to keep and preserve him on his jour, ney, and if it was his will, he would bring him up again; for I esteemed him highly for his work's sake. His words were to me as bread cast on the waters, which my soul fed upon after many days. After this I sunk very low. I knew my sins were not pardoned, and this was a great grief to me; and if I tried to lay hold of any word that I had heard him say, or think of that power which accom. panied the word, this scripture would follow me, "Put no confidence in a guide." This troubled me very much, and robbed me of all that I had got, and left me without hope. To be continued. LETTER ON SPIRITUAL SUBJECTS. My dear brother-Your letter, although long delayed, was a timely one, for I assure you I had more than twice made up my mind not to come and see you when I returned to town, for I thought you very uncharitable towards me, since I have been left to fight with my corruptions almost ever since I left you, and have been so frequently foiled that I have been all but giving over, had not the Lord come to my relief in a seasonable time, when I thought all was over with me, when Satan urged that it was no use for such a creature as me to pray was evident, for I found no answer to my prayers, and the people of the world and the people of God turned their backs on me. In the bitterness of my soul I refused to be comforted, for I have seen so much of the depravity cf my heart, and not only seen it, but have tasted the bitterness of it, that I could not reply against my Maker, because when be called I refused to hear, so when I called, then he refused to hear me, but, blessed be his name, I can praise him still, and I hope to have to praise him for more; for though he has suffered a host of enemies to rise up and prevail against me in a measure, and I have been pressed to the earth, as it were, with the overpowering weight of them, I can see mercy in the design of them, all to make me less in love with the world, and the things. of creatures, and bring me into a nearer acquaintance with himself. This is what I now desire, that my heart may be warmed with his love, my confidence increased, my hope confirmed, that I may be enabled by his grace, so to walk before him, that I may shew forth his praise in my life, that I may not be a stumbling block to others, and cause the cause of Christ to be reproachfully spoken of. My dear brother you see nothing in yourself but what is depressing, you are not alone in this case, for I can take nothing but shame and confusion to myself, for inconsistent walking ever since I knew the Lord. Oh if he had shut up his tender mercies from me, for ever, I must own him just; though such has been the rebellion and blindness of my heart, that I have very often thought him hard in requiring of his people, what they had neither ability, nor disposition to perform, but he has since let me see that my suffi. ciency is of himself, for these things, and not in me. I want to experience. the truth of the promise, wherein it says, God's people shall not walk in the wages of sin; and I want to feel all my actions governed by love to him. I want him to reign the su preme object of my affections, for he alludes to a tine, in that same book, which you referred me to in some letter, which was consoling and drew tears of gratitude; I trust you seek unmerited mercy; but he says, in another part of that book, that he will circumcise the hearts of his people, to love him, this is what I want to experience, that I may be enabled to set to my seal that God is true to his promises; nor can I really think that he will disappoint me, for though the vision tarry, we are to wait for it; only let me be found waiting where it is to be obtained, at his throne of grace. I have filled this sheet, and cannot say half what I want to say, you complain of contractedness on yourself, what shall I say, that I envy you, for could I put my thought and feeling into correct sentences I might perhaps tire your patience; but I will leave what I have said, to say, till I see you, give my love to all, and accept the same, from your affectionate sister, FRAGMENT. A. F. Hath he the heart of a christian, who doth not often meditate on the death of his Saviour, who doth not derive his life from it? Who can look into the gospel, and not fix on those lines which either immediately and directly, or through some other paths of divine grace and wisdom, do lead him thereunto? Can any have believing thoughts concerning the death of Christ, and not have his heart affected with ardent love unto his person? Christ in the gospel is evidently set forth crucified before us. Can any by the eye of faith look on this blessed dying Redeemer, and suppose love unto his person to be nothing but the work of fancy or imagination? They know the contrary, who always bear about in their body the dying of the Lord Jesus, as the apostle speaks, 2 Cor. iv. 10. As his whole name, in all that he did, is as ointment poured forth. for which the virgins love him; so this precious perfume of his death, is that wherewith their hearts are ravished in a peculiar manuer. A FRAGMENT. Justification is a judicial act of God, but free, whereby an elect believing sinner is absolved from the guilt of his sins, and a right adjudged to him of eternal life, for and because of the obedience of Chirst, received by faith. ROMAINE. LETTER TO A FRIEND. It is not for want of affection toward you, that I have not written, for I assure you, that you are often upon my mind; but the contracted state of my spirit, has been the cause of my long silence; and were it not, that you should not feel it unkindly, I should not now write; for whilst I think of, and view myself, I have nothing but what is calculated to depress myself, and others who know me. And yet again when I am reminded favoured to feel a little of the power of the Lord's mercy to me, and am of his