Adam's misery become sons of God, and fellowheirs with Christ in everlasting glory; who re flects, I say, what nameless numbers of those are robbed of God's precious gift of life to them, be- * fore they have known the one sole benefit of living; who are not suffered to stay in this world till age and experience have done their best for them, have helped them to know the inward voice and operation of God's Spirit, helped them to find and feel that evil, curse, and sting of sin and death, which must be taken from within them before they can die the death of the righteous; but instead of all this, have been either violently forced, or tempted in the fire of youth, and full strength of sinful lusts, to forget God, eternity, and their own souls, and rush into a kill or be killed, with as much furious haste, and goodness of spirit, as tyger kills. tyger: for the sake of his prey ?

That God's providence over his fallen creatures is nothing else but a providence of love and salvation, turning through ways of infinite wisdom, sooner or later, all kinds of evil into a new good, making that which was lost to be found, that which was dead to be alive again; not willing that one single sinner should want that which can save him from eternal death-is a truth as certain, as that God's name is, "I AM that I AM."

Among unfallen créatures in heaven, God's name and nature is LOVE, LIGHT, and GLORY. To the

fallen sons of Adam, that which was love, light, and glory in heaven, becomes infinite PITY and COMPASSION on earth, in a God clothed with the nature of his fallen creature, bearing all its infir、 mities, entering into all its troubles, and in the meek innocence of a Lamb of God living a life, and dying a death, of all the sufferings due to sin Hence it was, that when this DIVINE PITY suffered Its own life-giving blood to be poured on the ground, all outward nature made full declaration of its atoning and redeeming power; the strength of the earth did quake, the hardness of rocks was forced to split, and long-covered graves to give up their dead. A certain presage, that all that came by the curse into nature and creature must give up its power; that all kinds of hellish wrath, hardened! malice, fiery pride, selfish wills, tormenting envy, and earthly passions, which kept men under the power of Satan, must have their fulness of death,. and fulness of a new life, from that all-powerful, all-purifying blood of the Lamb, which will never cease washing RED into WHITE, till the earth is washed into the crystal purity of that glassy sea which is before the throne of God, and all the sons of Adam clothed in such white, as fits them for their several mansions in their heavenly Father's house.

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"Sing, O ye heavens, and shout all ye parts of the earth," for this is OUR GOD that varies

not, whose first creating love knows no change, but into a redeeming pity towards all his fallen

creatures.

Look now at warring Christendom, what smallest drop of pity towards sinners is to be found in it? Or how could a spirit all hellish more fully contrive and hasten their destruction? It stirs up and kindles every passion of fallen nature that is contrary to the all-humble, all-meek, all-loving, allforgiving, all-saving Spirit of Christ. It unites, it drives, and compels nameless numbers of unconverted sinners to fall, murdering and murdered among flashes of fire, with the wrath and swiftness of lightning, into a fire infinitely worse than that in which they died. O sad subject for thanksgiving days, whether in Popish or Protestant churches! For if there is a joy of all the angels in heaven for one sinner that repents, what must there be in hell over such multitudes of sinners, not suffered to repent? And if they who have "converted many to righteousness shall shine as the stars in the firmament for ever," what Chorazin's woe may they not justly fear, whose proud wrath and vain glory have robbed such numberless troops of poor wretches of all time and place, of knowing what righteousness they wanted for the salvation of their immortal souls.

Here my pen trembles in my hand; but when, Q when, will one single Christian church, people,

or language, tremble at the share they have in this death of sinners!

"For the GLORY OF HIS MAJESTY'S ARMS," said once a most Christian King. Now if at that time his Catholic church had called a solemn assembly to unite hearts and voices in this pious prayer, " 0. blessed Jesus, dear redeeming Lamb of God, who camest down from heaven, to save men's lives, and not destroy them, go along, we humbly pray thee, with our bomb-vessels and fire-ships, suffer not our thundering cannon to roar in vain, but let thy tender hand of love and mercy direct their balls to more heads and hearts of thine own redeemed creatures, than the poor skill of man is able of itself to do." Had not such prayers had more of the man of the earth, more of the son of perdition in them, than the most Christian King's glorying in his arms?

Again, would you farther see the fall of the universal church from being led by the Spirit of Christ, to be guided by the inspiration of the great fiery dragon, look at all European Christendom, sailing round the globe with fire and sword, and every murdering art of war, to seize the possessions, and kill the inhabitants of both the Indies. What natural right of man, what supernatural virtue which Christ brought down from heaven, was not here trodden under foot? All that

you ever

read or heard of heathen barbarity, was here out

done by Christian conquerors. And to this day, what wars of Christians against Christians, blended with scalping heathens, still keep staining the earth and the seas with human blood, for a miserable share in the spoils of a plundered heathen world ! A world which should have heard, or seen, or felt nothing from the followers of Christ, but a divine love, that had forced them from distant lands, and through the perils of long seas, to visit strangers with those glad tidings of peace and salvation to all the world, which angels from heaven, and shepherds on earth, proclaimed at the birth of Christ.

Here, now, let the wisdom of this world be as wise as ever it will, and from its learned throne, condemn all this as enthusiasm, it need be no trouble to any one to be condemned by that wisdom which God himself has condemned as foolishness with him. For the wisdom of this world has all the contrariety to salvation-wisdom, that the flesh has to the Spirit, earth to heaven, or damnation to salvation. It is a wisdom whose spirit and breath keep all the evil that is in fallen man, alive; and which, in its highest excellence, has only the full-grown nature of that carnal mind which is enmity against God. It is a wisdom that is sensual and devilish, that hinders man from knowing and dying all those deaths, without which there can be no new life. It is a wisdom that turns all salva tion-truths into empty learned tales, that instead of