that are going to hell giddily, may God stop you this night; was I to talk to you seriously, you would say as a young gentleman did, when I desired he would not swear; he turned to me and said, Doctor, (I was no more a doctor then than now, and but young too) it is very hard you will not let a man go to hell his own way; if any of you are of this stamp, God grant he may not let you go to hell your own way, but go to heaven in God's way, in Christ's way. I am sure you are not happy; the devil never had a happy child in the world: O that God may turn your feet into the way of peace to-night: O that it may be with you as with a young man one night formerly: I remember I had about two hundred notes then; I came into Moorfields this morning at six o'clock, says he, to meet my sweetheart, but, blessed be God, I met with Jesus Christ, my sweetheart: would to God you may do so, young men, to-night when you have gone on to that place, O that it may be with you as it was with good Mr. Crane, who is appointed steward of the Orphan-house; he went once to see a play at DruryÎane, but that being full he went to Covent-garden, and that was so full he could not put his head in; well, says he, (he told it me himself, and he is an Israelite indeed, one of the most honest men, perhaps, in the world,) I will go and hear doctor Whitefield; there God reached his heart, and now he shines. I had letters yesterday or the day before from Georgia, that made my heart leap for joy; honest Mr. Wright, that ingenious, indefatigable man, and Mr. Crane, have gone on so well, and have managed the Orphan house so well, that all letters from all parts give me a pleasure: would to God one says, you

could send ten thousand such people as Mr. Wright and Mr. Crane; would to God you could send a thousand such over, and an hundred preachers to preach Christ among us. O that curiosity may be over-ruled for good to some of you to-night: but I forgot myself, and can you blame me if I should detain you a little, though I am really afraid of unfitting myself for my voyage, if I tire myself before I go: to-morrow I am to go to see where I am to sleep. I intend, God willing, to have a sacrament here to-morrow, and another next Sabbath-day morning. I intend, God wil ling, to give you a parting word on Sunday evening, and give you notice of taking my last farewel in the week, for I must get a day or two to dispatch my private business, and be ready to go where my God calleth me.

I shall, I think, be called to do something which I would, if possible, have avoided, and that is, as this place has been repaired, you see 'tis fresh done, which is expensive, and I am willing to leave every thing clear before I go, a collection must be made for defraying the charge. The world thinks I am very rich; a man, the other day, was so persuaded of my riches, that he sent me word, if I did not lay thirty pounds in such a place, I should be killed as sure as I am alive; but, blessed be God, I am alive yet; I do not fear dying suddenly, or being dispatched by a poignard, or a pistol to make a passage for my soul to flee to God. You may think, perhaps, I get a great deal by preaching here; and now I am going away, what do you think my stated allowance is for preaching at the Tabernacle? I have no more from this place than one hundred pounds a year; and I asked but last night how it

stood, and instead of having a single six-pence, I was told there were fifty pounds arrears; well, said I, ungrateful as it is to me, I will make a collection to-night that it may be left free; and if others are left to make an advantage of it, may God make it a blessing. There are not six people in this place that I have had the value of a guinea of from January to August; nor have I had a guinea from all these ordinances towards bearing the expences of my voyage. When I come, my brethren, to heaven, you shall then know with what a spirit I have served you; you shall then know that all I have done is to build places for others, where I hope God will meet you and your children when I am dead and gone. Ọ that we may meet in one place, when God calls me hence the Lord quicken you, the Lord strengthen you, the Lord Jesus Christ be with you, and grant that e'er long we may be where there shall be no more sorrow, but we shall dwell with God and one another for ever; even so, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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SERMON XVI.

GOD A BELIEVER'S GLORY.

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ISAIAH Ix. ver. 19.

And thy God thy Glory.

LATELY had occasion to speak on the verse immediately following that of our text; but when I am reading God's word, I often find it is.

Fike being in a tempted garden, when we pluck a little fruit and find it good, we are apt to look after and pluck a little more, only with this difference, the fruit we gather below often hurts the body at the same time that it pleases the appetite, but when we walk in God's garden, when we gaer fruit of the Redeemer's plants, the more we eat the more we are delighted, and the freer we are the more welcome; if any chapter in the bible deserves this character and description of an evangelical Eden, this does.

It is very remarkable, and I have often told you of it, that all the apostles preach first the law, and then the gospel, which finds man in a state of death, points out to him how he is to get life, and then sweetly conducts him to it. Great and glorious things are spoken of the church of God in this chapter; and it struck me very much this evening ever since I came into the pulpit, that the great God speaks of the church in a singular number how can that be, when the church is composed of so many millions gathered out of all nations, languages, and tongues? how is it, that God says thy maker and not your maker, that he speaks of the church as though it consisted only of one individual person? the reason of it is this, and is very obvious, that though the church is composed of many members, they have but one Head, and they are united by the bond of one Spirit, by whom they have the same vital union of the soul with God; and therefore it teaches Christians not to say to one another, I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, or Cephas, but to behave and live so, that the world may know that we all belong to one common Christ: God revive, continue, and increase this true Christian love among us!

Of this church, thus collectively considered, united under one head, the blessed evangelical prophet thus speaks, Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy bor. ders, but thou shalt call thy walls salvation, and thy gates, where the magistrates assemble, and the people go in and out, praise. From this text, a great many good and great men have gathered. what they call the Millenium, that Jesus Christ, is to come and reign a thousand years on earth, but I must acknowledge that I have always rejected a great many good mens positive opinion about the season when this state commences, and I would warn you all against fixing any time; for what signifies whether Christ comes to reign a thousand years, or when he comes, since you and I are to die very soon; and therefore instead of puzzling our heads about it, God grant we may live so that we may reign with him for ever; and it seems to me, that whatsoever is said of this state on earth, that the millenium is to be understood in a spiritual sense, as an emblem of a glo-, rious, eternal, beatific state in the kingdom of heaven. The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light. unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light; and in order to prepare us for that light, and show us the nature of it, while we speak. of it may it come with light and power to our souls. He adds in our text, and thy God shall be thy Glory: this is spoken to all believers in general, but it is spoken to all fearful believers in particular; and I don't know that I can possibly close my poor, feeble ministration among you here, better than with these words; though, God willing, I intend, if he shall strengthen me this ̧

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