The great Creator, Lord of all, keeps the wheels of nature in their settled courses for the elect's sake. It was for the good of Israel the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Israel's God countermanded nature in its motions-he bid the sun stand still in Gibeon, and the moon in the Valley of Ajalon, that the armies of his people might have daylight to subdue their enemies; hailstones and thunder shall break out of the clouds to destroy the Canaanites when Israel is at war with them; but if Israel want bread, the clouds shall drop down manna, and give them bread from heaven. Hence the prophecies and promises are so direct and absolute, as not to be frustrated by what men call sinister events.

All our mercies are the result of God's spontaneous mercy, and if the believer finds WITHIN HIMSELF the token of his election to life, and the pledge of his Saviour's love, he may be assured that the decree which is gone forth is more unalterable than that of the Medes and Persians, and that it shall not return void to him that sent it, but shall accomplish all his pleasure. If he be of the number of God's elect, let him be persuaded that the blessed number shall never be broken.-Christ will never leave a member forgotten upon earth, nor suffer such an unalienable part of himself to perish in hell; all the powers of darkness, or even

the hated corruptions of his own evil heart below, shall never be able to wrest away the least particle of his estate, or separate him from his Father's house and home in heaven. Not so the WILLWORSHIPPER and ADVOCATE OF VOLUNTARY HUMILITY, he elects himself, the choice is wholly in him, and the Almighty only stands by and looks on, waiting and depending upon his creature whether he shall confirm the election or not: he exhibits the sovereign agent of all good in a state of supplication to an helpless worm, intreating that worm to receive his salvation, and often intreating in vain, that the glorious work of God's salvation and eternal redemption by Jesus Christ is not complete unless a dying mortal lends his arm: how repugnant to the oracles of truth, whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he, in heaven and in earth. Ps. cxxxv. 6.

I now conclude, trusting this arrangement of promises will be acceptable to the CHILDREN OF GOD. Here they will find JEHOVAH SPEAKING TO THEM as an indulgent parent, in their every trying circumstance. When thou passest through the waters he will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee, for I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.

Jehovah's ways, in wise design,
Are fram'd upon his throne above;
And every dark or bending line

Meets in the centre of his love.

What reason has the Christian to exult in the promise of being brought unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the LIVING GOD, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the innumerable company of Angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect; and to JESUS, the Mediator of the new covenant: he which testifieth these things, saith, Surely I come quickly; may thy heart and mine, O Believer! reply, even so, come Lord Jesus. Amen.

Thine in the truth.

B. J.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

DEAR READER,

I have again presented you with my Little Book, unaltered, except with the addition of some Scriptural Remarks, on the Calling and Restoration of God's ancient Israel, the Jews-with some of the most plain and important promises, selected from the Prophets relating to that glorious event, which I doubt not will be found highly interesting to all who are looking for that glorious manifestation of Divine Grace, and the most resplendent triumph of Redeeming Love, which Earth has ever witnessed, or Heaven has ever praised. Wonderful will be the manifestation of INFINITE MERCY, when the fulness of the Gentiles shall be gathered in-when ruthless Savages, and roving Barbarians, shall be brought to the Cross of Christ-when, from the frozen shores of Greenland, to the flowery islands of the Southern Ocean-when God's ancient Israel, after ages of suffering and crime in the remotest countries on the surface of the globe, shall be brought back again

under the guidance of Heaven, amidst the congratulations of an exulting universe, to their own Land; where Abraham worshipped-where the Patriarch's dwelt-where Joshua fought when David reignedwhere Prophets foretold the most distant events of time-where the awful symbols of the presence of the Invisible were displayed-where God was made manifest in flesh-were he was crucified-where he destroyed the power of death and shed the influences of his spirit, and commenced that mighty moral Revolution, the infinite consequences of which can never be estimated, and shall never be revealed. One word by way of conclusion. The time is fast hastening when the scattered Tribes of Israel shall be brought from the East and the West, and the North and the South-and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven; when they shall bend with Immortal rapture to Him who sits in the midst of the Thronewhose praises David hymned, and whose glory their inspired Prophets proclaimed, when they shall cast their Immortal Crowns before the Throne of the adored Immanuel, and unite, through all Eternity, in singing THE SONG OF MOSES, AND THE LAMB." BENJAMIN JOHNSON. Newark-upon-Trent, November 1st, 1839.