vi. 37); that he never turned away any when he was upon the earth; and he would not deny him, but would certainly give him more faith and comfort when it was best for him and he needed it most. He said, "I hope he will, for I suppose I have not many days to live."

Sunday, June 6th.-I went to James in the morning, and told him that I had been considering his case, and why he was still kept without a sense of pardon; probably to humble him more deeply and, thinking of passages in Scripture suited to him, I read Lev. xxvi. 40-42; also, Psalm xxxii. 5, where pardon is given after confession and humiliation. I said, "You have confessed your sins to God, I dare say." He replied, "Oh! yes, I have; I have confessed them all." I advised him to confess them again and again; to mention any in particular that occurred to him; and, if he felt at a loss for words, to use at least the confession of the prodigal.

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June 7.-H-said, "what hope could I have but in the word of God? If we had not the Bible, we should be as ignorant as the Pagans. That verse is a great comfort, though your sins be as scarlet, yet shall they be white as snow.' has been said to me some time ago, in one of the great houses, how can you prove the Bible to be true?—there are such things in it as could not be written by a God.' It was said to me also, how do you know there is a God?' he added, one can't go out into the world without seeing there is a God; and as to the Son of God, we read of him in other histories." I said, "those who said such things to you were following their own evil ways, and knew the Bible would condemn them, and therefore wished to condemn the Bible; they yielded to Satan, and he put error into their minds." "Yes (he said) I see it all so clear now." "Though they poisoned your mind against religion, yet hearing so much of it with us must have kept your conscience alive-did it not ?" He answered, “Yes, it did; they did not poison my mind, but they shook it; it gave me horror." He thanked me feelingly for all my kindness to him. I assured him, I had my full reward in the salvation of his soul. He said, he should be very happy if he might see me again. I was taking leave of him on going from home. I blessed him, and hoped at least we should meet in heaven. He wept very much, and so did I, for I was truly concerned to be under the necessity of leaving him.

When H-went up some time after and asked him how he did, he said, "I am almost recovered now; I have taken leave of dear Miss G-" When he took leave of A- W-, who was going with me, he said, "I hope you will pray for the salvation of my soul-that is all I am anxious about now." When I was in the room, I remarked his kind manner to Mrs. B- and an apology for troubling her, which I never saw in him before; and when I mentioned it to H-, she said, his

manner was as different as it was possible to be. His manner was very earnest and striking. I went away very happy; and my mind was quite filled with a sense of the great work of God on the soul of a sinner, and of his peculiar mercy in permitting me to have such a delightful evidence of it, before I left him, never to meet again in this world.

Friday. He was very anxious that his mother should have a Bible, with a print large enough for her to read in it; and desired that one might be bought with his own money and given to her.

On Sunday evening, June 20th, he expired in a spasm; but his countenance in death was quite placid, and had been an altered one from the time he received peace of mind. He was perfectly aware he was dying, and seemed quite composed, which was a great contrast to the feelings he had when he supposed himself near death, three weeks before; and a proof how much he was secretly supported by a hope in Christ, though it did not amount to assurance, and he was permitted to feel his sins a burden to him to the last, and often said"Oh! my heart is full-my heart is full."

The day before he died he bitterly regretted the sins he had been guilty of one particular day at Exeter, saying "that was an awful day to me-how many sins did I add to my soul on that day!"

He expressed himself undeserving of the situation he was in, and said his past conduct and ways were quite unworthy of a Christian family. James had not attained his twentyfifth year. H-accompanied his remains to C-, according to his own request, where his funeral was attended by his own relations and friends.

Treasury.

HEREIN IS LOVE.

"To see, indeed, a world which God made good and beautiful (said an inimitable writer)* wrapt up in wrath and curses, clothed with thorns and briers; to see the whole beautiful creation made subject to vanity, given up to the bondage of corruption, to hear it groan in pain under that burden, will give some insight into the thing. But what is all this, to that view of it which may be had by a spiritual eye in the Lord Christ? To see him, who is the wisdom of God, and the power of God, always beloved of the Father; to see him, I say, fear, and tremble, and bow, and sweat, and pray, and die; to see him lifted up upon the cross, the earth trembling under him

Dr. Owen.

