out of them, loses all his right and power in them, and they become holy matter of church thanksgivings, and the sacred oratory of pulpits.

Look at that which the private Christian is to do to his neighbour, or his enemy, and you see that very thing, which one Christian kingdom is to do to another. Look at that which proves a man to be not led and governed by the Spirit of Christ, and you see that, which proves a kingdom to be under the dominion and power of Satan. Wherever pride is, there the devil is riding in his first fiery chariot; and wherever wrath is, there he has his first murdering sword at work. What is it that fallen man wants to be redeemed from, but pride and wrath, envy and covetousness? He can have no higher separation or apostasy from God, no fuller union with Satan and his angels, than he has of the spirit of these tempers: They constitute that which, whether you call it SELF or Satan in him, the meaning is the same. Now suppose man not fallen into this self or Satan, and then there could be no more war or` fighting in him, than there was in the word made man in our flesh. Or suppose him redeemed from his fallen nature, by a new birth of the Lamb of God born in his soul, and then he can no more be hired to kill men gloriously in the field, than to carry a dark lanthren by night to a powder-plot.

Love, goodness, and communication of good, is the immutable glory and perfection of the divine nature, and nothing can have union with God, but that which partakes of this goodness. The love that brought forth the existence of all things, changes not through the fall of its creatures, but is continually at work, to bring back all fallen nature, and creature, to their first state of goodness. All that passes for a time between God and his fallen creature, is but one and the same thing, working for one and the same end; and though this is called wrath, that called punishment, curse, and death, it is all, from the beginning to the end, nothing but the work of the first creating love, and means nothing else, does nothing else, but those works of purifying fire, which must, and alone can, burn away all that dark evil, which separates the creature from its first created union with God God's providence, from the fall to the restitution of all things, is doing the same thing as when he said to the dark chaos of fallen nature, "Let there be light;" he still says, and will continue saying the same thing, till there be no evil of darkness left in all that is nature and creature. God creating, God illuminating, God sanctifying, God threatening and punishing, God forgiving and redeeming, is but one and the same essential, immutable, never ceasing, working of the divine nature. That in God, which illuminates and glorifies saints and

angels in heaven, is that very same working of the divine nature, which wounds, pains, punishes, and purifies sinners upon earth. And (N. B.) every number of destroyed sinners, whether thrown by Noah's flood, or Sodom's brimstone, into the terrible furnace of a life, insensible of any thing but new forms of raging misery till judgment's day, must, through the all-working, all redeeming love of God, which never ceases, come at last to know that they had lost, and have found again, such a God of love as this.

And if long and long ages of fiery pain and tormenting darkness fall to the share of many, or most of God's apostate creatures, they will last no longer than till the great fire of God has melted all arrogance into humility, and all that is SELF has died in the long agonies and bloody sweats of a lost God, which is that all-saving cross of Christ, which will never give up its redeeming power, till sin and sinners have no more a name among the creatures of God. And if long ages hereafter only can do that for a soul departing this life under a load of sins, which days and nights might have done for a most hardened Pharoah, or a most wicked Nero, whilst in the body, it is because whilst the soul is in the body, it has only the nature and state of fallen Adam; but when flesh and blood are taken from it, the strong apostate nature of fallen angels is found in it, which must have its state and place

in that blackness of darkness of a fiery wrath, that burns in them and their kingdom.

O poor sinner, whoever thou art, repent and turn to God, whilst thou hast Adam's flesh upon thee; for so long as that lasts, the kingdom of God is nigh at hand; but if thou diest without Adam's repentance, black lakes, bottomless pits, ages of a gnawing worm, and fire that never ceases to burn, will stand between thee and a kingdom of heaven afar off.

To prevent all this, and make thee a child of the first resurrection, Jesus Christ, God and man, the only begotten Son of this infinite love, came into the world in the name and under the character of infinite pity, boundless compassion, inexpressible meekness, bleeding love, nameless humility, neverending patience, long suffering, and bowels of re deeming mercy, called the Lamb of God, who, with all these supernatural virtues, takes away the sins of the world.

Now, from this view of God's infinite love and mercy in Christ Jesus, willing nothing, seeking nothing, through all the regions of his providence, but that sinners of all kinds, the boldest rebels against all his goodness, may have their proper remedy, their necessary means, of being fully delivered from all that hurt, mischief, and destruction,.. which, in full opposition to their God and Creator, they had brought upon themselves; from this view,

I say of God and Christ, using every miracle of love and wisdom to give recovery of life, health, and salvation to all that have rebelled against them, look at the murdering monster of WAR and what can its name or nature be, but a fiery great dragon, a full figure of Satan broke loose, and fighting against every redeeming virtue of the Lamb of God?

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The temporal miseries and wrongs which war carries along with it wherever it goes, are neither to be numbered or expressed. What thievery bears any proportion to that which, with the boldness of drum and trumpet, plunders the innocent of all that they have? And if themselves are left alive with all their limbs, or their daughters unravished, they have many times only the ashes of their consumed houses to lie down upon. What honour has war not gotten from its tens and tens of hundreds of thousands of men, slaughtered on heaps, with as little regret or concern as at loads of rubbish thrown into a pit? Who but the fiery dragon would put wreaths of laurel on such heroes? heads? Who but he could say unto them, "Well done, good and faithful servants ?".

But there is still an evil of war, much greater,

though less regarded. Who reflects how many <hundreds of thousands, nay millions, of young men,

born into this world for no other end but that they may be born again of Christ, and from sons of