the recovery of a lost sheep to the fold of Christ. It is cheering to reflect that here when the hands that are to build this house are mouldering in the dust, and the tongue that now speaks is silent in death, the unsearchable riches of Christ will we trust continue to be preached, and sinners intreated to be reconciled to God. Interesting it is to consider that the very spot where you now stand, in 9 or 12 months you may be sitting to hear the glad tidings of a free and full salvation. O! that great benefit may be the result of this undertaking. O! that this valley of dry bones may be filled with spiritually living men; that this wilderness may yet blossom as the rose, this desert become as the garden of the Lord.

I beseech you most earnestly to pray that my labours, imperfect as they are, may not be in vain in the Lord. Pray for me, who like yourselves am in myself an undone Adam. I trust by grace saved from hell, saved for heaven, saved for glory; saved by a price which man cannot compute, which angels cannot count the precious blood of Jesus! that I may be instant in season, out of season, ever going

about doing good. Pray for the builders, that they may be strong to labour, diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, that they may work out their own salvation with fear and trembling, looking to God to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure. Pray for yourselves that you may all be found in him, and if through grace we at last join the church triumphant in heaven, there will be a congregation which will never break up, a sabbath which will never end.

Should but one soul be saved by the erection of this building (and I trust there may be

many,) but should it be but one we shall have cause to bless the Lord for it for ever and ever! for what can be given in exchange for a soul !

At the conclusion was sung,- Praise God from whom all blessings flow,' &c.

C. R.

SATAN APPARENTLY CAST OUT.

Satan may be cast out in part, and yet still retain a supreme interest in the heart. I prove it out of that parable, Matth. xii. 43-45, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, but finding none. Then he saith, I will return into my house, from whence I came out," &c.

Out of that parable we may plainly conclude, there may be a shaking of Satan's empire, Satan may be cast out of a man in some sort, yet the man not plainly renewed. Well, how may he be cast out, and yet his empire remain unbroken? He may be cast out, partly, by conviction and illumination; yet as long as any lust remaineth there unmortified and unsubdued, he still keeps his sovereignty in the heart. Many begin to be troubled, and to be thoughtful about eternity, that see better, yet they do that which is worse in the issue. When there is a conflict between corruption and conviction, corruption carrieth it away. As iron oft heated and oft quenched is so much the harder, so when they had some wamblings of conscience, and the heart begins to boggle, after this, sin breaks out the more. This is the scope of that place: they were convinced of a better estate, and had some thoughts

of the Messiah, but did not give him entertainment. Again, the devil may be cast out, in regard of some external reformation. A man may a little wash his polluted life and abstain from gross sins, yet Satan have full possession of the inner man. A man may abjure his former ill life, and for a while carry it fair, but afterwards retain his former filthiness, and keep a secret league with his lusts, and so he is entangled again, and then "his latter end is worse than his beginning;" and, as it is in St. Peter ii. 22, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." A prisoner which hath made some escape, if ever the goaler get him into his clutches, is sure to be loaden with irons; so one that hath had some partial reformation, Oh when the devil gets such a man into his power again, he is ten times worse than he was before!-Old Author.

EPITAPHS.

The following remarkable Epitaphs were found in B-Churchyard.

To the Memory of

MR. THOMAS HORWOOD,
Merchant ;

TWICE MAYOR OF THIS Town,

Founder of the Alms House near the Church;

To which

MRS. ALICE HORWOOD,
His Relict,

ADDED A FREE SCHOOL,

And Endowed it :

He Died June 1st. 1658, Aged 58.

Sleeping awhile in dust his body lies,

Who (living here) was taught the exercise

Of Faith, and Hope, and Love, those graces three,
Wherin consisteth Christianitie.

His Faith did Eye the promise from above,
His Hope the just performance, and his love.
Made haste to feast upon those heavenly dishes,
Which faith and hope presented to his wishes;
Thus all conquer'd, and now though love alone
Possess those pleasures which attend the throne,
Yet, neither faith nor hope doe thereby miss
Of their reward; seeing that very bliss
Which love enjoins so lulleth them in peace,
That though to act as formerly they cease,
Yet they are lay'd to rest in this condition,
That faith to vision turns, hope to fruition.

To the Memory of the

WORTHY

RICHARD

BEAPLE,

MERCHANT.

Thrice Mayor of this Town.

Who Departed this Life, December 20th, 1643,

Aged, 79.

Were't not more wisely done if with consent,
Wee joined to batter downe this monument,
Lest when the sorrowing poor lift up their eyes,
They drown the voice of the sermon with their cries,
Let that bee others doome, such as can give
With liberall spirit, but only whiles they live :
As for this senator, his nobler minde

Within one age did scorne to be confin'd,
For which to future ages he convey'd

So rich a portion duly to be pay'd,

That henceforth tears being banished it might bring
To the orphan joy, and make poor widowes sing.
Let those who die have their monuments to stand,
Take fayr example from this bounteovs hand.

H. L. B.

THE PRAYING MOTHER.

SAMUEL, who became a Prophet and a Judge in Israel, was early brought to the sanctuary, and dedicated to the special service of God, by a Praying Mother.

TIMOTHY, who was an eminent Minister of the New Testament, and exceedingly dear to St. Paul, and who from a child had known the holy Scriptures, was blest with both a Praying Mother and Praying Grandmother.

JOHN THE BAPTIST, who was filled with the Holy Ghost even from his very birth, and a greater than whom had never been born of woman, was the son of a Praying Mother.

The pious and excellent DODDRIDGE had, long before he could read, enduring impressions made upon his heart by means of some scripture prints on the tiles in the chimney, which were pointed out and explained to him by a Praying Mother.

The Rev. JOHN NEWTON, who, besides all the other good he accomplished, was instrumental in the conversion of those eminently useful men, the Rev.