but remember, the heavenly chorus is louder far; for after the four living creatures, and the four and twenty elders fall down before the Lamb, this hymn is fung by many angels round about the throne, and by the living creatures, and the elders, and the number of them is ten thoufand times ten thoufand, and thousands of thousands, and they fing with a loud voice, " Worthy is the "Lamb that was flain to receive power, and "riches, and wisdom, and ftrength, and ho"nour, and glory, and bleffing'

If you are for heaven, you must; there is but one place where, after death, you can escape the founds: It is there, where those dwell who have been blafphemers: It is the place where every one shall be who loveth and maketh a lie; those who deny the Word of God; whether it be openly, or by comment upon it. it. Those who add unto, or takę away from this precious book: But remember that this is a place of torment, of

weep

2 Rev. xiv. 11.

+ Rev. v. 12.

ing

Is it not perfectly confiftent, that those who will not submit to the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, should also act in opposition to those kings and lords who acknowledge themselves to be the fubjects of HIM BY WHOM KINGS REIGN?

• Matt. viii. 12.

2 Rev. xxii. 19.

THE

THE ATONEMENT.

Although we are ignorant, unlearned men, we are fenfible that we are finners: We feel it; and we therefore thankfully read the account contained in the Old Teftament difpensation of the folemnities of the great annual atonement; and in particular of the 'scape-goat'. We also wish as much as poffible to confider ourselves feparated from the wicked, and all wickedness in the world; and it gives us comfort that God has even in the Old Testament dispensation made a separation between His people and their oppreffors; an account whereof we read in the books of Mofes, where a lamb was ordered to be flain called the paffover or pafchal lamb', which was to be the, token; that the house, on the posts of whofe doors the blood of the lamb was sprinkled, was a house fearing and believing in Him; confequently that His people dwelt therein.

1 Lev, xvi.

2 Exod. xii.

We

We also conclude that as the law, the Old Teftament difpenfation, was but the "Sha"dow of the good things which were to 66 come under the gofpel; that we fhall find in it, the perfection of the above bleffings; and we think that we have seen fomething of it, when on feverally reflecting upon the ingratitude of finning against so good a Master, and being deeply fenfible of our faults, we have had fuch paffages as the following brought into our minds.

"Who his own felf bare our fins in his

own body on the tree, that we being dead "to fin, fhould live unto righteousness, by "whofe ftripes ye were healed "."

"In whom we have redemption through "his blood, the forgiveness of fins according to the riches of his grace

3 99

"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanf"eth us from all fin 4."

"the juft for the unjuft, that he might

bring us to God'."

"We have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous; and he is the "propitiation for our fins "."

2

"As Mofes lifted up the ferpent in the "wilderness, even fo muft the Son of Man "be lifted up, that whofoever believeth in "Him fhould not perish, but have eternal "life "."

3

As the children of Ifrael were feparated from their oppreffors, we hope also to be separated from our oppreffors; and as we know that those who plague and puzzle us will think themfelves hardly used by being confidered as our oppreffors, we beg leave to obferve, that a poor man's all is as much to him as the rich man's is to him; and fome of us, though poor, owe no rent, and have moreover barns with grain in them, hayricks, cattle, and other stock, all of which we know the value of, and are thankful for; 1 John ii, 1. 3 John iii. 14. but

1 Pet. iii. 17. 2