THE REV. W. HUNTINGTON.

DEAR SIR,

I HEARD you preach the Tuesday evening before you went laft to the Ifle of Ely, when my afflicted foul and body were revived under the word, and with your laft prayer went up the fincere defires of my heart and foul. I was grieved because you were going, hoping however to hear you again on your return. But I am confined. "The Lord do as feemeth him good," for "he remembereth we are but duft." Blefs, O blefs his precious name for ever, for his fupporting power; "When heart and flesh both fail, he is the ftrength of my heart, and my portion for ever." I am very low and weak in body, and sometimes faint-hearted; but have been holpen with a little help, and the Lord God Almighty, and my own confcience, witness that the hearing of you is meat and drink to my weary foul. And I do esteem it one of the highest privileges, next to my foul's falvation, because, through mercy, the Lord the Spirit leads you, as he has done for these eight years past, to speak to my cafe more or less. Blefs his adorable and great name, he often fends his word with power to my heart, fo that I come away like a giant

refreshed with wine.

Yea, I have drank so as to

forget my poverty, and remember my mifery no more for a while. But, O! how have I returned to my fad place again! I have had a nervous fever for a long time, and was feized last Wednesday morning with a fainting and trembling of the limbs, as though I could not long furvive, and was afraid I should lose my senses. I am still very faint and low, though a little recovered, bleffed be God; and am ordered down to Brighton, for the benefit of the salt water, where I hope to see and hear dear Mr. Brook, and Mr. Jenkins at Lewes. I have begged of the Lord that, unless his prefence go with me, I might not go hence. And the answer in my mind is, "Go, and I am with you, and I will raise you up again." I can fay, to the honour and glory of God, that, when I did not expect to live many hours, I had the fum and fubftance of the 103d and 116th Pfalms in my foul, and that the Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jefus, for his fake, might, by his good Spirit, influence you to plead the merits of his moft precious blood in my behalf, and in behalf of my family; and my defire is to commit body, foul, family, and all my affairs, into the mighty hand of God; for my weak head and faint heart will not bear the weight. But he has been better to me than all my fears many times, and I hope he will be so again.

As to my love to you, that God knoweth,

who difcerneth the thoughts afar off, and how many times I have had a defire to speak and write to you; that he who fows, and they that reap, might rejoice together.

That a double portion of God's Spirit may reft upon your own foul is the fincere prayer of the least of all faints, and most unworthy of all finners, in the path of tribulation, and in the furnace of affliction,

Parker Row, near Dock Head,

Bermondsey, Aug, 14, 1809.

WILLIAM MOORE.

MR. WILLIAM MOORE.

SIR,

Ir was a wonderful condefcenfion in the Almighty, whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, to take up his refidence in the tent of Mofes and the temple of Solomon-buildings made with hands. But, having abandoned both thefe, he has faid unto Zion, "Thou art my people; fhe is redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness." This beloved, chofen, felected, and compacted body, which is one in Chrift, he has defired for his habitation: this is his reft for ever; here he will dwell, having defired it. And, although this is his royal city where he keeps his court and has his palace, yet the fuburbs are neither forgotten nor neglected. He bleffes the habitation of the juft; but loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Nevertheless, when he fhines forth from the perfection of beauty he vifits the waste places of Jerufalem; fo that the contrite and brokenhearted proclaim his arrival, although they have not as yet paffed through the gates, fo as to call their walls falvation and their gates praife. But our happiness lies within the walls, because the

inhabitants are no more to fay, "I am fick, for the people that dwell therein fhall be forgiven their iniquity." It is upon this holy hill of Zion that the king is fct, to give life to all the feed; and from this head of influence the holy oil defcends to all the citizens. Here is the feast of fat things, and the wines well refined. Here the filver trumpet founds, to invite the perishing. guefts. "God will abundantly bless her provifion, and fatisfy her poor with bread." In this mount I loft my vail and my yoke, which were both destroyed by the holy anointing oil. In this mountain the works of creation and the fabbath of rest must both give way to the works of redemption, for in Zion "fhall the hand of the Lord reft," Ifaiah xxv. 10. In the works of creation God displayed his wisdom and his power, and refted well pleafed with these. In Ifrael's redemption and Egypt's deftruction he displayed both his judgments and his providence, his goodness and severity; and took up his reft in the Holy Land. But the difplay of his love is in the gift of Chrift, and in the redemption of the world by him; and in that love he refts well pleafed and delighted for evermore, Zeph. iii. 17. This display of God's love to men, and the redemption of fouls, are, in their bleffed effects, in the plication and enjoyment of them, both in Zion. Redemption frees us from fin, law, and justice; and love is a reftoration of God's image; and in

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