and labour bestowed on me, such an unworthy one. The Lord God shall reward you! The minister said to her, Catherina, we desire no reward; our reward will be great, if we have been the means, in the hands of God, of plucking you, as a brand out of the fire of eternal destruction.

"When she arose from her knees, the minister desired to know if she had anything more to say. Yes, said she, I have a desire to speak a word to the spectators: and it being permitted her to do it in that place, she said, O good people, take example from me! and fly from the sins I committed; that you may not come under such punishment; but my sins are forgiven me, and my trespasses are blotted out.

"Now she was led to the scaffold, erected against the back front of the mansion house, and having communication therewith: the minister looking behind him, saw the executioner lay hold on her, tying her hands together, which she suffered with the utmost quietness, laying her hands together of her

"You are, said she, clean of my blood. "The gentlemen pressed her again, if she had anything to say, to do it now before they departed. I hope, said she, opportunity will be given to me to speak to you; but if not, I wish you a good night till eternity comes; and then I hope to dwell with you both in everlasting glory to praise our God, and to speak of Jesus, and his glorious redemption! She spoke these words with a great deal of affection, and with a flood of tears. Where-own accord; and walking on after the miupon the minister answered, if these things are so, and God hath mercifully given unto you so great a salvation, we wish you also a good night till eternity cometh; and then you shall be our crown and rejoicing in the day of Jesus Christ, when he shall appear. The other gentleman spake to the same purpose, and so departed from her, greatly affected.

"She was fetched up directly, to hear her sentence pronounced at the bar; and both the gentlemen went into the antechamber to wait for her. When sentence was pronounced, she was led to the gentlemen by two officers; she stood in a blessed and perfectly serene frame of mind before them. The other gentleman spoke first to her, saying, Do you stand fast in the expectation that your end will be peace? Yes, said she; now are the moments that I stay here tedious to me! O now I see Jesus, with arms stretched out, waiting for me!

"The minister replied to her, Catherina, the sentence of death will be executed on you this moment, for all your trespasses against the law of your country: rest therein. But this moment, you shall stand before a God who is of spotless holiness, and of majestic righteousness, before whom nothing can stand that is unclean; do you think to stand before him? Yes, said she, because that God hath given to me his Son, and he hath paid righteousness for me at the bar of his holy justice. The question being put to her, if she saw no sin in herself? She said, I believe, sir, I shall sin as long as I stay here, but Jesus has covered the same.

"Now she was led to the place where, according to custom, public prayer was to be made for her. The other gentleman was in the antechamber, being so much affected; and it is very remarkable, that she told him the Monday morning before, that she believed he should not attend her to the end. The minister followed her, and when she kneeled down, public prayer was made for her.

nister, she said, Now am I going to my salvation! One of the officers that led her, reported afterwards that she said to him, you lead me away, but I am happier than you.

"Coming upon the scaffold (there being a multitude of several thousands of spectators) she lifted up her hands, speaking the same words as she spoke before; O good people, take example from me, &c. As soon as she came to the stake on which she was to be strangled, she beheld the place with a wonderful quietness of mind; then turning herself towards the judges there present, she made a gentle compliment with her body, and stepping with a surprising freeness of mind upon the footstool, placed herself against the stake as one that prepared herself to die.

"The minister feeling himself mightily strengthened, said to her, Catherina, I take now heaven and earth to witness, that we set before you the blessing and the curse, death and life; what is now your choice? and she answered, Life. Upon what ground? said he; and her answer was, Only upon the perfect righteousness of Jesus, who hath paid for all my sins.

"The minister replied, is this then the only ground upon which you shall enter eternity this moment? and her answer was, Yes, sir. Whereupon the minister, under great affection of mind, said to her, Now, then, Catherina, depart in peace, and the God of peace be everlastingly the God of your wonder and rejoicing; and sing before the throne the song of the Lamb,Thou hast redeemed me to God by thy blood!' Catherina being now no more able to speak, the cord being tied, bowed as it were twice, nodding with her head, as a sign that she understood what he said, and as with an Amen, answered.

"How gloriously shineth then the grace of God in the person of Anna Catherina Merks! Most evidently is this truth manifested in her, that God is no respecter of persons, but that he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy."

The Day of Judgment.

