tions of his children, and he is touched with the feeling of our infirmities-he himself having been tempted in all points like ourselves, sin only excepted; and having received Christ, follow the apostle's exhortation, be "as babes desiring the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." And the Word of Life is so clearly set before you in the Scriptures, that you need never want; they all testify of Christ, which my dear Sons already know and believe, therefore "Cease ye from man." Jesus, the wonderful Counsellor and good Shepherd, carries the lambs in his bosom and gently leads those that are with young. Sometimes he favours them with glances of his person, which draws them to run after him, and then he consoles them with the rich viands of his own table; so does he encourage us to go again and again to himself as our friend and brother. We desire to see his beauty, for there is none to be compared with him; "his mouth is most sweet, yea he is altogether lovely."

I trust, my dear Children, he is increasingly precious to you. Oh, may the Holy Spirit be continually leading you forth to green pastures

there may you

and fountains of living water; feed, lie down, and bask in the beams of divine love and consolation, until you enter into the full enjoyment of everlasting bliss, when having bade farewell to dull mortality and entered into the New Jerusalem, Christ our hope will for ever cause all sorrow and sighing to flee away! Whilst we remain in this world, we shall always find ourselves clogged with care and corruption; therefore I again commend you both to the Lord. May he keep and sanctify you peculiarly for himself, and may it be his will that each and everyone of us may enjoy his everlasting sunshine in the full fruition of peace and glory with Christ, our Conqueror and King! Amen, amen.

"Come, stingless death have o'er: so here's my pass
In blood character'd, by his hand, who was,
And is, and shall be! Jordan, cut thy stream,
Make channels dry; I

bear my Father's name,
Stamp'd on my brow. I'm ravish'd with my crown,
I shine so bright; down with all glory, down,
That world can give I see the pearless port,-
The golden street-the blessed soul's resort-
The Tree of Life-floods gushing from the throne,
Call me to joys. Begone, short woes, begone:

I liv'd to die, but now I die to live;
I now enjoy more than I did believe.
The promise me into possession sends,
Faith in fruition, Hope in having ends!"

Plymouth, January 21, 1821.

LETTER II

"We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord; and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done.

"For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appinted a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children.

"That the generation to come might know them and the children that should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children.

"That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments." PSALM lxxviii. 4—7.

TO THE SAME.

In my foregoing letter I signified my compliance with your joint request; purposing, by the Lord's assistance, to recal something from my memory relative to my past experience in the knowledge of sin and self, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, first convincing me of my need and then bringing me into a state of patient waiting for Christ.

I now think of beginning at an earlier period than I first intended, and to take notice of one or two remarkable interpositions of divine Providence

for my temporal preservation, and which shall serve as memorials to my great Deliverer's praise.

It was my mercy to be born of parents who openly professed the name of Christ, even when they were like targets set up to be shot at by an ungodly world. It was given them to seek after truth, and know by the word and Spirit how God was to be worshipped in spirit and in truth. They were some of the early adherents of John and Charles Wesley, on their first coming into the county of C; but afterwards they heard Mr. Whitfield, to whom they gave the preference.

It might be observed, that much more brotherly love was to be noticed among real Christians in those days than now, and my dear parents abode with the Methodists, as they were always called; and continued to worship among them amidst all the calumny and persecution they met with, fighting their way through raillery, scandal, and reproach of every kind, cast upon them for the sake of religion.

My father, always warm in the cause, has been called before the powers that were, to give a reason for his forsaking what they termed the Mother