text; even then I have had the most blessed seasons, and at the close of my sermons could only fall on my knees, adoring and praising a long-suffering and a faithful God. On this subject I need not enlarge, as those who are in the work of the ministry well know what it is to pass through many painful seasons, and how graciously the Lord appears for them. Sometimes the work of God has been so very low in my mind, that I could scarcely trace a vestige of it; this has sunk my heart, till the Lord has appeared again, and renewed the work, led my mind out again to the Saviour, melted me with his love, and favored me with his more sensible presence. Hence the prophet prayed—“Oh, Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years.” Pious Ezra calls it “a little reviving in our bondage;” and David prays, “Wilt thou not revive us again?” This is what the apostle calls the renewing of the Holy Ghost. The work is perfect in all its parts, when first began, but it must be brought forth into act and exercise; it must be seen and known, God the Holy Spirit must maintain it, and keep it up; and this is done by his secret influence. “I will water them every moment, and keep them night and day.” How this is done I know not; but it is our mercy it is so, and will be perfected, while a dear Redeemer pleads in heaven.—“I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” Yours, J. C. LETTER VI. “The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.” To — It is our mercy, the Holy Spirit, in the hearts of God’s children, is given to them to _abide_ with them. Never will _he_ leave his own to the power of sin or to satan. The Psalmist was blest with this confidence when he said—“The Lord will perfect that which concerned me; forsake not the work of thy hands; thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever.” This is explained by the apostle being confident of this very thing, that _he_ who hath begun the good work will perform it, until the day of Jesus Christ; and hence Solomon says—“I know that what God doeth is for ever, nothing shall be taken from it, or added to it; and he doeth it that men should fear before him.” This work, in the first operation, is _regeneration_, and its continuance is _sanctification_; its effect is _conversion_, and its renewing, after dead and dark seasons, is a _revival_. Many such I have experienced; which, to relate, would swell this memoir to a vast volume. There is one particular circumstance, among many, which I must here relate, although you are already in possession of the account in my little work, “The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor:”—