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instead of going a mourning wanderer, occasionally calling others to repentance, when he has been with you; and craving that your minds may be preserved in calmness and love, that you may continue to enjoy all the social affections, from which I am cut off. O, my young friends, my soul has often yearned over you with feelings of affection! I well remember when I was a youth, and surrounded by my brethren and sisters, and with one of these I could ask counsel and experience comfort-with one of these I could interchange sentiments-I could reap instruction. But these privileges are lost to me for ever. Now, I want you from all these circumstances, and your own experience of the knowledge of God, and the operation of his spirit upon your own minds, te avoid these slips. I want you to be willing to enter in at the strait gate. "For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat: Because, strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." "And verily I say unto you, many shall strive to enter in, and shall not be able." And wherefore? because they are striving to enter in at the strait gate, and to take with them all their lusts, passions, and unsubdued affections. O vain attempt! O hopeless enterprise! If ever you enter in at the strait gate, you must give up all these you must be stripped nak

ed and become destitute. We must know the leaven of regeneration of the Holy Ghost to purify our souls and rectify every affection, and crucify every passion, and subdue every lust: and then we can enter in at the strait gate. But every ravenous disposition must be excluded-every imaginary power must be withdrawn, and we must walk in the light of the law. "In a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it: For the Lord shall dwell therethe redeemed of the Lord shall walk there." The language of invitation, is "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon; look from the top of Abana; from the top of Shenir and Hermon; from the Lions" dens; from the mountains of the leopards-from all the pinnacles of pride; from all the high and lofty places; from all those places which are above the natural level of that divine principle which is designed to cover the mind. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, look from the top of Shenir, and from the lions' dens, and from the mountains of the leopards, and from all ravenous dispositions-from all those lion-like dispositions, into that daily watchfulness, which I have recommended; and where alone we can walk in the light of the Lord, and know him to be our counsellor. Thus shall we be preserved in every affliction; and our

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wisdom being from God, we shall partake of the divine nature, we shall be endued with that wisdom, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocracy." This will enable us, not only to calm those passions, which disgrace human nature; but it will enable us to fulfil every civil, every social, every virtuous, and every religious duty.

O my beloved friends, how precious is this privilege, these fruits how amiable, when they become inhabitants of the mind, and when compared with those of an opposite, or evil tendency. And I want it to be renewedly impressed on your minds, that there is no other medium than by that light given unto all, and which is a portion of the same light, the same power, whereby the worlds were made; and which, to the Israelites, was a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. We may rest assured, having this guide, that every propensity of our corrupt nature, must bow to its power.

I want to direct you to this living and eternal principle, which will enable you to overcome every enemy, which you may be called to encounter. It will enable you to come from Lebanon; come with me from Lebanon my spouse, with me from Lebanon; look from the top of Abana; from the top of Shenir and Hermon. from the mountains of the Leopards, and from the Lions' dens.

SERMON V.

DELIVERED BY THOMAS WETHERALD, AT THE "SAILORS"

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BETHEL, BALTIMORE, FIRST MONTH 4, 1826.*

THOUGH Paul declared, that he was not behind the chiefest of the apostles, yet he complained that when he would do good, evil was present with him, because he found a law in his members warring with the law of his mind, and bringing him into subjection to the law of sin and death. The same dispositions and passions actuate us in the present day, for the same power has possessed each of our minds; but Paul knew another law, for, says he, I was alive without the law once, but when the law came, sin revived, and I died. Now, these three dif ferent laws under which the apostle was placed, are, the being alive to the law of his members, the law of sin and death, the law of the natural affections, which govern the whole body, soul and spirit. Another law in which he was alive once, was the legal dispensation which came by Moses, and in which, says he, I profited above

*This discourse was not reported by Mr. Gould, but by one of his pupils, who attended the meeting in Mr. G's. absence.

many of my equals, for he was trained up at the feet of Gamaliel. He knew all the wisdom of the law in which he profited, as became his strict profession, yet when the law came, sin revived, and he died. Now, under the legal dispensation, Paul rejoiced in his own righteousness, and became for God, a persecutor of the followers of Christ; but after a peculiar manifestation of divine love and wisdom, had called him out of the level of his own righteousness into a more spiritual dispensation, he became estranged from the mind which had formerly governed him; and now, under a sense of the feelings of compunction, he cried out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death. It was under the power of this deliverance, that he knew all the powers the law, and the wisdom of the law to be vain; even that law, which was of divine origin, which came through Moses from the immediate face of God upon mount Sinai. But though the law was of divine origin, it could not remove the body of death, which can only be removed by the grace of God, through Jesus Christ. It is by the power of this deliverance from sin, that we can bear this beautiful testimony: I knew a man in Christ, 14 years ago, caught up into the third heaven, where he heard things not lawful to be uttered. And what is heaven? It is not merely a place, it is a state; and verily, if our

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