of the juft and holy governor of the world. A change of mind, and common piety, were not enough for fuch a wretch as I had been. I was unworthy of the innocent comforts of life. I ought to breathe in fighs, and speak in groans. I refolved then to be a reform indeed, and in this part of Stanemore mountains, which I was well acquainted with, fpend the remainder of my days, in the labours of a penitential piety.

As I had no relations living, I fold what eftates I had left, and gave almost the whole money among the poor. With the little I kept, I bought what neceffary things I fhould want in my folitude, and with tools and feeds, fome cloths and linnen, a few books, and other little matters, retired to this spot in the year 1681. I had fome working men from the next village, to build me the little hut I live in; to fow my garden with every vegetable, and put fome fruit trees in the ground; to cut me a pile of firing from the woody hills; and make my place as convenient as my intended life could require. All this was foon done, and then I was left alone: in the poffeffion of every thing I had a wifh for in this world. It is now twenty years fince my arrival here, and in all the time, I have not had one fick or difmal hour. My garden and my cot

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tage employ me in agreeable labours, to furnish my table with roots and fruits; which is what I moftly live on; having nothing more but goats milk, and now and then a fea-biscuit; my drink being water, and fometimes a cup of meath of my own making.

When I am weary of working, I fit down to study my Bible, and in that most perfect treasure of faving knowledge, I find fuch joys and fatisfactions as make my life a fcene of heavenly happiness, and charm me into raptures the nearer I approach to the. hour of my diffolution. That will be a bleffed hour. By the amazing mercy of God, vouchfafed through the Lord Jefus, my crimson fins are pardoned; and when the voice of the Son of God, the thunder of the dreadful trumpet will awake all the dead, I fhall have my part in the first refur rection, and afcend with the bleffed to the eternal mansions of the sky.- --Adored. be thy goodness, moft glorious Eternal. Ineftimable is thy love in the redemption of finners by the gofpel, and the facrifice of the holy Jefus !

Fellow mortal, whoever thou art, into whofe hands this paper cometh, take my advice, and remember thy latter end. If,

like me, thou haft been betrayed by the demons into great impieties and prefumptuous fins, and haft been perfuaded to abdicate heaven, and its eternal hopes, in exchange for illicit gratifications of every kind, and the pleasures of this world; then, like me, repent, and in tears and mortification, implore the mercy of heaven. Turn to the everlasting Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts, after his own manner, with humility, forrow, and refolutions of amendment, and in the name of the Lord Jefus Chrift, implore his compaffion and forgiveness, and he will repent and turn unto thee. He will wash He will wash you in the blood of Jefus, and make you whiter than fnow. When he fees the finner a great way off in tears, fasting and prayer, he will run unto him, and fall upon his neck and kifs him. You will become the beloved of the Father, and be reinstated in the favour of the greatest and inoft glorious of immortal Beings. He will blefs you here with that peace that paffeth all understanding. He will blefs you for ever hereafter with glory and honour in the kingdom he has prepared for the benevolent, the pure, and the honeft. But if you continue to offend your Creator, and violate the laws of the God of heaven, then will you live exposed to judgments in this world,

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and most certainly will depart in confufion and mifery. The demons you obeyed will gather round the pale, the guilty, the affrighted ghoft of you, eager to involve your wretched fpirit in their own horrors, and will drag it to their difmal regions. And when all the monuments of human power, wealth and pride, fhall be overthrown the earth itself be in a blaze, and the fea turned into vapours, at the descent of the Son of God, to judge the vast congregation of the fons of men, the amazing affembly of mortals, unheard of generations raised from the grave, to have all their actions tried; every condition everlastingly determined; then will you be placed in that divifion which will call upon the rocks to hide them, and the hills to cover them from the face of the Judge; but in vain attempt to fecrete themselves from an infinite eye, and an almighty power. Then will the terrors of the gospel ftand in full force against thee, and in the dreadful fentence pronounced against the guilty you muft fhare-Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlafting fire. O dreadful doom! what a tremendous day to finners! and to see the righteous acquitted, and before your eyes afcend in triumph and fplendor into the manfions of glory, to live the happy favourites of God and Chrift for never-ending ages;

while you are driven forward to the infernal prifon, and fhut up in the habitations of eternal darknefs and torments--the very thought of it, (if you will think seriously of it) is enough to curdle the blood, and wither in a moment every unlawful joy that fin can produce in bloom and glory. The defpair, the fighs, the groans, the doleful Shrieks, when the wicked are driven off to the regions of blackness and darkness for ever, are inexpreffible. Think then. Think in time, my fellow mortal, and profit by the blood of a Saviour. Study his gospel. Hear his minifters. Regard the alarms of confcience, and fubmit to the influence of the holy Spirit.

And if you are not that monster of iniquity I once was, before I obtained the divine mercy, by a timely and fevere repentance, yet, as in heaven, fo in hell, there are many manfions, and if you do not work out your falvation according to the terms of the gospel, and make every law. of Christ the rules of your behaviour

if you do not act continually as related to God, to each other, and to another world, and feek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, you will utterly dif qualify yourself for the rewards and happinefs of heaven, though your conduct may be far from meriting the most dreadful inflictions