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manner showed this; and the few consolatory words, which, at any time, he uttered, were evidently designed, but, to relieve the agonized feelings, of those who witnessed his sufferings. The night before his departure, he called me to his bed-side and, in the beginning of his little address, his countenance and manner bore an almost playful animation. I am now fully persuaded, that glimmerings of the glory so soon to be revealed, were, at that moment, dawning on his mental sight, and even giving him bodily ease, while he spoke to me these comforting words :..

I am greatly relieved by the bleeding, thanks be to God! And, though I have, indeed, had a very violent attack, yet I feel, as though I had, still, a sufficiency of strength, with God's help, to bring me through. And now, go over, and lie down in your bed, with a full confidence in the power of the Almighty. I will call you to me, when necessary. Pray for me: giving HIM

thanks, for all his mercies to me.

There never was any one, who had more abundant cause for

humble gratitude.'

Then, nearly exhausted, his words gradually became indistinct and from mental prayer, he sunk into a calm and childlike sleep. These were the last words of consequence, I ever heard him utter. But if, at any time, upon its separation

from the body, a spirit has been blessed with the foretaste of immortal peace, . . and if it be not presumptuous to indulge in the delightful confidence, .. may I be enabled to rest in sure and certain hope, that his Soul is numbered with the blessed! M. P.'

DONNELLAN LECTURES,

FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXIX,

DELIVERED

IN THE CHAPEL

OF

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

DONNELLAN LECTURES.

SERMON I

ISAIAH, XLV. 15.

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

AFTER SO many ages of earnest inquiry, it is natural to conclude, that, in maintaining the Scripture doctrine of the Trinity, little now remains to be effected. There is a sense, in which the conclusion is, at least, highly probable; and in this sense it has been maintained, even by some, who are justly accounted among the most eminent divines. Arguments addressed exclusively to the discursive faculty, and conducted solely by the rules of grammatical interpretation, may have been urged nearly to their utmost limit. On the one side, discovery may have been exhausted; and on the other, cavil put to shame.

But there is another, and not unprofitable, field of discussion; which admits still, of many labourers. The great business of a Christian teacher, is, not so much to convince, as to persuade. And revealed truth, though it elude the grasp of the understand

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