my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members; so that when I would do good, evil is present with me; and the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that do I." There are many thus wrought upon, who are convinced in their minds of the contrary workings of the spirit of God, and the spirit of fallen nature; but for want of abiding under the impressions they are favoured with--for want of living under a sense of the counteracting power of the spirit of Christ in their hearts, their attention is diverted from the great and important business of salvation. There are many who are brought thus far, who have never exclaimed with the Apostle, (we may remember what is subjoined to that which I have already mentioned, where he says :) “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!" Here, my dear friends, is a situation into which all must be brought sooner or later: to cry out under the bondage of their corruption: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!" The Apostle found a deliverer, and we also may find a deliverer, if the fault be not our own. And if I remember right, in the very next chapter he declares, "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

Here was the experience it wrought in the Apostle, and this is the necessary experience that must be wrought in every individual. It was the great object and design of the coming of Jesus Christ, that he should put an end to sin and finish transgression," and in the room thereof establish evangelical righteousness. "For this purpose," said the Apostle," was the Son of God made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” And where are they to be destroyed, but in the hearts of fallen men? The heart of man, by nature, is as a "cage of unclean birds;" and the first operation of the spirit of Christ, is to reprove the world of sin :" and the longer I live, and the more I consider the dispensations of unerring Providence, and the more I become acquainted with mankind, the more I am convinced by experience, that this is the first work; the first operation of the spirit of God upon the mind and soul of man it convinces us of sin, and raises in our souls a cry for deliverance: "A Saviour, or I die; a Redeemer, or I perish forever."

Here is the language of an awakened mind! here is a thirst for a better state than that which we have yet attained unto. And there is no other source of consolation, there is no other refuge but Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom dwelt all the ful-ness of the God-head bodily. I remember, unexpectedly, while I am thus expressing myself, how our blessed Lord stood up in the “last day, that great day of the feast," and cried: "If any man

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thirst, let him come unto me and drink." There is no other way unto God, no other source of consolation, no other foundation can any man lay: "Other foundation," said the Apostle, "can no man lay, than that which is already laid." For there is no other name, no other power under heaven given among men, whereby we can be saved from our sins in the present life, and from the guilt and punishment due unto them in the world that is to come, but in and through Christ Jesus our Lord; who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men ; and being found in fashion as a man; he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

These, my dear friends, were the doctrines of the primitive believers and ministers of Christ Jesus our Lord. And however any in our day may depart from these principles, and be launching out, as it were into the ocean of speculation, earrying more sail than ballast; in the day of affliction and adversity, when the winds may blow and tempests beat, the foundations of all these spe

culative people, who are denying or doubting the divinity of our Lord and Saviour, will be deeply tried. When the winds of adversity overtake these, without divine interposition, or some miracle be wrought in their behalf, they will be upset, and down they will go; and the places that knew them in religious society, will know them no more.

I speak with a mind clothed with awful solemnity! I know not from outward knowledge, whether there are individuals unto whom any of this is applicable, in the present meeting; though I believe there are from inward feelings, and the exercise of my tried mind. But I am not ashamed to bear my testimony; and I trust while I have a tongue to speak, and strength to utter, and while. I feel constrained to bear my testimony to that foundation which God hath laid and not man,' 99 that nothing will ever deter me from delivering my soul where my lot is cast.

I am far from home, and from all my tender connexions in life. I left these under what I believe to be the constraining influence of the love of the Gospel of Christ Jesus; not with any view to reward from man, either in money or in applause ; but that I might feel in an awful day approaching, that I was clear of the blood of all men. And however I may have been mistaken in my views of what I apprehended was my religious duty, this is the ground on which I stand in this country. I stand here a among you as a monument of the long forbearance, the unbounded goodness, and adora

ble mercy of a gracious God. I am here among you as a brand plucked out of the burning! I have nothing to boast of, but my manifold infirmities; nor any thing to trust to but the unmerited mercy and goodness of God, in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. And I long more than I have a capacity or strength to express, that all our minds may be brought to a living acquaintance with the mercy and goodness of the Lord Almighty, in and through Christ Jesus, awakening in us a due sense of the blessings we are put in possession of; and that we are all the objects of the mercy and goodness of the Almighty, in and through the means he hath provided.

I wish to impress on every mind, our belief, that he tasted death for every man that the Gospel of Christ Jesus is as free for all our acceptance as the air we breathe. We are all the children of one Almighty Parent by creation; and we may all be made his by adoption and renovation of heart. We shall have no excuse to plead in the great and awful day that is approaching. We shall none of us be enabled to say, “I knew not thy will O God." No, my friends, God hath shewn this unto us: he hath shewn unto thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee; but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk hum bly with thy God."

How many sorrowful instances do we see among our fellow creatures, in our own and other religious societies, who have not been brought the