"Accept of my thanks, blessed Jesus; that through thy meritorious
life and death, I have an interest in the great whole. Accept of my
thanks, blessed Spirit, for thus taking the things of Christ and
showing them unto me. And accept of my thanks, Father of mercies, for
the gift of thy Son, and all these blessings in him.

"'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in
Christ Jesus.' Amen."

"GREENWICH, Sabbath.

"Heard Dr. Milledoler preach in the state prison to the convicts,
from Luke 19:10: 'For the Son of man is come to seek and save that
which was lost.' He addressed them as fellow-sinners, all being by
nature lost and dependent on the same means for recovery.

"True, my heart accords. O Lord, thou knowest I stand in my own
estimation a sinner, the chief of sinners. These have added to their
sin against thee, breach against men, and are suffering the penalty.

"My sins have been chiefly, though far from exclusively, against
God, and with many aggravations. That I was born in a Christian land,
of pious parents, who gave me religious instructions; brought up under
faithful, lively ministers, and in religious society; exposed to few
temptations but what arose from the corruptions of my own heart, are
aggravations, which, perhaps, many are mourning over, as heightening
the sin of unbelief in their unregenerated state. But the
aggravations--the painful remembrance of which mars my comfort and
covers me with shame and confusion even now, though I know that God is
pacified with me--are as far above these as the heavens are above the
earth. For in that Christian land, under those Christian parents and
faithful pastors, while yet young and tender, I was enlightened,
tasted of the heavenly gift, was made a partaker of the Holy Ghost,
tasted of the good word of God and the power of the world to come. I
was taken from the fearful pit and miry clay; my feet set upon the
rock, and a new song put into my mouth, even to the amount of, O
death, where is thy sting?--of redeeming love, pardoning grace, new
covenant mercy, I had 'joy and peace in believing,' But forgetting my
natural character, the extreme volatility of my spirits, my taste for
gayety; forgetting the danger of smothering the heavenly spark by
indulging to the utmost bound of lawful pleasure; forgetting my
con