a visionary way to John, and so he did to me, before he sent me to write and to preach, shewing himself in these words: "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and death. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last, the

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root and the offspring of David, the bright and the morning star," giving from his communicable but inexhaustible fulness grace to all his members on earth, and glory to all his members in heaven. Beloved

Who then can sink with such a prop
As bears the world and all things up?

You know he who is our Saviour is wonderful, and cannot be seen or known, much less loved and believed in, only as revealed in us by God the Father, and to us by himself, by and in his word, whilst the Holy Ghost gives us a heart to know and praise him, with the Father and Holy Ghost, one God, the Godhead, as you have written so blessedly in your letter to me. I am much comforted to find you are, in the divine blessing, assured that no lexicon or dictionary, save the Lord's, namely, the Bible, in the Godhead's power, can reveal Jesus Christ, the true God and eternal life, the King eternal, immortal. Thus as false Christs are and will be preached, may God the Holy Ghost enable you, my dear brother, through his blessing in and upon you, to comfort your dear wife, and to keep yourselves from idols, as also your relations and neighbours. Amen.

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This letter, beloved am, in my body mouldering to dust, and my soul is with our all-glorious Ishi, shall bear witness against all the false Christs and false prophets, as shall all my writings, in union with the blessed Archbishop Usher's treatise of Immanuel.” I pray you to help our beloved brother,

to circulate that blessed book. God for ever bless you and your's and all his Israel. Amen.

My love to you in Christ, however, constrains me to write a line or two upon the terrors I found years back, and may God render the same a blessing.

First, then, after the Lord God renewed me, as his begotten child, and the grace of life with truth was in

me, as my writings testify, Satan was permitted to harass my soul, and well nigh to overwhelm me, endeavouring to persuade me that I was not elected of God, nor predestinated to eternal life and glory; and that as I had made some mistakes, and had fallen into sin since I had believed there were proofs, that therefore I was reprobate. And as I was enabled to resist him for a time, by declaring my desire after holiness, and my love to God and his people, and how I was melted, humbled and revived, and if I could help it, would never sin, but be ever praying to God the Holy Ghost to lead me and to keep me; Satan presently suggested that it was all his own work: I frightened you, said he, and so you were humbled, and confessed your sins, and began to pray; I then gave you promises, that made you comfortable, and so raised you up again; but know it was all a deception, you are a lost man. Oh, while in this state no tongue can tell what I felt, for, despairing in terrors, awful to say, I felt anger against God. Then came Satan again, saying, that is the token of reprobatcs; now you see I can do as I please with I do believe my hair stood up on the flesh of my head. But just at this moment a divine impression, with some words I forget, melted my soul into exceeding lowliness, and I wept before God as if I had been at his feet before his glorious throne. Then Satan thrust at me as one that would destroy me, saying, I have done it all, you are reprobate. Then I fainted in myself, leaning upon a piece of tim ber to support myself, when these words entered into my soul: "If Satan be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?" Then, my beloved I was assured that

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Satan was to me a liar, and in the given strength of the Holy Ghost, as a conqueror, I said, You are a liar, Satan, I have not been under a delusion, God is my salvation, he has wrought all my works. So, my dear

friends, I can experimentally say, that "when the enemy (Satan) cometh in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord (that is, the Holy Ghost, the Lord the Spirit) shall lift up a standard against him."

In that deliverance the Lord Jesus, my Saviour, whilst the Father and blessed Spirit seemed looking or me and on Satan, spake as in me these words to Satan :

"Satan, avaunt, stand off ye foes,

In vain ye rail, in vain oppose;
Your cancelled claim no more obtrude.
He's mine, I bought him with my blood."
HART.

Now, indeed, no tongue can tell the joy, peace, and full assurance of glory hereafter that filled my soul. It was a joy unspeakable, and full of glory. 1 Peter i. 8.

From that time I began to talk of the Lord's goodness and power to peoples about me, and to write to relations, and laboured to win sinners to Jesus, and persuade them to resist and flee from Satan and sin, and blessed be God in that line, being "a Napthali let loose," above thirty years ago, never thinking of being a preacher, God was pleased to bring many sinners to himself, as he did by the woman of Samaria, see John iv. 39, 40, 41, 42; so brother our altogether lovely Lord and God, Jesus Jehovah, led me in his, and the Father, and Holy Ghost's power and blessing to fight his battles, and bruise Satan and his seed, and win sinners to God himself. Gen. iii. 15; to Rev. xxii. 14, 21.

