upon their own principles, we could gain nothing valuable in joining them; but if they are wrong, what a most dreadful situation are they and their followers in!

Attend upon, the means of grace, such as prayer, reading, hearing the gospel, and meditation, with the greatest seriousness imaginable, and never neglect them, if you can possibly avoid it

Endeavor to get a feeling sense of your lost, and undone condition out of. Christ, and be willing to know the worst of your state, that so you may come to feel the need of a Redeemer.

And, O ! let me beg you never to rest short of a saving interest in the Lord Jesus Christ; he only is able to save your precious souls. Come, cast yourselves at his feet, and resign yourselves to him in the following manner :

"O Lord! thou who knowest the worth of souls, hast said, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Lord, I am amazed to think how much I have attended to trifling concerns, and how. shamefully I have neglected my precious soul, but being now convinced of the value of my soul, and that I am undone without thee; and feeling myself wholly condemned, and that thou art just, and I altogether to blame, I resign myself into thine hands, to do with me as seemeth good in thy sight. I know thou canst do me no injustice; if I perish I will perish at thy feet, begging for mercy. O thou that didst sweat as it were great drops of blood in the garden of Gethsemane, that sufferedst pain and shame,

and finally diedst on the cross for the souls of men, and for mine among the rest, to whom should I go but unto thee? My soul is no where safe but in thine arms, to thee would I therefore commit my cause; I trust my all for time and eternity in thine hands; lead me as thou pleasest, by whatever way thy wisdom shall choose, so that I may be purified from sin, envy, pride and wrath, separated from all selfishness, and intimately united to thyself, who art the Fountain of all good. Grant me a gra. cious answer of peace, O Lord, for thy mercy's.

sake."

To encourage you to pray, read the following texts of scripture'; St. Mat. vii. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you for every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findetli; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom, if his son ask bread, will he give give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your chil dren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him. St. Mark, xi. 24. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. See also St. Luke, xi. from the first to the fourteenth verse. St. John, xiv. 13, 14. And whatsoever, ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in

my name, I will do it. Chap. xv. 7, 16. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name he may give it you. Ch. xvi. 23, 24, 26, 27. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. be full. At that day ye shall ask in my name; and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. Acts, ii. 21. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Rom. x. 12. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. Heb. iv. 15, 16. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. James, i. 5, 6 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. Ch. v. 15, 16.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye may be healed.

The EVIDENCES of CHRISTIANITY, consider ed: Or, a short and easy Method with the DEISTS; Wherein the certainty of the Christian Religion is demonstrated.

IN A LETTER. BY MR. LESLIE.

SIR,

1. I MUCH condole with your unhappy circumstances, in being placed amongst such company, where, as you say, you continually hear the sacred Scriptures, and the histories there-in contained, particularly of Moses and of Christ, and all revealed religion turned into ridicule, by men who set up for sense and reason. And they say, That there is no greater ground to believe in Christ, than in Mahomet : That all these pretences to revelation are cheats, and ever have been, among Pagans, Jews, Mahometans, and Christians: That they are all alike impositions of cunning and designing men,

upon the credulity at first, of simple and un-thinking people; till; their numbers increasing, their delusions grew popular, came at last to be established by laws; and then the force of education and custom gives a bias to the judgments of after ages, till such deceits come really to be believed; being received upon trust, from the ages foregoing, without examining into the original and bottom of them. Which these, our modern men of sense, (as they desire to be esteemed) say, that they only do; that they only have their judgments freed from the slavish au thority of precedents and laws, in matters of truth; which, they say, ought only to be decided by reason; though by a prudent compli-ance with popularity and laws, they preserve themselves from outrage, and legal penalties ; for none of their complexion are addicted to sufferings, or martyrdom..

Now, Sir, that which you desire from me, is some short topic of reason, if such can be found, without running to authorities, and the intricate mazes of learning, which breed long disputes; and which these men of reason deny by wholesale, though they can give no reason for it, only suppose that authors have been trumped upon us, interpolated, and corrupted, so that no stress can be laid upon them: though it cannot be shewn, wherein they are so corrupted; which, in reason, ought to lie upon them to prove, who alledge it; otherwise, it is not only a precarious, but a guilty plea and the more, that they refrain not to quote books on their side, for whose authority there are no better, or not so good