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rays without. To be diligent in business, and fervent in fpirit, is a command given to every Chriftian, and what the moft eminent faints have been brought to fubmit to, from Abel, the first martyr, to Amos the prophet, and even from Jefus Christ, to Paul the tent-maker.

However, it was with much reluctance that Cushi left his lodgings, and the verdant meadow. But fo confpicuous a proof of the faithfulness of his Lord, made him depart with this perfuafion and confeffion, the Lord is my fhepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ; be leadeth me befide the ftill waters. He reftoreth my foul; be leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's fake. Pfalm xxiii. 2, 3.

Cushi now rose up, and travelled off, most sweetly refreshed, and he intended to walk quite through the verdant valley, but he had not got far, before a bright cloud appeared in fight, and he expected a shower; and when it came over his head, he felt a most pleasing sensation on his fpirit, wonderful motions in his mind, and a particular flow of affections, which for a while made him ftand as one entranced; and he fuppofed he faw a real cloud. But this text occurred to his mind: In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. Prov. xvi. 15. And fo he found it, for the thoughts of God in the promises dropped in fuch an abundant manner on him, that his cup overflowed, till he vented it in confeffion, adoration, thankfulness and praife. The words of a man's mouth are as deep wa

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ters, and the well-fpring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Prov. xviii. 4. Cufhi, finding fuch divine light and understanding crowd in upon him, fadly wanted to minute down what he faw and felt; but his mind was fo taken up, that all efforts to begin a diary proved vain; he had no thoughts at command for that; he was therefore forced to breathe out the overflowing of his joys to the fountain of life, from whence they came.

The church, when thus filled, is a fountain fealed, until the feal opens, and lets it forth. A garden inclofed is my fifter, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain fealed. Song, iv. 12. But when the spirit opens the heart, it plays all its streams into the fountain of divine fulness, from whence the ftreams came.

Thus the Lord drinks his own wine with his own milk, and eats his own honey-comb with his own honey. Song, v. 1. Or, to speak in exprefs terms, he is entertained with the fervent devotions produced by his own fpirit. Thus God the Father, and God the Son, are glorified in the gracious foul by God the Holy Ghost. God is a fpirit, and will be worshipped by his own spirit in us; and as a God of truth, he will be worshipped in truth; not as an object represented in a false light, nor with a falfe heart.

Cufhi's devotions were truly divine, for he broke forth into the following expreffion of fympathy and gratitude to his much-flighted and long-neglected Lord. O thou fource of all divine happiness, and fountain of light and life, who hath

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promised to the parched and barren fouls of thine elect, both the former and the latter rain moderately in their feafon; I received thy blessed word at firft with the dew of thy fpecial grace to give it root; but, alas! worldly-mindedness foon caused my joys to wither; but thou haft revisited my barren heart, and made the parched ground a pool, and the thirsty land fprings of water. Aftonishing, that an heart, once the habitation of dragons, should be turned into a fpringing well. Ifai. xxxv. 7. Ob that I never may be left to wander from thy fhadow again, nor to flight the fanctuary Service of my God. Blefed are they that dwell in thy houfe; they will be fill praising thee; blessed is the man whofe ftrength is in thee; in whofe heart are the ways of them, who, paffing through the valley of Baca, make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. Pfalm lxxxiv. 5, 6.

Cushi had now almoft croffed the valley of Baca, and fuddenly he efpied an hill before him, with a gradual afcent, and he fhortly began to afcend it; and the higher he went, the greater his joys were; till at last he vented the fulness of his foul in praise and acclamations of joy, saying, Ob my God, as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are fown in it to Spring forth, fo the Lord God doth cause righteousnefs and praise to spring forth in my once barren, but now revived heart. Ifa. Ixi. 11.

Cufhi having gained the fummit of the hill, faw a fine fpreading tree, and under it a feat, with a man fitting thereon, who had a book in his hand.

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The reader being penfive in thought, did not difcern the approach of Cushi. Cushi perceiving this, approached as near as he could, without difturbing the attention of the reader, and ftood ftill to hear him read. The paffage that he was reading was, and Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-firch; as it is faid to this day, In the mount of the Lord it fhall be feen. Gen. xxii. 14.

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Cushi faid unto him, understandeft thou what thou readeft? The good man started up in a furprize, and faid, How can I, except fome man fhould guide me; and he defired Cufhi to fit down with him. I am glad, faid Cufhi, to find thee bleffed with a fenfe of thy native ignorance, and endowed with a teachable spirit. Pride will not fubmit to learn of those whom God hath taught. I think a teachable spirit is characteristics of a child of grace. Pharifees, who were wife in their own eyes, and prudent in their own fight, refused the tuition of God the Saviour, became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened; professing themJelves to be wife, they became fools. God has determined to destroy all grounds of boafting, and to stain the pride of all human glory. Hence it is, that the Prophet Isaiah foretold that God would take away all truft in the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet; and the prudent, and the ancient; the captain of fifty; and the bonourable man; and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer; and the eloquent orator; and that he would

give children to be their princes, and babes should rule over them. Ifa. iii. 2, 3, 4, 5. Men of great natural or acquired parts can never fubmit, without humbling grace, to yield obedience to (what one calls) the foolishness of the cross.

However, the Prophet fays, whom shall God teach knowledge? And whom shall be make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breafts; for precept must be upon precept; precept upon precept; line upon line; line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Ifaiah xxviii. 9, 10. This is an humbling declaration for a counsellor, an aftrologer, a ftar-gazer, or a monthly prognofticator, to regard. Ifa. xlvii. 13. But as Paul fays, If any man will be wife, let him become a fool, that he may be wife.

But to give my dear brother an account of this mountain, on which we fit: I believe it to be Mount Moriah, which, perhaps, may fignify the Lord revealing. If it does, it fhews how those fouls are exalted, whom the Lord condefcendeth to teach, to whom he reveals his mind and will, though it be attended with bitterness, which may be included in the word Moriah. Mount Calvary, you fee, is almoft oppofite, where our Lord was crucified; and he whom God teacheth on Mount Moriah, is fure to have fome views of what was done on Mount Calvary. The mountains fhall bring peace to the people and the little bills by righteousness. Pfalm lxxii. 3. The grand defign of divine teaching is, first, that we may know God in his law to

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