determination to live by faith on the Son of God, and never to make use of any arts, (not even the arts sanctioned by the practice of every order of religious labourers in the christian world,) to make gain of godliness. I do not, therefore, permit collections to be made for me, nor have I ever yet made demands on any, to whom I have spoken in private, or in public; yet I have been many years a labourer in this country; how long God will preserve to me this boast, I am not able to say. Mr. Relly rejoices that my commission to preach the gospel has been opened in America. Well I have ceased to regret this circumstance. England had become a desert to me; I had laid in the grave the wife of my bosom, the children of my youth, and any country was better than England; yet I came not here with a design to officiate at the altar; my plan was to pass my life a hermit in the wilds of America-Well, God has ordered it otherwise. By a chain of circumstances which may one day meet the public eye, I was induced to change my purpose, and as I said, I do not now regret it. God has the hearts of all in his hands, and he disposes whomsoever he chooses to aid me, precisely in the way that is most agreeable to my feelings. I have determined to cast my care upon God; if he has sent me forth, he will provide for me; if he does not provide for me, he has not sent me, and I must endeavour to live as do the world in general. Hitherto, however, I have been supplied; I have not suffered in the lack of food nor raiment; as I pass through this country, I am hailed a welcome guest in many hospitable mansions, and a thousand hearts are open to receive me as the dearest of their friends; and if I enter a town or village where I am not known, providence interposes in a remarkable manner in my behalf, and, as I said, in no moment have I ever yet been at a loss. But, but, times are changing; this war has narrowed the circumstances of many, and perhaps the hearts of some. My constitution too is changed. The painful labours I have for many years en- ⠀ dured, preaching frequently nine sermons in the course of a single week, has nearly exhausted me. Forgive me, O my blessed Redeemer, if my heart sometimes fails me, if there be moments when I stagger through unbelief. Old age approaches! sickness may be at the door, and I have no establishment, neither house nor home, no individual legally obliged to administer to my necessities, how ever pressing they may chance to be,

There are occasions when my pride takes the alarm, and I reflect with pain of mind, that it is out of my power to copy the example of the Apostle to the Gentiles, by supplying my wants with the labours of my own hands. I certainly should be the happiest man in the universe, if I could thus do, but God knoweth I cannot, and he knowing this, will, I humbly hope, provide for me. I have no reason to expect he will gratify my pride by rendering me independent, nor have I any reason to fear I shall ever suffer in the want of the necessaries of life.

I do not think it possible to know Jesus Christ, and not acknowledge, as brethren, those who believe in him. My English friends rejoice to learn, that it hath pleased God to enable me to proclaim his salvation in this distant land; and what a glorious consideration that it is not possible for me to proclaim the gospel of God our Saviour to any who are not his redeemed. That I am not obliged when I spread the table of the Lord, to say to a very large proportion of the human race, stand off, come not near this plenteous board; it was never spread for you. How great the glory which is displayed in these latter days. The ministers of "God are not now sent forth as ministers of wrath, to pronounce the sentence of death upon the sinning soul, and to tell the children of men, that their iniquities, as a thick cloud, separates between God and his offspring. No, no, far otherwise; they are now sent forth as ministers of peace, to proclaim the ministry of reconciliation, and to assure mankind, that the work of redemption is completed.

How simple is the plan; God made man in his own image, he pronounced him very good, and he placed him in the garden of Eden; but seduced by the subtle adversary, he continued not in honour; he forfeited paradise for himself, and for his posterity, to the latest generation. Human beings ushered into existence are nearly overwhelmed by crimes, by sufferings, and by a series of misfortunes. Could God have prevented this? Where then slumbered his mercy, that he did not? Peace, audacious caviller, God, "from seeming evil, still educes good," and every thing has succeeded in the best possible manner. If you ask me how I can pronounce so positively? I answer, every thing is under the di rection of an all-wise, all-gracious, and omnipotent God, and of this God prescience is also an attribute. Therefore, I say, every thing has succeeded precisely in the best possible manner.

A mysterious relationship united us equally to the first and to the second Adam, and so close was the union, that we are members of the body of the Redeemer, who, in process of time, assumed our flesh, and wrought out for us everlasting righteousness. Christ Jesus being to all intents and purposes, the Head of every man, the iniquities of the many wandering members were laid upon him, and so did they overwhelm and encompass him about; that the sword of justice was drawn against him, and he who was the fellow of divinity was sorely smitten, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; that by his stripes we might be healed, and, when crying out, "it is finished," he made an end of sin, we then, in our federal head, and immaculate representative, recovered our lost estate, and our restoration is even more splendid, more luminous, than our primeval purity, for we were then made subject to vanity, subjected however in hope, but the purchase of a Redeemer's blood can never be lost.

