came to him on some necessary business, he said,

Regard the sabbath for the good of your precious soul. Remember, that will live after your body is dead, that will live for ever." He now desired that all his dear friends might see him; "the poor,' said he, "as well as the rich, let there be no distinction." Accordingly, many came, and many more, doubtless, would have come to see him, had they known that his eyes would so soon be closed in death. To one he said, "I have lived with you, and loved you, and now I am come to die with you." To another, who had made the obvious remark, that he appeared extremely weak, he replied, "But what a blessed thing to know, that when flesh and heart fail, God will be the strength of our hearts, and our portion for ever." To a young person of his flock, he said, in the most emphatic manner, "It is the truth, love the truth, live by the truth." A short time before he expired, summoning up all his little remaining strength, he expressed himself in the following words to his friends present: "In Christ-He is the only refuge for a poor sinner. That plan of salvation which secures the honour of God, and the eternal happiness of the sinner, is the glory of the Gospel. I am a sinner saved by grace. We deserve damnation; but Christ has suffered and died for us. Excuse," he added,

my plainness, I am going, and I speak as one that must give account. I thank you for all your kind favours. The mercy of the Lord be with you all.” These were nearly the last intelligible words which he spoke. A Christian friend coming into the room, he pronounced his name, and attempted to address him; but the only words which were heard, were, "-Right-Well.' The last word he uttered was -"Rejoice."

Such, says Dr. Winter, in the close of his funeral sermon, was the happy, rejoicing death of one of the best men that ever lived. He was an eminently serious Christian, a steady friend, a scribe well instructed in the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; firm in his own views, but candid to those who conscientiously differed from him; dependent on divine grace in a Redeemer, but actively persevering in that holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

The doctrines which exalt the person and work of the Saviour which lay man low in the dust, as a depraved and, in himself, a wretched creature-which point out his salvation from its origin to its consummation, to be all of grace, free, sovereign grace, and which bear the most friendly aspect on universal holiness of heart and life, were the doctrines which he taught clearly and fully. He knew his awful responsibility at the great tribunal, and watched for souls as one who must give account. Whosoever might be displeased or offended, it was his desire in public to keep back no part of the counsel of God: and, in private, his whole behaviour was as far removed from flattery on the one hand, as from unkind severity on the other.

The meekness and the gentleness of Christ were peculiarly conspicuous in the whole of his ministry and of his conduct. He was one of the most truly affectionate ministers with whom the church of God has been favoured: and his kindness was displayed to the afflicted-to the poor-the ignorant, and the young. He entered with a minuteness, which was almost peculiar to himself, into the concerns of those whom he wished to serve.

In the neighbourhood where he lived and died,

he was universally beloved by members of the established church, and by every denomination of dissenters. His worth was highly estimated by those in the world, as well as by those who profess religion. His memory is embalmed in the hearts of many. He walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

WE do not hold ourselves answerable for the truth

of every thing advanced in the following Essay. We insert it, because it gives a most triumphant answer to many of the novel objections, urged by modern Infidelity; and we hope that to many of our readers, it will afford information both new and interesting.

Geological facts, corroborative of the Mosaic account of the Deluge, with an Inquiry into the Origin, Progress, and still permanent Consequences of that Catastrophe, by RICHARD KIRWAN, Esq. L. L. D. F. R. S. and M. R. I. A.

1st. ACCORDING to Don Ulloa, shells were

found on a mountain in Peru, at the height of 14,220 feet. 2 Buff. Epoque, 268. Now I have already shown, (in a former Essay,) that no mountains higher than 8,500 feet were formed since the creation of fish; or, in other words, that fish did not exist until the original ocean had subsided to the height of 8,500 feet above its present level: therefore, the shells found at more elevated stations,

Now

were left there by a subsequent inundation. an inundation that reached such heights could not be partial, but must have extended over the whole globe.

2dly. The bones of elephants and rhinoceri, and even the entire carcass of a rhinoceros, have been found in the lower parts of Siberia. As these animals could not live in so cold a country, they must have been brought thither by an inundation from a warmer and very distant climate, betwixt which and Siberia mountains of 900 feet high intervene. It may be replied, that Siberia, as we have already shown, was not originally as cold as it is at present: which is true; for probably its original heat was the same as that of many islands in the same latitude at this day; but still it was too cold for elephants and rhinoceri; and between the climates which they then inhabited, and the places they are now found in, too many mountains intercede, to suppose them brought thither by any other means than that of a general inundation. Besides, Siberia must have attained its present temperature, at the time those animals were transported, else they must have all long ago putrified.

3dly. Shells, known to belong to shores under climates very distant from each other, are, in sundry places, found mixed promiscuously with each other. One sort of them, therefore, must have been transported by an inundation: the promiscuous mixture can be accounted for on no other supposition.

These appear to me the most unequivocal geological proofs of a general deluge. To other facts generally adduced to prove it, another origin may be ascribed thus, the bones of elephants, found in Italy, France, Germany, and England, might be the remains of some brought to Italy by Pyrrhus, or the

Carthaginians, or of those employed by the Roinans themselves some are said to have been brought to England by Claudius, 4 Phil. Trans. 2d Part, p. 242. When these bones, however, are accompanied with marine remains, their origin is no longer ainbiguous. Thus also the bones and teeth of whales, found near Maestricht, are not decisively of diluvian origin, as whales have often been brought down as low as lat. 48° 34. Roz. 291. Nay, sometimes they strike on Italy, 1 Targioni Tozzetti, 386.

Yet to explain the least ambiguous of these phenomena, without having recourse to an universal deluge, various hypotheses have been formed.

Some have imagined that the axis of the earth was originally parallel to that of the ecliptic, which would produce a perpetual spring in every latitude, and consequently that elephants might exist in all of them. But the ablest astronomers having demonstrated the impossibility of such a parallelism, it is unnecessary to examine its consequences; it only deserves notice that the obliquity of the equator is rather diminishing than increasing. See Lalande in 44. Roz. 212. Besides, why are these bones accompanied with marine remains?

Others, from the nutation of the earth's axis, have supposed that its poles are continually shifting, and consequently, that they might have been originally where the equator now is, and the equator where the poles now are; thus, Siberia might have, in its turn, been under the equator. But, as the nutation of the earth's axis is retrogressive every nine years, and never exceeds ten degrees, this hypothesis is equally rejected by astronomers. 44 Roz. 210. 2 Bergum. Erde Kugel. 305. The pyramids of Egypt demonstrate that the poles have remained unaltered for three thousand years.