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Laa cartaa. planchaa, tablaaux, ate, pauvant fttra filmte i daa taux da rMuetion diff4rants. Lorsqua la documant ast trop grand pour Atra raproduit an un saul clichA, ii aat film* i partir da I'angia sup4riaur gaucha, da gaucha A drolta, at da haut an bas, an pranant la nombra d'imagas nAcaaaaira. Las diagrammaa suivants illuatrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 I^jiw ^ CERTAIN FOR* 5t^ BNTITLED TRUTH DEFENDED. FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST, AGAINST THE WORLD, THE FLESH, !■■ AND THE DEVIL ; aKd Si^- A'POSTOLr" SUCCE^SIOI CONTRASTED WITH THE OPPOSITE. ^ •* iJ BT JOHN C, VROlt THB WILDERNESS OV NEW BRUMSWIOK. SAINT JOHN, N.B. .., v. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR AND BY JOHN CG^LtlWS, rOLLINSVILLE, NEW BRUXSVTICK. r*- ^ '^s 1 xU'- v. aV'-. ''^^., ■:'e> " Tliy kind admonition shall guide me from danger, On thee my last lingering hope now depends. Hope wakens to vigour, and rises to glory — I II hasten and flee unto the promised land ; For refuge lay hold on the hope set before me Revealed in the Bible that lay on the stand. The old-fashioned Bible, &c. Hail rising the brightest and best of the morning. The Star that has guided my parents safe home : t THE FAMILY BIBI.K. A beam of thy glory my pathway adorning. Shall scatter my darkncsA and brighten my gloom ; As the Eastern Sagos to woi-hhip the stranger, In ecstacy hastenVI lo CanaanV blest land, I'll bow to adore him, but not in a manger, He's seen in the Bible that lay on the stand. The old-fashioned BiBLL, &c. Tho' age and misfortune press hard on my feelings, I'll flee to the Bible and trust in the LORD ; Though darkness should cover his merciful dealings, My soul is still cheered by his heavenly word. And now from things earthly ray soul is removing : I soon shall shout glory with Heaven's bright band, In raptures of joy be forever adoring The God of the Bible that lay on the stand. The old-'ashioned Bible — the dear blessed Biblk, The Family Biblb that lay on the -stand. ; f '^]|ttw ar Wv'fs* hlnvf ■^aino^'i htm yuaiotn sA .„ f *'-^ . ■ ■^'■■'■9ih ami iiu turf. liA , •■■■■■■'• ' ■ :'dmii ill ,.■ . :>.4Ct '■ ^ •W" X .* Ji'>:i.Ui >i<.f.' rL f'- ^4 ^d•k■0if'h V'siil, ^ P R E F A C K •f*-v "# FoK many years past, I have been grieved when I have observed the lives and conduct of ungodly Ministers; but before I enjoyed relipon, like otlioi-s I would call them up for my own Justification. I said by this, that unless ungodly Ministoi's were exposea and expelled, we never could have the millennium — for worldly, wicked, and ignorant men would be glad to have such a pretext to indulge and carry on their ini- quitous practices ; and I have wanted some one zealous and competent to take up the pen, and if jjossible prevent the blind leading the olind, until they both fall into a pit. But I could get no man wilhng to write on such subjects, although many were conscious of the iniquity ; and one said they were afraid, and another thought somebody else should do it. At length I took up my pen, determined to write a little on the subject, but what I wrote did not please me, and I thought it would not please any body else — so I gave it up; but the impression that something ought to be done remained on my mind. After a time I tried again, and was about to give it up altogether, for three reasons — first, because I was unacquainted with grammar ; second, I saw I must come in contact with the whole world ; and third, with all the religious systems (so called^ of the professing Churches, with some exceptions, ^ut as I was musing one evening in Mr. Hastings' parlour in Golden Grove, and beholding my position, I was oppressed; and all at onco the impression came like a voice (as it did upwards of thirty years since), that I should go and speak for Jesus, aida I was ready to say has the lot fallen upon John, and must I deliver my message like the pro- phet Jonah of old ; but like him I thought I must run away : it seemed in having to meet all the opposition that appeared to rise up before me was to have to fight the great battle of Armageddon. But if faithf'^^Iy fought in the Valley of Humiliation, with the arm of the Captain Oi tv raers hosts to rest upon, we (his allies) like him conquer death by dying, and gain eternal life and an heaveulv crown. After this I came to a de- cision on the subject, and determineif to persevere in my first intentions ; and should the Doasting D. D'.s hold their jubilee (and I can but ex- pect that the popes of human nature, both the higher and lower orders of them, will raise their clamorous voices against me), I rejoice that I can lean upon the arm of my Heavenly Father, and through his strength shall be enabled to proclaim and assert my independence. And now Lord, as thou never despiseth the day of small tnings, and always ac- cepts weakness to perfect strength therein, I beseech Thee do Thoa enable me to speak boldly for Thy glory, and to Thy name shall heaX^ tlie praise. Many will think there is a good deal of repetition in the following pages. Yes; and like my Lora, in his travels, whenever he met those self-righteous revilers, though the substance is the same, yet he met the various shapes of their opposition with different words ; and so do9. K vi 'yh K V i; 'J -..;."{ i«:j ./:'..: y,h 1 1. i, • L* ; l^ ■■[■".0 ^ ?;i '*& iu.i;;,,.-.Lr 'h/.' .■ .*;■'■{.;'■'''; '^ ■':-^ '':..( • -v.-i;:f If; . "1 •^t!!r/.L3f|C.; ^;:^ ^'^'r ti;/.: 1 fo:' ^. < i.Hi. •f t i«(ij ,f?M!hli- flnur;; i*> '.-;i> ftuj jjlft-- > '"I'irrrrffoooi^'KJ^ i .ffi^-i-t*:>ilt iI>^*ji9TiH ;h ...■-'^•. •tVl! \ii ' ■f^i *'i % !H /./!:)// ^<^ ym^ff v'l^'i'ot im^ri*)^^ nX^ i^'A v!ilf'■^t; ;^;./rq . o^oa; '^ iHi ]• "T^ i.iS-ilHiyi ; J-! iJ-E >J> ^i.; ii iil&yMil Aii; J If syttt d^l/sovjii'i/iv? .s^lv.'iM sht jfi ,\n{A'VM jevlnlnf'i ;»v^ v?.'^^'»,,;;'ty.nv ^f fffrv^h'h'^-'i^''.' •f>'^*>^/ 3;!'Vl^t}li rH!?rn''?f^;;u'^f!^^"*;'v''|! i^^';r^ Ij:^ Sv tl' .!.( -■?.. 1 TRUTH DEFENDED. THE TRUE CHARACTEK OF A MINISTER OF CHRIST. <'i{Ki8T is histoachor, his prenervcr, and paymaster. The fint losson ho tcachu* him is liumility, and Christ being tho opposite of pride (the devil's nature), therefore he commands his disciples to learn of him, for he says ** I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall nnd rest for your souls." Thus he made him- self of no reputation, and humbled himself to tho death, and his acts and deeds prove it through his' wholo life : lie brought a little child to mortify or reprove the pride of his disciples. Again, when he took a towel and washed his disciples' feet, and commands them in love to serve one another. He asks his disciples in another place, '* Is not ho that sitteth at meat greater than he that serveth," and says " I am among you as he that serveth." In Matt. xx. 2fi-27, our Lord distinctly marks the difference between the government of this world and his, namely : " Jesus called them unto him and sai(l||flif, know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and olpdiat are ffreat ex- ercise authority upon them. But it shall not bo so among you : bat wbofloever will be great among you, let him be your minister ; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant." And also his imperative command is, *' Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate." In the second placo he teaches them to know him by faith as their preserver ; and Abraham proved God all-sufficient, when ho staggered not at (in nromises of God through unbelief; and the three Hebrew children found God all-sufflcient to save them, when by faith they obeyed him, and would not obey the command of the king, or worship or bow down, to h«i image ; and Daniel, and Mosea, not fearing tlie wratn of the king, nor coveting his throne or its honors, bat chose rather to suffer affliction with thepeople of God than^njoy the pleasures of sin for a season. [Read Hob. xi.] Tiiere you will see how God conveyed his grace, through the channel of faith. Witness Paul and Silas, when put into prison, how God strengthened their faith, and exalts hif^pwer to save the jailer's family. The apostle exults by saying, " We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." We see then that the whole of a minister s life (who is true to his God) is a life of humble love, from first to last ; and with the captain of his sal- vation he is made perfect through suffering. Thirdly. God is nis pajrmaster : yes, and cash down — ^for both soul and body reach out then the hand of faith ; and lay hold, and you will prove " that he will give grace and glory, and no good tiling will he withhold fi-om him that walketh uprightly." We find the £jhet Elijah fed by ravens (the most ravenous of the fea^ered tribe,) and when chosen people had no other means of support, he sent manna f^om heaven, they neither ploughed cor sowed for forty years. We notice here that hu- man nature and the lazv fiesh wish always to oppose God's system,which is ** Give us this day our daily bread ;" and we see they gained nothing by gain- saying God — ^the manna stunk and became corrupt, if they attempted (contrary to God's command) to gather more than one day^s supply, except the supply for the Sabbath, which was to be collected on the sixth day. ** Faithful is he that hath promised, who also will do it." Many of the disciples, like Peter, are ready to inquire " What shall we have therefor." Christ never said what sum <>f TKUTII UICb'LNUi/l). t inoiloy fthouKI be given for tho your, but he Bui wax hitt Hhiclti uiwi hit* oxpoodiiip j:;r(!at rowurd, uii*l ho stayod not when duty proKid him on. (Jod h>iH I>h>djfcd himself to hit* ueople, wiyinj;, " Your broad shall be givt-n you, and v«)ur water shall be sure, ana your detVnco shall be surens the nuinitii>ns oi ro»!Ks;" niid haviuf,' ft»(>d — raiment, and protection or shelter — thep'with to be content. We discover that our liord only jjives a subsistence in this life, but a reward in the next, nam«'ly, (ilory ! Inunortality ! and KternalLife! This was his answer to Peter: that they (the disciples) should sit with him on his throne in his kinjxdom ; and this was the upostle Paul's j;lt>ryi»ii( — the cross below and tho crown above ; and this was said not to the apostle only, but to all those who are begotten by his Spirit to a new birth, by faith, brought forth by his love, and brought into his kingdom — these shall endure to the eiul ; and the samt;, says the blessed Redeemer, shall be saved : these are the lawful atul l(>gitimatc ott- spring and spiritual successors of the apostles. Here I prove that he gives cash down OS a boiiiity to pay their way to head quartei's in glory; and this is (iod's sovereign, and incontrovertible, and unchangeable system of government ; and lost any of his disciples should fall into the snares of the devil, our Lord com- mands and says " WIkuu resist, steadfast in the faith." Faith that (»od will strengthen and make perfect in our weakness, and make liis grace sufficient for us. Tho world, t\^e J*csh and tlio devil arc tho enemies of (Jod and man, and are liars and deceivm. Again, let us hear tho true Shepherd's warning voi(!e, and tho voice of every Bhepuerd that God has sent, and has diffused into his nature his Holy Spirit, and wade him holy. Paalm x. 3 : " For the wicked boasteth of his heart's de- sire, and blesscth tho covetous, wliom tho Lord abhorreth." Oh mark it my friends? God abhors tho proud and covetous man. Psalm oxix. 86 : " Incline my heart unto tliy testimonies, and not to covetousnoss." 1 Tim. i. 10 : " For the Iwe of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have evred from the faith, and pierced Uiemselvcs through with many sorrows.^' But the true Shepherd cries, " But thfi%'0 man of God, fleo these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, law^'love, patience, meekness." Luke xii. 15 : "And he said unto t^em, take heed and beware of covetousnoss ;" xvi. 14, " And the pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things and they derided him ;" v. 15, " And he said unto them, ye are they which juotify your- selves l>cfore men ; but God knowetli your hearts : for that which is highly es- teemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God." And in 1 Cor. v. 1 1, " But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator or covetous" &c. ; vi. 10, " Nor thieves, nov co- vetous" &c. What a place of worldly rubbish is portrayed here. See Eph. v. 1 5 . For this wo know that no whoremonger, or covetous man, shall have any inhe- ritance in the kingdom of God. I now intend to show, the characters that God calls to his work, and their aualifications for that vork. First. Was it the wise, learned, and sagacious, or le rulers in Jerusalem, that were called to the work ? We answer no. Seo Matt. xi. 25. The blessed Saviour was heard to thank his Father, because ie had hid those things from the wise and prudent, and had revealed them urtt6 babes. Here it is proved that God accepts of the simple and the innocent, and rejects the wise and Uie learned. Also Luke x. 21, and 1 Cor. i. 19. " For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the undcr- Btauding of the prudent;" v. 26, " For ye see your calhng brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many might}', not many noble, are called ;" V. 2Y, " But God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the thing* IS tho I II v-^j iiwHi:^ ,^.i,j M*Ni««||MAii •tliy uf lii« Id utid iiiti (ilotl luiH , uikI you I' •t riMrlvK ;" content, rt'warti in \\n anHvvcr >nc in Km f und tliu wIk) aro lovo, and lUMi;, says i HI ate oft- fivos oa«h s irt God'n cnt ; and iord coin- (iod will Ri^icnt for man, and of every ily Spirit, cart's dc- rk it my " Incline "For tcr, they orrows.^' njjs, and ko xii. xvi. 14, md they your- hlj'' es- V. 11, that is nor co- V.15. ' inho- their 10U8, or Sco tn tmt6 nt, and •'or it is undcr- w that lied ;" tKin«r* " TBUTII DKFENDBD. 9 \Thtch are mighty," &o. Sto. And if God m a Hovoroign haH'docroo<), and flxod \m choice on theoo, who art thon, O man, that repiient af^ainAt iiodl I would further prove by an example or two. Firnt. David tlw Htriplinjj, was dopiiiod by h'w older brethren. A^ain, ho waH penuaded to try on Saul'n armour, and coat of mail, helmet, and Hhining sword ; but his heart soon told him that the power was not in those, and ho eomes baclc to his God by faith, and draws bis simple slin)]^ and stone : directed by God's unerring hand, ho slung it, and the grand Goliah bites the dust. "Thus perish all that defy the living God." Also Joseph (another example) : see how God exalts the despised one ; sco how he M made to confound his naughty and envious brethren. I have now proved the characters that the unchangeable has cbos^ii jqr liis work. I now come to show the teaching and qualifl<)fi|k>iui for that work. Christ's kingdom is a spiritual kingdom — therefore, Chri 1-*. v*^, !< Shall I for fear of feeble man, the Spirit's courae in me restraint Or, undiamay'd in deed and word, be a trae witness for my Lord t The true veteran is ready to say with the apostle, (Kom. viii. 17, 18), " For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the rloiy, which shall be revealed in us." And the same apostle states — that his ory and honor was in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the worla is crucified unto him, and he unto the world, — that is, he is dead to the world's pleasures, to its praise or fame, riches or titles of honour — content with the honor that comes from God only ; and must I part with all I have, my dearest Lord, for thee. It is but right, since thou hast done much more than that for me ; yes, let it go, one look from thee will more than make amends for all the losses I sustain — of credit, riches, friends. Any man can use this lan- guage, but no heart can use it but the heart that God inhabits; and I believe from the fact, that there cannot be any title of man equal to that got when the heart is offered to God in circumcision. So David, though a king, plain David, and all the rest. Also Simeon, the prophet, plain Simeon, — that took Jesus in arms, and from his arms came plain Jesus, that honored the law, and the law honored him. " And they shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins." Oh ! the name high over all, and blessed be his glorious name, for ever and ever. And the succession — plain Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Peter ; plain Peter. And Jesus says. Thou art I'cter ; rest upon me, the Son of God, the unchangeable rock ; and while you rest there you can never fail. But after a little, he casts him behind him, and tells him the reason, and that was, he savoured the things that be of men. Oh Peter, he said, take warning, and beware of men, and do not partake of their poison, for as sure as you do, you i»nll feel the blasting, blighting, and deadening separation ; for Christ is un- changeable, and cannot bow to man. Therefore, let us hold to the rock, and plain Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Peter, — not Reverend Peter — no, nor Bachelor of Arts, nor Master of Arts ; Peter, no Doctor, no Cardinal, no Pope, but plain Peter. Let us hold, and hear the great Shepherd's voice, that says. One is your Father, even Christ, and all ye are brethren ; and we will not envy them their trumpery chaff, husks, figleaves, and self-righteousness. I now insert a hymn, to show that the name and nature of Christ in the heart excels all the honors of the world ; also, the liberty of Christ, excelling all others, and grace to sanctify every view of nature, and, lastly, the gain of dying. Can titles of honor give worldly minds pleasure? ' ' I too taste the sweetness of having a name ; •- ' '' ^ ■^- ' Is wealth their enjoyment t I too have my treasure ; Theirs, theirs is the shadow; the substance I claim ; Of joys do they boast; oh, the bliss of believing, Of pardon of sin, and the witness receiving. When moist is the eyes, and the bosom is heaving, And I am accepted the child of the Lord. Is freedom so dear to the soul of the Briton, That sooner with life than with it he would part ; 0.v > ' Oh yes, but my charter of liberty's written By the finger of love on the page of my heart ; , Extensive its grants, as my widest ambition, la privilege, power, and blood-bought remission ; While faith, hope and joy, forms a glorious addition, And scriptural rights to the child of the Lord. With raptures I gaze on the bftMlties of nature, l^Tew powers to admire and raise up the mind ; The glow of intelligence li||hts up the f«atures. While siietching the region of wisdom divine ; .'l^^lf!^ € v%^ TBUTH DBFEMDSU. 11 I i), " For I compared le states — by whom is dead to r — content [ have, my more than ke amends iC this lan- elieve from the heart is ^id, and all IS in anus, AV honored ! from their le, for ever md Peter ; )n of God, But after lat was, he ,rning, and ou do, you irist is un- rock, and sr — no, nor 1, no Pope, that says, 11 not envy the heart ^celling all of dying. To me everyscene, every MMOO is oharming, \;A,r»v. ;•;•<;?? {tj>w/ No prospect appals me, no news is •larmiog, ' , ^ ■ , Grace makes all the means of instruction and warning, ■ ' ' -^ !' The happy and teachable child of the Lord, ^ ' V ' ' ' And oh, when I think on the period of dying, . ^ ,- What language expresses the Iieaven within f . ' Exults my full soul, when on Jesus relying — I long my eternity now to begin: •;:*■! Not wearied of life, nor burdened with sorrow, , f. : (- I triumph today, and can trust for to-morrow ; Yet still I submissively venture to borrow Fresh transports from death for the child of the Lord. I come now to show the true statutes that our Lord called and proved his disciples by, — in a word, it is loving God with all the heart supremely. Abrar ham, the father of the faithful, responded to the call of God, not knowmg where he was to go, sleep or eat, but still he goes on, leaving the life of his soul and body in the hands of his Commander, — this was supreme faith and love. Also he called Peter and John, and they left their father, and the ship and nets, without prolonging or gainsaying, or making any bargain about how much they were to get ; is not this love supreme also. Matthew w;.^ called from the receipt of custom, and he took God at his word. He further pro. cs them, by sending his disciples forth without purse or scrip ; they go, although the flesh may shrink and complain, and returned : they witnessed for God, and they lacked nothing, and they proved God Almighty as all-suflBcient. Thus God, by fact and exjpe- rience, teaches them to trust in him for soul and body, for time and etermty, and it is a life of faith in the Son of God, fii"8t and last. The Atheists cannot trust God with their body. And he proved the young man in the Gospel, by commanding him to sell all that he had, and come and follow him ; but he would not do so, for he esteemed his great possessions before Christ's word, or the treasures of heaven, and his act and deed proved it, for he went his way. Another, with fair speeches, said, I will follow thee withersoever thou goest : our Saviour was very plain, and told him that it was the loaves and fishes, and not to exalt him for the miracles he had performed. A third said, he would attend him when he had buried his father ; . and a fourth said, he would follow him when he had bid his friends farewell. Our blessed Lord was much dis» pleased for making the conversion of the world a secondary work, and he replied, and said, a man that puts his hand to the Gospel plough, and looks back, is not fit for the kingdom of God. Also, Simon Magus Avas baptized, and ofliered money to the Apostles, but they told himf his money perish with him, and also, that he was in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. First, we see how trivial was filthy lucre to the apostles, when compared to the wisdom and grace of God in the heart ; secondly, we see how insuflScient bap- tism, the outside of the cup and platter, is to extract the poison — the gall from the heart. . First. I have proved that the minister of Christ should be m^Nc and lowly, and if not they are none of liis. Second. That as Christ made hiimelf of no reputation in this world, — and the servant is not above his Lord — therefore, they should deny all the titles of this world, and all the pleasures that sinners delight in. Third. All the inordinate grasp of the publican's and miser's heart; in a word, he is to be crucified and dead to the world. Fourth. The minister of God, that lives by faith, looks for the fulfilment of Christ's prayer, that he has made his own — give us this day our daily bread, and the man of God is thankful for his timely supplies. Fifth. I have proved, that God has become surety for his food and raiment, and the man that does not accept of such a surety, but ^ 12 TEDTII DEPENDED.' wants more, denies the Bupremacy and government of Jesus Christ, and becomes supreme himself. Sixth. I proved that the riclies of God's people arc ] cyond the grave, where moth and dnst doth not coirupl;, and thieves cannot break through and steal. Seventh. Here Christ, and his true apostles, lilt their voices, in one universal cry, beware oi covetousness and filthy lucre ; if God, in his sovereign wisdom, was to msika them rich and great in this world, he could make the mines of California and Australia to burst out with gold, and flow, and clothe his disciples with gold, but his choice is for his disciples to wear the camel's hair, and the leathern girdle, as John had in the wilderness, and some- times hunger and nakedness, to make them fidgety, until they get the white robes. Eighth. I have proved,*that it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord, and they are to take heed to themselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made them overseei's ; people miglit as well send dead men to till the ground, as to send dead souls to labour in the spiritual vineyard. Ninth. Their honour and glory is, the counting of all things but dung and dross, when compared to the excellency of Christ Jesus our Lord, and triumphing with joy, that the light afllictions, which are but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory : therefore, let the disciple say, I prefer that name in which Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, was acknowledged in my baptism, to all the plaster and patchwork of men. Tenth. I have Miowed the method by which Christ proved his disciples : the true disciple ventures soul and body, for better for worse, to lose his life for his Bake, or to live, at his pleasure ; to please him above the world, and prefer, him above houses and lands, and wife and children, gnd all selfishness. No wonder that flesh and blood should cry out, " this is a hard saying, e the r did nor man ; and * ousness to sus and his mon sense. it supretoe to trea^n this diftco- r make this A man of ig untruths. y speaking, never mar- row we dia- ling in the liscover the 44): "You do : he was 90 the truth ; for he is a f : " He that because th«y y sound, and ' Father, that Witness the o conviction, aam the pro- ^ say, "Cock,j ved mo :" so ice ; and that ] a this cause ling to glory fore the^lory pe sometimes | poett it will make mo more lionorablo, and others have it, and I deserve it as ytvM aa them ; and the devil will whisper, it will give power to tiie word and efficacy to the atoncniiint of Christ. Oh that will do, say they— ^what's the price. Oh we will clinrgc you the small sum — so much. His heart shrinks, and he does n,ot like to part with his money ; but his companions tell him he will be more honorable ; and not only ho, but when it is published that Doctor so and so is to preach, you will get two or three pounds collection (and here is the propagation of Simon Magus* race), when Matthew, Mark, Luke and John's men will only get two or three shillings ; and his heart says, it will be well to put down and dis- miss the carpenter's son with his race of fishermen, and cobblers and tinkers. And what is the substance in this case. Is it to give power and efficacy to the word ? I am ready to say no. It is to get honour in the first place ; second, to make gain ; and third, to put down the men of no reputation.. And here you appear in your true and legible character — the friend of the >Vorld and the enemy of Go<1. Is it not a wonderful thing that they do not see the devil fooling them; and it is a fact that infants and ignorance and idiots arc a& well pleased Avith toys, appearances, shadows and sounds, as they are with the substance. Now ask youi'selves what will all these titles and robes bo worth at the day of judgment. Then where is all this amount of money — spent for nothing : it is of no use for the support of religion, but the devil has made his use of it ; and that is, to fill their minds with his nature and pride, that by, and by, helljind the devils will be glad, and fiends rejoice, and hold their jubilee. .. t, I now intend to shew from fact and experience, tlic efiect that these titli^frand honors have on the Ministers ; and secondly, on the people. First, with respect to the ministei-s. In the year eighteen hundred an4 twenty one, I formed a sabbath school, and the curate of the parish came and asked me if I would take him in as an assistant. I said by all moans. He came and as- sisted me in a gentlemanly and christian like manner; but finding out that I was in the habit of addressing the public, he asked me how it was that I did so. I told him I was convinced of sin, and called upon tlie Lord, and he blesse4,me with peace and joy : the proceeds of his love led me out to the be4side8 of the sick and dying, to talk and pray witli them, and advise them to flee from the wrath to come. He replied by saying it was a good work, but, advised that I should have the ordination of the Bishop ; and ho very affectionately pressed me to come over to them, and he would insure me to be qualified and ordained. Tlie good-natured, simple man, thought all my labour would be lost without tho efficacy of the I^ishop's hands. I thanked him for his kindness, but could not comply with his request. Some years after, I formed a class in the adjoining parish. When the minister of the parish heard of it, he went to the people, and said I should not intrude on his parish, for I ^yas not ordained, and tho Metliodists have no authgirity to ordain, and the w^ord was — ^Drive him away. I sent the rector a message, stating that if ho had any thing against me, or against the doctrines I taught, I was willing to meet him honorably, &cc to face as a man ; and if his bishop had limited him to a certain parish, my bishop had given me the whole world ; but he troubled me no more. Here we discover the features of that pope — me and us, not Christ the first and the last. I began to wake up to inquire what virtue is in the bishop's hands, and by searching the Scriptures I found the simple term " shepherd" was borrowed from those in the east who fed sheep and cattle. I found he [was a person in a humble sphere of life, and night and day was supposed to "lave the flock's interest at heart, and with steady care and attention to lead them fortli to green pastures, and to live among his flock, and to be the companion id servant of that flock. So they brought it over, and deprived Chriftt^and 18 TRUTH DEFENDED. 10 ».