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And that he always faithful proved, To those whom he aforetime loved; And to their souls himself revealed, Who by the Holy Ghost were sealed; Whose names are in life's volume found,

Who know in Christ they're safe and sound.

These glorious truths did HARDY preach,

As God the Spirit did him teach;
He never feared the wrath of man,
But boldly preached the gospel plan;
Its doctrines, rules, and precepts
too,

And not a word would he forego;
But always error did expose,
And neither flinched for friends or
foes;

He knew full well what was within,
A heart of unbelief and sin;
A will depraved, to God oppoesd,
That always is to sin disposed;

The truth in Christ did HARDY

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How dark and dreary is my path,
My prospects seem all blighted;
How weak and drooping is my faith,
My mind, O! how benighted;
I look for light, where none appears,
But darkness round me hovers;
Distressing doubts and painful fears,
My forlorn case discovers.
The surges of the troubled sea,
Roll with terrific fury;
Each trouble brings its misery,

And causes constant worry :
As vessels tossed to and fro,

I'm borne upon the billows; My tuneful harp I now forego, And hang it on the willows.

I seem bereft of all my springs,

Expos'd to hellish violence; Whilst the arch foe exulting sings, And triumphs in my silence. If God withdraws, I'm left to mourn, And feel my destitution; While back to earth I'm quickly borne,

To grapple with pollution.

The Spirit can alone impart

Succour when in temptation "Tis he alone can soothe the heart, Amid its pertubation. Then, hush my soul-tho' now 'tis night,

It will not last for ever;

"At eventide it shall be light," And darkness from thee sever!

HYMN.

"ALL'S WELL."

T. W. H.

REDEEM'D by blood, though surges

rise,

My port is sure beyond the skies;
My skilful Pilot will convoy,
This little bark to worlds of joy :
Though Sinai may its thunderз roll,
And threat to crush this blood-
bought soul;

And foaming billows rage and swell, 'Tis well-in Jesus all is well.

Should lightnings flash and thunders roar;

Should God declare time is no more; Should gaping graves disgorge their dead;

Should all mankind be summoned To meet their Judge their doom to hear,

E'en then I would not yield to fear; By faith doth Christ within me dwell, 'Tis well-in Jesus all is well.

All's well while I from Jesus' face, Receive sweet smiles of heavenly

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THE

Spiritual Magazine ;

OR,

SAINTS' TREASURY.

"There are Three that bear record in heaven; the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these Three are One."

Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

DECEMBER, 1833.

1 John v. 7.

Jude 3.

THE SUBSTANCE OF A FAREWELL SERMON, Preached at the Adelphi Chapel, Strand, on Lord's Day Evening, Sept. 29, 1833.

BY THE REV. J. CARTWRIGHT, Minister of Mount Zion Chapel,

Devonport.

"I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."-Hebrews xiii. 5. }

THE author of my text was raised up by God the Holy Ghost, to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to the Gentile church. Being led into the mysteries of the kingdom, he brought forth the precious things of the eternal hills, and the glorious streams of soulsupporting truth from the everlasting mountains, by the fertilizing blessings of an everlasting covenant. He, as an instrument in the hand of the Holy Ghost, detected the errors so prevalent in his day, and by a testimony not to be shaken by the powers of darkness, proclaimed a full, free, and finished salvation; founded by Jehovah the Father, most blessedly accomplished by God the Son, and sweetly enjoyed in the heart by God the Holy Ghost. Standing forth in the strength of the Lord, with undaunted and spiritual courage, he maintained the cause of God and truth; he knew nothing of carnal reasoning, nor the flesh-pleasing system of the present day; he carried the cross, and preached it, and it was the glory of his soul. And wherever the Lord opened a door for this herald of salvation to blow the gospel trumpet, he shunned not to declare the whole counsel of God.

Being thus brought forth according to the covenant purpose of Jehovah, to be an able minister of the Spirit, he was the object of much persecution, and the subject of many trials; his life was in VOL. IX.-No. 116.] 2 Z

continual jeopardy, his enemies had bound themselves by an oath to destroy him; the advocates for heathenish darkness, with all the envenomed malice of the old serpent, endeavoured (but vainly) to overturn the purpose of God in him. With these trials and daily conflicts which he had to encounter between flesh and spirit, he was taught by deep experience to comfort the Lord's dear family with the same comfort wherewith he was comforted, and declare in his apostolic charge to his son Timothy, "nevertheless, I am not ashamed."

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In taking his final farewell of the church at Ephesus, he directs and leaves them in the hand of a covenant God. "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and the word of his grace.' Knowing by blessed experience, that the streams of grace proceeding -from a triune Jehovah, were refreshing at times to the souls of the Lord's dear family in the wilderness, he spake largely of them; but when leaving the church, and knowing that all the acts of grace were only comforting as the Holy Ghost brought faith into exercise to receive them, he leads the mind of the regenerated above the streams, and sweetly runs up the subject to God himself, as the grand moving cause of all grace to the church in Christ her covenant head, and forming the solid basis upon which faith only can rest.

In his address to the believing Hebrews, it is evident, many were the subject of sharp trials and sore afflictions; he most earnestly exhorts them not to be over anxious respecting the things of this world; he powerfully assures them of a greater blessing of joy more substantial, of mercy more comforting, than all the glittering toys of a world made up of vanity, sin, and corruption.

The blessings he speaks of are contained in the language I have just read; nor can I take my leave of you to night, in words more applicable to the church of Christ in all ages of time, or more consoling to the souls of the Lord's dear people.

