ing the doctor under her. The merchant caught hold of a rope called the main sheet, whereby his life was saved. The sailor, not getting so much drink as the other two, got nimbly on the bottom of the boat, and floated on the water till such time as our other boat was hoisted out, which was done with great speed, and we took him in; but the doctor was drowned before the boat came. The seaman that sat upon the boat saw him sink, but could not help him. This was the greatest exercise that we met with in all our voyage; and much the more so, as the doctor was of an evil life and conversation, and much given to excess of drinking. When he got on board the aforesaid ship, the master sent for a can of wine and said, 'Doctor, will you drink?" he ' replied,' Yes, with all my heart, for I have drank no 'wine a great while.' Upon which he drank a hearty draught, that made him merry (as he said in his dream); and notwithstanding the admonition which was so clearly manifested to him but three days before, and the many promises he had made to Almighty God, some of which I was a witness of, when strong convictions were upon him, yet now he was unhappily overcome, and in drink when he was drowned. This is, I think, a lively representation of the tender mercy and just judgment of the Almighty to poor mortals; and I thought it was worthy to be recorded to posterity, as a warning to all lovers of wine and strong liquors. This exercise was so great to me; that I could not for several days get over it; and one day while I was musing in my mind on those things relating to the doctor, it was opened to me, that God and his servants were clear, and his blood was on his own head: for he had been faith

fully warned of his evil ways." This happened about the year 1699.

The other circumstance occurring in Thomas Chalkley's journal is thus given.

"In this year, [1722,] I was at the burial of our Friend, Jonathan Dickenson, at which we had a very large meeting; he was a man generally well beloved by his Friends and neighbours. In this meeting, a passage he had often told me in his health, was brought to my remembrance, I think, worthy to be recorded to the end of time, which is as follows: It happened at Port Royal, in Jamaica, that two young men were at ⚫ dinner with Jonathan, and divers other people of ac'count in the world, and they were speaking about ' earthquakes; there having been one in that place formerly, which was very dreadful, having destroyed many 'houses and families. These two young men argued 'that earthquakes, and all other things came by nature, ' and denied a supernatural power, or Deity; insomuch 'that divers, surprised at such wicked discourse, and 'being ashamed of their company, left it; and at the same time the earth shook, and trembled exceedingly, as though astonished at such treason against its Sovereign and Creator, whose footstool it is: and when the earth thus moved, the company which remained. were so astonished, that some ran one way, and some another; but these two atheistical young men staid in the room, and Jonathan with them, he believing that 'the providence of Almighty God could preserve him 'there if he pleased, and if not, that it was in vain to fly. But the hand of God smote these two young

men, so that they fell down; and, as Jonathan told 'me, he laid one on a bed, and the other on a couch, ' and they never spoke more, but died soon after.' This was the amazing end of these young men : a dreadful example to all atheists, and dissolute and wicked livers. Oh! that young people might be warned, that the hand of God might be upon them for good, and that they would tenderly be concerned for their salvation."

LAW AND GOSPEL.

Once a company of Irishmen came to Pall Mall, when George Fox was there, but the meeting was already broken up; and he, being gone up into a chamber, heard one of those rude persons, who was a colonel, say, he would kill all the Quakers. Whereupon G. Fox came down and told him, "The law said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but thou threatenest to kill all the Quakers, though they have done thee no hurt;" but said he further, "Here is gospel for thee; here is my hair, here is my cheek, and here is my shoulder," turning it to him. This so surprized the colonel, that he and his companions stood amazed, and said, "If this is your principle, as you say, we never saw the like in our lives." To which G. Fox said, "What I am in words, I am the same in life." The colonel then carried himself lovingly; though a certain ambassador who stood without, and then came in, said, that this Irish colonel was such a desperate man, that he durst not come in with him, for fear he should have done great mischief.

Sewel's History of Friends.

THE TRUMPETER.

'The grievous sufferings and bitter persecution, which it was the lot of those to undergo, who early became one with our Society in religious faith and practice, need not be here enlarged on. Our historians, Sewel and Gough in particular, may be consulted by those, who wish to acquaint themselves with the nature and extent thereof, and with the Christian patience, fortitude and meekness, evinced by our forefathers in profession. Extraordinary, however, was often the influence of these heavenly tempers upon beholders, as in the foregoing instance; that supernatural support and strength, which they who were faithful to Christ their Lord received, many times reached and overpowered the hearts of opposers. Magistrates on the bench became favourable to those they were about to convict, and took up the very conduct and belief, which they had been ready to condemn; gaolers and others were brought to acknow ledge, and embrace those truths they had despised :And no wonder, when it is considered, that these patterns of the "meek and quiet spirit," prescribed by the gospel, had been themselves in many instances abject slaves to their own corrupt propensities and passions; some of them too, of that fierce and boisterous nature, that cannot brook the slightest provocation, but afterwards, so struck by the terrors of the Lord for sin, so humbled under the power of the cross of Christ, as to become clothed with the harmless peaceable spirit of the Lamb, bearing all the revilings of their enemies with an even mind, and with a gentle forgiving deportment. Such facts are not brought forward, with a view of ascribing these excellent "fruits of righteousness" exclu

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sively to a name or a party; but rather, to exalt that heavenly power and grace, which, by the one great Sacrifice for sin, is purchased for every one, and which most assuredly may be partaken of, in some measure or other, by all that stand ready to receive it, whatever be the condition they are in, or the dispensation they are under.

The succeeding account is of similar import with the preceding, and comes in aid of the above observations.

A certain trumpeter, coming into a meeting of Friends, began in an insolent manner to sound his trumpet, thereby to drown the voice of him that was preaching; but this had a contrary effect, and stirred up the zeal of the preacher the more, so that he went on as if none disturbed him. The trumpeter at length, to recover his breath, was fain to cease blowing; but being still governed by an evil spirit, after some intermission began to sound again; but whatever he did, he was not able to divert the preacher from his discourse, though he might hinder the auditory from hearing what was spoken. Thus he wearied himself so much, that he was forced to rest again for respiration; whereby, in spite of his evil will, he came to hear what the preacher spoke, which was so piercing, that the trumpeter came to be deeply affected with it, and bursting into tears, confessed his crime, and came to be a true penitent.

Sewel.

WILLIAM CATON was a lively instance of the efficacy of divine grace, and an eminent instrument in the Lord's hand to promote his own work of reformation and righteousness in the earth. He lived at a very