try; but after a while somebody prejudiced him greatly against me, so that he wholly left the chapel. He had a nephew who married his servant maid, unknown to him; however he soon found it out, but took no notice of it, as she was a steady servant, and valuable in her place. Her chief work was that of attending the ladies in the bath. In process of time she brought forth her first child; and getting up too soon to attend the bath, she caught a violent cold, which threw her into what the doctors call a milk fever, and at length the faculty gave her over to death, at which her uncle was much concerned; and perceiving her to be distressed and very low, he asked her, saying, 'My dear, is there any minister that you should like to speak to, or have to come and pray by you?' She hesitated at first, but, being more closely pressed, she replied, There is one that I should like to see, but I know you would not be willing that he should come, and I have no desire to see any other.' He asked her who it was. At first she was silent, but at length told him it was Mr. Huntington that she wished to see. He replied, Then you shall see him,' and forthwith sent his respects to me just as I came from my pulpit after morning service on the Lord's day, requesting I would come and visit his niece, who was ill. I went immediately, and when I came into the room saw several people sitting by. I spoke to her about the state of her mind, the end God aimed at in sending his Son into the world, and described the characters of those

whom he came to seek and save; and, previous to my going to prayer, I asked her what she wished me to pray for? She answered, that the Lord would raise her up. I said, in answer to this, As you seemed so desirous of seeing me, are you persuaded that God will hear my prayer for you?

Yes,

said she, 'I have not a single doubt of it.' I replied, Then you may depend upon it God will hear me, and raise you up as sure as you are born.' And God did raise her up from that illness. uncle's name was Lloyd, of the cold bath, Harley Street, Manchester Square.

Her

Some few years ago I was invited to Woolwich, and was taking dinner with captain Duncan, when a gentleman of the faculty came in, who is a son of mine in the faith, and his spouse also is one whom I have begotten in my bonds. He informed me that his wife was extremely ill, and in a deep decline, spitting to that degree that it was impossible she could long survive; and deeply concerned he was. It seems she got this illness by going too soon into a house newly built. Now this couple, being very highly esteemed by me, as two savoury, unctuous, experimental Christians, and ornaments to their profession, as well as to the Antinomian that begot them, I found a strong confidence rise in my heart that God would hear prayer in her behalf. And I told the doctor that I thought prayer would do more for his wife than he had done by his medicine. His answer convinced me that he believed it would. I soon went down to his house, Mrs.

Duncan and others following; and we laid her and her case before the Lord. In a few days I was informed by Mrs. Duncan, that

prayer had preWhen I went down

vailed; and she is now living. again I inquired of her what she had gained by trading in the furnace of affliction; when her honest account convinced me that her gains had been great. Ifs and buts, doubts and fears, seemed to be all purged away, and she was upon the foundation that God has laid in Zion. This gentleman is Dr. John Butler, surgeon, now living at Woolwich.

But I have yet to speak on God's behalf, as a God that hears and answers prayer. Some years ago another friend, Mrs. Blaker, of Bolney in Sussex, fell ill gradually, and so continued, until the doctor who attended her had, for three months before I saw her, informed her that he could be of no further use, nor had any expectation of her recovery. It came to pass that I was going soon after to preach at Bolney; and I told her daughters, who were then at my house, that I had more hope of the mercy of God towards her, in answer to prayer, than I had in all the means and medicines she had made trial of. I must confess that I was astonished at first sight of her, to see so healthy and hearty a person so soon reduced to such a skeleton. She had kept herself alive by taking now and then an oyster, but could not receive one grain of animal food. My dearly beloved son, Mr. Jenkins, happened to be then with me, and I

shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. We shut ourselves up in a room together, and prayed for her repeatedly; so that in less than a week she ate meat, and is still alive. "This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: and, if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him,” 1 John v. 14, 15. But my reader may be ready to wonder, and say, How can this be? Will God hear the prayers of vile Antinomians, whose hearts are filled with errors, whose lives are scandalous, and whose employ is nothing else but deceiving the simple? It is true, reader, this is the character that we have obtained from men, and from those who style themselves evangelical ministers of the gospel. No, reader; God will not hear such wicked men. The blind man restored to sight says, "Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but, if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." And I have often thought that, if God was pleased to set the Antinomians against the Evangelists, as he once did a favourite prophet of his against four hundred chaplains of Ahab's palace, putting both parties to the test, Which is the true God in Christ Jesus, He that is preached by the Evangelists, or he that s preached by Antinomians? And that he

should be the true God who answers by fire, and they should be approved and acknowledged to be his servants who obtained that fiery answer: I have a strong persuasion that we should obtain as complete a victory over the Evangelists as Elijah did over the four hundred prophets of Baal, 1 Kings xviii. chap.

The good man who has distinguished himself as my godfather, and who has palmed the name of Antinomian upon me, and upon all that are in connection with me, and who has without intermission slandered and loaded me with reproach for five and twenty years, is an evangelist of the first magnitude, though I never spoke to him but once in my life. He is most exceeding zealous for the law of Moses, and of its being the only rule of life for believers. My not holding this assertion has filled him with all this holy indignation against me; that, although he often forgets his text, and sometimes loses himself, even in the pulpit, yet he never forgets nor loses sight of the filthy Antinomian: and he is so violent for his own holiness and sanctification, that he would be glad to send me to the devil, in defence of it. And I doubt not but the Lord has set him at this work to ripen him, as was the case when he bid Shimei curse David, that God might curse him. And I am as fully persuaded as David was, "That the Lord will requite me good for his cursing," 2 Sam. xvi. 12. He has called me a spiritual monkey, a spiritual blackguard; confessing that, if he was