and believe thy laws, memories to retain them, hearts to love them, consciences to recognise them, courage to profess, and power to put in practice. O grant that the whole habit and frame of their souls may be a table and transcript of thy law. Blessed Redeemer! gather these lambs in thy arms, and carry them in thy bosom. O seal them with the Holy Spirit of promise. They look forward to that feast of love which thou didst institute in that same night in which thou wast betrayed into the hands of sinners. If it may please thee, 'manifest thyself to them as thou dost not unto the world.' Blessed Shepherd, call these lambs by name; may they know thy voice, rejoice to hear it, and follow thee. In all the preparatory exercises speak to their hearts, and commune with them in secret. O give them some love-tokens, which they may never forget; and make thyself 'known to them in the breaking of bread.' Exercise their parents with thankfulness and gratitude, and thine aged servant, to whom, in an especial manner, belong shame and confusion of face,' while she stands amazed at the stately steps of thy free sovereign mercy and grace to her, and to her seed, according to the flesh. Husband of the widow Father of the fatherless! Shield of the stranger!' Glorify thy name, magnify thy Grace: all this thou hast been to me. Exercise these parents with deep humility: if they have received Grace to be more faithful than I: yet thy holy eye has seen much shortcoming in them also.

Glory to thy name for the grace in which they stand, and that thou hast enabled them to keep these lambs out of the world. Oh! let this be a heart-searching time with us all; humble us, and exalt thy name, and magnify thy Grace.

first Peter i. 8, 9.

July 17, 1814.

Sacrament Sabbath. Mr. R- preached from 'Whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.'

I had requested to be brought to my Lord's banqueting house, and to be feasted with love this day. I ate the bread and drank the wine in the faith, that I ate the flesh and drank the blood of the Son of man, and dwelt in him and he in me. Took a close view of my familiar friend Death, accompanied with the presence of my Saviour, his sensible presence. I cannot look at it without this; it is my only petition concerning it. I have had desires and wishes of certain circumstances, but they are nearly gone. It is my sincere desire that God may be glorified, and he knows best how and by what circumstances. I retain my one petition,

LETTER

TO MISS VAN WYCK NEW-YORK.

MY DEAR, MY BELOVED ELIZA,

Rockaway, 1810

MR. and Mrs. B. are here on a visit for one night. I did not expect to see them so soon, or I would have had a letter ready. I expect another opportunity in the course of a few days, when I will send you a long letter, from my heart, and, I hope, dictated by your and my Teacher,

I learn by my children that you continue much in the same way in which I left you. It is your own God who mixes your cup, and it is to you a cup of blessing; there is no curse in it. Your Jesus drank that cup to the very dregs, that bitter as well as sweet might be to you a cup of blessing.

O, then, my darling, hold fast by your Redeemer, He is the Lord your Righteousness, and the Lord your strength: He connects your profit with his own glory. You shall in this protracted affliction manifest it, and hold out the word of life to those around you.* You shall witness for him that He is the Lord, and besides Him there is no Saviour that 'He gathers the lambs in his arms, and carries them in his bosom-that he is to them

* This prediction was remarkably fulfilled in the experience of this dear young saint; an interesting account of whose illness and death has been published in the Christian's Magazine

a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest-as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.' That it is he that teacheth them to profit, and leadeth them by the way that they should go, and that in due time he will perfect all that concerns them.

Farewell! Yours with affection,

I. GRAHAM.

TO THE SAME.

Rockaway, Sabbath, 1810.

MY DEAR, MY BELOVED ELIZA,

I wrote you a few lines yesterday by Mr. B. I now propose to fulfil my promise. I expect an opportunity to-morrow or next day, for I saw a great many carriages pass this way to the tavern, as I suppose, from New-York. It is a common thing with some to come here on Saturday, and return on Monday, to spend this blessed day in frolic. You would not, I know, exchange situations with them; you would rather be suffering than sinning.

It is your own observation that God does all in wisdom; in this wisdom he is pleased to lengthen your day of affliction. Sin, my darling, is the cause of all suffering; but is not always the immediate cause. Beside particular chastisement for particular sins, there are afflictions to be filled up in the body of Christ, (his church,) a measure of which in kind and degree, is appointed by un

erring wisdom to each individual member. Col. i. 24. These sufferings bear no part in atoning for sin, nor in redeeming our forfeited inheritance. Christ 'trode the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none to help him.' 'He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him; who when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.' Heb. i. 3. Again, chapter x. 11. 'And every Priest (in the Levitical law) standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness to us, for after he had said before,' (see from verse 5.) This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord-I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.' Paul says the Holy Ghost is a witness, because he copies from the ancient scriptures the prophecies of Jeremiah, chap. xxxi. 31, and Ezek. xxxvi. 25, and from the Psalms lx. 7. Your mother will read to you also the 8th chapter of Hebrews, containing the same things, the new covenant, in consequence of Christ as the surety of sinners, having made full atonement,