fortable; on which he obferved, "Oh, I am like a poor failor, driven back after coming in fight of the harbor." Yet feemed fully to acquiefce in the will of God. "Let the Lord do with me as is moft for his glory." Ja a more comfortable state of body, but a few days before his death, he feemed to have fuch views of divine glory as evidente ly overcame his feeble bodily ftrength when able to fpeak he faid to a friend, "I have had a vifit from on high :" being afked what?"Oh, I have feen the glory of Chrift, the fuluefs of his atonement, and fome of the pure joys of the heavenly world." Being asked if he had ever had the fame views before ; "Oh yes, but never to fuch a degree. Oh, I love the light, but need the fhade." He continued moftly in a fweet and comfortable frame of mind for feveral days. Though very weak, to the furprife of his friends, with faultering voice and accent he repeated that much celebrated hymn in Watts's Lyric Poems, entitled "A fight of death in ficknefs"-fpoke of the Songs of Solomon, as having feafted on thofe words and fentiments which, he faid, were the fcoff and ridicule of infidels and the wicked world. When he nominated a neighboring minifter to preach at his funeral, he obferved-" I defire no encomiums; but that the world know I die, a poor, vile finner, relying wholly on the fovereign free grace of God, thro' the righteoufnefs and atonement of Jefus Chrift.” may When it was apparent he was near to death, he faid, with a low, hollow voice, "Cold death my heart invades ; Lord Jefus, receive my fpirit!” He endeavoured to give his It ought to be obferved here, that the above fentiments and fpeeches which fell from the lips of this dying fervant of Chrift, were moftly taken from memory. The writer of thefe memoirs not being prefent, except at a few of them, which he heard and noted. But great care has been taken to note them as near as poffible in the very words. The feveral attendants and by-ftanders being deeply impreffed with them, the reports taken from them may undoubtedly be relied on, with full confidence. oppofition to God, and fubjection That there are among the apoftate angels, different degrees of intellectual capacity is agreeable to the word of revelation, and implied in many scripture paffages, and will not be difputed. which was confirmed by the death and refurrection of Christ. Jefus Chrift is the creator, lawgiver and judge of men, the human apoftacy is a practical denial of the moral perfection of God, of the righteoufnefs of his government in general, and in particular of his government over men. The Lord Jefus Chrift become mediator between God and man, affumed our nature into a perfonal union with his divine nature, and, being made under the law, become obedient unto death even the death of the cross, and gave his Accordingly they are confidered to be in a ftate of fubordination to one fuperior, often mentioned in the bible and by various names as "the Serpent," "the old Ser-life a ranfom for finners. pent," "the Devil," "Satan," "the Dragon," "Apolyon," "the Dragon, that old Serpent who is the Devil, and Satan." This arch rebel has ufurped dominion over the fubordinate pow-in fuffering the juft for the unjust ers of darkness and over wicked men. He is ftiled "the God of this world," the prince of the power of the air, the spirit working in the hearts of the children of difobedience, and who "blindeth the minds of thofe who believe not." Jefus Chrift is the head of his church redeemed, from among men, and of the holy angels. per In this we have the united teftimony of the triune deity, the father, the word and the fpirit, Of the father in his gift of his fon to die for the guilty, the fon to bring us to God, and the holy fpirit in the application of redemption. And these three are one, they are one in nature, in effence and perfection. One in divine philanthropy, and one in the teftimony. Jefus was born and came into the world to bear witness to the truth". to moral truth in general, but especially to the great truth Hence the oppofition between denied by the apoftacy of man, Chrift and Satan is total and even the perfection of the divine manent, and men and angels are character and government, difall under the influence of one or played in the commands and threatthe other of thefe leaders. "Thereenings of the law, and in the retis war in heaven, Michael and his ributions of eternity. angels fight against the Dragon, and the Dragon fighteth, and his angels." This leader in the oppofition to Chrift is defignated in this text by the name of the Prince of this world." The judgment of this world, mentioned in the text, is that condemnation of man's apoftacy and oppofition to God, Thus the most perfect govern ment of God is fupported and honored by the obedience and death of Chrift in his mediatorial capacity. The good pleasure of the father in this work, is teftified by the refurrection of Jefus, and the Holy Ghoft teftifies by the application of redemption. The death of Chrift has gives the most unequivocal fupport to | the divine government and confirmed the truth of the aggravated guilt of man's apoftacy, and of the righteoufnefs of God in his condemnation. Then was "the judgment of this world." This being done the way is prepared for the complete falvation of finners through the faith of the gofpel, and for Satan to be ejected from his dominion in their hearts, and in the world, and that the whole fyftem of his oppofition