In speaking from these words, I pray God the Holy Ghost to be my teacher, and your comforter, while I shall endeavour to call your

attention

I. To the glorious and almighty person in the text.

II. The immutability of Jehovah to his dear family in affliction, the source of comfort and support.

III. The perpetuity of the Lord's presence with his people.

I. In speaking of the glorious person in the text, I call your attention to the three co-equal persons in an undivided Jehovah, of each personal act of love, as forming the security of the church. God the Father, as the eternal act of everlasting love, has formed his people for himself, and thereby will never forsake the work of his power and grace; and this act of sovereign love was founded in the settlements of eternity, and breaking forth from no-other cause than himself. And let it be observed in passing through the subject, there was nothing in the creature, either antecedent or subsequent to the work, which could in any way merit or cause God to love his people, Isaiah xlviii. 8. He viewed from eternity every transaction of the fall, and

viewing the awful state into which man would be plunged by the fall, the Father makes choice of his own, and elects them in Christ their covenant head; and in this his grace-act in decretive purpose, makes known his gracious will by adopting them into his family, and declares his covenant mind, "I will be their God, and they shall be my people." And to confirm the testimony, as forming the blessing and the blessedness of the church, our covenant God seals up the whole by covenant oath and promise. He has sworn by himself, because he could sware by no greater, that in blessing he will bless us. And when the Holy Ghost takes in his power this glorious truth, bringing the same home under his almighty anointing, then we discover our union to the Father; adopting grace removes our legal fears, and the sweet confidence of faith enables the tried believer, sweetly to chime in with the exalted language of Isaiah xii. 2. "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid," &c. And to establish the truth as truly belonging to the Lord's spiritual family, and to impart life and joy to the quickened believer under depression of soul, and bondage of spirit, the apostle, by the leadings of the Holy Ghost, exhibits to the view of the church the mind of Jehovah the Father, as for ever unchangeable, Heb. vi. 17, 18. And God himself ushers into the soul his own almighty nature as a bulwark of salvation against our numerous fears, Mal. iii. 6. "For I am the Lord, I change not ;" &c. and this is known in the souls of the Lord's spiritual family, by a rush of power, a flash of light, and a ray of glory. We wonder at the vision, and dissolve in the power, the shackles of slavish fears are dashed like a potter's vessel, the lowering cloud of unbelief is dispersed by the morning star, and ten thousa ndpromises of an everlasting covenant stand as an incontestible evidence of our footing upon the rock of eternal ages.

Mark the glorious truths as I speak them, and by the enjoyment of them enter by lively faith into God the Father's fidelity to his promise, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

To be continued.

REMARKS ON 1 COR. XII. 20.

66 BUT ONE BODY."

(Continued from page 332.)

IN extending our observations upon the subject before us, as a basis for present amplification, we may remark, that as all the organized members comprehended in the body of man are actuated and governed by one intelligent spirit which is sovereignly connected with them so all the organized or regenerate members of the body of Christ are influenced, preserved, and instructed by one Divine Spirit, who dwelleth in them, and who as co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Word, is ever worthy with them to receive the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

Until God had breathed into man, which he formed of the dust of the ground, an intelligent or living soul, man's nature was simply of the earth, earthy; but having determined to create him in his own image, so as to make him pre-eminent above all other animals, he united to this animal body a conscious, immortal, reflecting, and intelligent soul: thus in one and the same person concentrating both animal and spiritual natures, and frequently designating the whole man by either the one or the other, representing him by his spirit when he declares him to possess a sempiternal existence; and having allusion unto his body, when he affirms, his days to be as an hand-breadth, and as a shadow that soon passeth away: indeed, scripture teems with this excellent distinction.

Thus, also, until the Spirit Jehovah executes his work of regeneration upon the sinner, dead in trespasses and sins, giving him a new heart, and putting a right spirit within him, and forming Christ as the hope of immortal glory in his soul, he has no life but that over which death has spread its unsparing terrors, and sin its more than overwhelming and perpetual revolutions. It is not enough that man, as at first, possesses an immortal spirit, which urges him to admit there is a God; for this spirit being bound fast by guilt to the servitude of Satan, will leave him an infidel in such admission; but it is also requisite to the creature's everlasting happiness, that he should partake of a divine nature-a nature indestructible and uninfluenced by sin-and totally distinct from that which man had upon his creation. This is the nature, the life, the principle, which the Holy Spirit communicates, and by which the humble penitent is impelled to seek and desire the forgiveness of heaven: this is the life which constitutes him a living member of Immanuel's body: this renders him quite a new creature; and as the possession of intellect distinguished and dignified Adam from and above all the visible creation, so the possession of this principle elevates the christian above all other creatures.

Let the ambitious pride themselves upon their fellow mortals applause, death will steal it from them; let the avaricious vaunt their earthly consequence in the accumulating treasure they possess, their treasure can at last but supply them with an urn of corruption; let the eloquent dwell upon the melody of their speeches, even these must be dumb when the morn of dissolution arrives; but, Oh! the far preferable portion of the believer in Jesus; he has a life that supports him through the dark valley, and a life that transports his spirit, whilst his tabernacle droops; and a life that prepares him for endless communion with God. Christian, boast-let us boast-not in ourselves, but in Christ: we have a state of triumph and dignity durable as our consciousness, when all the fading honours and dissatisfying pleasures of this time estate are irrecoverably forgotten.

But to proceed. The largest member of my frame has no power to exert itself, but as my soul wills; and the smallest member is equally dependent upon the same source for its activity. If my spirit cease to will, my body will cease to move, save in the performance

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