ness, which fills the soul with joy and peace in the faith of it, Rom. xv. 13; rejoices in the truth of a saint's persevering, and makes him go on his way rejoicing, and praising God with joyful lips; gives the saint a full persuasion of his safe arrival in glory, and tells him he shall return with songs and everlasting joy upon his head, Isaiah xxxv. 10.

Charity beareth all things; beareth all oppositions, temptations, and reproaches, from false doctors, and all the arrows shot from their bows, rather than give up one grain of God's truth to their fancy. Believeth all things. Never calls God to an account about his decrees, nor teacheth men so to do; never arraigns God at the bar of carnal reason, nor allows it to be done; but believeth all things (errors excepted); crediteth the doctrines of election, and its opposite, reprobation; believes the elect shall all attain to the righteousness of faith without the law, Rom. ix. 30, and that all the rest shall not attain to it, though they seek it by the work of the law, Rom. ix. 32; believes that all the elect shall be taught of God, and the rest shall be ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, 2 Tim. iii. 7.

Charity believes that all who are written in the Lamb's book of life shall be saved, Dan. xii. 1; yea, all that are found written among them who are ordained to eternal life, and enrolled in the heavenly Jerusalem, Isaiah iv. 3; and that they shall bear the names of called, chosen, and faithful, even in

heaven, Rev. xvii. 14; and believes all who are not thus written in heaven shall be cast into the lake, Rev. xx. 15. In short, divine charity believes every truth in the book of God, but knows nothing of the new manufactured doctrines of Popery, Arminianism, and Mahometanism, or any other lies spoken in hypocrisy, but calls them the doctrines of devils, 1 Tim. iv. 1. And never doubts but God will judge the world in righteousness, and the people with equity; and make his sovereign acts appear as clear as the sun, and his just dealings as the noon-day.

Charity never sets an universal lover to teach God knowledge, or as a counsellor to instruct him in the path of judgment, much less to condemn his eternal counsel, that a worm may appear righteous. Hopeth all things; hopeth to enjoy all the blessings of an everlasting covenant, and makes the soul believe he shall never be disappointed of his hope, or have his expectation cut off; but leads him into the enjoyment of hope to come, and makes a soul rejoice in hope of the glory of God; yea, and enables him in the strongest confidence to leave his very flesh to rest in hope.

Charity endureth all things. Endureth all things rather than part with any truth, or her portion therein; yea, rather than cast away her confidence for that hellish principle of falling from grace : yea, will cry and pray day and night, as all the elect do, Luke xviii. 7, rather than part with her daily

dependance on God by faith and prayer, or ex change it for that independent self-exalting and flesh-easing doctrine of sinless perfection.

Charity never faileth. Charity is a divine love fixed from all eternity, Jer. xxxi. 3; appears and draws a soul to Christ in time, John vi. 65; and shall never be taken from him, until the faithfulness of an unchangeable God can fail, Psalm lxxxix. 33.

Charity never faileth; it knows nothing of final apostacy from adopting grace, or disinheriting the subjects of it; never dreams of God being perjured in his oath, or of the unalterable promise failing Christ and his seed; has not the least idea of an everlasting covenant being broken, or of the holiness, truth, justice, and faithfulness, of God appearing an everlasting blank to his elect, who are secured by every perfection of deity, and with ten thousand times ten thousand promises and blessings, besides a whole cloud of witnesses.

And we, in the name of the eternal and invisible God, defy all the legions of devils now in hell, and all the reprobate sinners of mankind now with them together with all the universal lovers on earth, ever to point out the person who, the period when, or the crime for which, one single soul, chosen of God in Christ from all eternity, and redeemed by the blood of Jehovah the Saviour, and internally called and sealed by the Holy Ghost, ever dropped into hell as an heir of wrath. As I said before, so I say again, I defy you all to shew me, out of the word of God, or even out of any of the infernal annals of

Beelzebub himself, that any one subject of special grace ever fell as an everlasting spoil for devils.

We believe many canonized by popes have dropped into purgatory for ever, and the papists do not altogether deny it; and we believe many fools, who have boasted of fleshly perfection, have gone from their paradise to perdition, agreeable to Christ's word, they who exalt themselves shall be abased. And we doubt not but many have fallen from Arminian grace; and that Cain, and others inrolled by universal lovers, are in hell. But what has all this to do with the point in hand? Indeed nothing. Popish rules and God's decrees are, and ever will be, two different things. God gives heaven, and the pope cannot sell it. Samson made sport enough for the Philistines, when they prevailed only to blind his eyes: but surely a spiritual Nazarite in hell would make much more sport than Samson.

Talking of God's love being fixed on all the human race one minute, and of redeemed souls being in hell the next, is such dreadful charity as can come from none but the devil. We all know that Arminian prophecies have failed; that tongues boasting of fleshly perfection have ceased; and that a pretended infallibility hath vanished away: but still we hold that faith, hope, and charity, abide among the elect; and that the greatest of these is charity; and that charity never faileth. " And, if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?" Job xxiv. 25.

I have for some years narrowly watched the won

derful effects of this strange sort of charity; but never saw it produce any better fruits on the minds of others than it did on my foolish deluded soul. A man and his wife once attended my ministry at Thames-Ditton. The man was apt to drink, and used to persecute the gospel; and his wife was of a very vain turn of mind: however they both heard me for some time, and a visible reformation appeared on them; but soon the woman fell sick; and, having a family of seven or eight children, they were oppressed with poverty, and at that time I was almost in the same predicament. But there was an Arminian who lived in the place; she visited this poor sick woman, and, in order to get her ear, appeared very liberal. Whether Universal Charity allows a premium to be given for converts I cannot tell, but I am informed that popery does; but whether the pope pays them in cash, or in superstition, I know not. However, for want of abi lity to give alms, I lost my convert; and, when the poor woman appeared abroad again, she was established in the scorner's chair, and told me that Christ died for Cain and Judas as well as for me; and what was I? Finding her engaged in this awful rebellion against God, I thought it proper to let her alone. However she sent many messages to me about Christ's dying for all. I sent her word, that Í feared he did not die for her. The answer she returned is too lewd to mention.

What divinity this Arminian planted in the poor woman's judgment I know not; but I have room