Every thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." He realized that the law which he had broken was holy, just and good, and was sensible, that he deserved to suffer its curse. This curse is nothing less than endless punishment; ⚫and this punishment is what every sinner deserves. "As it is written, cursed is every one, who continueth not in all the things, which are written in the book of the law to do them." true penitent heartily approves of the law, and accepts the punishment of his iniquity. If mankind do not deserve endless punishment, the gospel is not founded in truth; but is absurd and false for the gospel offers a deliverance from endless punishment, and declares that none can be saved from it only through the atonement of Christ. But it were rather an insult, than an act of kindness to offer salvation from a punishment, which is not deserved. Every true penitent feels that he is unworthy of the least favor, and that he deserves the wrath and curse of God, both in this life and that which is to come. No one, who does not view himself as deserving of endless punishment, can consistently ask for mercy through the gospel of Christ. When the psalmist expressed a sense of the justice of God, in his own condemnation, he expressed nothing more, than what is felt by every real penitent. 6. The psalmist confessed his sin. When reproved by Nathan, he made no attempt to hide or excuse his sins, but said, "I have sinned against the Lord.” He then composed the fifty-first Psalm, a Psalm of confession, VOL. I. New Serics. which was publickly read, and was made a part of the public psalmody at the tabernacle. Every true penitent has such a sight of his vileness, and such an abhorrence of sin, that he desires to condemn himself, and to express his disapprobation of his wickedness, without the least reserve, and as publickly as truth and duty may require. 7. The psalmist pleads for pardon wholly through the mercy of God. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions." David had been a man of eminent piety before his fall, and per. formed great and signal services in the cause of God. But of these services he makes no account. He says nothing to justify himself, or to excuse, or extenuate his guilt. As he made no mention of past services, so he made no attempt to obtain for. giveness by good resolutions and fair promises. The mercy, the loving kindness, and the multitude of the tender mercies of God were the only foundation of his hopes and of his prayers. His prayers were very earnest. He knew, that if mere sovereign grace did not forgive and save him he must perish. Such are the views and exercises of all penitents, as to the way of obtaining forgiveness. Tell a true penitent of his good character and conduct, and he will exclaim, Behold, I am vile. I abhor myself. I am as an unclean thing and all my righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Promise him the favor of God, on account of his own righteousness, and he is grieved at his heart. The mer. cy of God is all the hope and all the plea of every penitent; and he will be happy if he may live and die with an humble heart, saying, "God be merciful to me SERAIAH. a sinner." (To be continued.) SELECTIONS. ADDRESS TO CHRISTIANS RESPECTING THE JEWS. From the London Evangelical Magazine, 1806. Two great events are renderel certain by the unerring voice of prophecy, the conversion of the Jews, and the gathering of the fulness of the Gentiles to Jesus Christ. To the Jews it was first sent; and myriads believed on Jesus as the promised Messiah ; the mass of the nation, however, remained still in unbelief. Since that time their situation is changed only for the worse; and it may be doubted whether during the last ten centuries so many Jews have been brought to embrace christianity, as during the first ten years after the death of Christ. So remarkable a thing should not pass unobserved. Multitudes of the most abandoned of the human race, in every other country, where the truth has been preached, have submitted to Jesus, and taken his yoke upon them; but how seldom has a Jew been prevailed on to deny himself, to take up his cross and follow Christ? Are we to ascribe this to the wrath of Jehovah, and to the manifestation of his awful justice on that devoted nation, for rejecting the true and promised Messiah, and to hold before the eyes of other nations the heinous. ness of their crime? It must be at the same time acknowledged, that in consequence of the wicked lives of men calling themselves christians, and the cruel treatment they have received age after age the Jews may be supposed to have imbibed the most inveterate prejudices against Jesus, his religion and his disciples. Now and then indeed an individual of the Jewish nation is converted to the faith of Christ, as a proof that God has not finally cast off his people, but that he will gather them in again. Of these persons how surprising is it, that we do not read of one, who ever devoted himself to the service of the Jewish people, and who spent his days in seeking their con. version! But such a person has now been raised up. Joseph Samuel C.F. Frey of the seed of Abraham, born in Germa ny, having learned of the Father, and been brought to believe in the name of the Son of God, studied for some time at Berlin, and was afterwards upwards of three years in the Missionary Seminary at Gosport, receiving instruction, with a view to preach the gospel to the Jews. He has since settled in London with this view; and has labored not without encouragement; as "he does not despise the day of small things." As the work is so important, and at the same time so very arduous it becomes the true disciples of Jesus to enquire, "What is our duty in respect to this great object?" A kind and affectionate deportment to the posterity of Jews, is certainly incumbent on us. The miracleswrought in the world by love have been greater and more numerous, than those performed by power. Prayer for them, and for the success of the labors of God's dear servants among them is indispensably requisite. Too frequent has been the neglect of this, in public, in domestic, and in secret devotions; and when it has not been forgotten, how often has it been the prayer of custom, not of faith! Consider the obligations which lie upon us. The divine command and the examples of the saints in scripture, unite in enjoining us to offer our heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel, that they may be saved. Gratitude likewise pleads powerfully in their behalf! From whom did we derive that salvation through Jesus, in which we greatly rejoice? Were not Moses and the prophets Jews? Were not the apostles of the Lamb Jews? Was not our Saviour himself, as to his human nature, of the seed of Abraham? Sure. ly, then, whoever is forgotten by us in prayer, it should not be the Jews? Prayer is God's appointed means of accomplishing the predictions of scripture; and