be our wants or dangers, with his protecting care over us, we may bid defiance to gloomy fears. "I will help thee," is his language." I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness, therefore fear not, neither be dismayed." Let whatever event will happenlet poverty, let danger, let affliction press around, the allsufficiency of God is capable either to rescue from them, or support under them. It will, most assuredly, conduct his people out of them all. O believer! when dejected on account of the difficulties and

able to fathom its vast infinity, yet let us stand on its shores, and endeavour to scan a little of what is in itself illimitable. IF YOU ARE HEIRS OF GOD, his wisdom is yours, that wisdom by which he formed the earth, and established the heavens; which observes every event that has, or shall take place, and regulates it to its proper end, its destined purpose; which marshals every star in its order, and calls them all by their names; which circumvents all the rage of hell, and directs all the power of heaven. It is yours, O ye sons of God! to guide you trials of the way, look upward amidst the intricacies of your-view the all-sufficiency of thy path-to remove every obstacle God. Chide thy desponding which would impede your wel- soul in the language of revela fare to espy and counteract tion-" why sayest thou, O the councils of the infernal pit, Jacob! and speakest, O Israel! that would hinder your eternal my way is hid from the Lord, happiness-to make all the dis- and my judgment passed over tresses of the world productive from my God? Hast thou not of your real benefit-to cause known, hast thou not heard, "all things to work together that the everlasting God, the for good, to them who love Lord, the Creator of the ends God, who are the called, ac- of the earth, fainteth not, neicording to his purpose." ther is weary? he giveth power to the faint, and to them who have no might he increaseth strength. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings, as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint."

His all-sufficiency is yours; and to all its boundless resources, you, as the heirs of God, are entitled. "I am God all-sufficient," is his own declaration, for the encouragement of his people. His are the cattle on a thousand hillshis are the earth, the sun, the stars. With him are the riches of grace, and the treasures of glory. All felicity is in his hands; both his own happiness and that of all his creatures, is there. His power can effect all his designs-there is nothing too hard for him. Whatever

His love is yours-that love which is eternal in its origin, and immutable in its nature, immutable in its extent, infinite in the diversity of its operations, and illimitable in its duration. For he has said, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore, with loving kindness,

his Son, all other things shall be freely given them; that grace and glory, and no good thing shall be withheld from them that walk uprightly; that he will never leave them, nor forsake them; will guide them by his counsel, and, afterward, receive them to glory. These

I have drawn thee." O the boundless expressions of divine love! in pitying our lost condition-in providing a method of recovery in electing us to salvation-in the gift of Christin calling us out of darkness into marvellous light-in conferring on us all the privileges of grace-in supporting us un-are his declarations, and they der all our trials-in granting are faithful and true. He is us communion with himself— not a man that he should lie, in preserving, amidst the attack nor the son of man that he of the lost enemy, and bringing should repent: Hath he spoken us to his eternal glory. O the it, and will he not do it? Hath riches of the love of God! he said it, and will he not make But all these riches, believer, it good? He is not yea to-day, are conferred on thee-its im- and nay to-morrow: but" all measurable expanse is all thy the promises of God are in own. It was his love which him, yea, and in him, Amen, brought thee to believe on the to the glory of God, by us.' Saviour this that has support- All that he has spoken are as ed thy existence to the present certain in their accomplishment, hour. It is a God of love as was the word which said, which dwells in thee now, and" Let there be light, and there will bring thee to the ocean of was light." love when time shall be no

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His immutable fidelity is yours. For this is his character, and all which is contained in it, is for those who are heirs of God. But to know the value of this perfection, we must ascertain the nature of his engagements. Now, these engagements are contained in the promises of his word. Here he has declared, that he will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will he remember no more; that he will pour out his spirit on them, will sprinkle clean water on them, and cleanse them from all their filthiness; that he will cause his face to shine on them, and give them peace; that, with the gift of

