I close this Sermon with an excellent quotation from Mr. Huntington’s “Spiritual Sea Voyage;” which book has often entertained me.
“Free grace and her crew all arrived at last,
No sailor was miss’d, when the muster was past;
By thousands and millions the angels appear’d,
And welcomed us with the anthems we heard.
We sung of Redemption, in Jesus the Lord—
Of sovereign Love, and how we were restor’d—
The dangers we met, and the helps that appear’d—
Of infinite Wisdom, by which we were steer’d.
Delightful the Union, and great was the throng,
The melody charming, delightful the song:
An order came forth for ascending the throne,
And when we were seated the judgment came on.”
Thus, christian reader, I have shewn my opinion of the Names of the Patriarchs. I have not written all I wished, lest it should swell this Sermon to a volume. I have noticed some of the Lord’s dealings with my own soul—every minister ought to give some account of a Work of Grace upon his own heart; I have not made myself all in all, rather nothing at all; I only aimed at the exaltation of that grace it is God’s delight to display. I have chosen this method of sending it into the world, because, as I went over these Names, various parts of my own experience appeared so clear I could not forbear mentioning them, to the honour of God. I originally intended to publish an Account of the Dealings of the Lord with me, in a Series of Letters, when I could have been more explicit and regular in my Narrative; but as I intend those Letters, only for a few thoughts on some interesting passages of Scripture, I have made mention of the above in this Sermon; this will no doubt procure me much more opposition from friend and foe; however, what I have written is the truth; to the God of all truth I commit it, hoping it will be blessed to the friends of truth—remembering divine Love, or Charity, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
FINIS.
The Author wishes to inform his friends, that, he has some remaining Copies left (Price 1s.) of the SERMON entitled,
Spiritual Victories, or the Sword of the Lord & of Gideon.
Likewise, shortly will be published, a SERMON,
On the Difference the Lord has put between the Egyptians and the Israelites.—From Exodus xi, 7.
The Reader will please to observe the following Errata.
Title Page. Instead of thine Eye; read thine Age. And in the last line of Page 7 (after Enoch) introduce,