220 UEXRY KlilKE WHITE S REMAINS. 



forbid. As for Faith, if our hearts are hardened, and 

 we cannot feel that implicit, that fervent belief, which 

 the Scripture requires, let us pray to God that he will 

 send his Holy Spirit down upon us, that he will enlighten 

 3ur understanding with the knowledge of that Truth 

 which is too vast, too sublime for human understandings, 

 unassisted by Divine Grace, to comprehend. 



I have here drawn a hasty outline of the gospel plan 

 of salvation. In a future letter I shall endeavour to fill 

 it up. At present I shall only say, think on these things ! 

 — They are of moment inconceivable. Read your Bible, 

 in order to confirm yourself in these sublime truths, and 

 pray to God to sanctify to you the instructions it con- 

 tains. At present I would turn your attention exclu- 

 sively to the New Testament. Read also the book which 

 accompanies this letter ; — it is by the great Locke, and 

 will serve to show you what so illustrious a philosopher 

 thought of revelation. 



* * * * 



TO MR R. A . 



Nottiughain, 7th May 1804. 

 Dear Robkrt, 



You don't know how I long to hear how your decla- 

 mation was received, and " all about it, * as we say in 

 these parts. I hope to see it, when I see its author and 

 pronouncer. Themistocles, no doubt, received due praise 

 from you for his valour and subtlety ; but I trust you 

 poured down a torrent of eloquent indignation upon the 

 ruling principles of his actions, and the motive of his 

 conduct; while you exalted the mild and unassuming 

 virtues of his more amiable rival. The object of Them- 

 istocles was the aggrandisement of himself, that of Aris- 

 tides the welfare and prosperity of the state. The one 

 endeavoured to swell the gloi^y of his country ; the other 

 to promote its security, external and internal, foreign 

 and domestic. While you estimated the services which 

 Themistocles rendered to the state, in opposition to those 



