mind varies the profpect, and involves me in a fad uncertainty of my eternal doom. On one hand, beckoning angels fmile upon me, while on the other, infernal furies ftand prepared to receive my fleet. ing foul. I dare not hope, nor will the Reverend divine fuffer me to defpair. He comforts me, on the ground of faith, with promifes in holy writ, which, to my fhame, I was unacquainted with before; but now I feel them as balm to my tormented confcience.

I must now bid you a final adieu. And, O my dear fifter, the last warning I give you is this, that you forfake the vanities and pleaf. ures of the world, and make your peace with God; and may my death, which you will foon hear of, give it that weight, which I wish and pray for. You are the laft object of my earthly cares; I have now done with all below, fhall retire into myself, and devote the few moments allowed me to that penitence, which alone can prepare me for a glorious immortali ty.I die, your affectionate fifter.

CONTRITIO.

MESS'RS. EDITORS,

IF you think the following worthy a place in your Magazine pleafe to infert it.

SHAPHAN.

O criminal neglect! How mani. fold have been the mercies of God! How many fins have I added to my former offences! Bafe ingratitude! Surely I live to fhow forth the long-fuffering of God. Wounding reflection; that I cannot rem edy paft neglects of duty, nor recall mifpent time. I am now one year nigher the moment appointed in the calander of time for my dif folution-one year nigher deat, that unknown fomething-one year nigher a new and untried ftate of existence-one year nigher the moment in which my fate will be fettled forever-one year nighet the judgment day, when the uni verfe will know what I have been, what I have done, what I am and what I fhall forever be. Solema thoughts! Let them ever dwell upon my mind and increase my watchfulnefs, prayerfulness and obedience.

I now enter upon another year; perhaps the last year of my life. It may carry me to the grave and ufher my foul into eternity. Then gird up thy loins. O my foul! Be fober and watch unto the end. Let not the prefent be numbered amongst thy mifpent years. What new fcenes will open is now unknown. The wheel of Providence

is continually turning. Whether it raife thee up or cart thee down is perfectly uncertain. It is then thy wildom to prepare for adverfity. To this thou art a ftranger. Birth-day Reflections. But adverfity will come, if thou NE year more of my mortal haft a fhare in the falvation of life is gone. How rapidly Chrift. Put on patience and fubhas it haftened away! How ma- miffion, and guard against repining ny precious hours have paffed un- and defpondency. If thy fun fhall improved! How little has been continue to fhine be not elated and done for God, who has lengthen- forget not thy God. Remember ed out my life and has been the thy dependence and be humble. health of my countenance! How Improve all the events of Provilittle has been done for my fellow-dence for a greater acquaintance men! And how little for my foul ! with thy Maker and thy felf. Per

form the duties of the day and the, been a confiderable attention and hour, in the day and the hour and a goodly number hopefully convetthy work will always be done. Let Let ted in the old parifh of Rawley, this year be thus begun and life Mafs. I have lately heard that thus finished, and thou fhalt hear there is a very uncommon attention this eulogium pronounced upon to religion in Newbury-Port. Bethyfelf; Well done good and faith- fides crowded and folemn affem ful fervant, enter thou into the joy blies on the Sabbath, there are freof thy Lord. quent lectures and conferences on other days of the week; numbers under conviction, and fome in a charitable judgment brought out of darknels into God's marvellous light."

Religious Intelligence. Extract of a letter to one of the Editors; dated Orford, State of New Hampshire, April 2d, 1801.

"God has seen fit to arrest the attention of a number in this town, and we are indulging the pleafing hope of a ftill greater harveft. The religious attention to the caftward, in this ftate, during the paft year, has been confiderable. I fately faw a letter, from a gentleman who preaches in the vicinity where this revival has taken place, ftating that 368 perfons had been added to the church in a few towns in that neighborhood. I am alfo informed there is a good work begun at Newbury Port. May the Lord build up Jerufalem !"

Extract of a letter from Francif. torun, New Hampshire, dated March 4, 1801.

"Pieces from the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine are read fre quently in a conference meeting in this town with apparent good effect. Religion is at a low ebb amongst us, but more attended to, within a year past, than ufual. There has lately been a religious revival in the north parish in Amherft, N. H. the effects of which I hope will be lafting. Upwardsa of forty, in about fix months, made a public profeffion of their faith in a crucified Redeemer. There has

ORDINATION.

On Wednesday April 8th the Rev. Ephraim Treadwell Woodruff was ordained to the work of the gofpel miniftry in the Society of North Coventry. The Rev. Fefeph Washburn of Farmington made the introductory prayer; the Rev. Hezekiah N. Woodruff of Stonington, brother of the Paftor elect, preached from 2 Timothy 1. 7. The Rev. George Colton of Bolton made the confecrating prayer; the Rev. Nathan Williams D. D. of Tolland gave the charge; the Rev. Charles Backus of Somers gave the right hand of fellowfhip; and the Rev. Nathan PerLins of Weft-Hartford made the concluding prayer.-

3. With lofty wing they foar on high,
And ling their anthem in the sky,
Or fit on boughs and charmcach wood,
With the high praises of their God.

4. But man, the nobleft work of God,
Scarce e'er proclaims his name abroad;
Or rarely fings that wondrous love,
Which points our hopes to joys above.
5. Ronfe then, dull man, from bonds
of floth,

And fing thy bleffed Saviour's worth:
Let thy melodious powers in concert
fing,

The God of nature and the God of
Spring.

Thy fmile exalts the humble foul,
While they neglect to seek thy fact
And makes the wounded spirit whoi
How matchlefs is thypard'ning grac: {

4. When we tranfgrefs'd thy firk com
mand,

Stern juffice rais'd its awful band

To feal us heirs of endless pain! But Jefus, our incarnate God, Propos'd the ranfom of his blood, And calm'd the heavenly wrath again.