*. ' hiB true and faithful mombora. Here I found a beautiful similarity. When Christ came, it was not with tlio groat, to share the spoils in the inn, hut in tho humble manger, and humble and holy angols, that wanted no worship (but to Berve) ; and on the day of liis circumcision, tho poorest offering allowed by the Jewish law, was offered for him, viz., two turtle doves, lie was subject to his parents, and followed his profession as a carpenter initil he was thirty years of age, and then ho enters into his bishopric, to reprove, correct, lead, guide, and go before, and meet all tho lions, bears, and wolves in the desert. How he proved his love to the flock, by becoming the servant of the centurion's servant, ■whom he healed ; also tho Canaauitish woman's daughter's servant. In a word, He was the servant of all. And in this He shews the greatness and glory of his bishopric to bo assimilated to his nature, humility, and servitude to the poor. When I compare the bishops of this day with Christ's time, I find there is a vast diflFerenco ; tho bishops now seem to consist of names, shadows, and sounds, and they want to take tho place of Christ, and rule the clergy. Such power he never gave to any man. Now, for example, we will take Peter ; and did Christ commission Peter to feed Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and Paul ? No ; but Christ said to Peter, Feed my lambs and sheep. Here I find that the true shepherds are the humble, watchful feeders of the lambs and sheep of Christ's fold. Here I rested satisfied that the opposite must be a counterfeit — a bad superscription to pass in Christ's kingdom. I stand in doubt of them, as the apostle said. I believe there is too much of tho canker and rust of earth about them. I then got " Daniel M'Afee on Apostolic Succession," being very anxious to find the truth. The rector of our parish was left a great fortune ; he gave up preaching and the parish, and, as I am told, he went to London, a pleasure taking. After some time, as we say, the new rfcctor came, and I was appointed by the committee to wait on him, and to request him to preside in the meetings of the committee, as the former rector did ; and when addressing him to this effect, he asked, " Are you a member of the committee ?" " Yes, sir," I replied. " Well, I wish to let you know I will not know any committee." " Well, sir," I said, your predecessors did before you." He replied, " But if they did wrong, that is not any reason why I should do tho same. I replied, " Do you count that doing wrong ?" " I do ; for it is my parochial right to have the whole government of the school." I begged leave to differ with him, for it was not is parochial duty. I granted it was his right in the parish school, where he had resided ; but it was not so here. I commenced telling him how the former curate came to me in the Sabbath-school, and asked me if I would accept of his assistance, and he and I went and gathered subscriptions, got a house built, and a committee formed, and the names registered ; therefore it is not your paro- chial right. He replied : did the curate ask you to take him as an assistant. Yes sir, i replied, he did, and in a very gentlemanly «nd christian like manner. He now took a bolder stand, and said I will put you out of the school house 4f I can. I thought the pope (me and us) was getting to the highest stor}\ He fiirther said, " Will I not be faithful, and support the homilies and laws of the Church of England, and to that Bishop who conferred on me so many hundreds a year." I thought he had heart and head and back in the mud of nlthy lucre. I then said, I gave him great credit for his honesty, but I could not approve of the spirit he displayed ; and I then directed him to Christ to receive the reproof he ga^to the apostle John, when he said to our Lord, "We saw a man casting out devils in thy name, and we forbad him because he followed not us." Christ replied, " Forbid him not — ^for ho that is for us is not against us." Now, snp- pose the apostle raised an opposition to contradict Christ, who says to those he commissioned. No, no — forbid them not : here is two successions — the one i« TBUTH DEFENDED. 10 tlio igtiorant, ill-taught apostolical Huccosnion ; the second is Christ's intelligent, Hi)iritiial, and divine succession. For my part I accept of Christ's, and reject tlio opposite (me and ns). lie did not take the reproof, but passed it by. Tliis is the way carnal minds generally dismiss Christ. lie now took another stand, and asked me '^ How it was I put myself on a par with him as a preacher of the gospel." I replied, " When the Lord converted mv eoul, I found a new heart and right spirit, and a desire for the salvation of all the world springing up in ray mind, and more than ever I attended to private and family prayer. The Word of (iod and the Spirit of Truth was and is the training school through which I appear as a preacher of the gospel." Ho replied, " But you were not ordained, and the Methodists have no authority to ordain persons to preach the gospel." " Wlien I recollect," I replied, "I did preach before the preachers and leaders, who examined me on the doctrines of Repentance, Justification by Faitli, and Sancti- fication through the Spirit ; and the preachers and leaders approved of me to go and spread those doctrines wherever I had influence." But it was no use — no ordination could be right only the form that "me and us" could approve of. I then askeil plainly, " Do you believe you are one of the apostolic succession." lie replied, he did. Then 1 said " The Roman Catholics claim that." " They do," said he, " and although they are wrong in some things, they are not so in all." " Yes," said, I " in the laws of restitution they excel many of our Protestants ; but am I to understand you to say, that they (the Roman Catholics) are right in claiming apostolical succession ?" " Yes," said he ; and he brought forward an example to prove it. " Do you know," said he, " Maguire of ]3ublin, a Roman Catholic, priest?" I replied, " I have heard of him by report." He then said, " Suppose he comes over to us, we would let liim come into our pulpits to preach ; and suppose Mr. Allen would come to us, we would not let him into our pulpits unless he were ordained by the Bishop." Mr. Allen was a worthy Presbyterian minister. So ho left Mr. Allen as bad as myself: we had no ordination according to the statutes of "me and us." I then remarked that I was reading history upon apostolical succession ; and that last evening I read of three Popes contending for the popedom, and wrath, malice, and envy, led them to poisoa and murder each other. I thought to myself, are these murderers the successors of the meek and lowly Jesus ; if so, the greatest vagabond on the street may claim apostolical succession. Ho said he would see me again. I told him to prepare himself, and I would also do the same, and we would strive to find the true successors of Christ. So we parted, — and he never came neai* me again. Shortly after, I received a letter from the agent of the estate, desiring me to keep the key of the school-house, and not allow the rector to have posses- sion of it ; but he did not trouble me. I now desire to lay before my readers the views I entertain of apostolic succession. I now view it as separate from Christ. I read in history of one Pope Joan. She was a woman, and filled the papal chair for several years. She was found out by having a child in the street, and then she was exposed. I then thought of a chain with thousands of links, and should one link break, the chain will be severed in twain, and then there is an end of succession. Now the man that fills the priest's oflSce must be perfect in all his parts, and the man that was otherwise was imperfect, and all proceeding from him was imperfect; so here you see a woman, contrwy to all law wid gospel, filling the papal chair ; so we truly declare there is a link in the chain broken ; so all who claim apostolic succession may go and claim kindred with the offspring of that lady. Oh, be honest now, and call this strumpet " mother." Do not think by your transubstantiation you can make her a man, or her acts of vvickedness chastity. This succession is a lustful, covetous, worldly Bucce^9n, ^'t% m 20 TltUTU DEPENDED. ir'j Wc now come to Peter nnd the keys. Oiir blepsed Lon! tini<>;!it Poter nnd tlio rest of hin disciples of faith in him the Christ of (»od, and tlirouifh thih medium tlicir union and communion witii Christ irt kept up : and hj' unbelief disunion immcdiatciv ensues. And now he comes to prove liis discinles. Matt. chap. 1(5, V. 13, {l")ouay version) : "As lie was comini; to Pliilippi, lio asked his disci- ples, saying, Wuon\ do men say that I the Son of Man am ? The disciples answered, Some say, John the Baptist." Verae lo : *' Hut whom do ye say that I am?" Verso 1(1 : Simon Peter, speaking for the whole of the disciples, said, " Thou art the Christ, the son of the living (iod." Christ replied to Peter : " Tliou art Peter, and upon this rock will 1 build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Contrast Peter's stand with the self-righteous world, which runs to men's names and offices for refnge, and wc hear them say, Wo will have Caesar for our king, Moses anade an idol of. And here the Roman Catholics miss tho mark, for they substitute Peter's name; they transfer it from the vulf/ate language of the Jews ; it is the same in English. Christ is the rock on wliich the church is built, that no storm or floods can ever shake. Mat. vii. 25, the Douay Testament reads thus : " There- fore, whosoever hears these my words and doeth them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house on a rock." The rock liere is Christ and his word, and they make it over to I'eter, which is a contradiction to Christ and his word. Again, they say he is a pastor, and ruler, an<;l governor ; they fur- ther tell us that all the powers of darkness, and whatsoever Satan can do, is not able to shake the Church ; and their own foot note on verse 23, is a perfect overthrow of their infallibility : — " Satan — this word signifies in the Hebrew an adversary, and is hero applied to Peter because he opposed the Sa\'iour's pas- sion." Christ says, " Thou savorest the things that be of men." We see that Peter by faith drew liis blessing and power from Christ, and by unbelief he was cast behind him as an adversary. They liave told us that all the powers of darkness could not shake him, and we hear his succession is Satan and men. Peter is very like a man that has got two or three hundred pounds out of the bank, but he fighting with Satan and men, they throw him down, and leavo him wounded and penniless, so that he conld not change one shilling ; but what good is it to him to cry out, " I had it, I had it ;" and also Peter could not change one sixpence when he was cast out of Christ's presence. Here Christ casts him out, and this fact proves his own word to be true, where lie said to his disciples — that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, when the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness ; and also, " Thou Caper- naum which was exalted to heaven shall be brought down to hell :" who would say Christ is a liar. Now I ask which is the rock — Christ or Peter ? Answer conscience, and do not let prejudice speak, and force you to give your verdict to Satan and men. Now justice, righteousness and tnith openly declare that Christ is the Rock — not Peter ; and ftirther, we prove that Peter is depending on Christ, not Christ on Peter : for Christ told him that Satan wanted to have him that he might sift him as wheat, but he prayed the Father for him. And here from Christ the Rock the milk and honey flow, and there i« no other foun- dation can be laid but Jesus ; and at His Name every knee shall bow, and evefy tongue confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father (supreno^f; Away with your gods many and lords many — that savor of the things that'4^^ of men. Again, they tell us that Peter had the keys: granted; but ^nst'' igives and takes away, therefore the former position was nullified by him wfeo TKUTH DEFKNDKP. 21 took it from limi ; tlioivforo never u havu injured tliuui, and then it in their duty, or whoever the injured pernon i«s to ]>iirdon, and then come tu (jlod with huiuhle coiitidentte, ho Hure nhall you l»u tmrdoned. Therotbrc, the HubHtanee of the whole in — he that believeth la ooHcd, and he that l>elieveth not, hiH HinH are bound. See St. John, cliap. xx., V. 22. After hJH reHurrection, he breathed um them the Holy (jhuHt; the tnio prophet, the Spirit, bearing witnctw with thein^pirith, that their niuH are forgiven them for hi» naine*H Haku ; and they can eneourage others, like David, '' And I will tell you what ho hath done for my houI : as tar aH the eant Ih from the w ext, HO far haH the Lord removed mine iniquitieH." And the miniHterH in whom the Holy (ihoHt dwelU, can uddreHH the people uh our Lor«l addreHHeuhlres»ing his diHciples in Matt. xvi. v. 13: "They all seemed to be one;" 14: "Ami they said;" 16: "I'otor answered;" 20: "Here he charged his disciples;" 24: "Then Jesus said to his disciples, they must deny themselves ;" as if ho would say, I will have none. of your selfish supremacy, I'eter. John, chap xx., V. 28 : here the disciples all appear on an e<|uality, and if l*eter ever had .mpre- macy, he has lost it, for this is after Christ's resurrection; therefoie, the last will and testament is in full force. If I'eter or John, or any other of ('hrist's disciples, were superior, it was owing to their faithful servitude and humble, jloviug zeal ; so we see iu this, that I'eter and all others, who are rolling stones, which are no support to the building when lying amoiirieBthood one, without any superiority, and all engaged in one work — that is, to offer up spiritual sucritices (not carnal) acceptable to God, by Jesus Christ : not by any other rock, or any other name ; for any otl < '• could not be acceptable to God. Verse 6 : ]?eter brin^' over, and quotes u.^ui the prophets, "Behold Hay inZiona chief corner stone, elect, precious, ai i m^ that believeth in him shall not be confounded." Fii-st, I'eter exults in Iv •■ ' glorious and unchang^ble foundation, and secondly, congratulates the man that remains thereon, and Ji^ Is never to be confounded. I rejoice with Peter tliat he has got rid of that usurp*. • — " me and us" — and holds that Christ is the foun- dation and top stone. Oh ie». ^'^roan Catholics and Protestants join in one nni- versal cry, Away with self-righ {>. 'UsnesB tor ever ; and let us get that love divine that would bind our glowing h'>f^\ ,3 it; one — that never should bo twain. We remark, there are seme hoiisew built with stone — cold, dry work ; the in- habitants are always in fear and dai>ger in time of storms. There are also others, built with stones, great and small, and smaller still, and sand, lime, and wat^. These properly tempered form a cement that binds great and small together 0oUd, and this is union and strength, which allays the feara of the inhd|>il9A^ liii' Tili'iiTiittltVii'il I SH^-, -^-^^^^Jftf TBUTIt DBFINDMD. Iftud \w tftkoH ]\\n r<>po«o ill porfwct »rtf«ty. 'Hi© fuTn*" I wouM doMOrihe m h jHVstoin <)f »lny moriility, that coimintH of crocHlB, nnd nunM, »n\\ |i;w»t without lii).>M of tho KplwHianH, ami apiin lulli Ht ; hut oh that hh-HHcd comfort Hpiritunl and diviuo fnitii, hope, and love ; and tiiou^h tho rocks were toHf^in^^ on tho plain, gather them, aiul bind tiicin to Zion'H rock 1»y thirt divine (u-inont, (Faith, llopo ami Love), fori ing a »oliMve' 'tat^iu. 'llm is true; but let them retain thisdivine love, not carnal love to >; n;.l objectR, but t^^ivino objectB, and it would tomi 8Uoh a hoiHo, and bui'Mn ;j, hh I moinbcrH, as Pwtor dfiKcribeH above, and w tho ApoHtlc Paul pre . i ta 'u iw, 1 Oor. c. I '2. It l)CgiiT» with spiritual gifts, andtha * one spirit per vai^ .Cf 1 ^m all, for by one spirit wo aro all baptized into ono body — and "t'l levels lown all distinctions, and Jew and (ientile meet alike, and their . i is not tlie stagnant waters of earth, but the living water, through the living rt|i lilt — its own native region. Though men may say the foot is not of the body, it is of the body ; an(l it is of little consequence, tho think so and r;iy so ot men, but what (»od says, verse 23. And on those feeble and weak members God bestows more abundant honors, and our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. In the close he shown the reciprocal union there is in Christ' i l>ody of sntforing and rejoicing together — and after showing tho oxccllonoy of tho gifts, he comes in chapter 13th, to show unto them a more excellent May, when thrones, and kingdoms, and tongues, and gifts, and know- lotlge are gone. We sec in this that the divine summit of love is the bliss of heaven and earth. Verso 48, Charity never faileth — it never failed the fatihftd prophets, apostles, and martyrs; and they have proved that John's definition of love is true, viz. stronger than death. Inhere are different kinds of love, as va- ried as tho objects and attachments we fonn. Our Lord says. The world loves Ins own ; and tho flesh and tho devil always tend to their own nature. Tlio Avorld may say, they love religion, but no — it is not so; for it is not in the na- ture of tho world to do so — it is only a pretence; for tho Scripture says, "that a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good iruit." The devil's love is the opposite of God's love. The devil's love is to beguile with fair speeches, and he teaches those wlio listen to him to keep in the dark and in secret. Witness our firet 1 parents — behind the trees in the gardei. of Eden. Our Lord's teaching is the I very opposite : he cries aloud, brmgs to oonyiction, and provides a remedy and ■\rdon. A •'■^'n : tlic cievil's mercy is all for tho body and flesh ; Gould not prove it, and being better informed you do not believe it is the Methodist doctrine at all. He said, I do allow you. I then addressed him astbllows : Sir, there are two reasons why we came to wait on you this evening, tii"st, you nmst be away on your tour, and we must attend our callings ; and se- condly, we never wish to say behind a man's backwhat we would not say to his face, and let it bear the investigation of open day ; therefore I hope you will pardon us for our forwardness. He said, I confess you have acted like gentle- men. We shook hands, and bid him farewell. He is since dead ; and I hope 28- TuuTii i>i:fkndkl». through Jesus, he has ijot the white robes, and is singing unto hiiu that loved hiui and washed him in liis blood, be glory for tsver and evor. Tlie leader was very faithful, #nd brought him to confess that if wo wove guilty, wo could not have had the face to come forward and meet him ; and it changed the sentiment in the country ; and I must say lie acted the gentleman, and displayed great hu- inility in submitting to those low mean people ; and let tlie worUl call us what they please, we wish still to maintain tlic highest regal glory of the Prince of Peace — that is, truth and righteousness. I left my native land, and landed on the shores ofBritisli America on the tirst day of August, eighteen liundred and forty three, whicli is ten years this i)rusent August 1853. I am now settled in the woods, about twelve miles from the city of Saint John, New Brunswick, on the Loch Lomond Road, and I have called the place of my residence " Collinsville," to be known in time to come ; and in the year 1850 I heard from the Presbyterian Witness and from the pen of Scrutator, a cry from tlie woods : I understand the proper name for Scrutator is R— I — , to wliom Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was applied. Is it not a stVange thing that some ipen delight in nicknames : a fictitious name is only fit for a man that plunders in the night season. In Nos. 1 and 2, Scrutator states, (addressing the editor), some time ago you published a speech delivered by the Rev. Mr. 1. of Saint John, N. 1)., as well as the writer remembers, in which the reverend gentleman seemed to have a general complaint against the Presbyte- rians, man, woman and child, in the Province : in fact, he blamed the Church at home for exporting bad scantling of College manufacture. Here we discover that Mr. L is not satisfied to be idolized by others, but he makes an idol of him- self. Behold that reverend gentleman. Seethe man admiring this stiffened, starched, adorned pipe clay. I think if he had looked within, and Iiad seen that the contents was wind, puffing him up, he would not have made such a cry -out. I would ask him if he substitutes college education and church manufactories and reverend gentlemen, for the meekness and lowliness of Christ and the teaching of the Holy Ghost. He is ecjual to the priest I heard of, who transub- stantiated a leg of mutton into a fish, when he wanted his palate greased. Again : in No. 2, Scrutator says to such worthy men, " In the name of our holy, our beloved, our scriptural presbyterianism, honored by your worthy names, long may you live," ^wc' iieed no repentance — we are not born of foniicators — we are not as ; \ ^ no TKL'tn DETKlfrW). i l> t % iy this poor publican.'* And tins is the product of tlii» solf-rigliteons supremacy, that presumes to know more than God — for (Jod never partloned any man for money ; but on the contrary, because man has nothing to pay, he frankly for- gives him all. I now call Scrutator to the bar of my elder brother — Matthew V. 23, 24 — " Therefore if thou bring thy gitt to the altar, and there rcmembcrest that thy brother has aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and otter thy gift," and the Lord's prayer teaches the same : Therefore' as my elder Itrother commands the gift to be left there until reconciliation be made, I hope Srruta- tor will not presume ti) pray to God, for his prayer cannot be acceptable, being contrary to his (God's) laws. I now demand of Srrntafor that he come for- ward and prove those charges, or else acknowledge his erroi", and confess that he spoke in haste, find is sorry for it ; and 1 can assure him on behalf of the leadei-s and local preachers, that they will treat him the same way as God would . jfit him beet. First, I my that during the period of ciglitecn years I never saw lor heard Mr. I. ; and hero he says 1 nevor had any principh*, and that I have not [any now. Now Scrutolor you must be an uttcrcr ot' falsehood ; and do you not |i\n;l that the slipper fits you. Secondly, with respect to liypocrisy. My eyes lluive seen and my ears have heard Mr. 1. on Methodist Missioiuiry platforms, land I must say I tl>ought he excelled in speaking; but hero we see this race of jmen givinjjj antl receiving compliments and honours one of another, by which Ithey prove theniselves to be whited walls or adoraed sepulchres, when inwardly • Ithev are f\dl of malice and wickedness. Now Scrutator vou must sec and feel [that there is not any person in New Brunswick that the slipper fits better than ;ours(.'lf. 1 believe he was no hypocrite wlien ho cried out not so much against [Alexander the coppersmith as he did against those who used liis material ; and jif Scrutator is one of the best pieces of scantling sent out from the college, they [are not worth a copper each. Oh, for common honesty ! oh, for another race of [poor illiterate fishermen, with the holy unction of God with them. Again. I Ifollow up Scrutator to No. 5 (" A cry from the Woods"). Firet, he says, ho [defies any man to point out a single falsehood or exaggeration in them — what lie calls the refuse and floating material. I am surprised to hear this statement. And since I have charged him witii criminality and falsehood, and as he still per- sists in iniquity and crime, .1 must consider myself equally guilty if I were to Ulow his sin to pass without rebuke, and not strive to save him from worse than N^iagara Falls. Tlie God of this world liaving blinded his eyes, I feel in duty )ound to cry. Awake ! awake ! and see the first inscription — a lie in your right Jiand ; and the facts prove it. Fii-st, he declares it to be a cry fi'om the woods, kvhen it is from the city of Saint John ; the second lie he tells is, ttiat he is Sera- tator, instead of R. I. ; the third, was sixpence of a lie ; fourtli, was three and nine )ence of a lie ; fifth, was four shillings of a lie ; sixth, was four doitara of a lie : uul all this occurring in this enlightened college age. Oh Scrutator, how glad kvould 1 be to have you at the penitent bench — the place you despise. Oh how would rejoice to hear you cry, " God be merciful to me a sinner : save me or perish : oh save or I sink into hell." And when I would hear you exclaJip |i* Against yourself (not justify yourself), I would meet you at the penitent bonc%l Hid direct your mind's eye to his clemency for mercy, and say (from the wil- derness of New Brunswick) with my namesake John in the wilderness of Judca, ' Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." And I mst tell you Scrutator whether you ever come to the penitent*bench or not, it a matter of the first moment to know that a penitent state is yours, otherwise )u must hear the sentence and pay the penalty of liars. ^crMtotor proceeds irther, and apologises for his coarse and severe treatment. He says he does |ot wish to be more charitable than the bible — that he cannot call black white, id a hypocrite a true christian ; and brings our blessed Saviour in as an ex- inple — that we should follow his steps : and commences with pouring out tho enunciations and woes pronounced in Matthew xxiii. 4 : "Woe unto you scribes lid pharisces, hypocrites." Ver. 33 : "For ye are b'ke unto whited sepulchres, [hich indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones id all uncleaniiess." Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape le damnation of hell. Scrutator, I must beg leave to difier with you, and that kose denunciations do not belong to us at all. Now you and I are at variance, [nd I invite you, with all your self-righteous acquirements that you learned at )llegcv-your coat of latin, your shining coat of greek, and your crown and jlmet o^ hebrew — to come forward witli your power of words, and meet fact Id experience — the sling and stone. And first, according to Scrutatcr's own Ws, he oalls us the refuse, and tho figure represents us as the husks and chaff, 82 TKITII I)KFKNJ)I':i». m tlicrctoi'c cftimnoH soiisc would say that iiiaterial lias no power to enact laws ami iiiilict penalties. Secondly, he calls us a tloatinp; material — that we do not nn- ♦lerstand what we say oni-selvcH, neitlicr can anvhody else understand us. Now connnon sense says the weak nnist l>ow to the stronjj, and the lesser to the prreater ; therefore our stomachs will n()t digest Scrntator\' application, and wc throw it off Tor liini, and 1 hope lie will apply it to liimself, where it belongs, I now come to show the charactei's and lineajjc to whom the aforeniention(>(l woes and denunciations belong. They did belong to the scribes, jjliarisees au'l hiwycrs, avIio gloried in )iigh sounding titles, such as rabbi and master, wliicli signifies infallible teacher j.nd chief teacher, and bv liigh sounding words and making broad their phylacteries they beguiled the hearts of tlic simple, and in- duced them to woi-ship at their shrine, while they shrouded beneatli tliose painted ^^alls, graves, dead men's bones, and all nncleanncss. 2d. It belongs to the pope and cardinals. Oh wlmt a true succession and lineage. Behold the broad phy- lacteries, and braided gold array ; and what is the aim of all this but to get the people to pay homage unto them, and in this way they w rap them \ip in the winding sheet of snpei'stition and idohitrj', and then bury them beneath tin; painted walls of corniption. liut it does not so much apjdy to tluit priest wIid ■would allow every man the right of private judgment, anil would not force his sentiments down another man's throat. These woes belong to the bishops, f>rie8t8 and rectoi*s, who seek honour and power, and claim authority to bind and oosc as thej^ please ; but they do not apply to that curate or minister of Christ who is ready to go into any open door, and cry "Behold the Lamb of Ood that taketh away the sin of the Avorld." And had Scrutator applied the woes to the ordained Methodist and Baptist ministci's — for they have begun to spread out their phylacteries, and spread abroatl their names svs the Reverend such n man, and Bachelor of Arts, and now the windy prince comes in, and the next we hear of is the D. D., Doctor of Divinity. I ask what is the substance o( these sounds. Is it not — Bow down to me, for I am Master of Arts, and so commences the binding of heavy burdens. I am so much better tlian you, my illiterate inferiors ; and then the Divinity Doctor comes, and tells abroad, With a great sum of money I have purchased this honor; which proves they belong to Simon Magus' lineage ; and to these the woes of God belong, and not to the leaders, local preachers, and deacons ; neither is it applicable to the elders of the presb}i;erian body, for they arc for meaner uses, and I never heard one of these ram's horns give a blast irom the pulpit. But all those fine polished silvev, trumpets, I must now tell you Scrutator, as Nathan told David, Thou art the man — ^you who wish to be called rabbi or infallible teacher ; and notwithstand- ing all this, you place the woes belonging to yourself upon us : a school boy would not make such r.u awful prostitution of the Word of God as this liigh and lifted up Gog and Magog has done. Sec Ezekiel xxxviii. 2, 3 ; Rev. xx. 8. Scrutator then proceeds (in the third column) and insimiates to a professional gentleman that he lias left the Presbyterians, and he lets him know according to his high supremacy in binding and loosing, that he is no longer a christian — no, not even in name — but a follower of the false prophet, and has changed his bible for the koran of the Mahometan. Oh do you hear the sentence from the bell, coal and candle light — he is dismissed from our holy see. Oh Scrutator, I drink no more of the wine of the Lady out of your prince's hand and pump, throw I off from your system what you have already received, and on your knees consi- der the above false, hypocritical, and lying production, and confess " It is me my lying father has captivated, and made me like himself a false prophet, and I am worse than Mahomet and his koran," and uoav confessing the truth would you not give that gentleman credit for escaping Avith his life, an yens, and cloven tongues descending and resting, and begetting new tongues, from which flowed the spiritual eloquence — Glory ! Glory! and this is always tho effect arising from Christ's baptism. The deacon exclaimed, " We do not believe that water will save us." So the minister dismissed the meeting. I here dis- covered that they had got into the transubstantiation and biauing and loosing system. First, he binds salvation only to those who are immerssd, and damns all *'\^i heathen, because they do not believe, and makes and nullifies God's authority, " their consciences being a law to themselves ;" and again, " sin is not imputed where there is no law." Secondly, he danms att infants, because they do not believe. They reject the way that God provided for Adam's race, when the sentence of death through the transgression of Adam passed upon all men, for all have sinned in Adam, so that the free gift of God came upon all men unto justification of life ; and here infants are put in a salvable state with- out faith or believing. Thirdly. He damns all idiots because they do not be- lieve, and makes void the law that God made to meet their case — where there is little given there is little required ; and fourthly, he danms all believers be- cause they are not immersed. So Christ's baptism of spirit and love, producing in man love to God and his neighbour, which Christ said was more than all burnt oflferings and sacrifices, is in a measure lost sight of, and this Baptist pope " me and us,' declares the sumnum bonum of all the gospel to be immersion. Here the pope of human nature contradicts God in the arrangement of his go- vernment in giving his blessings to meet the various states and conditions of his own creatures. Oh do not be oflfended with God because he would save those of his free will and free grace, without faith or believing. The most of disH(ntei ilovil ha! old lady and hen people, j; tho fit (it to bear v wine froi key awji tliey unh garments where th (that ha( crimson « milies nn ilraughts tho apost whoacce 1 1 road : n>cn; am thodist, o appear en in and is Avith wine tlie coveri adorning &ithfully, high— "f consent, a enlighten( thinn^ is to taiigTit th( his angels deed dcch of the gloi ^ to be the ; • her husbai the wife si ; Avoman. I Church is this new h > Churches ( man, sayin % be called I |; phecy. \^ ■ reproach; name for t 'is common Father ace d humili e sinner's ' ei^alt th< ipirit, aM i i TRUTH DEFENDED. 