whoever has heard God say that he will give birth to some auspicious event by the instrumentality of men, should immediately begin to pray that if may be fulfilled; and the nearer the season of the fulfilment approaches, the more frequent Our and fervent should be his suppli. cations. The influence of this glorious event on others, in which we are nearly concerned, while it adds to its importance, should increase the fervency of our prayers. How many profess an earnest and laudable desire for the conversion of the Heathen? But the calling of the Jews will, according to the unerring decision of the sacred scriptures, contribute in the highest degree to this desired issue. And should not this con. sideration give additional energy to our supplications? own personal benefit is likewise involved in the act. Not one prayer of faith ever ascended to heaven without bringing down a blessing! Every supplication therefore, which we offer for the Jews, will return with a ten. fold benefit into our own bo. soms! I may add, the Redeemer will be glorified thereby; and "though Israel be not gathered, we shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord." Let us weigh these considerations, brethren, in the balance of the sanctuary. The result I trust will be a spirit of more frequent and fervent prayer for God's ancient people, and for his ministering servants, who have devoted themselves to them for Jesus' sake. Do you feel grief of heart that you have not at tended more diligently to this important duty, and that the poor Israelites have been passed by in forgetfulness? Henceforth let them never be forgotten, either in the service of the sanc tuary, in the devotions of the family, or in the exercises of the closet. If the hundreds of thou sands of God's saints in the world were to be found cry ing to him day and night for the conversion of the posterity of Abraham his friend, we might soon have the pleasure to hear that the Deliverer was come out of Zion, and had begun to turn away ungodliness from Jacob; and churches of Jewish believers in Christ, would be heard offering up their songs of praise to God, and the Lamb not only in Britain, but in other countries where they are scattered abroad. THOUGHTLESS YOUTH. A Scrap. WHEN I see the youth of either sex arrived at that age wherein nature is just risen to its elegance and vigor, and when they begin to shew themselves to the world, my heart pities them as so many borderers upon the grave, yet most of them are utterly thoughtless of dying. Little do they imagine in those years of gaiety, mirth and madness, that they are treasuring up vengeance to themselves, by their thought 'less rebellion against the Power that made them. Little do they think that their lives are every moment due to the justice of God, as a sacrifice, each for their own iniquity. Young creatures, but bold sinners! They are weaned from the nursery, they are got loose from their parents' wing, and they vainly exult and riot in their new freedom; they gad abroad in the wide world, wanton and lavish in all the de-* lights which the vigor of depraved nature inspires. They know not how to bear the checks of piety, and the restraints of wisdom, nor will they endure the tenderest admonitions of a parent or an aged friend. They have no apprehension of the angel of death near them, as though it was beyond the reach of his commission, or the flight of his arrows, to smite any of their station or character. In the morning of nature they feel themselves alive, and they fancy it is immortality. 66 WATTS. A SEASONABLE HINT. WE should be moderate in our cation of promises and predicjudgments concerning the appli tions with regard to their seasons. Many have contended about the time wherein some prophecies are to be fulfilled, which have long since received their principal accomplishment. Unbelief hides the accomplishment of promises from the eyes of men. So our Lord speaking of his coming to avenge his elect(referring partic ularly to the destruction of Jerusalem,) adds, nevertheless, when the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth," (Luke xviii. 8.) Men will not understand his work through unbelief. That God is faithful in all his promises and predictions; that they shall all be accomplished in their proper season; that they are all the fruits of his love and care towards his church; and that they all tend to the advancement of his glory, these are things that ought to be fixed with us; but beyond these limits we ought to be guarded by peculiar caution; the analogy of faith, modesty, and patience; prophecies not being the rule of any actions. Dr. Owen on Heb. iv. 6. Steadfast adherence to the ora- This is the popular cry, the fashcles of God, as the only rules ionable note of declamation. It of christian faith and duty, has the appearance, indeed, of an indispensable qualification great liberality, as it makes a for the ministerial office. A general sweep without any disSermon preached at the ordi-tinction; but this appearance is nation of the Rev. AVERY only specious. It is well under. WILLIAMS, to the pastoral stood, that the adversaries of care of the congregational, evangelical truth have nothing church and society in Lexing- to lose by the general demolition ton, December 30, 1807.. By of creeds, for they have none to SAMUEL KENDALL, be demolished. It is in orthodox minister of the congregational churches only, or with perhaps a church and society, in Weston. very few exceptions, that confessions of faith are to be found. Boston: Munroe, Francis & Parker. 1808. The popular cry, therefore, against confessions, though specious in its pretensions, we can view in no other light, than that D.. D. THE doctrines, designated as the doctrines of the reformation, the doctrines of grace, evangeli-" cal and orthodox, have a distinc-of a masked attack upon the doc. tive character, and are generally known. These doctrines have always been opposed; sometimes in a manner more direct and open, sometimes in a manner more indirect and covert. Of late, however, the fashion has been not so much to attack these doctrines directly, as to decry adherence to any particular doctrines, as essential or important. From representations," which we continually hear, one would be ready to conclude, that, the very essence and perfection of christianity consist either in believing in no doctrines whatever, or, which amounts to the same thing, in holding all relig. ious sentiments to be equally scriptural and good. Creeds, therefore, and confessions of faith are all to be utterly discarded, as unwarrantable, unscriptural, and of most disastrous tendency. trines of grace. In general it is, The faith once delivered to the saints" would no longer be con tended for, and "the offence of the cross would cease." The sermon now before us, we took up, with sentiments of great personal respect for the author; but we felt in the peru. sal of it, we confess, very sensi |