so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. John 3: 16, 17.-Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 1: 29.-For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim. 2: 3, 4.---The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Pet. 3: 9.----Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering ; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. Rom. 2: 4.---If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1: 5.---Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so

hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Acts 13: 46, 47.

How God, the righteous Judge, will pro

nounce sentence on those who were disobedient to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, see :---- -When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thes. 1: 7, 8. For if we sin wilfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking-for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy, under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace. Heb. 10: 26-29.-And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not, shall be damned. Mark 16: 15, 16.

ARTICLE TENTH.

OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE; AND OF ELECTION AND

REPROBATION.

Or the providence of God, and of the election of the righteous and the reprobation of the wicked, we believe:-That as God is omnipo

tent, and that nothing is impossible for him to do or accomplish; so also is he omniscient, and in his foreknowledge seeth all things, and nothing is hid or concealed from him, neither in heaven nor on earth; so that he seeth as well the things which will be at the consummation of all things, as also those which have been from eternity. And in this, his divine providence, and boundless knowledge and wisdom, he foresaw from the beginning, from eternity, who will be the true believers that will receive and accept his offered mercy and grace; and, on the other hand, who will be the unbelievers that will despise and reject it. Hence it is, that God, from the beginning, from eternity, foreknew, foresaw, elected and foreordained all the true believers to become heirs of eternal blessedness, through Christ Jesus our Lord; and on the contrary, all the unbelievers and despisers of his mercy and grace, he has rejected and condemned to eternal damnation. Thus the sinner is lost by wilfully turning his ears away from the voice of the Lord, and rejecting his offered mercy and grace; and the believer by humbly receiving it is saved, through the atoning merits of Christ Jesus, without whom we can do nothing.

But by no means do we believe, that that merciful and just God, whose dealings with his creatures are consistent, and in unison with his divine and holy nature and attributes, should have created, and from eternity foreordained,

doomed and reprobated, a majority of the human family to eternal damnation; or that he should, after they had fallen, through Adam's sin and transgression, and without their own knowledge, concurrence, or actual sin, have left them lie without help in this their helpless and deplorable estate of eternal death and misery, into which they had fallen by Adam's transgression alone; and without seeing in them, by their own actual transgression and sin, a just cause of their condemnation: that be far from this only good and righteous GOD!

Yet, on the contrary, we believe and acknowledge, with all the true followers of Christ, That God, in the beginning, created man good and upright, and that they should continue to be so. Also, that God hateth nothing of all that he hath created. But, after man had fallen into eternal death, sin and misery, by the subtlety and deceit of the devil, the gracious God, whose mercy extends to all his creatures, and who is not willing that any should be lost, hath, in his infinite love and mercy, through the merits and atonement of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, redeemed, bought and made them free from eternal death and misery, with their whole posterity; so that no one is condemned on account of Adam's sin and transgression; but God, the righteous Judge, will judge the world in righteousness, and render to every man according to his works, faith and practice; to the believers, who by patient continuance in well

doing seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life; but to the unbelievers and disobedient, will be tribulation and anguish, indignation and wrath.

Of the foreknowledge and providence of God, read:-And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. Acts 17: 26. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Is rael for the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. 32: 810.--But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Dan. 2: 28.--Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. Isa. 46: 9, 10.--Then Job an- swered the Lord and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Job 42: 1, 2.-Him, being delivered by determinate counsel and fore