through the Glass of Inspiration and Prophecy saw REDEMPTION in the distance, but not darkly. The present Sentence is the Utterance of One, who saw face to Face The AUTHOR of That Promised Redemption, and the Great Work Itself Accomplished in Him; and he confirms the Important Doctrine, on the reception or rejection of Which, the Efficacy or Inefficacy of That Proffered Redemption rests. So that if we, in wilful ignorance or presumption say, we have no sin, though All of us have in a greater or less degree been Sinners from our youth up; not One of us having walked in all the Ordinances and Counsel of The LORD blameless; we deceive, yea, most miserably and fatally deceive ourselves to the endangering the eternal happiness of our Immortal Souls; whether we have been influenced by Spiritual pride, or by arrogance of Self interpreted righteousness, or by any other unchristian motive: and thus The SPIRIT of Truth is not in us; but we have driven Him away, or so grieved Him as to occasion His Departure from us; and, in the scarcely credible infatuation of our wilful blindness and obduracy, have received and cherished in His room the Father of lies. But if we faithfully confess and are really and heartily sorry for, and ashamed of our sins and of the Pangs they must have cost our SAVIOUR to Expiate them; letting our repentance manifest itself in its true and unquestionable character, by reforming and amending our Lives and conversation, and fulfilling on every opportunity and to the utmost of our ability, under the supplicated Guidance and Grace of The HOLY SPIRIT, our duties to GOD, our Fellow Creatures, and ourselves: then is GOD, through the Love He Bears His SON, Willing that we should come unto Him, that we should obtain Absolution, and in the Faithfulness of His Word of Promise, not only to be Cleansed from the pollution of sin by the Blood of That True Paschal LAMB, but to be Sanctified, by His Interceding Righteousness, and so Rendered meet Partakers of the Glories of The KINGDOM of HEAVEN.- -Oh! what Comforting Assurances do here greet the ear, or gladden through the eye the heart! And why do not All give them free entrance to and continuance in the

heart? For eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into Human conception, notwithstanding the Richness of The Gospel Promises Revealed to us, the Things That are Prepared by The LORD for All Such, as truly come unto Him in penitence and faith, in meekness and lowliness of heart; looking in devoutest gratitude to JESUS, through Whom Alone we have Remission of our sins, and the Inestimable Benefit of Joy and Peace Eternal. And earnestly and ofttimes should we ask ourselves, when bearing the uncertainty of Life and the certainty of a Judgment to come in our minds, How shall we escape, if we neglect So Great Salvation? For as St. Paul saith, By the works of the Law shall no Flesh be Justified; only by Faith in JESUS CHRIST—Gal. ii. 16; Rom. iii. 20. GOD Grant, that through a lively and efficient faith, our Souls may be Washed, and Sanctified and Justified in the Name of The LORD JESUS, and by His HOLY SPIRIT!

EXHORTATION.

The Soul thus it is hoped Prepared by The Spiritual HUSBANDMAN to receive the Good Seed of His Word, having its hard furrows turned and its clods broken by a spirit of repentance and confession, being Watered and Refreshed with the Dew of DIVINE Grace, and Enlivened and Invigorated by the Beams of The SUN of Righteousness, is exhorted by the Representative of That HUSBANDMAN, the Minister of GOD, to bring forth fruits meet for repentance; and exhorted in a manner quite agreeing with the humility and Brotherly love, which shine forth in and characterize The Gospel Dispensation throughout; saying

Dearly beloved Brethren!

For what words can be more awakening or calculated to win and rivet attention? they have all the impressiveness of persuasive eloquence in unison with the best feelings and promptings of the heart; they address all ranks and descriptions of Persons by the endearing appellation of Brothers; as

we All indeed Spiritually are, who are of the Family of CHRIST, being All equal in the Eye of GOD, however varied may be our outward condition in a Worldly view. These words so used, and justly used in the House of GOD and in the Temple of Truth as of His Holiness, should lead us All not only to devote the most serious attention to the Address, but to labour to reap practical benefits from it, by bringing our minds to regard All Mankind as Brothers, and letting that estimate influence our conduct in our intercourse with Society, and manifest a charity towards All. Having thus earnestly and tenderly excited our attention to his affectionate communication, the Minister proceeds

The Scripture Moveth us in sundry Places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness;

