tors, and the resurrection of many dead bodies, stand upon record to give the brutal passions of such God-hating hypocrites an everlasting rebuke.

Mr. Charity, thou appearest to be an enemy both to God and man; and I believe, upon an impartial trial, we shall find thee a chip of the old block.

We know Satan told our first parents, they should be as Gods, knowing good and evil, if they would cast off God's easy yoke of obedience, and credit a lie: and Universal Charity labours hard to confirm his words. Some, under the mask of pretended affection, have crowded whole troops of apostates among the redeemed flock of Christ, and excommunicated and reprobated others, whose names are written in heaven: this is aiming at divine sovereignty.

Others are taught to trust in their own righteousness, which God calls filthy rags, Isaiah lxiv. 6; and to reject the righteousness which God has provided, Isaiah xlvi. 13; this is going about to establish a righteousness of the sinner's own, Rom. x. 3; upon the dishonoured obedience of the Saviour, which is to make many righteous, Rom. v. 19. And what is this but contending with the Lord to know who is to bear the incommunicable name of Jehovah our Righteousness? To tell a sinner he is perfect in the flesh, is teaching him to reject daily dependence on sovereign grace, and is in effect leading him to mimic the self-existence of his Maker. Some are taught to reject many of the

essential truths of the Bible, and to believe contrary to the sense of others; and this is aiming at infinite wisdom, in attempting to be wise above what is written.

That man who denies the sovereignty of the Almighty, and calls his absolute decrees horrible, in order to establish his own free agency; and cries down God's acts of discriminating grace to exalt free will and power, acts worse than all the thousands of Babylon, and offers such indignity to the God of heaven as was never offered to Nebuchadnezzar for all the decrees he published. And what is this but laying violent hands on the sceptre of Christ, aiming at his throne, and invading his royal prerogative? And he who boasts of will or power to do any thing truly good, without God working in him both to will and to do of his own good pleasure, has quite forgotten by whom he subsists, and is aiming at the omnipotence of his Maker, “Without me ye can do nothing.”

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And he who cries down the testimonies of God, and exalts himself as infallible in the judgments of the ignorant, has quite forgotten that every man is a liar, Rom. iii. 4; and in effect says, I am the truth. And that man, who by uttering error against the Lord insinuates himself into the affections of sinners, and establishes himself there on the denial of Christ's particular redemption, becomes to such a soul an idol set up in the holy place of Christ, (where none ought to stand), provokes the Lord to jealousy, and in effect shews himself to be

God, and says, Thou shalt love me with all my heart.

We all know that God tells us to forsake them who have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof, 2 Tim. iii. 5; and not seek the living among the dead, or think to gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles. Therefore that man who tells us to feed on husks rather than hear them who declare the whole counsel of God; and to stick to the form rather than adhere to those preachers who declare all the power to be of God, and not of themselves 2 Cor. iv. 7; has cast off all the yoke of obedience, is exalted in the scorner's chair, and has assumed the seat of the eternal Lawgiver.

Some boast of ability to keep the law, and to arise and shake themselves from the dust, to create in themselves a new heart, &c. And he that can do this is a creator. However, all "the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens," Jer. x. 11. That preacher, who advances any doctrine contrary to the plain scriptures, disannuls his Maker's counsel, attempts to bring his Maker as a pupil to his feet, and is endeavouring to teach God knowledge, Job xxi. 22. That man shall never be a real lover of souls who does not declare the whole counsel of God. He shews the greatest love to sinners who points out to them their danger, and the only refuge that God has set before them in his word.

To lessen any command of the law, or mitigate

the severity of the threatening, is an affront offered to vindictive justice, and blunts the keen edge of her glittering sword, Deut. xxxii. 41. To teach men the wretched doctrine of final apostacy from the reigning grace of God, when a man is made a happy partaker thereof, is a most cruel reflection cast on the faithfulness of God, and is in effect giving him the lie in his promise, and declaring him perjured in his oath, Isaiah liv. 9. And that man who declares our standing in God's favour to consist in our being faithful to grace received, or improving our natural talent; and that redemption is sure to all who perform these conditions, whether sheep or goats; plainly contradicts the Saviour, who says, "I lay down my life for the sheep;" and gives his dying testimony the lie; when with his last breath he said, "It is finished."

Wonder, O heavens, and stand astonished, O earth, at this! Here is an infernal mask called Universal Charity, which passes current with thousands for the covering of God's eternal Spirit, though God's wo is unto him that wears it, Isaiah xxx. 1. Blasphemy is uttered against God, his temple on earth, and all the elect in heaven, Rev. xiii. 6; and worms are establishing themselves on the dishonoured, abused, and trampled perfections of the ever-blessed Deity; while lies, and doctrines of devils, pass for an everlasting gospel! The sovereignty of God is exploded, and free-agency introduced. The omnipotence of God, and his eternal fore-knowledge of the elect, is trampled upon, and

man's wisdom and power to improve his talent deified and set up. The omnipotent arm of the Almighty, which leads a sinner out of the world, Isa. xlii. 16, keeps him on in God's way, and is promised to bring him safely through, and not to suffer him to be cast down (that is to hell), even though he fall, Psalm xxxvii. 24, is cried down by a public bellman; and the excellency of human power to stand, or finally fall away, is established thereupon! The faithfulness and truth of God in his oath and promises, made sure to Christ and all his seed, Isa. lix. 21, are trampled down in the streets; and final apostasy from life and everlasting love is established thereon! The perfect obedience of Christ, who thought it no robbery to be equal with God, yet took on him the form of a servant, and became obedient to magnify the law which we had broken, and whose obedience alone is to justify many, Isaiah liii. 11, called of God an everlasting Righteousness, which is unto all, and upon all that believe, Rom. iii. 22; Dan. ix. 24, is called imputed nonsense; and pharisaical righteousness, which sets a sinner further from heaven than publicans and harlots, is substituted in the room of that! Matt. xxi. 31.

The eternal power of God, who has promised to make his chosen people willing in his own appointed day, Psalm cx. 3, is rejected, and self-will, which speaks evil of dignities, is enthroned in his stead! 2 Peter ii. 10. The blessed holy One of Israel, who alone is holy, and whose prerogative it is to sanctify