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Dr. Witherspoon, president of New-Jersey College, in America, educated five hundred and twentythree young men, one hundred and fifteen of whom were afterwards ministers of the Gospel. He had the satisfaction to see many of his former pupils filling the first offices of trust under the government; and on returning one day from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, then sitting in Philadelphia, he remarked to a particular friend, “I cannot, my dear sir, express the satisfaction I feel, when I observe that a majority of our General Assembly were once my own pupils."

Chap. iii, ver. 14.—But their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail taken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

A learned Rabbi of the Jews, at Aleppo, being dangerously ill, called his friends together, and desired them seriously to consider the various former captivities endured by their nation, as a punishment for the hardness of their hearts, and their present captivity, which was continued sixteen hundred years, "the occasion of which," said he, "is doubtless our unbelief. We have long looked for the Messiah, and the Christians have believed in one Jesus, of our nation, who was of the seed of Abraham and David, and born in Bethlehem, and, for aught we know, may be the true Messiah; and we may have suffered this long captivity because we have rejected him. Therefore my advice is, as my last words, that if the Messiah, which we expect, do not come at or about the year 1650, reckoning from the birth of their Christ, then you may know and believe that this Jesus is the Christ, and you shall have no other."

Chap. iv, ver. 7.-But we have the treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Sometimes God is pleased to enrich, with a more than ordinary portion of grace and Gospel truth, persons of feeble constitutions.-Dr. Doddridge at his birth, showed so small symptoms of life, that he was laid aside as dead. But one of the attendants, thinking she perceived some motion or breath, took that necessary care of him, upon which, in those tender circumstances, the feeble flame of life depended, which was so nearly expiring, so soon as it was kindled. He had from his infancy an infirm constitution, and a thin consumptive habit, which made himself and his friends apprehensive, that his life would be very short; and he frequently, especially on the returns of his birth-day, expressed his wonder and thankfulness that he was so long preserved.

Chap. iv, ver. 18.-While we look not at the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

A certain lady, having spent the afternoon and evening at cards, and in gay company, when she came home, found her servant-maid reading a pious book. "Poor melancholy soul," said she, "what pleasure canst thou find in poring so long over a book like that?"-When the lady went to bed she could not fall asleep, but lay sighing and weeping so much, that her servant overhearing her, came and asked her, once and again, what was the matter with her. At length she burst out into a flood of tears, and said, "Oh! it was one word I saw in your book, that troubles me; there I saw that word ETERNITY." The consequence of this impression was, that she laid aside her cards, forsook her gay company, and set herself seriously to prepare for another world.

Chap. v, ver. 2.-For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.

Mr. Dod, in the sixty-third year of his age, had a fever with very threatening symptoms; but things turning happily at the crisis, and the physician having thereupon said to him, "Now I have hopes of your recovery:" Mr. Dod answered, "You think to comfort me by this; but you make my heart sad. It is as if you should tell a man, who, after being sorely weather-beaten at sea, had just arrived at the haven where his soul longed to be, that he must return to the ocean to be tossed again with winds and waves."

Chap. v, ver. 9, 10.-Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

"The difficulty of the ministerial work," says Mr. Samuel Davies in a letter to a friend," seems to grow upon my hands. Perhaps once in three or four months I preach in some measure as I could wish; that is, I preach as in the sight of God, and as if I were to step from the pulpit to the supreme tribunal. I feel my subject, I melt into tears, or I shudder with horror when I denounce the terrors of the Lord. I glow, I soar in sacred ecstacies, when the love of Jesus is my theme; and as Mr. Baxter was wont to express it, in lines more striking to me than all the fine poetry in the world;

'I preach as if I ne'er should preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.'"

Chap. v, ver. 17.-Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are be

come new.

The Rev. Legh Richmond, on his return from Scotland some years ago, passed through Stockport,

at the time when radical opinions disturbed the country. In consequence of his lameness, he was never able to walk far without resting. He was leaning on his stick and looking about him, when a poor fellow ran up to him and offered his hand, enquiring, with considerable earnestness, "Pray, sir, are you a radical?" "Yes, my friend," replied Mr. Richmond, "I am a radical, a thorough radical." "Then," said the man, "give me your hand." "Stop, sir, stop; I must explain myself: we all need a radical reformation, our hearts are full of disorders: the root and principle within us is altogether corrupt. Let you and I mend matters there; and then all will be well, and we shall cease to complain of the times and the government.' "Right sir," replied the radical, you are right, sir :" and bowing respectfully, he retired.

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Chap. vi, ver. 3.-Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed.

Doctor Brockmand, Bishop of Zealand, was once present at a wedding, which was attended by a large promiscuous company of all ranks. At table the conversation turned upon the conduct of a certain disorderly clergyman: some of the company reprobated, and others pitied him. But a lady of rank, no doubt one of those who take the lead where busy scandal feasts her votaries, gave a new turn to the subject, and with a scornful mein, added: "What a pretty set of creatures our clergy are!" It grieved Brockmand to hear the whole clergy thus villified, yet he did not think proper to offer a serious reply. But shortly after, he related an anecdote of a noble lady, notorious for her ill conduct, concluding with these words: "It does not follow, however, that all our noble ladies should resemble her."

Chap. vi, ver. 14.-Be not ye unequally yoked with unbelievers.

Eliza Embert, a young Parisian lady, resolutely discarded a gentleman to whom she was to have been

married, because he ridiculed religion. Having given him a gentle reproof, he replied, "That a man of the world could not be so old fashioned as to regard God and religion." Eliza started!—but on recovering herself, said, “ From this moment, sir, when I discover that you do not regard religion, I cease to be yours. He who does not love and honor God, can never love his wife constantly and sincerely."

Chap. vii, ver. 6.-Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

During the ministry of the late Mr. Willison of Dundee, a serious woman who had been hearing him preach from Psalm lv, 22. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee," came to his house in the evening, with a broken and oppressed mind, in order to make known to him her perplexed case. The poor woman, as she passed through the house to his room, heard a little girl repeating the text, which came with such power to her heart, as effectually dispelled her fears, and set her at liberty. When she was introduced to Mr. W., she told him that she was come to make known her distress; but the Lord, by means of his grand-child repeating the text, as she came through the house, had graciously dispelled her fears, and removed her burden, and now she only desired to give thanks for her spiritnal recovery.

Chap. vii, ver. 15.-And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

The late excellent Mr. Cathcart, of Drum, was in the practice of keeping a diary, which, however, included one particular department, seldom to be found in like cases. Mr. Cathcart describes his plan and object in the following words: "A memorial of acts of kindness, that as memory is liable to fail, and as the kindness and friendship of former times may be

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