The Scripture, Which is the Revelation of the Word and Will of GOD, Imparted, through the Inspiration of His HOLY SPIRIT, by His Chosen Servants, is the Holy Bible, Which we are Admonished and Commanded diligently to search; and in so doing shall find, in addition to the foregoing Sentences of Instruction and Encouragement, that It contains a multitude of Others, having a similar Tendency, and Calculated to Lead us by comparison of The DIVINE Precepts, in All Their Purity and Excellence, with our past Lives, to feel and own, that we have sadly departed from the Excellency of the Scripture Rules, and, under the consciousness of the Omniscience of The DEITY, should not withhold the free and full acknowledgment of all our offendings in deed, word and thought, as far as we can trace them:

And that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the Face of Almighty GOD, our HEAVENLY FATHER;

That such an Exhortation is necessary cannot be denied; but that it should be so is scarcely short of a miracle, when considering, that Man, the Creature of A Superior POWER, by Whom All that Man hath was Freely Given, and on Whose Goodness and Providence he is altogether dependent, not only

during every moment of his existence here, but for any hope of experience of Blessedness Hereafter. Finding, as Man necessarily does if he reflect at all, from all within or without himself, Proofs incontestible of A Gracious and Presiding PROVIDENCE, even if unaided by any other light than that of his own reason, can he dare to deny or venture to doubt the Universal Knowledge of That BEING, Who Ruleth over All? Even this is surprising; but for Those, on whom the Light of DIVINE Truth hath Shined, and to whom so Much concerning the Omniscience and Omnipresence of GOD hath been Proclaimed, should in such palpable contradiction even to their own professions, by their actions deny such knowledge of The Essential Attributes of DIVINITY, is more marvellous. Yet All are Deniers of the Power and Presence of GOD, who dissemble, and cloke in hypocrisy their sins, seeming to be religious, when their heart is prone to evil, and striving either to conceal their unhallowed purposes, or to spread over them a covering, which the eyes of their Fellow-Mortals may not penetrate; shewing the attraction and solemnity of a whited sepulchre without, when what is within is dead to Spiritual life, and hastening to corruption! Can there be in the whole compass of Human weakness and perverted understanding a stronger instance than this? And yet, alas! how extensively does this self-destroying and Soul-endangering infatuation reach! nay, not even One among us, however little we may suspect it, is altogether free from it. For were we not, we should regulate every thought, word and work, as though we were in the Visual Presence of The OMNIPOTENT, and with not merely a fear of offending, but a desire of pleasing So Pure and Perfect and Gracious A BEING, and with a view to win His Favour (through faith in The SON of His Love,) Which is Life and Peace and Joy Eternal, in hope of being with our GOD and SAVIOUR, and having the Brightness of His Countenance ever upon us. This is strictly our line of duty, and should be our delight; since The Eye of The ALMIGHTY is Ever upon us, and Observing all our ways. Were this impression ever present to our minds, how different, as before

observed, would be the conduct of Most of us to what it is! Let us beware therefore of hypocrisy, and watch and pray also against Self-deception; remembering What was so Forcibly Said by our Blessed SAVIOUR to Guard His Disciples against that folly and fatal error of the Pharisees, their hypocrisy ; "There is nothing covered, that shall not be Revealed; neither hid, that shall not be Known!' and that, 'whatsoever is spoken in darkness shall be Heard in the Light; and that, which is spoken in the ear in closets, shall be Proclaimed upon the house-tops'-Luke xii. 1 to 3. Our Church's Admonition is not only that we do not seek vainly to hide our sins from An AllSeeing GOD,

but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent and obedient heart;

Humble, from the contemplation of The Purity and Perfection of our Almighty CREATOR; lowly, from a conviction of our entire unworthiness of His Eternal Favour; penitent, from a just and deep sense of our having not only endangered the Forfeiture of That Favour, but rendered our Immortal Souls amenable to His Displeasure and Everlasting Rejection, and the State of endless Woe consequent thereon; and obedient from henceforth to His Laws, All of which are Holy, Just and Pure; and from the obvious reason that if we love Him, and hope for His Mercy, we should strive to do His Will

To the End that we may obtain Forgiveness of the same by His Infinite Goodness and Mercy.

And indeed that Such will be the End of a hearty repentance and a lively faith has been already demonstrated; but that it should be so, can never be dwelt upon with sufficient thankfulness and praise. That An Almighty GOD, Himself All Purity, and to Whom Nothing unholy can approach, should not only not instantly Destroy us upon our offending against even the Least of His Laws; considering What He has Done to Make it equally our happiness, as our interest, to observe Them; and considering also, that His Own Happiness is altogether Independant of us, is matter of wonder to every justly