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MEMOLES LIFE REV. JAMES FRASER OF BREA fpovree ov ve coc ar WRITTEN BY HISISELF. THE FOURTH EDITION, y ABERDEEN: GEC GH AND ROBERT KING, 28, SF. NICHOLAS STREET; QBN JOHXSTONE, AND OLIVIA AND BOYD, FDIN- BURGH; WILLIAM COLLINS, GLASGOW; AND HAMILTON, ADANS, & Co, PATERNOSTER HOW, LONDON, ‘M.DECO,XLIU. PUBLISHERS OF THE FIRST EDITION, TIE READER, Suwune copiva of the following memuirs having been wrote eit ly the reverent author's own hand, far tho we of particular rninjatons ond private chtians of his acquaintaneo, and hatnlod feom one person to anather, hae raleed a desire in such wx hed not the propinty of dun copies, but only the use of then for sume shunt ane, thel a fair and correct oBtion of the hook raight he printed, fi their benefit and for the heneft of others ‘ello have not bad the advautage to read it. 25 together with the dusire of some of the author's frivnds Wl nowzest relations in life, inducod ses to atternpt this publ ceation; and we em assure you, that after sosnparitg our enpy (which, 0 you'll sun by the prefacu, is dedicated to the reverensl Ne. Thonms Ross sometime avinister at ‘Tin, with a pawor {wim to pablish ior not a he please) with some sther cops xf found tu be the moxt corveet, and in the newent language ¢ snd hi to the reverendacuhor’s bostowiyg mare partionbur prio on it than nn ofler copies, herause of the prow ability that t would sonetigas of atlce be pabished, Ht has likewike this aivantae hegond the other copies, that « particular account of his sutierings ly impeisamuent, Ke. (also “sviten by his ww hud) is te fognel at the ea af te bunk, ‘hich is not insert in any other cups oF it that we hares sce Awd now, wishing yeat may, on eenlinge of it, rp the Hemel ‘he yor crend ator Sntinded by it, we rest, ’ Youn Wena sen, THE PREFACE, ‘Tue dosign of publishing thi part of the works of the worthy authur, is to do honour to his memory, aul to gratify severals, whose savour of piety bath eudeared it to them o€ whom we might mention some of high tinction. If it be asked why it was not published svouer, there is ng other reason to be given, than thot it was a loss, and that better now that not at atl. By the dediva- tion to Mr. Thomas Ross (a singularly pions minister in ihy north) the author seems to give perinission to publish so that tho world may'be fully satiafied that the work in genuine, being copied frum that writ by his pwn hand; af the truth of which they may rest asnred, as wan be attested by soveral ministers stil living. The reasun why Mr. Thomas Ross did not canse to publish it probably was, that he was st the time he received it, in prison 2t ‘Faiv, and died there in prison, or suon theresfter. ‘Such as had « tender regard for the author, wished that. this had been pnblished pt the sane time with the first part of bis treatise on faith; particularly as this wanld help to clear up that, os tw sams things dark, and nut so very obvious, at leant till it wax theight propor to publish the Is was and is the wish of anauy, that tho cent of his life, partioulacly after iiiv set- tlomeut at Calzo%, had been gots for surely he wrote ali + but, after all the search pbesible, this could nut bu found. This now published is however very valnabld, and will be s» exteemed by the truly serious and sevoul part of that. treatise. ~ during mh PHEFACE, judicious, boing a very e&tional account of conversion, as to beginning, progress and isu, and of the operation ofthe Splrit of Ged on the heart; and euch an account of faith as cannot but please thove who love it, and may, by the blessing of God, help to engage to it snch as hitherto bad it not in reality. There is perhaps no other performance fives a more distinct aveount of a aupernataral work of grace; and it is thought not to be uneensonable at this junctre, for reviving piety and the exercise of grace, and convicting thogs who make a jest of these serious matters. ‘The first eight chapters, dedicated to Mr. ‘Thomas Rass, were allowed by himself to he published ; what follows is judged to be of good use, and therefore published with the reat. DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR, MR. THOMAS ROSS. Reverexo 811, 1 bave thought the disregarding of the Lord's providences to be one common great: but among profaseed frienils of Christ, Isa. v. 12; Paakm axviii, 5. AJ] God's ways, being wisdom and gooduens, are worthy of observation ;-but especially thase where- with ourselves are exercised (as having most certainty and falter information of them, and concerning ourselvcs roast) are much te bo observed, Prov. xxiii. 26. And these providenoes that concern our spiritual estate ninst of any, wherein the Lord hath appeated more eminently, Hxod, sii, 49, A. night much to be observed unto the Lord, Se, I have in nothing heen more refreshed, quickened, and odified, than by hearing and reading of the spiritual oxpotiencos of others of the Lorde people, Heb. xii, Ls and in notbing more comforted and sanctified than by 1 serione recalling to mind of the Lord’s deslings with mo. ‘Three ways doth the Lord reveal bimeelf: by his word, by his works of creation, and by his works of pro- vidence ; ond itis man's happiness to know him thus re- venleil, John xvli. 4. And these are the several glasses through which the idvisible God is seen, John iv. 16. God doth-nut. reveal himself to any that’ this might be not only among open cuemies,