were the progenitors of a numerous and honored posterity.

In the character of Caleb we may observé scveral things worthy our admiration, such as

I. Fidelity and courage. The cause in which he was engaged was the cause of God, and the divine command was the only rule of his conduct. The situation in which he was placed was one of no ordinary difficulty and danger. He had to encounter the errors and the prejudices of a whole nation, and that too at the peril of his life. Yet he did not shrink from the performance of an obvious duty on account of any apparent difficulty, but relying on the promise of God, he boldly braved the danger, and courageously pressed forward, in spite of every obstacle, until he had attained his ultimate object, victory over his enemies and the possession of the promised land.

II. The faith and piety of Caleb were also remarkable. When the people murmured he encouraged them to trust in the Lord. And when they had entered Canaan he poured out his soul in ascriptions of gratitude and devotion to God, in language which shews him to have been a man of the most exemplary piety, and one who acknowledged God in all his ways.

But while we hold up the example of Caleb to admiration, we must also present it as every way worthy of imitation. We would more especially address such of our readers as may probably enter upon a military life. Loyalty, courage, prudence, and piety are bright ornaments in any station, but they B b 2 appear

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we attended not to his warning and teaching, and ungratefullycast his words behind our back.' He inspired us with good thoughts and good desires; we often felt strangely affected; we wept and mourned, and we resolved to be the Lord's; again we trifled; mixed with the thoughtless and the vain, or gave way to sin; our good desires died away, our resolutions were abortive; the good Spirit of God was grieved; again he warned us; we felt the motions of his grace, but, unstable as water,' we did not excel; and either we are still thus doing, or the Holy Spirit, being grieved at our folly, hath ceased his operations, and we are sunk in stupidity of mind and hardness of heart.-Neglect of the means of grace. God is good, and ever ready to do us good, but he will be enquired of to do these things for us; he will be sought after in the ways of his own appointment; them that honor him herein he will honor. Seek ye me,' saith God, and ye shall live;' but we have been negligent herein, we have not prayed, or have not prayed earnestly for salvation; so we have not, because we ask not; we ask, and receive not, because we ask amiss; we have been more concerned about the form than the power of religion; we have not sought the Lord in all his ways, and with all our hearts.-Want of faith. In some, formerly, the word was not mixed with faith in bearing it, and they were not saved; so with us. By grace are ye saved through faith, is an abiding truth; we have not by faith come unto God and sought his salvation; so it hath been unto us, not according

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to our faith, but according to our unbelief. It hath happened to us as to the people of Nazareth: 'He could not do many mighty works there because of their unbohef.-Having thus reflected on the past, let us now turn our minds to the future, and enquire in

QUESTION 4.-What will be the consequence of our continuing to live, and at last dying, without this salvation? It will be everlasting banishment from God! for only the pure in heart can see God. Nothing unholy or unclean can enter the kingdom of heaven. Be not deceived; no one that lives in sin can possibly go to heaven. If ye die in your sins' saith Jesus, 'where I am ye cannot come.' And again, 'Except a man be born again,' be born from above, be regenerated by the Holy Ghost, The cannot see, cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.' It will be everlasting punishment in hell! They that love God, love Jesus Christ; and they that love Jesus Christ keep his commandments: but if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha;' accursed when he cometh; and the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power? All the unsaved, whether the grossly wicked or the mere giddy trifler, will be shut up in the place of torment, for the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the pcople that forget

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God.' This is the unalterable decree of God; God hath thus spoken, and not one jɔt or tittle of his word shall fail.' How dreadful, then, our state if yet unsaved!-If we be affected herewith as we ought to be, we shall be anxiously waiting a reply to

QUESTION 5.-May we indeed yet be saved? After all our folly and all our sin, may we hope that mercy may even yet extend to us? Yes; it is for this very end that we are spared. The long suffering and tender forbearance of God are intended to lead us to repentance,' and consequently to pardon and salvation. O, how good God is! Lord help us to adore thy goodness as we ought! If, indeed, we feel even now compunction of soul, if we feel a desire to be saved, Who wrought that compunction? Who, imparted that good desire? God: and wherefore? Intentionally to bring us from sin and folly to himself; to satisfy that desire, and magnify his grace in our salvation. Amen; let it be so, O, our God!-This, however, leads

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QUESTION 6 AND LAST. What must we do to be saved? We must' believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; we must believe in him as he is revealed in the Gospel; we must receive him as the free gift of God to us poor lost sinners; we must believe in him as an all-sufficient Saviour, every way qualified and able to save us; we must believe in him as a willing Saviour, delighting to save us; we must believe in him, renouncing all selfconfidence, all we have, are, or can do; we must believe

believe in him with our hearts unto righteousness, with true compunction of heart for having lived so long in sin and folly, so long lived without knowing, believing in, and loving so good so gracious a Saviour. This faith, this believing, will bring Jesus Christ and his salvation into our hearts; our souls will be filled with peace and joy; and continually receiving out of his fulness, and grace for grace, we shall be enabled to crucify the flesh, with its affections and lusts;' to overcome the world,' its frowns, and smiles; and to live a life of righteousness and true holiness. We shall be saved from every real evil, saved unto every necessary good, and when we have done and suffered the will of God on earth, then shall our salvation have its consummation, and issue in full complete everlasting blessedness with God in heaven.

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On the IMMENSITY of the WORKS of GOD. (Abridged from St. Pierre's Studies of Nature.)

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EVERY work-of nature has presented to us, hitherto, only partial relations; man will furnish us with such as are universal. We shall examine, first, those which he stands in to the elements. Beginning with that of light and fire, we shall observe, that his visual rays take in nearly half of the celestial hemisphere, and of the plane on which he treads, and their reach extends from the grain of sand which he tramples under foot, to

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