whom shall Jacob arise, seeing he is small." This fully persuaded me that I should soon be called to preach the everlasting gospel of our dear Lord Jesus in some other places besides Chichester, and when I received the letter to come where I am, my heart sunk within me, yet at the same was fully persuaded it was of the Lord, and that I should not refuse. I had much exercise of mind before I set out, and many cries to the Lord to have the way made clear, and blessed, for ever blessed be the glo.ious Sun of Righteousness, he was pleased to shine into my heart and understanding, and this assured my heart that they were his dear people that he had called me to go and preach to, and made my heart willing to go into regions to make known the savour of his precious name, which, dear sister, we have found to be as ointment poured forth, to heal all our spiritual diseases. Oh may his word run and glorify him in this place, and I trust it is the case, as the people receive the poor instrument very kindly in heart, and they say they have had a feast of fat things since the Lord has brought me; so that it is not in vain in the Lord. And oh, my dear sister, I am glad to tell you we have had some sips of that river which makes glad the heart of the poor wounded sinner. I find also, through this, a sweet union to the people whom I have been with.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, for all his blessings to us his dear family. But here some of the people are of that sort who have all heads but no hearts to love and fear our dear Lord Jesus. I expect they will give me a call to be over them, as the deacons and prineipal of the people hear me very well. They are also mostly Mr. Huntington's old hearers. But in this I know not how to act at the present, neither can I yet get fully at the will of the Lord. And my sister must know that my heart has many strong ties at Chichester, such as are

not soon broken or got from. And especially in the Lord's blessing me as an instrument in calling poor sinners out of darkness into his marvel

lous light. These I find near my heart, and also all those who have continued with me in my temptations and persecutions. But on the other hand it looks likely that the Lord will use means in answering me, terrible things in righteousness to drive me out by much opposition, heavy trials in providence, yea, moreover, starvation itself, if I will not go without it. And you know, my very dear sister, in some measure, the heavy trials, sore persecutions, and powerful oppositions I have met with from devils, the church, mere professors, and profane. So much so, that it has at times brought me down to the gates of death, and my poor wife and children have suffered want. But through the help of my unchanging God I continue to this present day, preaching a precious Jesus as the only hope of salvation to poor sinners. I find the good Lord has been learning me lessons which will be useful to me, and which I would not have been without for all the world. Brother P. is still living with me; I hope the Lord will appear for him: he sends his kind love to you all. I beg, my dear sister, an interest in your prayers. Oh that time and distance may never make us forget each other. I should like to see my poor sister's face shine once more here below. God Almighty bless So prays

you.

THE SEVEN DISPENSATIONS.

The Antediluvian-the Patriarchal-the Wilderness-the Temple-the Christian-the Millenial-the Glory.

V. THE CHRISTIAN.

'Tis midnight: the landscape is silent as death,

And the night wind moves gently, restraining its breath.

Nought breaks on the whispers which won

der confess,

While astonished her sages grey science address.

With tube philosophic, the skies while exploring,

They behold a new star, and behold it adoring. Its beamings they trace to an humble abode, And with gifts and prostrations acknowledge the God.

Meantime, at Ephratah, while tending their fold,

Strange sounds and strange scenes the awed

shepherds behold:

The sky its gemmed mantle of sable flings by, And a throng of bright angels descend from on high.

Hark! loud they come singing in accents of joy,

And redemption's fruition their voices employ.

Oh surely when thus from his glory above, Christ came to accomplish his mission of love; When descending to suffer privation and pain, That his people might realize favour again; His advent would wake the wide world into joy,

And in glad preparation all people employ. Alas for the Saviour no shelter was found! His birth-place a stable,his cradle the ground! And ere the young mother's first smile had passed by,

Persecution compelled them that refuge to fly.

And thus grew his youth, as his childhood

begun,

Veiled in the mean garb of a carpenter's son.
And when to the nations Messiah confest,
No splendours of this world the Saviour in-

vest.

The man, still, of sorrows, companion with those

Acquainted with troubles, afflictions, and

woes.

And he dies after torture, and anguish, and

scorn,

A mocked malefactor, a victim forlorn.

Immanuel! thou cam'st not, the world's painted show,

Its pageantries, pleasures, or follies to know: Thou cam'st not to punish, to conquer, to awe,

In vengeance to visit for breaking the law : Thou cam'st in compassion for sin to atone, God's law to fulfil, and God's love to make known.

And though thus obscure thou dost sojourn while here,

Some beams of thy glory would often appear.

The sick were restored, the possessed were set free,

Death trembling gave back its pale victims to thee:

Thy word stilled the storm when its fury was high,

Thy word brought new light to the lustreless eye:

And when in thine agony, nailed on the tree, The affrighted earth owned its Creator in

thee.

The Lord hath ascended, hath vanquished the grave,

And realized now is the promise he gave: The Comforter present, in likeness of fire, With suitable gifts the apostles inspire: Victorious they publish their crucified Lord, And multitudes called own the power of the word.

What though racks, and dungeons, and torture, and death,

Loud threatening attend their confession of faith,

The Saviour's bright smile makes the dungeon a heaven,

And strength to endure is abundantly given. The stake and the gibbet, the rack and the

Twin fiends, superstition and bigotry, dwell
And practice on earth the inventions of hell.
Anathemas like an incubus confined
The volitions of soul and aspirings of mind;
While torture malicious sits fierce in his cave,
Devising new pangs to keep thought in its
grave.