I HAVE been asked, "are the tares to be punished?" I answer no-Our Lord says the tares are to be burned. Again they tauntingly question, "what kind of punishment can be inflicted upon evil dispositions, without any person or agent, susceptible of suffering?" Can mere ideas, empty visions, be identified at a judgment seat? How insulting such questions. The objector proceeds to interrogate. Is not God the Father of wheat? Is he not the Father or Creator of the devil? Or, if God be not the Creator of the devil, did the devil create himself?

May I not with propriety answer, God is the Father of the good seed of the wheat, but not of the devil. Of the angels who kept not their first estate, God was undoubtedly the Creator. But of the enmity betwixt God and the creature, which constitutes the character devil, it does not appear to me God was the CreatorWheat cannot produce tares. I know not how the angels became devils: this is a subject upon which revelation being silent, I do not possess the means of information. "The proper study of mankind is man." But I think, in the nature of things, there can be but one OMNIpotent Being; and, if this be allowed, the devil cannot be omnipotent, nor equal with God.

I do not consider sin, in the abstract, as subjected either to pain, or sorrow; an idea șo absurd has no place in divine revelation.

Persons hearing me attempt an elucidation of the parable of the wheat and tares, must recollect I have declared, that at the end of the world, God would take out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and cast them into a furnace of fire. The iniquity was what gave offence; he, with whom it originated, was the devil, who, because he did that deed, was accursed. When our transgressions were judicially punished with a rod, they were found in him, on whose back the ploughers made long and bloody furrows; and, when human nature shall be physically cleansed, the punishment will follow the offence, and fall upon the head of the deceiver.

The fallen spirits are sometimes spoken of in the singular, and sometimes in the plural character. When the devil, possessing the man among the tombs, was asked his name, he answered, legion; and as every human being is more or less under the influence of an evil spirit, they sustain the same character. Ye are ⚫ of your father, the devil. But when these evil spirits are separated, when all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, are taken out of the kingdom, the restitution of all things must follow. The things which are Cæsar's will be rendered to Cæsar, and the things which belong to God will be rendered to God.

It is unbecoming for two persons, professing themselves disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus, to engage in wordy war. Bitterness and rage are wholly inconsistent with the christian character; and it is my present determination, by which I trust my God will enable me to abide, never in future to respond to any individual, who apparently acts under the influence of a spirit of wrath and prejudice. But if an inquirer, directed by the mild principles of christianity, and evidently operated upon by candour and humanity, shall request a reason for the hope that is in me, I shall always be ready, with meekness and fear, to render such an answer as my God may enable me to give.

I Do, indeed, believe, what I every where assert, that we, of necessity, continue in our own apprehension, and the distressing effects of that apprehension, in a state of condemnation, until we believe in Jesus Christ, who taketh away the sin of the world. This is what I mean, and this is what my heart thinketh. I am charged with asserting that those who believe not are already jus

tified. If I distinguish between the finished salvation, wrought out by Jesus Christ, and the apprehension of this salvation, in the minds of the redeemed, what do I more than what the immediate apostles of our Lord have done before me? Nay, I firmly believe, that all who believe not are condemned already.

I have been charged with affirming, that when Jesus Christ died, the whole human race suffered for their sins in their own individual persons, and reconciled themselves unto their Maker!!! I find it difficult to believe it possibly can be supposed there is a person in the world, who embraces such a principle. For myself, I do not believe I ever had a person, until I came into this abominable world; neither do I believe, that if all the world were to suffer for their sins, in their own persons, it would reconcile them unto God. I believe that Jesus suffered the just for the unjust, to bring them to God.

No, I do not embrace the Anti-Protestant doctrine of purgatory.. There are but two sorts of purgation of which I have any idea. The one is described, Hebrews, i. 3. “Who, (Christ) being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." And the second is pointed out in the 9th ch. and 14th verses of the same epistle. "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God."

Is there who can object to either of these purgatories?

It is Mr. Murray's divinity, said one, that we are not justified, either by faith or works. Pity I cannot be permitted to render my own creed. Were I thus privileged, I should say my divinity is, that we are justified by faith with works. No man can lay other foundation than that which is laid, which is Christ: upon this foundation, we must all build; and if we build gold, silver and precious stones, such building will certainly stand, will survive even those convulsions which dissolve the frame of nature. But should we build wood, hay and stubble, such building will be destroyed: yet, blessed be God, the builders will be saved, although it be so as by fire.