all full well; and being an infinite person, will render infinite praise to a God of infinite grace!

If you think not with me in this, sir, pardon me. I hint it as it just occurred to thought. And will it not be an exceedingly great privilege to us, who are so greatly indebted to free grace, and so greatly insolvent, to give it an adequate praise; that our great Lord will pay the mighty debt we owe, and give to a God of infinite grace the glory due? Yea, that, as the head of the church, for all that infinite grace displayed towards his body, he will, being an infinite person, give it an infinite glory! Here, in God's incarnate Son, in our Immanuel, God with us, the Father's soul will find an infinite complacence in an infinite praise for all his infinite grace! However, insolvent as we are, let us offer a mite of duty, in the name of Jesus, in love to the glory of the God of grace! until our feeble time praises rise to the strength of eternity's loudest hallelujahs. When our great Lord and head, our glorious elder Brother, our everlasting Father, will present all his and their perfect praises, and our services, to the highest acceptance in his most acceptable person, and alltranscending praise unto his and our God and Father, with "Behold I and the children which God hath given me!" In that view, what an august, majestic work will the praise of heaven

be! "As the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters, as the voice of mighty thundrings! yea, as the voice of the Lord God Omnipotent!"

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I rejoice, sir, that you are so greatly strengthened by grace for such abundant services, and for harvest labours, unto harvest pleasures; may "the power of Christ still rest upon you, and his strength be made perfect in your weakness!" How great was the love of your three-one God in reserving for you, and conferring upon you, such a new and great favour, together, as it were, with your newly-restored life from threatened death! Life to you, with respect to the glory of Christ by you, in eminent service to his praise, was desirable to your heart in these views. And not the single blessing of life only, but the double, in a life of usefulness, to God's glory and your joy is conferred upon you by infinite bounty, by infinite love, and immensely great mercy!" "Your iniquities forgiven; your life redeemed from destruction; crowned thus you are with loving kindness and tender mercies!" For eminent service, upon your resurrection from a sick-bed, the Lord has designed you; for this work, by his grace upon your heart in drawing out your desires after it, he eminently prepared you; and to satisfy your longing soul with eminent service, he hath blessed you! "This is the Lord's

doing it is marvellous in our eyes!" It is all of grace, free, rich, reigning grace, through the Redeemer's righteousness, from first to last. But this we may observe, that where God draws out the heart into eager desires after eminent service (as he did yours, when you could say, "you knew no delight but serving the Lord,") that soul is designed of God to be an eminent servant of his, and shall have its ardent desires turned into ineffable delights! For though our Lord's love is every way a preventing love, and "we love him, because he first loved us;" yet where he draws out the principle of love in the hearts of his servants into eminent exercise, it is to be answered, it is to be rewarded, with glorious displays of infinite kindness! "If any man love me (saith our Lord) he shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him." "If any man serve me (if he earnestly desires, and endeavours to serve me) let him follow me: (let him serve me; I make a grant of my service to him, he shall serve me; and let him therein take me for his example; let him follow me.) And where I am (in the displays of my glory) there shall my servant be;" to his unspeakable joy. "If any man serve me, him will my Father honour." Well Dr. Goodwin observes, on Mary's standing weeping at the sepulchre for her absent Lord,

when his disciples only came to it, looked in, and went their way again, "that Christ manifested himself unto her, as he did not to a whole college of apostles.". That "faith carries it above all the graces in point of justification; but love above all in point of Christ's manifestation." And most sweetly he adds, "Christ knows what it is to love; and no soul shall die for the love of him."

Of this, dear sir, you have had blessed experience. And what you have yet seen is nothing, as it were, unto that which is still before you; or rather it is like God's laying the foundation of a vast, an endless superstructure! For" raised up from the depths of death unto the heights of life, in and with Christ, mystically and influentially; it is "that God who is rich in mercy for the great love wherewith he loveth you, may shew, in the ages to come (make a shew unto endless ages of), the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards you through Christ Jesus!" "Oman, greatly beloved!" tell them, continue to tell, the excellent lovingkindness of God our Saviour towards unlovely sinners. "Preach unto the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ!" and for success in winning souls to Jesus! May you yet see

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greater things than these!"

Little, O little

can you think, how kindly the Prince of grace

accepts your services! How much he will say before men and angels when he appears in commendation of those performances, which you call poor doings! which you are ashamed of before him, and bewail their weakness and imperfection with great lamentation! Nor yet can you think what a rich crown of immortal glory he will confer upon you, as a god-like reward of all your mites of duty, according to his infinite bounty!"The Lord baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire!" and hereafter bless you with the ineffable joy, the glorious honour, “ of presenting the happy souls, you have espoused unto one Husband, and nourished up in faith, unto eternal life, as a chaste virgin unto Christ!"

Indeed, sir, highly favoured of God is our honoured and beloved brother, Mr. Hervey, in that he is made such a bright witness for Christ, and the great truths of his glorious gospel in the earth! Excellent and precious is his last performance.

You refresh my bowels in the Lord, while my reverend brother tells me," that my poor books are of use to his dear people." May your joy be full that seek to advance mine! And a full reward be given you of the Lord God of Israel, who suffer a little child to cry "Hosanna to the Son of David!" May all your prayers for me be heard, and returned an hundredfold into your