"out of that family, it is hoped, are since gone to heaven, while the adjoining building is the present place of worship. In the day time he laboured at the building, at night he sat down and read the scriptures to them. Now, two gifted brethren, Pell and Jones, preach to them, who have frequently more to hear than the place will hold; and blessed be God, their labours are very useful, the Gospel at Draycott is acknowledged and felt to be the joyful sound. The place is one of the most dreary conceivable in the winter season, but in the summer truly del ghtful; being surrounded with beautiful hills on every hand, which on a Lord's day exhibit many interesting groups of villagers going to or returning from the house of God. A few Sabbaths ago two Deacons were chosen, they have also a school consisting of between 70 and 80 children; O that abuodant prosperity may attend them! Coventry. F. F. The following account, copied from a letter of brother Southam's own writing, will afford addition, al information. Rev. and dear sir, You desired me to give you a short account of the cause of Christ at Draycott, how it began, and by whom, and what means were used. I answer, Christ began the work there, and he has carried it on till now; and I desire to give him all the praise; but you will ask who was the instrument be made use of, and how how did he make him act 2, The person he made use of in some of his work there, was such an unworthy creature as lam, Edward Southam, a very unlikely man to do any good, but so it is, and God will do what he please. Ever since the Lord was pleas ed to make me know any thing of my wicked heat, and his wonderful mercy to me, I have experienced a great concern for, and love to the souls of my fellow creatures; and I trust have been stirred up by God's Spirit, to use various means to gain souls to Christ; and to his praise, they have not been altogether in vain. For 7 years past, I have been concerned for that part of the country, though I knew nothing of Draycott; first I went out at night, to meet with some poor man at Thurla-ton, and about 4 years ago I went out 2 days roundthat part of the Country. Three years since, I was conversing with a christian from Thurlaston, Charles Cockril, who spake to me of a brother he had at Draycott, he said "I am much concerned for my brother, his hatred to me is such, on account of my religion, he says he would not mind slaying me.' I said, "Charles let us try what we can do; I will set you a field to drain, and you get him to help; as he wants work." He came, and began to work, and I began to talk; be said but little however, and when I asked him to go up to the house at breakfast time, he went very reluctantly. At our family worship, 1 read a chapter, and talked to the man with the rest; he was convinced of his folly, went home praying, and from that time became a lover of the truth. I sometime afterwards went over to Draycott, to the house of this Thomas Cockrill, and there met with a few poor people; by and bye they were threatned by great men,which occasioned some fear that they should be turned out of their houses. I then began to think what could be done, and was told that there was a place which they thought could be bought, called Coleman's hall, a room commonly used for sinful mirth. I sought after the place and bought it, although I had not five pounds of my own. I do not know whether I had one, but being persuaded in my mind that the cause was of God, I believed he would provide for it. The first man I asked, lent me the money. I then built a small place, and the Lord sent as many people as it could bold; the people increased so fast, that I threw open the large room, Coleman's hall, which joined, that soon became too small. I then built a part more up to it, which altogether holds about 300 people. Dear sir, I have no more to say, only this, let us pray for more faith, more love, moie zeal, more strength, more wisdom, and more grace to help us in doing something in the cause of Christ. I am &c. E. SOUTHAM. The Path of Duty. Soft is the Path of Duty; passing fair, Strong is the arm of pow'r, the Kingly band Nay more for endless ages of delight, Where sin no more assails---where sorrows cease, Printed at Smith's Printing-Office, Tiverton. THE BAPTIST MAGAZINE. DECEMBER, 1811. The Prophecy of Enoch. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have nngodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungod ly sinners have spoken against him. JUDE 14, 15. Whence had Jude this prophecy? He received it either by Tradition, and thus put it into the Canon of Scripture, or from some Writings which bore his name, of which the Jews record a volume consisting of several thousand Lines, called the Prophecy of Enoch. Tertullian says, "There was a Prophecy of Enoch kept by Noah in the Ark, which book is now lost.' Why does Jude select this prophecy in preference to many equally pertinent, and which remain on record. To this we may answer it was the most ancient prophecy. Enoch was the seventh from Adam, and the primitive times being the most free from prejudice and partiality, and the most remote from these Seducers, the testimony would have additional effect. The second reason is taken from the distinguished character of Enoch. He walked with God, he was not, for God took him and to whom does God reveal his secrets, but to the Prophets? The Secret of the Lord is in the Tabernacles of the Righteous. The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will teach his Way. His yery frame and privilege would inspire awe bordering upon reverence, and demand attention to all he delivered. On which we remark, : 1. The doctrine of a future Judgment is of very ancient date. Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of it. It was proclaimed in the Garden after the fall of our first Parents. Vol. III. 3 X They were tried, convinced, condemned, and punished. Mo ses, David, Daniel, Joel, Malachi, under the old; and Christ, Paul, Peter, John, and Jude, in the New Testament, record it. The Canon of Scripture is closed with this remarkable language, Behold I come quickly. The Church is introduced as uniting with the intention of her Lord, and answers, Come, Lord Jesus, Come quickly. God's conduct to former Nations is an indisputable proof of our assertion; the deluging of the World with water, and consuming the cities of the plain by fire from heaven prefigure it the only difference that will be found betwixt these appearances of his power and the final exhibition of his wrath, is that the latter will be upon a larger Scale. Conscience, that all powerful monitor in the human breast, forces the conviction with irresistible energy upon the mind. Whence is it that I am either accused or excused?-that I am dragged to an internal tribunal ?—that chains, harder than those of iron, bind me to observe its decisions--that when no human eye has been able to pry into my conduct, and no accuser is found to condemn me, when time might almost have defaced the remembrance of it from the mind, I am led irresistibly to acknowledge my guilt. Instances have been found in which the Guilty Culprit has sought from the laws of his country what his crime has deserved; hence the very heathen in this respect, who have not the law of God, had a law within themselves. The present distribution of good and evil fortell it. The conduct of the divine Being, the immortal desires which he has implanted within me, and the extent of those joys or pains I am capable of enduring, all, all remind me, There must be a judg ment to come. Where then is the individual that with this accumulated evidence before him, dares to deny it? Where must we look for him? Not in hell, they believe and tremble; but on earthly ground, for, says our Apostle, In the last days Scoffers shall come, walking after their own lust,saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the creation. II. The Judge will be very speedy in his approach. Behold the Lord cometh; he challenges our particular attention, and sets himself before us as making his entry among us; and if he was so near several thousand years past, what must he be now, when these latter days are come. "There is a fatal insensibility of mind cherished with reference to this solemn event. Men put far off the evil day, they say, My Lord delayeth his coming, and they begin to eat and drink, and to be drunken, and to beat the men servants and maid servants: they say, peace and safety when sudden destruction is coming upon them. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the end of the World, they ate, they drank, they married and were given in marriage, till the Flood came and swept them away. The reason is, what we do not see and feel, that we will not believe. It is profitable The time of his however, to realize the coming of the Lord. approach is only known to the Father, but the event is certain. It will have the most powerful influence upon our principles, our actions, our pursuits, it would wean us from These low Grounds where Sorrows grow And every pleasure dies. To realize it with pleasure, it is needful that in the Judge we should discern a Friend; that by a present application to the throne of Grace we may find Mercy of him in that day: that we should be often entering into judgment upon ourselves, and condemn the world by the holiness of our demeanour. 1II. The attendants on the Judge will be numerous, and splendid. The Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with the Voice of an Archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so shall we ever be with the Lord. The attendance of the saints upon the Saviour at that day, will not only be to swell the triumph, though he shall come to be admired in his Saints, and glorified in all them that believe; but to act with him in judgment. Their suffrage will be required, "Know ye not that we shall judge the World, yea and judge Angels too." We are often dismayed at the number of the Righteous, supposing, like one of old, that we only are left alone; forgetting that he is the Captain of a large Army, the first-born among many brethren, and that when they shall all be collected together, they will be a number whom no man can number. IV. The process of the judgment will be to convince and to condemn. To convince them of all the ungodly deeds which ungodly men have committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. The The characters to be judged are called ungodly men. word translated ungodly, signifies without worship, and it is used with reference to the Heathen, that live without the knowledge and worship of God, and with reference to men, who acknowledge the true God, but walk unsuitably to their profession; it is employed in the latter sense in the connexion before |