which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

To thee, then, O thou Holy Spirit of truth, and by thine own power, do I look up for the life of faith and hope, and for the increase of faith and hope, and every blessing! O work in me to will and to do what is right; for, without thee, I can neither will nor do any thing but evil. I am all depravity; but thou art grace itself, and the God of all grace. I am weakness, instability, and want; but thou art everlasting Strength, the Rock of ages, the Fulness which filleth all in all. I have nothing, but thou hast all things. O behold thy poor servant, whom thou hast made willing to serve thee; and let all the good pleasure of thy will be done in me and by me. Abate my

pride, subdue my unbelief, mortify my corruptions, establish my soul. All that I need, supply, according to thy riches in glory by Christ Jesus. So shall I be stedfast in thy stedfastness, lively in thy life, active in thy power, faithful in thy grace, wise in thy wisdom, holy in thine holiness, happy in thy love, persevering to the end by thine incessant care, comfort, and preservation. Lord, who and what am I, that thou hast so tenderly brought me hitherto; when, like millions around me, I might have been justly cut off, and left silent in darkness! Help, O help me to adore thee, and to testify of

thy goodness and grace, in heart and in mind, in lip and in life, both now and for

ever.

CHAP. XIX.

ON THE EQUAL OBLIGATION OF BELIEVERS TO THE THREE PERSONS IN JEHOVAH.

Ir is an error to suppose, that we are indebted to one more than another of the divine Persons: for their love is but one and the same love, as their essence or nature is one and the same; and there could not exist such a difference or inequality of kind ness to men, unless there was such a difference or inequality in themselves as would not stand with the perfect unity of the Godhead.

The love of the three Persons formed the covenant of grace from everlasting, in which they were equally and undividedly concerned; and though the fulfilment of this covenant had necessarily an order and distinction, according to the several engagements of the three distinct Persons, yet the mind and will of the Godhead were but one, and the object of their power but one, even Jehovah's glory in the salvation of sinners.

The Father loved, and concurred in the redemption of his chosen by Christ; the Son loved, and bare their sins in their nature, glorifying in that nature all the attributes of

CHRISTIAN HEMENELANCER.

the (zodnenc, the Som loved, and engaged
‹ make efectua zin whom Dian, by fitting
freart tunt benen + salvation. Thus
to receive, and by carving to the
Got was m. Chris: reconcimg the world to
himset. Coris: fer all that was given

to Go: the Sun enivens, enlightens,
and scars t the day of redemption. This is
the order of the covenant; begining with
the Father, and, through the Son and Spirit,
descending from heaver to the salvation of
his people; duz, If the order of their enjoy-
ment of this covenant, the Spirn begins with
them, and they ascent by him. Bext to the
Mon, and then to the Father. This is a bless
ed mystery of faith, which however plain
in the scriptures) can only be undersood
uly in the course of a gracious experience.
No mere notions, and especials of the car-
nal mind, can possibly reach it. The tuition,
or rather intuition, is altogether divine.

What a blessed thing it is to believe and,
to know assuredly, that the wisdom, will,
adlection, and power, of all the persons in
Jehovah are concerned in the salvation of
every poor sinner that repenteth! What a
confidence of spirit ought not this to inspire
in the children of God! If the Lord be
thus engaged and concerned in their wel-
fare, how can any of them be lost, or fail of
what he hath prepared for them? O my
soul, rejoice in the love of the Father, Son,
and Spirit, that one God, who hath done

such great things for thee, and who will yet do more, yea, more than eye hath seen, ear heard, or entered into the heart of man to conceive. To this ONE God be Glory.

Amen. Hallelujah.

CHAP. XX.

ON THE PARTICULAR DESIGN AND USE OF THE SEVERAL HOLY SCRIPTURES.

BLESSED Lord, thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path! Without this glorious revelation, I must have remained, as I was born, a poor, helpless, hopeless, and miserable sinner.

By this is thy servant taught the order and excellency of thy first creation, when man was made in righteousness and true holiness, and lived therefore in tranquillity and peace. Hence I learn how he fell from thee, and, in falling, became spiritually dead and cut off from thy life in his soul; while his body received the seeds of dissolution, and began to die from that very hour. I also am instructed to see thy mercy, proclaiming a Redeemer in the midst of thy justice, which otherwise must have destroyed, or made wretched without remedy, my whole race. Thou ordainedst a covenant by sacrifice with the first believers, showing thereby in type and shadow the great atonement of Jesus Christ, who, by thine own everlasting cove

nant, was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. By faith in this propitiation, they offered up their spiritual sacrifices, when they presented before thee the appointed creatures; and, according to this faith they died, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

By this holy word I also learn, how, for the dreadful impieties of the old world, thou broughtest on a flood upon the earth, destroying all mankind but the small remnant of one family. My eyes have seen abundant testimonies of this truth, within the bowels as well as upon the face of the globe; in beholding what once lived upon the surface, now at great depths beneath; and what once inhabited the seas, at present upon the tops of the highest mountains.

By thy blessed record I understand, that thou didst establish the covenant with Noah, and Abraham, and the other patriarchs, promis ing the great Saviour to them and their seed. Thou didst suffer their offspring to go down into Egypt, and broughtest them up again with thy mighty hand, that by this thou mightest proclaim a more glorious deliverance to thy people. The plagues of Egypt were strong emblems of the curses and evils, which sin brings upon the souls of all men by nature; and thy visitations of Israel were