ways professed, and frequently realized, when possessing civil power, these principles, I repeat, "cruelty alone can disseminate, and ignorance alone receive;"* and should such principles be maintained by any other Church, which never can be proved, all we can say, is, that they merit the same unqualified abhorrence. Of the sincerity of the amiable and saintly Fenelon; of your late learned and venerable Archbishop, and of innumerable other worthies of your communion, I never entertained a doubt. It is the duty of all real Christians, to "judge not before the time, lest they be judged." Who, then, art thou, Mr. President, “that judgest another man's servant," or rather a man devoted to the service of Christ? Abandon this crying sin, my good sir. But if you deem it an essential mark of your Church to anathematize all, who dissent from her tenets, permit me, in return for your menacing entreaties, (nay, I am willing to suppose, your charitable exhortations, to abandon my apostacy,) to beseech you to ponder in the presence of God, and with a free and unshackled mind, the reasons of Protestants for their separating from your Church, and then, perhaps, you may be induced, by a similar act of apostacy, "to come out of her, lest you partake of those plagues," ," which you presume to pronounce so confidently against me. At any rate, you would oblige me by withholding the honour of any more of your letters, the disposal of which you can have no right to control, as you seem to imagine. When received, they become my property; but it is a property which I do not covet. Such letters stir up angry feelings, which I wish to forget, and they pick my pocket without an adequate consideration. They may, moreover, and probably will be mentioned, in a manner that may prevent Protestant parents, from exposing their children to instructors of this description.

With respect to your kind cautions against the caresses of my new friends, as you are pleased to style them, and their exertions to raise me to the Episcopate of New-Jersey, they are entirely superfluous; as I was never a candidate for that sacred and responsible office; and as to your sneers against Bible Societies, they may be entitled to some notice, when the declaration of the Apostle shall become obsolete, that "the Scriptures are able to make us wise unto salva

* See Theological Magazine No. 1, p. 22.

tion, through faith which is in Christ Jesus; all Scripture being given by inspiration of God, and being profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Tim. iii. 15, 16, 17.) In the mean time, if the dissemination of scriptural knowledge should overthrow any Protestant Churches, either in Europe or America, the sooner they fall the better. It might, however, be probably more wise to transfer your idle forebodings, respecting other Churches, to well-founded apprehensions for your own, arising from such a circumstance. At any rate, if, as you flatter yourself, Bible Societies are calculated to destroy the Church of England, and her sister Church in America, it evidently becomes your bounden duty to support them. You tell me, in finishing your letter, that you give me your name without fear of exposing it. Sorry I am, that neither my friends, nor myself, are able to decy. pher it. Turned every way, it remains unknown to us all. Mine is that of your sincere well-wisher,

CHARLES HENRY WHARTON, D. D.

and Presbyter of the Apostolical Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. of America.

STATING THE MOTIVES WHICH INDUCED HIM TO RELINQUISH THEIR COMMUNION, AND BECOME A MEMBER OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH.

NEW-YORK: REPUBLISHED BY DAVID LONGWORTH, 1817.

PHILADELPHIA: WILLIAM STAVELY, 1833.

"Give me understanding, O Lord, and I shall keep thy law: Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart."

"Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I de. light."-Psalm cxix. 34, 35.

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Any private man, who truly believes the Scripture, and seriously endea vours to know the will of God, and to do it, is as secure as the visible Church, more secure than your (the Roman Church,) from the danger of erring in fundamentals: for it is impossible that any man so qualified should fall into any error which to him will prove damnable. For God requires no more of any man to his salvation, but his true endeavour to be saved. Lastly, abiding in your Churches communion is so far from securing me or any man from damnable error, that if I should abide in it, I am certain I could not be saved. For abide in it, I cannot, without professing to believe your entire doctrine true profess this I cannot, but I must lie perpetually, and exulcerate my conscience. And though your errors were not in themselves damnable, yet to resist the known truth, and to continue in the profession of known errors and falsehood, is certainly a capital sin, and of great affinity with the sin which shall never be forgiven.--Chillingsworth's Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation, 4th edition, p. 215.