form the duties of the day and the hour, in the day and the hour and thy work will always be done. Let this year been a confiderable attention and a goodly number hopefully converted in the old parish of Rawley, Mafs. be thus begun and life thus finished, and thou fhalt hear this eulogium pronounced upon thyfelf; Well done good and faithful fervant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Religious Intelligence. Extract of a letter to one of the Ed itors; dated Orford, State of New Hampshire, April2d, 1801. "God has feen fit to arreft the attention of a number in this town, and we are indulging the pleafing hope of a still greater harvest. The religious attention to the caftward, in this ftate, during the paft year, has been confiderable. I lately faw a letter, from a gentleman who preaches in the vicinity where this revival has taken place, ftating that 368 perfons had been added to the church in a few towns in that neighborhood. I am also informed there is a good work be gun at Newbury Port. May the Lord build up Jerufalem !" I have lately heard that there is a very uncommon attention to religion in Newbury-Port. Befides crowded and folemn affemblies on the Sabbath, there are frequent lectures and conferences on other days of the week; numbers under conviction, and fome in a charitable judgment brought out of darkness into God's marvellous light." ORDINATION. On Wednesday April 8th the Rev. Ephraim Treadwell Woodruff was ordained to the work of the gospel miniftry in the Society of North Coventry. The Rev. Jofeph Wafoburn of Farmington made the introductory prayer; the Rev. Hezekiah N. Woodruff of Stonington, brother of the Paftor elect, preached from 2 Timothy 1. 7. The Rev. George Colton of Bolton made the confecrating prayer; the Rev. Nathan Williams D.D. of Tolland gave the charge; the Rev. Charles Backus of Somers gave the right hand of fellowfhip; and the Rev. Nathan PerExtra of a letter from Francifkins of Weft-Hartford made the town, New Hampshire, dated concluding prayer.- 3. With lofty wing they foar on high, 4. But man, the nobleft work of God, And fing thy blessed Saviour's worth : The God of nature and the God of I. VERNUS. 4 Hymn for Redemption. CE Eleftial mufe, infpire my lays, The great Jehovah's glorious name; And fing his everlasting fame. 2. Thou great firft caufe, whofe pier 3. Thy glorious throne is built in love, While they neglect to feek thy face: How matchless is thy pard'ning grace! 4. When we tranfgrefs'd thy first command, Stern juftice rais'd its awful hand To feal us heirs of endless pain! 5. Through all thy works thy glories Creation speaks thy hand divine, And loud proclaims its maker God; Redemption opes a nobler fcene! : Offended juftice fmiles ferene! While mercy fpreads her arms a broad. 6. Here all thy attributes combine, And with celeftial glory fhine, While peace and pardon are reveal'd; Now all the vile apoftate race, Salvation freely may embrace, For Jefus has the pardon feal'd. 7. Let all below confpire to raise A univerfal fong of praise, For pardoning grace and dying love. Accept, great God, our feeble ftrains, We would rejoice that Jefus reigns, And join the fong of faints above. To BEREAN. THE Editors acknowledge the receipt of a fecond letter from BEREAN which they decline publishing. They were not blind to his real object in bis firft letter, which was to fatirize that vital religion which alone prepares men for heaven. It is beyond the power of BERRAN's genius to fatirize fo infidiously as not to be detected. In his first letter, in attempting to perform a talk to which he was not competent, he expressed important truths which the Editors thonght proper to give to the public. Thinking that the bait had taken, he has, in his fecond letter, thrown off the mask, and evinced the deep depravity of his heart, and the perverfion of his moral tafle. They leave him to reflect, that the first attempt of his impiety hath been overruled for the good of the caufe which he wishes to deftroy. The Gospel a Doctrine according to (Continued from page 405.) NUMBER VII. VIII. F they that have done good unto the refurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the refurrection of damnation." On the day appointed for the ROM the doctrine revelation of the righteous judgcontained in the gof- ment of God, "He will render pel, refpecting Chrift's fecond com- to every man according to his deeds: ing-the end of the world-the to them who, by patient continurefurrection of the dead-the gen- ance in well doing feek for glory, eral judgment-and the eternal and honor, and immortality, eterftate, its fuitableness and tenden-nal life: but unto them that are cy to promote true religion may clearly appear. According to the doctrine delivered on thefe heads, by Christ and his apoftles, "In the end of the world, the Son of man fhall fend forth his angels, and they fhall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them who do iniquity, and fhall caft them into a furnace of fire; there fhall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then fhall the righteous fhine forth as the fun in the king. dom of their Father. The Son of man fhall come in the glory of his Father, with all his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. All that are in the graves fhall hear his voice, and fhall come forth; VOL. I. No. 12. contentious, and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteoufnefs, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every foul of man that doeth evil; of the Jew firft, and alfo of the Gentile-in the day when God fhall judge the fecrets of men by Jefus Chrift, according to the gofpel." For the Lord, when he comes, " will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifeft the counfels of the hearts." The judgment will be univerfal, decifive and final. The Lord Je fus Chrift fhall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom. He hall come with clouds; and every eye fall fee him. He fhall come in his glory, attended with all the holy angels, and fit Hhh upon the throne of his glory. All nations fhall be gathered before him, and placed, the righteous on his right hand, but the wicked on his left. Then with the authority and power of the great king and fupreme judge, he fhall fay to the former, "Come ye bleffed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."