forsaken by parents and friends, if report be true; and according to my name I was left in a Church, as it is usual to name Foundlings where they are found. This was really the case with my brother, Moses, who was found in the bulrushes by Pharoah’s daughter, and she called him Moses, (_drawn out of the water_) because she took him out of the water. Yes, my parents, whoever they were, forsook me in infancy, and left me, probably, to perish! Left on the world’s bleak waste, forlorn, In sin conceiv’d, to sorrow born; No guide the devious maze to tread, Above no friendly shelter spread. But, When parents, deaf to nature’s voice, Their helpless charge forsook; Then, nature’s God, who heard my cries, Compassion on me took. Thus I can testify to the truth of the Prophet, _In thee the fatherless findeth mercy_; for _when my father and my mother forsook me_, _then the Lord took me up_, and gave me the name he had appointed me from eternity.—This is our mercy—adopted into his family as his Sons and his Daughters, he has given a name, _Ye shall be called the children of God_—and to be favored with the witness of our adoption in the soul, is an unspeakable blessing indeed; every sweet view of this privilege is calculated to warm the heart, animate the mind, fill it with holy fervour, inflame the affection, and fill it with burning zeal. This is included in the 12th Name, HAM, which signifies _Warmth_ or _Heat_. This, in one sense, distinguishes the mere nominal professor and the real professor; one may have some light, be in the judgment clear, and like a frosty night, clear, but very cold; but God has promised to his children these two should go together—_a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning_. When we are favored with peculiar seasons of holy familiarity with God our covenant Father, when divine love is shed abroad, and flows out to Jesus, in sweet return—when we meet with a brother in Christ, and he gives a sweet account of the Lord’s gracious dealings with him—when we are particularly blest under the word, or impressed with grand and precious ideas of Jesus, these things kindle a holy flame in the spirit. Or when we fall in company with the enemies to Jesus, to the Father or the Spirit, or to any of the leading Doctrines of the Gospel, we may be silent a little, while musing on their errors, boldness, and effrontery; but while we are silent his word is as a fire shut up in our bones; we are weary with forbearing, and at last, speak we must; the fire of holy zeal is kindled in the heart, and though we can say but little, yet we must plead for our master’s honour, his perfection, and his saints. This zeal is discovered, at times, by the enemies of truth, and by them called Bigotry, or a bad spirit. But holy zeal is tempered with love to God and truth, and springing from a real spiritual knowledge, can never be a bad spirit.—The many storms a child of God meets with from Satan, the world,