As soon as it was finished, this precious scripture came sweet to my soul, He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: Psal. cxlv. 19. Thus the chapel appeared

as an answer to the earnest desire which God had kindled in my heart; and which he intended to fulfil in his own good time, to the honor of his own good name, the good of many souls, and to the encouragement of my poor, weak, tottering faith. It is confessed in the church of England service, that all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, proceed from God;' and I believe they do."

"I will now inform my reader of the kind providence of my God at the time of building the chapel, which I named Providence Chapel; and also mention a few free-will offerings which the people brought.

"The name that I gave to the chapel has offended many. However, since it was named, I have seen a place called Providence Court, and a chapel called Trinity Chapel, where the Trinity is little known I believe this was not the case at the naming of Providence Chapel.

"But to return. They first offered about eleven pounds, and laid it on the foundation at the beginning of the building. A good gentleman, with whom I had but little acquaintance, and of whom I bought a load of tim

ber, sent it in with a bill and receipt in full, as a present to the Chapel of Providence.-Another good man came with tears in his eyes and blessed me, and desired to paint my pulpit, desk, &c. as a present to the chapel.Another person gave half a dozen chairs for the vestry; and my friends Mr. and Mrs. Lyons furnished me with a tea-chest well stored, and a set of china.-My good friends Mr. and Mrs. Smith furnished me with a very handsome bed, bedstead, and all its furniture and necessaries, that I might not be under the necessity of walking home in the cold winter nights.—A daughter of mine in the faith gave me a looking-glass for my chapel study. Another friend gave me my pulpit cushion and a book-case for my study.-Another gave me a bookcase for the vestry.-And my good friend Mr. E. seemed to level all his displeasure at the devil; for he was in hopes I should be enabled, through the gracious arm of the Lord, to cut Rahab in pieces; therefore he furnished me with a sword of the Spirit-a new bible, with morocco binding and silver clasps. Perhaps, too, he had his eyes fixed on the rams' horns and silver trumpets that sounded the destruction of Jericho, which some say typified two sorts of ministers-the illiterate and the learned; the illiterate was represented by the rams' horns, and the learned by the silver trumpets;

so, according to this, our blessed Lord, who spake as never man spake, and all his apostles, are jumbled in among the rams' horns. But i think, as a ram's horn has a very rough unpleasing sound, it rather typified the legal ministry under the law, where so many rams were offered; and the silver trumpets, having a more pleasing sound, held forth the evangelical ministry under the dispensation of the Spirit; which exceeds the old economy in glory as much as the sound of a silver trumpet does that of a ram's horn. The Revelation of St. John holds forth every sound from the death of Christ to the general judgment to be by seven trumpets, not horns. I think we may speak thus without offering any violence to the scriptures, and without nursing the pride or pedentary of a scholar.

"A certain gentleman some time ago preached from Pharaoh's vision of the seven fat and seven lean kine. The lean kine he made out to be poor, mean, illiterate people; and, as he had a great many rich dressy hearers, he made out the fat kine and wellfavored to hold forth the rich, honorable, and learned of the earth; though God says it is the rich that grind the face of the poor, and eat up his people as they would eat bread; but I never read in all the bible that the poor eat up the rich; for I think every poor man in

England will hold with me in this particular that the rich are agreed to keep that person poor who is poor. But I shall return to my subject, and leave these menpleasers to themselves; as they serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies; and with fair speeches and feigned words make merchandise of souls.

"But I shall shew that I have yet to speak on the behalf of Providence, which was so conspicuous in furnishing me with money necessary for building the chapel. I never went to one person to borrow money for the building who denied me. God so opened their hearts, that I was amazed at his providence and their kindness towards me.".

"The congregation began greatly to increase, and the heat of the place in times of service began to be almost unbearable; it was of course thought necessary to enlarge the chapel. Now there was a spare bit of ground, which lay about the middle of the chapel against the east wall, the dimensions of which were thirty feet by twenty-five, and this spare morsel of ground had nothing upon it but a shed: this ground we endeavoured to get, and intended to break through on that side the chapel, and so to throw the chapel into a

triangular form, and to move the pulpit to the centre of the gallery on the west side, that so it might face the new intended erection. The gentleman who held this ground by lease was applied to; and he, in company with a builder, met with me and a few friends of mine, and intimated that he was willing to accommodate us: of course we wished to know his terms, or what he expected for ground-rent, and he told us his price was one hundred guineas per annum. The heaven, even the` heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth hath he given to the children of men: Psalm cxv. 16. And so I found it, and they are determined to make the most of it. I have been informed, but I cannot avouch it, that all the ground on which that oblong pile of buildings stands within the compass of the four streets, of which my chapel is a part, pays no more to his Grace the Duke of Portland than fourteen pounds a year; but, if it was all to be let in the same proportion as was demanded of me, it could not, I think, bring in less than ten thousand pounds per annum. But, as Canaan was to be a servant of servants, so I must have been a tenant of tenants. Finding nothing could be done with the earth-holders, I turned my eyes another way, and determined to build my stories in the heaven, Amos ix. 6; where I should