blessing. Christ has died for you: he has bought pardon for you. Why should you not receive it now? While you have this paper in your hand? Because you have not done thus or thus? See your own works! Because you are not thus and thus! More contrite? More earnest? More sincere ? See your own righteousness! O let it all go! None but Christ! None but Christ! And if he alone is sufficient, if what he has suffered and done, if his blood and righteousness are enough: they are nigh thee! In thy mouth and in thy heart! See, all things are ready! Do not wait for this or that preparation! For something to bring to God! Bring Christ! Rather, let him bring you. Bring you home to God! Lord Jesus, take her! Take her and all her sins! Take her, as she is! Take her now! Arise, why tarriest thou! Wash away her sins! Sprinkle her with thy blood! Let her sink down into the arms of thy love, and cry out, My Lord and my God!

"Let me hear from you as soon as you can. You do not know, how great a satisfaction this is My dear Lady,

to,

"Your ever affectionate servant,
"J. WESLEY.

"Be pleased to direct to the New Room, in Dublin."

"MY DEAR LADY,

"Kilkenny, July 5, 1765.

"As your's was sent from Dublin to Cork, and back again hither, I did not receive it till yesterday. I am now setting my face again towards England: but I expect to be in Dublin

till the beginning of next month, and then to cross over, so as to be at Manchester (if it please God) about the beginning of August. Either at Dublin, or at Manchester, I hope to have the pleasure of hearing from you. This is indeed a pleasure, as it is, to write to you: though sometimes I do this with fear: a fear, lest I should give you any pain, as I know the tenderness of your spirit. I wish I could be of some service to you: that I could encourage you, to cast yourself on him that loves you: that is now waiting. to pour his peace into your heart, to give you an entrance into the holiest by his blood. See him, see him! Full of grace and truth! Full of

grace and truth for thee! I do not doubt but he is gradually working in you: but I want you to experience likewise an instantaneous work. Then shall the gradual go on swiftly. Lord, speak! Thy servant heareth! Say thou, "Let there be light" and there shall be light. Now let it 'spring up in your heart!

"It may be, He that does all things well, has wise reasons, though not apparent to us, for working more gradually in you, than he has done of late years in most others. It may please him, to give you the consciousness of his favour, the conviction that you are accepted through the Beloved, by almost insensible degrees, like the dawning of the day. And it is all one, how it began, so you but walk in the light. Be this given in an instant, or by degrees, hold it fast. Christ is your's: He hath loved you: He hath

given himself for you! Therefore you shall be holy as he is holy, both in heart, and in all manner of conversation.

"Give me leave, my dear friend, to add a word likewise concerning your bodily health. You should in any wise give yourself all the air and exercise that you can. And I should advise you, (even though long custom made it difficult, if that were the case,) to sleep as early as possible, never later than ten, in order to rise as early as health will permit. The having good spirits, so called, or the contrary, very much depends on this. I believe medicines will do you little service: you need only proper diet, exact regularity, and constant exercise, with the blessing of God.

"Your speaking or writing was never tedious to me yet; and I am persuaded never will be. Your letters are more and more agreeable to,

"My very dear Lady,

"Your most affectionate servant,
"J.WESLEY."

August 10th, of this year, Lady Maxwell again wrote as follows:-" Having by the kind Providence of God, a prospect of going to the sacrament to-morrow, I would, in the strength of the Lord, renew my engagements to be his. He has sustained me until now, and still is, I trust, drawing me after him. Gracious God, let me not be disobedient to the heavenly voice, but with my whole heart may I ever seek thee. O Jesus, undertake for me; to thee I would

desire to give myself up in time and in eternity. Set me as a seal upon thy heart, and let me experience all thy fulness. I again subscribe with my hand unto the Lord, and give myself up; accept of me for Christ's sake, and seal me toDARCY MAXWELL."

morrow.

The latter end of this year Mr. Wesley again addressed her, and seems to caution her against some dangers to which he knew her Ladyship was exposed.

"MY DEAR LADY,

"London, Dec. 1, 1765.

"Perhaps there is scarce any child of man, that is not at some time a little touched by prejudice, so far at least as to be troubled, though not wounded. But it does not hurt, unless it fixes upon the mind. It is not strength of understanding which can prevent this. The heart, which otherwise suffers most by it, makes the resistance which only is effectual. I cannot easily be prejudiced against any person whom I tenderly love, till that love declines. So long, therefore, as our affection is preserved by watchfulness and prayer to him that gave it, prejudice must stand at a distance. Another excellent defence against it, is openness. I admire you upon this account. You dare (in spite of that strange reserve which so prevails in North Britain) speak the naked sentiments of your heart. I hope my dear friend will never do otherwise. In simplicity and godly sincerity, the very reverse of worldly wisdom, have all your conversation in the world.

"Have you received a gleam of light from above, a spark of faith? O let it not go. Hold fast, by his grace, that earnest of your inheritance. Come just as you are, and come boldly to the throne of grace. You need not delay! Even now the bowels of Jesus Christ yearn over you. What have you to do with to-morrow? I love you to-day. And how much more does he love you! He

'Pities still his wandering sheep,

Longs to bring you to his fold!' To-day hear his voice, the voice of him that speaks as never man spake: The voice that raises the dead, that calls the things which are not as though they were. Hark! What says he now? 'Fear not! Only believe! Woman, thy sins are forgiven thee! Go in peace: Thy faith hath made thee whole.' Indeed I am,

"My dear Lady,

"Your ever affectionate servant, "JOHN WESLEY."

In this state of mind Lady Maxwell continued, with little variation, during the two following years. She scrupulously examined every step of her progress, and was extremely jealous lest she should err. Fear and hope alternately prevailed. Her desires, however, continued ardent, and her determination to live to God remained unaltered. She had likewise become zealous in the cause of religion, and was deeply affected when any thing occurred calculated to stain its purity, or to lead the unwary to question its reality. Something of this nature had happened in Edinburgh, which