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 >• }!' '\"°^ w;tH words of feigned affection or faise 
 ^.endsh.p that I address you on thi present occasL for 
 my heart ,s filled with gratitude, and overflows with ove 
 It is now upwards of ttvelvo months since the Lord inclined 
 my soul to visit this far offland of strangeT^, and^^ 
 tract of desert; and I can say, witlAe utmSt f^edom 
 I have never yet known what it is tSlret thrieav^^^f 
 mr native shore ; and never did I spld twelve moShJ 
 with_so much pleasure and delight as the last Tweh^^ 
 months have been spent. Still, I must say, . 
 
 . " '^here is a spot of earth supremely blest. 
 ^ A dearer, sweeterspot. than all the rest." 
 
 "Where the home of oar infancy stood." 
 Around that place, be it ever so homely, there resta. 
 . «.ored halo whichever makes glad the he Jof S. WT,« 
 
 fSrS,***^ •'''?*' '"^*^' «"a«=<l"ainta:cesS 
 familiar fr ends sighs not, w memory calls up froi its 
 
 s|^red hiding-place those happy houR, when WTinrt 
 
 heart .nkin3red sympathy! The cold forms of ^orlX 
 
 ac^uaintanceshm, having for its basis self-interr „5 
 
 earthly aggrandizement, can never atone for the loss of 
 
 early.assocates ; and the absence from that soi In «^ich 
 
 our first footsteps tottered, endeared by time wdZtoaw! 
 
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 ' Br e ath es there a man w it h soul so dead. 
 Who never to himself hath said^ 
 This IS my own, my native l«»a,*» 
 
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 Butthe bewitching charm that the name of home carries 
 with it, has, in a great measure, been lost to me. It it 
 true, I often revert to the happy hours, when, separated 
 from the externa! world, I united in sweet communion with 
 those in whom I could confide, and who always shared 
 ahke with me, my sorrows and my joys. But though their 
 company be lost, I am not without friends—friends" dearer 
 than ever I expected to find in the wilds of Morth America. 
 Since I first came amongst you, your constant care seemed 
 to. be, that I should want nothing to make n»e comfortable, 
 and you failed not to give unquostionablo evidence of 
 your sincerity. The early opportunity you ombiaced of 
 presenting mo with a call to become your pastor, showed 
 that you were anxious I should take up my residence 
 amongst you; and your flattering address and valuable 
 present to my esteemed friend and Ihthor, Mr. Boyd, spoke 
 more to my praise than I justly merited. And this noble 
 animal (a horse), with which you now present me, has 
 done more than can be well conceived of, to endear you 
 to my heart. Not foi- the value of the gift, which is 
 considerable, but the feelings it exhibits, and the unequivocal 
 evidence it gives of unfeigmfd attaHment.. 
 
 And now, in return, while I thank you for your kind 
 liberality, I beg of you to accept of this short addrej5S, and 
 impress it upon the minds of your children, that they may 
 be able '^ to contend for Ihe faith which was once delivered to 
 the saints,^' and be guarded against that vile and pernicioas 
 Arminianism that is sweeping across the fand like the'^ 
 withering winds of the desert, poisoning the moral atmos- 
 phere with its pestilential breath and deadly exhalation. 
 And in order that you may have a full view of your real 
 chtfracterand condition in the sight of a Holy God, let me 
 tell yoQ, in the words of Scripture, 
 
 ^ I, That ^' all have sinned and come short of the glory of 
 God;" (Rom. iii. 23); and, consequently, ^^ are under the 
 ioraihand curse of God,*' (Gal. iii. 10.) What you arejo 
 understand by this phraseology, is, that all men, whether 
 nch or poor, young or old, i n their first state, are universally 
 wicked, and justly exposed to everlasting destruction, being 
 
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 under 1^ wrath and curse of God. And now, my friend. 
 I would have ;yrou to consider what it is to be unde^ 
 the dominion ot sm, and in actual rebeliron against the 
 
 A sovereignty of heaven. Your own consciences must tell 
 
 you that you are guilty, and the Word of God is most 
 explicit in declarmg your. undone condition. You are at 
 !i"l?JT?' ^""'^^[•"g ^«d*T the penalty of sin; but the 
 dreadful day of final retribution is yel to *com'e, and is 
 rapidly approaching when the awful but just sentence of 
 condemnation shall be carried into full execution against 
 nntnll. VT «nlj'"P''nil^'nt-Tor vengeance belongeth 
 unto the Lord, and he will certainly repay, and *»i7 1 « 
 fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.^^ 
 When ages of revolving years shall have run their rounds, 
 the misery of the wretched shall only be conunencing 
 and endlessly and unavailingly will they to.ss on their fiery 
 jbeds^strivingtoe^^^ their pain. 
 
