a pity he did not go on to the
other questions. The shortness of Mr. Binning's life has deprived us of a
complete course of useful catechetical discourses. This book was so
greatly esteemed in this country, that before the year 1718, there had
been no less than five impressions cast off the press,(124) and all these
being sold off, a sixth was made in the said year. As they were much
valued at home, so they were highly prized abroad, and as an evidence of
this, I find that Mr. James Coleman, minister at Sluys in Flanders,
translated them into the Dutch language.(125)

In the year 1670, another posthumous work was printed; it is entitled,
"The Sinner's Sanctuary, being forty Sermons upon the Eighth chapter of
the Epistle to the Romans, from the first verse down to the sixteenth."
The Publishers in their preface acquaint us, that they were encouraged to
print it because the former treatise was universally received by the
intelligent and judicious in the principles of the Christian faith. In
this book, as in all his other writings, the readers will perceive a pure
stream of piety and learning running through the whole, and a very
peculiar turn of thought, that exceeds the common rate of writers on this
choice part of the Holy Scriptures. Dr. Horton, Dr. Manton, and others,
have printed a great number of useful practical discourses, but so far as
he goes, he is not exceeded by any of them.

A third treatise was printed at Edinburgh, in the year 1671. The title of
it is, "Fellowship with God, being twenty eight Sermons on the First
Epistle of John, Chap. 1st, and Chap. 2d, Verses 1, 2, 3." In this book,
we have the true ground and foundation of attaining the spiritual way of
entertaining fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blessed
condition of such as attain to it, most succinctly and distinctly
explained. This book was revised and published by one A. S. who, in his
preface to the reader, styles himself, his servant in the gospel of our
dearest Lord and Saviour. I need give no other commendation of it, than
that summary eulogium which that minister has left us. "In a word, (says
he,) here are to be found, convictions for atheists, piercing rebukes to
the profane, clear instructions to the ignorant, milk to the babes in
Christ, strong meat for the strong, strength to the weak, quickening and
reviving for such as faint in the way, restoratives for such as are in a
decay, reclamations and loud oyesses after backsli