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foundations were to be destroyed. Be not dismayed at these rapidly succeeding revolutions-these dire convulsions-this crash of kingdoms. In all this, there is progress. Jehovah is shaking the nations, that the desire of all nations may come. What though wickedness and error widely prevail in the earth; what though there be distress of the nations with perplexity; what though the sea and waves are roaring, and men's hearts are failing them for fear of those things that are coming on the earth. Look at the Redeemer's growing kingdom. He is overturning and overturning and overturning, that that kingdom may fill the whole earth. Now is the time to lift our heads and sing, for the world's redemption draweth nigh. Know, that in the mediatorial kingdom of Christ on earth, the law is progress. When evil threatens, He will bring good out of evil. When confusion prevails, He will bring order out of confusion. When darkness lowers, He will put light for darkness. When light shines, look for more glorious things, for He will brighten even the day.

Once more, How great the privilege and the responsibility of living in this age and in this community! How abundant and how eminent are our means of grace! How is salvation in a thousand modes brought to our very doors! How great are our means of usefulness! Oh! in this day, when the facilities for making the gospel felt at home, and for sending the gospel through the world, are so multiplied, and when God has taught us that by association the rills of benevolence may be combined into one broad stream, yea, into a mighty ocean which shall flow from pole to pole, how much, my brethren in the ministry, how much my brethren in the church, may we do for God! How surely shall we receive the appellation

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and condemnation of the wicked and slothful servant, if we fail to do it! And oh! my impenitent friends, what will it be, from amid these free-flowing waters of salvation to go unprepared to the bar of God! What will it be, from these favored places to go down to eternal death!

A century has passed away, since this church was organized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and assembled-a feeble band-around the table of the Lord. Here, since that time, has been proclaimed the true gospel. Here, to-day, God is worshipped through Jesus Christ. Still bright, to-day, is the fire kindled a hundred years since upon this altar; and around this table of the Lord is now gathered a great company. Thanks be to God.

Another century will come. Then, oh! then, and when another shall come, and another, and another, till time shall be no longer, may this same gospel be here proclaimed in its purity; on this altar may burn bright and brighter this fire of Christian love; and round this table of the Lord, may there be gathered from age to age thousands and thousands more to partake of the bread and the wine in sweet remembrance of Jesus.

A century has passed away, since with voices of praise and prayer, this Christian church was set apart for the worship of God. Where now are those voices? Gone. No, not gone. Still they linger, calling us to praise and prayer. But they, whose were those voices-where are they? All gone, and of their children but here and there a solitary one remains.

Another century will come. Then where shall we be, who now throng this house? In what congregation? Ah! in what quick succession does generation after generation pass to the tribunal of God! Within the four years

that I have been permitted to minister to you in holy things, how many of this beloved people, have I been called to commit to the tomb! How soon shall we all follow! Who follows next? Who? My dying fellow men! my immortal fellow men! are you ready? ready by repentance for sin-ready by faith in Christ?

APPENDIX.

THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH PROFESSED IN THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NEW HAVEN, AND PROFESSED, ANEW, BY THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE WHITE HAVEN CHURCH.

CONCERNING God, I believe he is incomprehensible, and that none by searching can find out the Almighty to perfection. But in the book of creation-in the works of his hands, which we every where behold, may clearly be read the existence and perfection of a glorious Creator. But in his word, (which he has magnified above all his name,) which I believe was given by Divine inspiration, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, he hath more fully revealed himself to be a Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, goodness, and truth. In the Unity of the glorious Godhead there is a Trinity of persons, distinguished in the manner of their subsisting and by their relative properties, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

Concerning the decrees of God, I believe they are his eternal purposes, according to the council of his own will, whereby for his own glory he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, and that God executeth his decrees in the works of Creation and Providence. The work of creation is God's making all things of nothing by the word of his power, and in space of six days, and all very good. The works of God's providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful, preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.

I believe God made man, at the first, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over his creatures; and that man being placed in so holy and happy an estate, and advanced in honor above the rest of the lower creation, soon apostatized, and made defection from his glorious and bountiful Creator. The particular prohibition it

pleased God to lay man under for the trial of his obedience, was that he should not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death; which, he being left to the freedom of his own will, did most voluntarily offend against, by which act of disobedience, he, standing as the public head and representative for all his progeny, we all became sinners. Through that offence judgment is now come upon all to condemnation; whereby we have not only lost the image of God and a general corruption overspread our natures, but we expose ourselves to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and the pains of hell forever.

And that God did not deal with the race of sinful Adam upon their fall as with that number of angels which kept not their first station, who for their rebellion were righteously expelled the glorious mansions of heaven, cast down to hell and reserved under chains of darkness to the judgment of the great day, was a fruit and effect of his mere good pleasure. He, having from all eternity elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of an estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer. The only Redeemer of God's elect, I believe, is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, the brightness of his Father's glory and the express image of his person, became man by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the born of her, and yet without sin. the Divine and human natures in the person of our glorious Mediator, and that he continues to be God and man, (I believe,) and that in two distinct natures and one person forever; and that as our Redeemer he executeth the threefold office of a prophet, priest, and king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. I believe, as he was delivered for our offences, so he rose again for our justification, that he was dead and is alive, and lives forever, ascended up into heaven, sitting at the right hand of the Majesty on high, angels, authorities, and powers being made subject unto him. I believe, that when our blessed Redeemer, being about to leave the world and ascend unto the Father, did, for the consolation of his disciples, promise, that when he should

womb of the Virgin Mary, This hypostatical union of

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