reveals his dear Son in us. To write upon us the name of the city of God is to give us the happy enjoyment of peace, which is the fruit and effect of imputed righteousness; and to bless us with the presence of God. The city is to be called Jehovah Shammah, The Lord is there; or the city of God's presence; God promising to dwell in Zion for ever, it being his resting-place, and he having desired it. The Lord's new name seems to be that worn upon his vesture and on his thigh, and is, "King of kings, and Lord of lords;" which name he will achieve by the destruction of antichrist, and taking to himself his, great power and reigning, when the kingdoms of this world will become his; and he then will make his children princes in all the earth. This greatest of all kingdoms, bigger than the Babylonian, Grecian, or Roman, will be given to the saints of the Most High, who shall take it and possess it for ever and ever; then the saints will be kings, and rule over their oppressors. Making them pillars is polishing them by grace, making them upright and ornamental in their pro

fession; and where these things are found written by the Holy Spirit on the fleshly tables of the heart, the sum and substance of the New Testament, whether in the gospels or in the epistles of the apostles, is experienced in the souls of God's elect, which makes them the pillar and ground of the truth, known and read of all men, being made manifest in the consciences both of saints and sinners, hypocrites and heretics; and such living epistles have a seal upon them, as all epistles should have, having the broad seal of heaven on their souls by which they become God's secret treasure, being sealed up to the day of redemption, which is redemption from the grave. These things are recorded by the Holy Trinity, and these things are written in the minds and hearts of all believers; and these inscriptions are as puzzling to the wise and prudent among us as the hand-writing upon the walls of Belshazzar's palace was to the wise men of Babylon. But messengers who bear such tidings, and interpreters to explain them, are scarce. "If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter,

one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him," Job xxxiii. 23. And I think that, if every congregated thousand in a profession in this nation had a real messenger to bring forth such good tidings, and endowed with divine skill to interpret them to sinners in whose hearts they are written, old England would be one of the happiest countries in all the world.

Dearly beloved, pardon me for the amazing length of this epistle; it was written, some late at night, and the rest early in the morning. When the waters are moved, and I can step in, I am (like Peter on the mount) apt to forget myself, but hope ever to remember thee at the throne; and he that hath such a friend must shew himself friendly.

Ever yours,

W. HUNTINGTon, S. S.

LETTER V.

TO THE REV. J. JENKINS, LEWES,
SUSSEX.

Fellow Servant and Fellow Soldier,

GRACE and peace be with thee, both in the armoury and in the field. "Counsel in the heart," saith the wise man (or rather Wisdom itself), " is as deep waters, and the words of wisdom a flowing brook." This witness is true; for before I had gotten the last out of hand I had two more in my heart; and therefore I must speak, or write, that I may be eased. I shewed, in my last, how each person in the glorious Trinity was jointly concerned in the salvation of God's elect; and treated a little of their co-operations in every branch of it. And this will further appear, even in the application of the promises. "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd," Eccl. xii. 11. In the masters of assemblies a plurality of persons appear; but in the one shepherd the

unity of God is seen. If it be replied, that by the masters of assemblies the Jewish doctors are meant; I answer, they were not preachers of God's word they made that of none effect by their own traditions. Nor can it mean the apostles or ordinary gospel-ministers, for they dare not take the title of master: "Be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your master, even Christ," Matt. xxiii. 8. Nor is it in the power of any man to apply the word of God. To fasten the word of God, as a nail driven up to the head, requires power; and "the excellency of the power is of God, and not of us." If the most eloquent orator in the world, by the dint of elocution, was to attempt this work and move the passions of men to the uttermost, all that can be said of it is that they received it in word only: but, when the word comes "with power, in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance," the nail is fastened; nor is it possible for either men or devils to draw it out. God the Father calls himself a master. "If I be a master, where is my fear?" Mal. i. 6. "Call no man