LIFE OF 



one who would become a successful candidate for future 

 blessedness. He had supposed that morality of conduct 

 was ail the purity required ; but when he observed that 

 purity of the very thoughts and intentions of the soul 

 also was requisite, he was convinced of his deficiencies, 

 and could find no comfort to his penitence, but in the 

 atonement made for human frailty by the Redeemer of 

 mankind ; and no strength adequate to his weakness, 

 and sufficient for resisting evil, but the aid of God's 

 Spirit, promised to those who seek him from above in 

 the sincerity of earnest prayer." 



From the moment when he had fully contracted these 

 opinions, he was resolved upon devoting his life to the 

 promulgation of them ; and therefore to leave the law, 

 and, if possible, place himself at one of the Universities. 

 Every argument was used by his friends to dissuade him 

 from his purpose, but to no effect : his mind was unal- 

 terably fixed ; and great and numerous as the obstacles 

 were, he was determined to surmount them all. He had 

 now served the better half of the term for which he was 

 articled ; his entrance and continuance in the profession 

 had been a great expense to his family ; and to give up 

 this lucrative profession, in the study of which he had 

 advanced so far, and situated as he was, for one wherein 

 there was so little prospect of his obtaining even a decent 

 competency, appeared to them the height of folly or of 

 madness. This determination cost his poor mother many 

 tears ; but determined he was. and that by the best and 

 purest motives. Without ambition he could not have 

 existed, but his ambition now was to be eminently use- 

 ful in the ministry. 



It was Henry's fortune, through his short life, as he 

 was worthy of the kindest treatment, always to find it. 

 His employers, Mr Coldham and Mr Enfield, listened 

 with a friendly ear to his plans, and agreed to give up 

 the remainder of his time, though it was now become 

 very valuable to them, as soon as they should think his 

 prospects of getting through the University were such 

 as he might reasonably trust to ; but till then, they felt 

 themselves bound, for his own sake, to detain him. Mr 



