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be solaced, because they can appeal to an all-seeing God. Tempted souls should rejoice, because this is the secret whereby they have grace to overcome their corruptions, their heart and secret sins. Do you then see God's eye upon you, and by it are you led to mortify the body, the whole body of sin and death, to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit, notwithstanding the lusting of the flesh? Behold a test of your safety; you are not under the law but under grace, for you there is no condemnation.

4th An excitement to fight manfully under the banner of Christ. A soldier in the presence of his general is brave and courageous; and doubly so if his general be a victorious one. The Captain of our Salvation has fought the fight, has won the battle. You have only to take possession of the land; a few foes only remain; the mightiest are already vanquished. Realize your Captain's eye upon you; it will bear you up in trouble, in doubt, and difficulty: it will keep you up to your principles; and make you strive manfully and successfully. Without it you are shorn of your strength, deprived of your armour, and powerless as a babe; with it you are more than conqueror.

4th That a sense of God seeing us is the source of the life of faith. Lot saw God in Sodom, and it kept him uncorrupted by the abominations of the place. When you see God, it will be light in your darkness; you will hate vain thoughts; you will govern self; you will relish duties; you will overcome temptations; you will vanquish all your spiritual foes; and, lastly, you will grow in grace, and in the knowledge and love of God and of his Christ. Remember, then, that God regards you with a watchful

eye; whether in poverty, or wealth; in sickness, or health; in perplexity, or in times of joy; in suffering, or at ease; in life, or in death; remember this, and all will be well with you in time and in eternity.

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THE subject of the following narrative was a servant, and for the benefit of such, especially those who have religious masters or mistresses, I have put it on record, praying that the Holy Spirit may make it the means of instructing and warning them, whoever they may be, so circumstanced. You enjoy great privileges, but they bring along with them great responsibility; for if they prove not unto you the savour of life, they will be the means of aggravating your condemnation and misery.

Mary lived in the family of a Clergyman of the Church of England, where for many months her declining health had rendered her incapable of per

forming the duties of her station; nevertheless the religion of her master led him to serve her, when she was no longer capable of serving him: a lesson this to many falsely so called Christians, who in such cases too generally treat their domesties with no more ceremony than they would a broken and useless piece of furniture. At length, the nature of her discase precluding the hope of a speedy recovery, at the mutual solicitation of herself and friends, she was removed to my parish for the benefit of change of air and scene. Here it was I had the opportunity of visiting her, and witnessed in her that godly sorrow for sin which "worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of," the workings whereof I shall now briefly describe.

At my first visit, it was apparent, from the hectic glow which tinted her otherwise pallid cheek, from the deep-toned hollow cough which continually distressed her, that her disease was consumption,-the herald and messenger of approaching death. This impression (which I afterwards understood was mutual) caused an unusual degree of gloom and solemnity to rest upon our meeting. I spoke of the miseries which sin had introduced into the world, and was particularly anxious to impress her that her present sickness was solely caused by it: happy indeed, I continued, will it be if your present suffering leads to the removal of your sin, for hereunto I consider it is sent. After a considerable pause, with a downeast look and trembling voice, she said, I know all this, Sir, and it is that which makes me very unhappy, for I am not fit to die.' I enquired if she had ever before been the subject of similar convictions, and what her feelings

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in regard to religion had been while living at This was touching the string which caused her heart to bleed afresh. 'Ah! Sir,' she replied, the great ness of my sin has been, that I have been engaged in the concerns of religion, but never felt the power of them, and I fear there is no pardon for me.' In vain did I urge the fulness, the freeness, the peculiar suitability of the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse her from all sin-her heart was too big with grief to be comforted. It was a heart rending scene to behold one of the children of Adam so bowed down, and writing bitter things against herself, when I reflected that haply even now the bowels of divine compassion were yearning over her. After exhorting her to the use of earnest private prayer, and the diligent reading of the Gospel of St. John, and commending her case with strong crying to the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, I left her in a desponding, despairing spirit. At my next interview, which I believe was nearly a week after the former, I found her much in the same spirit, looking at her sinfulness, and groaning over her wretchedness, especially esteeming herself the vilest creature in the earth, because she had, under so much light, neglected the things that

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would have made for her peace. All that you say, I observed, I admit to be true, but here is an additional reason why you should look off yourself to behold the grace and power of the Lord Jesus; why you should cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils to trust alone to the Lord God Almighty; but all was to no purpose, like the fabled bird, she appeared to prey upon her own blood to the destruction of life; she seemed to reject the voice of the charmer, charm

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