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WHAT the meaning of that Providence was, that called me to the occupation of my talent amongst you this summer, will be best read and understood by the effects of it upon your own souls; The kindly increase of grace and holiness in heart and life, can only prove it to have been in mercy; Where this is not the fruit of the word, there it becomes a judgment. The word travels with life or death, salvation or damnation, and bringeth forth one or another in every soul that hears it. I would not for a world (were it in my power to make the choice) tha tmy labours, which were meant and designed for the promotion of your immortal souls to the glory of the other world, in a present pursuance of the things of your peace, should be found to have been a ministration of death and condemnation, in the great day of JESUS CHRIST. Yet this the

Lord knoweth, is the too common effect of the most plain and powerful preaching of the gospel. "The waters of the sanctuary1," do not always heal where they come, for there are "miry and marshy places that shall be given to salt," the same word is elsewhere in scripture rendered barrenness; he "turneth a fruitful land into barrenness 2;" so that the judgment denounced upon these miry and marshy places is, that the curse of barrenness, shall rest upon them, notwithstanding the waters of the sanctuary overflow them.

It is sad, but certain, that the Gospel inflicteth a death of its own, as well as the law or else how are those trees in Jude said to be "twice dead, and plucked up by the roots. 3" Yea, that which in itself is the greatest mercy, through the interposition of men's lusts, and the efficacy of this cursed sin of unbelief, turneth to the greatest judgment, as the richest and most generous wine makes the sharpest vinegar. Our LORD CHRIST himself 4 the choicest mercy that the bowels of a God could bless a perishing world withal; whose coming, himself bearing witness, was no less errand than that of eternal life 5 and blessedness to the lost and cursed sons of Adam ; yet to how many was he a "stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence 6;" yea "a gin, and a snare 7;" and that to both the houses of Israel, the only professing people of GoD at

1 Ezek. xlvii. 11.

3 Jude 12.

5 Rom. v. 8.

4 John iii. 16,

2 Psalm çvii. 34,

6 John x. 10.

7 Isa. ii. 14.