"A living and dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World.ģ. "We can only admire and bless the Father, for electing us in Christ, and for laying on Him the iniquities of us all:-the Son, for taking our nature and our debts upon Himself, and for that complete righteousness and sacrifice, whereby he redeemed his mystical Israel from all their sins:-and the co-equal Spirit, for causing us (in conversion) to feel our need of Christ, for inspiring us with faith to embrace him, for visiting us with his sweet consolations by shedding abroad his love in our hearts, for sealing us to the day of Christ, and for making us to walk in the path of his commandments. Questions and Answers, relative to the National Debt.Ī. In the Gospel Magazine for March, 1776 (of which Toplady was then the editor), there appeared a peculiar article entitled, A remarkable Calculation: Introduced here, for the sake of the spiritual Improvement subjoined. Make those words of the apostle, your motto: 'Perplexed, but not in despair cast down, but not destroyed.'"Ģ. Look to the blood of the covenant and say to the Lord, from the depth of your heart, Pray afresh to God, who is able to raise you up, and to set you on your feet again.
"Yet, if you fall, be humbled but do not despair. In the October number of the Gospel Magazine, 1775, in an article on "Life a Journey," and signed Minimus (one of Toplady's signatures), the following occurs at p.