of our Lord Jefus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my fpirit, with the power of our Lord Jefus Christ, to deliver fuch an one unto Satan for the deftruction of the flesh, that the fpirit may be faved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Cor. v. 4, 5. Many times, but in a lefs degree, and hot for public fcandal, but to mortify the fins of the flesh, which are too strong for the believer in prosperity, does the fiery trial come on, only to fubdue his fin and to purge his drofs.

Thefe, my dearly beloved fon, are fome of the kind helps with which the holy and bleffed Spirit of God doth affist the believer in mortifying the deeds of the body. And eternal life will moft furely attend and fucceed this long and lingering toil and labour, which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therein. Adieu; grace and peace be with thee. 'Amen and amen,

Says thine affectionate father in Chrift Jefus,

W. HUNTINGTON.

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LETTER

LETTER XVII.

To the Rev. J. JENKINS, Lewes, Sussex.

My dearly beloved Son,

I TOLD thee, in my laft, that the bleffings of thy father have prevailed above the bleffings of my progenitors, unto the utmoft bound of the everlafting hills; and that these bleffings fhall be upon the head of my fon. And this fhall come to pafs by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with bleffings of heaven above, bleffings of the deep that lieth under, bleffings of the breasts and of the womb. These bleffings of heaven are the bleffings that will bring us to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills-I will. lift up mine eyes unto the bills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Pfalm cxxi. 1, 2. But who fhall abide in thy tabernacle? Who fhall dwell in thy holy bill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in bis heart, &c. Pfal. xv. The best bleffing in heaven is that of being filled with all the fulness of God; the best bleffing that lieth under, is the

victory

victory Christ obtained over Satan, fin, death, and – hell, by his own death and burial; the best of all breasts is the comforts of the Holy Ghoft attending the gospel, called the fincere milk of the word; and the best womb is the promife of adoption and life, in which all the children of the promise lay. But I must proceed

16. To fhew the fealing of the Holy Spirit. This is promised to all that are taught of God—And many among them fhall ftumble, and fall, and be broken, and be fnared, and be taken. Bind up the teftimony, feal the law, among my difciples. Ifa. viii. 15, 16. But then what is the teftimony?—It is the gospel. And what is the gospel?-The miniftration of the Spirit. But if the miniftration of death was glorious, How fhall not the miniftration of the Spirit be rather glorious? 2 Cor. iii. 7, 8. He, therefore, that receives the Spirit and is born again of him, receives our Lord's teftimony or witnefs-Except a man be born again he cannot fee the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is fpirit. Marvel not that I faid unto thee, Ye must be born again. Nicodemus anfwered and faid unto him, How can these things be? Jefus anfwered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have feen; and ye receive not our witness. John iii. This doctrine Jefus fpake; and adds, We speak that we do know: and this he teftified-We teftify that we have feen,

and ye re

feive not our witness. This doctrine of the new

birth,

birth, received in the experience of it, is emphatically called the teftimony of Jefus. And I fell at his. feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-fervant, and of thy brethren that have the teftimony of Jefus: worship God; for the teflimony of Jefus is the fpirit of prophecy. Rev. xix. 10. The teftimony of Jefus is the fpirit of prophecy. Hence it is plain that no man, in an unregenerate ftate, can be a prophet of the Lord, nor a minister of Chrift, nor a teftifier, nor a true witnefs; for he is deftitute of the teftimony of Chrift, which is the fpirit of prophecy. Chrift fends the Spirit into our hearts, and he is the living teftimony and the witnefs; and we are witneffes of what he does in us through Chrift. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will fend unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, be fhall teftify of me. And ye alfo fhall bear witness, becaufe ye bave been with me from the beginning. John xv. 26, 27. This is the teftimony. The bond that binds the teftimony is the bond of the covenant; and that bond is the everlasting love of God the Father, which is fed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us. Rom. v. 5. Thus God's covenant, in which he promises that the word of life and the spirit of truth fhall never depart from Chrift nor from his feed, are received into the heart of God's elect, and are attended with the sweet bleffing of God's eternal love to our fouls.

Seal

Seal the law among my difciples. This law is not the moral law; for that was given by Mofes, and which Chrift came to fulfil it is another law, that poor miferable finners, who feel the plague of their heart, are commanded to wait for; for, as for the moral law, fuch finners have got enough of that already, in their foul's curfing and condemning them; and, to encourage them, they are commanded to wait for another.-Hearken unto me, my people! and give ear unto me, O my nation! for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to reft for a light of the people. My righteousness is near: my falvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people: the ifles fhall wait upon me, and on my arm fball they trust. Ifa. li. 4, 5. This law that goes forth is attended with falvation and righteoufnefs; but neither falvation from fin, nor righteousness to juftify, are obtained by the works of the moral law. The Lord's arm is to judge the people. It is the arm of the Lord revealed that makes a man believe the gospel report; and he that believes is faved with this falvation; and the righteousness of Christ is to and upon all them that believe: they are justified; and that is their judgment which begins at the house of God first. And this judgment of the people is to be a light to them in future; for every preacher, that contradicts or denies the juftification of God's elect by faith, contradicts the gospel and the Spirit's work; therefore the Lord fays, in the fame chapter, To the law and to the teftimony; if they speak not according

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