judge) soberly, righteously and godly. We have joined with them at the Lord's Supper, and do from our hearts esteem them our brethren in Jesus. These who were not God's people, may now be called the children of the living God: it is the Lord's doing; and it is marvellous in our eyes. Oh that he may go on "conquering and to conquer," until he has subdued all things to himself! This is and shall be the unfeigned desire and prayer of, Money collected and expended for the Indians. As mention has been made in the preceding Journal, of an English school erected and continued among these Indians, dependent entirely upon charity; and as collections have already been made in divers places for the support of it, as well as for defraying other charges that have necessarily arisen in the promotion of the religious interests of the Indians, it may be satisfactory, and perhaps will be thought by some but a piece of justice to the world, that an exact account be here given of the money already received by way of collection, for the benefit of the Indians, and the manner in which it has been expended. The following is therefore, a just account of this matter. 524 LIFE OF DAVID BRAINERD. Money received since October last, (1746) by way of public collection, for promoting the religious intercsts of the Indians in New-Jersey, viz. From New-York, Jamaica on Long-Island, Elizabeth-Town farms, Newark, Woodbridge, Morris-Town, Freehold, Freehold Dutch congregation, Shrewsbury and Shark river, Middle-Town Dutch congregation, The Dutch congregation in and about New Brunswick, Kings-Town, Neshaminy, and places adjacent in Pennsylvania, 5 0 0 0 10 5 0 £ 100 0 0 Abington and New-Providence, by the hand of the Rev. Mr Treat, The whole amounting to Money paid out since October last for promoting the religious interests of the Indians in New-Jersey, viz. Upon the occasion mentioned in my Journal of January 28. For the building a school-house, To the School-master as a part of his reward for his present year's service, For books for the children to learn in, £ 82 5 0 350 17 10 0 DAVID BRAINERD. A SERMON PREACHED IN NEWARK, June 12, 1744, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. DAVID BRAINERD, A Missionary among the Indians. BY E. PEMBERTON, A. M. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the City of New-York. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX, On Indian affairs. ORDINATION SERMON. LUKE XIV. 23. And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. GOD erected this visible world as a monument of his glory, a theatre for the display of his adorable perfections. The heavens proclaim his wisdom and power in shining characters, and the whole earth is full of his goodness. Man was in his original creation excellently fitted for the service of God, and for perfect happiness in the enjoyment of the divine favour. But sin has disturbed the order of nature, defaced the beauty of the creation, and involved man, the lord of this lower world, in the most disconsolate circumstances of guilt and misery. The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies, and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. The Majesty of heaven did not see meet to suffer the enemy of mankind, eternally to triumph in his success; nor leave his favourite workmanship, irrecoverably to perish in the ruins of the apostasy. By a method which at once astonishes and delights the sublimest spirits above, he opened a way for the display of his mercy, without any violation of the sacred claims of his justice; in which the honour of the law is vindicated, and the guilty offender acquitted; sin is condemned, and the sinner eternally saved. To accomplish this blessed design, the beloved Son of God assumed the nature of man ; in our nature died a spotless sacrifice for sin; by the atoning virtue of |