In prayer and thanksgiving let me be ftill remembered by you and the Society, all of whom I can never forget in my poor interceffions, fo long as I am in the body; during which space I defire to remain, Rey, and dear Sir, your moft affectionate brother,

[From Miss H. A. R. to the Rev. J. Wefley.]

My very dear and Hon. Sir,

T. D.

Jan. 6, 1782.

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Glory be to God, he is Coufin Robert has been the

Have still good news to tell you. working graciously among us. inftrument of four perfons believing and receiving fanctification fince I wrote laft. One of them is a clafs leader, and in all, who now profefs this falvation, the change is very evident? they walk and follow after God as dear children, who truly love him with all their heart. On the watch-night a young woman, who experienced this falvation, fome years ago, but had loft it, received it again as Mr. L. was faying, "Come by faith alone, if you have no worthinefs, no fitnefs, believe only, and love fhall make all things new. Delay not a moment: come now, and God will now destroy your inbred fin, &c."

Mr. L's word is made a bleffing to very many. Several backfliders are reftored; many convinced of fin; fome converted, and a number longing to love God with an undivided heart. O! how I love thus to see the profperity of Zion! I feel indeed a sweet affurance, through grace, that if all around me were careless and lukewarm, my foul would cleave to its only centre, with all its powers and affections; but how much more does it animate and enliven my fpirit; how encrease my joy; yea, how does it ftrengthen my hands, to fee my dear O 2

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brethren rejoicing and glorying in the fame precious falvation, and living as it becomes the redeemed of the Lord! There are perfons, befides those I have mentioned, who can fay, they feel nothing contrary to love, and are kept in perfect peace; but dare not yet profefs that they are cleanfed from all fin. I now meet two bands: and, bleffed be God, we do not meet in vain. My foul dwells truly in a prefent heaven: the eternal Trinity is my God and my all. Every power and faculty is fwallowed up in him,

"I nothing want beneath, above,
Happy in his perfect love."

I was furprized to hear, that you had been at Chefter and Wrexham: but, I trust, if you did not come to preach a funeral fermon for a friend, you came to shake Satan's kingdom.

We had a precious love-feaft. Some people tell me I always have precious times, and therefore judge others have fa too; but I believe moft that were prefent are agreed in this, that we have had no loye-feaft like the laft, for many years. The Select Band is very lively. I have just been there, fince I be gan my letter, and find another foul has received the witness of fanctification under Mr. L. this morning. I know you will join me to praife a God of love. Glory be to his dear

name

"Our days of praife fhall ne'er be paft,
While life and thought and being last,
Qr immortality endures.”

In a day or two after I wrote to you, the pain in my head and face was fuddenly removed in anfwer to prayer; and I have hardly felt it fince. Till then I had not liberty to pray for its removal; but, hearing that my bands never met during my confinement, and that feveral neglected to meet in the Select Band,

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whom I perfuaded to go before; I faid, "Lord, if thy unworthieft fervant can be a blefling to their precious fouls, remove this affliction," it is enough; " and I will praife thee." And the prayer was heard. In ten thousand inftances I thus prove him a God that beareth, and anfwereth prayer. I am filled with his goodness; I know not where to begin that praise, that never shall end. I remain, dear and ever honoured Sir, your unworthieft child in bonds of divine love

H. A. R.

POETRY,

SHORT HYMNS

[By the late Rev. C. Welley.]

H Y M N

X.

On MATT. iv. ver. 7.-Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God,

May I tempt my God no more,

Or wantonly demand

Unheeded tokens of thy power,

And thy protecting hand;
But humbly safe in all my ways

On thee my Lord attend,

And through the channels of thy grace
Expect the promised end.

No powers extraordinary I claim

To help me in my need,

Affured I in thy favour am,
And by thy fpirit led:
A child of providence divine
Thy conftant care I prove,
Nor afk a miracle or fign
To fhew that God is love,

Who

[Concluded from page 56.]

IS virtue then, unless of chriftian growth,

Mere fallacy, or foolishness, or both?
Ten thousand fages loft in endlefs woe,
For ignorance of what they could not know?
That speech at once betrays a bigot's tongue;
Charge not a God with fuch outrageous wrong."
Truly not I-the partial light men have,

My creed perfuades.me, well employed may fave:
While he, that fcorns the noon-day beam, perverse,
Shall find the bleffing, unimproved, a curse.
Let heathen worthies, whofe exalted mind,
Left fenfuality, and dross behind;
Poffefs for me their undisputed lot,

And take unenvied the reward they fought:
But ftill, in virtue of a Saviour's plea ;
Not blind by choice; yet could not clearly fee.
Their fortitude and wifdom were a flame

Celeftial, though they knew not whence it came.
Derived from the fame fource of light and grace,
That guides the chriftian in his fwifter race;

Their judge was confcience, and her rule their law;
That rule purfued with rev'rence and with awe,
Led them, however fault'ring, faint, and flow,
From what they knew, to what they wish'd to know;
But let not him, that fhares a brighter day,

Traduce the fplendor of a noon-tide ray';
Prefer the twilight of a darker time,
And deem his base stupidity no crime;

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The wretch that flights the bounty of the fkies, And finks, while favoured with the means to rife, Shall find them rated at their full amount'; The good he scorn'd all carried to account. Marshalling all his terrors as he came, Thunder and earthquake and devouring flame, From Sinai's top JEHOVAH gave the law, Life for obedience, death for every flaw. When the great Sovereign would his will express, He gives a perfect rule; what can he lefs? And guards it with a fanction, as severe, As vengeance can inflict, or finners fear: Elfe his own glorious rights he would disclaim, And man might fafely trifle with his name: He bids him glow, with unremitting love, To all on earth, and to himself above; Condemns th' injurious deed, the fland'rous tongue, The thought that meditates a brother's wrong; Brings not alone the more confpicuous part, His conduct, to the teft, but tries his heart. Hark! univerfal nature shook and groaned!" 'Twas the last trumpet!-fee the judge enthroned! Roufe all your courage, at your utmost need, Now fummon every virtue, stand and plead. What, filent? Is your boasting heard no more ? That self-renouncing wisdom learn'd before, Had fhed immortal glories on your brow: That all your virtues cannot purchafe now.

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