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generally speaking, merely moral, and the ter-
rors of the law are set before them, rather than
the privileges of the gospel.”

I then went on to point out, that, if we read
the history of the Israelites and Jews from the
time of the delivery of the law by Moses till the
completion thereof, we shall find, that the ter-
rors of temporal calamity had little power to
influence the conduct of those who were under
the law; but when the sweet influences of the
Holy Spirit were shed abroad, men became
new creatures, as is related in Acts ii. 44—47:
And all that believed were together, and had all
things common; and sold their possessions and
goods, and parted them to all men, as every man
had need. And they, continuing daily with
one accord in the temple, and breaking bread
from house to house, did eat their meat with
gladness and singleness of heart, praising God,
and having favour with all the people. Here
we find the love of God, and charity towards
man, produced by the Holy Spirit of God; so
that this divine influence was able to pro-
duce, in one moment, what the law was found
utterly unequal to during the period of many
ages.

P The venerable instructress of our departed
sister had early shewn to her the evil of her
own nature; and, to give her a lively sense of
the love of Christ, she had taught her, that she
could be saved only by the blood of Christ,
shed for her upon the cross, and that her heart
could be made clean only by the Holy Spirit of
God.

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