35 out of her ehu naicif woukl 1)0 ivhich 8iliec., 'Did eniug ht > w tongues, always the not believe here dis- nd loosing and damns ifies God's lain, " sin is because am's race, d upon all le upon all state with- do not be- here there jlicvers be- producing re than all aptist pope immersion, of his go- iditions of would save le most of ;s, w A' undentand — for I know nothing about your Greek lexicon*), which are carried on tho broezo, Oivo ub honoi>*, give us pleasures, give us e»we, the })urp!e and tho fine linen, thu sumptuous feasts and the gaudy dress, kings' houses, aud soft mi- mont: they arc wolves in sheep's clothing; and thus they prove themselves tho logitiinato offspring of tho world, the ilcsh and the devil. Your heart is with thcso your treasures, and this is yctur succession, not Christ's— otherwiHo Christ would bo a liar ; for he said to his disciples, *' Ye are no moru of this world :" they take no pleasure, no joy, but in crucifying the tiesh with tho lusts thereof; they delight not in tho pleasures that;>ioth and rust doth corrupt; they take no pleasure m foolish jesting and vain eonversatioiu I must now return to my Baptist friends whore I left oft". They will tell mo that I have miBreprcscntod them. "Well, then, you will have an opportunity of correcting me when I have tried you by facts, acts and deeds — the only gram- mar and orthography I am learned in. 1 intend to show the grouiul on which you and the old lady joins kindred. First, the mother boasts of groat learning, logic, craft, tuid scnso, and tliere are none able to explain or give tho power of words but " me and ub ;" no one ought to comment on tho Scriptures but us. I have hoard of a College tho Baptists have got up, and a Baptist minister (Mr. — ) advocating the great use and blessing Colleges would be to tlie world, and that a man is not tit for anything unless he has been to college, and he quoted that Scripture, " If any man lovo not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him bo anathema, macanathn :" and then says " Who can understand this scripture but a learned man.'* Tho next day one of his hoard's was telling his neighbour of the great address Mr. — gave, and how he handled this scripture. His neighbour re- plied, docs not that scripture explain itself, for it says, " Let him be accursed." The man was surprised ; and this is a sample of tho College — blind leaders of the blind, darkening counsel by words without knowledge. I have heard some of the Baptist people say, that tho translators of the English version of tho Bible were ignorant, and that they did not understand tho (irook word right, or they would have placed the word " immerse" instead of " baptize :" others say they wanted to favour the King. No matter what way you take it, " mo and us" are right. Now I ask you, Is not this the very image of your mother ? Se- conro))or (Ml tized bv rving oil prize ji'dy \ luith; but tiid put tbove fuot kith her: f'ou thoro I now h formed Pr ains a coi bor 1851. pcctable bt kavc boon lince the ii knlighteiiei kroiluccdb; lie pnictici nth cries j the poop Imploying re not to I tie rospons |j)t>n us : o fold enougl ' tliom say Bcoived a u Jilt they ha\ lidobted to lecoive theii dbpendcnt o QDt charge according tc Iteson from Oilp.iblc of le tile deep thii a)|d intents ( boasts of yoi ibt darkness. Masts of her Ae fi'ont doc Ultcr that kii flsry wise : y blessed <1 ther, that lied them i |irg, " Hui |ch more < lenough lb U'^ and lire TRTTTH nWEMDEn. , troinbln (>r fear at III " Why li« priHoti ro tuo au- protohrt t4) re carried I! and tlio 1 1 soft mi- KolvtM tho t irt witfi ino Christ H world :" a thereof; )y take no ill tell mo >rtunity of nly }f ram- on Avhich t learning, 3 power of rea but us. it minister world, and he quoted anathcmu, ■j a learned the great hbour ro- accuraed." leaders of card some on of tho d right, or others aay mo and her? Se- ir Churcli 28 you arc ind ub"— io by tlie not bury i-sisterby clean, and later to be Ir superior BC as well ahcd r uxanii»lu : ouppoAo thoro wore two iropcr eaiulidatOH for baptinni, wh(m« faith and ji;rju!o aro alilcc — tho ono in hap- ized by M»rinklin^(, tho other by inimoi-Hion, and tho name of tho Father, tho «>ii, and tlio Holy (ilKwt pnniomu'od in l>oth caHon — and wo hear Imt ladyship iryinjx out to tho one that wax HpriiikhMl "you aro not baptized," wo Hnd tho ludy prizes the juution and <|uantity of the lioly water as wiporior to grace and luith; but what is woi-se, she deKpiseH tlic Kathor, tho St)n, and the Holy Ghost, uid puts all the honor and glory on the ipiantity of water. I hope from tho ilx)ve facts, and {\u-\v near rcseinblaneo to yonr mother, you will claim kindred kvith her : although you may ditl'er in name, you arc ono in nature ; and I Icavo ^•ou there for tho present. I now have belbre me tho *' Monitor and Missionary Ohronicle," of the Re- Iformed rresbytorian Church of Ireland, Vol. 1., No. 2, Juno 1852, which con- luins a communication from the pen of Mr. — , South Stream, N. B., Decera- ber 1861. He begins with the Methodists, and acknowledges them to bo ares- )cctablo body, amf tells us of the varioiw goave saic 3r8 and ^ot send le same some ^ lilled th pmselfv rophet. make fho W! Iwoke P [oUege n ic wisd » prefer Ind then lem, th fraid th ssumin* TRUTH r)Kn<:NiHi:n'. 3{) iiul tlio votni'k'R e quite bold in ! hnsli ! would you be so bold ill a great sum , tor tliey never one — therefore >ur verdict, ye see your bonds Mary to save ttributes which alone do tliey ir God, with all to the gi-eater), ler which is in standard of the . One prefers ;od : greater in ur verdict, &c. lOve? Did he no ; it was not itnesses, go tell 3 for you ; and ost ; and as yc unchangeable and spare not ; not, nor medi- fi a mouth and to resist. Oh he will lay the in the house, J entered the find pasture. Him who has ion, and your wisdom from infii-mities to m, but be like the sincere hear him say, toucheth the reply, Abba votaries that age and sue- to confound laming their of Christ, jecause they a has not the posed of the cloven feet, and reaping re orruption. A^ain. I am bold enough to say that I would rather hear the liildren fiom eight to twelve years of age (whom I have heard) buntt out with ongsof joy, singing "Glory! glory! glory!" the theme that angels and shcp- lerds sang on liethlehenj's plains ; others would say, " It is love — oh I feel the )eHce that passeth understanding." Some I heard say, " I wish my mother felt • his ;" another said, " I have it, but I do not know how to tell it. " I cannot ell it," says another, " but I have it ;" anc»ther would say, " I feel it." " It is a )ity but the Lord would take us now when we are ready." This revival took )lace in the Mechanics', the Wesleyan, and adjoining settlements, and I believe here were upwards of an hundred blessed. Yes, I would rather hear those tell n their native tongue in which they were bom, those rams' horns filled with tho ruth of God — they have more power and are more acceptable to God — than hose who gloiy in popes and cardinals and priests and friare. Ye Maynoothers ind daughters, and university men, with your brass and silver wind pipes and (hining patchwork — a set of fictitious trumpery — ^you see God will not accept iny offering when it is not mixed with faith ; and I wonder at Mr. — that he ;an be so blind as to substitute his sentiments and principles for mine, and mine •or his. He says. We not only receive our thoughts but our words also flrom he Holy Ghost, but words altogether independent of any exercise of our own udgment. Firet. He will give credit to people telling of the evil suggestions f the devil, but he will not give credit to the Holy Ghost nor the poor and des- ised upon whom he operates : thus he shows he belongs to the College god. secondly. He must know that I believe in the exercise of my own judgment, 18 a co-worker with God, and I believe that as many as are led by the Spirit of aod they are the sons of God, and also, that if I draw back God has no pleasure n me until I return to him again ; and I am not ignorant of your sentiments, sir, 'or I have heard from some of your people what your opinions are, namely, " that trom eternity to eternity the number to be saved and to be damned was so fixed Imd defined, that man had nothing to do with it, and can do nothing :" I wonder flow you let tho devil beguile you so. Again. Mr. — speaks of a young man mho spent some time at the university, and then came before Dr. Mason of New aTork, and his advice was for the young man to go home and glorify God by his pesom making, seeing God had not given him the proper qualifications for the ministry : so he is qualifying by the university god ; and Mr. — applies '' is case to the poor outcasts, the local preachers ! But the poor fellow shoold ave said, I came to your college to receive my qualifications, for 1 thoiight let- rs and divinity were sold here, and why will you not give mo my divinity, and lot send me away, and blame it on God — ray want of qualification. So Mr. -— acts " e same sleight of hand, and says, I think these men would be more honorable some worldly calling, than assuming an oflSce to which it is evident God n^ver |ill«d them. Here we see the papal supremacy (me and us), and then covers imselfwith his name to tako away her ladyship's reproach. But you are a vain ophet. I must tell you we are the veiy men — for God can raise up dead stones make of them Abraham's seed ; and I would rather hear the ass of Balaam ho was permitted to speak in reproof of the prophet), or the cock that iwoke Peter to a sense of his wickedness and his Lord's love, than hearing your toUege manufactured ministei-s displaying the enticing words of man's wisdom — " c wisdom of this world, which comes to nought ; and I am still bold enough prefer the wisdom that comes from above entering into their souls and bodies, ,nd then and not till then will they answer the description God has given of ' em, that is — fljimes of fire. Oh how much these gods and goddesses are raid that a spark should drop in their meeting houses, but how much more suming and criminal to explode in their pulpits. Is it bociuso God'& cause / 40 THTTn I>EirEiri>BI>. would Buffer by the explosion ? nay, rather I believe it i» because your god (the world) would upbraid you, and you would become less popular with your god ; secondly, you would be losing the fleece, and then the belly god, as the scripture terms it; therefore they liave learned so much of their god and sleight of hand .that they make scripture and their seared consciences speak any language to suit these gods and goddesses ; and you say, it is e\'ident God never called us, but you never gave any evidence to prove it, only " me and us," to whom all otlier gods must bow. It is not a " Thus saith the Lord." And since you have been so bold in supporting your triune god — the world, the flesh, and the devil, I also claim the right to support my triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I now have reference to my God's call. Jesus called Peter, James, and John, and told Peter he would make them fishers of men. So God called, and they obeyed ; and ho qualifies independently of your college gods. It makes mo very suspicious of your colleges, since God did not see it essential, and the suc- cession that you belong to were confounded when they heard those unlettered men, and all the lawyere, pharisees and scribes of the dny were not able to gain- say or resist ; and all the disciples were scattered abroad by the persecution of Stephen, and the world was set in a flame wherever they went. Were those disciples taught in the great sandherim or the universities ? not one of them ; but the love of God constrained them, and they went forth without staves, scrip or money : the divine call and the love of Gotl constrained them to tell poor sinners that Jesus died to save them : and thus they go now taking God at his word, taking no thought for their lives, what they shall eat or what they shall drink, or wherewithal shall they be clothed ; and this class of ministers does not requive any of her ladyship's broad phylacteries, or pitch or peacock feather appendages to recommend them — they believe their Master is all-sufiicient to call, to qualify, to reprove, and approve. He told Cornelius to send for Peter, and called on Peter to attend to the call of Cornelius ; and the Spirit called Philip to join himself to the chariot of the eunuch. He calls them to be doew of the word, and to preach according to the articles of God ; second, according to the fij,ith they have ; third, according to the grace they have : and this is his imperative statute :md authority. Now let the lady's men kick like a mule and bite like a serpent, when the beauty of their Diana fades, and their craft is in danger. The apostle Paul was called, and he entered in by the door — the prince that gave repentance and remission of sins. This is the way that Jesus teaches his ministers, as he taught the apostle : first, humility ; second, he exalts and justifies; third, not to be ignorant of Satan's devices; fourth, to be no more of the world than he was of the world ; and when God called Paul, he did not deceive him, but told him he Would be brougjit before kings and princes, and how mach he would have to suffer for his (Christ's) name's sake ; and hear how he declares his faithfulness to the call, " I was not disobedient to the hea- venly vision ;" and ho kept the &ith, and gained the crown. Some of the learned men of the day say that the apostle Paul's learning was essential, and from it he derived his usefulness. I deny it — -first, because God said he was to be his witness: secondly, to suffer; thirdly, because God never gave a command or an example in which learning was essential ; and fom'thly, the apostlo Paul's own testimony, which is, " Though I could speak with more tongues than they all, yet I am nothing." Here he exalte God as all-sufficient, and here they agree ; and they differ from you whosoever tiiou art. I believe God called him because he was honest and true, and had a straightforward manly spirit, without either hypocrisy or guile : his manliness does not boast of a worldly mob, or crowds of popular forces, but in the power and strength of that love which despises pain and overcomes death when the body dies. I have had many calls myself, but like JJ pome at onci that n| that II town. Since police [no doo| )ut tht ill go I [went, [around I had sj he noi^ 'race, jr as thj ^ceased, jbf lieav( rested i [hunger, jor iu w fthemsel Itiful sup Imake al Jthrono o the throl it is now jaro the ] Was a sp Jthere, ar lenty t ** TBBTH DEFENDED. ,4; c your god (the with your god ; asthc scripture sleiglit of hand ly langUHgo to i never called »," to whom all since you have I, and the devil, tid Holy Ghost, twos, and John, illed, and they It makes me il, and the suc- ose unlettered )t able to gain- persecution of . Were those one of them ; ut staves, scrip n to tell poor ng God at his rlmt they shall listers does not 3acoek feather is all-sufficient send for Peter, Spirit called m. to be doers >nd, according and this is his :e a mule and leir craft is in door — the ay that Jesus »nd, he exalts 1 ih, to be no Paul, he did and princes, :e ; and hear to the hea- lome of the bssential, and lid he was to a command postlo Paul's Bs than they I they agree ; Biira because thout either j)r crowds of [espiscs pain myself, but ike Jonaii I ran away from God, and in several instances I was conajtraijied to jonie back again. One time on my bed, while in a deep tr^^iji of thought, jjll |at once I heard the words, " Arise and speak for Jestis." I could sleep no,«>pro that night. I arose, and it being the Sabbatih morning I went to class ; and that morning was the first time I ever met a class. Again, I found th^ spirit or i<;rc>d upon me, constraining rac to get up, and preach in the streets of , Stewa^- ftown. 1 quenched the spu'it for the period of tliree weeks, ah|d[ I reasoned t-hu^, Since Mr. — , a methodist minister, about two months 3go, ha4 to. got the ifpolice to protect him, what use was there in me going to preach, jis therq wap '■'jio door open to take me in — where everything in my judgment Ayas forbidding; '')ut the Spirit still followed me, until at length I said by the blessing 9^ Go,d I vill go and publish to them the gospel, and telt them oi^ the sinner's fripnd.^ I jweht, and commenced by singing the twenty third psalm ; tiho, people gatherefl laroundme, laughing as if they had got a new playactor before them ; bi^t whpn 3 had sung those beautiful words, "The Lord is my shepherd 1 shall jiot Wj^nt,'^ he noise all at onoe ceased, and my heart said I shall not w^i^t wisipe )lenty the opposite of God; and I knew onettat could preach like an ang»l| and * 'in r^u / 4!S iteurn' DEFENDED. then would drink and qnarrcl aiid almsc Jiis wife, ind proach on, and drink on ; and I have known others who were fond of liunting and gambling, and worse : and that these men could and would call themselves the Lord's anointed ! It seemed that my eyes were holdqn — that I could not sec one like Christ. One evening I repaired to the hill where I fed ray father's cattle and sheep : it was a large hill and fort, where it was said the Danes had formerly encamped. I took a small testament from my pocket, and prayed that God would open ray under- standing, and give me to see a true minister of His. I opened at the twentieth chapter of Acts, wHfere an account is given of the address of the Apostle Paul to tne Ephesian elders. In verse 28, he warns them to take heied unto them- selves and the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made them overseers ; and also of the above class (namely, the grievous wolves) entering among them, and not sparing the flock ; and in verees 33, 34 and 35, he portrays the true chal*ac- ter of a Minister of the Gospel ; and he was one of them. But his witness Avas not his say so and think so ; but he appeals to their own knowledge — how his own hands had ministered to his own necessities and to them that were with him, and that he coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel. Here ray heart leaped with joy and said, " Thank the Lord," and to this day I rejoice to repeat "Tnank the Lord." I found myself as one that had escaped from the gallows. Here I see the very image and copy of Jesus — that could suffer the loss of all things for the benefit of others. I never had a doubt on my mind since respec- ting what constituted a true minister of Jesus Christ. I said, if there is not a , true minister in the Church of England, or the Presb}iierian, Methodist, or Bap- tist CljiUrches, Paul is one ; and he suffers, and is willing to suffer, and to como before tihe people, for them to bear their testimony ; and it is easy for a man that lives void of offence before God and man to bear the investigation of any just judgment : for if he gets his mistakes corrected he gains by it, and if he stands on the Rock of Trath he joys and rejoices. I believe the gospel will never have its due effect without it is lived and practised ; and why should we be offended by infidels calling ministers greedy dogs ; no, but let us blame our- selves, because we give them occasion to call us so. The prophets say so, and Paul says so, and Jesus commands his little ones to beware of the ravenous wolves m sheep's clothing. Oh do not blame the infidels, but pity them ; and {ksttlaps you and such as you are the cause of making them so. I now return ^upport siirely they must get a living ; and further said, he could not trust the J)eoplc without having it bound by law to him, for religion was at a low worldly state now. Here we see he has neither faith in God nor man, but retreats to the system for his security. I was talking to a ^ery respectable man of the name of , ai)d he told tae he had got a call there ; and he came and proposed his terms, which were thirty pounds per annum, for his services for one sabbath in each month. Ho told me he thought they could not gather that amount : and they did not agree ; and it was not an effectual call, for want of the thirty pounds. He then cimie to Black River, when I was there, and I believe they cdme tdhis temis, and they bought him ; and his effectual cill was thirty pounds. I there- fore would direct him to meeit my elder brother, and contrast his college door with his. He is to be found in the 10th chapter of John, 13th verse, \dief6 he addresses the hireling, " The hireling fleeth because he is an hireling, and carijtli not for the sheej)." Thirdly. I heard Mr. — say that if he had money enougli h© would get the world converted — he would obtain young men and send them to college, and (^jiialify' thcra for ministers, and then settle theui so f*lose that hey ^^ ho w( noncy money but he a flesh is I*ete ther la the kir Father pray fo tuous ' preme. for tlie: ^ means i God ne they sa tive pr< ^ now, A ; parenta ] youhai i suprem 1 y^ariy to the i icommo not wor :|and arr; '■■^ market i^it, and J I your Hi I the tjoo I Paul ^n A they Y And jtel ^your pr i tpr not.1 ) huudfei ,jNo mat rejoices lid stil lave re |iprdaine I your fig Isenses : Ipresum I our uni letter k tion. ' I master, I pressed 1 away, a again. TRUTU DEFENDED. 48, I, RtuI drink on ; ng, and worse : i anointed ! It ;e Christ. One ilicep : it was a tiinped. I took jpen ray itndcr- it tlic twentietli e Apostle Paul tied unto them- bverseers ; and lOng them, and he true chal*ac- his witness Avas edge — how his that were with Here my heart 3Joice to repeat •m the gallows. • the loss of all id since rcspec- therc is not a^ ihodist, or Bap- ir, and to como jasy for a man igation of any y it, and if he le gospel will . vhy should wc ' us blame our- Bts say 80, and ' the ravenous ity them ; and I now return J of experience band by and to s em. He said, ist the |)eoplc dly state now. the system for lamo of , )sed his terms, bbath in each mt : and they thirty pounds. By cAme t6liis nds. I there- } college door srse, Dmetti he ftg, and carotli ; loney enough nd send them ? so flose thrtt tliey would convert the world. Oh what a race of Simon Magus' wo have iu Iho world. Peter diftorcd very much from these men when he said " Tliy pnoncy perish with thee;" and the grace of God could not be purchased with jnoney. Methiuks I hear you in this enlightened age laugh at Peter's folly, >ut he made little of the golden ore that purchases the college god. Oh, what k fleshly corrupt seed time is this to rcoeive a spiritual harvest from. Whether ^'s Peter or the learned sages of the day right, judge ye. Again, there is ano- ther law by whiclx this lady binds her votaries, that is, they are not to pray for [the king or queen, unless they are of their own making 'and modelling. The JFather has given an express law, binding on all his subjects, that they should [pray for kings and all that are in authority, that wc live sober, honest, and vir- [tuous lives, in all godliness ; but she rejects the Father, and makes uersolf su- Iprerae. And the Father requires further, that all under his banner should pray [for tlieir enemies ; but her ladyship has bound and loosed it — so thftt by this {means she would overthrow the Father's authority. Tlie Rev. Mr. — says that [God never called the local preachers to preach: this is your verdict; and so [they say all. Here we see learning, titles and offices bring forth their own na- jtive progeny in thor,e days as in the days of our Saviour. The cry was, as it is iiow, Away with hiip, away with Jiin), crucify him— he is illiterate, he is of pOor parentage — is not this the carpenter's son ; therefore go and mind the busmess you havan and having a poor education, forbids me to think I can avoid, the stiroke of the iron tongs bfemg apjjlied to send me back to my (iattle and sheep, and to hold thd ^l6ugh and mind the farm, and dare not presume on Ojur tetter judOTient; for We (the college taught) know that God never called wich' men as you to {)r£ach the gospel. And this is your verdict, ladies and gentlemeh, and so'ye siay all. I wish to retract the word all ; for I believe there ^re a, good many among all denominations that are grieved with this high- minded- cooksqdmb sleight of hand trumpery, but they are so snared that they do not knpyr how to escape. O Lord, break the snare, and give them liberty. X also aiptnowledge that this college-god, back-god, and belly -god would "not allbw me to pfeach, but mine does, and your inferior gods many and lords many must hoijr to my superior God; and here is where we have the advantage of you. I coiii^ hpw to prove froto fact and experience what I call man-made ministers. For instwce ; look at all denominations and their colleges. They send a young nQ^n tjo if aynootji to study— -he comes'otit what he went in for. So the Churches ot ilngiand, Bcptiland, Baptist, and Methodist^all come out what they desire them to be ; an^ herein is the manufacturing system the very' opposhe of God's plan. J V^ ap^uainted with a man yfho had two sons at college, who were ediucated foi* Pi-esliyterian ministers. I have heard him curse his servants in the yard. I just thought had this man love to God and his kingdom that in^uQed hjni to send two of his sons to pull down Satan's kingdom ; and one day whei^ t gskod hiiri what his object Was in, making them ministers, he said it was to/m^ke gpntlerapn of them, and to g6t a good living. "Jf he had said other- arid we lay it out to mate our sons mi- csus sf*ys it is the loavc^ and fishes you ifspring — it is not in your nature to love 0, nnd y you min cad of oars se n shill ivo the od not 10 case ,nd if nc omplex ►ours ta 3r the iind dot loes not o accep )omp, ri nnt. lone of ualified era sp{ ,nd the ulated 1 iere>: m ind uatu lesh to c md to th Jjboi this J the powe bodies (li %oul and lias not a lire not t And aftc the wafei Vhat a breathes tealth ai idmoti ie recei }nes br jrae wl ISan hold 16 brea fenormitj >wn mas 5f her, i lan-ma* isk wha is giving Statutes Mid prei Is not t^. 4 TRUTH DfcFKMDeBj 4« 7 quarter. To >8 to sever me ur country of If-brother was and of course that he would and he died, i as John will tie, and make e will give an ike a Presby- id not succeed ot that I say I mnst forever heart, and re- to retain the ny conviction isiderablo pro- ; God to exer- (ny judgment, le will. I do ty and power g to our feith is veiy poor, o think I can : to my (iattic >t presume on never called ct, ladies and believe there ;h this high- •ed that they them liberty, d would not \ lords many itage of you. de ministers, end a young he Churches i they desire site of God's 8, who were bis servants agdom that and one day 3 flaid it was said other- duct speaks eknow ou be taught; ur sons mi- 1 fishes you ture to love le, and you may as well say that 'ivftfph hinsi Up a hill and fit'c deSf^cnds n* to ly you love me — you only kiss me to betrav me. I f(i(v)llect at a time when V. ministers got scarce, they carried on the biiidmg and loosing »t*stem, and in* tcad of seven years, they loosed some of thtm to go Kt larj^6 at the eml of threo [oars servitude, and when they got too plenty the stated ministerii had to give jn shillings or half a guinea to the young journeyman for his ^support ; and to) lave their own pocket and a glut in the market; they have bound theW collegB rod not to license any one without beingf manufac^tnred fiv« years. Ih not tbi* 110 case with all the gods and goddesses of this World, as long as they' please us, Ind if not we will bind and loose at our pleasure; Hui'diy, you hiilW'see the lomplexio.