found the strong, had ordained that the nurse of this child should be a woman of exemplary faith, who “walked in the Spirit, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.” The earnal mind of the Father still continued at “enmity with God,” but he was ere long to be brought to a conviction of his own unworthiness, and a delightful experience of the riches of redeeming love. The child being now about twenty months old, and beginning to prattle a few words; was one day sent for by the father, who was sitting after dinner with some of his profane acquaintances; to his great astonishment, the child repeated two or three times, in its infant tone, “O the Grace of God!!” These words made a deep, impression upon the father: he began to reflect upon his sins, and the power of that grace “which cleanseth from sin;” so long the subject of his impious ridicule. The Holy Ghost had “opened his heart,” and now brought him, like a sheep that had been astray, unto the fold of divine love. Since that time he has ever walked as becometh one called in the Lord, “bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.” The words which through the grace of God, became the happy instrument of his conversion, were the customary ejaculations of his pious nurse, and had thus been learned by the infant. So truly was the Scripture verified, that “out of the mouths of babes and suckings the Lord has ordained praises.”
Free-grace exemplified in the Conversion of a Thief.
A notorious rubber in Scotland, known by the name of John-of-the-Score, happening to meet with a poor man travelling with two horses, forcibly took them both away, regardless of the intreaties of the distressed countryman, who
