THE GOSPEL TREASURY: VOLUME THE FIRST. CONTAINING A GREAT VARIETY OF INTERESTING ANECDOTES, REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES, BY WILLIAM COLLIER, A. M. Gather up the Fragments. John vii. 12. THIRD EDITION. IN FOUR VOLUMES. BOSTON : PRINTED BY NATHANIEL WILLIS, No. 76, STATE-STREET. 1816. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-sixth day of September, in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Collier, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Gospel Treasury: volume the first, containing a great variety of interesting anecdotes, remarkable providences, and precious fragments. Selected chiefly from the London Evangelical Magazine. By William Collier, A. M. Pastor of the Baptist Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Gather up the fragments. John vii. 12. Second edition. In four volumes." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, intitled, " An act supplementary to an act, intitled, An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." WM. S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. C69 V. I THE DEDICATION. X THOU triune God! from whose rich stores of grace FATHER OMNIPOTENT! Thy love doth sound Tow'rds guilty man. JESUS! Thy charming name, |