they become. A heart, ever conscious of the Benevolence and Beneficence of The DEITY, will make the acknowledgment of The DIVINE Goodness the prominent Subject of expression and of action, as of thought, and on every opportunity manifest and exemplify its gratefulness, and excite, if it may be, a corresponding feeling in Others, under a conviction, that GOD is A GOD of Purity and of Perfectness, and that nothing impure or unholy can have communion with Him.—The false reasoning of an unspiritualized Mind, averse to any Controul, and opposed to That Wisdom, Which is from Above, Which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easily intreated, without partiality and without hypocrisy, leads both itself and Others into the mazes of doubt, and eventually to the discomfiture of remorse and despair: and, by the Test of Scripture Truth and Preceptive Guidance, such reasoning should be judged; how meagre and contemptible will it then be found, when weighed in That Just Balance! Intellectual pride, and sensual subjection should be discarded, as destructive of all fitness for Heaven; and as breaches of That Covenant of DIVINE Reconciliation and Acceptance, Sealed with the Blood of The SON of GOD. With all the vigilance we can use, should we not only reject them from any power over our own hearts and Lives, but oppose the progress of their influence over Others, considering the banefulness of their tendency in reference to Eternity; for DIVINE Rejection must Ensue from a continuance in such unhallowed courses; and in That is Comprehended what is indeed sufficiently to be deprecated in the expression of the Wrath of GOD.' The DIVINE Law is neither hard to be understood, nor to be followed; and in the observance of It there is an inward satisfaction and gratification, which constitute the heart's truest happiness. Disobedience to It must necessarily alienate us from the Favour of Its Great and Gracious FOUNDER; and to whom else can we flee, when Called to the Bar of His Righteous and Irreversible Judgment, if self-convicted of being to the last amongst the Children of disobedience? In times past we may have had our conversation with the World, and walked in its darkness, wilfully averting our eyes from the Light, That, through The Gospel Rays of The SUN of Righteousness, Leadeth to Everlasting Day. But henceforth may we rise to This Light, and shun both the ways and the deeds of Infernal darkness, amidst its meteor gleams and occasional but subtle and treacherous glare! Let us seek from the heart to be among the Children of Light! and under the Twofold Blessedness of our SAVIOUR's Sacrifice, in His Rescuing us from the trammels of sin and a continuance therein, and Obtaining for us The HOLY SPIRIT's Guidance, to Open to us the Ways of Godliness and a Community of Holiness, we may then be Accepted in The BELOVED, as Faithful to the Call of Mercy and of Love; having brought forth, through the Agency and Aid of That Blessed SPIRIT, the works of Righteousness and Godly conversation. By such conduct we shall most effectually reprove and perhaps restrain the debasing manners around us, assured of their awful tendency; and that as the Knowledge of them in all their origin and extension is faithfully Set forth amongst the Records of Heaven, so will a Visitation of the Judgment of Exclusion from Eternal Peace then overtake them; for unto The DIVINE NATURE All is Known and Foreknown and there is no escaping Its Penetration. The Apostle, in elsewhere enjoining the fleeing fornication, adds, Every sin, that a Man doeth, is without the Body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own Body-1 Cor. vi. 18; 1 Thess. iv. 3; and the tendency of that sin, as well as of the sins of gluttony and drunkenness, is to eject the Grace of The SPIRIT, and render the Body utterly unfit to be the Temple, it otherwise might be, of The HOLY GHOST. For the absence of DIVINE Communion is the being Given over, by our rejecting Its Guidance, to a reprobate mind, to do those things, which are not convenient (as the Apostle says in