His eternity is yours. For as the heirs of God possess an endless duration, so they require an endless portion. This cannot be found here: all things are mutable, and must have an end. If I have not an endless portion, my soul must famish in eternal want. But here it is found," Of old thou didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they shall perish, but thou remainest; they shall wax old, as doth a garment; and as a vesture, shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." As long as God lives, his people will never want an ample supply. After the sun shall be extinguished with dark

could not deceive, neither be | selves, is forcibly represented deceived, was treated as an im- in the word of God:-" Bepostor, and called, "this de- cause thou sayest I am rich, ceiver." Why should we mar- and increased with goods, and vel, that his servants, teaching have need of nothing; and the same doctrines, evincing knowest not that thou are the same dispositions, and in- wretched, and miserable, and culcating the same holy obe- poor, and blind, and naked."dience to the will of God, A deceived heart hath turned should experience similar treat- them aside from God, and from ment? They were viewed as the paths of virtue and happideceivers, by those who were ness. They follow lying vanistrangers to their true charac- ties, and forsake their own merter. The charge was unjust cies. In rejecting the truth of and unreasonable. Impostors the gospel, they act under the act from motives of personal influence of the god of this aggrandizement; but what sa- world, "who hath blinded the crifices these servants of God minds of them which believe made! What self-denial they not, lest the light of the glopractised! But even their ab-rious gospel of Christ, who is stemiousness and mortifications the image of God, should shine were attributed to evil inten- unto them." The apostles, tions; and, when the appellation of "madman" suited the purposes of malignity and persecution, that was employed. But such was the regard these holy men of God had for divine authority, and the promotion of human happiness, that they could reply, to all such charges, "Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or, whether we be sober, it is for your cause." They fulfilled their commission, patiently submitting to bonds and imprisonments; evincing the divinity of their mission, and the benevolence of their hearts; while their great aim was, to secure the rights of the Deity, and the happiness of man.-The truth is, the enemies of Christianity are themselves awfully deceived. How mistaken are their views of God, and of their own state and character! The deception which they practise on them

amidst all their trials, were steadfast in the faith, and maintained uniformity of character. However their circumstances varied, the state of their minds did not alter; neither depressed by adversity, nor elated by prosperity, they went steadily forward, in the great work in which they were engaged. With them it was a small matter to be judged of men, while their own consciences, and those who best knew them, bore witness to the truth of their mission, and the rectitude of their conduct.The miracles which they performed, in healing the sick and raising the dead, but the still greater miracles of grace, effected, by their instrumentality, in the conversion of sinners, abundantly demonstrated, that they were the true servants of God, and faithful apostles of the Lord Jesus. They needed no recommendatory letter; their

numerous converts being the ness, and of judgment; of sin, best proof of the divine appro- because they believe not in me; bation. Notwithstanding the of righteousness, because I go reproach and calumny of their to my Father, and ye see me enemies, they were the true no more; of judgment, because friends of mankind. They were the prince of this world is sent, with the invaluable trea-judged."— When persons are sures of the gospel, to enrich thus not only convicted, but poor sinners; a summary of its convinced, of their accumulated blessings is contained in the guilt, they will confess their commission given to the apostle sins to God; acknowledging Paul:"To open their eyes, that they have been deceived, and to turn them from darkness and, renouncing all dependence to light, and from the power of upon themselves, rely on divine Satan unto God; that they may mercy alone for pardon and salreceive the forgiveness of sins, vation :-" For we ourselves and an inheritance among them also were sometimes foolish, which are sanctified, by faith disobedient, deceived, serving that is in me." divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But, after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have: done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that, being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs, according to the hope of eternal life." Whitchurch, Salop.

How awfully deluded is the unrenewed mind! Ungodly men speak evil of what they know not, reject the message of reconciliation, and treatChristianity with contempt; whilst, to every man in his right mind, it appears essential to human happiness. How unreasonable, criminal, and dangerous, is such a conduct! What the Redeemer addressed to the wicked, in his day, may still be said to the ungodly: "Which of you convinces me of sin (falsehood)? and, if I say the truth, why do ye not believe?" While it is plainly revealed in the word of God, and clearly demonstrated in the conduct of men, that all

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are under sin, still, how diffi-To the Editors of the Baptist Magazine. cult it is to bring men to acknowledge, indeed, themselves It may not be uninteresting, sinners, in the scriptural sense nor unseasonable, at this present of the expression! This can juncture, to give your readers an only be effected by the power-abridged account of the proceedful energy of the Holy Spirit. ings of Oliver Cromwell, and "When he, the Spirit of Truth, this nation in general, on hearis come, he will reprove the ing of the cruel persecutions and world of sin, and of righteous- sufferings of the Waldenses, in