^ of your motherin your own features ; awl T hfeard one bfoUr neigh- bours talk of laying out three hundred pounds on his «on to mamtfaetnre him )r the ministry, and if he succeeded and married lvell, probably ho luight re- Hmd double the sum. Here they seem to pay God a gl'cat c- ^nt. This is what Christ never did, and here it is ptoved to yow that ydn fct& lone of his. I have been acquainted with several young men who havb been jualified by letters and power of words seeking trt save soulh, fttid t have heard i;hem speak of learning the various branches and languag^es thl3 first fwir years^ lind the fifth year divinity, to impose on the simple — that thef p6we* of well rc- Vulated words jtna tfnWing sounds are eskential to save souls ; but. do they «top iere>: no, but they go on to teach and administer imdcommunicafei the' dilinity md nature of God. What do we see but a race oi^ mefa tiimsiilistiintiating the lesh to disceni God the Spirit, and the fifth year binds tbdir (lltinlty to them, »nd to them alone and to all who believe on them tlirotfgli tfeeir '^vwd; t)Oei» lot this show yott that you are your mother's daughter— for she telte us 'that by the power of her words she makes the bodies^not one bodyi-— butth^Otodarids'of bodies (like your power of words) ; and not only so, but bireathes into thdmthe ioul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; but the fiMt is, th^Wquid ahd flogi^ tias not sinews, bones and arteries ; and if any objeet th6 *ry is Husih, hui4), y^u iire not to believe your own senses, and "n»e artd us'^alfe the intaliible stat\it>el And after they have created and breathed the spirit df tbd divine'^ss^noernt^ the wafer, we find the wafer body neither b6Vfe&, nor bwathes,- not speaks. Oh Vhat a difference between God's creation And their creation-^^for h* netBi* breathes his spirit into any thing, but it becomt^i animated with life arid vig'-ii^ liealth and freedom. The priest can hold bis (the priest's) creatiotn,' breathless And motionless, between his fingers. X never heard of any of them leaping 08ite ; and as facts, acts and deeds are my theolo- gical grammart and as my Lord lias aaid by their fruits ye shall know them — thorelorc I will not try you by grammaticalty ordered words, or sounds, or tones of tho voice, but by Tims saith the Loitl — " by their fruits shall ye know them ;" for thorns will not bring forth grapes — it is contrary to nature. And wlieu titose students come out feathered and oiled, they arc sleek and smooth and glossy, and when opportunity ofiered they could drink as usual, and fiddle, and sport about, and justity these tilings as useful tor brauiiig their uervotis system, and I believe tltem to be like the priest*s wafer in its raw natural state, after all their diffusing of divinity on tliem. They would not suiier a bone to be broken, no nor so much as a sinew in tlie neck to be stretched, for fear they should be meek aud lowly. We wore speaking on the subject of knowing our sins forgiven and being bom again. X'his doctrine did not suit at all, and one of them quoted that scripture, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and tliou licarest the sound thereof^ but cannot tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit," and said wo could not know anything about it. I gaid it was a beautiful figure for our blessed Lord to use : we cannot see a spirit neither can we see the wind, but we can sec and feel the cflccts of both ; and we cfin feel the biting north wind, and the balmy south wind to our comfort; and our Lord further proves it when he says, " We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen, and ye receive not our witness;" and again, our Lord says, " That ye may know that the Sou of Man hath power on eaith to forgive sin^ I say unto thee arise, take up thy bed and walk, and he arose, took up his bed and walked." They did not seo the power aud strength enter into him, but they were unwillingly forced to believe as they beheld f£c prostrate man res- tored to life and activity ; and so it is with the soul dead in trespasses and, sins. When Jesus breathes his life-giving spirit, immediately tlie soul dead before starts into life, and with a warm heart rejoices to proclaim a life-giving God and Sa- viour : come he will save you all, come share with mo the banner of divine love (all that stiff aitarched dried up formality is gone). So these facts prove, that old things are passed away, and all things are become new. There was another minister, a preacher in our neighborhood, and he taught the people that in God's good time utey would get it^ as if he had forgotten God saying. Now was the day of hjs power. I would ask was God gathering strength to savo them at a more couvepient season, or at the hour of death. There was a dispute between an elder and his neighbour on tli€| question of k^iowing whcth(^r their sins wero forgiven, and they could not agree : the neighbour left it to the elder's minister. and argued that it was according to their creed to experience justifying grace ; and the benefits flowing from it are the assurance of God's love — no doubt peace of conscience imd glorious perseverance. Tho minister decided /in favo\if of the neighbour, and said it was the privilege of the believer tq expc^icuqc.itt, but that he had never experienced it. Another told mc ho had preached thi^ doctrine lor abouf. eleven years, and believed it to be attainable, yet he hftfl ^^^ Pi'fpci''' enced it : he was unwell, and being asked if he would not send for some of his ordained brethren, he replied, any good man will do me now — send for so and so. I have been with him, and have heard him confess, and he and I have miagled our cries and our prayers together, and I do not know that I was ever on anv spot that reminded mc so much of the travail and pain «>f the penitent bench (where one soul agonises for another), and God blessed him and took him — not lor his confession, or his own or John Collins' prayers or cries or tears, but for Jesus' sake : and these cries and tears proceed from the degree of faith a penitent has, which says, Faithful is he that has promised, who will also perform. We TKUTH DKFEMOKD. 47 no or of divine re my tlieolo- kiiow them — ouiuls, or tones kuow them ;" 13. Ami wlien oth and glossy, Idle, and sport j system, and I , after all their be broken, no jould be meek sins forgiven »f them quoted rest the sound is every one g about it. I lot see a spirit of both; and 1 our comfort ; do know, and fain, our Lord irth to forgive 0, took up his into him, but rate man res- isses and sins, d before starts God and Sa- of divine love ts prove, that was another that in God's Now was the LV<^ them at a pute between leir sins wero er's minister, ig grace ; and 3ubt peace of [avo\i^,of the ^c,it,,lipt that thifi doctrine d not cjfperi- 8ome of his for so and so. ave miiigled ever on anv iiitcnt bench c it 18 for Jesus' sake, and the Father's faithfulncsH accepting of \w, Tlius Jcmis cording to his own sovereign will, in the moment the penitent ntrikon bin match If faith on Christ the rock, it catches fire, and from darknew to light he is trann- rred. Uc heard and no doubt m*eacked that the (tospel U' ^dom was rigbte- usncss, peace, and joy in the soul, and the believing soul leels that it is peace ! ak him- ^ars, but not for h. a penitent rform. "We leace! joy! jt>y! heaven! heaven! i • • • •' "Oli love divlue, l)ow sweet thoa art, ,' " ' t V'. Wlien slinll I tiud my waadoriDg heart, < <■ " ■ . ',!.,■ All taken up in thee." it.. )h ray heart is sick of love (better felt than expressed), and the belietcr Hfiiig life of faith, when dying places his faith on the rock, and all is light in the ralley. Now this is Jesus, the lust and the last, the author and finisher of our "lith. Glory be to our God for flver : he will be our guide even nntO' d^ath ; Hid confounded be your college gods and university divinity for evel* ilnd ever. would ask whether the priest puts the spirit of God in the wafer, or has, the miversity put more of the spirit of God in its recipients, judge ye, I dread these ^ollegc men, first, because the wHold system is founded on human nature ; 'seobnd, )n the father's money, or money anyway, and on this corrupt covetouKfownda- tion in his sinful heart he goes to get filled with knowledge, and on }\h tray the levil accomp&nies him and whispers to him softly. Your lather hast pletity of noney, and oe sure and learn all the branches of learning and all the Itftigua^i. le will say, do not heed those who say these are dead langnages : they 'are ig- lorant novices ; be sure to learn them, for by these means and superioir qualin- itions they will call you rabbi, master, and also you will get tlie largest congre- jations and a good salary. Ah that is the way to receive double for your fa- ther's outlay ; and that's not al) perhaps you may be made a bishop or a car- linal, and if so accomplished you may get to be a pope. And if you could see the spring of his corrupt heart to gormandize every particle of the tre^ of know- ledge, and will not allow a poor illiterate man to taste a little with him, and the tree of life is passed by and undervalued, and he will not bow down in fkith and pbedience to partake of it. Here the father sends his soil with a cornipt heart 10 be filled with — I do not know what to call it unless I call it the devirs pride- ikrine (the very opposite of the humbling wine in Christ's kingdom), and every draught of the devil's wine taken into his carnal heart makes him more heady %nd high-minded, just like the drunkard. We have lieard them say, Stand off "om us, we are better than j-^ou, and wiser than you, and stronger than you — nd there are none to inflict penalties or grant indulgences but us ; and so they on like maniacs to their ordination, whether by the hands of th6 bishops or resbytery. They then declare they were moved by the Holy Ghost to preach ' e gospel, and that they have no other motive than the glory of God and the Ivation of sinnei-s ; and I would say they should send them to their fathers for e answer, and let them tell what was their motive ; and no dovbt the devil irould rejoice to see them drunk, and telling lies, and stumblhig inthe dark, and n the road to the blackness of darkness for* ever. Here w6 discorer ftom the rst draught of the devil's pride-wine th6 fact that it captivates the oorrapt mind vhich iongs for mOre of its own nature, and thus fills and feeds nptil it has at- ived with the devil at the summit of the mountain, and bows down to him and orships him ; and then in his imagination makes his boMt that the kingdoms f the world and the glory of them are' his ; and so he becouftes the most unlike 'od of any man in creation and mbst like the devil ; i^ all that the devil of- ered to our Saviour he would swallow down without putting a tooth in it. lere v. e prove him to be the greatest friend to the world and the greatest enemy ■0 God, anvor»> ovit his niituiv with the naino of holy sec ni JeiiM Chiifti, t;o keep in dnjrknvis the millioiift of his hlavos; Ixit lie niUHt l ««rp to hupport tlieir dignity, »nd i^^'^P down tliosc that oppose " nje and ur." And Uioygoon io inip&rtand convey the holy spirit with their holy hands; for (icwl is such A respecter of persons that he has given this power to them only; and to support their supreiuaey, t|iey go on not only to give the Holy (ihost and. divinity to whom tlu^y pleuso, but eonsecrRlo grave yards, and by their holv feet find hands and vestments and prayers, they warm that portion of earth in whkh to deposit tho dead bodies that^ire within the pale of their ehurch, an*! the cold oftrth >vill do for the outcasts;; and they go on to conseerate chapels nnd ohurclios, and ditl'nso tho spirit into the walls and a greater portion of it oji tlu) front 8wit»s and tell the poojde to bring plenty of n:oney on the auction .day, that they may purirJi >»ci;ificei^, uud jC they find out that the broken and contrite heart is acceptable^ ,*nd.t)i^ir te^^l^car WitneHs of their truth, and when God blesses addressing knowledge the enticing wordB of mm^» wisdom in Kugl^ili, baa lost its efficacy, and no doubt the people will tibuuk thw« jninistors aro no better than a set. of playactors amusing tho loar with somvii^nd tho eye ^ith acquired art and gestures, and they will find «ut tUcire is no;e|Bcftcy. in those min^efsnor their unholy feet and hands, nor in -t2ie praj^ei^and spjiiitpi'pQuediiigfroiu ^porruptfountain, namely, an unholy hpart Ihat 13 in l()ague witlj the «^vil-7-dec^ivers and being deceived. I am consti'ainea to.bdievo th»tl tb« Jp^ority of thjQ ^npiis^crs of the day, if thoy could get the 'iiM)dy of the |>«D.p)fi;tO; attend thooi, a^d cull them Rabbi, rabbi, you are the learned iineni>yQUc^e.'^bc,lpyely preachei's, and then pay down their auction money and uieiR dues.riegulariy — tjiicywili call you a good brothei*. N^ow are you riot of tho Bwne Ijl^^o a» tjfp^ men who glory in the grand decorated rooin^ at feaatejandil^iQiipperrmos^eats in synagogues, and God has bequeathed in Ids "holy wOttl theu^leg^',• wliipbi^ their greater damnation. 1 also direct •yott'to thcei^iili icb^terof Sf, John, forty-fourth verse — " Tlie devil is a mur- idciiar atidaiUair,'' And:»ll^ait u?iite>vitb him are engaged in waylaying and jinurdering.ineiinoiidk) so|il^;i^udi;to UieD|i ^clongs the greater damnation, and otcnMlIydamnediUey; iwust bi^iffOodi isjust. lie would have to leave Tiis irigktdous throne b«6?rfel»!9^.CQuld save Sjucb, as you, "Unless you reppnt, ye shall all likcwiieperi^ :!'i tl^at i% gix^ uP ^H ^9^ ™^^^^^^^^^ ^'f God's people, and inover let u* holr^f ^n a»ic]liij9<^ ,4*y, agafn,, God has proved by your act^ that •yoB-boIomgiitlo the pfewact/flrs oC ,^X|B dona of tliieves and robbery — that is, men thiwfcistoali the)Wli«'nrrtcall. Iiipwivc'k of of (liirkiit'.HS I tlu'y look »y tlio Hpirit iti'^rtt'rt, iltlil )unded. i'irst, we behold these as vagabonds and proud presumers ; second, they thought they woidd have the honor of commanding the evil spirits, and be supreme over them : third, adjuring them by Jesus, whom Paul preached ; fourth, we see he has not attended to their call, any more than he (Jesus) did to the devil, when he was on the pinnacle of the Temple, or in hunger ; fifth, we learn how insignificant was the sons of Sceva, and his hypocritical priesthood, and their power when one man sent them away naked and wounded ; sixth, what must nell be where they will be tearing and wounding one another for the supremacy. See how God gives credit to the evil spirit in preference to knowledge and power, for the)' knew Jesus and Peter better than they knew Sceva and sons ; seventhly, (Jod permits a lesser evil to overcome a greater. Again to bear these Maynooth men, and these college God manufacturers : they have got so knowing that there is none like unto them, that have the knowledge and wis- dom to speak and use the name of the Lord Jesus, and the doctrines of the apostle Paul, who taught the whole counsel of God — repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ — and did not covet any man's silver or gold or apparel, and his life he did not count dear to himself, but would spend it tor the honor of him who gave it, which was common honesty. Now they know nothing of Jesus's name, and the doctrine and holy spiritual' life of the apostle Paul ; the fact and deed proves that these devils in their sphere had more know- ledge of Jesus and his power, for they could not enter into the swine without his permission, neither coukl they have broken up the clannish priestcraft. It would Ik5 more consistent to go to these devils for knowledge and power, than to those blind guides and hypocritical deceivers, that have neither the spirit nor the nature of God, by which God can only be known savingly. But these use his name for another purpose, to exalt themselves as God, and get all to worship them : even then in this instance God permits a lesser evil to overcome ft greater, that is hypocrisy and pride, against which God has pronounced his heaviest woes — for God was chiefly betrayed by his backsliding people, covetous disciples, and to the present day these are the greatest curse in the world, and hinderers of God's word and the extension of his kingdom. Oh, do not dare to use his name, when the motive is honour, ease, or gain, from the world, lest he send of your kindred to hurl you from the altar or pulpit, and send you out naked and wounded. And would it not be just for God to do so, seeing you would steal away froi.i his little ones, and use it for opposite purposes ; and if not now, when the cup of your iniquity and God's jealousy and wrath is kindled against you, you will know your superior then, whom your vanity imagined to bind and loose, and make liim an image like unto corruptible man ; who will command one of your own kindred to obey him, when he will say, take them Satan, bind them hand and foot, and cast them into outer darkness. Now the blind guides who have denied the sunlight will know they are gone to their own place — the blackness and darkness for ever. They will surely believe now, that he that exalteth himself shall be abased, and if you take these men to heaven, they could not enjoy it, because God is getting all the praise there, and they could not bear it, and they cannot act contrary to themselves, and their nature must undergo a change TRUTH DEFENDED. 0S Y see in Acts exorcists, did " We adjure 1 sons of one rit ansjvered for. 16; and te them, and nd wdiifided. hey thought be supreme ; fourth, we to the devil, e learn how )d, and their , what must ! supremacy. wiedge and a and sons ; o hear these ave got so ge and wis- rines of the rds God and • or gold or spend it for they know the apostlo more know- ine Avithout priestcraft. and power, er the spirit But these get all to overcome lounccd his I, covetous world, and not dare to est he send naked and steal away len the cup 1, you will ;, and make your own id and foot, ive denied )kness and ith himself )t enjoy it, and they a change ^om what it was on earth, for they wanted all to themselves here, and if they fore there, what would be done, would be A'cry obvious. God would have to intend for his sovereignty and supremacy, and cast them out as he did their [ttther the devil, and where should they be else but with the mighty world, and jevil, whose kindred is ab"*>ys the opposite to God's. We learn the priests had )iis, but now if he had got ten of them he Avould be ashamed to acknowledge Ino of them. I will now relate a conversation which took place with a Roman latholic in Ireland : he was advocating the righteousness of priests not marrying, le said they were married to the church, and if married to a woman one of lera must be a prostitute. I observed that God approved of Bishops being tho [usbands of one wife, anight forward the ancient lathers and a tribe of old saints (just what the de"il would do), and Daniel M'Afee called them Harry Laraty's old relics of dead men's bones full of corruption. Look at all denominations calling up their forefathers, homilies, canons, and creeds and churches, to )e the statute i instead of Jesus Christ, which prove that they are the true daughters of nature i and not the spiritual begotten of God ; and if ail the above are as gi'aves covered^ over with the sleight of men's ^ ids, that will drown men in perdition, surely | every one shoull say, let othei , do as they will, as for me (suppose there was not another individual under heaven but myself, or thousands avound me every I day, all would be alike to me,) T will know no other way but Jesus, no other; truth but Jesus, no other priest but Jesus, no other name but Jesus, and kno^v nothing among men but Christ Jesus and him crucified — the wisdom and power I of God to save. Now I bring Stephen, one of the divine generation to your view : his history is recorded in the Acts, lih chapter. First, he was filled with the Holy Ghost, and by this irradiating spirit his face shone, and by it he saw Jesus on the right hand of God. And that generation of vipers beheld the effects of the holy spirit on his subject Stephen, which cast a dusky shade on all | their glory, owing to the glory that cxcelleth. We see this present generation cannot bear the nature or light of the glory of the spirit of God, and they act the part of their predecessor Cain ; and when they cannot touch the Holy Ghost, they will destroy the place of his rest ; and some of this lineage would use their supremacy, and like greedy dogs they gormandise all the llesh, and then ga- ther up the bones and make sure of the marrow, and if a little one Avoiild come up to catch hold of a sinew, they grind their teeth or put their paws upon hira and tumble him over, to starve or get up as he can : so thev have their reward — thu dead bones that pride and power have given to them ; and the body that was the temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in, to shew their power against the apple of his eye, the light of the world, and Icot there should be any more ex- posing of their darkness, they take and use stones and with their paws apply them and dash the temple to pieces that God has made ; and this act and deed proclaim iu loudest language, we love the one and despise the other, that is to say, mammon we love you, and all who oppose you we will be their enemies; and we cannot act contrary to our nature, and when we meet with a free Jesw and a free people, we will bind them dt)wn by oppression and taxation, and make them know our doctrine, that is necessity, by our power. What made these men so savage against Stephen. It was not that he coveted silver or gold or apparel — for it does not belong to bis spiritual generation — for t^ tgene-, ration want but little, and the longest life time does not need it long ; I .t it was for the rich names they would bestow on their great rabbi masters ; for I am sure he was content with plain Stephen, and I think that the name Stephen will be accepted in heaven when not one of the world's curre.icy, however glorious below, can enter there ; and if their Father has not regifitered them, all their glory and honour are sunk in the gulph beneath that -annot be passed over, and there they witness that God is faithful to his promise, ' AVTiatsoever measure you mete, shall be measured to you again." Now behoM those great rich men shrieking and crying — we have no honours now, and thus they weep and wail and gnash their teeth, but not on Stephen — they cannot pass over, the gulph is between them. Just take a glimpse of these nasty dogs, as they exclaim, you were the cause of my damnation, then behold them grind their teeth and leap at each other, and catch and tear and throw onje another into the flames, and >vallowing and gnashing with their foaming filthy jaws and panting lungs aiul TRUTH DEFSlfDSa). •T e see from the Daniel O'Con-^ 1 (jastwhatthel 8 old relics of| ons calling iipf )e the statuto hters of nature^ gi'avcs covered! srdition, surely] )ose there was^ ound me every Jesus, no other' 5US, and know Jom and power jration to your was filled with I by it he saw rs beheld the ky shade on all lent generation lid they act the le Holy Ghost, vould use their 1, and then ga- le would come )aws upon him their reward — the body that irer against the any more ex- ir paws apply I act and deed ler, that is to heir enemies; a free Jesus taxation, and AVhat made silver or gold for V t gene- g; I i, it was ers ; for I am Stephen will lever glorious em, all their passed over, ever measure eat rich men ep and wail the gulph is exclaim, you Dth and leap flames, and iiX lungs and [extctuded tongues, without one drop of water to cool their parched tongnea, aad !in this awful conflict behold, %<> God has said, the smoke of their torments u- Icend up for ever and ever. Aiid if an fge or one hundred ages spent amidst the woes of God against the scribes and pharisees, and then be restored to our present state again to be saved by simple faith, and to prove our faith by holy lives, [ think there would be self-d€nying and crucifying of the flesh during our short subjection ; and since there is no hope of getting here again to be pre- Ipared for heaven, neither is there any hope that he will bring the vipers and dogs, with their warring, biting nature to heaven, for they cannot act contrary to their nature if they were there, without a change ; to be consistent with them- selves they would gnash their teeth on Stephen again (we have too much war, and it is well the gulf is fixed), and if they were so much opposed to Stephen on earth for no other cause than that he got so near the Sun of Righteousness as to bask in his sunshine and be covered with his rays, so as to reflect his beams and light around, how much more would they be offended when they saw him so near the throne ; and these men always have prejudiced judges, and false witnesses and liars their jurors, and by this means they murdered my Lord, and Stephen, and hated them without a cause. Oh how Stephen reflected the image of my Lord when dying. Jesus prayed " Father forgive them, for they know not what they do," and Stephen, reflecting his very image and nature said, "Lay not this sin to their charge." Oh what a similarity is hero : no covetousness, no power of the world, no worldly pleasures, no treasui'es on earth, (and when tlie world takes fire they can lose nothing, as they have nothing in it.) Was I there any wrath, hatred or revenge — no is the answer ; and no other power Ithan that all creating and revealing power could beget and bring forth such [perfect love as was manifested by Stephen. All the world with their machinery land all the college-god manufactured orators could never say from the heart, i" Lord, lay not this sin to their charge ;" they might after surviving and living an age after, to deaden the sensations of the toetU-tearing flesh, and the stones making the flesh fly off the bones, but to thii.k amidst the sense of seeing (perhaps eclipsed by a trickling tear), and amidst all the acuteuessof the pain arising from tha teeth gnashers and tJie stone dashing in his bowels, and under the sensation of all this, he could pray for his murderers. Is not this the victory over the world ; and natme never brought forth such progeny ; and this is he that was cut out of the mountain without hands, and he owes all his glory to ;>iithe Son and the teachings of the Spirit in secret, which giveth language and ut- |tciance — Forgive, lay not this sin to their charge. Now meet my elder brother #and his bannered and spirit taught, and tell him that he is a liar, and that the Icollege qualification is es&ential, and whi*t we esteem the greatest and highest is c;^our god, and ye use the Son and Spirit as a cloak and secondary, and this you [declare by act and deed, although you do not like to speak it so harshly, and in [your clemency say have mercy ; and they delight so much in mercy and in such ta way and to such an extent as to admit them to heaven with the right eye, [hand and foot, wives, land and oxen — the world, with all the brass pipes and [tones for the ears. They love fine smooth words (who would think that this [race of men could snap and bite so, to hear them tell their own story) : I dread [the fair speech men. But again : they are so full of phiiantJiropy and mercy, [that they would bring their proud lying father with all his train and place them jabove Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Secondly, they dethrone the whole : the jame as the pope would do (if he could) with Queen Victoria ; and this would >e consistent with their nature — their mercy is all in sound and words, and [their acts are gormandizing covetousness ; which Stephen charged upon them in' the 62d verse. Now we contrast the mercy of God with their god. .Va a just o» TBUTH DEPBKiyEn. KDd pore Qod he cannot admit any into heaven who are not in union with hin own nature ; and as man is not that by nature, in His sovereign nature he be- stows on us when in Adam's loins the just boon of his mercy — the free gift of Qod unto justification of life, and when grown in years and falling into sin ; and secondly, ne extends his meruy, and says — look unto nio and be ye saved, como unto me and I will give you rest ; thirdly, the talents, and the power, and the will to obey, and by occupying to draw grace for the prison house and the lion's den ; and the fourth exhibition of his mercy ia to warn, " Why will ye die," expose the sin, and threaten, " Without ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish ;" fiftn, his threatened and just judgments, " Woe unto you scribes, lawyers and hjrpocrites, ye have taken away the key of knowledge, and ye will not enter yourselves, and they that are entering in ye hinder." God does not use flowery toned words to deceive them, but the thundere of the Ir^w to awaken them to seek life : so all God's servants should be like him, and faithfully discharge their duty, like John, who told Herod it was not lawful for him to have his brotlier Philip's wife, and Stephen likewise, to the loss of his life, before he would bow to sin or connive at iniquity, and he plainly told them that they were the be- trayers and murderers of the just one ; but this kind of love and mercy was all null with these legislators. Oh we see your kind is to keep in the dark and nestle in the wool, and when they look out they have the audacity to tell Ste- phen he was a liar-^— for they had no stiff neck and they were circumcised ; and here they would substitute the flesh for the spirit, and so cover over and say, Wo did not resist the Holy Ghost — we could not. Yo could not resist the Holy Ghost, but God's sovereign will permitted it to be so, and the fact proves it *, and do not touch our successors, for we belong to Abraham, and were not born of fornication — it is treason even to believe us to be betrayers and murderers, aad to speak against our supremacy ; and this is your verdict, gentlemen, and so ye say all, and no matter what way yc take it you are still right and infal- lible, and it seems you will be damned in spite of all said and done to save you ; and if it were not for the disinterested few of God's little ones the world would be destroyed. Witness Lot in Sodom, and God consistent with his sovereign will could not destroy it until he got him out. Gen. xix. 16. And these vipers owe their lives to him whom thti/ murdered, and their lives were prolonged for the sake of those whom they persecuted. Having represented to you the carnal sacoession and their end, and also the spiritual succession and its glory, I come now to review their boasted words in order, and strive It) see the substance of the whole. I will commence with an old saying, borrowed from Genesis xi. 4. When there was but one language, men spent their time in actions — now in shadows and sounds (that is the shell of tongues) — that we can hardly have time to chew the sweet kernel of knowledge — which is the knowledge of Christ, the best kind of knowledge. I will now tell you some of the lessons I have learned ; first, I heard one of the doctors of the day display his oratory, and among many high sounding words he used the word the great behest of God. I did not know what the word meant ; but I looked, and found it was the great command of God — to love Him and our neighbour as ourselves. I then thought on a little boy between eight and nine years of age, who I have seen rise, and say God has Ijlessed my soul, I love my God, come sinners he'll save you all : surely the little boy had the kernel, while the doctor boasts of the shell of tongues; and I believe the word behest has no more eflicacy than the word command, although the world is ready to idolize him, and call him rabbi, rabbi, or lord and master. Second. I heard of a little boy that was quizzed by a lawyer, who spoke to the boy in words that he did not understand, and as it is natural for the learned, ho lav^hcd and mocked at his ignorance ; but the little boy tho\ight ho would tell -i~^ 4 T&UTU DbFUNDSD. inion with hin nature he be- e free gift of into sin ; and 3 saved, como awer, and the and the lion's will ye die," wise perish ;" , lawyers and vill not enter ot use flowery akeu them to ischarge their e his brotlier e would bow were the be- oercy was all the dark and by to tell Ste- imcised; and over and say, jsist the Holy act proves it ; vere not born id murderers, mtlemen, and ht and infal- to save you ; world would his sovereign these vipers jrolonged for ou the carnal jlory, I come substance of jrenesis xi. 4. ons — now in i!y have time )f Christ, the lave learned ; among many lid not know command of it on a little say God ha^ : surely the gues; and I nd, although and master, spoke to the I learned, ho would tell him what he did know : he said, I lovo the Lord Jesut Christ, cad you lay that) sir. Immediately he was convinced and converted, and this poor illiterate boy was made the means in God's hand of converting his soul and bringing him to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus ; and thus the excellency belongs to Gbd and not to man, and all the boastings of man Are excluded. I have heard men argue about the original languages ; and to hear some talk you would think there was efficacy in tlion for every thing. I asked is there more efficacy in latin words to consecrate the wafer than in english. See how these Jesuits mystity the minds of the simple and illiterate, as if latin and greek was more efficacious in the sight of God than english : let the world oall up the english language, and