Jesus Christ, the Lord from heaven, is that quickening Spirit, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; whom the world cannot receive, (nor those that are in the spirit of the world,) because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but to those that leave all, and are willing to deny themselves, and renounce this world's spirit, and follow Him in the regeneration, the blessed promise and assurance is, " He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." "I am the living bread," said Christ; "he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him :" such spiritual communicants know Christ in them their hope of glory; and thus are they built up and elected in Him, the corner stone, elect and precious.

We also own all that the Scriptures speak of, respecting His most satisfactory sacrifice, and that he tasted death for every man, purchased eternal redemption for us; and that" through this man is preached by us the forgiveness of sins:" none are saved but by and through Him; for we are reconciled to God by the death of his Son, and thereby put into a capacity to lay hold of that salvation which is freely offered, on condition that we repent and believe.

not to speak; because, no doubt, their testimony of him, though given in respect to the matter of fact which they declared, was as it were a lie in their mouths, agreeably to what Jeremiah says, "Though mouths,―agreeably they (wicked men) say, the Lord liveth, yet verily they swear falsely." And we see in the account of our Saviour's temptation in the wilderness, how aptly Satan could quote scripture and bring texts to support his own vile purposes. Now we may remember, that when Peter confessed and said, "Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God;" Jesus answered and said unto him, -"Blessed art thou,-for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Here was an acknowledgment and profession, arising out of and flowing from a measure of the true, living, operative faith, which works by love, to the purifying of the heart and life. Here was something more-something far beyond, a mere hewing out of systems of faith, and holding them merely in the dead notion in the will of the creature. Few follow or feel after the spiritual guide and leader, which is Christ Jesus in his inward and spiritual appearance; who said, "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you;" and who further promised, that he would manifest himself unto such as loved him; and that those who followed Him, (who is the Light of the world,) should not walk in darkness, but should have the light of life.

It is indeed the Spirit of Truth that can alone lead us into all truth; and it is the Spirit which quickeneth, for the flesh, and all that the creature can do by its own strivings and stirrings, profiteth nothing in the work of God; and the spirit of man as well as the wrath of man, cannot work the righteousness of God, but hinders and obstructs it greatly. Now, the Lord

Jesus Christ, the Lord from heaven, is that quickening Spirit, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; whom the world cannot receive, (nor those that are in the spirit of the world,) because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but to those that leave all, and are willing to deny themselves, and renounce this world's spirit, and follow Him in the regeneration, the blessed promise and assurance is, "He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." "I am the living bread," said Christ; "he that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him :" such spiritual communicants know Christ in them their hope of glory; and thus are they built up and elected in Him, the corner stone, elect and precious.

We also own all that the Scriptures speak of, respecting His most satisfactory sacrifice, and that he tasted death for every man, purchased eternal redemption for us; and that" through this man is preached by us the forgiveness of sins:" none are saved but by and through Him; for we are reconciled to God by the death of his Son, and thereby put into a capacity to lay hold of that salvation which is freely offered, on condition that we repent and believe.

CHAPTER XI.

[In the autumn of this year, 1824, he visited Malvern for the benefit of his health.]

1824, Ninth Month 9th.

At Worcester Meeting. The Lord gave me some service in a private way these two days, though at L- I was much shut up. There is cause to remember, how my mind was opened and enlivened at this time, in a feeling of the good Hand that had been over me, in days that were long passed; and how I was enabled to recount to others the mercies that had been granted, and many deliverances which the right hand of the most High had wrought for me. Surely He is ever worthy to be honoured and served!

In meeting this day, my poor soul was constrained, in the powerful feeling of gospel love, to manifest by a public exhortation and testimony, my allegiance to my God: it was not in very few words. The peace that flowed was very precious; my soul would have been content to praise Him the Giver in secret, had this

been all that was required. But no,-I must bow down before the Lord, which I was enabled to do in much resignedness, and holy fear; craving earnestly the continued favour and preservation of the Almighty, on behalf of the visited ones;-with much which I now forget; though the savour of the safed, remains freshly with me. close in this part of the heritage, to ration at the goodness of the Lord.

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1824, Twelfth Month 20th.

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This day, as during many others of late, the gospel light has risen in me with much and indescribable strength; so that my poor vessel has seemed too full to contain, and I have been ready to pray, that the oil might be stayed. I have thought much of the language uttered by a worthy ancient,—The Spirit that now rules in me, shall yet break forth in thousands.' I have fully seen and been assured, that the gospel day shall rise higher and higher upon the faithful; and with regard to my poor soul, that the Lord, whom I am concerned to serve and trust in, will carry me through, even to the end. The Lord be magnified, and He only, -whether by life or death.

To J. F. M.

Marazion, 24th of First Month, 1825.

MY BELOVED FRIEND,

The hearing of your late bereavement has affected my heart, but to hear that you are, or have been, supported in calmness, is no surprise. Nor do I think to add any thing to this gift and qualification,—a resignedness to do and suffer whatever is, in the ordering of the Divine will, meted out as your lot in life. But as we may be animated and comforted by the mutual faith one of another, it seemed as though it would be so to me, to address thee at this time, even in the love of our common Father; who brought us acquainted with each other, and who knit us together in His blessed fellowship, and hath preserved us in the Truth to this day, so that we are members one of another. I am persuaded, that nothing shall be permitted to shake our faith, or separate us from his love, as we continue to be concerned to cleave to it, in the heights as in the depths; but that in the end we shall be more than