his Epistle to the Romans) i. 28; succeeding it with an awful catalogue of evil propensities and demoralizing influences. In the Epistle to the Hebrews it is said, Marriage is honourable in All, and the bed undefiled; but Whoremongers and Adulterers GOD will Judge - Heb. xiii. 4. And in the Revelations of the Judgment in the World to come, St. John proclaims the Warning Assurance of THE ALPHA and OMEGA, The BEGINNING and The END, The FIRST and The LAST-Blessed are They, that do His Commandments, that they may have right to The Tree of Life, and may enter in through the Gates into The City (of GOD): For without are Dogs and Sorcerers, and Whoremongers, and Murderers, and Idolaters, and Whatsoever loveth and maketh a lie. I, JESUS, have Sent Mine Angel to Testify These Things in the Churches: I am The ROOT and The OFFSPRING of David, and The Bright and MORNING STAR'-Rev. xxii. 13 to 16.- Where passion is strong let supplication for Guiding and Controuling Grace be stronger; and in mortifying those of our members, which, under unhallowed influence, would excite us to fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and the idolatry of covetousness, we shall be more than Conquerors; for not the Wrath, but the Love of GOD will then Abide in us-Col. iii. 5, 6.- -Falsehood has been under the Prophetic garb, as, unhappily, is it at this day under the Priestly one; as Rome and her Pontifical Satellites, by misapplying the Doctrine of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, prove, and will in the Day of Judgment acknowledge, to their Eternal confusion and dismay. Thus Said The LORD of Hosts, by His faithful Prophet Jeremiah, (faithful amongst Many faithless,) Let not your Prophets and your Diviners, that be in the midst of you (My People Israel) deceive you; neither hearken to your dreams, which ye cause to be dreamed! for they prophesy falsely unto you in My Name. I have not Sent them, Saith The LORDJer. xxix. 8, 9. Truth hath Mercifully Come unto All, that will gratefully receive It, and faithfully apply It, and That Truth is, and only is in CHRIST JESUS, as Set forth in the Brightness of Shining, and in Letters as of Sun-Beams in His Glorious Gospel. Thanks be to GOD for This, His Unspeakable Gift, Whereby, however previously in the errors of Spiritual Deception and Devilish darkness, we are Brought to The LIGHT, That Lighteth us on the Pathway to Heaven; that, becoming the Children of Light, we may have the foretaste of That Everlasting Day of Heavenly Gladness, Which awaits the Faithful in CHRIST JESUS, when Time shall be no more-1 Thes. v. 5. Whilst we have This Light may we walk and rejoice in It! assured in our hearts and minds that It Leadeth unto Life and Glory Everlasting, and by following Which we may, through the Effectual Working of CHRIST's Mediation, be Adopted as Children of The Light, and Which, even in the Life that is, will, under grateful acceptance of It, Shine more and more in our hearts unto the Perfect Day-John xii. 36.

With This LIGHT from Heaven the Fruit of The SPIRIT will Manifest itself in our habits and inclinations, and prove, that we are verily and indeed Guided by It; and that Fruit consists of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance-Gal. v. 22, 23; and may we bear in mind the Apostle's Fatherly intreaty, and consider it addressed to every Individual among us, I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of GOD, that ye present your Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, Acceptable unto GOD, which is your reasonable service; and be not conformed to this World, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove, What is That Good, and Acceptable and Perfect Will of GOD-Rom. xii. 1, 2; and may we consider him as writing to us, equally as to the Corinthians, not to company with Fornicators; yet not altogether with the Fornicators of this World, or with the Covetous, or Extortioners, or with Idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of

the World: but now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any Man, that is called a Brother, be a Fornicator, or Covetous, or an Idolater, or a Railer, or a Drunkard, or an Extortioner; with Such an One, no, not to eat— 1 Cor. v. 9 to 11. The Admonition of St. Peter is in the same tone and tendency, Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as Strangers and Pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the Soul! having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that, whereas they speak against you as Evil-Doers, they may, by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify GOD in the Day of Visitation; for so is the Will of GOD, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish Men-1 Pet. ii. 11, 12, 15. Thus is it to live as in the Sight and in the reverential fear and holy love of GOD, and to be most effectually relieved from the fear of Man, through the experience of the Love of CHRIST, Who Giveth Light to the Understanding by The SPIRIT. But every One, that doeth evil, hateth That Light, neither cometh to That Light, lest his deeds should be reproved: but he, that doeth Truth, cometh to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in GOD-John iii. 19, 20, 21; See 1 Tim. v. 20.

VERSES 14 to 21.-Wherefore He, (The LORD,) Saith, Awake thou, that sleepest, and arise from the Dead, and CHRIST shall Give thee Light! See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as Fools, but as Wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil: wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding What the Will of The LORD is! And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be Filled with The SPIRIT; speaking to yourselves in Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; singing and making melody in your heart to The LORD; giving thanks always for all things unto GOD and The FATHER, in the Name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST; submitting yourselves One to Another in the fear of GOD!

