LIBEL, &c.

MR JOHN MACLEOD CAMPBELL, Minister of the Gospel at Row, You are indicted and accused this seventh day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, by the subscribers, heads of families, and inhabitants of the said parish, That albeit the doctrine of universal atonement and pardon through the death of Christ, as also the doctrine that assurance is of the essence of faith, and necessary to salvation, are contrary to the Holy Scriptures and to the Confession of Faith approven by the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, and ratified by law in the year sixteen hundred and ninety; and were moreover condemned by the fifth Act of the General Assembly held in the year seventeen hundred and twenty, as being directly. opposed to the word of God, and to the Confession of Faith and Catechisms of the Church of Scotland: Yet true it is and of verity, that you the said Mr John McLeod Campbell hold and have repeatedly promulgated and expressed the foresaid doctrines from the pulpit or other place or places from which you delivered discourses, as also in conversation, in your addresses to communicants at the celebration of the Lord's Supper, and in your ministerial visitations of families within your parish: In so far as on various occasions during the course of the last twelve months, you the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell have declared that God has forgiven the sins of all mankind whether they believe it or not: That in consequence of the death of Christ, the sins

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of every individual of the human race are forgiven: That it is sinful and absurd to pray for an interest in Christ, because all mankind have an interest in Christ already: And that no man is a Christian unless he is positively assured of his own salvation: And more particularly:

First, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in a sermon preached by you in the Floating Chapel at Greenock on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty, or on one or other of the days of that month or of March immediately preceding, or May immediately following, used the following expressions, or at least expressions of a similar import and tendency, videlicet: "Before I can say to any man fear God and give him glory, I must know that his condemnation is taken away, and his sins forgiven;" And again,," It is a fact at this moment of every person present that his sins are put away, and if I did not know this, I could not say to you fear God and give him glory, because it would be an impossibility:" And again, "I could not conceive any thing I could ask of God which he has not told me that he has already given me:" And again, "Christ's right to judge men is that he has redeemed them :" And again, "Judgment pre-supposes our forgiveness." And again, "It is as persons who have been forgiven that we shall be judged:" And again, “ We cannot repent and give God glory unless we now have forgiveness:" And again, "There could be no judgment to come, unless there had been pardon to come."

Secondly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell in a sermon preached by you at Row, on the eighth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, in presence of the Presbytery of Dumbarton, being the day on which the said Presbytery held a parochial visitation of the parish of Row, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of June immediately preceding, or of August immediately following, used the following expressions, or at least expressions of a similar

import and tendency, videlicet, "That he alone bore the character of peace-maker who knew that Christ died for every human being:" And again, in speaking of the love of God, you said, "That that love to every individual of Adam's family was equal or according to the agonies of the Son of God:" And again, in speaking of the words in the fifth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, "Blessed are they that mourn," you said, "that the causes of this mourning were not within the believer, his sins having been taken away, but they existed outwardly in the unbelief and sinfulness of the world."

Thirdly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in a Sermon preached by you in the School-house at Helensburgh, on one of the days of the month of October eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, used the following expression or expressions of a similar import and tendency, videlicet: "That it was a gross error in the modern preachers of evangelical doctrines to maintain that the reason why men were not cured was that they did not seek an interest in Christ or come to him, because according to his idea an interest in Christ was the privilege of all men indiscriminately, and that the reason why men were not happy in the enjoyment of it was, that they would not allow themselves to be persuaded that they were continually in a state of reconciliation:" And again, "That the only cause why a man should at any time be sorrowful, was regret or dissatisfaction at himself, for not believing himself to be in a state of favour with God:" And again, "That by the death of Christ, all mankind were put into a state of pardon, or in that state in which God was not imputing their sins to them, and that the continued belief of this fact was all that was necessary to constitute the faith of the gospel."

Fourthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in the sermon preached by you as aforesaid on the eighth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, in presence of the

Presbytery of Dumbarton, being the day on which the Presbytery held a parochial visitation of the parish of Row, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of June immediately preceding, or of August immediately following, used the following expressions, or at least expressions of a similar import and tendency, videlicet, "That it was an indispensable feature in the character of a Christian, that he should know that God has had mercy on him, and has forgiven him."

Fifthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell in the sermon preached by you as aforesaid, in the school-house at Helensburgh, on one of the days of the month of October eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, used the following expressions, or expressions of a similar import and tendency, videlicet, "That men allowing themselves to remain in doubt with respect to the simple fact of their having been individually restored to a state of favour with God, was the cause of all their misery, and that this was really the unbelief which the gospel condemns, it was giving the lie to God."

Sixthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell at the dispensation of the Lord's Supper at Row, in the month of July eighteen hundred and thirty, in fencing the tables, debarred from the Lord's Supper, "all who had not a personal assurance of their own salvation."

Seventhly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in a sermon preached by you in the parish church of Row, on the fourth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of June immediately preceding, or August immediately following, used the following expressions, or expressions of a similar im port and tendency, videlicet, "All men are both under the curse and under grace at the same time:" And on the same occasion, you said that the doctrine of the Church of Scotland regarding election "tended to fatalism."

Eighthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, at a parochial examination at Easterton, in the parish of Row, in the autumn of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, when explaining the nature of faith from the question in the Shorter Catechism, "What is faith in Jesus Christ," observed, "That none could receive and rest upon Christ for salvation, who had not an assurance of their own salvation ;" or words to that effect.

Ninthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in a sermon preached by you at Row on the fourth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of June immediately preceding, or August immediately following, used the following expressions, or expressions of a similar import and tendency, videlicet, "That every man is in this state, that while he has in him death in Adam, he has life given him by Christ,"-" That the curse in Adam extended only to the death of the body, and takes effect upon all-the blessing of life in Christ is co-extensive with the curse, and belongs to all upon whom the curse has passed-that if Christ had not died, mankind would not have risen, nor would they have gone to hell to eternal punishment, but to Hades.”

Tenthly, You the said Mr John M'Leod Campbell, in the sermon preached by you as aforesaid, in the Floating Chapel at Greenock, on the said twenty-eighth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of March immediately preceding, or May immediately following, used the following expressions, or expressions of a similar import or tendency, videlicet, "Now, inasmuch as it is true concerning you, that in the first place, the work of God in Christ has put away your sins, so that it is the fact, that your sins are at this moment not imputed to you-inasmuch as it is true, in the second. place, that the character of God, the real name of God, what he truly is, is revealed in this very work of God in