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Rh them to acknowledge a glorious truth and reality the grace of God.— (Evangelical Magazine.)

A libertine, of a most abandoned, happened accidentally to stroll into a , where he heard the fifth chapter of  read; importing that so long lived such , and yet the conclusion was “they died.”

lived 905 years and he died— Seth, 912 and died— Methuselah, 969 and he died. The repetitions of the words, notwithstanding the great length of years they had , struck him so deeply with the thought of  and eternity, that through divine grace, he  a most exemplary christian.

T father of the Rev. John Baily, an divine, who died in New England, 1697, was man of a very licentious conversation. His a serious christian, one day called the family, and engaged young Baily, then a child,  remarkable for piety, to pray with them. The being informed in what a wonderful way  son had prayed, was struck with a deep, which proved the beginning of his  to God: so that he became one of the  eminent ehristianschristians [sic] in the neighbourhood  he lived— (Lancashire.) He would  retire with his child in his hand to the  of his former wickedness, and there pour  floods of tears in prayer before the Lord.