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banners; they shall soar to meet their Lord attracted by divine love, and borne on in their flight by an almighty power! We shall ascend to him ; we shall be owned by him; we shall be seated near him; for CHRIST, who is our life, shall appeartherefore we shall appear with him in glory! Nor, shall it be merely the triumph of one day, or of any limited period, how long soever. It is the promise of his FAITHFULNESS and of his LOVE, that so we shall EVER be with the Lord. It is glory that shall never decay, a meeting secure fro all danger, from all possibility of future separation! In what circumstances of affliction shall not these consolations be felt? What torrent of tears shall they not be able to stop? What groans of dis tressed nature shall they not be sufficient to turn into songs of joy?

"Thanks, everlasting, ever new, ever-growing thanks, be to GOD, who always causeth us to triumph in CHRIST, in the views of such felicity! And let the whole choir of saints, the living and the dead, unite in one joyful AMEN."

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APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

SOME ACCOUNT

OF

THE REV. ROGER WILLIAMS,

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THINE is a fragrance that can never waste,

Though left for ages to the charter'd wind-
The holy odour will retain its zest,

Fresh as the balm, when bleeding from the rind
Of GILEAD-BALSAM TREES!

Congregat. Mag.

It is well known to the friends of MR. RICHARDS, that he had long intended to write the Life of ROGER WILLIAMS, a native of the Principality of Wales, and founder of the State of Rhode Island. Hence application was made to certain American divines for the materials of his biography. Dr. William Rogers, a very respectable Baptist minister at Philadelphia, (mentioned in the preceding memoir), in a letter addressed to MR. RICHARDS, just previous to his decease, dated July 1, 1818, says— "It is somewhat singular, that you should have

been thinking of a Memoir of ROGER WILLIAMS. Last spring I took it into my head that something ought to be done, and should I be successful in procuring materials, for which I have written to Providence, you shall have the benefit. Roger Williams-William Rogers. The same alphabeti cal letters!" Nothing has yet arrived from this quarter. But MR. RICHARDS had applied several years ago, to the Rev. Isaac Backus, a Baptist minister, in the state of Massachusetts, who died lately at a very advanced age. He was a

man

of plain good sense and piety, the author of several works, especially The History of New England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians, called Baptists, in three octavo volumes. In his hand-writing has been found A COMMUNICATION of some length, dated 1799, addressed to Mr. Richards. It is too good to be lost, and shall be inserted. I will then add what I have gleaned from other publications respecting ROGER WILLIAMS, of philanthropic memory. Deeply it is regretted that MR. RICHARDS has not left a single line on the subject. Mine is a mere outline. His able pen would have traced him from his early dawnings in the Principality, through his aggravated persecutions, by the New England magistrates, for asserting universal liberty of conscience, to the decline of his long and honourable career of mortality. His sun at length burst through every intervening cloud, and sunk beneath the horizon with an undiminished glory.

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