to God should be proftrated, and revert with redoubled weight on his own guilty head. Hereby will be accomplished the divine prediction that "the woman's feed fhall bruise the serpents head," the full accomplishment of this is however yet future. The complete and final ejection of Satan from his dominion in our world will not take place till the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, and the devil fhall be caft into the lake of fire and brimftone, and be tormented forever and ever. The reader who understands the explanation here given of John xii. 31. will readily perceive its confiftence with chapter iii. 17. and with all other scriptural affertions of like import. Chrift, indeed, came into the world to fave his people from theie fins, "by bearing them in his own body on the the tree" "fuffering the juft for the unjust to bring us to God," by this he vindicated the divine government, and condemned fin, and thereby he become the author of eternal falvation to all thofe who believe, and thus "grace reigns through righteoufnefs to eternal life by Jefus Chrift our Lord." Let the children of Zion be glad in their King, and anticipate, by divine faith, the completion of his victory and triumph. Being affured that the time is faft advancing, when the prince of this world fhall be finally caft out, and the whole redeemed church fhall exult in the victory and grace of their immortal Saviour. May the certain profpect of this bleffed event, ftrengthen our faith, animate us in the Christian conflict, and encourage us in fervent and perfevering prayer, that the fet time to fuccour Zion may come, and the bleffing of God attend the means of falvation, till "the earth fhall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.” P. Remarks on Romans ix. 3. "For I could wish myself accurfed from Chrift for my brethren." HE great difficulty in the THE way of a right understanding of this paffage, arifes from the mif- tranflation of the Greek prepofition apo, which is here rendered from; whereas it ought to have been rendered after. This prepofition will bear this tranflation, fince, in another paffage, the fame apoftle has evidently ufed it, in this fenfe. Thus, 2 Timothy, i. 3. apo progonōn. "From my forefathers," where the meaning evidently is, after my forefathers, example being underftood. The following is the prefent reading of this part of the verfe, "I thank God, whom I ferve from my forefathers with pure confcience." It would have been more correctly rendered, " I' thank God, whom I serve after the example of my forefathers with pure confcience." then, "apo" be used in the fame fenfe, in the words under confid If, eration, it will make the meaning ren have received from them, or of the apoftle highly interefting hard is agrace by their means, fince I have juft mentioned the greatnefs of thefe sufferings. To prevent, therefore, the fpread of fo injurious and falfe a report, on this account, Ibegin this difcourfe, on the rejection of the Jews, with the most folemn affurance I can give you to the contrary. And herein, I fay the truth in Chrift, ufing all the candor and integrity of a Chriftian, as in the prefence of that bleffed Redeemer who fearches all hearts. He knows that I He not my confcience alfo bearing me witness as to the truth of what I fay, in the Holy Ghoft. With all this folemnity, on fo great an occafion, I declare to you and to the world, fo far am I from taking any revengeful pleasure in predicting the judgments of God, in the rejection of my brethren, the Jews, that, on the contrary, I have great grief and continual forrow in my breast, while I think of what hath happened, and wil happen unto them, in confequence of their oppofition to the gospel. Oh! fo far from being actuated by a fpirit of revenge, in these predictions, which I am about to mention, of their rejection, becaufe of their ill treatment of Chrift, and myself and others of his difciples and followers, that I could, even now, in unaffected love to their fouls, if it might be of any avail, fincerely wish, that as Chrift fubjected himself to the curfe, that he might deliver us from it, fo I myfelf, likewife, were accurfed in this manner, after the example of Chrift, for the fake of thefe my brethren, and *Gal. iii. 13. "Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is written, curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree." of the world. ZEPHO. kinfmen according to the fiefh, may learn how little thofe perfons TO THE EDITORS OF THE CON- GAZINE. GENTLEMEN, THE following letter was written, by a pious lady in Connecticut, to her brother, a member of a college in a neighboring state. Believing that it is applicable, and perhaps may be useful, to some of your readers, I respectfully beg Inferences.-ft. How exceed-leave to fubmit it to your confideration. I Jan. 1802. NEANIAS. DEAR BROTHER, OFTEN reflect, that it is very uncertain whether we shall meet again in this life, confider fo certain and eternity fo near. ingly inclined mankind are to im- Shall I interrupt your studies, if I afk you to fet apart an hour, or fome portion of each day, to meditate on thofe fubjects, with which the eternal welfare of your foul is fo infeparably connected? Do you think much on the character of God; on his infinite holinefs, juftice and truth; on his boundlefs love and goodness; on the fufferings and death of his own Son, for us rebels, when we were plunged fo deep in fin that no |