to believe in God; to believe that he had placed a witness in their souls, and therefore when they turned aside, from what the light manifested to be the will of God, they felt guilt and condemnation.

Now see how beautifully this is set forth in the New Testament, when we look at the doctrines, precepts, commands and examples of Jesus. They all tend to bring our minds home to this light within; to this power of God, which gives a knowledge of things, which nothing else can do.

All Jesus' miracles outwardly, could not do this. We have evidence of this from his own blessed testimony, when he thus addressed his disciples. "Whom do men say, that I the son of man am." They had different views upon the subject, because they made up their minds from their own conceptions. Some said John the Baptist, some Moses, or one of the prophets. They had a variety of opinions concerning him, and nothing external could bring them together, or unite them in one testimony but the revelation of God. Now when he put the question to his immediate followers, what was their answer? Here the Lord Almighty by his inspiring grace in their minds, enabled Peter to give an answer correctly. He said, "Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God;" (mind it, my friends,) Christ blessed him and said,

"Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, upon this rock will I build my church, not upon thee, for thou art a man, but upon this revelation of my Heavenly Father will I build my church. Upon the immediate revelation of his Heavenly Father did he look. 0 blessed instruction.

Well, we find that in all ages of the world, the children of God have built upon this sure foundation. Now, when Jesus Christ had fulfilled his office, and all the righteousness of the law, and all its testimonies by filial obedience to his Heavenly Father; how completely he was filled up with what the Father declared unto him. But he waited at all times to know the will of the Father. He did not do an act without having first received instruction from him. Now mind this, my friends; the example is worthy of continual attention. If Christ could not do any thing without his Father, by the aid of the Scripture, and his own ability as a son of Abraham, can we suppose it possible for any of us to come to God without the same blessed light, which dwelt in him. I therefore say, that no man or woman ever came to know God and walk in his path, and the way he has pointed out, but those who, like him, come first into obedience to the Father's will. We see

'that Jesus recommends his followers to this as the only thing. And I am willing to acknowledge now, when I am old, that I have never found any thing that would keep me right, and keep me in the way of salvation, but this one thing. Many things which I have met with, may have pointed me to it, as Balaam was instructed by the dumb ass. I have often been instructed by inanimate things which have fell under my notice; and from sudden observation of things, which struck to the witness for God in my heart and showed me that I was doing wrong.

I have never met any thing from my childhood to the present day, which would answer but this indwelling knowledge of God; and for this reason, I know it to be a truth, which is not only selfevident, but which is constantly confirmed and rendered certain by my own experience.

No experience will ever be worth any thing to us, which is not our own experience, begotten through the influence of the blessed spirit of God.

Then my friends dont let us try to do without God in any thing; for if we do, we shall be like our first parents-they tried to do without Godwithout obeying implicitly the divine commands. We have no right to look any where else, except to this spirit which was in Jesus, and which is in every rational individual under Heaven. He

would have us to draw into it, and be instructed by it.

You discover this great assembly is made up of a variety of different persons, who may all have different views in some things, but this doctrine must come home to every mind, no matter what former impressions may have been, or by what creeds they may have been bound; for every creed limits the holy one, if it is made by man.

The true christian can have none but that which is in himself, which is eternally sufficient for all the sons and daughters of men. You see, then, that this doctrine is not applied to any particular sect or profession of men and women on earth. It only says to them, that God is endeavouring by the witness placed within them, to gather them back to the foundation which he at first laid, when he placed our first parents in the Garden of Eden. This witness was placed in their breasts, when they were put into that Paradisiacal state, in which stood the tree of life; and was there ever a tree of life, which could be seen by the external eye? No. Nothing can be a tree of life but God Almighty himself; and he is invisible to every external sense.

I feel myself led by the grace of God to address this assembly as one individual. For as sure as the outward law was suited to every individual

Israelite alike, so now, is this divine law, which is written by the finger of God upon the tablets of our hearts, the same to every individual. It is to this divine law that I am endeavouring to call your attention as the one thing needful.

It was the testimony of one of old "by their fruits ye shall know them."

Now my friends, let us see the difference between Mary and Martha. We see that Martha loved the Lord, and that the Lord loved her, although she was greatly in a state of ignorance and darkness, when compared with her sister Mary. She was putting all her mind upon outward objects, and dwelling upon external things. She was no doubt endeavouring to gain his approbation, by serving him in external things, believing in the outward manifestation. She was altogether wrong, although she did it in love.

No doubt, among the varied professing Christians in the different nations on earth, some having one kind of images, and some another, some composed of outward things, and some created in the imagination; there may be, among all these kinds, some who, like Martha, love their master and are willing to serve him, according to their own understanding. These may be as active as any others, although their