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to want nothing, but what Mr. Wesley himself wanted only a few years before-THE TRUE AND LIVING FAITH OF THE GOSPEL, did not lose the benefit of such an investigation of its truths? We may well hope it.-The retirement and sober thought, which increasing years impose on men, even of the highest station, may have brought him, (as many have been brought,) to attend to those teachings and reproofs of the HOLY SPIRIT, whose great office it is to convince the world of sin, (however specious its profession,) and to that poverty of spirit, that sense of our true condition in the sight of God; that feeling of wretchedness, which alone can, in truth, eat t the cry, O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? This cry was never refused at the Throne of Grace. Thus believing with the heart, and pleading the only name, the God who bought him,—THE FAITH, which is eminently the gift of God, would not be refused. The Holy Spirit would thus glorify the Son; and the sinner, becoming an adopted Child of God, and walking by Faith, would be enabled to give up his soul with joy, into the hands of his merciful and faithful Creator.

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J. Nichols, Printer, 2, Warwick Square, Newgate Street, London.