grace; I possess a never ending theme, and regret, that I cannot utter his praise as I would. O, what a contrast does the soul see and feel, between itself, and the dear Redeemer, vileness against purity, enmity against love, unworthiness against grace, misery against mercy; and yet amidst all this still kept, still preserved, still visited, still supplied, still chastened, and still loved by a covenant God. Well may it be written of the people of God, "happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord," &c. True they do not always feel so, yet the foundation of their happiness never changes, and by and by it will by them be everlastingly, and uninterruptedly enjoyed. How wonderful that the Lord's gracious promises, and declarations, are accompanied by such description of character, that such poor benighted travellers as you, and I, may be enligthened in, and encouraged on our way. Look at that precious verse Deut. xxxiii. 29, and you will see when the Lord and the sinner meet, the soul by sin is lost, yet Jesus comes to save; by sin it is exposed to wrath; yet the Lord is a shield, by sin it is robbed of all defence against its adversaries; yet the Lord is the sword of their excellency, Through sin we are deceived and deluded, and threatened with sore, and fearful judgments by our adversaries; yet the Lord in rich mercy, says, our enemies shall be found liars unto us, and we shall tread upon their high places. So that an experimental knowledge of our misery, as lost, defenceless, and deluded, and benighted, though painful, are evidences of interest, for only to such, and for such is the dear Redeemer in all his precious saving relations, and characters. May he enable you to take comfort from these feeble hints. I shall forbear saying any thing relative to our affairs at home till we see you, when we shall have much to tell you; only this, through mercy we are all well, and hoping you are the same, I remain, Your's truly, T. R. AN OLD WATCHMAN'S MINISTRATIONS (Continued from page 46) By all we have previously said or printed, respecting the divine bless ing upon and within The Zion of the Holy One;" and against the heresiarchs who are denying the imputed righteousness of Christ, to be the only justification of the election without works, and substituting by doctrines, unscripturally, the person of Christ for imputed sanctification and righteousness of the election, we testify that so they deny the truth, resist the Holy Ghost, insult the Father, tempt Christ, and issue by such delusive false doctrines, impure fire and pernicious smoke around Zion, which in the will and working of God, by his watchmen, pastors and editors, and renewed public witnesses in Zion, he will quench! Yes he will quench the violence of their impure fire, and dissipate their pernicious smoke; watering every moment his Zion, and lest any hurt it, he will keep it night and day. It is evident to us, that the aforesaid deluded men, which indeed are heresiarchs, even if any of them are renewed, being inflamed by their impure fire, and confused by their smoke that they have not properly considered, much less experienced and known, as all the renewed did from Adam to N unto David, Isaiah, and all the prophets, apostles, and their successors to Luther, Calvin, Bunyan, and others unto us: That believers, in, by and through the righteausness and blood of Christ are perfectly justified and cleansed from sin's guilt! And therefore the Spirit of Christ, that is the Holy Ghost will perfectly cleanse all believers from sin's filth! Mark ye heresiarchs, that the election unto whom the righteousness of Christ is imputed for justification without works, were chosen by God the Father to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. even to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. And verily it was so proved, in and by their sanctification, justification, and at length perfectly changed from mortal to immortality; Enoch, and Elijah so rendered sinless, both verily obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. We aver therefore and challange the universal companies of heresiarchs, to scripturally ceny it. That" the sanctificat on of the Spirit and belief of the truth," is the true token of our eternal election; and the evidence of our redemption from the curse of the law by Christ, and of our regeneration; and is the full proof that Christ's righteousness is imputed to us for justification, and that our faith is the faith of God's elect, and our hope a good hope through grace, and that our love, is the love of God that is imputed, and shed abroad in us by the Holy Ghost; and we have a meetness for our soul' sentrance into glory at the temporal death of our bodies, never once thinking, saying, or writing, that any merit is in us, or meritorious deeds of righteousness have been, or can be done by us! No, no, but in the sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;" in the blessings of godly sorrow for sin which is yet indwelling, and is our continual plague, we all in self. denial, and filial reverence, ascribe to the only wise God our Saviour all merit, glory, majesty, dominion and power. Thus contrary to the aforesaid, deluded men who are exulting in false fire and denying "the sanctification of the Spirit." we by and in the Spirit of sanctification and belief of the truth, as his watchmen, pastors, and editors, testify to our hearers and readers in Zion, "Now the Lord is, that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. We all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord." Thus we are constrained to testify, that the aforesaid heresiarchs and their deluded followers, shall never be truly joyful, or enjoy christian liberty, or have a real spiritual full assurance of obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, as Paul and we have, at the removal of our souls from our mortal