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Holy Trinity; and a fool cannot, for this wisdom is too high for him.

This is coming to God, "the fountain of living waters," Jer. ii. 13; and to Christ, the well of salvation," Isaiah xii. 3; and to the "river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God," Psal. xlvi. 4.

Thus, also, saith God: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people," Jer. xxxi. 33. "And I," saith the Saviour, "will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God; and I will write upon him my new name,' "Rev. iii. 12. And the Spirit makes us living epistles-"Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us; written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart," 2 Cor. iii. 3.

The voice of God the Father's love in the heart is "Yea, I have loved thee

with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee," Jer. xxxi. 3.

The voice of the atonement of Christ, in the believer's conscience, is pardon, peace, and reconciliation with God. And these are better things than those spoken by the blood of Abel, Heb. xii. 24.

And the distinct voice of the Holy Ghost in the hearts of all believers is, 66 Abba, Father," Gal. iv. 6. This divine teaching, my dear brother, is attended with a holy claim upon God as our own God; and God will own and acknowledge such. To such God speaks, "Thou shalt call me thy Father, and thou shalt not turn away from me," Jer. iii. 19.; which is what no man can do, in truth, without the witness and voice of the Spirit of adoption; for it is he that cries, "Abba, Father." Such souls, also, claim Jesus for their own, with an infallible witness in their own souls of the truth of it; which no man can do, in truth, without the Spirit of God; for 66 no man can say that Jesus is the Lord [with application] but by the Holy

Ghost," 1 Cor. xii. 3. Hence it is plain that the Spirit of God makes us, as he did the prodigal, arise and go to our Father; which, when spoken by the Spirit, is what God will ever own and honour, as he did in that parable--" This is my son." And, though at times unbelief prevails, yet the Spirit subdues it again and again, as he did in Thomas, "My Lord and my God!" These plain truths, my dear brother, clearly reveal this most sublime mystery; and these things the children of God have in their own experience; and it is such experience as this that worketh hope. This is submitting to divine revelation, and not being wise above what is written. And whatever appears dark to us in the word of God we must pray the Lord to shine upon it, that we may know the mind of the Spirit in it; for it is in his light that we see light. And, "if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally and upbraideth not;" and he will guide us by his counsel. But let us for ever shun the bold intrusions of unhumbled and unsanctified men, who are so daring and presumptuous; for God

will resist such, and make their feet stumble upon the dark mountains; while "the meek he will guide in judgment, the meek will he teach his way." Strange notions are daily circulated in town against these things; and such men shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived;" for, if the force of truth beat them out of one refuge of lies, the devil drives them into another; and, being hardened to the last degree, they can adopt words which one dare not recite, and use arguments which it is scandalous to imitate; but the time will come when God "will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible,"

Isa. xiii. 11.

I shall conclude this long epistle with the tri-une benediction of heaven-"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you," (2 Cor. xiii. 14,) and with all that love our Lord Jesus Christ, now and for evermore. So prays, dear brother,

Yours in the ties of immortal love,
W. HUNTINGTON

LETTER X.

TO THE REV. J. JENKINS, LEWES,

SUSSEX.

To the man of God, greeting. Beloved, when I finished my last, I thought I had nearly exhausted the treasure that was to be brought forth upon this subject. I went last night to my bed weary, having sat hard at it for fifteen hours; and I thought the spring in my heart, as well as my bodily strength, were both spent. But before I could get to sleep another branch of this subject sprang up, and soon my cup overflowed again, which kept me awake for some time: nor could all my weariness and heaviness counterbalance it, so as to convey me into the regions of forgetfulness. The subject of my contemplation was communion; and here another field opened; and, on entering into the small avenue, it soon became a vast expanse. The first thing that struck me was the words of God to Moses-"Thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold;