polluted wretch as me, that, God of his infinite love and mercy, I wonder that ever he should pick up me, to plant his love in my soul, won me over to his kingly authority, made me submit to his laws. Now, dear brother, we know by experience, that his commandments are not grievous, but joyous; love propels us to follow him in all the paths of truth and holiness which he has commanded us to tread in through evil and through good report as deceivers, but yet true as pilgrims and strangers through this vale of tears, to a better country, a country of blessedness and joy where you and me with all the ransomed throng shall enjoy in full fruition of everlasting love. Yes, dear brother, he loved us while we were sinners, enemies to him, to his word, and to his cause, and his people. Oh the depths of the riches of the grace of God towards such a rebel as myself! Your last gave me much comfort through God's blessing, unction and power it was richly fraught with; I felt the dew drop when I begun to read its contents concerning the love of our covenant three-one God. I have a piece of poetry by a lunatic, by me, the largest idea that ever I saw from man in these latter days since the days of the apostles. Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, And every man a scribe by trade, Ah, dear brother, sometimes I feel so little Brethren Haxell and wife, Huneball and wife, Halls and Elmer, Pike and son, Hammond and Gosling and wife, and all the Mendlesham Church greet thee, my brother with an holy kiss in the Lord, wish you every covenant blessing in Christ; and I pray God that he will abundantly bless you in your labours in the gospel of the grace of God to the building up, and the establishing, comforting, nourishing the church of God, and pulling down the strong holds and refuges of lies of satan's manufacturings. So prays an unworthy sinner in Christ, your brother, J. FIELDER. Christian Reviewer. 145 "The Dissatisfied Saint," being No. 1 of the "The Dissatisfied Saint !" A Stone of Ebenezer raised in the Valley of : consistency of Mixed Communion. By JAMES | settlement at Somer's-town. The obituaries NUNN, Minister of the Gospel, Beulah of his first wife and daughter Eleanor and Chapel, Somers' Town. London: Houlston his lengthened remarks on "the Founding and Stoneman Paternoster Row. of the First Gospel Church," form a valuable appendix to the work. contents. We cannot do better in our first notice of this work (and we purpose returning to it again) than simply to give an outline of its First, then, we have an "Address to the Particular Baptist Church, Somers' Town ;" wherein Mr. Nunn states some of the circumstances which led to the publication of this work. Here is a striking sentence or two which we must quote. The writer says: "In my opinion, the day is close at hand, when those that truly fear God, will not have much of the popular side of the question. Those who are so fond of it will have to give up their profession, or walk with the despised outcasts; for God has commenced, and it is my opinion that he will not withdraw his judgments from the nations of the earth, until he has separated his church from the world, and their carnal feelings and pursuits, and have overthrown the beasts. Then, and not before, shall the glory of the Lord be revealed, so that watchmen shall see eye to eye." Then follows a detailed account of Mr. Nunn's "Call from darkness to light:" and his call to, and settlement in the ministry. This is a clear and exceedingly interesting testimony; it is one which makes us feel that we would be the last to speak against James Nunn, as a true servant of our Lord Jesus Christ; although we have spoken, and felt much prejudiced against him; but since we have know him personally, read his narrative, and seen the use the Lord is making of him, we have lost all unhappy suspicions, and hail him as a brother in the Lord; and most heartily do we pray that his deep afflictions may be sanctified; that his feet may be preserved in the paths of righteousness and peace, and that his labours in the gospel may be greatly owned of the Lord. We say and say it sincerely-let young ministers (just setting out in the work) read this, and TAKE HEED TO THEIR WAYS; let old established pastors read this, and look at our brother's present standing, and, CEASE FROM THEIR CRUEL ATTEMPTS TO STAB HIM IN THE It is Good to be Here. is good for us to be here: and let us make three ta"And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it bernacles; one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias."-Mark ix. 5. When Jesus is pleased in his wonderful grace, When clouds gather thick as the dark sable night, Yes, all fiery trials burn nothing but dross, To see that his people shall not suffer loss, When troubles and trials my footsteps surround, 1 call on the Lord, but no answer is found, The Father hath promised that his chosen ones, When comforts around me seem dying apace, When Jesus withholds the bright beams of his face; Yes! when earthly comforts are all fled and gone, When the enemy rages, and sin presses sore, I think that the Lord will be gracious no more, Yes! God is the same, and his love changes not, We surely shall know that we are not forgot, The things that were dear, seem all taken away, Overwhelmed and distress'd, I mournfully say, My pleasures are fading away one by one, I look round for helpers, but lo! there are none, But when to the throne of thy heavenly grace, I go to the place where I often have been, If thou, dearest Saviour, will deign to bless me, And if at the banquet I should be allowed, Then while I am with thee enwrapt in the cloud, And when with the glorified spirits I meet, And while I am casting the crown at thy feet, "Who is this that cometh from Edom, 'Men of the world, which have their with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that portion in this life.' (Ps. xvii. 14.) Not is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the so with the Christian; here he has no greatness of his strength? I that speak in continuing city; but he seeks one to righteousness, mighty to save." Isa. lxiii. 