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 nf ihaf 'rT'''''V'^^'"'" ^^?'?' ""^ ^"^^^^^ ^^^'^^ his presence^ 
 
 ind that redemption could only be obtained through the 
 
 /shedding of his blood " God hath set forth his Son to be 
 
 a propitiation through faith in his blSod, to declare his 
 
 mdyet th^justifierof Mm whobelieveth in Jesvs^^ Had i 
 not been /or his mterposition, all the posterity of Adam 
 
 h^l^l' ! '" ?''* '"* "^''^y^f^rUs greai love wherewUh 
 
 fie loved us, ^ven when we were deaiinsins, hath auicken^d 
 
 :^ogetker:^th Chnst.- The merit of ^iJ^l^K 
 
 notconfined to your present condition. It reach««s beyond 
 
 h^r ^ fT"' ^»d secures the final and everlaS 
 happmess of believers in another world. Your present 
 enjoyment is only^a/oretoste and earnest of the full Eon 
 to be enioved at God's nVh* Ka«<j u.,* i.._.- "' " "°" 
 
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 to be enjoye d at God's righ t hand. R„t l.t me entroot toS 
 to pause and consider.Whlther or not y ouKa th J ^^ 
 
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 of those finnera Christ Jeaus came into the world to mve 7 
 Attend to the words of the Hedccmer ;-— 
 
 Iir. **Me that heHeveih on the f^on hath evertasHng life ; 
 and he that betieveth not the Son shall not see life ; but the 
 wrath of God abideth.^*— John iii. 36. Free as in iho offer 
 of salvation, then it ia nianifest that none can bo aavtd but 
 those that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. By faith it is 
 that we are ^^ justified and have peace with God.^^ Great 
 and marvellous was the love of God in sending Hi.s Son to 
 be the Saviour of a lost world, yet that love extendeth not 
 to all; but is restricted to a certain character :— " Whoso* 
 ever beHeveth on the Son "—ho, and he-only, " shall have 
 everlasting life." Every one, thon,who sees the prominent 
 place that faith occupies in the plan of H^uition, must be 
 anxious to obtain it. ♦* For by qracc areye saved through 
 fmth^and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.^' How 
 4hen is this pearl of great price to be procured f Is it by. 
 any inherent energy or effort of^your own 1 No : faith is 
 the gilt ol God. it is not produced by your wisdom, or 
 influenced by the strength of your arm, but like all other 
 good and perfect gifts, it cometh down from above, from the 
 Father of lights. Since, then,>x)u cannot be saved without 
 .i"»/"" ^'*^*^® ^^^^^ '8 "^>' in y<^u>' own power, but is the 
 gift of God : if salvation be not obtained, it is the leading 
 sentiment of the day, not to Iky the blame to man's account 
 but to God's, who did not confer the gift of faith. But 
 would these blind zealots reason thus in other circum- 
 stonces ? Are they not daily receiving bread from the hand 
 
 orGod,whio4i He might withhold if He saw proper? And 
 might He not leave them, it Hd pleased, without a drop of 
 water to cool their tongue? But would they consider 
 themselv^ justified in sitting down idle^-folding their 
 • arms on their bosom, till God would put the bread and water 
 to their lips which the cravings of natiire required ? Were 
 starvation to ensue would they blame God or themseivea? 
 Though their daily bre^d is the gift of God, they must be 
 *l;gent^iir the use of the means God has appointed for 
 ob taining it> And after they ha ve d?^ne all they can, the 
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 fail, and bis fields yrold no mcnt. Is Ciod to bo stvled on 
 unjust Judgr Should Ho once more sool up the Heavens 
 and make ibe earth as brass? Is (iod to be. styled unjust 
 and partial, because He sends a wasting mildew^ver one 
 land, and cuts down the fiMKl of thousands 1 I^od to be 
 called partial or unjust when He visits another portion of 
 the earth, with the fell stroke of the awful plague 1 Or will 
 those inquirers into the secret counsels of the Almighty, 
 say whether God be not as partial in bestowing on them the 
 light of the everlasting Gospel, and withholding it from 
 others, as he is in bestowing the gift of faith on one and not 
 on another? For we ore told most emphatically in 2 
 Thes. iii. 2, that " alt men have niH faith:' Who then shall 
 be saved ? We answer in the words of Christ Jesus. 
 
