bear much fruit, so shall they be Christ's disciples, and attain to the assurance of that happy state. Father, glorify thy name! Amen.

1810.

In December, 1809, a Bible Society was organized in New-York, and about the same time twenty respectable characters united in a Society, to wait on the Lord, to know what their hands could find to do, to promote his glory, to advance his kingdom, to spread the savour of the Redeemer's name, or in any way to benefit the souls of their fellow sinners.

On Monday a meeting for prayer was instituted in Hetty Street, and another in Mulberry Street, with which the Presbyterian ministers have agreed to meet in rotation. It is the Lord! We have heard of revivals all around, but feared lest the aggravated sins of New-York might provoke the Lord to pass by, leaving our fleece dry, while the dew wet all around. Great have been our privileges; the Gospel trumpet has sounded in every corner of our city. The Lord's sent servants, have set before us life and death, assuring us from God's word, that though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished: beseeching us to flee from the wrath to come, and lay hold on the hope set before us. God in his providence has visited us with mercies and with judgments: stricken us, and healed us; scattered us, and gathered us: but alas! alas! we kept eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. Many, very many, wasting their time, health, and substance, in all manner of immorality, and our rulers caring for none of these things: yea, many of them practising the same things; and, Oh! Oh! God's

⚫wn saved people sitting still, restraining testimony before men, and prayer before God. What were we to expect but that God should say, why should they be stricken any more, they will revolt more and more, they are joined to their idols, let them alone. Such, O Lord, would be the case, didst thou not deliver us out of our own self-destroying snares. If thou turn us not, we shall never turn; it is in our nature to backslide for

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But Oh! is not the time come to pass, when before thy people call, thou answerest, and while they are yet speaking, thou hearest. Art thou not calling with power, Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal backslidings? and hast thou not prepared their hearts to answer, Behold we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God: truly, in vain is salvation looked for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains, truly, from the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. Hast thou not, O God, prepared the hearts of thy people to pray, and thine ear to hear? Is not this Bible Society, and are not these associations for prayer, tokens from thee, for good? More and more, Lord, may thy people give thee no rest, until thou make Zion a praise in the earth. O the hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof, be not as a wayfaring man, that turneth aside for a night. May thy people constrain thee to abide with us for ever, to form us a people for thyself, to show forth thy praise.

I have just conveyed dear Mrs. A-le to the confines of the eternal world. I trust the dear Redeemer received her spirit. I have a good hope that she is now in possession of the mansion purchased and prepared for her, by that dear Saviour, whose name she professed, and I think in an humble, steady, quiet way,

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faithfully followed. She loved the word of God, the house of God, the people of God. She spoke little, but said she had a good hope; asked me to read the Bible different times, and also to pray; said the invitations of the Gospel were sweet to her: observed, that the Lord had been very merciful to her in her affliction.

A few hours before her death she desired me to read that hymn, "To him that loved the souls of men, &c." Also, "Come let us join our cheerful songs, &c." She asked me if I thought she would be long; I said no, my dear; you will very soon be with Jesus; and encouraged her as the Lord enabled me. She repeated the question some time after, and I gave the same answer. She then said, "this night." I answered yes, my love, this night. She bowed her head with a sweet smile, laid it in a reclining posture, and evidently set herself to wait with patience the Lord's time. She was very much oppressed, and breathed with much difficulty. Some time after, she asked me to pray, which I did, and begged that the Lord would increase her faith and patience, and if according to his will, give her a gentle passage, and an abundant entrance. In a short time her breathing became short and low, she shut her eyes, and gently breathed weaker and weaker, till her God delivered her without motion or groan. I was on my knees praying. I then thanked God for his goodness, in this sweet dismission. Prayed for the husband, the children, the two young men present, and us all; gave glory to God, and rose to watch to further duty.

O, my God, is not my own death at hand? It is a hard battle. My Jesus! Thou knowest the struggle. I too must drink of this cup; mix it for me, my Re

deemer. O let a full sense of free pardon, the recollection of the great and precious promises, a bright view of the joys at God's right hand, as the fruit of thy death, be applied to my soul in that awful hour! Spirit of the Father and of the Son! pour in the oil and wine of thy consolations in that trying hour. O let me not be straitened! Open wide to my soul the leaves of that well-ordered covenant, of which Christ. himself is the sum and substance. Redeeming God, may I experience proof in that solemn hour, that thy flesh is meat indeed, and thy blood is drink indeed! O feed me with this living food! may I feel life spring up in my soul, and be assured that I shall never die! 0, my God! grant one more request. Open my lips, and let them, as well as my heart, be filled with the high praises of my redeeming God.

I know I am unworthy; the vilest of the vile; but magnify thy grace. I have much forgiven; O let my heart burn with love and gratitude in that hour, and my lips utter its effusions in songs of praise! Amen.

When the short thick breathing comes, and the slow fetches sealing up speech, and expelling the spirit from its abode, O let me hear or understand thee, saying unto me-It is I, be not afraid.

Rockaway, June 15, 1810.

CAME here the 1st of the month, with the children

in the whooping-cough. No " church-going bell" here, but the Lord is every where; and I have found him here, warming my heart with gratitude and contrition, and drawing it out in prayer, for his people met to worship in his sanctuary.

When at a distance from my own people, it has been my practice to join with whatever class of professing Christians might be near me. Here it has been with the Methodists, who, I believe, enjoy communion with God. Yesterday I went to a meeting of Friends, a people whose works praise them, and bespeak the tree good which bears such fruits: but, O my God! what could I do, shut up with either? with either? Without the finished work of my Saviour, I could have no hope; without his law-fulfilling righteousness, I must stand a law-condemned sinner. The Preacher yesterday took no text; in the course of his sermon, he said the Scriptures were only secondary guides, the Spirit in the heart was the first. He began with the importance of thinking of death, said he thought it could not be possible for a rational being to live carelessly, with thoughts of death and eternity in view. Is it so? No-we see sinners die under the full conviction that they are dying, as thoughtless as they have lived. He said that by constantly attending to the motions of the Spirit and complying with them, Christians arrived at a state of perfection even here; and brought in that text, He that is born of God cannot sin, &c. Spoke highly of watchfulness, and avoiding connexion with the world; said a real Christian could not hold office of power among men. Paul held one, but he behoved to give it up when he became an apostle. Christ's kingdom was not of this world. Laws and officers were necessary the men of the world, but not among Christians. Spoke of the cross of Christ as consisting in suffering and self-denial. His blood was the Spirit which cleansed from all sin, by delivering all who obeyed him,' from its power. He named not my blessed Saviour, except when he had occasion to mention some of his

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