and yet God supported and protected me until he was pleased to shine into mine heart, and set before my eyes the whole human race in two classes, and the two covenant lines stretched out over them; and then he bid me lay by my forms of prayer, and pray to Jesus Christ, who in his word speaks so pitifully to sinners. I did so, and immediately the Spirit of grace and supplication came upon me; and Christ crucified was presented to my view, and set before my eyes, like a suffering. man in the centre of a million suns; which gave me, "The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." And this was not a momentary view, for I never wholly lost sight of it for nine months. At this sight sin and Satan, law and bondage, fear and torment, darkness and confusion, despair and distraction, guilt and shame, took their flight; when faith and hope, righteousness and peace, godly sorrow and real repentance, overwhelming love and soul-transporting joy, flowed in and ran out. The Lord's reward was with him, and his work before him. This is the foundation of my ministry; and I am sure my doctrine is not after man, for I learned it not of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ: and this fulfilled what the blessed Son of God promised. "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him; and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him," John xiv. 25. Not

long after this I was ordered to go and preach the kingdom of God, and doors were accordingly opened for me. Providence went before me, and pointed out my way; and I was greatly enlarged to preach in many dark corners, but chiefly in Surry and Sussex; until at last the Lord called unto me twice in my sleep, by the name of Son of man, telling me to prophesy upon the thick boughs, which was thus explained to me; that I was to leave the country, and go and settle in London. And the day following every thing conspired to facilitate my immediate removal. And though at my first preaching in town I had but few to hear me, yet in time the number increased to four or five hundred; and now I think I seldom preach to less, in both chapels, than three thousand every week. Thus the boughs, as God called them three-and-twenty years ago, continue to be thick: and, as to the name of Autinomian, we view it as a kind of scare-bird, which the devil hangs up in the pulpits of hypocrites on purpose to keep the Lord's doves from flying to their windows, Isai. lx. 8. And it has happened with this figure as it often does with an image when set up in a cherry tree; it will frighten the birds for a while, but, when the little creatures come to discover the cheat, you will see them sit upon the head of it. So has it been with many of the birds of Paradise. To be stigmatized for antinomians was dreadful; but, when they found it belonged to the offence of the cross, and that

it was given to those that know God for themselves, whilst the name of Evangelist was assumed by hypocrites only to blind the eyes of the simple, they submitted to it cheerfully, and wear it as a badge of honour, while the love of Christ makes this and every other burden light. Nay, it has even been of use to many of the Lord's family, having served to expose the inside of some of the evangelical preachers; insomuch that I am bold to affirm that many of them would sit at home for seven years, and read their Bible, rather than go over the threshold of their doors to hear such again. Some pages back I shewed my reader the doctrine of antinomianism; pointing out the different parts of the Bible from whence I took it. I have now shewed him the ground work of it, and from whence it took its rise at first; and, as I said before, so say I again, I cannot believe that the Almighty would display all this power, and the riches of his grace, in such a poor worthless worm as myself, who made no pretensions to religion, and intend nothing more by it than just to fill hypocrites with desperation and rage, and to make sport for fools.

Depraved man has his understanding darkened, "Being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in him, because of the blindness of his heart," Ephes. iv. 18. And daily experience shews that this witness is true; for all sorts of sinners, professor and profane, pharisees or foolish virgins, ministers of the letter

or heretics, although they are fond of a name to live, yet their souls detest the life of God in the souls of his saints, though this is the power of godliness: and so it was with all the enemies of Christ in the days of old; the greatest pretenders to the righteousness of the law were the greatest enemies to the righteousness of God, which brings eternal life and peace with it. The life of God in the souls of his saints is what all blind guides and their blind followers abhor; as it is written, "Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another," Zech. xi. 8, 9. These three shepherds were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians; or else the Essenes, a religious sect among the Jews, which dwelt near the lake Asphaltitus, as Josephus relates. These four Christ cut off in one month, by the sword. of his mouth, then by the sword of the Romans, and afterwards by the sword of justice: and his soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred him; or, as he says in the New Testament, They have both seen and hated both me and my Father." The life of God in the soul is what they cannot bear. When Christ told the Jews, "Except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man, you have no life in you," they called it an hard saying; and, when he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto

you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death; then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; whom makest thou thyself?" John viii. 51, 52. All their malice rose at the proclamation of divine life; and no wonder, when he that had the power of death reigned and ruled in them. Hence, as Milton says, he was 'slain for bringing life.'

Life and immortality is what the ministers of the killing letter, and the sons of death, cannot endure; therefore they must remain in the congregation of the dead; for, " All," says Christ, "that hate me, love death," Prov. viii. 36. And their hatred drove them on with such desperate rage and violence as never to rest until they had killed him. Nor were they contented with putting him to the most bitter death which the law of God allowed, but even made choice of one established by human laws among the pagans, aiming, as much as in them lay, to bring him under the greatest shame and scandal among men, and his precious soul under the curse of God; for they knew their law in the letter of it. "If thou hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree; but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God," Deut. xxi. 23. This was what their malice hoped to bring him under: and it is true that, by God the Father's appointment, and his own voluntary undertaking, he