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whole frame, shall be perfectly done away, and our tattered, filthy garments shall be exchanged for the fine linen, clean and white, the great Physician of souls will prescribe his bitter draughts no more. The hope is animating and glorious. Death, in all its tyrannizing power and distressful influence, will be lost and swallowed up in life; and every affection and thought be in perfect harmony with the holy will of Him who both died, and rose, and reigns, that he might purify unto himself a peculiar people, and present them without spot before the Throne of God.

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To Jesu's dying love.

This great and good work is in the hands of Him who is an able Physician: he knows our frame, and never fails in the choice or the efficacy of the remedies he applies. Like a skilful Refiner, he valucs the metal too much to suffer it to be reduced by the extremity of heat, or its undue continuance in the furnace. "This is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all." His nature is infinitely pure, his measures infinitely just and wise, his favour and love an infinite and eternal source of felicity; and the manifestations he is making of his glorious perfections in all his works, will, when the veil of mortality shall have dropped, be an object for saints and angels, through all eternity, to contemplate with wonder and delight.

At present, they appear to us like a distant object. Mountains intervene, which our trembling hearts despair of climbing. This gross earth often eclipses much of their brightness. Clouds often rise and intercept the beams that had revived our hope. At best, we see but through a glass darkly; and if but a spot be found upon that glass, or a vapour interpose, we fancy darkness in the object. Unbelief suggests, "The Lord has forsaken me-my God hath forgotten me." But let God's character and procedure be seen through a fair medium, and we shall see and confess he is all light; he is spotless purity, he is perfect love, he is unerring wisdom; an immense ocean of bliss. "Blessed are the pure in beart, for they shall see God!" Indeed, we cannot see him, but in his own light; then will we implore larger measures of his Spirit-then will our souls wait on him in his ordinances-then we will yield ourselves to him, in whatever measures he shall adopt to further his gracious designs respecting us. What though he make a cloud his chariot, in himself there is no darkness at all. There is nothing but love in his heart;-the clouds will vanish ;- the love of God will not always be obscured; it will shed its refreshing beams upon us, chide our unbelief, and charge us never more to entertain one unworthy thought of God. Be this, my dear children, your comfort, and may your painful exercises open to you brighter discoveries of the Fountain of Light, and give you to know more

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In the review of the dispensations of Providence respecting you, the past year, I feel constrained to condole with you, yet still more to congratulate you. You have been out at sea, tossed with tempests; but Jesus, the Friend, the Deliverer, was near; he spake, and hushed the storm; he smiled, and peace diffused through all your soul. Clouds and darkness had been round about him, but mercy and truth went before his face. O! let me review the awful cloud with grateful joy, which my Lord was pleased to make his chariot, wherein to honour me with a visit, so condescending and beneficial. me remember, with gratitude, the dark and stormy night, wherein my Saviour appeared walking on the waters, sweetly saying, "It is I, be not afraid."

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My dear children, it is my joy to think, that if your griefs have abounded, your consolations have much more abounded. May the Lord shew you more and more of his mercy, and give you, by his wonder-working power in your minds, and his fu

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