DXCV.

Church Street, Paddington, Oct. 13, 1794.

DEAR SIR,

SHOULD have answered yours before, had I not been much engaged. That I may have an opportunity of speaking to you, I purpose preaching at Deptford next Wednesday week in the evening, if you will make it known.

That poor Goodston and Tom Smith are the two witnesses, will appear in the end to be nothing but insanity.-Those witnesses are to prophesy 1260 years, clothed in sackcloth; which cannot be true of them. Furthermore, at the slaughter of the witnesses the whore of Babylon is to rejoice, and send presents abroad, boasting that she sits as a queen, and shall see no more sorrow, widowhood, or the loss of children: but this at present is by no means her case.

Popery will overrun England before the witnesses will be silenced; and at their revival she will immediately fall. But, alas! her time will probably not expire until about

having been given to the pope by Phocas inthe year 606; so that none of us shall see the downfal of popery. Besides, Goodston and Smith are not silenced by the pope or the papists, as the witnesses will be: nor can the silence of these two men afford much joy to the great whore, seeing she has never received any material injury from them; that is, they have converted no great number (if any) of the papists; nor is it likely they ever will; for I have reason to believe that pride and self-seeking are the causes of their silence; of which 1 forewarned them, foreseeing that they must and would come down some way or other; for "pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

The Lord keep us in our proper place, among the chief of sinners, at the Saviour's feet, and it shall be well with us.

Ever yours in the Gospel,

W. HUNTINGTON.

DEAR SIR,

DXCVI.

Cricklewood, 1798.

HAVING been obliged to change my residence, and being much employed and wearied with it, and very unsettled, has been the cause of my long silence. I heard that Mr. O . . . . was gone to B. No mighty works, however, will put forth, or shew themselves in him. His work is only a flash in the pan; he has no ammunition; his weapon is a wooden sword; he never did, nor ever will, either cut Rahab or wound the dragon. Wherever he has gone, wonders, according to his own account, have been performed, and multitudes collected; but he was as sure to disperse them as ever he was to gather them; for he never had a due sight or sense of sin, being always the same; as ignorant of himself, of God, and of the important work of the ministry, as a woolpack. I have known him for eighteen years, but never saw a change in him yet; and, though he has been a professor perhaps

day of his birth.-Having never been emptied from vessel to vessel, his scent is in him; he is settled on his lees; and after one week's labour there will be nothing new. A scribe instructed unto the kingdom is like an old householder, who brings forth things out of his treasure new and old. But this must be preceded by new trials and fresh deliverances, which will be followed by new discoveries, that furnish us with fresh matter and new arguments.

Pay no regard to pretended friends falling away, and turning their backs upon you. None but the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind, will ever stick by you. An hypocrite, an evil worker, is generally followed by a crowd at first; but he stands alone, and stinks at last. An inheritance may be hastily gotten, but the end thereof shall not be blessed; whereas thy beginning is small, but thy latter end shall greatly increase. Stand alone, my dear brother, and quit thyself like a man. Those who feel the plague of their heart, and all such as are in distress, discontented, and in debt, will come to the cave of Adullam, and thou shalt be lance-corporal to that ragged company.

W

wanders about like a vagabond, shabby, ragged, and filthy, and sits on his

is thin enough; and

seat cobbling. BI am informed that his deacons have given warning to quit the chapel, and talk of building a less; but this will come to nought, and he will go back again to his own place, if I am right in my prophecy. A person who left me, and became my worst enemy, was one of Mr. B's principal managers. He has, however, sculked into our chapel lately, and taken a seat. They will find him a dead weight, and a sore burden on their pockets. Many, who thought his coming was a kind of providence, begin now to find it a trap. Prov. xx. 5. Counsel is gospel instruction, see Prov. i. 23; and it is deep waters, because the gospel is deep mysteries, and the deep things of God. Called deep waters, because the Spirit of life dwells in the heart. of all real counsellors and instructors; and men of experience, by asking questions, draw

it out.

The work spoken of in Acts xiii. 41. is neither the work of creation, of preservation, of providence, nor of redemption on the cross; for many assent to these. But it is the Spirit's work, the work of faith in the heart; such as making people willing, changing them, giving repentance, justify