ner, what a great sinner;' and, 'Oh, what a Saviour; O the goodness
of God in hedging me in, and saving me from myself; his covenant
stands fast, it is established, it is sure.' I witnessed a God
pardoning sin, yet taking vengeance on inventions. I witnessed the
sinner, after being sixteen years in the school of Christ, taught by
his ministers, and most effectually by his rod, taking shelter in 'the
city of refuge,' in the atonement of God's providing, and in 'a surety
righteousness,' and finishing her struggles with, 'All is well.' My
heart echoed, and does echo, and will to all eternity, 'All is well.'
Glory to God; sing, not unto her, not unto me, not unto any creature,
but 'to God be the glory,' that she is now delivered from 'a body of
sin and death, and made meet to be a partaker with the saints in
light.' HALLELUJAH."

"JUNE, 1796.

"'I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of
the Lord.' Psalm 122.

"'The house of the Lord, whither the tribes go up, the tribes
of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the
name of the Lord,' to seek his face, to learn his will, to taste his
love, to behold his' glory, to enjoy God as their own God and
reconciled Father.

"Lord, let my heart be warmed more towards thy house; I have
sought and found thee in thy sanctuary, read thy providences, and been
taught thy will; I have tasted thy love and beheld thy glory; I have
enjoyed thy presence as my own reconciled Father in Christ Jesus; I
have been satisfied with thy goodness, as with marrow and fatness; and
yet how cold and languid at times, how little desire to return, how
small my expectations, how wandering my imagination. How do I sit
before thee as thy people, and my heart with the fool's eyes at the
ends of the earth. Lord, I should blush and be ashamed were a
fellow-mortal to see my heart at times. I may hide my eyes from
viewing vanity, but the evil lies within. O Lord, thou knowest the
cause. After all I have heard, seen, tasted, and handled of the word
of life, I am still of myself an empty vessel, unable to speak a good
word, or think a good thought. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord.
'Quicken me according to thy word; turn thou away my eyes from
beholding vanity, and quicken me in thy way: then shall I run in the
way of thy commandments when thou hast enlarged my heart.'

"The house of God; the owne