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In that line I prospered until, alas, after a time, the Lord permitted Satan to carry me night after night, by dreams and visions, in which to my amazement, as I had never sworn an oath from the time of my conversion, I used to swear in my dreams and visions, in my sleep, and fought all night with young men, who also cursed and fought against me; and when I awoke my soul was full of

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terrors and horrors, whilst Satan suggested I was now given over to a reprobate mind." Oh, the distress of my soul was past expression, but what was astonishing, I found myself melted into tears every morning when I kneeled down before the Father of mercies, and in and through Jesus Christ, my hope, 1 prayed in the Holy Ghost to be delivered from all sin, sinful deeds in dreams and visions, and from satanic powers. But all continued until I was almost worn out; well, in my distress, I went down to hear the blessed Mr. Brook, at Brighton, whom I loved, and who greatly loved me, and after hearing I went to him, and opened my heart, informing him of all my distress, and how I fought and swore night after night.

Well, said the blessed Brook, you may lay it on the back or head of the devil; you would not swear or fight, or do evil, either asleep or awake, if you could help it. That gave me some encouragement, but no deliverance, for again, night after night, all my evils came on, and the days I moaned, and dreaded going to bed at night. This was a sore conflict! awful terrors! dreadful terrors! Yet every morning I found free access, in the blessing of the Holy Ghost, unto the Father, in and through Jesus, my hope, the Mediator in prayer, confessions, and supplications for deliverance or salvation. Eph. ii. 18.

Thus, I find, that man is blessed who, by grace, through faith, in hope, and love endureth temptations; for in and after the conflict, in due time he shall receive a crown of life. James i. 12.

Well, the conflict continued for many weeks, and I went to Chichester, taking with me an elder lady, an excellent woman, at her request, in my chaise to hear Mr. J. Jenkins, of Lewes, the beloved brother and friend of the blessed Huntington, and in hearing Jenkins, he was led in his

preaching to treat of Satan's buffeting the saints, and of all their conflicts in days and nights, in dreams; nay, my own case was described, an then judging righteous judgment, in the power of the Holy Ghost, he said, you shall be conquerors for souls; for the more Satan strives to destroy you by all his permitted powers, so much the more will the Holy Ghost strengthen you, and you shall be victors, and have the crown! When, to my astonishment, Satan was so wounded, and my soul so filled with blessings, I felt deliverance, and with that blessed Elder I sang praise to God, Three One, our Jehovah, from Chichester to Petworth, saying—

"Tho' storms of sevenfold thunders roll,
And shake the globe from pole to pole,
No flaming bolts shall daunt my face,
For Jesus is my hiding place," &c. &c.

Then going to my house, and to my bed, all was peace, rest, meekness, lowliness, and sweet meditation..And never since, to that extent, have I found the like terrors, horrors, or evils. I think I wrote something of this to you in my last, but not to the degree I have now written, and I do assure you my pen has run on no faster thar my soul and heart has rejoiced in the Lord over self, sin, the devil and his angels, and in love and goodwill gallopping to Marden, to spread open the letter to you, my friends. In all this love and goodwill, I say, God bless you! and God bless my writing! You must correct it, for I have proceeded too fast to correct any mistakes in words, or stops, or any thing, whilst I knew the substance is from the Holy One. Psalm xlv. 1, 2. Unto the Holy Ghost, and the Father, and Christ, one eternal everlasting God, be praise. Amen.

Yet this much I must add, although I am an old man, and much favoured by God, I find but just strength enough to stand against Satan, sin, and evils, nay, I cannot stand so as never to fall. 1 John 7-10.

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Ar the death of Christ there was a consternation in all creation; of this we are assured by inspired and uninspired writers, which took place to the astonishment of angels, but to the rejoicing of the Satanic host, but the triumph of the wicked is short; at the resurrection of our Lord, they beheld their ruin to be past all remedy, and in the ministry of the apostles, they felt the power and force of that Holy One, whom they had hur. ried men on to crucify, but what was the feelings of his followers, during the interval of his crucifixion, they viewed the proceedings of the Jews, from his apprehension to his death with sorrow and amazement. They saw that holy man on whom they had fixed their fond hopes arraigned at Pilate's bar, condemned, scourged, nailed alive to the tree, hung up be tween heaven and earth, until he expired, they saw him laid in the grave and then the glorious light that had appeared, they began to think was altogether put out, and they themselves hid themselves for fear of Solomon their Lord's enemies, as

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