11. But let us attend to the reafon of the thing. Why cannot the Almighty fanctify the foul while it is in the body? Cannot he fanctify you while you are in this house, as well as in the open air? Can the walls of brick or ftone hinder him? No more can thefe walls of 'flefh and blood, hinder him a moment from fanctifying you throughout. He can just as eafily fave you from all fin in the body as out of the body.

"But has he promised, thus to fave us from fin, while we are in the body? Undoubtedly he has: for a promise is implied in every commandment of God: confequently in that, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind. For this and every other commandment is given, not to the dead, but to the living. It is expreffed in the words above recited, That we should walk in holiness before him all the days of our life.

I have dwelt the longer on this, because it is the grand argument of those which oppose Salvation from fin: and alfo because it has not been fo frequently and fo fully answered: whereas the arguments taken from fcripture, have been anfwered a hundred times over.

[To be concluded in our next.]

An Account of Mr. WILLIAM M'CORNOCK, in a Letter to the Rev. John Wesley.

[Concluded from page 80.]

HE next day, being the 23d of October, I thought of

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going to Donegal, to warn my neighbours to flee from the wrath to come; but my friends in Clones would not let me go till the 25th. I then fet off, and called at a gentleman's house near Clones, and flayed there till the next morning. In the night there was card-playing in the houfe; and I, being weary of fuch company, went out to the fide of an orchard

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to pray. Inftantly I heard a rushing as if robbers were fhaking the trees. Immediately after, there was a great noise at my fide, as if a log of timber was thrown into a pool of water. On examining, I found there was no pool near me. I then went to prayer, knowing that the Lord was on my fide. From thence I went the next day to Pettigoe, and called at a friend's house, when a fervant girl, mocked me when I came to it. While I prayed with the family fhe was convinced of fin, and foon after converted to God.

From thence I went to my father's houfe, when the people of the neighbourhood hardly knew me; as I was wafted almost to a skeleton, through grief of foul. The second night after I got home, I told my mother, and a young man. (a coufin of mine,) what the Lord had done for me; and exhorted them to feek the Lord, who was no refpecter of perfons. They both were deeply convinced of the evil of their ways, and wept exceedingly. The young man went away weeping. When he got home, he put the people into confufion, by crying to God for mercy. He continued in great diftrefs about fix or feven months; and refrained from every thing he thought was finful, and betook himself to fafting, prayer, and reading the Bible. But his father took the Bible from him, and knocked him down with a club when he found him praying; but all to no effect. At laft he got a popish Priest to him, in order to cure him, (for he fuppofed he was bewitched by me.) The Prieft directed him to go to a Holy-Well, and perform a Station there, and from thence to Lough Derig, a place remarkable for performing Stations. He did fo; and when he came home he could ridicule the ways of God, curfe and fwear, and get drunk, as fast as ever!

A few days after I went to my father's houfe, he fent for an old Friar to cure me; thinking I was bewitched; but the Friar did not come to me. It was the common report through the country that I was mad; feeing I would not get drunk,

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and go on in folly like the reft of his neighbours. For fome time they did not know what fect I belonged to; fome thought I was a Quaker, others that I was of fome other fect, until a man came to the town, who was a Methodist, and sent for me then they found out what I was.

As there were none I knew of, who were truly acquainted with God, for thirty miles on one fide, and nine or ten on the other, I was like a fparrow on the houfe-top, without any to converse with; fo that my foul was preffed down with grief.

When my father perceived fuch a change in my conduct, it grieved him much; for I could not give him and his guest a cheerful countenance, while I faw them crucifying the Lord who bought them with his blood.

As my father kept a public-houfe, I had many temptations to drunkenness. But though even my father himself, and many of my relations, have often endeavoured to entice me, it was to no purpose; for the Lord fill gave me the victory. Yet while I lived there I was almoft continually difireffed, on beholding fuch fcenes of wickednefs from day to day: and I wonder how I ftood it for four or five years! Indeed on the Sabbath I frequently left home early, and in general did not return till night.

One Sabbath a travelling-man afked me to put his burthen on his back. I did fo. But I found much condemnation for it and thought I could never again reprove a perfon for fin, after what I had done my felf. But mentioning it to a friend, fhe was inftrumental in reftoring me to my former comfort, before I returned home.

When I got there, though my ftudy was to please my father in all things lawful, yet, if I went to worship God according to my confcience, all my labour was in vain. My relations advised him not to give me any thing, which he often threatened. One time he promised me a freehold if I would quit the Methodists. On afking one whom I looked VOL. VIII.

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upon as a Chriftian friend what I should do; he faid, flick close to your father: it is not eafy to get fuch a fettlement. But as I was going away the word of the Lord came unto me faying, Escape for thy life! Stay not, left thou be confumed! On which, I determined to follow God at all events.

Several times my father difcharged me from his house; on which I have gone away, and stayed till I grew hoarfe with preaching. When I returned, I frequently reproved those who tranfgreffed the law of God: which drove many of them away. Sometimes I would pray with them; and as I had an opportunity every day, I faid fomething for God.

One night, a ftranger who was gone to bed, hearing me at prayer, came down, and was convinced of fin that night. Two or three years after, I met with him about forty miles from that place, and found him rejoicing in the favour of God. Soon after I heard that he died happy.

At another time, when I came home there was a Poet repeating fome of his vain fongs and poems; and curfing most horribly. I asked him if he was going to form the gates of hell, and to pull damnation down upon his head directly? As I spoke in a very harsh tone, he seemed as if he had been thunderftruck, while the tears flowed from his eyes. When I ceased speaking, he defired me to speak on; and said he heard the Minifters of the established Church, the Diffenters and Methodists; but none ever touched his heart before. He also faid, he believed the Lord had sent me to turn him from the evil of his ways. He then went to bed very serious, and feemingly broken hearted. But what became of him af terwards, I cannot tell.

I met with another one time, and reproved him. He alfo was melted into tears, and faid he would with me wherever

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I went; but as I was travelling to a ftrange country, and knew

not where to lay my head, I was obliged to leave him. This

man was a Papist.

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As I was travelling from Newtown-Stewart to Brockfborrow, I ftopt at a place called the Mountain-top, where there was to be a Watch-night that night. I began to preach about feven o'clock in the evening; and when I had continued about three quarters of an hour, I was obliged to defift; the cries of the people being fo great. They continued weeping and calling upon God till about five in the morning. Then I finished my difcourfe, and they parted a little before fun rifing. There were fome convinced of fin that night, and I think, three or four converted.

[To be continued.]

A Short Account of Mrs. MARTHA ROGERS.

Written by Mr. J. Rogers.

[Continued from page 85.]

ANUARY 14. A part of the morning she was hardly able

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to speak at all; but her mind feemed quite compofed, and a heavenly sweetness appeared in her countenance. Mr. R. and I prayed with her, and had much liberty; and about an hour after, being feated by her on each fide the bed, the burst fuddenly into tears. On being asked the caufe, fhe faid, "O! it is happiness that makes me weep! I am thinking of Jesus, and how his name charms all the heavenly hoft. O he is a precious Saviour, (here he wept again with overflowing joy) I have many relations in heaven, who were near and dear to me: a father, a mother, and fifters, and brothers, and many whom I loved tenderly. But they are all nothing when I think of Jefus! whom I fhall foon fee and praise better than I can do now. Angels will be bleffed companions above; but O they are nothing! I can only think of Jefus! My fweet Saviour! I do love thee! Where is that

• What follows is a continuation of Mifs Roe's account.