No. II.

ing things of fearful ravaging power, seen and known only by the solemn teaching of the Holy Ghost. And the principal and grand scene of action of all these is on mystical ground, not confined to any earthly locality, which ground is, and must be trodden under foot by the Assyrian, according to Isaiah xiv. 24-27; Micah v. 5; which read and compare with many other passages, and bear in mind the fact of antichrist's treading doctrines and ordinances under foot, as he is now doing.

The above is only a sample of things seen; for the time would fail me to tell of all particu lars found in that province, where faith, with dove-like eyes, is allowed to soar, and feed on the solid substance of things hoped for, as wrapped up in the promises, and hidden in the ark of God.

AND now we will name a few of the men, women, &c., seen in the mystery of God. There is that mystical man, Abraham, the second Adam-the everlasting Father, husband, priest, shepherd, and king of the church! There is that mystical prophet of Israel, the one ministry of Jesus, acting as ambassador, steward, interpreter, and cupbearer to the queen, and royal family of heaven. There is that mystical man-the man of sin, sitting in the seat of God, as Lucifer, (i.e. the bright and morning star,) giving out that he is the Christ of God, so that he is worshipped as God in the holy city -the city of the great king on the sides of the north. There is that mystical false pro- But as we have not forgotten the solemn phet, the ministry of the above, transforming word at the head of this paper, so we say that itself into the ministry of Christ, and acting here, and here only in the mystery, are the as cup-bearer to her majesty, whose golden true features of the pending judgment seen cup is presented to the kings and great men and understood. But what are they? They of the earth. There is that mystical woman, are the concomitants of a struggle most prodaughter of the great King, with the moon found, of a battle such as never was! We under her feet, her person in the sun, and on look back to Calvary, and behind the curtain her head a crown of twelve stars: now nou- we behold a fight betwixt the two strongest rished in the wilderness with the bread of persons in the mystery, at which the earth heaven. This is Zion, the outcast, with her quaked, the sun mourned, and creation sons as fugitives in the world. Something groaned! That was a duel-a personal conlike her is another mystical woman, Hagar test between the two heads of two respective by name, and mother of the bond-children: bodies, as pictured forth by the event of Elah, properly the handmaid of Zion; but impro- where you see the head of the giant in the perly, a rival and traitoress, teaching her hand of the victor. And this contest was the babes to persecute those born after the spirit. central point of the battle field stained by the By her side sits Jezebel, the mystic pro- blood of Abel; and the sure earnest of the phetess Idolatry, troubling all churches, and grand issue as shall be sealed by the blood seducing the servants of God. And these reaching to the horses' bridles, when the two last, when agreed, are the maids of honour enemies of Jesus shall be his footstool, and assiduously waiting upon that mystical the wicked as ashes under the feet of the woman, Babylon, the grand rival and cap-righteous! Yes, the conquest of Calvary was toress of Zion and her sons, till Cyrus, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, shall come and build Hephzibah's temple, and let go her captives, not for price nor reward. These are the principal persons figuring in the mystery, besides which are several more of lesser note, as two prophets, seven shepherds, ten kings, many angels, warriors, harpers, virgins, &c.

the same-the glorious earnest by which we know that we are more than conquerors, so that we have not the atom of a sigh-or doubt as to which side victory will declare! Hence we cast no die of uncertainty-we hazard no loss! The enemy may be many, very lively, very fierce, and very confident; but we are sure! And therefore we may even now quietly sit upon our observatory and behold the battle of Armageddon closed, the great chain on the neck of the foe, and the twoedged sword in the heart of the beast! Such is in the power of faith.

Also we have beasts and creeping things: as a mystic red dragon, the crooked and piercing serpent and leviathan, the king over all the children of pride; another beast of similar shape is the shell or house of the We said the personal contest was betwixt above, in which he hides his head, just as a the heads of two bodies. It was so ; but the soul is hidden in the body, so that thousands contest of the judgment day is betwixt the see him not, though they lay their hand on bodies themselves, which for worldly bulk, his scaly back! Another mystical beast and massy confusion will as much differ from with two horns, or powers, forcing all but the that, as the scenes of Waterloo would differ saints to worship the above, and sell them- from those of a duel betwixt the two heroes selves to the devil, by receiving his mark of that memorable day! And we must take into their foreheads. Besides these, we have Christendom from its utmost limit to its horses, lions, frogs, locusts, and other creep-centre as the area of the conflict, and the field

