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imitated, being all according to the faith once delivered to the saints. They will see also, not the fair picture only, but how it came to bear the stamp divine. They may trace its progress, and be encouraged to believe, that the Lord, who is ever the same, will thus work in them to will and to do, notwithstanding opposing corruptions and they will thus be encouraged to give themselves up to that grace of God, which teaches us to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God,

and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Birmingham, April 14, 1817.

H. MOORE.

THE

LIFE OF MRS. FLETCHER.

PART THE FIRST.

Her early Life, and Christian Experience.

Iv WAS born September the first, O. S. 1739, at Laytonstone, in Essex. From my earliest years, I can remember the Spirit of God striving with me, and offering me salvation; but I slighted these most gracious calls, and many times resisted the most tender invitations. One day, from a little circumstance which occurred when I was about four years old, I received such a conviction that God heareth prayer, that it often administered much comfort to me in seasons of trial and danger. Of this I had the greater need, being by nature fearful even to a degree of folly. How much this effeminacy of disposition has cost me, in my Christian warfare, and what sufferings, as well as spiritual loss, I have sustained from it, is known only to my Heavenly Father.

When I was five years old, I began to have much concern about my eternal welfare, and frequently inquired of those about me, whether such and such things were sins. On Sabbath evenings, my dear father used to instruct us in the church catechism. At those seasons I can remember asking many questions. I wished to know whether any ever did love God with all their heart, and their neighbour as themselves; and whether it was really the command of God that we should do so;

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