in the wicked, and zeal for God burns in the just. "I came not to send peace," saith the Saviour, "but a sword and a fire, and what will I if it be already kindled?" "I came to set a man at variance against his own house." This work does and must go on. The Bishop sends his kind love to both, and the Doctor sends the same. Q in the Corner. superabounding grace can perform. Such souls are the greatest debtors, and such will never dispute with the Almighty about who shall save, nor about who shall have the glory of a sinner's salvation. Pen, adieu! W. H. S. S. DEAR PEN, DCI. THE Doctor sends grace and peace to his cousin. The little bishop dined with me on Thursday last : he was frank, open, and very communicative. He is weathering the Cape of Good-hope, and crossing the line, and I think one more healing beam of the Sun of righteousness will bring him under the torrid zone; when the veil, the yoke, the chains, the grave-clothes, the mufflers, the strait waistcoat, and the buckram, will all fall off together, and be bequeathed to the moles and to the bats. We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts, no means, no wet nurse to suckle her, nor to deal out the sincere milk of the word, for there is a lion in the way. All mountains must become a plain. God will work, and who shall let it? All that the Father hath given me," says the dear Redeemer," shall come to me." A thousand shall fall at thy right hand, and ten thousand at thy left; but no plague shall come nigh them who make the most high their habitation. And, "as we have heard, A few weeks since a professing husband persecuted his poor wife for hearing the word where the power is, and went many miles off to seek work at some powder-mills, taking his wife and family with him. In a short time these powder-works blew up, and not a limb of that man was to be found. The wife went back, and found favour with the parish officers, and now sits undisturbed under the word. "With my With my body I thee wed," and that is all; the conscience is left free for the reception of a better bridegroom and a better husband, who has dearly bought his own bride, and declares, of all that his Father gave him he will lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day, and not a hair of our heads shall perish. I admire the poor woman's firmness, fortitude, and magnanimity; she is safe enough in her alliance with God. Let her render all due benevolence to her husband; but where God and conscience are concerned, there let her stand firm, and give no place to the devil, "They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved." 66. Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but ours must be with burning and in the wicked, and zeal for God burns in the just. "I came not to send peace," saith the Saviour," but a sword and a fire, and what will I if it be already kindled?” “I came to set a man at variance against his own house." This work does and must go on. The Bishop sends his kind love to both, and the Doctor sends the same. Q in the Corner.. |