vile bodies, much less have a change of their whole persons from mortality to immortality and glory with Enoch and Elijah; whilst they deny the sanctification of the Spirit,' and substitute unscripturally the person of Christ for the election's imputed sanctification! However for those faithful sayings and ministrations in Zion we are condemned, and defamed by the heresiarchs, whilst our ser mons and treatises are handed about, as condemned ministrations; and our selves are denounced individually and collectively-sceptical opposers, unsound professors, men in rebellion against the truth, having the smell of the old rotten leaven of self righteousness; free-willers, working for Sa. tan to cheat one another; mingling grace, and works which they declare will gender us all into hell, if we die as we live. With these hard speeches against us, issuing as impure fire, and pernicious smoke surrounding our hearers and readers in Zion, condeming, degrading, and bruising us, whilst justifying and exalting them. selves; they declare our doctrines of sanctification is wretched cant, denouncing us motley evangelicals, academy-made priests! And then if possible in order to stop our mouths with their pernicious smoke, and consume our hands and pens from writing, and especially from publishing in magazines they have have furnshed a recent highly recommended publication, on the person of Christ, whom they say, is the election's imputed sanctification, opposed to “ tification of the Spirit and belief of the truth," as we testify with Paul, Peter, and John, and in that they have ventured to publish, a declared God directed message to us, namely, that our building in and through the Spirit, as Paul, Peter, and John built churches, shall fall! Yes, the here. siarchs are so deluded as to declare, the Lord sent them to " say unto the wall it shall fall; and there shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, 0 great hailstones, and stormy wind, (say they) shall rend it." But I say, fear not oh, blessed Zion of the Holy One, " pray without ceasing" in the Holy Ghost, as he scripturally teacheth, and prompteth, approaching unto the Father, in and through Christ, our exalted Saviour, and meritorious head, ministering priest, and communicable inexhaustible fountain, for "wisdom,righteousness, sanctification, the sanc Whilst the im the and and redemption." puted righteounesss of Christ is upon you for justification and justifying righteousness in sight of God the Father, whilst the Father's ring is on your hand, and the preparation of the gospel of peace, the Spirit's shoes are on your feet. Saying, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." And attend in those blessings to my following ministrations, by and through which, the spirits of those heresiarchs shall be tried. And may the Lord God, if it be his plea. sure deliver them, and their deluded followers from their impure fire and pernicious smoke. Amen. Observe, I pray you, oh Zion, that our trying the spirits of the heresiarchs, by and in the Spirit of sanctification and belief of the truth, in obedience to his will and working, must be not only by his laws and testimony; and our own experience of the sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth; but by " the law and testimony" in the Spirit's power and blessing giving the experience of all the saints; which in measure, has been declared in my ministrations. and is in measure declared in David's experience, by and in which we see that although David, as a renewed man, and a believer in, by and through the righteousness, and blood of Christ was perfectly justified, and cleansed from sin's guilt, yet he needed, as all the Zion of the Holy' One, need the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ, and Spirit of sanctification, to perfectly cleanse him, as us, and all true believers from sin's filth! Hart says. 'The christian cries, unclean, unclean! Even though released from guilt!' On, ye peoples, see ye and hear renewed David's trial, which trial, I say, I have passed through! Come ye beresiarchs, and have your trial with David, and all the saints, if you can endure the same, and you must April, 1846.] endure the trial and be cleansed, or prove you are reprobates. Oh behold David's trial, under the chastenings of God the Father, out of his law, through soul, heart, mind, and conscience for sins, that is, for filthiness of flesh and Spirit, and under the rebukes of the Son in God, Christ Jesus. And under the reproofs of the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of judgment, the Spirit of believ ing and the Spirit of sanctification to try him, and to purge him, washing away his filth. Hear ye his sighs, moans and cries in his trial unto the Father, in and through the Son, the only Mediator and propitiator for his sins, his meritorious head, saying, in the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of sanctification, grace, faith, hope, love, #doption, and supplications, feeling godly sorrow for sins under the rod, mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin-purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean ; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." So the trial and cleansing goes on! Blessed be God! ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK. Have "Take my brethren the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord; for an example, of suffering, affliction, and patience." My dear Brother, In my last communication I endeavoured to impress your mind with a strict regard to all the appointments of the Lord's house, being assured that in keeping his commandments there is great reward: in this exercise I worlu say, there is nothing legal: the believing sinner works from life, and from power within, and evidences by the labour of his hands, the mighty change that has been effected by the Holy Spirit's grace upon M |