14. O God, _in the midst of wrath remember mercy_! Be glorified in our reformation, not in our destruction. Let us _hear the rod, and him that appointed it_. Now that _thy judgments are abroad in the earth_, let the _inhabitants of the world learn righteousness_. 15. My brethren, it is high time for us, to awake out of sleep; before the _great trumpet of the Lord be blown_, and our land become a field of blood. O may we speedily see the things that make for our peace, before they are hid from our eyes! _Turn thou us, O good Lord, and let thine anger cease from us. O Lord, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine_; and cause us to know the time of our visitation. _Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and be merciful to our sins, for thy names sake. And so will we not go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole._ _Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end._ Amen. SERMON IV.[15] SCRIPTURAL CHRISTIANITY. Acts iv. 31. _And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost._ 1. THE same expression occurs in the second chapter, where we read, _When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all_ (the apostles, with the women, and the mother of Jesus, and his brethren) _with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost._ One immediate effect whereof was, _They began to speak with other tongues_; insomuch that both the _Parthians_, _Medes_, _Elamites_, and the other strangers who _came together, when this was noised abroad, heard them speak, in_ their several _tongues, the wonderful works of God_. 2. In this chapter we read, that when the apostles and brethren had been praying, and praising God, _the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost_. Not that we find any visible appearance here, such as had been in the former instance: nor are we informed that the _extraordinary gifts_ of the Holy Ghost, were then given to all or any of them; such _as the gifts of healing, of working |other| miracles, of prophecy, of discerning spirits_; the speaking with _divers kinds of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues_.