h Vanity Fair, and whose spirits were too
much assimilated to the wares there exhibited, and most unworthy of
all the care and pains they bestowed upon her. Tell my then dear
pastor the pilgrim is not lost; he will find her in the 18th chapter
of Ezekiel: he may remember that he and dear Doctor Erskine gave me
over to the Lord when leaving Edinburgh. Well has he kept the charge,
though I have not my part, after all the chastisements and charges
received. But he is 'the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,
long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.'

"I am now a happy Mary, enjoying the full sense of pardon and the
light of his countenance in the meantime, and the full prospect of
being soon with him, made like him, and capacitated to praise him.

"I. GRAHAM."

"SABBATH, January 18.

"Dr. R----. 'By grace ye are saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God.'

"All is of grace, all is free gift, or we wicked, wretched
sinners, could have no interest in it. Thanks be unto God for his
unspeakable gift of Jesus Christ, given for a covenant of the people.
Thanks be unto God for the gift of faith, by which we apprehend this
covenant, and become interested in him, as the salvation of our souls.
Thanks be unto God for life to work; for new principles and new
motives, new desires, new hopes, new fears, and, in some measure, new
conduct. All of grace, and to the God of grace be all the glory.

"Afternoon. 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty man glory in his might; let not the rich man glory in
his riches: but let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me; that I am the Lord which exercise
righteousness, loving-kindness, and judgment in the earth: for in
these things I delight, saith the Lord.' Jer. 9:23.

"O Lord, hast thou not taught me by thy word, by observation, and
by experience, that 'all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as
the flower of grass?' Alas, how much have I gloried in even more
worthless and transient things; but thou hast put a worm in them,
which I hope has cut the roots, and they are in a dying state. O let
grace supplant them; let me now glory only in thee and thy blessed,
gracious, and well-ordered coven