Kettering, Aug. 30, 1810. My dear Friend, As it is very doubtful whether I shall be able to attend your ordination, you will allow me to fill up the sheet with brotherly counsel. You are

[Written in 1799.] I have been a good deal impressed with a persuasion that in our missionary undertakings, both at home and abroad, we shall not be remarkably successful, unless we enter deeply into the

Mr. Hall, in his justly admired Sermon on modern Infidelity, has brought forward some very plausible objections to President Edwards’s definition of virtue, but which appear to be founded in misapprehension. The definition itself is

The ends which the death of Christ accomplished. In them, though there is much which is peculiar to himself, yet there is also much in which we are made conformable to him. Did he satisfy

Dear Friends, You have often assembled with pleasure in company with your beloved friend and faithful pastor; but that pleasure is over, and you are now met together with very different feelings, to take your

“Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.”—Josh. 23:11. It is an interesting account that we have of the last days of Joshua. He is very anxious that, when he

There is something in the nature of evil, which, if it appear in its own proper colours, will not admit of being defended or recommended to others; he, therefore, who is friendly to it is

[In reply to some papers written by the Rev. S. Newton, of Norwich.] The piece by “An Old Congregationalist” seems to invite an answer from both Baptists and Pædobaptists. If the following remarks be acceptable

As it is very doubtful whether I shall be able to attend your ordination, you will allow me to fill up the sheet with brotherly counsel. You are about to enter, my brother, on the

“Let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”—James 1:4. We sometimes speak of the troubles of the present state, and are ready to sink under the complicated afflictions