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 friends have conferred, and worthy of the great confidence that we have reposed in him.

I preached my farewell sermon to my dear brethren and sisters, in these words "Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word." Luke 2: 23. For we are bound by duty, honor and gratitude, to be faithful to our trust and to support the dignity of our character, and with that regularity of conduct, which will preserve us while we as christians, mind the old land-mark and with these views, let us be true and faithful, and imitate she only true example, Christ. Dear friends and brethren read these texts of scripture with a heart-righteousness, and remember me in your prayers, that I may stand fast in time, and in the end be eternally crowned in heaven.

Explanatory Notes on Genesis, &c. . I. Ver. I. That is, In the beginning of time and things, the three Divine Persons, in one Godhead, made of nothing the third heaven, or the residence of the blessed, and the whole matter out of which the air and starry heaven, the sea and earth, were afterwards formed. Heb. ix. 3.—"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Ps. cii. 25. "Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands." 2 Pet. iii. 5. Jer. x. 12 and li. 15. Ex. xxxi. 17, and xx. 11. Ps. xxxiii. 6, 9. lxxxix. 11, 12, cxlvi. 6. and cxvlviii. 1, 6. Isa. xliv. 24. Zech. xii. 1. Acts xiv. 15. xvii. 24. and iv. 24. Js. xlii. 5. Rev. iv. 11. x. 6. and xiv. 7. Rom. i. 19, 20. and xi. 36. The word, here rendered God, is plural, and denotes the Ones, the Divine persons, who equally concurred in the creation of all things. 1 Cor. viii. 6. "The Father of whom are ail things."—Mat. xi. 25. "He is Lord of heaven and earth." Eph. iii. 9. "God created all things by Jesus Christ." John i. 1, 3. "In the beginning was the Word (the Son) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God—all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." Col. i. 16. Prov. viii. 27, 30. Job xxvi. 13. "By his spirit he garnished the