affections in my heart, no carnal enmity, nor infidelity in my mind, that I fhould be one of the happiest men in all the world; there would be an end of the daily cross, an end of the arduous task of self-denial, and no more lufting against the Spirit, no more keeping the heart with all diligence, no more need of watchfulness and felfexamination, no more fhynefs, nor distance between God and my foul. But this divine bliss is reserved for the other world; Lazarus muft have his evil things in this life, and be comforted on every fide, when this life comes to its end. I cannot, I must not, I dare not say that I am not loved of God with an everlafting love; I dare not say that I am not in poffeffion of that charity which rejoiceth in the truth, which is what Paul calls delighting in the law of God after the inner man.. And yet I am in, and of myself, and by fin, a hater of God, Rom. i. 30. I was envious, fays Afaph, at the prosperity of the wicked, and pricked in my reins: Why? because they increase in riches, and he was poor; and because they were not in trouble, nor plagued like him; and because they are fat, and at eafe, and have no bands in death, but their strength is firm; I have washed my hands, and cleanfed my heart in vain, for all day long have I been plagued, and chaftened every morning; my feet were almost gone, my fteps had well nigh flipped; fo ignorant, fo foolish was I, I was like a beaft before thee; ne vertheless I am ftill with thee; thou haft held me by my right hand; thou shalt guide me by thy council, and afterwards receive me to glory, Pfalm lxxiii. Again, "And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickednefs are fet up, yea they that tempt God are even delivered," Mal. iii. 15. These are nothing but Satan's fubjects in a mock fhew, and nothing in us is charmed with them, envies them their pride or their wealth; nothing in us that craves either their property or their pleasure but corrupt affections; and this is the law of fin, that wars against the mind of the Spirit. By these scare-birds is the law of fin difcovered, and by these oppofites is the mind of the Spirit made manifeft; but the time will come when we fhall return and difcern between the righteous and the wicked; then Asaph will not envy the foolish when he fees them fhut out of the marriage chamber; nor will Malachi call the proud happy when he fees them to be nothing but ftubble in the fire of divine wrath. Ever yours. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. THE END. LAST FRAGMENTS OF THE REV. J. JENKINS. DROPPED BY THE MOUTH FROM THE FLESHLY TABLES OF THE HEART. Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. LONDON: Printed by T. BENSLEY, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Published by E. HUNTINGTON, Bookfeller, No. 55, High Street, Bloomsbury. Sold alfo at the City Chapel, Grub-Street; at Jireh Chapel, Lewes, Suffex; at Gideon Chapel, Briftol; by J. Cuthbert, Battle, Suffex; Thomas Barton, Market Place, Grantham, Lincolnshire; S. Eades, 58, High Street, Ramsgate; George Calladine, Leicester; S. Turner, Sunderland; and J. Jamefon, Penrith, Cumberland. PREFACE. To the Church of God, which affemble for divine Worship at JIREH CHAPEL, Lewes, Suffex. Beloved in the Lord, As it is now twenty-eight years fince I first preached at Lewes, I need not apologize to you like one that is a ftranger. It is the defire of Mr. Jenkins's friends in London, (and they are not a few) who have read his letters, and who have often heard him preach, that I fhould acquaint them with the latter ftages of his life, and how he finished his race. Some of these having compared notes with him, and received much encouragement from his epiftles, expect fome confirmation from being informed that his end was more hopeful than his beginning. I vifited him twice when he was near the banks of Jordan, |