5. Through all thy works thy glorie. thine,

Creation fpeaks thy hand divine,

And loud proclaims its maker God;
Redemption opes a nobler feene!
Offended juftice fmiles ferene !
While mercy fpreads her armı
abroad.

6. Here all thy attributes combine,
And with celeftial glory fhine,

While peace and pardon are re-
veal'd;
Now all the vile apòstate race,
Salvation freely may embrace,

For Jefus has the pardon feal'd.
7. Let all below confpire to raise
A univerfal fong of praife,

For pardoning grace and dying love. Accept, great God, our feeble ftrains, We would rejoice that Jefus reigns, And join the fong of faints above.

To BEREAN.

THE Editors acknowledge the receipt of a second letter from BEREAN which they decline publifbing. They were not blind to his real object in bis firft letter, which was to fatirize that vital religion which alone prepares men for heaven. It is beyond the power of BEREAN's genius to fatirize fo infidiously, as not to be detected. In his first letter, in attempting to perform a task to which he was not competent, he expreffed important truths which the Editors thought proper to give to the public. Thinking that the bait had taken, he has, in his fecond letter, thrown off the mask, and evidenced the deep depravity of his heart, and the perverfion of his moral tafte. They leave him to reflect, that the first attempt of his impiety bath been overruled for the good of the caufe which he wishes to deflroy.

VIII.

NUMBER VII.

they that have done good unto the refurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the refurrection of damnation."

On the day appointed for the ROM the doctrine revelation of the righteous judgcontained in the gof- ment of God, "He will render pel, refpecting Christ's fecond com- to every man according to his deeds: ing-the end of the world-the to them who, by patient continurefurrection of the dead-the gen- ance in well-doing, feek for glory, eral judgment-and the eternal and honor, and immortality, eterftate, its fuitablenefs and tenden-nal life: but unto them that are cy to promote true religion may contentious, and do not obey the clearly appear. truth but obey unrighteoufnefs, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguifh, upon every foul of man that doeth evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile-in the day when God fhall judge the fecrets of men by Jefus Chrift, according to the gospel." For the Lord, when he comes, " will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifeft the counfels of the hearts."

According to the doctrine delivered on these heads, by Chrift and his apostles, "In the end of the world, the Son of man fhall fend forth his angels, and they fhall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them who do iniquity, and fhall caft them into a furnace of fire; there fhall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then fhall the righteous fhine forth as the fun in the kingdom of their Father. The Son of man fhall come in the glory of his Father, with all his angels; and then he fhall reward every man according to his works. All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and fhall come forth; VOL. I. No. 12.

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The judgment will be univerfal, decifive and final. The Lord Je fus Chrift fhall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom. He fhall come with clouds; and every eye fhall fee him. He shall come in his glory, attended with all the holy angels, and fit Hhh

upon the throne of his glory. All nations fhall be gathered before him, and placed, the righteous on his right hand, but the wicked on his left. Then, with the authority and power of the great king and fupreme judge, he fhall fay to the former, "Come ye blefed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."-But to the latter, with the fame authority and irrefiftible energy, he fhall fay, "De-wicked, impenitent and ungodly, part from me, ye curfed, into ever. lafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And these fhall go away into everlafting punish-But to the godly, on the other ment: but the righteous into life eternal."

and great, fhall stand before God. The books fhall be opened, and the dead shall be judged out of thefe things which are written in the books, according to their works. The fea fhall give up the dead which were in it; and death and hell fhall deliver up the dead which were in them. And every one who is not found written in the book of life, fhall be caft into the lake of fire. Yea, all the finally

fhall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimftone; which is the fecond death.

hand--to the faithful and obedient, Chrift's fecond coming, and its atThe time, the manner, and the tendants and confequences, are reeffects and confequences of Chrift's prefented as joyous, happy and fecond coming, are reprefented as glorious, beyond the powers of being to the wicked, awful and language to defcribe, or of the diftreffing, beyond all human con-human mind, in its prefent ftate, ception. To them, his coming to conceive. When Chrift, who will be fudden, unexpected, and is their life, fhall appear, they alwith dreadful furprife and ruin, like fo fall appear with him in glory. that of a thief in the night. "For They fhall fee him as he is, and when they fhall fay, peace and be like him. He shall change fafety, then fudden deftruction even their vile body, and fashion cometh upon them, as travail upon it like unto his own glorious body. a woman with child; and they Their bodies, when raifed at his hall not efcape. The Lord Jefus coming, fhall be fpiritual, incorfhall be revealed from heaven with ruptible, glorious, and immortal; his mighty angels, in flaming fire, and the bodies of thofe who hall taking vengeance on them that be then living on the earth, shall be know not God, and that obey not inftantaneoufly changed, and renthe gofpel: who fhall be punifhed dered in like manner fpiritual and with everlasting deftruction from immortal. The Lord himselfshall the prefence of the Lord, and defcend from heaven with a fhout, from the glory of his power.-The with the voice of the archangel, heavens fhall pass away with a and with the trump of God; and great noife, and the elements fhall the dead in Chrift shall rife. Then melt with fervent heat; the earth they who are alive and remain, alfo, and the works that are there- fhall be caught up together with in fhall be burnt up." Even their them in the clouds, to meet the bodies, though dead and buried, Lord in the air and fo fhall they or immerfed in the ocean, ever fo ever be with the Lord. With many ages, fhall appear with their him they fhall dwell forever in the feuls before the omnifcient and heavenly city, the magnificence, zighteous Judge. The dead, fmall fplendor and beauty, happiness,