then would foreign countries worship it. To prove th» above, I will now relate what I heard from the lips of a deputation from Englai;i4 to Ireland. One of the deputration said, there was an Indian chief came to where an English missionary lived, with an interpreter, and was converted, and returned home, and commenced praying to God to convert his tribe ; but on second thought fuai^^d that God would not hear or answer his meagre lan- guage, and that the Englishman's God would only answer prayer in the Engliiib language, and as he could only speak two words of English, viz. January and Fe- bruary, when he prayed he would say January and February, and to these word* attach the meaning " Convert my tribe." The time of answering came : tho missionary was driven to the shore where this tribe were, and before he left the whole tribe was converted. So we see that Januaiy and February was intelli- gible to God, when it was offered in spirit and truth, which is the soul of worship. It is the pure motive and single eye that God accepts, while the world accepts of lukewarm hypocrisy dressed up in fine words. God's ways are not as man's ways. Again, our Lord, by the apostle Paul, in 1 Cor. xiii., has for ever silenced tliose proud boasters of languages and tongues, for he grants the combination of angels* tongues with theirs, and the whole amount in the estimation of God never excels the sounding brass tinklings — therefore you must make God arid the apostle Paul liars, if these are essential. I heard of three boys contending with each other as to which of them had the best minister : the Episcopalian could preach an hour, and he was the best; the Presbyterian said his mmister could preach two hours from one text, and of course he was the greatest ; but the Covenanter boy said, my minister can preach three hours from one text ; and according to the statute of sound and say so he must be the best. Look around you, and not only behold the boys of the day, but hoary hairs making idols of shadows and sound, and while the Hindoos bow down to dumb idols, they bow down to tongue idols, and place the say so's of men for the command- ments of God. As I am nothing and of no consequence, I wish you to meet my elder brother : you will find him in St. Matthew v. 6, where he classes you with the hypocritical trumpeters and heathen ; first, he proves you do not belong to him, and therefore he has no reward for you ; second, he proves you savor the things that be of men, and you have your reward of them — sounding your ho- nours and filling your flesh pots, and when your memoiy gets stale, and worms seize and eat the flesh pot, tuen count up your gain, which is eternal loss ; and my elder brother does not deceivoyoa with flattery, but he tells you plainly that hb Father has no reward for yoa in heaven; and suppose these menl^ould make a resolution* and break through these stiff starched up and sysiemi&tic orders, do you think they would feel for God's glory being defaced, and that the people should suffer through ignorance, no — ^but because their ^ory and honour fades, and that the world will no more acknowledge them ae their goddsssoa. I now mention a fop and great mimic, who lived in the north of Ireland, aivjtlto went to Glasgow to school ; in about a year he returned. He went to chon^, 60 TKCTB DBVBNl>Kt>. and on his return home ho said he could preach a better sermon than the mi' nister : they laughed at his presumption ; howcvor the judges were appointed, and he made such a display of oratory as astonished them. They were very anxious to know liow he had acquired the art of preaching so well : he told them he had committed to memory one of Dr. Chalmer's most touching discourses, and in the recital of which he ex''olled all his follows. Now we see any scamp with mind and memory and letter education, can preach to please the world by borrowing and compiling the words of ot^'^s; we see the fine dexterous stylo of order, with the great flowery words and ungel tongues sounding. It is a bad statute to judge a minister of Christ by, when he has not the spirit of Christ, but it is the n^ht way to judge they are the opposite of Christ, for if it were possible, their tair speeches would deceive the very elect ; and is it not the case with a great many good men at the present day, after hearing the simple, una- dorned and unadulterated truths of tho gospel, and their hearts and conscieme have felt it, and God's Spirit bearing witness to the truth and power of it, and coming out of the meeting, one cries he is not an ordained man, another says did you not hear how low and common his language was, a third says ho is not worth going to hear, for he is not a college bred man. Here the side of the world's influence overcomes the simple heart and the truth received, and those Leaders who have itching ears turn others out of the way, and do not receive any benefit themselves : fin-st, they are offended with common words, and are disap- pointed ; and suppose they have heard the witty, graphic, brass tintc- Kng tongues, they would be nothing better, but on the way they would bo boasting of their idols, as I have heard some do. They got a great minister, a linguist, a college man, and when I came out of the meeting house the cry arose, that's the dear man, did you hear the fine language he used ; others saicl Oh that's the sent man ; and here they exalted their idol. I did not hear any one exalt God as their Saviour, or that he had spokor peace to their souls, or that he had sent them down to their houses justified : not a word about all this ; it is always secondary with the ear tinklers and brass pipe players ; and when the minister hears he is so much admired for his fine words, he immediately becomes a conformist, and gathers and fits up more and more. Here we see a man pleaser, and it appears such was the above — he made himself a companion of a neighbour's servant maid, and he cleared out, and they no more acknowledged him as a sent man. Oh how wise were those judges in their own eyes. So it is, generally speaking, that the rich and learned and wise are fools towards God, and Christ has said that he came that those who see not might see, and those that sec might be made blind. And in the face of all this they will not say Jesus you arc a liar, but your life and conduct declare that you wish he was, that you might have all the glory to yourselves, boasting how much yon have said, and how well you have said it. Tliere are others who will argue that if they have the Spirit of God and those Sne words that attend worldly wisdom, they will be doubly useful in the vineyard of tliv Lord. I would ask these men if they think that the Holy Spirit gives eflScacy to the enticing word$ of man's wisdom, and its knowledge of the world and its venerablenes'i, because it pleases them : and as God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain, I refer them to I Cor. i. 17. Here the apostle says he was sent to preach the gospel, not with ^e wisdom of words; v. 20, ** Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world f" v. 27, " But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound thr vise" (recollect that is God's choice and the opposite is yours), •*and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." Now the point is at issue, and I invite you to oring ail tour rc| lour pc Ihc sonl lound il no, no/ vord, I| TKUIU DKFK»Dia». 01 than the mi- ere appointed, hey were very : he told them ing discourses, see any scanap B the world by exterous stylo f- It is a bad rit of Christ, >r if it wero t not the case ! simple, una- id coiiscieme wer of it, and )ther says did iys ho is not > side of the ed, and those )t receive any nd are disap- brass tiiik- ey would bo it minister, a the cry arose, ; others said !iot hear any eir souls, or bout all this ; ind when the tely becomes s see a man ipanion of a knowledged eyes. So it swards God, , and those ill not say ish he was, ih you have rgue that if lly wisdom, : these men )9 of manV le it pleases refer them gospel, not the scribe, wisdom of e world to is yours), the things Dring dl -■■*i our roinforcementfl agiiinst the Lord and his anointed. Now Pope with all our power, and Cicsar with all your influence, and let the covetous father and ;ho son (money), for he merits and pays the debts, and the latter (spirit) omul abroad between earth and heu'-on, there is none so great and strong as ic, none to inflict penalties but mo, none to give indulgences but me ; in a ord, I have all knowledge, and understand all mysteries. This is the summit f your ambition. So the old lady supreme binds clown the Church of England, , story or two lower, but indulges ncr a little, because she acknowledges tbo il-begotten and unlawful brought forth progeny of the strumpet Joan, *'>at )roke the chain, and of course the daughter that comes nearest the mother, sho ays of her she is the best beloved daughter, and then by the combined multi- (llcution of think so's and say so's, the chain is bound up again, and thus he devil's wine pride bursts out, and we are the apostles' successors, and if God ivould say I never knew you, it is nr matter, we say so. The Presbyterians aro a little lower, but as they hold t'vo traits — one my college education, and a [great appetite for money — so the mother thinks they should hold their tongues about Maynooth ; and thus her appetite is proven by auction prices or scales and screwing up the poor : therefore you should be silent, for you are one with her in this plotting and trapping system. The Methodists and Baptists are lower still, although they have no indulgences at present, though they intend by getting colleges, and manufacturing scantling, though God began to train them by his spirit, they ended in the flesh, and out comes this sr.pei-fino and double refined scantling, that the world approves of, and the de il smiles at their display, and the mothers and daughtera so far indulges. We see on this ground they all claim kindred, and although God blessed these churches in the reformation, lie has said they are like the sow that was washed, they have returned to their wallowing in the mire. Thus the nature of the sow is discovered from two facts ; first, she cannot bear the heat, and to get out of its reach, she wallows in the mire, to get out of the way of its power, and the eye cannot bear the light, no more than the body the heat. What a picture of human nature, witness her progeny rolling in the mire, with their noses in the mud. But the class of leaders and local preachers is everywhere spoken against ; the above manufactured binders and loosers have fixed the gnlph ; that is, none can preach the gospel but an university taught man ; and secondly, they have made it impossible that any poor man shouH preach the gospel for want of their son (money.) Oh, how they love their own, and no matter how the Sun of righteousness has burnished tliem with his rays, and embellished them with his nature and grace, and gifted them with his spirit and power, and this is the verdict of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and all their coadjutors — they aro ignorant and were never called to preach the gospel. Now ask the mothers or any of the daughters t,o reform, and they will cry out, would you presume on our supremacy, or dare to sap the foundation of our infallibility and superior know- lecge and wisdom. But let us come to the deciding point, and come forward with all knowledge, and understanding all mysteries : now answer, my God. In Cor. 1 chap. 21 verse, God s^s, that the world by wisdom knew not Gbd, although he gives them creditTor their faithfiilness in their science, for he also says, that the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. Mark here two distinct generations, and two distinct signs. The generation you may see, when you see the sheep devoured by the wolves; and the science is to learn to be meek and lowly and with lamblike innocency and wisdom ft-om above, that draws its own nature upwards, where the siin never seta ; the other is the science of the world, that coibes to nought, aftd consistent with its own nature, tends downwards to th^ bliackness of darksxess ^. &2 lUC'iil liKFU«DKI>. tor ovoi'. And iih ] nm witneim bctwucu tliosctwo pnrtieis I would ^vo my do- ciHioii, that llio world by its own nature knows not God. Secondly, wu conio nioro inimediatuly to the point, and bring forth the men tliat (jod hoH called to E roach the Go»pcl; look to the twenty-sixth vcrHC, "for ye »eo your calling, rcthreu, that nut many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are calied.'^ First, the apostle appeals to fact and his own experience ; ua if he had said, yo know ye are so poor, as scarcely to have clothes to your backH, and often wnntmg the necessaries of life, and hunger and nakedness abitle with iw unto this day. They may say we have neither birthright or parentage to glory in, nor money, nor education to boast o,f yet we'll own our oalling, and the Father and the Son were agreed in our calling, for so it seemed good in their tight Now these arc '^od's choice which you openly and avowedly condenm. Qod says, ** who art thou that replicst against me, ' can the thing formed say to liim that formed it, why hast thou formed me thus ; and God would be a changeable God if he did not select the poor and the illiterate to preach Ium gospel, and we never heard that he ever sent any of his disciples to a common school, let Alone five years to a college. And if God calls, convinces, and converts, and senda them to preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and commission- ing them to declare freely we have received, and freely we give, tliere nmst bo flomething awfully wrong in the world's system, as it proves that (jod has sent tliese — therefore God could not be but a changeablts God, if lie made choice of you his opposite. It appears to me that ye are a race of miniature Infidels, while Infidels in maturity deny the existence of God, you deny the sovereignty of Godi in the choice ot the poor and illiterate to carry on his work. Now suppose the world brings all its gods and goddesses, with all their combined flaaiing tongues of eloquence, and all the wisdom and power of east, west, nortii and soa#, and they commence preaching, and have every tongue and oar bound to*^eir lips, then raise a quantity of money, and build great cathedrals and all their equipage, and brass pipe organs, and paintings and nowere, with their silver and gold borderings, and all their broad phylacteries, and variegated surplices and gowns and vestments, and you are at your summit. Now let the unchange- able Jehovah put his sentence upon them and you : " God has chosen the foo- lish things of this world to confound the wise, and things that are weak to confound the mighty, and things that are despised hath God chosen to bring to nought the things that arc." Now call God a liar, and tell him you know ]>etter. Oh turivyour pale faces to the wall, and behold the '^idwnting ; the sentence is passed — there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall n^t be thrown down, and all your self-righteousness shall fall ; and unless by repen- tance it be abandoned and forsaken, it will bring you into damnation for ever: for your nature would not allow God to legislate in heaven, any more than you would on earth ; ye might bow down in hypocrisy, but ye cannot act contrary to your nature, and Godmust empty you of tne devil's proud nature, and fill you witii his humble and divine nature, that yo may esteem those poor illiterato little ones, whom God esteemeth ; and then consistent with your uqw heart and right spirit, with God you will loathe and abhor and spue out the world's filthy^ frothy nypocriteB from you. But no doubt youv god, that I call covetousne&s, gold and letters, has so blinded your minds that ye arc ready to say, wo wero Qever condemned or confounded by such untaught men. Ailow me to take the scales from your eyes, and the fleahly brows that you allow to eclipse the light of the sun, and then imagine that the sun is set to rise no more, and let us throw off those long fleshly guilty low looks, and no more take side looks, but behold hiBx in hir unohangeableness and unvariablencss. His nature and wisdom was displayed in making use of Joseph, the despised one, to confound his brethren, land m( lursclf |ndn; ) the bl lord ; le and n lar in y< lcinaclv( llding til ling and Vould rci Jhere wh rew the fcge or O feu the k le delivt pence beg ad again lined us ■nlikoly a liscover ) [lasters o tis, if we |lie amou ludgmcnt *very woi •godly pre yers such they are ' And wen the work fci them ; better th Question, ftigh acq whom h< jpoture ; . than the is for th< than yoi #ither pi Sient, ai freely oi Iree grac ^ous lit lie worl ^hen h< pUegc Scatioi pirit, t J iffive my Je- udly, wc conio 1 huH called to your caJliiig, ity, not many xpork-ncf ; u« o your Imckn, .'S8 abide with puroutago to r calling, and K'>od in their »iidemn. Qod id 8ay to l»jm a changoablo s gospel, and )U school, let • onvorts, and commission- lerc iimat bo iod has sent iiade choice ;uro Infidels, sovereignty rt'ork. Now ir combined , west, nortJi d ear bound Jrals and all 1 their silver ted surplices e unchange- seu the foo- re weak to to bring to I ^ou know Titing; the lat shall not s by repen- n for ever ; e than you ct contrary and fill you »r illiterate heart and rld's filthy, ^etousne&s, ^ wo were to take the Q the light t us throw )ut behold isdom was I brethren. TRD'in PisrEwnKn. ilH yet the moann of saving them ! t»o thankn to thofft, but to Jncob'H God be nil praise. So much for his supremacy, and to (iod bo the undivided glory. '-ond. Witness the untaught stripling, that the great scientific Goliath laughed and mocked, viz. David ; is it you tnat novt»r learned science that would put ursolf on a p.'ir with me — a scientific man — I will soon give you to the four nds ; and is not this your very imago you self-righteous boasters. Again, we the blindness of Saul in recommending his coat of mail, helmet and shining ord ; and if the battle had been gained by this no iVoin tlit; pulpit, when tlicy know it is tho opposite he accepts otV. WouKl it not bo vi;ry inipii dent for n cjuaek in niodicine, to f^o inton Hrni and begin to oNumind tho wt)rl( And tind thult here and there, and tell tliu master ot' the Hnu he Hhould putt, piece of fancy work here and there, and adorn it with piiintingH ho and m, when the niafiter prized tho utility and Hubstantialness as ossontial ; and would; not the nia.ster see it was not his interest he had in view, hut to appear what: ho was not, and wouhl not the head of tlu; lirni say, you )ia\ e eonio and 1 did uot send for you, thei .ore you are of no ub>i to me, nor of any benefit in rnj factory, and those wiio will hv. fooled w ith your fancy paintinj^s, they may. Now smile, for it is contrary to the decrees of God to accept ol your wisrlom, strcngtii, ' and painting. 1 would just say, in the language of scripture, ^VIlatsoover mea-' nuro yo mete, shall be measiired to you again. (Jan your worldly, fine, fancy articles, preach the Ciospel, and give efficacy to the same. I wish the world would keep them to themselves (their own), otherwise subnut tt> (3od to operato upon them, and make them fools in their own eyes or tho eves of the world, and like Jacob, take all vour strength from you and puuip all the devil*B pridu J wine out of you ; and tlien God, consistent with his justice and mercy, would bless you, and make you a blessing. You cannot but behold the character of God's choice to whom he bequeaths his mercy, and tho opposite ho will not have mercy upon, so as to take them into his kingdom or mystical bi»dy, yet they share in the mercy of God's long suftering, kindness and forbearance, but tho flesh and the devil seem to hold together; and the flesh being all exhausted and a bit of the skin hanging to the bone, yet with the skin of his teeth, ho and his votaries would struggle for flesldy selt-righteousnsss, and say, w ould not the man with a superior education serve God's cause much more than tho poor illiterate deformed fool, in this enlightened age. I thought 1 had answered you before ; however, would you hear it again : God has said, on tho uncomely part« of his body he bestows more abundant honour and abundant comeliness ; and this is his sovereign choice. Secondly. And if there is no clKcacy flowing from literature, why should you raise it up to contradict the choice of God. See 1 Cor. iii. 18, 19, Let no man deceive himself; if any among you seem to bo wise in this world, let liim become a fool, that ho might bo wise, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for he taketh tlu/ wise in their own craftiness. Verse 20, And again, the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they arc vain, therefore let no man glory in men ; and away with your self-righteous fabric, skin, body and bones. 1 will now give you an exam pie to bhow that the efficacy does not belong to the instriuuent. Oh ! what an unlikely instrument was tho woman of Samaria, to fill with the living water, and it constrained her to go to the city, and (like a flood burst out, and flowing through the street, and rushing on the rock) proclaim lie told me all things that ever I did. Oh ! behold how it rises and sprinkles on the ears, is not this the Christ. Thus she preached him, and consistent with its own nature after bursting the living water (otherwise grace), she seems to gather all up, and send- ing it back again to its centre (Jesus), from whom all living water flows, (we see that grace is named for water and water for grace) ; and here we have the whole secret unravelled, how God makes men and women ministers. First we see our Lord teaches by acting socially and familiarly, and lie asks a drink of water, and she was astonished at the breaking down of the middle wall : he told her if she knew God's gift, she would ask, and he would give her living water, far prefer- able to the aLJ>KMI>lbi\ 0A lo iinpOAO nuij^, : ofjuity oquallj froiri tli(! pulpit, t \h) vny inipu iiiiiKi tlio Work lid hhould put 1 llgH hO HIkI Hii, tial ; and wotihi Lo uppour what :otiiu niKJ I tli(j ? b«!Hofit ill inj icy may. iNow istloin, fitroiigth, liiilsoover luca- Uly, fine, liiiipy viwh the worlil [}()d to opcnito s of tlio world, 10 (luvil's priiJu I inorcy, would le character of ito ho will not :,ical body, yet >rbearance, but f all exhausted t' his tocth, ho say, would not than the poor I answered you ijicomoly parta tncliness ; and ■icacy flowing lioico of God. among you liglit bo wise, th tl^/ wise in ic thoughts of nd away with you an exam Oil ! what au living -water, t, and flowing ne all things rs, i» not this 1 nature after up, and send- lows, (we see ivo the whole st we see our of water, and )ld her if she ;r, far prefcr- a desire for thig living water, he bid her go and call hor huttband, itho naid shu had no hui- biitid, then ho told hur (what Hho thought he did not know) that iho bad had Hvo huffband>«, and the onoHho now had wiih not herbuHband : ho conviDcot hor of(*in, yet romniondh her for the truth. Here he appears in the flrnt part of his otHco, a prince to give repentance ; and the flrst exhibition of hor faith wax, that »ho said ho wiih a prophet, and her faith was proved by the question hIio anked, wliether in Jenmalem or in thirt mountain onght men to womliip. Oh, how ditleront wrh this prophet's teaching from the tcjiohing of the scnoes and phariHccs of that day aiul tins day. No doubt in that day, one was saying Jerusa- lem, another this mountain — and this day, our old ( liurch, and Mnynooth college, and the daughters cry out^ me and im ; and thus goes on the training of men tip ill systeiiw of prejudice. Oh, ye self-righteous parties, hear the prophet who despises the superstition of the favorite mountain, and the glory of those wh(> boasted of Jerusalem, and proves to them that the highways and hedges, sea shores or mountain tops, are equally alike to him, when the substance is in the Horvice, as he told the woman God is a spirit, and they that worship him mtnt worship him in spirit and in truth ; and hero lio^puts the positive must worsL.p him ill spirit and in truth. And this being proved from his lips he disminaes the whole race of parrot preachers, and borrowed prayers, when the soul is not in them, and brings us to the preachers that are moved by the Holy Ghost, but thi- is foolishness to the men that bring their lessons and prayers out of their pock- ets; and she believed his testimony, and Jerusalem and Mount Gerazim, was regarded no more by her, and she suspected him to be the Messiah, and pru- dently said, I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ, when ho is comR he will tell us all things ; Jesus said unto her, I tliat speak unto tlieo am he. Here arc three exhibitions of Faith. First, he was a prophet ; second, that y what ho prophecied was true; third, that he was the long foretold Christ) theful- j| flUer of tlio prophecies — and thus she became a preacher. First, she preaches A that ho convinces of sin, the truth she knows ; and second, that his teaching ' was contrary to others, and excelled all other teachers^ and this she believed ; also the living springs of love she felt — yes, slie must have felt it, when its in- undation swept her to the city, and perhaps was ready to burst her vessel before she got there ; and God's word directs, as the only true standard, to preach , as the oracles of God, in proportion to the faith wo have ; and third, accord- ing to the grace received. We see tluit all who are made by Christ, answer to the description given — they preach not themselves, but Christ Jesus our Lord, *' and we your servants for Jesus sake (not for the sake of money), and his . •■'.'. ■•]&- ters know that ho convinces of sin, and converts the heart, and sanctii:c.> Lhe > soul, and their cries are come to him, and the spirit and the bride's cry also ie M come. I now wish to make two observations by way of iraprovemont. First. M I would answer that the devil and his party arc not willmg that all earthly ^1 glories sliould be buried in oblivion, and thus they hold the sbn of words, with ?- which they have been often delighted, not that be was delighte(i with the holy ■^ flow of anointing oil, but the flow of fine words ; and he would think it a fine, • compliment for the Spirit to bo connected with such fine sentiments, and there- fore would bo much more useful, after all your plausibleness. I would now say, Satan, let go the skin, and if there was no other proofs, the present facts before us would DO sufficient to constrain you to bury the wholo system — me and us. Now perhaps that woman did not know one letter, and suppose she had been taught in the University, would it give efficacy— no, but it comes through him who chooses the instrument, and also chooses to convey the unction through that artless, simple, plain, child-like, innocent, unadorned and unadoltferated truth. The disciples wondered that he talked with the woman (like a gi'eat many of your college men) that would teach him better, but here he confounds 9 60 TRUTH DKl-'KNDKlJ. tlieni and you too. Hark, what ho says, " Lift your cyca, and behold the fields are white ah-eady to harvest," a blessed revival and ingathering to God, and all this by a Avoman : and ye shall bo my sons and daughters. First, glory to God, whose sovereign grace has animated senseless stones, and calle«i us to stand before his face, and made us the sons of faithful Abraham. Second, The people Atat in darkness lay, , " .:■ • ■ ' ' In sin and error's deadly shade, '' • >'.^ ■■• ''''':f Eave seen a glorious Gospel day, •! !• Ji'/u : :fl, . In Jesus' lovely face displayed. -v.:'. Not shining through the face of the University, as Jesus used the centurian's faith, to quicken and improve his disciples. I would therefore call forth any of vour University College taught men, with all their wisdom and language, and high-rated saleries, and Bishops, whose incomes vary from fourteen or fifteen hundred to thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum, for their noble and valuable services ; and suppose they got up on the Moimt to speak beside her, she would confound them, because God predestinated it so ; yes, they would be running away from its influence from fear, otherwise cry, hush ! hush I do you hear what balderdash she is sayuig — she does not know, nor does any body else know, (so says Scrutator). Oh, take care the old sei'pent will not let you stop, when you mpde liars of yourselves, but he Avill get you to tell lies on God, that he has not called such to preach the Gospel, and would not this be a lie on God. Now take away the living spirit and grace from her, and what would her words be worth ? Why, she would be as the old dead cold materials, she used to carry about with her — earthly, earthly. God's spirit quickeneth and giveth life, and to God be undivided glory forever ; and no glory to you law- yers who legislate for him, and condemn him, because he did not select and order his material better. Oh ! yes, we know you are my orderly gentlemen, and I was going to say, this is all the use of you, if this is of any use. Now let us hear your superior order, and to be consistent with yourselves, you would reverse the material and order the woman to go to the city and buy meat, and this you would say, would be consistent with her lower, carnal office and appe- tite — and send thy disciples, chosen and called men, to bring the people of the city out to him, instead of trudging out with victuals to him. Another objec- tion I think you would make and say, — indeed I would not seiTc under such a master, when he could drive to a respectable inn, and thei'e get fine c(j!'/ked victuals, on a mahogany table, with clean knives and forks, and eat our^^tneat comfortably, and pay respectably, and ride gently, and be as honourable as any of our profession, instead of sitting down at a well, and using our knees as a table and our fingers as forks — ^there is something very low witli such a mas- ter's system and order ; and this is your verdict. First. I answer, that God the Spirit prefers and holds the soul as the greater and superior part of man, and therefore he does not esteem the fleshpots as high as you do, in which dwells no good thing. Though you tell us that you do not believe the body to be the superior part of man, what can you say when your actions prove the contrary, and that you are very orderly about the body, and pay a great deal of attention to it, and look out more for its interest than you do for the soul — and this is proof positive. Second. I always prize the substance and let the shadows go to tne winds ; and I now ask, did the table and knives and forks give a palatc- ableness to the food, and strength to the body — and would the knee table, and finger forks (made before either), prevent the body receiving nutriment— No. One pope wants him to conform to his order, and another to liis order, ii;i<'ii;Mi>]a}. or 3 centurian's forth any of nguage, and en or fifteen noble and c beside lier, ey Avould bo usli I do you any body not let you lies on God, this be a lio what would latorials, she skeneth and to you law- t select and gentlemen, use. Now s, you would . ly meat, and 36 and appe- )eople of the lother objec- mder such a fine cq^iked at our'hieat mourable as >ur knees a? such a mas- sr, that God >ai*t of man, lo, in which the body to 18 prove the ;reat deal of B soul— and the shadows vo a palatc- e table, and iment— No. der, f my master ; therefore I would direct Mr. and Mr. — -, and all their '*f>a'J)ntoB| 16 bring no more charges against us poor iilliterate preachers, but brjiig th(^ lBM|nqt Him who is the first cause, who can make them in an hour, and CMQitiiissioik tl^^ in the same : so we conclude that God supports the spiri- tually qualified in preference to the opposite. I would refer those men to the 1 Cor. ii., and let them debate with Paul ; also Romans vii. 6, " That we shouV' serve in newness of sj>irit and not in the oldness of the letter ;" iii. 4, " ITiat th > righteoi^sness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit ;" v. 5 shews the flesh tends to itself, and the spirit to itself, and by this the flesh pots are discovered ; and in 1 Cor. v. 8, he speaks of stew- ards being faithftil; Mid not one puffed up agiainst another : now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings ; v. 9, And sent out the apostles ais a spec- tacle to Ae World, to angels and to men ; v. 10, " We are fools for Chris^/^sake, but ye are wise in Chnst Jesus : we are weak, but ye are strong : ye are ho- norable, but we are despised ;" v. 11, " Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirielt, and are buffeted and are naked, and have no certain dwelling place." (Mr. -^ — may now condemn the apostle Paul fc' his itinerant system.) V. 12, "And labor, working with our own hands, and are the offscounns of all things unto this day." Is tnis your state ye successors of the apostles i Look at 2 Cor. iii . 6, 0, " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, Who also hatjl inade us Able mmisters of the New Testament, not of the letter but of the spirit, for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life." It is very plain these men know very little about God and the teaching of his Spirit. And now Mr. I wish to convinceyou that your course manufacture did not do so mueh for you as you think. When I met y : a qT»e d&y as you were going to preach, reading your sermon and endeavoring : > (iominit it to memory, you asked me if I wrote my sermons, I said no, not .^ sej.- teuce, and you replied to me that you would make but a poor hand that i»ay : and so after all the college did for you it left you depending on your pen, and t ais circuxnstance proves that you depend upon it, and could not trust God that if you Would open your mouth He would fill it. I must -confess that from my early acquaintance with Mr. -^- and hearing him speak on catholicity, I said he was better than his system, but when I read of him despising the poor and TBUTH DbFBMDlSO. 'ptioi»,andth6 Bat should be St and his dis- we have seen, « With all his taught him >rd sent Ana- tots ix. 6-11. L I will praise B<1 away, and »im ft'om the ind th6 miry \ rock to rest mility by ei- e Lord ; and n and chri»< mple, or act, egun by His pint, to lead Qre of God, support the and all their sachers, but in an hour, fca the spiri- men to the ; We shouk? "Thatth.^ ter the flesh •it to itself, iks of stew- e foil, now I ais a spec- iris^/sake, ye are ho- lunger and ng place." •) V.12, all things : at 2 Cor. ourselves, the New the spirit and the bat your [ met yoa voring f> iot,> tieh- lat ys'ay • I and iaiti dthat if from my Y, I said K)or and :(. i-i*-i-^:.w U .:-»v'- liit:'^ dm, iterate, whom God esteems, I fedr it ^m «11 hvpoeriay, and wlien he f*«nl tliat .; knew these men wer^ never caUed'to preach the Gospel, seeing that God .. ver called them, I leave it between him and his God, yet I must differ with as God never went to Jerusalem to got any of the college scantling ;to aid d assist his disciples. Oh how the devil lead»them bli^idfold into error. It a wonder that they all from old to young are combined to destroy the sove- ignty of God, and to hear them talk you would think they were the burnished old vessels, and every one was admiring their ^^ttering hue, when at the sam« me they are only pot metal, fit alone for the fire to play upon. I now hold in ly hand a tract (No. 854), ^ving an account of a German minister, who while ttending public school was held up as a patteni, and obtained maay flattering larks of respect ; at the college Ot H. he devoted himself to theology,Hbut never amed the meek theology of Christ as the fimt lesson, and be aeemed to shine rth as a star of the first magnitude in honour, respectability and virtue, and he referred Plato and other philosophers rather than the meek ^nd lowly Jesos; nd after some time he became tutor in Baron Yon P^s. family, and soon began I teach his pupils to laugh at all serious things esteemed by true diristians; fker four years he entered upon his clerical duties with worldly motives. Fot welvo years he exercised the ministerial office— his delivery was very attractive^ nd hr thee, what oest thou for me." The picture of Christ caught his attention, he was pierced the heart, tears rushed to his eyes, and the minister, whom he had before espised, he makes^his companion. But God converted his soul, and the change ras evident; he ^ve up Plato lor the Bible and God's interpreter, namely, ^the Holy Spirit. The pages became to his enlightened mind, new and beauti- |fnl, and the Sabbath after his conversion, he frankly confessed to bis hearere ; that he had not been directing them in the right way to eternal life. Hiis ia fthe proof — he confesses and forsakes all his own righteousness : one time he was heard to say, Oh! eternal love, hast t&oa done so much foran opposer ^nd :,,>(|despiser of thee, as I have been. Bat he comes to sicken and die, and exclaim- ^^ed — Hallelujah ! the bve of my Savionr has gotten the victory ; the Lamb that was slain for me, is worthy to receive all honor and praise, and glory and bless- ing — and he died happy in the love of God. Oh ! iove 'eternal, who can &thomt > thee, we are lost in thine immensity. Glory 1 Glory ! Glory ! for acicess to such a fountain. Firsts I bring forward this example to prove that collets are an ungodly system to make men ministers, and must forever be while worldly gai» or nonor is connected with them. And to say that these earthly and (sovrapt fountains can produce spiritual and divine streams, it cannot be ; and this system admits of human nature being trained witb logic, craft and science, and hear them with their cunning shell tongues — ^they confound the new bom soul by their disorderly crying, and hush ^em to silence ; othelrwise they confbrm to them ahd the devil, and go to Plato, and eat the tree of knowledge^ and be as fods. Oh ! ye little ones, never conform to these things, but (>ray to be led y the Spirit of God ; then you shall be able t<> ory, Abba Father 1 and let these proud ones boast, and laughyand mock on, and do not envy them, should all the world worship them, Attd> dry out, tiiey ave gods and not men. Wheft angels are commanded to smi^ tiiem, you wiU-'aotpe grieved that you departed fVom such a connection, however honoraiblo on etuiih. Oh 1 never be partakers of other men's sins. I now bring forward another of the same viase, which J 70 'fUUYM DKlf-RMDKI). received fi-oni a paper caliod the Ckutch Witnesg, vrhich doca the <;ditor grcAt credit for exposing conniptioa, in order to purge out the leaven of wickeduess, naipely, a poor man snmoKood six shillir^rs a*jear (as much as he was able to give) to support a Ohurcl xjiissionary, and the man came to get a child baptised, ahd he (the Miniatd::') would inot baptize it, not bccanac iio would not pay the six shillings^ but because he would not give him a quintal of iish, and ho thought the man could give it ; and; the bibhop (greater than him) thought tho man was able to give it. First, I romark the statute that tliis poor man was brought tp, it was their thinkso and say so. Second, this poor maa has no right of pi'ivate judgment, since they have got his conscience. Third, I pemark they must /be (^ioo, with t^e atitributes of omniscience and omniproscncey knowing everything, Fourth, and if they be but men, they must have accompanied him in his busi- ness, and able to tell his profit and loss. And fifU , if they have not oblAincil that informatioitf they must be impostors and liars. I now intend to make a few remarics on one portion of tho fountain from whence tlie^strcams have gushed out on my master and me ; and I hope no one will be ofiended, when I defend Him and myself against tiie torrents of proud, hireling, mcnripade miiiistere, that scera to deluge our world. The sample aforesaid is Mr. -^ and Mr. — the Genaan infidel and the Newfoundland godsj; and if not they must be what the Scripture terras^ tiheim, greedy dogs, thai would devour widow's houses, a^dithe poor nuui?^ property — rnot only so, but his obnscience and judgment i* devoured up in the Bishop^s supremacy. I now return to tho fountain, I know it by its streams, for it cannot produce contrary to ite nature. I met with , it in the Journals of the House of Assembly of New Brunswick. No. 6, copy of ]etter fr«jra Principal of King's Goliad, February 12, 1853 : Oration by ^ — D. D., Principal-^page 165-6i. After going a great length in extolling the ad- vantages of education, he oontinO/ss by saying, "Men thus educated and, qualified the community; must liave, or the best interest of the whole will sufier loss. Men of inferior education raay, it ia true^ perform after some fashion, the pcactioal work ; may not only till the ground, if that process deserves tixe *}ame of tilling, which gathers wild labour,, and leaves the exhaust^id soil worse than natnre pcc«ented. May not only build houses — structures of corabiutilde ele- ment«r-t-tolic succession. I would now refer these men to Acts 16 cha^*. 16 verse, where they may count i kindred with their false sister, a damsel, daughter to tlio old mother; and the '•foul spirit of divination she poiwesad, and like her fatl.er she transforms her- self into an angel of light. I observe first, tJiat Iht) spirit was not approved ol' by Christy or his Apostles, although she spoke the trvAth. Second, but 1 r ^'words were but lis wind — the sounding brass and tinkling symbol. Third, Oh! wo see how unavailing is the flowery tongues of men, an»! of angol?', And tho subject orthodox truth, when beneath is enshrouded hynocrisy, fourth, we prove that Jes\is Christ di*ies not want such to recommend his salvation, ror give character to his apos'tlea. Fifth, we further assert, that if any mart ha\ j not the spirit of Christ, he it 'otie of his, and is of no use in his work. We fs^ ther prove, that the spiiit.and a-i'ace of ^jod, are t^ c essential qualifications frr pvoaohing Christ, and that all {he sciantiiic i:^.^.0|raT'enlcnts, in understanding aif mysteries, the worid, and men, and (hirgv can h^ uo substitute for the grace of God. Oh! let us beware of those cricj* of ! vvise, h ; iieFathe ../, 'ingtheg '% theproph ;, ■ Christ-hki My nt of t % ' • verted c great, draw la/g( TRUTH DUFBKDXD. prophet, more daufforous than all, presents his treats, his eating and drinking. Oh I their aims and designs are the siy^e : their lying father told our first pa- rents they would be as gods by believing a lie, and God's justice drove them out of Eden ; and the old prophet beguiled the simple-hearted prophet, by telling him that e.u angel brought the word of the Lord to him, and it was a lie, and who 1^0 like Iha £B^^\er as the sons; and God in justice permitted a lion to take uis ]?fo away for believing a lie ; and as sure as God's woes are pronounced agjaru, thof'c Mre prophets, the proud ministers, and pharisees, and lawyers, \vho d&ny Ch'^Bt^ m i legislate for themselves, so sure shall he commission the ■ caring iiop to sei;'. us prey — take them, says he (devils), and bind them hand a!ul foot, and hand tiiem^over : I must believe Jesus Christ. Those men who prodch Jesus Christ, and have not his spirit and grace, they are preparing for hell as fast as they can, but the devil, no doubt, will whisper you will get me spirit and grace too^ snd tb is they go^on till- he '^aps t^em. Oh ! what shall I liken Lhese colleges tx> ; they appear to^me like a cooper's shop, where they ioin and coxistru'^t veseeii} to put wine into, and then fiUinff them up, and taking it abroad and ■^■' iubt if you could yoa T;v>uld, an<5 draw la.gc sums tor its bestowment ; :n\, • ^ gives it to his people without a 10 t4 TBUTU DEFEMDBt). farthing. Oh what a contrast, and how suitable and well adapted is Christ to the poor. I would advise ev^ery man to give to his children accoidinff to his substance, as good an education as he can, and to let them know thnt they are not anymore acceptable to God on that account, and if they are puflfed up they are the worse ; but never dare presume to go before God to select mutenal for his work, and send tnem forth imagining that they will convert the world with words ; but in subordination to God, allow Him to teach them by his spirit and grace and love, whether they have learned much or little. Where lie I'ives the grace, he forsakes all to bo his disciple, that is, all the world's praises, honours, pleasures, maxims, and fashions, and has got his life hid with Christ in God, far nom pomp and show : this is the man that God doth choose, and makes that man's heart his home. So we prove that the natural tendency of education on the corrupt mind is to fill it with pride, and that the tendency of the spirit of God is to root out the same. I ask again what is the natural tendency of Bache- lor of Arts and Doctors of Divinity &c. Are those titles of honor from heaven or of men : it cannot be of Christ, for he made himself of no reputation. I ask did he allow his disciples to be above him ; and how much of the spirit of Christ you got with Reverend, and how much of his love was given with Bachelor of- Arts, and what amount of humility did you receive when you got D.D. to your name. Now conscience give a verdict, such as you will not blush at in the resurrection morn. Methinks I hear some honest souls say, it was pride we re- ceived instead of humility : I believe this witness, for the fountain cannot pro- duce that which is contrary to itself. Oh what poor dupes has the devil made of the supposed successors and D. D'.s, to induce them to giva such sums of money to get D. D. to their names ; and what is its substance, just nothinjr but a sound. What do we see now bujt a race of poor dupes bowing and scraping, and gathering up money to help them on their way to damnation. It appears this generation is very independent of Christ and his free grace, when they orefer paying their way to hell. Now with respect to learning, God can make many uses of it to serve his church, but how God could make use of D.D. to serve liira either in earth or heaven, is a mystery to me ; but I would suspect the old be- trayer to boast and say it is one of my master pieces. I come now to treat on some of the evils that has crept in amongst Methodists, and shew what I under- stand Methodism to be. I believe I am fifty-six years of age this 16th day of July, 1864, and I recollect when a child I was taken by my parents to their meeting, and my father's house was open to the Presbyterian, and other evan- gelical ministers, and the Methodist preachers always made my father's house their home during his life, and after his death with me till 1848, when I left my own dear country, and came to Saint John, New Brunswick. Respecting Methodists I must say, they arc the dearest christian brethren I have on earth. Yes, and go up to lieaven, and count kindred with them, not on the ground of the name, but on the ground of Jesus' love, that bound and binds our gloMiiig hearts in one. I rejoiced iu the preachers' piety and purity, and I forsook all other societies for theirs. The preachers and the people appeared to me to be humble, plain, and clean, and their dress, with a few exceptions, like the Quakers, which appeared to me opposite to the world, and so like Christ. When I read it was a shame for a man to wear long hair, and when I looked to see who obeyed, I found some plain people among other denominatioTjB, but I found that the Quakers and Methodists in general, left no lodgmen of dirt about their jaws. But, bye and bye, I saw some of the young Quakers tossed up their hair "a little, and thus the god of this world, by reversing the practice and example set by their forefathers, which they learned from God's word, and by God's grace, did not know how to complete a respectable appearance, but the world's better judgment, does. Oh, world you love your own sel^ n^,» ♦eou* TBCTH DftFHKIMED. T5 is Christ, to ).dinff to hin hat they are iffed up they niatonal for 5 world with lis spirit and He gives the 8C9, honours, it in God, far I makes that education on the spirit of icy of Bache- I from heaven ation. I ask irit of Christ I Bachelor of- D.D. to your ish at in the pride we re- canuot pro- e devil made mch sums of t nothinf^ but and scraping, . It appears n they 5)refer I make many to serve liim t the old be- to treat on hat I under- 16th day of snts to their other evan- ;her's house when I left Respecting e on earth, ground of pur gloMiiiff forsook aU lo me to be le Quakers, [hen I read see who Ifound that 30ut their thoir hair example by Go'd's but the i^' ^eoui friends. A Mr. , an old fashioned Methodist preacher and me, agreed heartily together. Hn was tolling me of a young Methodist |minister who came to assist him, and the people wont to hear him, and when they returned home, there was an old woman, an old fashioned Methodist, like Mr. — and myself, and she asked how they liked the new preacher, some said very well,"othcT8 said did you see how ho had his hair in the fashion. Oh, the Kussian duck, for so it was named in some pai*ts of Ireland ; but the old woman cries ont with uplifted hands, oh, Lord, save us from these twopenny ministers ; some said it did not become ministers of the Gospel to be so conformed to the world ; others said, they iiiay as well be out of tlie world, as out of the fashion, another would say, that's a little thing. This is the way that the devil and the world dismisses Christ's command, " Be not conformed to this world." Oh, we may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. So Christ is dismissed, and me and us is the statute. Again, they seem to despise little things, but it is by little and little that many are overthrown, and we may say that there is nothing but one pope after another dismissing Jesus, and placing themselves in his stead, and for my part I do not know what use God could make of the tassels on the head ; they say it will give unction and power to the word ; that would be the plaoe of spirit's bright example shining before men, producing humble love and divine transformity ; this may be equally inconsistent to yoti, an'l here I remain in my ignorance. How many ministers will confonn to the world, and please, and hatter, and jest and joke a little, and ^ 7 this means gain them. Never think you can gain a battle on the devil's ground, particularly when you confonn to use his weapons, for some of us have felt, when passing merry jests to please others, we have grieved the spirit of God, and I know myself I was left paraMs^od ; therefore I never intend to stand on the devil's ground, and use his weap^jus, to gain a victory for Christ. If ever it is gained, it is by standing on the rock of trutlt, and by self-derying and uncompromising holy men, that neither fear the frowns, nor court the smiles of any, but fear God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell ; and I heard one of the holy Methodist preachers say, ♦hat to heap riches on any church, and that church to use it to exalt themselv es, will soon fall. In one of the old magazines, I read an address given to the preach- ers, b; Mr. Porson, and there he warns them to beware of pride, of learning, and of the world, ^and here I founded my principles to take their firet mould. Again, when the split came amongst the Methodists respecting their administer- ing the ordinance of Baptism and the Lord's supper, at first, on the ground of reason, as they were doing so well, I thought it would be better for them not to administer the ordinance* But a friend reasoned with me and shewed me that the ordinance belonged solely to his disciples, penitents, or believers, but drunkards, covetous, and fornicators, it said, are not to eat ; and he brought before me two characters, the one was a dean, who kept two women and raised two families, the other was a drunkard — pnd these are the men that the world approves of, carnal material to build up God's spiritual house : it is abominable, and the man must be criminal that would partake with them. I ^ t completely confirmed in my mind, that God's servar*"^ . ^uld do God's w^-rk, and they would not be offended with them so much > 1 oji. hing the gospd, as adminis- teriijy, the ordnances, which the apostle rt.ccoi..its a bccondary work, wheii com- pared V ' '■ preaching', ^1 the rightly dividing ihe word of God. But hero we disco -i ,i features of the mother and daughters. Oh, thatpri'istcraft that says, give > nil the honor and power. T n eo with one of their a. vocates "^vhc justified himself in preachiug and adminj-^c- 'irig the ordinancns, and '■u.tcd Mattliew 23d chapter, 3d verse. All therefor , ^saatsoever they bni yo'i brctve, that observe and do, but do not ye a''ier their works, for tLsy say and ^ic> uot. Observe first, it is Jesus speaks; secoiid, he wai.ts the multitude aud h^* d>. .1 kJ. m I- 3 fi TKITTH DRFEKDRD, plea tor look not to man as a statute, as the world and human nature does, hut they will command you, and read you my laws, and that observe and do, for iny law is ric^ht. And hero Abraham and Jesus agree : if they will not hear Mioses and the prophets, neither will they bo persuaded, though one rose from the dead ; therefore, dismiss all men, angels, and spirita, and hold to the true statute, Moses and the prophets. And well may the membcrR of the Bible So- cieties, brace up their nerves to their glorious enterprise, until all the world has hoard its joyfhl sound, and Jesus is known th '',.,••<' tl>c earth — and the contents of the Bible, the sweetest note on moi'*f.''» toiij' > -as he in in heaven, and tho sweetest sound in seraph's song is, Jcbui I Jesus I Now as Jesus does not want tho multitude or his disciples to to aeceived by thero^ he brings to view tho traits in their character — they aro proud of Moses' seat, and fpride makes them offensive to the humble Jesus. Second, they say and do not, the plain language of it is, they are liars. Third, those men lay on heavy burdens, and heavy to bo bonio, and have no sympathy for the suffering : JiTi ! .^^ .vAjtosof the motives of the heart, the work thoy do to be seen of mor, they glory in their broad phylacteries, and their enlarged garments, but if the people were struck with blindness, what an awful dis-^'-pointment it would be to those men, when they would have no worshippers v' < no one to admire their long borders and fine gowns. Fourth, they lovo the appermost seats, but not the Lord, with all their hearts. Fifth, and greetir i^ m the market-place, and to be called noble, master. Oh, how clear our Lord has told us of this proud generation, surely we can never bo mistaken in the character that God abhors ; and in the eighth verse, ho ^ves his disciples a yery imperative command. But be not called Rabbi — as if he had said, let no honors b«. attached to thy name, or praises of men bo ever attached to you ; and here onr Lord does away with all the trum- bery of Reverend and D.1)., &c., for Jesus never allowed them to his disciples. Now let them meet my master Christ, and elder brother, and prove to me that yonr words and power can transubstantiate und innoculate Jesus Christ into masters many and lords and gods many. Now tell Jesus he is a liar — and that you deny one God, and one raastCt , and une Christ, and further you ana- thematize this master's laws, who mak^s our greatness consist of slavery and servitude ; and that you further declare that you deny the supremacy of my elder brother, that levels all distinctions into brotherhoo 3, atid would bring us on a level with poor John Collins. Here we discover two different generations, their father the devil with his pride and high ^rnded authority, and we btow his sons by the features of their father ; and another feature is, tiiat the flesh and the world are engraven in the page of their hearts. But God and his off- spring wants not any reputation, and is willing to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water : another feature is, they are willing to exhaust t^erasolveB fcr the benefit of others, and bring glory to their Master. Oh, what a conti-ast ; What do we learn fromjthe above, — first, we learn what a deceiver tho old ser- pent is, and how blinding prejudice is, and to think he would ' o iu the swine's mire to quench his thirst, and reject a pure spring because it i not 'he world's approbation and reputation ; und all such men are led by >.- . nose and have '^iven their judgment and consciences into captivity, and how the blind could lead the blind, to believe t^' ♦^ God could acknowledge those against whom his heaviest woes are denounced. Even infidels are not so dangerous as these, nor are there half the woes pronounced against them, as are pronounced against de- ceiving dissemblers. Now I challenge all the world, with all the college manu- faotory, and all the devils, old and young, with all their employed agency to come forward and prove that Jesus and his disciples are proud, as you are ; and prove that he sacrificed others for gain to himself, as you do ; again, prove that be gloried in fine cathedrals, splendid buildings, swift steeds and painted chariots, TKUTH DEKKHDEP. 77 does, but ind do, for 1 not hear rose from the true 1 Bible So- tho world I — and the in heaven, JcAUs does brings to and f^ride lo not, the V btirdens, ! .vi .v-».j»08er Dry in their 7ere struck men, when orders and rd, with all lUed noble, Lion, surely the eighth not called * praises of 1 the trum- is disciples, to me that Christ into I liar — and er you ana- jlavery and lacy of my lid bring us generations, d we know it the flesh wd his off- wood and msolves for a contitist ; the old ser- the swine's he world's and have blind could t whom his 9 these, nor against de- lege manu- agency to >a are ; and prove that ed chariots, r and in dyed vaviegated vostiiieiits, as you du. Now yoi cannot prove it, and it would be a ho in the face of open day, to say tlioy wor« r arc successors of the apostles. Lot them prove they are no more of uu- wot id than ho was of the world, before they will ever show their brazen faces and belch out their lies ; uow so sure as these keep their standard of faith and practice, so sure are they preparing fuel for the names of damnation — repent or porish. 1 now return and say I was very jealous for tho purity of these people, and when I saw any thing that was not right, I made very free to correct it, like my Lord, without any respect of persons. About sixteen years ago, it was proposed by the super- intondaiit at the leaders meeting, in the Dungaunon circuit, that the preachers salary was to bo raised fiom sixteen to twenty pounds, and a grout many apoko of the respectability of the preachers, &c. I then got up and said, I allow them to take up all that I say, and whatever is wrong correct it, and I never believe that the recpectability of the minister consists in riches or fine dress, but in the noble dignity of the grace of (lod planted in them, and that curates and their families lived some on fifty and some on seventy pounds a-year, and when they became rectors, five hundred will hardly support them. Tho superintendant said, Mr. Collins, you must l^now that I am your superintendant, and I order ou to sit down, for I will not allow yon to rail agamst churches. I replied, have due respect to you as my superintendant, out Sir, I will not sit down until tho sense of tliis mooting put me down* Tlien Mr. , the young preacher said, he thour^ht I should bo heard and replied to. I asked was that tho sense of the meetiug — so I said, what are those things a preacher has to purchat:ie with his salary, ho has to purchase his clothing, and his books, horse, saddles, and bridles. I asked was clothing dearer, no ! books dearer, no ! are horses dearer, no ! My answer is, I stand here to prove all is cheaper, and I war* to know the iiooessity for this, for I believe (tlien he had only twelve or sixteen pounds a-year, \ tho Methoflist preachers never disgraced us, nor our house on this account lot that I am against raising money, for I would take it from the orphan ana .vidow, as my Lord did, to keep him comfortable, and the overplus to employ fii >iher miBsionary, and gather on, and employ on, un- til the world shall be convoiLod — those are the principle* formed in me, through the instrumentality of M< 'hodism, nnd.it wounds me to tho auick to see them conform to the world, or shake hands with the devil. But tney never replied to one sentence that I advanced, but put it to the vote, and they canned it, and one of the leaders confessed to mc, that his conscience told him he was wrong, but he could not offend the superintendant. Here we see how men will please each othei:, rather than please God, not fearing their own conscience. But there is nothing like pleasing God and keeping a clear conscience, should wo die martyrs on the red cross shield. When I came to Saint John, New Brunswick, I was taken in as one of the local preachers, and went round in my turn, until I removed into the country. Mr. , the chief man of the province, like my Lord, giving to mo my commission to go into all the world, for he said I might stay about my own place, and wherever I pleased, but they would still retain my name among them and with the local preachers. I have been preaching in Quacco and its vicinity these seven years past, and I have been a visitor to the Mechanics' settlement for ten years. Owing to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, with whom I formed an acquaintance at St. John, having removed to the Mechanics' settlement, far from the means of grace, and I felt for them, and have been once a year for tho last ten years, with the exception of one year, about seven years since, when I was invited on the platform at a meeting in the city of Saint John, to second a resolution, which I did, and also in Poruand, and also in my oivn native land ; but in Portland I made an observation that I was John from the Wilderness, not that John of Judea, but John of New Brunswick. But the 78 TKDTU liUrUMDHU. ttubject of our glorious theme is one, Uchold ! Behuld ! the I^nib ! AIim} I thought that the prenchora wore too nnxioun about money. I bcliovud that the better way wa» to get Kinneni converted, and the money would come a* a con- sequence ; and I gave the example Zacehcus, and a little tmy of later date as proof. On that occaHion 1 had tlio right hand of fellowHhip, from Mr. — the chairman, but I have hoard of late from undoubted authority, that it was titter for me to stay at home, and to me it is very trivial, nuch changeablencss in man when I have cast anchor on the rocic, C'nriitt Jesus, and he acknowledges my services. I hope 1 will never forget my commission " go." About a year after I was at a missionary meeting, and was astonished at the expressions *, and the following evening there was h tea meeting in the chapel, and it seemed to mo that the preachers wished to accommodate the people with merry jests for their two shillings and six pence, and on that occasion I heard Mr. — say, there was so much in hand when he left;, and intimated an abuse in outlay of money, which the steward denied, and Mr. — said Mr. — was to blame, and the steward said he would have him brought to trial. At length I «aid to the steward did you get Iiim tried yet.. No ! no, that is no use at all, for they will shift it about until they will have their own way ', also Mr. — told me lie thought he would bring one of the preachers to trial, but they shift round one way and another until ho said that he could do nothing with them — so wo see the infal- lible head will never bow to the inferior body. The next day after the tea meeting, I was much grieved, being one of the body, and I thought that the rest of the ministers should sympathise with me. I went to Mr. and Mrs. — , and we talked it over, but he put mo off by saying very goodnaturedly, you have giren mo enough, and you might give some of tho rest u little. There was two objects I had in view, as all men are subject to mistakes and they should be reproved, that they might guard against it again, and that lightness and trifling should bo stopped amongst ministers, no matter what meeting. I thought that Mr. — , being thr chairman of the province, was most competent for thio, so I went with my grievances, and began to make them known by sayhig, I was at the meetings, and was sorry to hear some unguarded expressions of the minis- ters, and their light words and levity of conduct. Mr. — then said, I hope Mr. Collins you are not come to insult me in my own house, for I see no harm in what occuiTed at the meetings, and you are a peculiar man. I should have thanked him for the compliment paid me, as one of God's peculiar people, but ray heart says thank you — but sorry to say he dismissed my Lord and I, and placed himself as the statute, and he alone was capable of judging, because ho sees ni) barm in it, — he further said that it was not a religious meeting. I did not say this to him, but I thought it wovld be right for the ministers to say on all like occasions, at the preaching house doors to tell Christ and his religion to stay out this evening, for it was not a religious meeting, and wc want to give the world's body and mind a treat, and our appetite received the treat of money. The conversation turned, and he asked me how was I to judge of these matters. I returned the question, and he answered me and said, every man has a right of private judgment, to judge as he pleased. I begged leave to ditfei- with him, I told him I was sure I had been a juror for many years, and I heard the Judge of assizes give his charge to juries, and he said, gentlemen of the jury, recollect the law is before you, and the witnesses, And the manner in which they give their evidence, and your conscience is to give a true verdict. 1 said now, Sir, that Christians should be judged by the Christian law, which is, "let you speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt," thus God has commanded his people to be holy in heart, in body, and in life, and holy in all manner of conversation. Is that not law, Sir. Now I give you Mr. Wesley's law, who forbid his people siriging those songs, and reading those boolu^ or holding conversation in the I*" t •0'.\cl_ ',11' 'Mi'i; n^i Al would tho lai for th( was ve ten th( were o • lord, w their n face of them, while always mistake sion, sa) there is' in suboi from hit preachei promises merciful time aftc overioye to give a to give a my full h he would how coul( allow me from me. penitents perhaps y account, person be] prise a \ei the penite and loose : went to la' penitents 1 all the gloi thought it great deal would have as in the n and ] they thoug! up and ben mind, " Go but I must I did not ff local preacl and address TKUTU DKPBHDBD. 19 MkoI lat tho H con- date fM — tho M tlttor in man Ij^os my r ftftcr I and tho aitd it h morry IMr. — n outlay ime, and id to tho thoy will thought way and tho infal- the tea t the rest . — , and you have ) was two should bo id trifling [Ufflit that thio, 80 I , I was at he minis- hope Mr. harm in •uld have iople, but ind 1, and icause ho ig. I did to say on 18 religion lit to give >i money, matters, a right ith him, [he Judge recollect [they give 1, Sir, that ipecch be Ipeople to lation. 1ft lis people ion in the ■o.%uly that thov cannot take God in with us. Is not that the law, Sir : he ■•> el," and whether I get gain or not I will preach Jesus — the duty is mine, and the consequences are my father's, whose is the profit and loss ; and I am as nothing, only I rejoice in my father's sovereignty and prosperity ; and am sorry to hear our legislators in &ct, saying, " Siis is the heir, come let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours." I took it for granted onC;e that all Methodist law was according to God's law — and I see a great many of all denominations are, what I was then, blinded ^nd fooled. Now for example — ^let us contrast the £80 law, with Christ's law, which to Abraham was, " I am thy shield {< -xceeding great reward," and to the apostles, "Go without staves •{ scrip o. money in your purses ;" as if he had said, I can open the hearts and purse strings of all when it is. for your good, and clos&them when I see it is also for your good ; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin ; and be as- sured that in the furnace and the flame, the faith shall be the Son of Man's ; and to all such characters he h^ given his security, and it is " Lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," and %hen they are beset with hunger and nakedness let them still obey, and be careM for.nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanki^ving let their requests be made known unto God ; and when the tear sowing period is past, the angels' reaping time in if and there is t a distance al pi'eachere 11 of my re- i annoy me. at it ^ould He said he m, it would IS no use to one Father i my father I continued •ences; but 's mandate. ry large, he do are your Oh, what he body of have lost distinct se- r that is in reverence, e childlike enly places administer >e6ple who ited them ; ke up £20. ley send a sy not send no ; and I f that was acrifices to resB me to i I can say is me if I Fesus — the b and loss ; rosperity ; deir, come inted onee it many of T example 1 was, " I \o without open the m when I ind be as- 'an's ; and with you th hunger ery thing de known ig time in the end will be glorious I «,n ^ ever hear of Clfmt bargainir tfr*'"'" ^^^ contrasting. J ^.k did «. services of any of his diSi/ i ""^^ P'^^P^" ^r thirty nn,,n5^o *"f ^'^n or five hundred ovtTnT^' ^^' °ever ! If this 8v«f Pm^/i"^' * ^^'^^ ^^r the and in fact tW VA'tTr^- " "Sh% then Jercw*^'"*^' J^"^^' «%» to be depended^uTon an? r^K^^'/' ""'^ ^^^ «tatutera„d CW?""^* ^.« W spectabilfty; sotE'evS u "«'« ^ndsare not uffieie^^^^^^ »^t they adopt the worid', 1 . ^"^ ""^ ""^^'^ef depart from fK f"?^^^ ^^^ ^e- -ore conLncenor tertr;.'.f '''^'^'^^^^^rg^nj^^^^ them and get them Cnd if Zm"'' ^ P?^^''««» ^ould ZtjoZt ^^'^ "^ tened with their ffod wlT '* possible ; and if they do nofl *f, "^a^e gain of perfection of Sil?. L ^\'''", ««'^e them and confi„« ft ^^^' *^^ ^^« threa- made to them, and thfthf^ ^''. ^^''^^ 1852, I went to I'lfir^*^^^ ^^"^^ raenf^wasa fellowshin^?. ?• ""'^'^"^ ^ held in Mr !!L,^ J^^^^ ^ly promise vealed his salvattTf ^ ^^eetmg, and the cry rose for ^^ Mechanics' settle- which occurred to shpwfi. * "^ ^'^^ to mention onp n. f ^^~^^ to his hard lot but Lf P themselves from freefinJ ZTl^ •^^*' ^^^ turning from " «ke a palace t?,'p,^^'^f l^^'^^'S God all niAt ani ' '^'" ""^ ^'^^b'^nd and KeiiS"us\r;fl(X^^5^^p^^^^^^ p^^-s^wou^p^^^^^ r our meetings for about f^^ ^*"' «"^ S^^as in prison) Wn ' ^^/ ^°^<* »t, and shcdLf#,*«>P*:™al fever, and rlT7L'«"l"'^".. '«»"« 'ith their wi7e, ckaZl''K • "■' '"^ ''"'"■« M'C_?^ °^, ?.** -f" «««; »t, and shed forthfr ,' L'^P^™'' ''<=''«'■. and rose klh/fl"'^ °'^". '«»ld, the revival took in this place, and the rest of the premises no Methodist minister occupied. Mr. never approved of me, and did not take any interest in the meetings (not like Mr. A , who heartily engaged in the work) ; and as I thought that everything should be done in broad daylight, I said before Mr. and others that I was in embarrassed circumstances, and could not think of coming to them without getting something to assist me to pay my expenses ; and the people, with a ready mind, subscribed ten pounds, and paid me eleven pounds twelve shillings and sixpence. I said further that the people might dismiss Mr. and keep me, or dismiss me and keep Mr. ; that they had the light of private judgment, and might keep us both if they pleased ; but that it was a pity the people should be bur^ned. I said this to call forth a reply ; but I got no reply. Mr. heard about my beirtg grieved with Mr. 's supremacy (and I was grieved that his superintendence should be contrary to my Lord's), and he cautioned me not to spe«ik about it, for two reasons — first, he was Superintendent of the Methodists in the city ; second, he was Chairman of the Province. Here we discover that names and offices prevent a man from speaking the truth to his neighbor. Oh, what corruption is creeping through the veins of this head body ! Oh, will they strive to pass worldly popularity for Christ's humility ! So the people kept us both ; and I heard they subscribed five pounds for him ; another told me that if they had subscribed the larger sum for him and given me the smaller one, Mr. would not have found much fault. After some time Mr, asked them if they would be tried by Methodist law. They said, Yes, by the law of God, and Methodist law is consistent with God's law. By and by he came forward with Methodist law, recorded in ihc Class Book, page 23. It speaks of local preacheni having their recommendations from their superintend ant, and this law was designed to prevent impostors from going to other circuital and lining collections and making gain on such occasions ; and I think it quite right for Mr. Wesley to stop such, for if indulged, they soon become greedy dogs in their day, who would rob God's treasuries, and would put it in the bank of iJie world ; but it was never intended to put any disrespect on any local preacher, whom as a body we greatly respect. Here the head body gives us to[ know that they look down upon us second body with respect ; so, according her daughtership, binding and loosing, and forming and constructing two Av tinct bodies. I do not know how Mr. would be consistent wi^ the forcj oing, for he said the leaders and local preachers are the bone and sinew of thi esleyan body. Yes, my heart said, we have the marrow too. Here we ha^ the most essential part of the body. But Mr. 's statement is only plaster; while the fact proves an inferiority in name and office, that disqualifies us, anl makes us inferior to their body ; but the Father and the Son are equal'y onJ and their law made us all brethren. And here I suspect these new-fiukniond Methodists have joined the lady and her daughter. Mr. gave them thei trial, <>.nd read the Methodist law, and from his supremacy I am stamped as impostor, and those who subscribe anything to such are criminal and guilt; I deny the charge and call upon him to prove It ; and I charge him with prostitution of 'Wesleys laws This system of bmdiuf; and loosing makes wrongs self-exist goi W one &it[ Mr. -^ . have just hence th< all appea hide theii and wrot< front ther the day, another apology. About I the people in converse he was tak and tell th to about th have duly went on to and then tl anti-Metho( Again, one face, and th never anyth manners as this cursed : those M'ho w how the serj performance and praise; i and h - const by kr. B — the meeting would speak ; to avoid me» me if Mr. B- silent conten wrongfully in I told her that |no more about told her that i 'Methodism, ; •e like them f< 'very nation ai Vhen I return ipIied,--You : » attempt to c asked my dan equired directi loctriaesofthe TSUTB DEFENDED. sd fit leave on, and inviticed 1 Valley urelve or ' montli *, y month, lis place, — never 1 like Mr. rerythirtg hat I was I -without ;h a ready lings and keep me, judgment, pie should Mr.^ AS grieved cautioned ient of the Here we ruth to his 1 head body I f \ So the m ; another ren me the ae time Mr. lid. Yes, by jr and by he age 23. It, aperintend- her circuits ink it quite >me greedy inthebaiJc any local ' gives us to ccording tof ig tvro dif th the fore] jinew of tbf srewehavi dy plaster: jes us, aw Eual'y oni |w-&shione them theii nped as « [and guHt lim with makes wrongs right, without appearing face to face, or any vitness required; — their self-existence and independence are quite enough for them. But I -wished a hearing, to let him know that I went seven out of eight years without getting one fiuthing^ and I thought they had more need of getting than giving. If Mr. ' ■ : \ \ had allowed me this privilege, even on Methodist principles I could have justified myself. But the binding and loosing system does it all away ; hence the necessity of the Father and the Son's government, who would have all appear face to face with testimony. Oh, let the mother and her daughters hide their brazen or blushing faces. The leaders were ofifendod at such conduct^ and wrote to the Chairman requesting a fair trial, and to get Mr. — ' — to con- front them face to face ; but that letter was evaded, for want of a little order of the day, and they told me that, to leave him without excuse, they sent him another to the same eftect ; but he never gave them a hearing, answer, or apology. Now let the daughter deny the features of her mother if she can. About six yei^rs ago, a Methodist minister did not keep his appointment ; and the people said that they would make it known to the district meeting. I was in conversation with this minister ; when he told me that he did not go beciouse he was taking in some new ground. I told him that he ought to go to them and tell them the reason why he had never attended. The district was written to about the matter, and an answer returned, the substance of which was — we have duly received yours, and took up your case, and investigated it ; and it went on to state the many good qualities possessed by the ordained minister ; and then the local preachers got their sentence, and it was, that they were anti-Methodists. Here is the mother's features in the daughter's countenance. Again, one or two of the preachers thought they would get a hearing face to face, and they forwarded letters and papers to that effect. But no ; there was* never anything more heard about it. And that head body were wanting in manners as well as Christianity, for they never even returned the papers. Oh, this cursed nunnery system, that would wish to keep all in darkness, except those who will look and behold through the telescope of thtr prejudices. Oh, how the serpent is beguiling both moAer and daughters 1 Again, I was in the performance of my duty to God, and ha«l my daughter to assist me in prayer and praise ; and on my way home I called on the honourable Squire R — -— , and Y - constrained me to stop all night, and told roe of a meeting to be held by kr. B , witli Mr. W a local preacher. My daughter and I went to the meeting ; and when it closed, I stood some time to see if Mr. B would speak; but he would not know mC) and went to the far side of the housfi to avoid me. We '•etumed to our lodgings, and on our way my daughter asked me if Mr. B — — knew me. Oh, yes, I. replied ; but he wishes to treat me with silent contempt. Then she said. Father, father, you have treated that man wrongfully in some respects, or he would never have treated you in that way^. I told her that he n^er said an unmannerly word to me, or I to him. We said no more about it then. The next morning, on our way, she said that Mr. R old her that it was reported that I was a fly sheet man, and a destroyer of Methodism. I have heard a little, and a very little, about them ; and I might >e like them for anything I know ; but I hope to belong to the rock men of very nation and kingdom and people, who acknowledge no rock but Christ. Vhen I returned home my family spoke to me on the same subject ; and I apHed, — You know that when at home in Ireland you saw nothing in me like I attempt to destroy Methodism, as ;^ >.»u wo Ud fcharge me with now doing. , asked my daughter if I was to blame for attending tliose new-bom souls, who cquired direction to gather strength, and be established and confirmed in the loctrines of the gospel, which is heart holiness. She replied, that they required o'il;! m'! t II ■ I 84 TRUTH DEFKKDKD. as much care and paiine to keep them in the way as to get them in it. It 10 these facts, acts, and deeds, known and witnessed by many in this Province, which bring me in an impostor. But this clamour has completely ceased ; and I would now ask that head body, could they blame me for going to them first wit^ a desire to get a redress of grievances ? This proves that 1 looked up to tliCiH, and the return I got also proves that they looked down upon mc as a poor bleeding toe ; and they think it is better to cut it oif than to lose a half- penny worth of salve or a penny worth of bandages to cure it. They do not put me out for breaking any of the laws of Methodism, or for any immorality, or unsoundness in faith or doctrine, or of my lack of justification, adoption, and sanctification ; and J. now say, that the more I enjoy of sanctifying grace, the more do I abhor this pope's supremacy, and reject this worldly confom^ity, and the pomps and vanities of this enemy of God, and the pampering of fleshl 7 lusts — for grace cannot act contrary to itself. So they need not trouble theinselves to bring witnesses against me, for I acknowledge my guilt, if they are pleased to call it so ; and I have spokf a against pope's supremacy coming in amongst us, and against the lady and her iunghters' think so and say so ; and say what you please, I intend still to be guilty of high treason in these matters, and I tell you plainly, that if you continue in this highhandedness, the devil will beget you inthe womb cf the world your mother, the gieat strumpet, who, congenial to her nature, brings forth to sip and tat and drink of the bi jasts of her lavish kindness ; and your father fitili aaying to you, — my children, the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them are yours, and do not heed those low-minded croakers who would speak against your venerable supremacy and high dignities. Now I defy any man to prove to me that this is not a true character of the world, the flesh, and the devil. ■ Many a time have I wondered how men of grace and piety should be carried away by their supremacy ; and I suspected that it was Edmund Grindrod who was filling them up, for they would ask, did you ever read Grindrod on Metho- dism ? They seemed to think that had I read it, it would have converted me to iheir sentiments. I was much obliged to a friend for lending it to me ; and I must tell these my mistaken friends, that it would take their blinded preju- dices to make me think with them ; and I now intend to shew my authority and reasons for difi'ering from them. On the 41st page of this book, when speak- ing of new rules, i^ says, " Thi'ee new proposals, which are designed to augment the income of preachers, in the connexion at large, and under such restrictions, they will give liberty for tlie circuit steward to vote for the income and general increase of allowances." See what a libert.y and honor they have conferred on this man, to allow him to vote income on them ; but they are sure not to make any new law to allow me to vote the one, two, or three hundred pounds out of the treasuries of the world, and put them back into Christ's treasury. That you might act the truth, you said when you were lifting it, and encouraging them to cast into the Lord's treasury, beware lest God should say to you, as he said to them of old, " Ye have robbed me." Christ has further said, " Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth ;" and John Wesley said the same. Oh, how I love to see the likeness of Christ in him. But if Wesley would deny this, either in word or deed, I would deny him. This is the rock on which I stand ; therefore, if I am astray, charge it on the original. Again, at page 338 — " Nor shall gowns or bands be used among us ; and if any brother shall break the above-mentioned rule, he thereby excludes himself from the connexion." Tliis I acknowledge as old-fashioned Methodism, And what avails that ? It avails this much, that it is in conformity with Christ, who condemns the proud Phari- sees for their large-bordered garments, and pronounces his woes npon them. I .^k, what was the sole object of these Plxarisees ? Was it not to be conspicuous / TRUTH DEkMDEf). B6 it. It it Province, ised ; and them first ced up to I mc as a 96 a half- ey do not imorality, ption, and rrace, the Hiity, and eshlf lust^ rhernselves pleased to gst us, and )u please, I ainly, that omb cf the (rings forth our father e glory of ould speak iny man to i the devil. [ be carried ndrod who [on Metho- iverted me me; and ed preju- authority hen speak- o augment estrictions, nd general nferred on otto make nds out of That you tthem to e said to y not up Oh, hovr deny this, h I stand ; }8 — »' Nor •reak the m." Tliis It avails ud Phari- them. I [nspicuous and great in the eyes of the world ? Tliey were the enemies of Gtod, You may say that you got tliem to shew that you were no more of the world than Christ was, and since yon have got them is it their tendency tosink you in selt-abascment and humble love ? But surely the truth says, their natural tendency is to pro- duce pride. From the above, I believe Mr. Wesley never allowed such trum- pery among his ministers. Read the same page in connection, and hear the state of respectable parties in dispute about the repeal or non-repeal of this rule. Of course the new-fashioned respectable Methodist must havejt, since it is left with this respectable body to allow them to have these sacred vestments. Oh, worldly new-fashioned Methodism ! Oh, mother's daughter ! — sacred vest- ments ! — and so Grindrod says. Oh, hide your blushing faces ! Oh, think on the sackcloth of Nineveh that p'eased God ! But it appears you wanted to please your god the world, and to get an increase of allowances. Would your poor meagre minds think upon the Apostles, with their patched anr^ tattered garments and almost nakedness ; but vhey were not dependent on the world for honour or respect. And oh think, ye Methodists, that the likeness of Peter's slimy fisher's coat would become you best. It does not appear that Christ despiaed him for his nakr-'-css, or rejected him for his old fisher's coat. I am thinking that the mo<,h. her daughters, the parties now on the board, if Peter were to assuui'i s"cii au appearance by the side of them, would soon throw him and his old fisher "oat overboard ; and indeed they could do notning else to be consistent with th( statute, which is show and appearance. We do not hear of any respectable parties contending for sacred vestments in those early days ; nor do we hear that our Lord ordered a new fisher's coat for Peter ; but when the heart is stored with humility all is right with God. The first time I saw a Methodist preacher in the gown, I was ready to say. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slaying and destruction of Slethodism. No doubt, they would say that I am an eccentric and particular man. Hush up ! hush up ! I am superintendant, and am accountable to that golden head that cannot be broken, and our wide spread powder that cannot be overthrown. Oh, but if God says, thou Capernaum, or Methodism, that wast exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell, — no macter who speaks for or against you, down you go ; and you may blame your- selves for it, for God would never have put you down had you not intoxicated yourselves with the devil's wine, pride. There is another cf the same nature on page 22, where the daughter .Hows the young preachers on trial liberty of con- science and the right of private judgment in preaching, but on all voting subjects they are bound down ; they must give up their conscience and judgment to the keeping of others until the time of their probation is up, when i^ej will be loosed, and powei given them to vole. Christ would give liberty for those who are least esteemed in tl^^ church to judge ; but the mother and her daughters are sure to take the opposite stand. It is further enacted, that the names of preachers who desist from travelling from i^ny cause, except that of ill health, before they have completed the term of their probation, shall be dropped in per- fect silence ; that is to say, they will allow the man in ill health to approach and address them, but not the young man who tells them that he must desist from travelling amongst the people on account of the prevalence of so much self- importance and worldly conformity. Oh, sir, would you teach us — I am your superintendant, and you must know, that we have power by our law to drop your name in perfect silence. If he means to sti^ on, be must give up bis con- science to them, for they will not come forward face to face, and witnesses would not be accepted from him, were they brought forward before God or man. That he is 80 bound I know right well, for in this manner they treated me ; and they m M TfiUTB DEFENDED. never told me the cause, or wrote me the why or wherefore ; so they may think I am doad and in silence reposing. Do not imagine tliat I condemn all I find in thib book. Ijlo— by no means ; there are many good things in it. I will give an instance at pi^e 17 ; when examining the candidates for ordination the Li^" question is asked, "Will you be diligent to frame and fashion your own selves and families (if you should have any) according to the doctrines of Christ, and make both yourselves and them, as much as in you lies, both wholesome exam- ples and pattern^ to the flock of Christ ?" Now, this is excellent ; and Wesley, in union with God's word, forbids any useless trappings and the wearing of gold or costly array. Now let us bring the new-fashioned Methodists of our day, and compare them with the above directions. Why, they are directly opposite in their practices, for we see some of these head pr< achers and their wives wearing their gold watches and chains ; — and hear them talk about their beloved Methodism ! They have not yet adopted, to my knowledge, the rose bushes about their faces ; but '^e^ne of them have got a good many bows of ribbons to ^decorate their heads. Wl this, it appears to me, is saying to God that the finish ihe put on his handiwork is not to be compared to their finish. Would not you think they wished to brif g God into debt to them for what they have done, and for having done J t ho weU ? I am thinking it would be well for you, when about to display yourte! in one of your finest fit outs, to enter your closet and ask God how much Lh /ved you for such superior work to his. I have seen some pv to call them my brethren, and sisters, and mother. Not for Queen Victoria s throne would I do it antil then. I come now to prove the above from Grindrod, page 15, where he says in the year 1836: "The Conference, after mature deliberation, resolved that the preachers who are to be this year publicly admitted into full connection, should be ordained by imposition of hands; that this shall be our standing rule in future years, and that any rule of a contrary nature, which may be in existence, shall be, and is hereby rescinded." So we see, that any other rule whic^i kept them, in the eyes of the world, beneath the mother and her daughters, hfA been borne with long enough ; but Mr. Wesley, and the preachers of his day, surely thought they neither dishonoured God, nor deprived che people of a blessing, by the want of that particular mode or form. Christ never ordained his disciples by the laying on of hands. No ; but he infuhed and baptized them with his Spirit, and then the command was " Go," and the theme they were to dwell on — " the king- dom of heaven is at hand." God never gave a command to ordain by the impo- sition of hands ; but it became a usage in the days of the apostles to take the objecta of their acceptance by the hand, raising them up ; also at other times to approve of the people's state and standing in grac« ; and at other times to I m 88 TRUTH DEFKNDBP. signify their approval of fcUow-labourers in tho Lord, and true yokefellows in the harness and under the banner of Christ. Was there any eflicacy in this usage ? It was but the true state of tho character ; and in spirit it tiiithfully presented its virtue, not for the mode's sake, but for His own name's sake and Ilis ov/ii faithfulness' sake. Oh ! how different was our Lord from those poor, narrow, contracted hearts, that would limit Him down to all their seltishncss. When the great Jehovah extends his bounty and benevolence unto every nation and kingdom and tongue, who come to him in heart-humility and truth, there is no respect of pereons. Then why do we see these head bodies prefer the usages of tnese disciples, mother and daughters, to the original Christ and Mr. Wesley ? I now come to the substance of the ordination — Grindrod nage 18 : — "Mayest thou receive the Holy Ghost, for the offices and work of a Christian minister, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands ; and be thou a faith- ful dispenser of the Word of God, and of his