the Mediator of the new teftament, and to the blood of Sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. Heb. xii. 23, 24. This is a faving and an experimental knowledge of the holy and bleffed Trinity. We come first to God in a fiery law; when he chaftens and judges us, that we should not be condemned with the world; 1 Cor. xi. 32; and then draws us to Christ, and accepts us in him. And in Jefus Chrift we find reft from both our labour and our load, and, at the fame time, we come into the glorious liberty of the children of God. The Holy Ghost sheds abroad the love of God in our heart, and this cafts out wrath, which is a fpirit of bondage to fear, and all torment with it; and operates in us as a fpirit of love, of power, and of a found mind. This is an experimental knowledge of the Holy Trinity, and fuch as none ever experience but the elect of God; and in this way they are all taught of God: and the experience of this good work is fuch as Satan and all his emiffaries can never deftroy. No man, made thus wife to falvation, ever dared to fet his mouth against the Holy Trinity; and a fool cannot, for this wisdom is too high for him.

This is coming to God, the fountain of living waters, Jer. ii. 13; and to Chrift, the well of falvation, Ifaiah xii. 3; and to the river, the ftreams whereof make glad the city of God. Pfal. xlvi. 4.

Thus, alfo, faith God: I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer.

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xxxi. 33. And 1, faith the Saviour, will write upon bim the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerufalem, which cometh down out of beaven from my God; and I will write upon bim my new name. Rev. iii. And the Spirit makes us living epiftles-Ye are manifeftly declared to be the epiftle of Christ, ministered by us; written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the flefbly tables of the heart. 2 Cor. iii. 3.

The voice of God the Father's love in the heart is-Yea, I bave loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness bave I drawn thee. Jer. xxxi. 3.

The voice of the atonement of Chrift, in the believer's confcience, is, pardon, peace, and reconciliation with God. And thefe are better things than those spoken by the blood of Abel. Heb. xii. 24.

And the diftinct voice of the Holy Ghost in the hearts of all believers is, Abba, Father. Gal. iv. 6. This divine teaching, my dear brother, is attended with a holy claim upon God as our own God; and God will own and acknowledge fuch. To fuch God fpeaks, Thou shalt call me thy Father, and thou fhalt not turn away from me, Jer. iii. 19; which is what no man can do, in truth, without the witness and voice of the Spirit of adoption; for it is he that cries, Abba, Father. Such fouls, alfo, claim Jefus. for their own, with an infallible witness in their own fouls of the truth of it; which no man can do, in truth,

truth, without the Spirit of God; for no man can say that Jefus is the Lord (with application) but by the Holy Ghoft. Cor. xii. 3. Hence it is plain that the Spirit of God makes us, as he did the prodigal, arife and go to our Father; which, when spoken by the Spirit, is what God will ever own and honour, as he did in that parable-This is my fon. And, though at times unbelief prevails, yet the Spirit fubdues it again and again, as he did in Thomas, My Lord and my God! Thefe plain truths, my dear brother, clearly reveal this moft fublime mystery; and these things the children of God have in their own experience; and it is fuch experience as this that worketh hope. This is fubmitting to divine revelation, and not being wife above what is written. And whatever appears dark to us in the word of God we must pray the Lord to fhine upon it, that we may know the mind of the Spirit in it; for it is in his light that we fee light. And, if any man lack wisdom, let him afk of God, who giveth liberally and upbraideth not; and he will guide us by his counsel. But let us for ever fhun the bold intrufions of unhumbled and unfanctified men, who are fo daring and prefumptuous; for God will refift fuch, and make their feet stumble upon the dark mountains; while the meck he will guide in judgment, the meek will be teach his way. Strange notions are daily circulated in town against thefe things; and fuch men fhall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived; for, if the force of truth beat them out of

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one refuge of lies, the devil drives them into another; and, being hardened to the laft degree, they can adopt words which one dare not recite, and use arguments which it is fcandalous to imitate: but the time will come when God will caufe the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Ifa. xiii. II.

I fhall conclude this long epiftle with the triune benediction of heaven-The grace of the Lord Jefus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghoft, be with you, (2 Cor. xiii. 14) and with all that love our Lord Jefus Chrift, now and for So prays, dear brother,

evermore.

Yours in the ties of immortal love,

W. HUNTINGTON.

LETTER

LETTER XI.

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

To the man of God, greeting.

BELOVED, when I finished my laft I thought I had nearly exhaufted the treasure that was to be brought forth upon this fubject. I went last night to my bed weary, having fat hard at it for fifteen hours; and I thought the fpring in my heart, as well as my bodily ftrength, were both spent. But before I could get to fleep another branch of this 'fubject sprung up, and foon my cup overflowed again, which kept me awake for fome time: nor could all my weariness and heaviness counterbalance it, fo as to convey me into the regions of forgetfulness. The fubject of my contemplation was communion; and here another field opened; and, on entering into the small avenue, it foon became a vast expanfe. The first thing that ftruck me was the words of God to Mofes-Thou shalt make a mercyfeat of pure gold; and thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work fhalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy-feat. And thou shalt put the mercy-feat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou fhalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

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