endureth for ever, and we perish utterly. Remember not the Iniquities of our Forefathers; bur think upon thy Power and thy Name, now at this time. For thou art the Lord our God, and thee O Lord will we praise.

In observing that God is the most proper Being for Prisoners, and all who are under Misfortunes and in Distress to apply to, as he is most Powerful, and as he is most Compassionate, we mentioned Baruch iii. ver. 14 and following. Learn where is Wisdom, where is Strength, where is Understanding; that thou mayest know also where is Length of Days, and Life, where is the Light of the Eyes, and Peace. Who hath found out her Place? or, Who hath come into her Treasures? Where are the Princes of the Heathen become, and such as ruled the Beasts upon the Earth, they that hoared up Silver and Gold wherein Men trust? They are vanish'd and gone down to the Grave, and others are come up in their steads. As for the Lenity and Compassion of Almighty God, it is amply illustrated in Ezekiel, Chapters xviii and xxxiii. If the Wicked will turn from all his Sins that he hath committed, and keep all my Statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his Trangressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him; in his Righteousness that he hath done shall he live. Have I any pleasure at all that the Wicked should die, saith the Lord God; and not that he should return from his Ways and live. Cast away from you all your Trangressions whereby ye have transgress'd, and make you a new Heart and a new Spirit; for why will ye die O House of Israel. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, wherefore turn yourselves and live ye. Again, the Prophet is commanded by God, Chap. xxxiii, when the Children of Israel lamentingly enquired how they should live, when their Trangressions were upon them, and they pined away in them, to answer, As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the Wicked. If the Wicked restore the Pledge, give again that he hath robbed, walk in the Statutes of Life without committing Iniquity, he shall surely live he shall not die.

The Sunday immediately before the Execution of those two Malefactors, who were appointed to suffer Death agreeable to the Sentence passed upon them, the Words they were instructed from in the Morning, are contained in the xix Chapter of the Book of Job, verses 25, 26.

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter Day upon the Earth; and tho' after my skin Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh shall I see God, &c.

In considering the Resurrection of Christ to Glory, and of Men as the Consequence thereof, we mentioned Romans vi. 9. Christ being raised from the Dead, dieth no more; Death hath no more Dominion over him; For in that he died he died unto Sin once, but in that he liveth he liveth unto God: Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto Sin but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. And also 1 Corinth. xv. 20. Christ is risen from the Dead and become the first fruits of them that slept; for since by Man came Death, by Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.