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 of the right leaven for the palates of those whom he now addressed. His text was from the forty-ninth chapter of Isaiah. "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with them that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

"And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

The discourse which he pronounced upon this subject was divided into fifteen heads, each of which was garnished with seven uses of application, two of consolation, two of terror, two declaring the causes of backsliding and of wrath, and one announcing the promised and expected deliverance. The first part of his text he applied to his own deliverance and that of his companions, and took occasion to speak