was made a curse for us, and endured that curse which was due to us: but he remained, as he ever had done, the darling of God's soul, even when he hung upon the tree under the curse and wrath of him. "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again," John x. 17.

Yea, and even when he was in the tomb they were afraid that he would rise again; for they went to Pilate, and said, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day." And, when he was risen, and their own watch had declared it to them, they bribed the soldiers to conceal it. And so it is now; if God quickens a dead sinner, plants him together in the likeness of Christ's resurrection, and makes him walk in newness of life; so sure will our evangelical letter men fall upon him, belabour him, and, like the Jews of old, by all manner of means strive to conceal the work of God upon him; and every breaking forth of power by his instrumentality is sure to be hid, that it spread no farther. And it is truly laughable to see the pitiful shifts that have been adopted concerning myself, shutting me out of every pulpit possible. I was once invited to Bristol, and was there seven weeks; after which I believe it was near a month before any of the evangelists could be prevailed

upon to come again. Nay, one of them, who is a noted advocate for sanctification and holiness by the law, told them he would not enter a pulpit where that fellow had been, when a gentleman humourously answered, that they would build him a pulpit at the other end of the chapel.

When I first began to write I applied to several booksellers, who were professing men, to sell my work: but no more than one would suffer his name to appear in it, and even that gentleman requested me to take his name out before the work came from the press. I was once instrumental, under God, of restoring a notorious backslider. This account was published, but no more of the name of the instrument than Mr. H. that it might be taken for another: which has also been the case in some Letters that have lately been published from abroad, wherein my name as the minister has been changed into that of pastor. We have various annual publications called pocket-books, some of which are styled the Christian, or Christian Lady's Pocket Book, containing-accounts of the different places of worship in London, and the stated times of preaching. But a gentleman out of the country, who sells books, smilingly told me the other day that he could not find Providence Chapel nor Monkwellstreet Meeting mentioned in more than one of them. Thus the Jews laboured to obscure the resurrection of Christ in his own person, and our

Evangelists labour as hard to obscure it in his members; for God quickens us together with Christ. But God will work, and none shall let it. And I think he has now cut out more work for our evangelists. There is a clergyman who has lately left the establishment, one that has long laboured under the bondage of a broken law, strong convictions, and various temptations, under which he began to preach alarmingly, when all sorts of evangelists flocked about him, some of my Lady's men, others belonging to the establishment, and some of the Tabernacle connexion, presbyterians, baptists, and independents; none of whom failed to warn him against a bad spirit, a bitter spirit, a censorious spirit, narrowness, bigotry, and antinomian principles. But under all this raillery God bent his heart towards the antinomians; and the more they railed, the higher we rose in his esteem. He read some of my writings, and soon after came twice to hear me at Lewes. He afterwards sent me a few lines to Bolney, and desired an interview, which I granted; and deeply wounded in spirit he appeared to be. From that time we became acquainted, and he has since been in London, when it pleased the almighty and ever-blessed God to send the Holy Ghost as a comforter upon him, and to set his soul at liberty under the antinomian at Monkwell street Meeting, while I was preaching from this text, "And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said to this day, in

the mount of the Lord it shall be seen," Gen. xxii. 14. Take the account verbatim from his own letter.

'Rev. Mr. HUNTINGTON, Cricklewood.

Brighton, April 2, 1805.

'My dear friend and kind benefactor in the bowels of Jesus Christ, for in this way I am persuaded you have been moved towards us; grace unto you, and peace be multiplied.

'I should have written unto you before, to return my hearty acknowledgments for all your kindness, and to inform you how we go on, but that I waited for an account of the chapel expences, to give you some information how the money will last. But this I am afraid I am not able to do to-day, therefore must defer that a few days longer. However, I cannot longer delay expressing some feelings of my heart. It has pleased God, in his manifold mercies, to make you instrumental in bringing me out of my country, from my kindred and my father's house, by bringing some of your books to me when my mind was first awakened, and I began to fall into trouble. I clearly perceived that God was in you of a truth; nor could all the opposition, nor reproaches of hypocrites, ever move me from this persuasion; so far from it, they drove me closer towards you. My own heart indeed was often

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times torn and tossed with sad revoltings and enmity, hard thoughts of you, and indignation at times, through jealousy, against you; but I never would suffer others tamely to reproach or speak disrespectfully of you. It pleased God to bring us nearer acquainted. You must have well perceived the state I was in when you first saw me, and in succeeding interviews; I was in truth drawn towards you more and more, but still I felt (what at the same time I wanted to be free from) a bar in my heart. I could not join cordially; fear and bondage kept me at a distance. I was much exercised with darkness, hardness, jealousy, suspicion. However, there is a bond called that of perfectness, and this I bless God he has lately favoured me with in the following manner. Sunday morning I heard you preach on these words, "That he might fill all things." As you evidently appeared filled with your subject, I rejoiced to see you happy, but could receive little or none of the good cheer for myself: yet was I desirous, and prayed that you might condescend to a man of low estate, making darkness light and crooked things straight before me. Hence on Sunday afternoon I was enabled to receive, with comfort and satisfaction, some of the seven evidences you gave from those words; "Let a man examine himself." On Monday evening, however, I began to feel the powerful energy of the Holy Ghost, in the direction and application of the word as suitable to my case, and adapted