and patiently waited his dismissal, only once saying, "He tarries long. Why is his chariot "so long in coming?"

'We have lost our dear friend; but I hope we shall be enabled to bear in mind his last exhortation-to remember how we have heard, and hold fast all we have received. I expect to meet him again, when he will say, "Behold and the children whom thou hast given me. E. S.".

me,

Having no idea it would be the last time when I took my leave of him at Tunbridge Wells the day before his death, I was the more alarmed when the melancholy tidings of that event reached me; which will no doubt cause great searchings of heart, and be seriously felt and lamented by those who have experienced the powerful effects of his ministry, and the benefits of his affectionate and edifying communications. Our loss is great indeed, and apparently severe. However, we do not part as those who never expect to meet again, where sorrow and sighing shall flee away-where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are for ever at rest." Let us therefore endeavour not to sorrow as those without hope, but to kiss the rod and him that hath appointed it, recollecting that our loss is his eternal gain; for of our much valued friend we may safely adopt the language of Paul-Having fought the good

fight, and kept the faith, he has finished his course with joy, and is gone to receive the reward of inheritance promised to the saints in light. May we die the death of the righteous, and our latter end be like his! Even so, Amen.

The malicious aspersions you hint at, as having been circulated respecting Lady Sanderson's conduct, compel me to add my feeble testimony against all such diabolical insinuations, which are as cruel as they are unjust. I am a living witness of the love and esteem that subsisted between her Ladyship and her late consort, who has more than once, at distant periods, told me confidentially of the tender and affectionate regard she bore him, and of her disinterested confidence in placing the whole of her property unreservedly at his disposal.-" Envy slays the silly one;" but "he that feareth God shall come forth of them all." And may that God, who defendeth the cause of the widow, give her a full reward for all her tenderness and care of his faithful, favoured servant-our invaluable friend!

Mrs, B. unites in affectionate regard to the Ladies, with whom wishing you all every blessing our heavenly Father has to bestow, I re

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Faithfully yours,

Bolt Court, July 7, 1813.

T. BENSLEY,

LETTERS

FROM

The Rev. W. HUNTINGTON.

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To the chosen of God, and espoused to Christ, the Church at Margaret Street Chapel. Selah.

HON. MADAM,

Ir is now between four and five years since I first entered into your ladyship's service in the capacity of footman, and I must confess I have often been delighted, when I have walked before your grace's chair to the King's palace with the lamp of salvation in my hand; but more delighted to see your ladyship make a good hearty meal of a dish of unbegotten and eternal divinity, I mean God the Father's endless love. And as I know your constitution to be delicate, I hope at my return to bring your ladyship a little savory meat, such as your soul loveth, that you may bless me before I die. Indeed, madam, we live in a day wherein many servants occasion the death of their mistresses by secret

and slow poison, infecting the waters of life, so that many die of them, because they are made bitter. This bane is wrapt up in an infernal planet, which some years ago fell from heaven, and now is spreading its baneful influences upon the rivers of life: it likewise falls upon the fountains of waters; the fountain of the Father's deity, Jer.. ii. 13; and on the glorious well of salvation, the infinite divinity of Christ, John iv. 14. The Atheist denies the fountain; the Arian, the well; and the Antinomian denies the rivers. The name of the star is called Wormwood-bitterness of soul; and eternal death is the portion of that man who receives the mixture, Rev. viii. 10, 11. The Lord deliver your souls from this gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity. It is true, bread 'eaten in secret is pleasant, and stolen waters are sweet, even to those from whom Heaven withholds its bounty. But the wise know the dead are there, and that all who attend the banquet are in the depths of hell. Prov. xvii. 18.

I hope God will enable me to partake of every dish before it comes upon your ladyship's table, that you may see me stagger before you swoon in the streets. These gentlemen are preludes to a spiritual famine; they will make empty the soul of the hungry, and cause the drink of the thirsty to fail, Isaiah xxxii. 6.— And I have further to tell your grace, that I

have had an opportunity of speaking to and seeing your royal Husband since I came here; he has taken his stately steps to Gainsborough; he was clad in crimson, and his sword by his side, going from conquering to conquer. I petitioned his most excellent Majesty in behalf of your grace, and obtained leave to send you the following particulars.

First, that you often speak to him in private, for it is in secret that he will give his love.-Secondly, he desires you will be constantly at the head of the table, which is your proper place, and not let your seat be empty, nor yet come tumbling in when others have half supped. Thirdly, he desires. you will not gad abroad to see the concubines of the land, lest some of the enemies of your husband defile you; for he said, it was she who tarried at home that should divide the spoil.-Fourthly, he desires you will always appear in your wedding garment, and with the ring with the white stone in it, and a little ointment on your head, and some of the powder of the merchants in your hair, together with a little frankincense and myrrh; for he said he was fond of odours. Song iii. 6. So I found he would have his homely dame drest queen fashion at last.-Fifthly, he bid me tell you not to go to bed at night and shut the door till you have kindly invited him in, lest he be forced to walk without till his

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