JANEWAY. 285 What I see, you would all cry out with me, Dear Lord, how long? Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Oh, why ara his chariot wheelsso slow in coming !" A minister having spoken to him of the glories of heaven, he said, " Sir, I feel something of it. My heart is as full as it can hold in this lower state. I can hold no more. Oh, that I could but let you know what I feel ! Who am I, Lord ; who =I, that thou shouldst be mindful of me ? Why me, Lord, why me! and pass by thousands to look upon such a wretch as.I ! Oh, what shall I say unto thee, thou preserver of men! Oh, whyme, Lord, whyme I Oh, blessed, and for ever blessed be free grace! How is it, Lord, that thou shouldst manifest thyself unto me, and not untoothers ? Ezen so, Father, because it seemed good in thy sight. Thou wilt have mercy, because thou wilt have mercy. And if thouwilt look upon such a poor worm, who can hinder ? Who would not love thee, oh blessed Father ! Oh, how sweet and gracious hast thou been to me ! Oh, that he should have me in his thoughts of love, before the foundations of the world !" Thus he continued admiring and adoring the sovereignty of divine, grace.. As he experienced the intermissions of triumphant joy, he thus cried : " Hold out, faith and patience, yet a little while, and your work is done. What is the matter, oh ! my soul ? What! wilt thou, canst thou thus unworthily slight this astonishing condescension of God ? Doth it seem a small matter, that the great Jehovah should deal thus familiarly with a worm ? And. wilt thou pass this over as a common mercy ? What meanest thou, oh mysoul, that thou dost not constantly adore and praise this unspeakable love ! Doth God deal graciously and familiarly with man, and are his love and praise too good for him ? Why art thou not, oh my soul! swallowed up every moment with his free, unparalleled, and everlasting love ? Stand astonished ye heavens, and wonder ye angels, at this infinite grace! Was ever any one under heaven more beholden to this grace than I ? Oh, help me to praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever !" One of his brothers having prayed with him, his joys became unutterable; and "I believe," says our author, "that it exceeds the highest strains of rhetoric to set forth to the life what this heavenly man delivered." He broke out in such words as these : " Oh, he is come! he is come ! Oh, how sweet, how glorious, is the blessed Jesus! How shall .1 speak the thousandth part of his praises ! Oh, for
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