Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

I set myself upon Serious Examination by these Marks, and found that my Heart went along with the Word. So I went on cheerfully in the Ways of GOD; And if in any thing I have been Overtaken with a Fault, the Lord has given me to see it, and Mourn for it, and Turn from it.

O Nicodemus, don't Laugh and Scoff at these things. This Fanaticism, as you call it, Verily, tis That which brings into the Kingdom of GOD! Such a Thing there is, as Regeneration, and a thing it is of the Greatest Consequence in the World, though you should not find the Term in the Dictionary.

Behold, the Preparation of the Sanctuary, with which a Young Man was Prepared for the doing of Good Work about the House of his GOD! Young Men who rush into the Evangelical Ministry, taking it up only as a Trade which they ⟨p. 13⟩are to Live by, while they have no Experience of a Sanctification for as well as by the Truth upon them; what are they but the Miserables to whom (as in the Fable of Origen) the Sixteenth Verse of the Fiftieth Psalm, is the first of the Texts which might justly occur unto them to be Preached upon! The Words of Dr. Josiah Woodward, Writing an Account of his Excellent Father, are not Unworthy to be Cited for the Period. That Mouth ought to be well Purified with the Coals of the Altar, which is to be the Mouth of the People unto GOD! And that Breast ought to be Purified seven times, which is to bear the Names of the People of GOD in the Presence of GOD, and turn away the Wrath of GOD from them, through the Lord Jesus Christ, the Chief Shepherd. Until this step be made Good in any Church, there will be Infinite Disorders, and no Effectual Reformation.

Behold, the Preparation of the Sanctuary, with which a Young Man was Prepared for the doing of Good Work about the House of his GOD! Young Men who rush into the Evangelical Ministry, taking it up only as a Trade which they