apostle," the time is short, this world passes away," in its fashion, frame, countenance, and contexture. Nature will shortly be in ruins, "the end of all things, is at hand; Behold the Judge stands before the door." Therefore be intreated to "seek the Lord, while he may be found," and to "call upon him, while he is near. Notwithstanding all your offences, he has graciously promised to extend mercy and pardon to those who forsake their wicked ways, and unrighteous thoughts. The Son of God," is able to save to the uttermost," and "his blood cleanseth from all sin." Believe on this Saviour for life and salvation, and rely upon the promises of immutability, "He that believeth on the Son of God, is not condemned," and "He that believeth hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life." That this may be your happy state that "the life" you "live in the flesh," may be 66 a life of faith on the Son of God," and that through the righteousness of Christ imputed to you and received by faith, "you may be accounted worthy to escape all the miseries that shall come upon the wicked, and to stand" acquitted and accepted "before the Son of man, at the great day, is the earnest petition of the author.

THIS infallible, mysterious, and incomparable compendium, is the rule and square of the believer's conduct. It is a perfect rule. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul that lies in sin." It comes from a perfect Author, and is so complete that nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it. "All scripture is profitable," for what purpose? "That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."

It is a suitable rule. It agrees to all kinds, colours, classes, and conditions of men. It is suitable to all ages of the world, and to all the revolutions which have or may transpire in it, till the last day. It is suitable to all the wants and exigencies of men, and is so universal that it extends to the most secret recess of the human mind.

It is also a durable rule. "The word of the Lord endures for ever." "Heaven and earth may

Pass away, but his word shall not pass away." It has stood unmoved, notwithstanding all the storms of opposition which devils and wicked men could raise against it. Not like an impression in the sand of the sea-shore, washed away by the next tide, but as indelible as a monumer .ut. of brass, nay as durable in its fulfilment an sequences as its eternal Author.

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It contains the sum and subs ance of every thing that is truly interesting or entertaining. It furnishes us with the respective regulations given to the church, under her primitive Jewish and Christian economies, together with a historical and predicatory chronology of all the memorable events relative to these, from the beginning of the world till the period of its superannuation. In this sacred volume, is also contained, an interspersion of geography and zoology; and a compendious biography of the most renowned among the antedeluvian FATHERS, the ancient PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS, APOSTLES, and CHRIST himself, that unparalleled personage, together with the primitive martyrs of whom the world was not worthy, who are now in glory, inheriting the promises.

This inestimable book, contains the choicest matter; gives the best instructions, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction, that ever was revealed. It contains the best laws, and the most profound mysteries, that ever were penned. It brings the best of tidings, and offers the best comfort to the inquiring and disconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality, and points out the way

to everlasting glory. It is a brief recital of all that is past, and a certain prediction of all that is to come. In short, the scriptures, collectively taken, is the foundation of the Christian's faith, the regulator of his conduct, and the main-spring of his comfort. It is the good man's vade mecum, or constant companion. It is a composition of incomparable sublimity, unsullied purity, and unrivalled eloquence. It contains a revelation of God's will to man, a tragical history of his fall in Adam, and the glad tidings of salvation through the vicarious sufferings and mediatorial atonement of the Divine Redeemer. This is so far from being a panegyric, that the talents of an angel are inadequate to the task of fully unfolding the depth, and describing the inimitable beauties of this inspired master-piece; let it suffice to observe, that the leading theme, both of the Old and New Testaments, will be the burden of the believer's song, when the brief parenthesis of time shall be blotted out of existence.

Now when we consider, that these scriptures contain the most evident and unquestionable proof of their Divine authenticity, by the impressive stamp of Deity, visibly and indelibly imprinted on them; which consists in that majesty, holiness, light, and efficacy, so clearly apparent in them; and by their antiquity, harmony, scope, success, accomplishment of prophecies, and confirmation by miracles and the blood of martyrs; we are constrained to consider it almost incredible that any person should ever have risen in opposition to them. But such is the fact, that

opposition of this kind, has, in more or less, existed through all the past periods of the Christian dispensation.

During centuries which we have succeeded, the prince of the power of the air has displayed his inveterate malice and Satanic skill, against the Kingdom of the Redeemer, by directing his heaviest artillery (under an over-ruling permission) against this immovable foundation. Though the execrable productions of a Bolingbroke, a Rousseau, a Voltaire, and a Paine, (with those of others) have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; yet there are those to be found, even in the current age, who professedly acknowledge the existence of Deity, but deny that the scriptures contain any revelation of his mind and will to the human family. As human Reason, of course, is the strong hold of such characters, it is proper to meet them on their own ground, in order that they may be convinced at least that human reason is on the side of Divine Revelation.

My unbelieving friends! (for to you the following pages are particularly addressed.) you will certainly acknowledge that the Great Creator is capable, some way or other, to communicate his will to intelligent beings, with sufficient evidence that the Revelation is from him. only devise some such means of doing this as would be most likely to strike your minds with the strongest conviction-such a method as would óbviate all your doubts, and give you the fullest

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