to profit. The mouths of others are stopped, while the believer makes it manifeft that the kingdom (of which he is a subject) is not of this world. And in all these things God is glorified; and the children of God are a fweet favour unto him, both in them that perish and in them that are faved.-Let your light fo fhine before men that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. v. 16.

But the apoftle adds, Efpecially to the household of faith. The ties of nature give us a feeling for those who are in the flesh, and fill us with wonder at difcriminating grace, when the bond of all perfectness binds us more strongly to the excellent of the earth; for we can only pity the other, but we can delight ourselves in these. To the household of faith, if we fow fparingly we shall reap fparingly, and if we fow bountifully we shall reap bountifully. To receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, has the promife of a prophet's reward. To receive a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, has the promise of a righteous man's reward. And he that receives one of the little ones that belong to Chrift, fhall in nowife lofe his reward. A morfel of bread, or a cup of cold water only, given to any in the name of a difciple, fhall moft furely be rewarded at the refurrection of the juft; for he that foweth to the Spirit fhall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. We must fow prayers in their behalf; we may fow the feeds of inftruction in their ears, bread and water to their

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bellies, apparel to their backs, and relief in their neceffities; and reap fourfold in this life, and in the world to come life everlasting. To all this the word of God directs, and to all this the Holy Spirit leads-For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth. Eph. v. 9.

Once more, my dear fon. The best of men have no more than their own appointed time on the earth; the strength, the natural and spiritual abilities, the grace, and fuch worldly fubftance as it pleafes God to give them. Now, as all these come of God through Chrift, fo from all these things Chrift expects fome returns; for, when he comes, it will be to know what every one has gained by trading. Some redeem the time while the days are evil. Paul was willing to spend and be spent for the church; he spent his property and his ftrength in the fervice of Chrift; with the grace that he had received by the Spirit he seasoned many; and by his natural and fpiritual abilities he became all things to all men; he inftructed many, he filenced many gainfayers, and left a glorious teftimony behind of his fruitfulness in the church, of the goodness of God to him, of the blessedness of his state, and of his gloricus and triumphant end: and in all these things he fowed to the Spirit; and they that do so shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And this reaping respects this prefent life as well as the future. God's bleffing upon mount Zion is life for evermore. And it has pleafed God to put the bleffing of life

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into every fpiritual thing that the believer deals in. Upon his believing he paffes from death to life; his repentance is unto life; the promises he obtains are the words of life; his juftification is unto life; God circumcifes his heart to love God that he may live; his hope is a lively hope; and the very way which he walks is the new and living way. In short, the love and eternal purpose of God, the voice of the Son, and the operations of the Spirit, are all life to the believer; and the more we fow the more we reap; the more we love God and the brethren, the more lively we are; the ftronger our faith and the firmer our hope are, the more abundant is our life. In all these things lie our fowing and reaping. And let us, my dear brother, be constant, unmoveable, and always abounding in this work of the Lord, knowing that our labour is not, fhall not, be in vain in the Lord. To get weary and to faint in well-doing, is fad work. Look to yourselves (fays John) that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 2 John 8.

And now, my beloved fon, seeing we are not ignorant of Satan's devices, and knowing his defperate and inveterate enmity both to Christ and his church, fuffer him not to baffle and confufe thee, by fetting up any imaginary refemblances of the divine perfons mind when you are approaching to God, infinity and immenfity cannot be circumfcribed! God filleth all space. Nor fuffer the devil to confound thee, by suggesting that you will displease the

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one by addreffing the other. Whatsoever is truly and properly God is the object of divine worship. And that Jefus Chrift the Son of God, and the Holy Ghost the Spirit of God, are truly, really, and properly God, is as clearly revealed in the fcriptures as that the Father is fo. The grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the love of God our heavenly Father, and the communion of the Spirit of all grace, be with thee, and with all that love our Lord Jefus Chrift in fincerity and truth, both now and for evermore; is the prayer of, dear fon,

Yours in Chrift Jefus,

W. HUNTINGTON, S.S.

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T. Benfey, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.