The Light of Truth, Which is the Gracious Communication of The WORD and SPIRIT of GOD, Pours Its Calm Lustre on the opening eye of Faith, and should be received with the deepest sense of Its Inestimable and Inimitable Value, as the only Guidance into the Paths of Pleasantness and Peace; through That Labour of Love, in Its Procurement Wrought by the Incarnation of The SON of GOD. Whoever has hitherto slumbered on in the darkness of Spiritual ignorance should instantly awake to That Light, Which Dissipates that fatal darkness, and Exhibits the Road to Eternal Life; Diffusing a heart-felt Joy into All, that walk in It, and devoutly hail The Mercy and the Love, That have Created and Appointed It for Man's use and unspeakable Benefit. To have lived without It, (as alas! how Many, in every Race of Mankind, have done, is to have been dead in the worst sense of the absence of life; and a Resurrection and the awakening from a death-like slumber is it to have risen to a knowledge and adoption, in reverence and gratitude, of The Truth as It is in JESUS, That SUN of Righteousness, Which Lighteth every One, that cometh into the World, and who will awake to and rejoice in That Light. The Apostle's Admonition to walk circumspectly is, to look around us, in our daily and hourly progress, with the consciousness, that the Love of A Pure and HOLY GOD is with us, Calling us to the Way of Light and Life Eternal, by The Gospel of JESUS CHRIST, That Fountain of Wisdom, of Purity and Truth, Which Maketh the Simple Wise, and Turneth the hearts of the Disobedient unto the wisdom of the Just. It is only to awake from the treacherous and deadly slumber at the Post of both interest and duty, and to enter faithfully on the Service and to obey the Orders of The Great CAPTAIN of Salvation, and the Repose of the Mansions of Peace will be ours, after the remnant of this short transitory life is so past, and to have the eye and the heart eternally gladdened with the Brightness of His Countenance, and the Ceaseless Evidences of His Surpassing Love.-Evil indeed are the days, when the Mercies of the Proffered Redemption by The SON of GOD, and the Blissfulness

of Eternity, through His Meritorious and Mediatorial Offering in Sacrifice, are set at nought or but slightly thought of; and the death-bed of All, who so trifle with Time, and disregard Eternity, does agonizingly prove this. What then must be the opening scene to the departing Spirit, when the Light, That CHRIST so Freely Offered in Time, is for Ever Withheld, and all is thence perpetual darkness and endless despair!To have heard of The Will of The LORD, and the Goodness of That Will, (Which has Omnipotence to Accomplish It,) and to disregard It, is indeed to sin against our own Souls, and to be guilty of the utmost folly and unkindness to ourselves. The DAY-SPRING from On High hath Arisen, and unless our deeds are evil, and we sell ourselves for nought but to reap the bitter fruits thereof, we shall not prefer the darkening counsels of Satan, to the Wisdom and the Joyfulness of That Way, on Which That LIGHT Perpetually Shineth. Whilst therefore we have the time of this life Mercifully Extended to us, let us be sober, be vigilant! knowing that our most inveterate Adversary, the Devil, goeth about, seeking to entrap the Immortal Soul to its Eternal misery. And let us, in a continually prayerful spirit, seek for the Guidance and Governance of The HOLY SPIRIT, that we may follow after Righteousness, serving The LORD in spirit and in truth! having the Assurance of experiencing therefrom a Peace, that passeth understanding, and a Love, that fadeth not away. To the Attainment of a Spiritualized state of mind, the best fortification against the gross sensualities of ungodly habits, let us read and digest the Precious Truths and Precepts and Promises of The Holy Book of GOD, laying to our hearts the Mercies and the Goodness and the Wisdom Thereof, and filling our minds with Its Rich and Sublime Treasures of Knowledge, That will Endure through this Life and in all the Life to Come; and interchanging with Each Other, in social and Brotherly and Sisterly intercourse, the impressions made on us by the Contents of That Sacred Volume, and the hopes and the joys, with which It Sustains us; ever grateful to The DIVINE SOURCE, from Whose Inspiration, and the Love and Mercy That Prompted It, That Book of the most Precious and Enduring Knowledge has been Brought to our possession, and understanding; and adoring That SAVIOUR Set forth Therein, to Whom, and Whose Intercessory Offices the Revelation of Those Means of Grace and This Hope of Endless Glory has been Mercifully and Generously Made.Amidst this Soul-stirring and soothing and sanctifying occupation, engaged in with reverential fear and holy mirth, we should cherish the spirit of Christian Fellowship in the interchange of our sentiments, and seek by seasonable and becoming submission, where it may seem to be with promise of profitableness, the judgment upon Others' views and constructions or interpretations of That Mystery of Godliness, Which, though in Its Grand and Essential Outline so Clear in Its HighRoad Directions, that a wayfaring Man may not fail to read, yet in Some of Its Minor Pathways is, as St. Peter admitted in the learned Paul's Exhibition of Christianity, somewhat hard to be understood, and requiring minds of the deepest piety and expansiveness and prayerful humility, to comprehend; and which Noviciates in the acquirement of Christian Knowledge and Christian habits must not expect at once to arrive at, but only by patient continuance in the Study of the Word of GOD, and by earnest and heart-prompted Supplication for Illumination from Above, may hope to attain unto, and so be Made Instrumental to the Further Spread of the Glory of GOD and the Manifestation of His Goodness in the Rescue of our Souls from sin, and the Advance of them unto Sanctity, through the Love of JESUS CHRIST, to Whom Prophetically and in the Prospect of His First Advent, Isaiah thus alluded and rejoiced in the Blessing Reserved for a Future Generation among His People-Arise! Shine! for thy Light is Come, and the Glory of The LORD is Risen upon thee; for,

