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 save the chief of sinners? I do. And what are you? A young, but a great sinner. Is it not of his mercy that you know and feel yourself to be a sinner? Certainly, yes, it must be so. Do you earnestly desire to forsake all sin? If I know myself, I do. Do you feel a spirit within you resisting sin, and making you hate it? Yes, I hope so. Who gave you that Spirit? was you always so? It must be, Christ who loved me and gave himself for me: I was quite different once. Now then, my dear Jane; does not all this show a connection between the lord Jesus Christ and your soul? Does it not seem as if you lived, and moved, and had a spiritual being irom him? Just as a limb is connected with your body, and so with your head, and thereby gets power to live and move through the flowing of the blood from the one to the other; so are you spiritually a limb or member of Christ, if you believe in him and live to his praise and glory. Do you understand me? Yes, sir, I believe I do; and it is very comfortable to my thoughts to look up to Christ as a living head, and to consider myself as the least and lowest of all his members. Now tell me what your thoughts are as to being a child of God? I am sure sir, I do not deserve to be called his child. Can you tell me who does deserve it? No one, sir, How then comes any one to be a child of God, when by nature we are all children of wrath? By God's grace, sir. What does grace mean? Favour, free favour to sinners Right; and what does God bestow upon the children of wrath, when he makes them children of grace; A death unto sir, and a new birth unto righteousness. Is it not, sir? Yes, this is the fruit of Christ's redeeming love; and I hope you