when they were wanted, he prayed for them, knowing well when his prayers would be heard. As a specimen, take a story which is annexed in his own words.-"Having now had my horse "for some time, and riding a great deal every "week, I soon wore my breeches out, as they "were not fit to ride in. I hope the reader will

excuse my mentioning the word breeches, which "I should have avoided, had not this passage "of Scripture intruded into my mind, just as I "had resolved in my mind, not to mention this "kind providence of God. And thou shalt "make linen breeches to cover their nakedness "from the loins even unto the thighs shall they "reach, &c.' Exod. 28, 42, 43. By which and "three others, (namely Ezekiel 44, 18. Leviti66 cus 6, 10, and 16, 4.) I saw that it was no "crime to mention the word breeches, nor the

way in which God sent them to me. Aaron " and his Sons being clothed entirely by provi"dence; and as God himself condescended to give orders what they should be made of, and "how they should be cut, and I believe the "same God ordered mine, as I trust it will ap

pear in the following history, The Scripture "tells us to call no man master, for one is our "master even Christ. I therefore told my most "bountiful and ever adored master, what I

"wanted: and he who stripped Adam and Eve "of their fig-leaved aprons, and made coats of "skins and clothed them, and who clothes the grass of the field, which to day is, and to-mor

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row is cast into the oven, must clothe us, or we shall soon go naked: and so Israel found "it when God took away his wool and his flax, "which they prepared for Baal: for which ini"quity was their skirts discovered, and their "heels made bare. Jeremiah, 13, 22. I often "made very free in my prayers with my valuable "master for this favour, but he still kept me so "amazingly poor, that I could not get them at

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any rate. At last I was determined to go to "a friend of mine at Kingston, who is of that "branch of business, to bespeak a pair; and to "get him to trust me until my master sent me money to pay him. I was that day going to "London fully determined to bespeak them as "I rode through the town. However when I "passed the shop I forgot it; but when I came "to London, I called on Mr. Crowder, a shoe"maker in Shepherd's market, who told me a "parcel was left there for me, but what it was "he knew not; I opened it, and behold there

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was a pair of leather breeches with a note in "them! the substance of which was, to the best "of my remembrance, as follows:- Sir, I have

"sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they "will fit. I beg your acceptance of them; and "if they want any alteration, leave in a note "what the alteration is, and I will call in a few "days and alter them, I. S.' I tried them on, "and they fitted as well as if I had been mea"sured for them; at which I was amazed,

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having never been measured by any lea"ther breeches maker in London. I wrote "an answer to the note to this effect. Sir, "I received your present, and thank you "for it. I was going to order a pair of lea"ther breeches to be made, because I did not "know till now that my master had bespoke "them of you. They fit very well; which fully "convinces me that the same God, who moved

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thy heart to give, guided thy hand to cut: "because he perfectly knows my size, having "clothed me in a miraculous manner for near "five years. When you are in trouble, Sir, I "hope you will tell my master of this, and "what you have done for me, and he will repay "you with honour.' This is, as nearly as I am "able to relate it, and I added, 'I cannot make "out I. S, unless I put, I for Israelite indeed, "and S for Sincerity: because you did not "sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites "do,' About that time twelvemonths I got

"another pair of breeches in the same extraor"dinary manner, without my ever being mea"sured for them."

Step by step, by drawing on his master as he called him, and persuading the congregation to accept his drafts, this Sinner Saved got two chapels of his own, a house in the country, and a coach to carry him backwards and forwards.

CARDINAL BEAUFORT.

Baker in his Chronicle speaks of Henry Beaufort, cardinal of Winchester, who was extremely rich, crying out upon his death bed, in such speeches as these; "Fye-will not death be "hired? will money do nothing? Must I die "that have such great riches? If the whole "realm of England would save my life, I am "able, either by policy to get it, or by riches to "buy it!"

PRESBYTERIAN ZEAL.

A young woman in Fife, daughter to a presbyterian preacher there, reading that part of St. Peter, Christ the bishop of our souls,' blotted out the word bishop, and in the place, inserted "Presbyterian of our souls.'

It is known in the shire of Teviotdale, that Mr. William Veach murdered the bodies as well

as the souls of two or three persons with one sermon for preaching in the town of Jedburgh to a great congregation, he said, "There are two "thousand of you here to day, but I am sure "fourscore of you will not be saved;" upon which three of his ignorant hearers, being in despair, despatched themselves.

Mr. W. Guthrie of Fenwick, hath a printed sermon full of curses and imprecations. " Will "you gang, man, to the cursed curates? Gang! and the vengeance of God gang with thee: the devil rugg their hearts out of their sides."

JOHN DE BONGY.

Reverend De Bongy (John), Marquis of Bongy, and Lieutenant-General of the French armies, in the reign of Lewis XIV., was a protestant. Cardinal Mazarine and the Queen did, several times, by letter, request him to change his religion, and to remove, by that means, the obstacle to his advancement, and offered him a marshal's staff, and any government he might make choice of, provided he would turn papist; but he answered, "that if he could be prevailed upon to "betray his God for the staff of a marshal of "France, he might betray his king for a thing of "much less consequence; that he could do "neither of them, but was contented to find that