through which the swift-winged arrows of heaven shall thickly fly. Earth will hear the din, and quake! men's hearts will fail them for fear; and the sea and its waves will roar. The dread commotion will affect mountains and hills; and nations and churches shall totter to their base! Kingdoms and peoples confederate against the Lord and his anointed shall be gathered together; and Satan by his unclean spirits shall stir up all the forces of his strength to give the last and final shock. O my soul, the alarm of war already awakes thy powers! The sound of the trumpet, and the snorting of the horses by way of Dan (judgment) bids thee gird on thy harness, and lift thyself up in thy brigandine. Stand-stand; and having done all, still stand, for the Assyrian is coming out with rage, because he knoweth he hath but a short time.

for the truth, and have insisted on a deep experience, and full assurance of interest.' And thus we have the house of God divided against itself, and how then can it stand? We have doctrine divided against practice, and practice against doctrine; and the few that stand in the narrow path betwixt, are in danger of being jammed to death! One side wantonly and palpably errs on the ground of doctrine, and whether Wesleyans, Independants, Baptists, &c., no matter; the other, however, sound in doctrine or experience, on the ground of practice; and this is disobedience of the same kind as that for which God will punish the ungodly: so that the judgment though beginning at different persons, is the same that will end in the extermination of them that obey not the gospel.

This disobedience then on the side of us who profess to fear and serve God is that wickedness in Judah, that iniquity in Israel, that sin in Zion, which must be visited with stripes, and purged away with a fiery trial; for only by judgment will the sanctuary be cleansed; and by fire shall the gold, silver, and precious stones be purified. After which the holy seed shall return and be eaten, and Judah shall dwell safely, according to the following:

I will bring my hand again upon thee,
I will purify thy dross in the furnace,
And take away all thine alloy;

And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
And thy counsellors as at the beginning;
Afterwards thou shall be called

The city of righteousness-the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment.

And her converts with righteousness.-Isaiah.

My next will shew if the judgment is not
already begun. I am the servant of the
Church, and of her Lord.
Brenchley, Nov. 25, 1847.

W. C. P.

But to notice "the beginning of sorrows," ," we translate ourselves back to the days of Jeremiah, and we see judgments taking a grand and circular sweep. They begin at Judah, the house of the Lord, and go round through Moab, Ammon, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Egypt, and Syria, till at last they come to Sheshach, i.e. Great Babylon! Now, if it begin at us, as the Apostle says, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God? Let one apostle answer another; "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel." Now the obedience here is not that which is the sure effect of a new covenant operation, but that only which men are bound to render under the influence of first principles by the aid of natural conscience in that reformation of life effected by repentance from dead works; which is that ground of responsibility on which we attach blame to one another, and God to us all, as we infringe on practical holiness, and abuse the ordinances of the house of God. And as disobedience to known The best Antidote for Zion's Sorrows. and easy statutes was the crime of typic Israel, and the cause of judgment on the nation: so now Jehovah does not enter into judgment with us for those things we cannot help, but for those only in which we are wantonly and stubbornly wicked, by departing from the plain statements and directions by the gospel made known. Thus the Arminians are wicked on the side of doctrine; Anti-Arminians on that of practice, both of which are in the letter of the word plainly set forth. And thus we see the truth of what one has said, 'I have for years silently beheld two things:-First, the great zeal and good practice there is to be found among those who are not manifested as being clear in doctrine or experience: second, the careless, reckless, unspiritual and inconsistent conduct of many who have been very bold

FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST

DEAR EDITOR,-I send you another prayer, partly suggested to my mind by that sweet and precious text, which stands at the top as confirmatory of the truth which the lines are intended to convey. I trust I know something experimentally of its meaning, though I can still see a depth of experience in it, of which I know but little, and, which it appears to me that few are concerned to know anything about in the present day. Oh! for more fellowship with a bleeding, dying, broken-hearted Christ! Oh! what a cure would it be for the dearth and barrenness of our own souls, and for the division and strife which, like a festering cancer, is preying upon the health of Zion, and causing many of her children to go mourning all the day long! Oh! thou ever living,

It is storied of a martyr; that writing to his wife, where she might find him when he May your little magazine be instrumental was fled from home; Oh my dear,' said he, in the peace and welfare of Zion, and may' if thou desirest to see me, seek me in the side you be abundantly blessed in your labour, is the prayer of JUVENIS NERFLAB.