 _^IV. ^^ All that the Father giveth me shall came unto me. 
 And this is the Fatherh wilLwhich hath sent me, that of alt 
 which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raite 
 it up again at the last rfay."— John^vi. 37-39. Christ here 
 signifies that all that were given unto him by His Father in 
 the eternal covenant of redemption should come unto Him. 
 The work is the work of the Holy Spirit, the third Person 
 of the glorious Trinity. His it is to make men partakers 
 of the redemption purchased by Chrisl. In the admirable 
 words of our Shorter Catechism^ "He convinces us of our 
 sin and misery, enlightens our minds in the knowledge of 
 Christ, renews our wills, and persuades and enables us to 
 embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the Gospel." 
 And believing on the Son we are pardoned, sanctified and 
 saved. Thus were the eyes of the blind men opened j and 
 thus was the deaf and dumb spirit cast out of the child - 
 that was brought unto Christ by his distressed father. Thus 
 was Paul converted, and the awakened jailor at Philippe 
 saved. And now mv friends you will here perceive the 
 extent of the Father's love. Had God merely given ftiU 
 liberty for man to come unto Him and be saved : yea had 
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 come unto Him iCovervml'" k"" '"'"''' «»«' h-vo 
 his God, and prefe^ the '^rii^i^Jr^^^^^^ 
 glorious liberty of tho S-!L. ri!,"T "C®**"" «<> the 
 determined to have sons in °^u^<^' »"» God was 
 was resolved to d^wTanvit-^f*" .''°™ °°*° W™. h" 
 »ise have come Th^Chrfafr*''" ""^^ r"" "ot other- 
 . ■ thought of it refresl^ed hfs sou wShe'h''l.''rr.'-"''' *« 
 rebellion of men. When he «.^H fi„5 ' ^'''''''/''* P«''''«'^ 
 men of the wwld, he mh-ed iZl ^ no comfort fromthe • 
 counsels for a moment's ioi-^^^ ?''"?'" "^ '''''P»*ert 
 •facing We, he bS hrsoul" '"• "■" '''P* ^'" *at 
 
 sureof, and he saw iherii ill • .!;i 1" 7hese he was 
 M^v- the Father's imas" iu them ^^ "' ^^^ ""^"^ »''«'" he 
 
 bleeding brow reeling on tetS^r^; ^ ^^1^^^^^^ 
 of righteousness before the 'rhw.„! n?' J he Preacher 
 much tried son of Amittm * »n5 .k l^^ ""^^^ ^"^ the 
 Oz-Abrahani andlh" fSthfo? „1 «>r«^y "ffhcted man of 
 fa the hol/pIace-F^ul he ' ^' w"h Isaac and Jacob, 
 named a »4k— John nnH I ^ood^soldier, and Peter sur- 
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 that he could turn frotah^^riT' "l!^, "'« not possible -■ 
 a» the gift of his pXr i^,^4 i*^''"'" "W™ them 
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 the adoption of children by Jesm Christ tohimelf accofding 
 
 to the good pleas 
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 [re of his will. To the praise of the glory 
 Hn he hath made us accepted in the Beloved. 
 t . - - . — i^^S «'^<> ««^c have obtained an inheritance, 
 being predestinatjl fording to the purpose of Him whi 
 worketh all thingslafler the counsel of his own will ;'» Ghrist 
 is^lothed with al authotity and power to give^^'e/ema/ 
 itfe to €W many ks God hath given him;'' (J<)hri xvii. 2.) 
 Having this powe^ given unto him, it is impossible that any 
 can perish, or be h.;>/tfcAerf ou/ o/AfAAan</»." Earth and 
 hell may rage, ev I spirits in the body and out of the bWy 
 may corabme togckher, and assail with their fiery <fctsvl)ut 
 sooner shairthe; heavens pass away, and the everlastinff 
 hills be torn from their deep foundations, than a siri^W^oiS 
 g^n to Christ a^3 the fruit of his purchase, cin be lost 
 When the season bf conversion comes, the corruptions of 
 nature can no lojger hold out against that spiritual and 
 JJivine power which is able to bc-nd the most stubborn will. 
 1 he natural bhndr ess of the understanding must yield to the 
 heavenly ilhiminai ion, and the affections of the heart be 
 melmed to the sp ritual love ot! Divine things. And now 
 your own conscierce will toll you whether or not y^u be 
 brought into that t tats called ''eternal life,'' ''forasmavu 
 as are ordained imtjeirnai life shall believe. (Acts xiii. 48 j 
 How necessary th|n the advice of the Apostle :-. 
 
 V. ^^Examirieybursehes whether ye be in the faith, mote 
 your own selves,*'^^ Cor. xni. 5.) The duty of Self, 
 examination IS, of kll others, perhaps, the mostTnomentous 
 and important. Sbnding, as you are, on the brink of an 
 awful and uaseen ^orld, and waiting the pleasure of the 
 Almighty, when h^ shall see lit to remove you hence, it 
 becomes you earnestly to inquire <' wherewith shall I come 
 More the Lord aMbow myself before the most High God?'' 
 Have I believed c^n the name of Christ, and am I in a 
 saying union with him ? This last question you will be 
 •bio to answer, ndt by ascending up into heaven, and — 
 
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Mrotinizing the Divine decrees, but by aescendincr ^^ 
 
 own spiritual vilencss and «.,?t „h!.k ' ' '""* °^ ^""^ 
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 naturalstate, seeking „fe.y..,^^^^ 
 
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