of providence, cautiously avoiding either running before, or lagging behind; but in all things making their requests known to God; at all times committing their way to him, being careful about nothing, but to use with diligence the means of grace, and also the means of acquiring the good things of life, leaving the issues of both to God, in the full assurance that what is good the Lord will give. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.' In spirituals and in temporals,' the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Be ye diligent in bu siness, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.'

Lord, teach me thy law graciously, in all its perfection, its extent, order, beauty and harmony, and grant me all the assistance provided to enable a lost, depraved, corrupted child of Adam, to set out in thy good ways, to go forward, and to finish in the same course; and all the consolation, joy, and peace, which thou hast provided to be enjoyed in a measure even here, and to be perfected in the world to come. Amen.

New York, Feb. 10, 1794.

THIS day I have a letter from my poor wanderer. It is more than a year since I heard of him. Accept of my thanks, good and gracious Lord. I feared his cup had been full, and he called out of the world with his sins on his own head; for I have no tidings of his turning from his sinful courses, or fleeing from the wrath to come, by taking hold of the hope set before him.

I bless thee, O, I bless thee, for thy sparing mercy, thy long suffering, thy patience, thy forbearance. Yea, even to him, thou hast been more than all this. Thou hast been his preserver, his provider; thou hast watched over him in many imminent dangers, in the great deeps, in burning climes, and in frozen climes.

Thou hast followed him with thy preserving mercy and temporal bounty. He is still in the land of the living, and among led to look unto thee and live.

those who are calStill thou feedest

my hopes of better things for him. Thou suffer est my prayers to lie on the table of thy covenant. I will trust, I will hope, I will believe, that in an accepted time, thou wilt hear me, and in a day of thy power, thou wilt bow his stubborn will, and lay him an humble suppliant at thy feet. O, I trust thou wilt bring this poor prodigal to himself, and turn his steps towards his Father's house.

Lord, I believe, thou knowest I believe, that if thou but speak the word, this dead soul shall live; this vile, this guilty soul shall be cleansed; shall be renewed, and he be changed an to humble, thankful, genuine child of God, through the cleansing blood of atonement, through the imputation of the Redeemer's righteousness, and the implantation of thy Spirit. I can do nothing for him, but thou canst do all this. I wait for it, Lord, I wait for thy salvation. Lord, let there be 'joy in Heaven over this one sinner repenting.' I roll him on thee. I trust in thy sovereign, free, un remitted mercy in Christ. Amen.

October 4, 1795.

WHY, O why, is my spirit still depressed? why these sobs? Father, forgive. 'Jesus wept.' I

weep, but acquiesce. This day, two months, the Lord delivered my Jessie, his Jessie, from a body of sin and death, finished the good work he had begun, perfected what concerned her, trimmed her lamp, and carried her triumphing through the valley of the shadow of death. She overcame through the blood of the Lamb.

I rejoiced in the Lord's work, and was thankful that the one, the only thing, I had asked for her, was now completed. I saw her delivered from so much corruption within, from strong and peculiar temptation without. I had seen her often staggering, sometimes falling under the rod; I had heard her earnestly wish for deliverance from sin, and when death approached, she was more than satisfied, said she had been a great sinner but she had a great Saviour; praised him, and thanked him for all his dealings with her; for hedging her in, for chastising her; and even prayed that sin and corruption might be destroyed if the body should be dessolved to effect it. The Lord fulfilled her desire, and I may add, mine. He lifted upon her the light of his countenance; revived her languid graces; increased her faith and hope; loosed her from earthly concerns; and made her rejoice in the stability of his Covenant, and to sing," all is well, all is well, good is the will of the Lord." I did rejoice, I do rejoice; but, O Lord, thou knowest my frame;

she was my pleasant companion, my affectionate child: my soul feels a want. O fill it up with more of thy presence; give yet more communications of thyself.

May 28, 1796.

This is the anniversary of my dear Jessie's birth, no more to call us together on earth; but I yet remember it, as a day in which our God was merciful to me, and made me the mother of an heir of salvation. I bless, I praise, my covenant God, who enabled me to dedicate her to him before she was born, and to ask only one thing for her, as for myself, even an interest in his great salvation, leaving it to him to order the means time, and manner, as of her natural birth, and ripening age, so of her spiritual birth, and ripening for glory; he accepted the charge, and he has finished the work, to his own glory, to her eternal happiness, and my joy and comfort.

I witnessed the sinner, after being sixteen years in the school of Christ, (taught by his ministers, and most effectually by his rod,) taking shelter in "the city of refuge,' in the atonement of God's providing, and in a surety righteousness,' and finishing her struggles with" all is well!" my heart echoed, and does echo, and will to all eternity," all is well." Glory to God, sing not unto her, not unto me, not unto any creature, but 'to God be the glory,' that she is now delivered from a body of sin and death, and made meet to be a partaker with the saints in light.' HALLELUJAH. 7

1797.

'As ye have received the Lord Jesus, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.'

Yes, just so, and no other way, shall any poor corrupted creature attain holiness, in the very same manner that he received the Lord Jesus at first. He is 'the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending.'

O Lord, my Saviour, my complete Saviour and in whom I am complete! I received thee as my expiatory sacrifice, by whom atonement was made for my sins; by whom reconciliation was made; I, reconciled to God, and God to me. I was then delivered from the power of darkness, and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son, and have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. This same blood must cleanse my daily spots, must cleanse my very best services. This same blood must cleanse my conscience daily, and give me confidence in God, as my reconciled Father. By this same peace-speaking blood, I daily present myself in his presence, and know that he sees no iniquity in me so as to condemn me.

O Lord, I receive thee as my justifying righteousness, disclaiming all confidence in my own works, throwing them aside as filthy rags. I placed my soul dependence upon an imputed righteousness; that righteousness, wrought out by thee as my surety, in thy holy meritorious life and