being supported under the rod, and the feeling of that support; he found faith and patience bear him up under the rod, which brought him to such close communion with his gracious Saviour, that he was comforted under the cross. This is also the experience of one highly favoured, as you may read, Rom. v. 3, 4, 5. Let me know then, how your soul prospereth under Jesus's care.

I have also a third reason for writing, which is to wish you a happy new year, the happiest of all you ever saw, and therefore I wish you more, still more enjoyment of our infinitely rich, everlasting precious Jesus. You will live to a blessed purpose, if every day of this new year, you get more out of SELF, and live more in and on Jesus. We have had a most remarkable time this Christmas of his grace and love. I have scarce an acquaintance, who has not been favoured with blessed visits from him. O, how great is his goodness! how great is his beauty! Incomparable both! May your dear heart, my friend, feel what I did at the Lock on innocent's day, when words of Ps. lxxxvii.

I was preaching on these

All my springs are in thee. I gave them first a translation of the psalm, then a paraphrase, then application; substance of the two first I send you, the psalm literally rendered runs thus. Title is,

For the sons of miserable man, a psalm to be sung:"

Ver. 1. He is to be established in the mountains of his holy one.-Mind, how sweetly the holy Spirit begins: he mentions not who this He that was to be established is, for all who are under his teaching know.

2. Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob:

3. Weighty things are spoken of thee, thou city of Alehim. Selah attend to this. What this love in v. 2 was for, what these weighty things in v. 3 were, the next words shew, where God the Father is introduced speaking.

4. I will cause it be remembered by them who know me in Rahab and Babylon, behold Philistia, and Tyre, the people of Ethiopia-HERE WAC THE NAME BORN-born in Zion, to be the Saviour of Rahab, and Babylon, Philistia, and Tyre, and Ethiopia, even as many as the Lord our God shall call in these countries.

David speaking by the holy Ghost, adds in verse 5. And of Zion it shall be said, a person and a person (God and man) shall be born in her, and he himself the most high shall perfectly establish her. (Namely the church founded upon the in

carnate God, against which he says himself, tre gates of hell shall not prevail.)

6. Jehovah shall record it, when he is describing the people, THAT HERE WAS THE NAME. BORN; that divine name in which alone their is salvation, and from which all true joy, both in heaven and earth, ariseth, as the saints sung in the Old Testament, as the angels sung at his birth, and as the redeemed of the Lord will sing for ever.

7. And the singers, as well as the players on instruments shall say, ALL MY SPRINGS ARE IN THEE. (ALL, all the springs of grace, of glory, all arise from Jehovah manifest in the flesh.) O that such a spring as we had at the opening of these words may flow into and refresh your heart quite through the wilderness; till you come to the fountain-head, may you still drink of the water which flows through the rock Christ, till you drink of that, which flows from the throne of the Lamb. And so it will be: the Rock will follow you, and you will have the comfort of it, if you keep in mind that little word IN, all my springs are IN thee, not only from thee, through thee, (which is true) but IN thee. If faith fix here, all will be well. For if at any time the stream fail, then you may go up to the fountain-head, making up your happiness in Jesus, get you whatever it be, little or

much, in present comfort out of his fulness. Yet still he, and all he is and has, is yours.

My paper grows short, and my fingers are so cold, I can scarcely write; yet I have a fourth reason for writing upon Mr. Alexander Cole's death. I wrote to Newcastle for his papers, especially for a book in manuscript, after the manner of the Pilgrim's Progress. My brother sent me word, his daughter at had been over, and carried away all her father's papers. I wish you could this book and read it, and send me your opinion of it. perhaps could help you, to

get

whom my kind love.

One thing more, and I have done. Yesterday I dined with Mr. Berridge. He was making great complaint of his debts, contracted by his keeping, out of his own living, two preachers and their horses, and several local preachers, and for the rents of several barns in which they preach. He sees it was wrong to run in debt, and will be more careful. But it is done. My application is Will you stand my friend with her, and tell her Berridge's case. If she please to assist him, I should be glad to convey her charity to him. You will be the judge, whether this be proper or not to mention to her. I beg my kind love to her. Nothing is yet done at Blackfriars:

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but Jesus does all things well; he times all things for the best; I am sure of it; therefore, I wait my Lord's time, and blessed waiting it is. May he bless you and yours in body and soul, and that for ever and ever: so prays

LETTER XX.

W. R

ALL

dear

LAMBETH, Feb. 4, 1766.

LL the blessings of Jesus's love be with I was not in a hurry to answer your letter, because Mr. Berridge promised to make bis acknowledgments to -; and because the

time was at hand, when my Lord Chancellor declared he would end the affair of Blackfriars. You have heard of the event. My friends are rejoicing all around me, and wishing me that joy which I cannot take. It is my Master's will, and I submit. He knows what is best, both for his own glory, and his peoples' good. And I am cer