582 THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. and enjoying the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit, they may become honourable professors of the gospel in the peculiar glories of it, and being thus trained up for heaven, may at last be possessed of complete salvation. Thesepious wishes of Charistes were pronounced with such an air of devotion and goodness, that all the gentlemen present added their hearty amen to them. Ferventio was so much plea- sed with all his discourse and his agreeable manner, that since be found Charistes amidst all his charity maintained a zeal for the truths of the gospel, he took a good liking to the man, and entreated further acquaintance with him. Here the conversation ended, and the companybroke up with mutual civilities.
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