behold, the Darkness shall cover the Earth, and gross Darkness the People: but The LORD shall Arise upon thee, and His Glory shall be Seen upon thee; and the Gentiles shall come to thy Light, and Kings to the Brightness of thy Rising-Isa. lx. 1 to 3.In another place the Apostle admonishes to walk in wisdom toward them, that are without, (the Christian Pale or Communion), redeeming the time; (adding) Let your speech be alway with Grace, seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every Man-Col. iv. 5, 6; remembering, that The LORD Knoweth the days of the Upright; and their Inheritance shall be for Ever; they shall not be ashamed in the evil time-Psl. xxxvii. 18, 19. And when are there not times of evil, even in our own thoughts and imaginations? and then how good is it for the Soul to be seasoned with Grace, that it may be Kept Thereby from every purpose and any commission of evil! To know the Will of GOD is a consequence of a wish to fulfil It. Our SAVIOUR, when the sceptical Jews around Him were expressing their wonder at His Knowledge, since He had not had instruction from their Doctors, Said, My Doctrine is not Mine; but His, That Sent Me. If any Man will do His Will, (the Will of GOD), he shall know of the Doctrine--John vii. 15 to 17. And our SAVIOUR's Injunction towards Preparing the heart for obedience unto Holiness was, to take heed lest at any time our hearts should be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life; and the Day of the Approach of The KINGDOM of GOD should Come upon us unawares Luke xxi. 34. May the Apostle's exhortation bear sway with us, as thus re-echoed to us, Let the Word of CHRIST Dwell in you richly, in all Wisdom, teaching and admonishing One Another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs; singing with Grace in your hearts to The LORD-Col. iii. 16; and in the Psalmist's spirit, let us Sing unto The LORD with thanksgiving-Psl. cxlvii. 7. May our hearts be fixed to sing and give praise unto GOD and The LORD JESUS CHRIST, to the advancement of Their Glory and worship, with every faculty we possess, after the example of the pious David Psl. lvii. 7,8; making mention of the Loving-Kindnesses of The LORD, and celebrating His Praises, according to All, That He hath Bestowed on us individually and collectively, and on our Nation generally, and the Great and Signal Goodness Vouchsafed by Him to us as a People, the Multitude of His Mercies and in the Manifestation of His Love towards us in the Offer of Salvation through the Sacrifice of His Only SON-Isa. lxiii. 7 ; ever rejoicing in The LORD and in the Power of His Might, and for That He hath so Bountifully Dealt with us. And so in mutual good will, and in the interchange of the offices of Faith and Charity, may we mutually hold our converse in the hallowed fear of The LORD, and in the dedication of our Souls to His Service!

VERSES 22 to 33.-Wives, submit yourselves unto your own Husbands, as unto The LORD! for the Husband is the Head of the Wife, even as CHRIST is The HEAD of the Church; and He is The SAVIOUR of the Body: therefore, as the Church is Subject unto CHRIST, so let the Wives be to their own Husbands in every thing! Husbands, love your Wives! even as CHRIST also Loved the Church, and Gave Himself for it; that He might Sanctify and Cleanse it by the Washing of Water by the Word: that He might Present it to Himself a Glorious Church; not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought Men to love their Wives, as their own Bodies: he, that loveth his Wife, loveth himself: for no Man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as The LORD the Church: for we are Members of His Body, of His Flesh, and of His Bones: for this cause shall a Man leave his Father and Mother, and shall be joined unto his Wife; and they Two shall be one Flesh. This is a Great Mystery; but I speak concerning CHRIST and the Church: nevertheless let every One of you, in particular, so love his Wife, even as himself; and the Wife see, that she reverence her Husband! Submission, to a noble and generous and considerate heart, is no degradation;