through the application of several exceedingly great and precious promises to his heart, by the blessed Spirit of God. It was, moreover, his happy lot, in those early days, to have his mind irradiated with the light and knowledge of the evangelical doctrines, under the ministry of several Gospel preachers, in those parts of the country, whom, at times, he had the opportunity of hearing. And as these sublime truths came to him, not in word only, but in power, and also in the Holy Ghost, and in much