by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." Verse 25, "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God." And Chap. iv. verse 6, "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works." Heb. ix. 14, "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" 2 Cor. v. 19, "To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." Ephes. iii. 17, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love," &c. Gal. ii. 16, "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” Rom. v. 17, "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." John vi. 37,"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." Verse 39," And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day." Rom. xiv. 17, "For the kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Chap. viii. 1, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." 1 John v. 13, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." Ephes. iv. 23, " And be renewed in the spirit of your mind." Philip. iii. 9, "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God

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by faith." Verse 10, "That I may know him and the power his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." Rom. vi. 4, "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Prov. iv. 18, "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Philip. i. 6, "Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Psalm lxxxix. 33, "Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." Verse 34, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Rom. v. 1, "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Verse 2, "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." 1 Pet. i. 5, "Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time." Rom. viii. 17, "And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we also may be glorified together." Chap. i. 16, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." Col. i. 27, "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory." Matth. xi. 29, "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls." Psalm lv. 22, " Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee, he will never suffer the righteous to be moved." 2 Cor. x. 4, "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds." Psalm lvii. 2, "I will cry unto God most High, unto God that performed all things for me." Prov. xxviii. 13, "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." Psalm lix. 16, “But I will

sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning; for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble." Verse 17, "Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing ; for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy." Psalm lxviii. 18, "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them." Verse 19, "Blessed be the Lord who daily loaded us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah." Verse 20, "He that is our God is the God of salvation, and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death." 2 Cor. v. 1, "For we know, that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Heb. xii. 23, "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," &c. Psalm xlv., from the 1st to the 9th verse, John i. to the 15th verse, and his xvii. chapter throughout; Isaiah liii. to the end, with many more.

Let none reflect upon me for citing so much, for the Scripture hath been to me from my youth the living oracles of his divine and sacred lips. When I was crying, "What shall I do to be saved?” and when I was saying, "How shall I know the way of the Lord, that I may walk therein ?" then his word was "a light to my feet, and a lamp to my path," exhorting me as it is in Isaiah lv. 1, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Verse 2, "Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness." Verse 3, "Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear, and your soul shall live: And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." Verse 4, "Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." Verse 5, "Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knewest not; and nations that knew

not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee." Verse 6, "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near." Verse 7, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon." Verse 8, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." John vi. 35, "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst." Rev. iii. 20, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me." Jer. iii. 13, "Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways unto strangers under every green tree; and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord." Verse 14, "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you and I will take you, one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion." Verse 22, "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God." Verse 23, "Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and the multitude of mountains; truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel." Hosea xiv. 1, "O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." Verse 2, "Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord, and say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips." Jer. xxxi. 18, "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, O Lord, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn thou me and I shall be turned, for thou art the Lord my God." John xiv. 6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me." Rev. xxii. 17, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him

that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely."

When I was grappling with sin, Satan, and the world, and my own wicked and deceitful heart, the grand enemies of my salvation, his word was as props and pillars to me: So that though I got many wounds, and was oft sorely beat, yet at the last I came off victorious by the help of Him who is God, all-sufficient to all who, through grace, lay hold on him for help. It is by him that I have fought the good fight, that I have finished my course, and that I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day. It is by him, shining in his word, that I know all my manifold sins and transgressions are freely pardoned, and that I have a just right and title to what is expressed, 1 Cor. i. 30. So that now the guilt and condemning power of sin being fully pardoned by a judicial act of God's free and sovereign grace, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, effectually applied and witnessed unto by the Holy Spirit upon and to my spirit, there is no room left me to doubt any more of my being freely justified by him, of my being in union with him, and in a state of grace, or of the power, dominion, and filth of sin, original and actual, being subdued, taken off, and washed away by the virtue of the Spirit of sanctification, being created anew in Christ Jesus unto good works; and being sanctified throughout in soul, body, and spirit, and made meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light, by him who loved me, and gave himself to the death for me, and redeemed me by power and by price.

Now, being in such a case of communion with him, I am pained till I be freed of the remains of a body of sin and death, till I be freed of the world and all things therein, and also of this natural life, and be possessed of himself and with himself in his eternal inheritance, which is incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away; a place which he hath provided for all whom he hath chosen, for all whom he hath called, for all whom he hath justified, and all