91. On a great storm of thunder, lightning, and

rain,

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100. Going to engage,

101. Arguments to resignation,

102. Saints have no cause to complain,

103. Approaching fruition,

106. On going beyond the line,

110. Under the Meridian, the sun and moon high, 299

111. A squall of rain, lightning, and thunder,

301

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115. Great love in God, that we may love God,

309

3. We grope in the dark while here below,

332

4. All things work for good to the saints,

334

5. A soul converted, joy among the angels,

335

18. A check for not meditating on divine things, 359

22. The ravishing employment of saints in glory, 363

26. God a never-failing portion,

27. God claims the whole heart,

28. The best employment,

29. On the death of friends,

30. Divine wisdom in our various lots,

31. The mind too little on heaven,

32. The duty of the aged saint,

33. Afflictions will attend us to our last,

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ib.

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ib.

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THE

LIFE

OF

MR. JAMES MEIKLE.

THERE are perhaps few persons who have perused an author's writings with much pleasure and advantage, who feel not a desire to know the character and history of one who has contributed so largely to their entertainment and instruction. The biography, therefore, of favourite authors, if not barren of incidents, or awkwardly executed, is a species of writing which will always be well received. It introduces us to familiarity with persons whom we are disposed to revere, and exhibits our instructors in the interesting light of acquaintances and friends. Besides, when we find, by authenticated records of their life, that they were good men, we sit down to the perusal of their writings with the most favourable dispositions for deriving benefit from what we read, and are edified by the pleasing persuasion that they lived as they wrote, and felt on their own hearts the inestimable value of that religion which they so clearly teach, and so warmly recommend.

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