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THE

EARTHEN VESSEL:

AND

CHRISTIAN RECORD & REVIEW;

FOR

1849.

VOLUME V.

London:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES PAUL, CHAPTER-HOUSE COURT,

PATERNOSTER ROW: AND

GEORGE W., JOHN W. & ROBERT BANKS, PAGODA TERRACE,
BERMONDSEY NEW ROAD, SOUTHWARK.

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G., J. AND R. BANKS, PRINTERS, BERMONDSEY NEW ROAD, SOUTHWARK, London.

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THE EARTHEN VESSEL.

A New Year's Address to the Church of God
AND TO THE READERS OF THE EARTHEN VESSEL."

HAIL! All hail, heaven-born sons of light, brothers and sisters in the Lord, partakers of the heavenly calling. We salute you all in the name of our lovely, and loving Lord Jesus, on this morning of another new year, 1849. 'Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Amen. Brethren! Time is short. Time is but the Lord's transforming moment of changing his church from her dying mortal state into immortality, eternal life, and glory everlasting. A thousand ages in his sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.' From our cradle to our grave this life is but one night of sickness-a sickness most loathsome, that no physician on earth can cure. Oh, poor sickly daughter of Zion! God, thine own Father, shall make thy bed in all thy affliction: he is thy great Watcher, that watcheth over thee every moment; and Jesus, thine own Husband, in thine own flesh, is thine only physician: his presence, his word, his love, and his blood, the only cure for thy sickly soul. Up, saint! and look out at your windows: the morning cometh-the breath and the dews of the morning shall cheer thee. God help thee. Ah, God, thine own Father, help thee to look off the dying things of a moment, and to look by faith through the glass of his word, (if but dimly,) and to see through the momentary vista of things temporal the things eternal, which God, that cannot lie, hath promised to all those that love him. 'For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' 2 Cor. iv. 17.

Awake! awake! Come, 'Let us not sleep as do others: let us watch and be sober.' What! sleep while the thunders of God's judgments are roaring around us? What! slumber while the sound of the trumpet and the alarm of war is echoing in at our windows; and while the sword is made fat, in ten thousand of our falling fellow mortals? Shall we sleep and be snoaring while the pestilence is devastating around us, and while the plague is in our own earthly houses? May the alarm of war, and the stench of our own sins, awake us to watchfulness, prayer, self-examination, and righteousness, that we may know where we stand in these evil times; that VOL. V.-PART XLVIII.-Jan. 1849.

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we may not stand on another man's faith, nor walk in another man's light; but rather let us pray that we may have the light of life in our own souls, and the witness of the Holy Spirit in our spirits, that we may know that we stand on holy ground, and in the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High;' even in Jesus, where God himself dwells; and then we shall say. Blessed be the glory of the Lord from this place.' No place of safety but in holiness, and that is 'the holy and secret place of the Most High; even in love, and the life of God, and the life of God in our own souls, and thus we shall abide in his love, and his love abide in us; and abide under the shadow of the Almighty;' even Jesus, whose blood and righteousness is a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, and the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.'

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And now, friends, with regard to self, we have but little to say, because we do not like much egotism. We have passed through some sore conflicts, fiery trials, afflictions, and temptations, and some persecution, but they are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us; and, God be praised, we have had, in the midst of all, some happy moments, some holy dews and sunshine, which have been exceeding sweet; but the days of darkness have been many. The days of youth, both in nature and grace, are generally the most blythesome, lightsome, joyful days; but, nevertheless, at evening-tide it shall be light.

Respecting our Earthen Vessel, we would say to the readers and correspondents, that some things have been very encouraging, and some discouraging. Many have been professedly strengthened, encouraged, and built up, through its contents; and some few have complained that too many prolix and insipped pieces have been inserted. To this we say,-Well, the most richly laden vessels generally have some rubbish on board. Like all other human compositions on divinity, some pieces from our correspondents we trust have been excellent, some indifferent, and others, perhaps, would have been best left out. And you know, that in king Solomon's navy at sea, even the vessels that brought home gold, silver, and ivory, had some apes and pea

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