A whom she should have cherished, she died. The old man had a command to touch neither wine nor spirits for a given time; just before the period expired, being under indisposition, was persuaded by a female to take a little mulled wine, ten days after was a corpse. The restriction was given, four months before, as followsat least, the following was the conclusion of it: "Touch no wine which they may give; drink not one "drop, or thou shalt not live." The youth, in like manner disobeyed, and, permitted to live seventeen years, then followed the other two; hereby they lost great usefulness, and threw clouds around them; as shadows it was permitted as a warning to those who shall be invited to be the substance. But as St. Paul saith, if the fall of them be for the benefit of others, what shall their restoration be? Forth again they must come, although not to fill the stations they fell from; and the living, in whose way they have thrown great difficulties, charge all the mischief to man's inveterate enemy, and through grace trust, by believing in Christ, though dead, they are among the living again, and in a state of purgation, to purify them for the Lord's coming. "God is not the God of the dead but the living." It is well known that few, indeed, can bear the dread laugh of the world. That, with the argument of the rationalist, and the sect-in-danger alarmist, will ・form a trio that will keep from the expectation of producing inquirers, much less proselytes. The utmost of their expectation is, that when a period of general difficulty and distress comes, individually, collectively, or nationally, and, as sure as we live, sooner or later, they will come; should any such in that period be led to the lower end of AMELIA-STREET, WALWORTH, they will find a building with this inscription on the front, THE HOUSE OF GOD. Peradventure they may find there something they expect not. The simple, sincere, and candid will meet with nothing to offend; the rationalist may find reason and revelation blended; the Deist may find his objection to scripture and the confusion of tongues in the church (which cause his deism) abate. If private interview is wished by any for the purpose of knowing truth, or discovering the error which it is supposed these people are under, the managers of the place, by application at the door, will make an appointment for it, and all questions shall be answered without equivocation or reserve: they hold themselves at all times in readiness to give a reason of the hope that is in them, but never to dispute on modes of faith: they have no particular creeds to shackle. The resurrection of the body and second advent of Christ are the two articles on which their faith is built and hope fixed. On any SECT, individually, they have nothing to say. On their Antichristian divisions, reprobation is their imperative duty.-They believe, in all bodies of Christian worshippers there are some of the members of Christ's mystical body, some of the material of the House of God, and that such are the soul of the body. The divisions are the Babylon that hold them in captivity. The antitype of CYRUS is about to deliver them, and the deliverance will be as unexpected to the captives, and as miraculous in its accomplishment, as that of old. These captives, or members, of Christ, being the life of the body (SECT) to which they belong, the bodies, collectively, can exist no longer animation will be gone, as when the soul quits the natural body. Angels are delegated to com : mence this gathering, to form ONE FOLD, to be guided and guarded by ONE SHEPHERD; to lead them into that PASTURE that transgression by Satan drove them from. Then the earth will be renovated, and the "barren WILDERNESS made to blossom as "the ROSE;" then "tears will be wiped away from "all FACES;" then will those who have expected the SECOND ADVENT OF THE LORD say, lo, this is 66 our God: : we have waited for him and HE WILL 66 SAVE US. This is the LORD, we have waited for "him, and will be glad and REJOICE in his SALVA"TION." That every ONE that reads this may participate in it, is the prayer of the writer, E. P. G. INDEX. A. ABRAHAM, his call and family, a type, 22. Age of the author, 92, 175. Apostles, their want of ability, 192. Affectation, religious, 8, Animal life, men left with it alone after the fall, 16. B. Bridegroom's coming not personal, 150. Brothers, Richard, account of his strange pretensions, 279. Base things chosen, 207, 214, 492. Body, the human, imperishable before sin, 115; to be made so again, 124, 161, 166. C. Christ's death, how felt, 291. Conflict, the great, what it will be, 107. Curse, all nature under it, 124. on trusting to man, 128. on negligence, 154. Citizens of Christ, how they reject him, 89, 181. his mystical body, 292. office, 161, 165. Children, their salvation, 96. neglect of duty towards them, 165. Countries once Christian now infidel, why so, 137. on Christ's reign, 70, 78, 178. on Redemption, 214. on preparation for the conflict, 184, 186, 324. to one of the instruments, 483; and to persons supporting the errors of them, 485, 486. on the day of vengeance, 213, 178, 359. on meeting departed friends, 70. on Apolyon's persecution, 519. various, given in 1805, 521, and following. on the earth's creation, 18. on doing the Lord's work, 55. on the restoration of Paradise, 178, 364. on Satan's expulsion, 183. on the fullness of time, 318. on the conquest of the church, 334, 363. on the doom of Satan, 364. on God's mercy, 375. of encouragement in answer to complaint, 410. of protection, 422, 423, 424, 425. The Creation the time when all men were made, 16. D. Directions for the church must be audible, 182. Devils, when they will tremble, 117. Devil and bell, terms without effect, 218. Death, mercy to some, 153. an enemy, 165. animal and vegetable, 161. how he may be defied consistently, 110. |