APPENDIX.

A FEW interesting passages and instructive sentences, selected from Mr. C.'s Diary and letters, shall be subjoined. They shall be put down in an alphabetical order. Some of the thoughts are very fine and striking, such as occur only to minds deeply engaged in divine things.

ATONEMENT of Christ.-By Christ's perfect obedience to the law, all possible and more than conceivable honour has been put on it: and by his death on the cross, he hath made such an atonement for sin and such a satisfaction to God's justice, as ten thousand times ten thousand times of hells could not equal. Were we oppressed with the united guilt of all the accursed rebels of earth and hell, the inconceivable merits of this infinite sacrifice would be sufficient alone to remove it all. Clothed with the divine righteousness of such a dignified Person, in the sight of all our guilt, in the prospect of death and of future judgment, we can joyfully say "Who is he that condemneth? It is CHRIST that died."

CHRIST, the image of God.-Christ in his person and office is the glass which represents the glory of God

to us. And when we see his glory in this glass, we are transformed into the same image. In this glass the scattered rays of divine goodness and love, are brought, as it were, into a focus: they shine, they burn, they inflame the heart held before it ; conviction overpowers unbelief, goodness overcomes unworthiness, and love subdues enmity."

COMFORTS of the Gospel. Gospel comforts rest on an immoveable basis, and are derived from an inexhaustible fountain; and therefore will continue and abound when all other comforts fail!

COMMUNION with God.-It sweetens every thing, makes our comforts more comfortable, and renders every bitter thing sweet. Whenever we meet God, it is never in vain. If we meet him under the cross, or in tribulation, his presence is sure to make it a heaven to our souls.

We should endeavour to enjoy God in every thing, and to be particularly careful that nothing should interrupt our immediate intercourse with him. Let us look to God and by faith see him in all things, in our comforts, and in our crosses and trials. What are our prayers but vain repetitions except we deal with God in them?

The life of faith implies that we have particular dealings with God in every thing. For nothing can satisfy faith but God in Christ. But this, I find, is not to be obtained without difficulty, without continual watchfulness and aids from heaven to keep me from losing sight, of him.

His inward fellowship supplies the absence of all outward friends. To live on him as our all in all, is the heaven he proposes to us.

COMPLAINTS of idle Christians.-There are some who think, at least, talk of nothing, but of their disorder, and of the badness of their case. Fruitless complaints, complaints of themselves and of their condition form the sum and substance of their religion. If they can conjure up doubts respecting themselves, and some desponding complaints respecting their uncomfortable condition, they fancy they have done their duty. I myself have known several who were spending a good deal of their time in such spiritual gossipings, in going up and down from one to another with their melancholy complaints. But such a conduct is utterly contrary to the life of faith. Had they spent half of this time in pouring out their complaints before God, or employed it in doing good to others, they would long ago have been thriving daily in holiness, life and joy. I say not this to discourage applying in spiritual difficulties to such as know how to speak a word in season. But the practice just mentioned is of no advantage, but of much real hurt to the soul. They can have no relief, while they go on in this slothful way.

DEATH. I feel a little the force of one lesson, which the sudden death you mention, loudly preaches to me that I should always sit loose to all worldly things, and pursue with sobriety all sublunary schemes and contrivances, since one single moment may separate me from them forever, and put an end to all the pleasing labours of my teeming brains respecting my future prospects of any thing worldly, however desirable.

When the world recedes and eternity advances to view with its awful realities, the glory of Solomon, and the wealth of Croesus, appear then in their real insignificancy, mere trifles, lighter than air. Nothing then,

but Christ and his all-sufficient salvation can administer any comfort, can support our hope firmly at the sight of things so tremendous and so important.

I know of no sight so distressing in this world, as that of an ungodly sinner on the confines of eternity; all his worldly comforts leaving him, and his soul left naked, friendless, hopeless, and all his sins, like so many harpies, following at his heels. What a condition!

DESIRES of the true Christian.-All my desires in the world is to live holily and live usefully.

It is better to endure the heaviest affliction, than to carry with us a guilty conscience. Every thing, and not sin, is the language of the Christian's heart.

It is not our own ease and comfort, but our usefulness, that we should always have in view.

In his own time and in his own way, let God order every thing respecting me. Let him do his pleasure, and give me a submissive heart, and I am happy. In his hands I desire to be, and his will I desire to follow.

DISAPPOINTMENTS.-Grant, I may be disappointed of all my pleasing hopes in this world. How pleasing, how comfortable the disappointment! when the comforts of another, of a better, of an eternal world succeed in their place. O blessed exchange! The comforts of another world! who can enumerate, who can describe them!

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The fairest prospect often ends in a gloom and the darkest frequently brightens daily more and more.

When God's determinations and my intentions disagree, I can be at no loss to know who is in the right. However it is one thing to know, and another to acquiesce. When I shall see "the end of the Lord," I doubt not but that I shall be thankful. The waters

that are now bitter will one day be turned into wine. The review of all present perplexities will be humbling and pleasing. There will be in every thing enough of my own sinfulness to humble me, and of the Lord's goodness to make me comfortable and thankful.

FAITH.-Faith is the root and spring of all other graces. And according as it thrives or decays, so do they grow or wither.

Of all things this is one of the most difficult,-to depend with unshaken confidence on the grace of Christ, when we feel nothing but sin and misery in ourselves.

Patient waiting is always the language of faith.

When our faith in Christ is weak and wavering, our efforts to lead a godly life, are also weak and ineffectual. But when faith is strong, laying fast hold on Christ ; we have life and power, and we are neither barren nor unfruitful.

God's faithfulness is as much engaged to fulfil his promises to the weakest as to the strongest in faith. It is not said he that believeth strongly, but he that believeth, shall be saved.

The weakest believer, if his faith purifies the heart and worketh by love, is as nearly related to God as the strongest; just as the weakest and the most helpless child in the family, is as much the father's child as the strongest and the stoutest.

How little do the best of us believe and trust in the Lord: We know not how to content ourselves with a bare promise. Except we can see some probability in the means used to accomplish his gracious designs, and unless we know the particular way by which he may likely bring his purposes to pass, we hardly know ow to believe him at all. Thus we trust in ourselves