fpirit peculiar to flaves, fervants, and the baseborn, gives way to this noble and princely fpirit when this love comes into the hearts of the heirs of promife; and what our Lord fays of his works is true of this work of God our Father in us: "But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which my Father hath given me to finish, the fame works that I do bear witnefs of me that the Father hath fent me," (John v. 36.) And fo does this work of love in us; it cleanses us from all idols, and gives us poffeffion of the one God; for "he that loveth dwelleth in God, and God in him." It gives us enlargement, and glorious liberty from bondage. It is the bond of the everlafting covenant, the church's wedding ring, the image of God, and Zion's inward glory. Thefe things make us God's husbandry, and God's building for we are circumcifed by God the Father, baptized by God the Son, with God the Holy Ghoft: "Glorious things are fpoken of thee, O city of God.”

Upon these things, my fon, I have long kept a watchful eye, believing thefe to be the fummit and the bleffings of Zion's hill; and the promife is, "Upon the mount it fhall be feen;" namely, the provision that God has made for us. And he that dwells on high fhall fee all this when he fees the King in his beauty, whofe glory covers the heavens, and fills the earth with his praise.

These deep things were ordained of God before the world for our glory, and God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit; " for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." And these deep things, when experienced in the power of them, and enjoyed in their sweetness, eftablish the heart, and baffle the attacks and attempts of heretics; they undermine the ministry of the letter, and repel the cold chills of the fons. of death, and difcovers the withered impoftor upon the houfetop, defying all to gain admittance to the affections, or to obtain the approbation of the judgment, or the teftimony of confcience, unless Chrift fpeaketh by them. If these things were more obferved and attended to, there would be more establishment in the minds of many than now there is; and to fettle a foul fhort of these things is no less than confirming it in the fleep of death.

According to my fon's account, he has been long spending money for that which is not bread, and labour for that which fatisfieth not, Ifa. lv. 2. And of this God complains, My people hath been loft sheep; their fhepherds have caufed them to go aftray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their refting place." Jer. 1.6. These fhepherds have caufed Chrift's flock to go aftray; for all that are against Christ are (ure to scatter from him. This work was done

on the mountains by the blind watchmen of Zion, who are fhepherds that cannot understand; and by following their directions they went from mountain to hill. Some fent them to the worship of idols on the high places; these burnt incenfe upon the mountains, and blasphemed God upon the hills, Ifa. lxv. 7. Others were fent to

Sinai and Horeb for life and falvation; the scribes called the law life itself. And others led them to trust in local Zion, because of the holinefs of the place, and fo brought them to trust in lying words, and then they cried, "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are thefe," (Jer. vii. 4); and this puffed them up, and made them haughty, because of the holy mountain, Zech, iii. 11. "Truly in vain is falvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains; truly in the Lord our God is the falvation. of Ifrael," Jer. iii. 23. This is the mountain of the Lord's houfe, and the ftone cut out without hands, which will one day become fuch a mountain, in the fetting up and establishing of his kingdom, as shall fill the whole earth. My fon, farewell. Grace and peace be with thee through Jefus Chrift our Lord. So prays

THE COALHEAVER.

TO THE REV. J. JENKINS,
LEWES, SUSSEX.

Dearly beloved in the Lord Jefus Chrift, grace, mercy, and peace, be with thee through him!

I HAVE for many years been perfuaded of the unfeigned faith that dwells in thee, and of thine undiffembled love to me, and to all them that love our Lord Jefus Chrift in fincerity and truth. In this confidence I write, having received fome few accounts of Zion's bearing pains and bringing forth; knowing that you will rejoice at the accounts of looking up and bringing home thofe fcattered fheep that are gone afiray. The first letter in these scraps speaks for itself. The next is from Mr. Chamberlain, a young man of Leicefter. When I was in the north this gentleman followed me in his yoke" and bonds to Newark upon Trent, and at that place, by the blood of the covenant, God fent him forth out of the pit in which is no water, and he turned to his ftrong hold as a prifoner of hope. A woman of Newark, named Carman, heard me every difcourfe that I preached at Newark, &c. and followed me in her chains to Leicester, and under the laft difcourfe I delivered

there the Lord fent her forth; he ftripped off her veil, and bid her fhew herself. The young woman that is so very ill, in the third letter, is the fifter and housekeeper of the young gentleman above. She cleaved to the household of faith when the was quite a little one; and, as Job fays of the eagle and the flain, so I may say of her; where Chrift crucified was preached there was fhe. She is a most amiable young perfon; but, upon the inward workings of her mind, rather reserved. The changes that paffed upon her heart might, at times, be read in her face; but any confeffion from her mouth I never heard.

But the bread caft upon the waters is to be found after many days, and the ointment of the right hand (faith the proverb) will betray itself in all them that receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. "If thou fhalt confefs with thy mouth the Lord Jefus, and fhalt believe in thine heart that God hath raifed him from the dead (fays Paul), thou fhalt be faved." This feems to be needful to the honour of God, and to the fatisfaction and encouragement of his family.

Some through fear of prefumption, and others through the fuggeftions of Satan, or dread of perfecution, keep all to themselves, as the poor woman in the gospel healed of her iffue intended to have done; but the Lord called her forth to an open confeffion; and this poor afflicted young woman, lingering on the brink of the grave, has