1718. MR THOMAS BOSTON. 279 Chrift. And handling there fubjeds praótically, as well as cá- techetically, at confiderable length, I proceeded therein until the facrament this year, June 8., at which time I doled my fer- mons on adoption ;:only, being jul`t entered on juftificati f was by íome incident or incidents led oft' to Numb. xxxii. 23.. " Be lure your fin will find you out ;" upon which I dwelt a confiderable time. A third adultery, was about that time, af- ter much pains and toil, difcovered ; the adulterer being the fame man who first filled my hands in that kind,,viz. the únhap- py J. N. now in the parifh of Moffat, as he alfo wasïn the time of this Taft ofhis adulteries in this parifh. Moreover, a baftard of above alluded to, being at nude in R. fiery peats were found lodged in the thatch of the nurle's houfe, two nights, but 1011 di(covered before any hurt was doue. There was a great ftir about this, and fearclt made : but it remains to this day a, hidden work of darknefs. I and others vehemently fufpe6ted it to be purely a trick to fcreen the nurfe and her hufband from the difpleafure of the father ; the havingbecome fcarce of milk, and the child begun to go back. Mean while, it was weighty to me, that the truth of the matter could not be got difcovered. In this cafe, on the fart-day before the thcrarnent, I read to the congregation the paffage relating to the expiation of uncertain murder, Deut. xxi. 1. -9. ; and praying, made coufeffion in that matter accordingly. And in fencing the table on the Lord's day, I did particularly declare to be debarred, the author or authors, and accomplices, in that vile aátion : but when the table came to be filled, the fufpedted períon immediately fat down at it. My cafe through the whole communion - day, did very much anfwer my cafe in the ,family-fait before it. I had now and then Tome remarkable tendernefs, but that for the molt part wanting. But a folid concern for the good of fouls, with a deliberate choice of God in Chrift for my God, being left me, I.was not difcouraged. In felf-examination I had forte comfortable views of the grace of God in me, particulariy of faith and love. At the table, the Lord let me into a glorious view of the fulnefs of the Godhead dwelling bodily in our bief fed Redeemer, and fo into a view of the fulnefs of the body- broken for me, and exhibited to me in the facrament ; fo that my, foul feeding on Chrift, fed on the glorious attributes and perfeótions of God. On the Tuefday after, my helpers Meff. Simfon, Wilton, and Davidfon, revived the próleót of publifhing the fermons on Man's Foúrfold State, and offered to advance money for that effeót. That matter had been laid afide through the removal of my dear friend Dr Trotter, the first mover, by death ; and Providence Teemed about this time to be laying the grave-frone upon it, by carrying off alfo Thomas Linton in Chapelhop above mentioned, who, having fome time appeared like to fill up, Dr Trotter's room in the matter, was now a-dying. This motion No. 6, Mm
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