folved, we, according to his promife, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2 Peter iii. 13. To fulfil this, "He that fat upon the throne faid, Behold, I make all things new, Rev. xxi. 5. This being to be done, John had a vifionary view of it. "And I faw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and firft earth were paffed away, and there was no more fea," Rev. xxi. 1. There was no more fea, the great deep being burnt up, Amos vii. 4. This new heaven and new earth will be the feat of the church, the nuptial chamber; for as foon as this new heaven and new earth appear, then alfo appears the bride, the Lamb's wife, adorned for her husband, Rev. xxi. 1, 2. During the many days that these state prifoners fhall remain in the pit, the moon shall be confounded, and the fun alhamed, and shall be seen no more, because the Lord of hofts fhall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerufalem, and before his ancients gloriously, Ifai. xxiv. 22, 23. Here is the thousand years reign of Chrift; and all that are bleffed and holy fhall have a part in this reign. "Bleffed and holy is he that hath part in the first refurrection on fuch the fecond death hath no power, but they fhall be priests of God and of Chrift, and fhall reign with him a thousand years," Rev. xx. 6. This explains the prophet Ifaiah's many days, in which the state prisoners

fhall lie in the pit; at the end of which the duft of the wicked fhall be raised, and their fouls fhall be reunited to their bodies, and the devil and his angels fhall be loofed for a little feafon', in order to take their trial, and receive their fentence; and so it is written: "But the reft of the dead (meaning all the wicked) lived not again until the thousand years were finifhed," Rev. xx. 5. If my reader would fee this innumerable multitude when raised from the dead, let him read Rev. xx. 7, 8, 9; where he will fee them all as the fand of the fea, and the devil at the head of them, going to encompass the glorious camp of the faints, and the beloved city. If my reader would fee the judgment of thefe, it ftands in Rev. xx. 12. and the end of all these wicked ones ftands in Rev. xx. 15. Surely fuch are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God, Job, xviii. 21. In what has been faid we see where the departed fouls of ungodly men go to at death, that their fouls are imprisoned in hell, and therefore called spirits in prifon, 1 Peter iii. 19: that at the great day the ungodly, then alive, will be confumed with fire, when their fouls and all the devils will be fhut up in one and the fame pit: that at the end of the faints' thousand years reign they shall be vifited, and loosed for a little feason, in order to take their trial. "The wicked are reserved to the day of deftruction, they fhall be brought forth to the day

of wrath, [God] fhall declare his way to his face, and shall repay him what he hath done," Job xxi. 30, 31.

It will now be expected that I should say fomething of my dear departed friend. It is now many years fince I firft faw him, which was at the meeting-houfe on Afhdown Foreft, where he came to hear me; and when I had done he came up to me, and took me by the hand, as a boatswain of a man of war would have done; faying, "Well! how do you do?" He appeared to me so carnal, infenfible, and hard, that my foul defpifed him. Some time after this I was informed that he went and preached at the house of a farmer, whofe name is Simmons, not far from the meeting where I had preached. His discourse was intended to prove the law to be the believer's rule of life; on this account many of my friends went to hear him, to fee what he could do to confirm this point. His text was,

Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net," Luke v. 5. My friends, who had often heard him before, declared, they had never heard him fo badly; and no wonder, for Chrift's command has power in it, and differs much from a killing letter; nor is the law of Mofes the gathering net of those fishers whom the Lord makes fishers of men. Very foon after this I heard by various perfons that he was brought

low in his mind, that he was dejected, and in deep foul trouble, which at the first I did by no means believe; but reports coming continually about it, I began to credit it, and to be glad that God had begun to fhew him what was in his heart. Being forely tried, it came in his mind to come to London, and to call upon me; but the enemy fuggefted to him that I was of fuch a bad fpirit, and fo unmerciful, that I fhould rejoice at his calamity, and be pleased to see one of my lady's men fallen. This put a ftop to his coming, and he went into Wales, after he had abode about a fortnight in town. However, his misery increasing upon him, he returned to Lewes, being (if I forget not) folicited by fome of his friends fo to do. On June the 26th, 1792, I went to Maresfield, in Suffex, to preach, in company with Mr. Benfley, and another gentleman. This day Mr. Jenkins came to Maresfield, having been informed that I was expected there : he came to fee me, which is what I expected. The gentlemen in company with me went walking as foon as Mr. Jenkins arrived. I was up ftairs by myself when he came, at a private house in Maresfield: he requefted to fee me, and I ordered him up. His countenance proclaimed the deep diftrefs of his foul, and I found my bowels moved for him, and no common attachment to him, which I believ was of God, as it never afterwards was extine

guished. He appeared to me to be broken, humbled, mortified, meekened, foftened, and contrite to the last degree. His confeffions and acknowledgments came from the abundance of his heart, without any thing evafive or equivocal, and without referve. He opened the worst that respected himself as a man, a profeffor, and as a minifter; and his consciousness of his having been deceived, and of his having deceived many in the course of his ministry, which had been ten years. My mouth was much opened to him, and my heart was enlarged; he ftopped, and heard me preach three times, and I perceived that his heart cleaved to me, not finding in me that bad spirit, and that unparalleled hardness and cruelty, that he expected; at least not at that time. Upon the whole I perceived that God had wounded him, searched, tried, and laid the corruptions of his heart, the follies of his youth, the emptinefs of his profeffion, and his prefumptuous affumption of the ministry, all open, and fo he said, he felt it, and owned it; and I really did conclude, that, if there is fuch a thing as for a man to receive the word in an honeft and good heart, that goodness and honesty appeared in him; confcience was made good by the entrance of the Lord's good Spirit; and confcience becoming good becomes. honeft, and acts the honeft part, and no more putting bitter for fweet, nor fweet for bitter; no more putting darkness for light, nor light for