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Perhaps you think you are; but it is not your yielding an assent to what your parents teach you, that will denominate you a believer. He that believeth in Christ to the saving of his soul, must know and feel himself a perishing sinner without Christ: and have you known. and felt your perishing condition? To them also who believe in Christ he is precious: so that his name, and gospel, and people, are dear to them; more dear than food, or raiment, or silver, or gold, or friends, or all the things which they can desire. And is Christ thus precious to you? If he is, eternal bliss is before you; if not, the wrath of God abideth on you. Think, my dear lad, of these things, and call upon the name of the Lord, that you may be saved.

"A few weeks ago, I heard a sermon delivered to some hundreds of young people; and I find that the minister usually delivered such a sermon to the young people of his congregation about the beginning of the new year. As I felt interested in it, I took down a considerable part of it in short hand; and now I will send it to you, in hope that you will feel interested in it as much as I did. The text was Psa. xc. 14.-'O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.'"

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This was a sermon of his own, which has since been printed at Edinburgh, and which I, on that account, omit transcribing.

Thus did he earnestly watch for opportunities to do good to the children of his friends, as well as to his own, and to his more distant relatives. Surely our Brethren, who think us mistaken in not daring to baptize our infants, unless we could find precept, precedent, or satisfactory consequence, in favour of that practice, in the New Testament, must admit that he was as much concerned for the salvation of his children, as they can be for the spiritual welfare of theirs. I trust this is generally the case with others of our persuasion.

CHAP. X.

An Account of Mr. Fuller's Frame of Mind under various Personal Afflictions, and in his last Illness and the immediate approach of Death-His last Letter to the Editor-Account of his Funeral-Extract from Mr. Toller's Sermon, &c.

BEFORE I enter on the peculiar subject of this chapter, I would remark, that I cannot but think that the preceding account contains much to illustrate the life, walk, work, and fight of faith. My dear Brother could truly say, I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. He had that impressive sense of the extent, strictness, and spirituality of the divine law, and at the same time that deep conviction of it's perfect equity and goodness, which induced him, from a cordial approbation of it's requirements, and a thorough acquiescence in the justice even of it's penal sanctions, to renounce all dependence upon any righteousness of his own. He considered the attempt of a sinner to recommend himself unto God, by any supposed merit of his own, as insolent presumption; as

illegal as it is anti-evangelical. He loved the law too well to wish it altered, or abated, or to be in any way dishonoured: and his acquaintance with the gospel confirmed and increased the force of this sentiment; for he was crucified with Christ; he entered into the manifest import of his death; and inferred, that if it were requisite for one of such dignity as the incarnate Son of God to die for all that shall be saved, to prevent their escaping personal punishment from being a dishonour to the divine government, then were they all dead, or justly and fairly condemned to eternal death; for if they had not deserved the curse of the law themselves, it's infliction upon him in their stead must have been the most shocking event that could be conceived! On this supposition, the atonement must be considered, not as an infinitely wise expedient, to prevent any ill effect from following the pardon of inexcusable criminals, who were not fit to be objects even of mercy without a full exhibition of God's abhorrence of their crimes; but, (Heaven forbid the blasphemy!) an amends made to us, for the rigour of a law too severe to be enforced, and which would have excused or even justified our enmity, had not such deliverance been granted! Far otherwise, indeed, were my friend's views of the cross of Christ. He understood the just import of the atonement, and hence, living and dying, he ascribed all his

salvation to rich, free, and sovereign grace: not calling that kindness by the name of grace, which was imagined necessary to prevent the divine character from being impeached, on account of too much severity; but considering grace as goodness extended to the unworthy and hell-deserving; or as imparting the highest good to those who truly deserved wrath to come upon them to the uttermost; and this in such a way, as more strongly to express God's abhorrence of sin, than any punishment which the sinner could have endured in his own person to eternity.

Thus his illegal hopes being slain, he was begotten again to a new and lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; and though crucified with Christ, nevertheless he lived, and that unto God; entering into the holy tendency of the gospel, as well as into it's humbling import. Thus the life which he lived in the flesh, he lived by the faith of the Son of God; accounting that if Jesus loved him, and gave himself for him, it must be most reasonable that he should love the Redeemer in return, and devote himself wholly to him. He felt that he was not his own, but, having been bought with a price, was bound to live not to himself, but to him that died and rose again. He considered every obligation to obedience, under which a rational creature could lie antecedently to the consideration of redemption,

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