as if unable to bear his weight, and the heavens darkened over him as if shut against his cry, and himself hanging between both as if refused by both, and all this because our sins did meet upon him. This, of all things, doth most abundantly manifest the severity of God's vindictive justice. Here, or nowhere, is it to be learned." Herein, then, is both love and wrath-love for the lost and wretched sinner, but wrath, eternal wrath, against all sin. Herein, then, is love! I pause upon the word itself. I would have you rest, as it were, with me upon that one expressive word. What a depth of meaning in that one word; and how poor, how insufficient, any sense that we are wont to give to the word, compared with the love which presents itself to us in this Scripture. And yet the love which is spoken of, though it might well fix our whole soul in one feeling of wonder and adoration, and we can think of none like it, alas! we catch but a glimpse of it here —here, while we know in part—here, while we see through a glass darkly. What words could describe, what faculties of man can conceive that love which passeth knowledge? But, brethren in the faith, partakers in the blessed enjoyment of this love, if God so loved us, can we place our hands upon our hearts, and, looking up to God, say, O Lord, herein is love? Here, in this broken but adoring heart, herein is gratitude, faint enough, I own, when I think of thy love to me, but yet unspeakable" Alas, alas! it is not so with us. How dead we are in our ingratitude! Our very words are cold; our actions those of rebels, or of false and treacherous friends. "O Lord! as it is only in thy light that we see light, so it is only by the deep experience of thy love, received into our hearts, that we can love thee. Oh! shed abroad thy love, we beseech thee, in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, which thou hast given us, and enable us to love thee!"-Rev. C. Taylor.

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USEFUL APHORISMS.

Every man's example has more or less influence, and he is responsible for the consequences to which it gives birth.

If there is anything which unites contempt and commiseration it is the spectacle of a man going down to the grave with a pack of cards in his hand.-Gilpin.

Custom is a vehement tide; very difficult to stem.-Gilpin. A train of just reasoning, or a useful invention once discovered, is never lost. It may cease to be visible, and its author be forgotten, but its utility never ceases to be felt. Perfection is arrived at by slow degrees. The last step obscures the foregoing, but, except for them, would never have been made.

W. E. Painter, Printer, 342 Strand, London.

St. Mary Minster, Isle of Thanet.

MINSTER is a parish in the Hundred of Kingslow, or Isle of Thanet, the Lathe of St. Augustine, county of Kent, four-and-a-half miles W. by S. from Ramsgate, containing 920 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, valued in the Liber Regis, or King's Book, at 331. 3s. 4d., and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. dicated to

The church (of which we give a sketch above St. Mary, is a cruciform structure, in the early English style of architecture, with a lofty spire: in the choir are eighteen stalls.

A short distance from the church is Ebbs-fleet, where Hengist and Horsa first landed in 449; St. Augustine in 596; and, subsequently, from France St. Mildred-the first abbess of a convent of 70 nuns, founded here about 670, in honour of

the Virgin Mary, by her mother, Domneva, a niece of King Egbert. In 980 and 1101, this convent was pillaged and burned, and its inmates murdered by the Danes; after which only a few secular priests occupied the remains, its possessions having been given to the monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, who removed the body of St. Mildred to their own church. About a mile to the eastward of St. Mary's, St. Eadburg, in 740, built another convent, in honour of St. Peter and St. Paul.

THE BIBLE,

THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT, BUT NO POPERY, WHICH WOULD ROB US OF THESE GREAT FAVOURS BESTOWED UPON US, AND YET KEPT UNTO US BY OUR GRACIOUS GOD.

How to read the Scriptures profitably: by the late DR. JOHN OWEN.

[Showing what great benefits come by the Bible, and the right reading of it; which blessed Book of GOD, Papists, if they had the power in their hands, would burn, and those who read it, as they have done abundantly in times past when they ruled in this and other countries. BEWARE, THEN, of POPERY.]

"WHEN you read any part of the Word of God, you must put a difference between it and the best writings of men, preferring it far before them. To this end, first, consider it in its properties and excellencies. No word is of like absolute authority, holiness, truth, wisdom, power, and eternity. Psalm xix. 7, 11. 2. Consider this Word in its ends and good effects. No book aimeth at God's glory, John v. 39; 2 Cor. iii. 18, and the salvation of man's soul, Rom. xv. 4; James i. 21, like this; none concerneth you like to this: it discovereth your misery by sin, together with the perfect remedy, Rom. iii. 23-24. It proposeth perfect happiness unto you, Isaiah lv. 1-3, affording means to work it out in you and for you, Rom. i. 16; 1 Thess. ii. 13. It is mighty, through God, to prepare you for grace, 2 Cor. x. 3-5. It is the immortal seed to beget you unto Christ, 1 Pet. i. 23. It is the milk and stronger meat to nourish you up in Christ, 1 Pet. ii. 2; Heb. v. 13-14. It is the only soul physic (through Christ Jesus) to recover you, 2 Tim. i. 13, and to free you from all spiritual evils. By it Christ giveth spiritual sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, strength to the weak, health to the sick; yea, by it he doth cast out devils, and raise men from the death of sin (through faith) as certainly as he did all those things for the bodies of men by the word of his power, while he lived on the earth, John v. 25. This Book of God doth contain those many rich legacies bequeathed to you, in that last will and testament of God,