is called a perfect man in Christ, and all the angels of God are ministering spirits, and are ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. Between these two lies all their business. O the wonderful works of God, to give us a sure nail in that house, and not put us off with a portion in this! My kind love to brother Cleeve. Adieu! Grace and peace be with thee; so prays S. S. CCCCV. Jan. 9, 1805. I AM Sorry to hear such low tidings of poor Mary; but it is a truth, that the devil and the old man are sure to find out, and to wage war with, those who fear God, or hope in his mercy. God's children must dwell with him that hates peace, and find him not only house. room, but fire and candle. Satan hates the light, but we must come to it; and Christ came not to send peace, but a fire. Love and light make enmity and darkness desperate; and every ray or coal of the former brings on the revenge and vengeance of the latter. Hence we read, "In the day of prosperity be joyful; but in the day of adversity consider; God has set the one against the other." And what are the principles that produce these different days? Why, the following; "The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy." The day of prosperity is joy, and that of adversity bitterness. Joy is grace, and sin in the heart is its own bitterness. And I have my doubts, Mary, whether this disease be not epidemical; and, with respect to this world, incurable. Bitterness is opposed to joy; enmity to love; infidelity to faith; despair to hope; peevishness to patience; pride to humility; hardness to meekness; stubbornness to submission; darkness to light; and death to life. The devil musters and heads the former, but Christ the latter. I will put enmity between the serpent and the church; between the generation of vipers and Christ and his family, both being the seed of the church; and between the church's grace and the serpent's spawn. We must continue in a strait betwixt these two.. But, if we believe, sin is pardoned; if we are united to Christ, we died and suffered the law in him. In him sin was condemned, and our old man was crucified with him. His death was in our room or stead; his apprehension was our liberation; his imprisonment our enlargement; his death our life; and his resurrection our full discharge. But grace shall reign; the love of God, in the gift of Christ, shall reign over the infernal malice of is called a perfect man in Christ, and all the angels of God are ministering spirits, and are ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. Between these two lies all their business. O the wonderful works of God, to give us a sure nail in that house, and not put us off with a portion in this! My kind love to brother Cleeve. Adieu! Grace and peace be with thee; so prays S. S. CCCCV. Jan. 9, 1805. AM sorry to hear such low tidings of poor Mary; but it is a truth, that the devil and the old man are sure to find out, and to wage war with, those who fear God, or hope in his mercy. God's children must dwell with him that hates peace, and find him not only house room, but fire and candle. Satan hates the light, but we must come to it; not to send peace, but a fire. make enmity and darkness desperate; and every ray or coal of the former brings on the revenge and vengeance of the latter. Hence we read, "In the day of prosperity be joyful; but in the day of adversity consider; God has set the one and Christ came Love and light against the other." And what are the principles that produce these different days? Why, the following; “The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.” The day of prosperity is joy, and that of adversity bitterness. Joy is grace, and sin in the heart is its own bitterness. And I have my doubts, Mary, whether this disease be not epidemical; and, with respect to this world, incurable. Bitterness is opposed to joy; enmity to love; infidelity to faith; despair to hope; peevishness to patience; pride to humility; hardness to meekness; stubbornness to submission; darkness to light; and death to life. The devil musters and heads the former, but Christ the latter. I will put enmity between the serpent and the church; between the generation of vipers and Christ and his family, both being the seed of the church; and between the church's grace and the serpent's spawn. We must continue in a strait betwixt these two.. But, if we believe, sin is pardoned; if we are united to Christ, we died and suffered the law in him. In him sin was condemned, and our old man was crucified with him. His death was in our room or stead; hisapprehension was our liberation; his imprisonment our enlargement; his death our life; and his resurrection our full discharge. But grace shall reign; the love of God, in the gift of Christ, shall reign over the infernal malice of Satan by the entrance of sin. "The offence was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification." Sin baş reigned unto death, but grace unto life. And, what is still more, life is already obtained. Every grace has life in it;-hence we read of "the grace of life." And every sin has death in it; hence we read of "the body of this death." Mary, farewell! Peace and truth be in our days. THE COALHEAVER. CCCCVI. With the best wishes of the worst of sinners, MAY grace, mercy and peace, be with my sister Mary. I have turned thy lord and master into a post-man, to bear good tidings to his wife. I have long been as a vessel in the storm, where I have had an opportunity of trying, or making full proof of, a good hope through grace, which is an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast; and to this truth I set my seal. Wars without, peace within; evil report from men, and good report from God; the curses of many, and the blessing of one; numbers condemning, but |