his goodness he intends to exhibit, and the proclamation runs thus, "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longfuffering, forgiving iniquity;" that these are acts of goodness will be easily granted. But observe it is added even in this proclamation of his goodness, "That he will by no means clear the guilty!" intimating, that to be just and punish sin is an act of goodness, as well as to be merciful and to forgive it. 1 And now when we have this copious subject in review, does it not suggest to us such conclufions as these ? 1. May we not conclude that the case of impenitent finners is desperate indeed, when it is not excessive rigour, or a savage delight in torture that condemns them, but goodness itself, love itself? Even the gentler perfections of the Deity, those from which they derive their prefumptious hopes con. spire against them to render them miferable, in order to prevent greater misery from spreading through the universe. Impenitent finners, even the unbounded love of God to his creatures is your enemy. Love under the name and form of Justice, which is equally love still, demands your execution; and to fuffer you to escape would not only be an act of injuslice, but an act of hostility against the whole system of rational beings. Therefore repent and be holy, otherwise divine love will not fuffer you to be happy. "God is Love;" therefore will he confine you in the infernal prison, as a regard to the public welfare in human governments shuts up criminals in a dungeon. 2. May we not hence conclude that all the acts of the Deity may be resolved into the benevolent principle of love? "God is love;" therefore he made this vast universe, and planted it so thick with variegated life. "God is love;" therefore he still rules the world he has made, and inflicts chastisements and judgments upon it in every age. "God is love;" therefore he spared not his own Son, but made him the victim of his juftice. "God is love;" therefore he requires requires perfect holiness, perfect obedience, from all his fubjects. "God is love?" therefore he has enacted such tremendous sanctions to his law, and executes them upon offenders. "God is love;" therefore he has made the prifon of hell, and there confines in chains of everlasting darkness those malevolent creatures that would be nuisances to society, and public mischiefs if fuffered to run at large. In short, whatever he does, he does it because he is love. How amiable a view of him is this! therefore, 3. We may certainly conclude that if God be love, then all his creatures ought to love him. Love him, O, all ye inhabitants of heaven! But they need not my exhortation; they know him, and therefore cannot but love him. Love him, O, ye children of men! To you I call; but O, I fear I shall call in vain. To love Him who is all love is the most hopeless proposal one can make to the world. But whatever others do, love the Lord, all ye saints! You I know cannot resist the motion. Surely your love even now is all on fire. "Love the Lord, O, my foul!" The Will of the late Lady PALMERSTON, indorsed, for the Lord PALMERSTON. A S I have long given you my heart, and my tenderest affections and fondest wishes have been always yours, so is every thing else I possess; and all that I can call mine being already yours, I have nothing to give but my heartiest thanks for the care and kindness you have at any time shewn me, either in fickness or in health; for which God Almighty will, I hope, reward you in a better world. However, for form's fake, I here give and bequeath you as follows: First, the ten thousand pounds left me by Sir R. H. the two hundred pounds a year annuity left me by my father; the the gold cup, and the two lesser chocolate cups, which I wish you would fometimes look on as a remembrance of death, and also of the fondest and faithfullest friend you ever had. N. B. The cups were made out of mourning-rings, and used daily as a memorial of her departed friends and eternity. A Copy of an original Letter, written by Mr. SOLOMON DA COSTA, and fent to the Trustees of the British Museum, with a present of near two hundred curious manuscriptvolumes in the Hebrew Language, which were originally intended by the Jews as a present to King Charles the Second. G O, I pray thee, see the presence of those in whom there is wisdom, understanding, and knowledge; behold they are the honourable personages appointed and made Overseers of the great and noted Treasury, called by the name of the British Museum. The Lord preserve them! Amen. Saith the man Solomon, son to my Lord and father, the ancient, honourable, devout, meek and excellent Mr. Ifaac Da Costa, furnamed Athias, of the city of Amsterdam, of the people scattered and dispersed among all nations; of the captivity of Jerufalem, which is in Spain. I have already dwelt fifty-four years in eafe and rest, in quietness and in confidence, without fear, in this city of London, the crowning city! that is full of people, great among the nations, and princess among the provinces; a city great for wife and learned men; the mother of sciences and arts; there is not one science too difficult for them, either in medicine or astronomy, or philofophy, or any art of skilful and cunning artists, the work of cunning workmen, such as have not been seen in all the earth, nor in any nation. And much much more so now that they have built a tower for them all, and a palace full of all good things, the wonders of nature which God created and made, and things of great value, both by reason of their being fingular, there being no other like them, by reason of the costliness of the work, it being done with utmost comliness and beauty, or by artists, whose fame has gone forth through the world. There are they depofited, and there are they to be met with in thousands and ten thousands, where they will be for ever for a fign and wonder; and spacious rooms full of books, both modern and ancient, printed and manuscripts, in innumerable languages, the like was not seen in all the earth, since the foundation thereof, till now that the men of government expended abundance of money to purchase them, and to gather them within the great Treasury, that it might be for the good of mankind, both for the stranger, and for him that is born in the land, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the works to search and examine them. May the Lord open unto them his good treasure, the heaven, and render to them a recompense according to the works of their hands. And whereas I am not worthy of the least of all the favours which many honourable men of the nation have done me; and I well know within myself, that my hand is shortened that it cannot render them a recompence according to the works of their hands; therefore then said I, Lo! I come with the volume of the book of the law of Mofes, In pace quiefcat, written upon vellum in a handsome character, as it is made use of in our synagogues; and a very ancient book, written also upon vellum, containing the posterior and twelve minor prophets; and besides another book, written also upon vellum, containing the five books of the law, the fong of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, the book of Esther, Pfalms, Proverbs, Job, and the lessons that are read out of the prophets throughout the year: added to them one hundred hundred and eighty ancient books, which had been gathered and bound for King Charles the Second, King of Great Britain, with valuable bindings, marked with his own cypher, all in the holy language, which I purchased in my youth; and behold their names are written in the book of the catalogue that goes with this writing, for I faid within myself, may these also be treasured in the midst of the Museum, that they may be a witness in my behalf, that their love is always before me, and that I am not ungrateful to all the good they have rewarded me with. Wherefore, one thing I defire of you, that I will seek after, that you accept my present, this handful of mine, with a pleasant countenance, and that these my books may be placed among those that stand, to be there from generation to generation, that this may be called an offering of sweet favour, and that there they may find rest. Now as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O, Lord, in an acceptable time, for this great generation: lo! may the people rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion! May they cry, yea roar! may they prevail against their enemies! May the degrees of honour of his excellent majesty be extolled and raised up, and in his palace may every one speak of his glory! May our eyes see the king in his beauty! Lo! he is our Sovereign George the Second! May his glory be extolled, and his kingdom exalted! May he prolong his days in this kingdom; for he leadeth his people like a flock. He is a buckler and shield of freedom and defence to all those that come to trust under the shadow of his dominion: his righteousness and devotion endure for ever. So may God continue him in a state of life and peace! May he get up very high upon the highest profperities in fulness of joy! May God extend peace to him and his feed after him, like a river. May he reign; and may they reign! May he lead and may they lead the people with justice and with judgment, and |