1 mined to pronounce a blessing; and forced, as they looked. on, to take up their parable and say, God hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them! God hath brought them out of Egypt: He hath, as it were, the strength of an unicorn. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? "Since the WORK was His, therefore let us give Him also the PRAISE of it! Even as we do by this day's solemn appearance: Falling low on our knees before his foot-stool, and saying, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, nor unto our forefathers, but unto thy NAME give glory; for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake! For thy MERCY's sake, which induced thee to give so happy a turn to the affairs of so undeserving a people; and for thy TRUTH'S sake, which thou intendedst to secure, and to reestablish by the means of it. "Let us piously ascribe this and all other our deliverances to GoD, and all our calamities to ourselves; acknowledging the one to be as properly the consequences of our sins, as the other is the result of HIS unmerited FAVOUR and GOODNESS. And let us from such surprising events as these, which have confessedly SOMETHING DIVINE in them, learn to lift up our thoughts above material causes, and to instruct ourselves in all the amazing lessons of God's governing providence; by which He holds the balance of nations, and inclines it which way he pleases; so that all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing to him, and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? "And this he now performs by the administration of the man Christ Jesus; to whom, immediately upon his resurrection, he gave all power in heaven and in earth: And whom, upon his ascent into heaven, he instated in the full possession and exercise of that power, declaring him King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. And indeed, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom and strength, and honour and glory, and blessing. Therefore, blessing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen." FINIS. James Nichols, Printer, 22, Warwick-Square, London. BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN AND GREEN, In 1 Vol. 8vo., with a fine Portrait, Price 10s. 6d. Bds. THE LIFE OF JOHN GOODWIN, A.M., some time Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman-Street, London. Comprising an Account of his Opinions and Writings, and of the Controversies in which he was engaged in Defence of Religious Liberty and of General Redemption: With a Review of several Public Transactions in Great Britain, during the Civil Wars and the Inter-Regnum. BY THOMAS JACKSON. "It is somewhat remarkable, that no previous attempt has been made to furnish an authentic and comprehensive record of GOODWIN's life and character; especially as he was associated in political delinquency with the immortal author of Paradise Lost, and his name has so often been mentioned in connection with that of our great epic bard. "In attempting to supply this desideratum, the author has three distinct objects in view.-FIRST: He wishes to do justice to the memory of a man, whose character has long been greatly injured: a man who, with all his faults, was possessed of various excellences of a high order.-SECONDLY: He wishes, in some humble degree, to draw the attention of professing Christians to certain theological principles, which he believes to be perfectly scriptural, and admirably adapted to secure the honour of Divine Grace on the one hand, and to cut the sinews of Antinomianism on the other.-THIRDLY: The author is desirous of shewing the injury done to religion, and to religious characters, by the want of conscientious respect for the persons and authority of civil governors; and of enforcing the apostolical injunction, 'Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake.'" Also, in a few days will be published, The First Volume, with a fine Portrait, Price 14s., Bds., of THE WORKS OF JAMES ARMINIUS, D.D., formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden. Translated from the Latin.-To which are added, BRANDT's Life of the Author, with considerable augmentations; numerous Extracts from his private Letters; a copious and authentic Account of the Synod of Dort and its Proceedings; and several interesting notices of the progress of his Theological Opinions in Great Britain and on the Continent. BY JAMES NICHOLS. The WORKS OF ARMINIUS will be completed in Three Volumes, 8vo. The publication of them has been delayed, on account of the elucidatory materials, which the Translator was desirous of presenting to the Public, in his "CALVINISM AND ARMINIANISM COMPARED IN THEIR PRINCIPLES AND TENDENCY," &c. |