-But to the latter, with the fame authority and irrefiftible energy, he fhall fay, "Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And thefe fhall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." he time, the manner, and the effects and confequences of Chrift's fecond coming, are reprefented as being to the wicked, awful and diftreffing, beyond all human conception. To them, his coming will be fudden, unexpected, and with dreadful furprife and ruin, like that of a thief in the night. "For when they fhall fay, peace and fafety, then fudden deftruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they fhall not escape.The Lord Jefus fhall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gofpel who fhall be punished with everlasting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. The heavens fhall pafs away with a great noife, and the elements fhall melt with fervent heat; the earth alfo, and the works that are therein fhall be burnt up." Even their bodies, though dead and buried, or immersed in the ocean, ever fo many ages, fhall appear with their fouls before the omnifcient and sighteous Judge. The dead, fmall and great, fhall stand before God. The books fhail be opened, and the dead fhall be judged out of those things which are written in the books, according to their works. The fea fhall give up the dead which were in it; and death and hell fhall deliver up the dead which were in them. And every one who is not found written in the book of life, fhall be caft into the lake of fire. Yea, all the finally wicked, impenitent and ungodly, fhall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimftone; which is the second death. But to the godly, on the other hand-to the faithful and obedient, Chrift's fecond coming, and its attendants and confequences, arc reprefented as joyous, happy and glorious, beyond the powers of language to describe, or of the human mind, in its prefent state, to conceive. When Chrift, who is their life, fhall appear, they alfo fhall appear with him in glory. They fhall fee him as he is, and be like him. He fhall change even their vile body, and fashion it like unto his own glorious body. Their bodies, when raised at his coming, fhall be fpiritual, incorruptible, glorious, and immortal; and the bodies of thofe who fhall be then living on the earth, fhall be inftantaneously changed, and rendered in like manner spiritual and immortal. The Lord himself shall defcend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Chrift shall rife. Then they who are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and fo fhall they ever be with the Lord. With him they fhall dwell forever in the heavenly city, the magnificence, fplendor and beauty, happiness and glory of which, furpafs all de- in the gofpel are exhibited and prefented before us, all the mo tives to the exercife and practice of piety and holinefs, which are founded in and refult from all the obligations to love and ferve the living God, which croud upon the mind, from a view of him as being inexpreffibly and infinitely amiable and glorious, excellent and perfect our Creator and conftant preferver and rightful fovereignthe fountain, fource and comprehenfion of being and all good; and therefore infinitely worthy of our fupreme and conftant love and fervice; and from all the obliga tion which strikes the mind, from a view of his authority as original, underived, and infinitely binding, and ofthefacrednefs and unchanging obligation of his law; and alfo from a view of a great number of particular precepts and prohibitions, fuitablenefs and clothed and enforced with the au Surely upon reading thefe gofpel doctrines and contemplating thefe fcriptural reprefentations, it must be admitted, and clearly feen, by candid minds, that the gofpel is admirably fuited and peculiarly calculated, to reftrain from fin, and to excite to the study and practice of righteousness and true holinefs. NUMBER VIII. IX. T tendency of the gof-thority of the great God and our Lord Jefus Chrift, exprefsly forbidding all the variety of particu pel, to fubferve the intereft of true and ways, which are contrary to or inconfiftent with true piety and ex-real holinefs, and injoining all the variety of particular exercifes and affections, works and duties, which are comprehended in true religion in all its extent. Thefe indeed, at leaft a great part of them, have been fuggefted under the foregoing particulars. A general view of them in this place, will, of course, be comprifed in a concife repetition or recapitulation of the principal things more largely ftated in the preceding numbers. I, however, conceive it may be useful, and pertinent to the general defign of treating on this fubject, to collect and exhibit them together, in one fummary view. This will now be at tempted. From a review of the various particulars which have been flated and illuftrated, it will appear, that From this review it will alfo appear, that the gofpel exhibits all the motives to holiness and true religion, which can be derived from the most difinterested selfmoving goodness and love of God and Jefus Chrift, displayed in the plan and work of redemption-the love of God, in appointing and giving his only begotten Son to be the propitiation for our fins; and the love and grace of the Son, in freely undertaking and performing the arduous work, at the infinite expenfe of his humiliation and o |