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minal who was then about to fuffer. Whilft he was here mixed with the croud the criminal intimated a defire to fpeak with him, and fignified that he had fomething to communicate to him. The gentle man approached, and was addreffed in language fimilar to this: "Do you recollect having intended at fuch a time to go to Briftol fair? Yes, perfectly well. It is well that you did not, for it was the intention of myself and several others, who knew that you had a confiderable fum of money about you to way-lay and rob, and (if I mistake not) murder you, to escape detection." Thus thofe afflictions and cross providences which in the experience of believers are fo painful, are sometimes feen in the event to have been intended by God for the most valuable purposes.

Judge not the Lord by feeble fenfe,

But truft him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence,

He hides a fmiling face.

Blind Unbelief is fure to err,

And fcorn his works in vain ;

God is his own interpreter,

And he will make it plain.

Bristol, Nov. 28, 1799.

END OF VOLUME ONE.

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