all the elect, Eph. v. 26. has got many co-partners; and sinless perfection (falsely so called) is brought in as co-operator with infinite purity!

The chosen vessels of mercy are in public print called children of the hellish monster, while numbers in hell are contended for. Preaching particular redemption is called listening to the devil, and obeying his voice; but contending for traitors, apostates, and rebels, is called charity. But how the everlasting Father will approve of his own children being condemned, disinherited, excommunicated, and fathered on the devil, and bastards brought in their room, I know not; but we believe, as the father of the faithful could not prevail to keep his bastard in the house with Isaac, we have no room to suspect that any man will be able to bring in Judas, whom the Saviour so long ago delivered up to the devil.

Is it not strange that the pretended infallibility of a creature, who is unstable as water, should be set up, in the judgment of men, before the whole counsel of God; and that a person who contends for the damned in hell, and who by his acts sets himself above all that is called God, or worshipped, should be so zealously affected as to keep the throne of sinners consciences, while the sovereignty, the election, the righteousness, the wisdom, goodness, and strength of God, are set at nought and despised?

But all this is done in charity to flesh and blood, while the souls of poor sinners are perishing for

want of the true knowledge of God. This is called love and labouring hard to propagate errors, though it damns souls, is called the labours of love. But God says, "The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful; for the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, [by withholding strong meat from them;] and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail," Isaiah xxxii. 5, 6, by doing despite to the Spirit of Grace.

To teach souls to deny the stability of God's covenant, is setting them to rebel against the immutability of God in his counsel; and is sapping the foundation, and battering the bulwarks, both of the triumphant and militant church. To teach sinners to believe that an imperfect righteousness can justify them, is to overthrow the law; and to deny an imputed righteousness, is making the gospel a fable. "I am not, [says Paul,] ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed," Rom. i. 16. Whoever that man be, that commits this spiritual wickedness in profound ignorance, is a novice, and ought to stand aloof from the ministry; and he that doth it wilfully hath cast off the reins of fear, runs loose in the perilous path of presumption, and is guilty of the great transgression, Psalm xix. 12, 13.

Universal Charity, I perceive that thou art no friend to God, and, upon a strict trial, thou wilt

appear to be no friend to man. Out of pretended charity to fallen nature thou endeavourest to make the best of a bad matter, lest thou discourage fallen mortals. So thou tellest them that they are not without some power: and he that credits this is taught to reject the arm of the Lord, and slight the petition of the Psalmist, "Hold thou me up, and

I shall be safe."

Teaching men to deny the final perseverance of a saint in the strength of the Lord, because of his infirmities, is weakening his confidence in the sufficient grace and long suffering mercy of God. This doctrine is an enemy to faith, a nurse to unbelief, and a handmaid to the devil himself; because it makes us stagger at the immutable promises of God, and leaves a door for Satan, the accuser of the saints, to come in at.

To tell a man his works are profitable to, or can be available with God, is disfiguring the beauty, and lessening the value, of sovereign mercy. Setsing sinners to boast of power to make themselves clean, is setting them to reject the fountain God has opened for sin and uncleanness; and to tell a man he has power to come to Christ, choose him, and lay hold of him, is teaching him to give the Saviour the lie, and to reject the attracting cord of everlasting love, which saith, "No man can come to me except the Father draw him.”

He, who is taught to boast of free-will, is taught to reject the day of God's eternal power, Psalm cx. 3. He, who is taught to believe he is perfect

in the flesh, makes the groaning petitions of the Holy Ghost, and the intercession of Jesus Christ, of none effect to him. That man that denies any one plain truth rejects the counsel of God; and he, that appears so infallible as to alter it, is too proud to submit to the prophetic office of Christ; and he, who will not allow Christ to choose or refuse whom he pleases, in a sense justifies the ancient saying of rebels, and tells Christ he shall not reign over him. He, who makes the best of man's fall, lessens the benefit of the cross; and he, who can pay one mite to God, rejects the gospel surety. He that is whole needs not the physician; and he that is not totally lost is never likely to be saved. All these are towering imaginations, that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God; a man drunk with such phantoms has lost his senses, and he that dies in them will certainly lose his soul.

If this be the human system of Arminian grace, and they preach final apostasy from this, they speak the truth; we agree with them. We are as sure that a building of hay, straw, and stubble, will suffer loss, as we are that the building of mercy shall reap everlasting gain; and we no more doubt of lies being established in hell than we doubt of truth being settled in heaven.

Another crime committed by Universal Charity is her counterfeiting the graces of God's Spirit: but I suppose these labels are tied to the mouth of the sack, in order to vend the tares the better. O wretched delusion! I wish their souls had felt what

mine has: they would then loathe themselves, and bless God for a crucified Saviour; for, when they have done and said what they please, there is no way to heaven but by grace, through faith in Christ Jesus.

They talk wonderfully about faith: but, finding they deny the doctrine of election, and fight against it, we readily conclude theirs is not the faith of God's elect; and, as their faith is allowed to fail, we know it is not the faith that Christ prayed for; because some honestly affirm that their faith makes them children of God to-day, but they may be children of the devil to-morrow. We know this is not that faith which leads from death to life, because such believers are never to come into condemnation; having everlasting life already. The faith of God's elect fights against, and overcomes, the world; but Arminian faith fights for the world, and tries to overcome the righteous.

If they talk of repentance, they are sure to set the cart before the horse; repentance, such as it is, comes first, and faith creeps along afterwards, to help this poor lame dog over the stile: and, when this faith has done its office, no righteousness is imputed to it, or to the possessor of it. God has promised an everlasting righteousness to faith, and faith is the hand to put that robe on: it is unto all and upon all that believe. But the Arminian faith is not a hand, but a covering: so man's fancy stands as a rival to the spotless obedience of Christ, which alone makes righteous.