1727. MR THOMAS BOSTON. MO, birth, life, and death :._and thus I travelled betwixt the view of fovereignty with refpeét to Jefus Chrift, and the view of it with refpe& to me and mine, backward and forward ; believing my union with him. On the Friday before, I received a letter from Profeifor Hamilton, about the MS. of the Latin effay. It was put into his hand about the 6th of January, to be kept about twenty days or a month. And he had put it in Dr i'awford's hands, which was not my intention, though I allowedconfulting ofhim. So it was kept up betwixt them, till about the tenth of May. After which was fent out to me a fheet and a half of remarks on it, viz. the firft part of the effay, large paper, and dote writ. I wrote to the Doétor, after I had heaved it was put in his hands; but he never made me any return. Only there his remarks were, after long onwaiting for retiring of my MS. fent out to me by Mr Hogg, without any letter from the one orthe other. The remarks dilcovered a great deal of raihnefs and ill- nature, but very littlejudgement, or acquaintance with the fubje&. The Profeffor's letter was very civil and wary, and did much mile my efteem of him : but withal it had no favourable afpe& on the bùfnefs. Afterwardsl wrote him a largeanfwer, dated June26. 1727. His.letter and a copy of my anl\er, are both in retentis. --See the Appendix. July 16; 1727. The Lord was very fignallyprefent at the facra ment celebrated in Maxton this day. I gota Teflon of living by faith ;' in my ferving of tables, not knowing what to fpeak, but finding it given {Weedy and liberally in the moments wherein it was needed. The ilfueof all unto me was I found my faith much ftrengthened. Powerful were the prayers thereput up for my wife, now in the eighth year of her diftrefs, fromMay 1720. And for feveral of there years thebath been free among the dead, like the flain that lie in the grave, rememberedno more; beingoverwhelm- edwithbodily maladies, her fpiritsdrunk upwith terror, by means of her imagination vitiated in a particular point, and haraffedwith Satan's temptations pliedagainfl her at that difadvantage. Mean while, in all things eltè, the remains clear in her judgment, and pointed in her difèourfe, as before. As the has been all along fúpported to a wonder : fo the Lord has at times given her re- niarkable vifits in her prifon, and manifefted his love to her foul. And the reality of the grace of God in her, has, bymeans of her'trial, been manifefted to conviction. When I came home, The related to me, how that morning I went away, {he had been reduced to the utmoft extremity ; and that which in the imagi- nation thereof was the cattle of her terror, really falling out that afternoon, which I very well knew in the time, but had no ac- refs to help her, but by lifting up my heart to the Lord on her account ; yet the was firengthened to bear it, in Inch fort as the, S s 2
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