must learn my motto in an instance of hard selfdenial. Happy for you and for me, if every, such disappointment lead us nearer to God. I beg your daily remeinbrance, as you are mine.-Every good wish to Miss, and desire her acceptance of a bound set. My kind respects to Mr. I wish Mr. J may walk with us in our

way, and all his sisters. I wish that little dear boy, does not get some of Christ's place in your heart: God bless him, and make him a comfort to you. Write my motto upon his forehead, and remember it, whenever you look at him. My love to Mr. May every blessing of the everlasting covenant be yours on earth and heaven, so prays yours in Jesus.

W. R.

LETTER XLI.

February 1772.

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y dear friend has been thinking-" well I could not have expected such neglect; a letter sent in October, and not answered in January, I am surprized, what can be the meaning of it !" I answer to my shame, that I am grown very lazy, and good for nothing. It is high time I was dismissed from the vineyard, and any other master but mine would have had nothing to do with me long ago. I cannot but loath myself, and stand wondering daily at his kindness. Never was self lower, and his loveliness higher than in this new year. Worthless as I am beyond all conception, yet he begun the year with vouchsafing me some delightful Pisgah views. You must know it has. been a custom with me, for many years, to have a sermon on the New Year's day, and to have the text a sort of watch-word, something very short

and striking, and which may serve the believers to feast upon a twelvemonth. I have found this very useful to myself, and so have others. Our text for 1772 was, CHRIST IS ALL. I send you some remarks, believing you will have fellowship with us in them, as you certainly have in that adorable person of whom they treat.

Christ has all the fulness of salvation in him, as God-man; and he has it to the glory of the Father, and of the eternal Spirit: for it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell, as in the head for the use of his members. And it pleased the Holy Spirit to testify of his fulness in the scripture, and it pleases him by his grace to bring believers to use it, and to live upon it and then they are truly converted. All other experience is not worth one farthing. The great work of the Holy Ghost is to pull down SELF, and to exalt CHRIST. This he does effectually, and this he has done in you. Think, what your debt is; try to cast it up; and send me the sum total, Say, how much do you owe to the Holy Spirit for enlightening your understanding, and convincing you, that Christ is the one sim of the spiritual world. What a most blessed change has he wrought upon your mind! He has stripped you of the knowledge, that puffeth up, and has sent you

to Christ, and to none but Christ, to be taught the things of God. He has brought you humbled to the Saviours feet, where you are sitting among his Howest schollars, (and that is the best place) to hear his words. Thus he has glorified your divine , prophet in you; and in the matter of teaching, he has made Christ your ALL. The bible, and ministers, and means have now got their right place; they are subservient to Christ's teaching. He is exalted by your use of them: for you do not go to them, but to HIM in them, to receive lesson upon lesson, and line upon line. Thus may you and I be found waiting upon our great Lord and Master through the year seventy-two. And when we thus put honour upon his office, and give glory to his teaching, we may expect to learn much of him he will enlarge our faculties to know more of the wonders of his grace: and he will enable you to enjoy more of the heavenly sweetness of his precious love. Yes, Lord, we have great expectations from thee: thou canst teach us far more than we have yet learned. O make us every day humbler scholars, that whatever we learn, the praise of it may be thine, and our growth in saving knowledge may add to thy fame and re

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Methinks, I hear you ask-" But how shall I

know for certain, that I am one of Christ's "scholars, and that he has indeed taken me into his tuition and teaching?" My dear friend, you are to know it, from what you have learned of him. You cannot be certain of it any other way. He would have you to look at his revealed truth, and to try yourself by it. Has not he made you wise in it unto salvation? O do, pray do, ac

knowledge what he has done for your soul. When you were sensible of your fallen state, in which you inherit a corrupt nature, and felt, that in it you could do nothing, but sin-when guilt was in your conscience, and fear was in your heart, what was it which brought you relief? To what did you look for pardon, and from whence did you expect peace with God? Your answer will shew, whether you are Christ's scholar, and how far you have advanced in his school.

I can make your reply (for I have heard you say as much) "Why, to be sure, I have no hope, "but in that offering, WHICH PERFECTETH FOR "EVER, and in that righteousness, which justifi"eth from all things. This is my salvation"This, and nothing else-CHRIST IS ALL-I ex

pect no pardon, but in his blood-no justification, but in his obedience-no safety, but in his