1. come. In this text, then, the great ReIt is generally considered that the beau- deemer is represented coming as the tiful imagery of the prophet Isaiah is Captain of the Lord's host into this sublime, grand, and majestic beyond world in our nature, to fight, while here, comparison; and in this text (to me) the great battle; to take vengeance on it seems doubly so. We know that his and our enemies, and to obtain a Edom and Esau are synonimous phrases, glorious victory for himself and his peothough the signification of each name is ple, as contained in the whole paragraph different, Edom meaning, earthy, bloody, to the seventh verse. The whole battle or red; and Esau, doing or working; of this noble and illustrious Warrior was or he that acts or finishes. A more correct with confused noise and garments rolled and awful description of the world, or rep-in blood. Satan, and sin, earth and hell, robate class of mankind, (of which Esau scribes and pharisees, principalities and is a type,) is not to be found in the in-powers were all combined and up in arms spired volume. They are earthy, and against him! Still the promise ran,' He mind exclusively earthly things; for, shall prevail against his enemies.' He as is the earthy, such also are they that fought as man, and prevailed as God. What are earthy; they are bloody, or red, in- a war was this! Behold the God-man, dicating their rage and war with and Christ Jesus, meeting the whole host, against God and truth, including their and encountering them single handed! tyrannical cruelty, as vented forth against For he saw that there was no man that his church and people. (See their doom could do it but himself; And he looked and destiny recorded by Mal. i. 2, 3, 4.) but there was none to help.' Had he Doing or working also belongs to them, wanted any he could soon have had according to the portion just referred to; some. (See Matt. xxvi. 53.) But even and mark! God declares he will throw all the disciples forsook him and fled; it all down. They, from flesh and fear, so that his own arm might bring salvamay seek to enter in, as Esau himself tion unto him. See how glorious he apdid; (See Heb. xii. 17); but shall not pears in his armour of proof!' for he put be able; for salvation is not by works on righteousness as a breast-plate, and (even of righteousness); but by grace; an helmet of salvation upon his head, their acts are acts of wrath, anger, re- and he put on the garments of venvenge and rebellion against the good-geance for clothing, and was clad with ness and government of the Most High; and they finish their mortal career in sin and lie down in sorrow, as vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. O gloomy picture! Surely, it is a fearful thing to fall (thus) into the hands of the living God! Idumea was the country of the Edomites, in the south part of Judea: it was, and is, very mountanious, including Mount Seir and Mount Hor. Its principal city or metropolis, was Bozrah, signifying distress, or tribulation. A true picture of the present world, in which, and with which the ungodly are satisfied. They want nothing more; but as much of that as they can get, and although satan, sin, and Adam have rendered it one constant scene of distress and tribulation; yet they are at home in it so true are the words of David VOL. IV.-PART XLII.-July, 1848. zeal as a cloak.' How truly majestic he U his holy arm hath gotten him the vic- | Christ of God, wearing our nature, detory.' Glorious Warrior! Triumphant fined by the angel when addressing the Victor! Thou art the great Plant of virgin, That Holy Thing which shall Renown! Thy deeds and death shall be born of thee shall be called the Son fill thy Zion with present and eternal of God.' The works he performed, and delight. For her thou hast wrought a the wonders he wrought, may also be great salvation, and her chief delight considered his apparel; and truly in and pleasure is to place the crown royal and by them he did and does appear upon thy all glorious and triumphant glorious in holiness and his church shall head. In this text, then, Zion, for whom one day see him (more clearly than she he overcame, is represented as looking does now) in all his matchless beauty, at him with amazement and wonder, as effulgence and glory; and although his coming from his scene of conflict and the visage was so deformed of men, and his field of blood, with his perfect humanity, form of the sons of men (Beza's translastained and dyed with his crimson hue, tion); yet it was not his own sin that (according to Rev. xix. 13,) as a repre- deformed it, but the sinful conduct of sentation of the awful war in which he sinners towards him, including the deep has just been engaged, and the noble sorrows through which he waded to save conquest he has obtained by his own his own people with an everlasting salblood, by which he has entered into vation; he still remained glorious in his heaven itself, now to appear in the apparel, travelling in the greatness of his presence of God for us; thus she en- strength about Nazareth, Jerusalem, and quires,Who is this that cometh from the whole land of Judea; for he went Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? about doing good, preaching the gospel, this that is glorious in his apparel, tra- and healing all that were oppressed of velling in the greatness of his strength ?' the devil; for God was with him in The answer is, 'I that speak in righte- walking on the water, speaking the ousness, mighty to save.' It is a pre- furious winds into silence, and comcious truth that once in the end of the manding the tumultuous ocean into seworld, (or of the age,) hath he appeared renity, in opening the eyes, unstopping to put away sin, by the sacrifice of himself the ears, and in raising the dead, he in that he died, he died unto sin once; but displayed his great, his almighty strength; in that he liveth he liveth unto God. He he travelled in the greatness of his hath destroyed death, and defeated satan, strength from Pilate's bar up the hill and marched (as it were) out of the Calvary, carrying his own cross, and field in the greatness of his strength; burdened with the intolerable preponhe has come off more than conqueror, derating weight of all the sins of his and lives for