Sweet Isle of the Ocean, the first to awake,
I see thee thy bondage arising to break.
Hail Wycliffe! thy name o'er the land of
my birth,

Sheds a lustre which makes thee the boast of the earth:

First soldier who blew at Rome's citadel door,

A dauntless defiance, precursor of more: Proclaiming the spots on faith's countenance fair,

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Defilements encrusted by heresy there. Hail Luther! who tore the black curtain aside,

Exposing the horrors of Vatican pride : Who brushed off the cobwebs that shrouded the word,

And gave to the nations the book of the Lord. Hail Calvin! divinely inspired to retrace, The doctrines of truth in the gospel of grace. Great names, which like gems on the forehead of time,

Shine always refulgent with lustre sublime.

The fathers, where are they? the prophets, say where?

Zion's watch-towers now have few sentinels there.

The array of bright stars which her firmament cheered

Her brave men, her mighty, have all disappeared:

And now, in our Sardis, the faithful are seen, Like grapes when the vintage is past-far between.

Forgetful of all the red horrors which gave

This life, what is it but a span?
What 's seventy years, the life of man?
'T is like a vapour or a dream,
Soon passed away and no more seen.
But there's a state of bliss or woe,
To which we all must shortly go;
God grant in mercy and in love,
We may be called to dwell above.

And when we reach that happy land,
And with the blood-washed children stand;
We shall with Jesus ever reign,
And praise the Lamb who once was slain.

There rattling thunders never roll,
Ör lightnings flash from pole to pole;
There troublous waves no more annoy,
To break our peace or damp our joy.

But we shall make heaven's arches ring
With heavenly strains to heaven's own King;
When we shall reach that blissful shore,
Where winds and waves distress no more.

Sweet Jesus! with thy flock abide,
Keep them, Oh keep them near thy side;
Thy precious blood dear Lord apply,
And bring thy ransomed children nigh.

May all while life's pulsations last,
On Thee be led their loads to cast;
Do thou their every need supply,
And guard them with a watchful eye.

Oh may they to thy footstool go
With every trouble, sin, and woe!
Making thy blood their only plea,
To gain acceptance, Lord, with thee.

Make them approach thee vile and base,
To know their need of sovereign grace;
Aud helpless urge this only plea,
In merey, Lord, remember me.

Then will we make thy name our boast,
Who came to seek and save the lost;
And sing through life, and death's dark sea,
A dying Christ is all to me.

On the Opening Bethesda Chapel, Hull, in Yorkshire, Lord's-day Morning, July 3, 1842.

"The silver and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts. And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts." -Haggai ii. 8, 9.

AND who is the Lord of Hosts? But Jehovah in his trinity of Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: the holy three glorious hypostases, existing and subsisting in the unity of the divine essence!"Hear, therefore, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth." The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten, but is self-existant, self-independent; having being in and of himself, over all God blessed for evermore." The Son likewise is the " brightness of glory, and the express image of the Father's person," neither created or begotten; but is co-equally and co-essentially the same in every particular, as he himself proclaimed: "I and my Father are one." And that the Holy October, 1842.]

Ghost also is a person, equal in glory, majesty, and dignity with the Father and the Son, is clear from the Lord's own words in John xiv. 26. "Now," saith Paul, "the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty;" to "reckon ourselves dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Is the Father therefore God? so also is the Son God, and so likewise is the Holy Ghost God; who "only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto: whom no man hath seen nor can see, to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."

"The holy Triune One we bless,

And in this faith we boast;
That as the Father is, such is
The Son and Holy Ghost.
No inequality we know,

Essentially the same;
The utmost glory we allow

To each most hallowed name!

Then again, that God the Father is set forth in his covenant character as "the Lord of Hosts," it is said of him in Zech. ii. 10, 11. That God the Son also in his headship character is revealed by the same name, we read Isa. viii. 13, 14, 15. And once more that God the Holy Ghost is the Lord

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of Hosts, is plain from his revelation in Zech. vi. 12, 13. Thus you perceive, brethren, the Lord our God, in his threefold personalities, is the almighty and underived Covenanters, Creators, Proprietors, and Governors of all things in heaven and on earth. (Ps. xxiv. 1, 2.) And thus by way of proof it is expressly affirmed in my text, The silver and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts." Most certainly for he made it, and all things beside," according to his eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus before the world began." Wherefore Jehovah sweetly proclaims for our comfort, 'We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver," Song i. 11.

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But this is not all necessary to be noticed on the threshold of our opening subject. Inasmuch as that Jehovah in his trinity of Persons is not only styled the Lord of Hosts, because all things are of him, and through him, and to him: but also, because he worketh all things in creation, providence, grace and glory, after the counsel of his own will.' For the Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich; he bringeth low and lifteth up," 1 Sam. ii. 6—9. Bildad the Shuhite said, "Dominion and peace are with him he maketh peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies ? and upon whom doth not his light arise?” Thanks unto the Lord of Hosts, therefore "sin shall not have dominion over us, for we are not under the law, but under grace," Rom. vi. 14. "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them he said, this is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. For the chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai in the holy place." Why sayest thou then O Jacob," Isa. xi. 27-31.

With respect however to the mere letter of our morning scripture, the prophet Haggai, who was the inspired penman of it, was raised up by God the Holy Ghost after the Babylonish captivity, to reprove the Jews for minding so much their own habita tions, to the total neglect of the house of the Lord. Is it time for you, O ye," &c. i. 4. "Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do you see it now?" ii. 3, 5. How cheering those gracious "Fear ye nots are scattered up and down the holy book of God, when spoken home to the heart by God the Holy Ghost. Because then it is the Spirit. Rom. viii. 16, 17. Therefore thus saith the Lord in Isa. xlii. 1, 2, 3. Thus you see while the prophet is led to hint at the former grandeur, splendour and magnificence of Solomon's temple, (wherein was the divine Shekinah-five signs