evermore, having the keys of, elect, including the strict, unabating, or authority over, hell and death; truly solemn requirements of inflexible Justice, he was and is glorious in his apparel, which with the reproaches and stigmatism of is the nature of his dear people, unsullied, the ungodly, and all his enemies; the and impeccable. Yes; immacculate, opprobrious names levied upon him by he was and is fairer than the children of chief priests, scribes, and pharisees, and men, grace being poured into, and out of the tremendous curse of God's most his lips, causing his church to sing, 'His holy and righteous law. Gaze upon him, mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether oh my soul! Behold he ascends the hill lovely; or, as Beza renders it, wholly-he reaches the summit-the place of a delectable, pleasing, delightful.' John skull, or golgotha-the creatures of his says, 'We beheld his glory, the glory as power are permitted to slay him, and he of the only begotten of the Father, full lays down his life for the sheep. On the of grace and truth.' morning appointed, he comes forth from the tomb travelling in the greatness of his infinite strength, out of death into life, to die no more; now he travels into Galilee, where he favours his disciples with a sight of him and converse with him. Repeatedly he converses with them for forty days on the glories of his gospel and the nature of his kingdom; thence he travels to mount Olivet, where Peter, John, and James were highly favoured with a soul's overwhelming view of his glory, super-excellency, and august majesty, on mount Tabor, what Peter afterwards called the holy mount. Paul, the apostle, has given us his exact like ness in miniature Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens'-this is the countless millions have and shall prove him mighty to save; or, as the apostle says able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him.' What a sweet thought is it for poor helpless, lost, and ruined sinners to be taught and brought to know and believe the truth of this precious text, and that although he has saved millions by his sovereign grace and mighty power, yet it still remains mighty, yea almighty and undiminished; 'his arm is not shortened that it cannot save;' for God will save Zion experimentally and finally, and so all Israel shall be saved. Cheer up, my soul! cheer up ye doubting, distressed, and desponding saints, who have fled to Jesus for refuge; he is still mighty to save, and determined to save, and in this great and glorious matter he is in one mind, and none can turn him—the Lord, and he changeth not, without variableness or the shadow of turning. Anchor, hang, and hope here, O my soul! O ye afflicted, persecuted, dejected, perplexed and mourning saints, and it must and shall be well with thee, sinful, guilty, and vile as you are, rejoice in the glorious fact-the joyful tidings-the triumphant news, ‘Jesus is mighty to save!' in the presence of those whom he loved, and who loved him, he was taken up from them, and a cloud of elect angels received him out of their sight, escorting him to the regions of light and love, with triumphant hallelujahs and hozannas; ⚫ for God is gone up with a shout, even the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. He has ascended on high, having led captivity captive.' He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things.' Hark-hark! what acclamations are those which seem to rend the azure vaulted skies? Lift up ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in! Who is the King of glory? the Lord of Hosts-the Lord mighty in battle! He is the King of glory! Again they strike their harps, and all unite in one grand chorus, making heaven's vast concave ring, Lift up ye gates, even lift them up, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in!' He has fought the battle-gained the victory-saved his church-resumed his throne-and all power is given unto him both in heaven and in earth-the Lord reigneth, hallelujah! Who is this? I that speak in righteousness.' Yes: he spake in righteousness at the great council table in his covenant engagements for his people, when he said, I will ransom them from the power of the grave (or hell), I will redeem them from death. He spake in righteousness in preaching the gospel-in speaking to his enemies, and to various diseases-in speaking to devils, and to distressed souls-inspeaking conviction to the consciences, and salvation to the hearts of Paul, Zaccheus and others. He spake in righteousness to Pilate, when he said, My kingdom is Those who know what it is (in the not of this world.' And also to Caiaphas, exercise of a living faith) to have access Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man unto the Father by one Spirit, through sitting on the right hand of power,' &c. our Lord Jesus Christ, (Ephes. ii. 18,) In a word all he has spoken, does speak, need not to be told that the mercy seat or will speak is right in righteousness, over the ark of the testimony is a type and in perfect accordance with his right- of the throne of grace to which they eous purpose, will, and decree. Just come. In the cloud of glory, on the and right is he, what! is he mighty to mercy seat they will see a type of the save the mighty God-the sympathi- divine presence, 'I will appear in the zing man-the God-man Christ Jesus. cloud, upon the mercy seat." (Lev. xvi. Great in might, and wonderful in council, 2.) In the one High Priest of that tamighty to save those who are ready to bernacle made with hands, they will see perish. He is the mighty man of valour a type of the great High Priest of our the Almighty God of heaven and profession, who has passed into the earth. Sin, death, and hell have fully heavens, the 'minister of the sanctuary, proved him mighty to conquer, and and of the true tabernacle, which the 6 T. STRINGER. The Cherubim. FROM what we read in Heb. ix. 23, 24, it is manifest that the temple, its furniture, and its services, were types of things spiritual, which are to be looked for in the church, and what appertains to it under the present dispensation; the apostle calls them 'Patterns or types of things in the heavens,' and 'Figures of the true.' |