Holy Sacraments, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." I ask, what is the intention and desire of the mother and daughters' ordination ? Is it not to make the world and the ignorant, believe that they have the Holy Ghost to give to those they approve of ? If any other would diflfer from this mode, or were others to prac- tise the same mode without it coming through them so that they might get all the honour and glory, these others would be treated with contempt, and perhaps be anathematized and cursed. It appears that it was human nature in Christ's disciples when they forbade a man to cast out devils in their name, because ho was not of their party. The divine nature is the opposite from this. We prove first that Christ was no fleshly party man ; second, that Jesus' name is efficacious to all who use it faithfully and humbly ; and third, we prove that his disciples' conduct was not the statute for Christ, neither are Christ's usages to be under- valued and cast away, and the apostles' customs preferred and exalted ; and as God has not commanded any specific mode or form of manual process to be 'observed, let us exercise patience, and accept of any form when spirit and truth are accepted with our spiritual God. But it appears that there are many who imagine they can impose on God, by substituting modes, and forms, and figleaf trumpery, for spiritual union ; and never suppose that God has only one mode outwardly, and inwardly humility ; and so the mother performed to the letter the external and neglected the internal. Will God accept of her ? Surely not. Do you think that God will accept of your body and bones instead of the soul ? No. You may go and count kindred witd the cold earth — your own nature — it will receive you. But God's nature could not receive you, until yon submit to the yoke, be trained in the harness, and the poison — the devil's pride wine — that runs through the veins of your spiritual system, thoroughly extracted. Now, let us investigate this subject, and try you by it. First, they tell us, that it was the apostles' holy hands applied to the sick that restored them. Second, they tell us that their holy hands convey the Holy Ghost in ordination services. Third, they tell us their holy hands confirm their people in the gospel. See the idolatry and superstition of the mother. God gives h:s Holy Spirit to them that ask him. But hear the mother and her progeny in effect saying — " You are a liai", Jesus Christ; it is only conveyed by our holy hands." Now the substance is, the disciples belonged to God 'both soul and body, who sent them forth to preach the word, the Lord working with them and confirming the word. But they say, " No ; you are a liar. Lord — it was our holy hands." Do you suppose it was the aprons coming from Paul's body that effected the cure ? No ; but it was God, in all, and over all, and through Paul and the aprons, who conveyed the balm in Gilead, to shew thnt he ^ould make use of the most trivial tiling ^even i handk( and br virtud the api Paul m good tl When; temple, shell-toi virtue o Ghost w occasion upon th( that thet as we." ^oly wat that ask : will be af goinjf ab( tion, and prayer, ar this fitnesi might the are they t« this wicke( these sam( inconsisten too filthy i to be the g and here n Christ and complexion opposed to and his age through mc while at tht Oh, when w worid, and i supremacy! have a man to give it to living man's ^ind up the that you ma Ghost to hin 'othe summi "'ill now 8ur( umself, the 'ssential. N leanest of hi( ■lollege at Fre( ^bstance ? TRUTH DFAKNDKD. B 111 this 'ully and )Oor, ncss. ation rutli, >refer t and [ayest Ulster, faith- iine of n and world ,e they o prac- gei aU )erhaps Christ's ause he ^e prove icacious lisciples' J under- ; and as iss to be nd truth my who Id figleaf je modfc [etterthe iot. Do ,ul? No. ■it wiU lit to the ^e — that Now, lat itwas [nd, they services. See the [,hem that , ou are a mbstance forth to [rd. But a suppose jo ; but it conveyed ial thing (even an apron) to heal. Yes, he is so liberal, that he giveth tc ' herd through handkerchiefs. But they attribute it to Paul's body, and then transubstantiate and bring over to their head body, and then boast of this body having all the virtue and the power. Well, abstract the power of God froni Paul's body and the apron, and what would there be left ? Nothing but a mass of corruption. Paul says respecting his flesh (separated from Go JV that in it " tberf dwells no good thing." Now, lift up your brazen faces, a . t igain tell God .le is a liar. When Peter and John said to the impotent man i the beautiful gate of the temple, " In the name of Jesus rise up "nd walk," it was not on account of the shell-tongue voice that strength entered into his ancle bones. No ; but the virtue of Jesus' name madt* him leap and walk. Now, I prove that the Holy Ghost was given without either baptism or laying on of hands Witness ou one occasion, wnen the apostles were preaching to the Gentiles, the H( ly dho^i fall upon the people. At another time the apostles said, " Who can foi'io i water that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we." Here our Lord lets them know that he does not depend upon their holy water or holy hands to convey hisi Spirit, but gives his ^lolj Spirit to them that ask him. Glory be to the Father ad the Son, who never war and never will be affected by the mother's st • shness I I have seen the priests jdA curates going about and gathering the ch. en together for the purpose of confimifl- tion, and the only fitness required of them was, to learn tne creed, the Lord's prayer, and the ten commandments, and to answer out of the catechism. Ail this fitness is superficial, and not one jot or tittl# required of the heart. Well might they say that they were confirmed in their sins. Oh how inconsiateat are they to bind down these poor souls to renounce the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and they themselves to banquet and feed thei: lusts upon these same pomps and vanities. And this is binding and loosing. . vnother inconsistency is, allowing the curate to preach and baptize, but his hands are too filthy to confirm. Now, there is a command to preach, and Paul proves it to be the greatest in the ministry; and there is another command to ba' ze, and here mother and daugiiters declare that a common usage is gre i!"' uiian Christ and his commands. We never can be mistaken in the counteii- tce aad complexion of both mother and daughters, for they always take tbe cuurse opposed to the divine commands. There can be no better system foi the devil and his agents to adopt, than to persuade the people to believe that passing through modes, and forms, and means, would make them the children o^ God ; while at the same time the devil rejoices to have them as his own dear eons. Oh, when will we get rid of these christian juggernauts, driving thiv igh the I world, and crushing the people to death beneath the wheels of their ii"^odly supremacy! Now, ye head body Methodists, how foolish, how inconsisr.ut, to have a man working without the Spirit. Would it not be wiser to make a law jto give it to him at the beginning, than send a dead man for four years to do a [living man's work ? For I have a right to infer froni your practices thxt you jbind up the man not to ask for God's Spirit until the four years are exj^^ired, [that you may have the honour, by yo'ir holy hands, of conveying the Holy iGhost to him to fit hira for the Christian ministry. Now you have been raised othe summit of your ambition. This poor man is bound no more ; and you nil now surely give to God the liberty to fellow his own mode — to honour Wmself, the word, and the Spirit, without intruding your fleshly h.mh as an Essential. Now, when I take a view of the Pope at the head, c^ - i to the. leanest of his subjects, and from the head manufactory at Mnyii-joti- to theu lollege at Fredericton, and all the rest included, I asl: what is their i.aiu'' Mid ubatance ? To mo it appears that if any would speak against the foi'^tain from- 00 TBtrril DEFlOfDED. whence they Hprinff, and the rock on which ihey reat, tlie universal cry would be, would you let them live and die in ignorance. I confess that they have the wisdom of this world, that comes to naught ; but the wisdom that is from above they are too worldly to be posscsbed of. Witit respect to the knowledge of God, the best kind o^ knowledge, it is only 1 i.i«.d in thu ttchool of Christ's humility; and those ijeing tramed in the opf >8ite, the proud school of the world, it would be impossible they '^ jiild kno\ the deep things of Giod, since he does not comraane with the proud ; and for carnally-wise men to understand the deep things of the Spirit, is impossible, for (xod has said that to them this wisdom is foolishness. They cannot undorHtand ; though to hear them talk ,it would lead you to imagine they knew everything. It is their nature to make little of the poor ; and if he would speak ot the love of God, and of the religion he knows, they are ready to hush him down, intimating that Qod would not give it to hun without acquainting their superior wistiom of it ; and they would philosophise his nature, and quality, and quantity. The apostle lost no time in philosophising the gospel to the jailer, a heathen, who believed in a minnto, ana was saved in the same space of time. This is like God — doing work in the twinkling of an eye, and not waiting on your machinery in darkening counsel with words. Again, they manifest their nature, by mimicking and laughing at all those, no matter what good they accomplish, who do not speak grammati- cally or elegantly like themselves ; and the gods and goddesses of the day join in the sneer, and tinkle in their ears, you are the scholars — you are the learned men ! and thus fill up their veAls witn pride, shadows, and sounds ; and though they would be contradicting God, yet the world would justify them for consis tency, when they kept their Diana from being eclipsed. Another trait in their character is, to destroy God's sovereignty, and overthrow his Scripture ; and never let a poor man attempt to preach the Gospel again, for these learned folk declare, that another race of illiterate fis'ajirfien and tinkers shall never come on their premises again, for tliey say — v'«i L ive accepted the transfer, and the world and its glories are now ou"', v / ) e. pc or and illiterate prepare yourselves for the sheepskins and goatskins, and tiir> dens and caves, and hide your souls in the clefts of the rocks. The root of all evil is money ; but these gentry must have money from first to last. " Give, give, give, we want it, and must have it — we are waiting to receive it." Oh, how willing they are to forget the words of Him who said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." They are sure to have no blessings on that ground. If this is not their nature and substance I beg to be better informed. Until this selfish and self-righteous race of robbers, that robs God of his glory, is swept away from the earth, or is thoroughly reformed, we never can have a pure ministry. Let us now notice the effects produced by these proud fountains and streams running through the world. First, I read in the discussion of Carrichcumshaum, when they were selecting ministers for the discussion, there was a Presbyterian appointed ; but the old fountain (the mother) gushed out her contempt upon him for his inferiority — (not a word about the oil and grace of the Spirit) — and he was dismissed because ne did not get virtue from their superior fountain — their holy hands. It seems she willingly acknowledged her eldest daughter. I once knew a Church of England minister who would not preach where a Presbyterian minister and myself held meetings, owing to his superior ordination ; while no doubt the Presbyterians think their ordination is best. There is no difference in respect of mode in the sight of God, if only the true Christian character is there. I do confess there is less superstition about the Presbyterian mode ; but their college anointing ointment makes up for all. Their superiority in this respect in their oisn estimation is very great; and they look down upon all leaders and local prcacl minisj niemb lins! i dices y let us 1 and of many such a theins( in a pc to let 1 They a it is rij of watt head, b b«caus€ them U. way to incrcasi the way quantity and Hor to use h' slowly, ] blinded everythii tradictini profit ha ITiey an Bridget, Calviij, a tullian, a going to Abrahan never in never let without 3 through ' grant all inherent they owe but those ye still CO think tha fiddle it o superiors. God who forgiven ft their head stilV Ift will secuTi tongue pa THUTll ULCFENDiSl'. 91 ry would have the om above (fledge of [ Christ'B ol of the , since he nderetand them this em talk ,it to make tie religion would not hey would it no time 1 a minutfi, vork in thu ng counsel aughing at grammati- he day join the learned and though I for consis- rait in theiv ipture; and learned folk lever come er, and the 5 yourselves rour souls in gentry must nust nave it ;t the words ley are sure id substance e of robbers, thoroughly the effects the world, re selecting but the old nferiority— ssed because , It seems Church of ninister and doubt the CO in respect there. I do their college pect in their irs and local preachers, who, i;f'.ey say, do not understand what they themselves speak. One minister, in alluiiM^ to me, said that I was not to bo compared to a common member of the congregations at homo. Much good may tliat do you, John Col- lins! amen. Uh, ye colleges, if you have nothmg better than bigoted preju- dices with whic;li to enlighten our world, keep your lovers to yourselves, and let us hear them no more ; they are of their father the devil, for they do his works, and of the world their mother, at whose shrine they bow, and thank her for the many valuable gifts and honours she bestows on them. God would never beget such a progeny, much less brin^^ them forth. These college meu can only enjoy themselves in the dark, where they can pass lies for truth, and darkness ft rligrht, in a poor fleshly benighted world. Our Buptist friends are getting ^^ >^sal8o, to let Maynootli know that she will be an adopted daughter under : ne. They are now saying — we will train up our students to prejudid roTd it is right ; and whether it is right or wrong, wo must prove thi Hty of water is the great essential in baptism, and that unless you ai r, head, body, and bones, we cannot partake wivu y^u, for you an e, because your sins are not washed away in the holy water ; and v ich them to proclaim that this is the way, and tne only way, and there is no other way to be saved. Oh, Jo you not hear this daughter say, our armies are increasing, the Son is no more the way, we have killed him and put him out of the way, that the inheritance may be ours; and we will further teach, that this quantity of water is greater than grace, or faith, and greater than Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Now, .nother Maynooth, the Father is dismissed, but we intend to use him as a cloak, :he way that you do. I think I hear the Mother whisper slowly. You are a WvVil thriven daughter for your tirae^ Oh, how Satan has blinded and beguiled them, and has led them to substitute anything or everything to take the place of God and his grace. I charge them with con- tradicting Christ, and they may charge me with contradicting their ideas. What profit have they gained these many yeai-s, with their " think so and say so." They are still of the old mother church, and boast of their St. Patrick, and St. Bridget, and the blessed relics of Harry Laverty's dead bones, and the immortal Calvin, and Luther, Knox, Wesley, Newton, Watson, and our immortal Ter- tullian, and our true baptized church, &c. Hush, hush, says the Jew, are you going to rifle us of our glory. Now hear the tiieshpots boasting, for we have Abr^am to our father, and we are the firat and before any of tnem, and were never in bondage to any ; and we were circumcised in the flesh, but we will never let on about the circumcision of the heart, but will publish abroad, that without you are circmncised you cannot be saved. So when they get the flesh through its process they arc sure of salvation, if their " think so" is true. Now, grant all the saints to be good and gracious, I ask had they all this goodness inherent in themselves? No; all the goodness they ever had, or ever can have, they owe it to Christ ; and angels and prophets asked no honours fro:j3 men, but those honours that come from God alone. And oh, ye race of robbers, will ye still cont" ue to worship the brazen serpent instead of Christ. One would think that the devil had resined the bow of the flesh, that it matters not what fiddle it operates upon, it is always the same tune it plays — me and us, and our superiors. I would ask this " mo and us" party, do you know the immortal God who died for you ? and do you feel his love in your hearts, and your sins forgiven for his name's sake? This they can not and will not answer, but hang their heads and become dumb dogs, and all their silver trumpet breezes are stiP , If these men can get shadows imposed upon the people for substance they will secure themselves. But when the people will take no moreof their shell- tongue painting without living and bearing fruitfiiL holiness, then, and„not till ■Si. ^'1 IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 Uilli 12.5 (^ Uii 122 2.0 14.0 IL25 HI 1.4 f / ^^/ Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WfST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14S80 (716) 873-4503 .<*-. 1^ \ \ '1^ ;\ :V^ ;?^'" ^■Pfi' 92 TRUTH DBFEMO£D. then will religion revive, for it seoms men can say anything to please others, and profit themselves. I will now bring before you one example, that is, the rich man and his purple flames, for his own evidence is, I am tormented in this flame. He counted kindred with circumcised Abraham^ and Abraham counted kindred with him. but it was pertaining to the flesh, that profiteth nothing. He said, Father Abraham, and Abraham said, son^ thou m thy lifetime had thy good things ; and ho did not say liis son was damned for anything criminal, either lying or blasphemy, and he was not charged with not being circumcised, no, nor for want of charity to the flesh in Lazurus' body ; no, but his lifetime was fiUed with good things, as if he had said, I taught you to love God with all your heart, and tihe good God of heaven you have slighted, and the good things of the God of this worid you have preferred, and if bread to the peofdet'a&d the 04 'rnntf! dtpmndko. bread aiKi inc to themselves, and tliat not more unjust than to judge a man without H hearing, for the one declares vre have all knowledge, and are infalli- l)le and the other speakn the same ; tor they sav, and you may receive it, other- wise walk about your business; and neither leader nor local preacher will be allowed to represent themselves or their churches in th«ir houi?es, but as they think and say, for we have no consciences, but must give them up to them, and sNvallow all down they give us. From the above we see that all that the devil can tender to them, the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, they have an appetite for ; and it is no more Matthew Langtree and John Arm- strong, but the Reverend Bachelor, and Master of Arts, and Doctor of Divinity, and Supreme. And here I behold a laced decked up daughter of tha ^ady, yes, I think she is determined to be up with the first daughter, and I must tell you, I would not take all the world, and be ordained by anj of your Methodists, and I would as soon go to the Pope of Rome for ordination, as to your idolatrous superstition. And here first and last, the essential is your holy hands, greater than the word, just like the Baptists, the essential with them is the quantity of water, (sand is the foundation) but not of Jesus*s word, but they think so, and say so ; and since Methodinn has risen to be a daughter, we now prove her by her nature, and the Church of England almost persecuted the Methodists at the time, because they would presume to administer the ordinance, and the Metho- would how persecute a local preacher if he administers the ordinances in obe- dience to the Lord's command. I was saying before a Methodist minister, that the man who' preached should administer the ordinances, and he said to me, yon will never get it. See how the church will respect the Methodist, who gives them the praise and honor, and the Methodist will expect and receive the traits of their labor, and the income from their pockets, and also give them the honors venerable, reverend and supreme. These will be called good brothers, but John in the wilderness of Ncw-Branswick, that proclaims. Behold ! behold! the lamb, and that it is as unlawful for them to lie down in whoredom with the world to satiate their lusts on her beverages, yes, as unlawful as it was for F'' ^ to have his brother Philip's wife ; and because John would say that, he bar ied himself to the mother and daughters, to behead him, at all events, thej' ^ave blotted out poor John's name out of the book of life — as far as they are capable of BO doing ; and poor John's name is no more acknowledged among the local preachers, not but what some of them think John is a good man, and that there is nothing criminal in him, but he is too plain and particuhr, and he is a little eccentric too, and he is illiterate, and very ignorant, and knows nothing, and he is a Solitary individual, and can do nothing to affect us. He u a mere babbler to think and speak a word against our supremacy, that has been so long abiding. But John is gone, and he toows imd believes what Jesus said to his disdples, withotiit me ye could do nothing, but with Christ strengthening me, I can do all thinffs. Yes, for. if God was pleased he could make me take the worid with- out applying to you for one of your lamps of greater wisdom or fanatic strength, and abstractedly from him I could not turn a straw to any effect in hi^ vine- yard ; but John is cast out, and his record is something like the blind man's record in the ninth chapter of Saint John's Gospel, where Jesus made clay and commanded him to use the means to wash it ofi^, and by faith and obedience Christ became histrae light; but the scribes and pharisees and learned sages of that day got offended with any that came on their premises, and esi>ecially ag^nst those that would do good to any one and not give them the praise and ^01^. And in consequence of that they made a law,uiat if any should confess Chnst, they should be put out of the synagogue, so they brought the blind man up, and examined him and re-examineid him, and he proved a trae witness for TKUTU DKl'kNDIiD. 99 e A man infalli- t, other- r will be as they icm, and ;he devil an, they in Arm- Divinity, ady, yea, tell you, lists, and iolatrouB J, greater lantity of k so, and ve her by ists at the le Metho- >8 in obe- ister, that id to me, jyho gives the fmits tie honors but John the lamb, > world to Fr ^ to IF ^ed they ^ave re capable ; the local that there > is a little Qg, and he re babbler ig abidingi disdples, , I can do orid with- c strength, 1 hi^ vine- lind man's e clay and obedience ed s(^;e8 of especially praise and aid confess blind man witness fur Jesus. And God makes use of the poor blind man, to take the wise and' the scribes in their own craftiness, (God is no liar), and they were so confounded that they made liars of themselves, for in one place they say, give God the praise. Oh, what hypocrisy to set God as a cloak, for they want it all to them- selves. In verse 24 they say, we Know that this man is a sinner, and in verse 29 they say as for this fellow wo know not whence he is ; so that this contradiction iu tiieir evidence proves their case is lost. Oh how wise those learned men were for they say that Jesus was a sinner, when God says that his Son Jesus was not so, but they would think themselves wiser than God. Oh true patriotic sons of your father the devil, but they could not cast him out by the laws of God, but making laws of their own, (the statute), they cast the poor man out, not for anything criminal, but for supporting Jesus ; and I am dismissed on the same ground, but like him, Jesus has taken me up. And oh ye mothers and daugh- ters take notice of vel^e <39, "" He came that those that see not might see, and those that see, may be made blind.'* Oh admirable knowledge : the very ground they take, and boast of their wisdom and understanding, is the very srround on which God proves their blindness and ignorance and sin remaining. On what are all your shell tongues. Oh think that a child brought to light yesterday, confounds them with Jesus the true light : so you see human nature is the same in evenr age, and is now what it was then, and the bramble bush fruii the same — now it is come to this. It is no matter what John Collins, or any other man says, Christ must be a fool to you learned men filled with sell^ but if the devil can get you to believe you are wise above God's laws ; it is then he is sure of you ; but some would say, do not be too severe, (tell Jesus that^, but no doubt you would like a little of the devil's mercy, which would not bnng you to tlie light, but cloak and cover you over, and let you rest and slumber on the downy pil- low of your self-importance ; and why should you be offended with Jesus for telling you the truth, and me because I ^^ear witness to the truth and the way. If you discover your idol, go to God for grace and strength to give it up, and you will feel your heart say, thank you. Lord ! But if your deep-rooted preju- dice binds you to your idol, you would feel embittered against them that would touch it ; but calm thy spirit, and on your knees, brinff your conscience before your humble-loving Lord, and tell him you ^ant tolcnow nothing but trutli (Jesus), and ask him to destroy all your pi'ejudice and selfishness,, and to give you that grace and love, that will support in life, in death, and on the morning of the resurrection ; and anything short of this is not worth having. Again, I must say, I never like these bye-ways, and half-ways, and sideways, like Saul, who would only obey God by slaying the poor kine, and disobey Go^J by spar- ing the &t kine. Oh human nature that would indulge in lust and beauty, and disown God ; David went the whole way, and he mlly obeyed, and got, and deserved the appellation of a man after God's own heart; and God is no respecter of persons, no more was David, for he did not respect, the beautiful fat kine more than the poor kine, for he tdew them all. Oh let us beware of beautiifttl greatness in scenery, for here our human nature is more liable to be deceived, and before we know it we are beguiled by the high flesh, and flesh palate taste. Surely you will not chaise me for being like Saql, for surely you will know by this time, that I did not spare the laige and &t kine : no doubt some of you will say, yon have spoken and spared not, and may God give it efficacy. I nave iBometimes applied th<^ rod to my neighbours' children, to save them from evil, but I always give the most to my own ; let other denominations accept of this small test of my affection, but let Methodism accept, of the abundance. I knpw the more fleshly I am, I feel such things the more, and the more pure spiritnal I am, I feci it the least. Like dying S^phen, when he got a glance of the spiri- 06 TltUTH DKVKNDHI). tual world, he was not angry tvith them who made the flesh fly oflf his bones. No doubt he know he would never get to heaven with it, and finding it was sh&ckling and confining his spirit below, and altliough the flesh shrinks and complains, his spirit might well sav. Beat on I beat on ! and let my pnre spirit say. Lord Jvsus receive my spirit. Ivfow he is more free from the flesh than ever, and more dead to its interest and gloir than ever. Now we soie the religion of Stephen is that which fits hr death and judgment, and it is love to God above all creation, above all maxims and fashions; above all gold and silver, and to use them according to his willj and above self-raiment, gorgeous rich^ and self- apparel ; above youf cathedrals, or painted doll spires, otherwise fine eye ban- quets ; above father, mother, houses, lands, and children, and the riehest gem of ail, his own life. And this was the religion and supreme love of Stephen, and we will allow Stephen, by tlie eye of &ith, to behold his Jesus standing on the right hand, and long to how before Him, and tell us of his beauty, loveliness, and perfection, as* well as thetworldling boasting of their material, their fine compofiition, quality and quantity, and their great and valuable services : and here we discover what side we are of. Now let us bring this matter before the Judge of quick and dead. NoV b^old the heaVens opened^ and Jesus and his apostles aiid the thousands waiting. The tmmpet proclaims, ^ Arise ye dead and come to judgment." The sea yields up its charge, and the earth throws off the bodies deposited in it ; and the judgment is set, and Jesus on the throne (uotof iiiercy,but of juiMi judgment), and Abraham, and Moses, and Aaron, and their seed, to be the witnesses of their dispensation, and the apostles, and angels, who have waited apd attended, as they were commissioned, as ministering spirits. Let us take up the mother and her daughters collectively, and make some applica- ti^to get your fiesh-pot sustenance from we earth. The first witness 'called-— Patd, did I ever send you to a college to learn tho enticing words of man's wisdom ! No, says Paul, it was the opposite, in thQ demonstration of the spirit and power ! And Paul are you not a forther witnebs for me f Yes 1 ' in ,1 Cor.^ 1 3 oh. <' Though I speak with the tongues of men and angek," Ac^ and I Paul witness, t^at thou Lord art not dependent on great swelling words ; and Paul says, '* Though I speak with more tongues i^n tibem all, lam no'thing^^ T^e Judge i^probates Paul, and says, "Eioa hast been a faitiiful witness, PmiI, and I stiU approve of the ram's horns to con- vey my truth, in preference to ike silver trumpets ; amd I should be changeable and inconsistent with myself^ if I would not prefer them, to shew that me ex- cellency is of Christ and his sovereign choice, and hot of man. Well may the Jttdge stWy I deny you, for you hare neither t^e character of me nor of my dis- ciples. Pisnl, did 1 send you to birihl chapels or churches, and none but yon U> preach in them. Paul answers no! Did I ever command you to use holy wioids, to make holy chapel and church yards,, to deposit your holy flesh-pots TEUTH DEFENDED. 97 s bones. ^ it was iks and *e spirit an ever, ligion of ,bove all ■, and to Bind self- jye ban- b gem of tien, and g on the veliness, heir fine sea : and ofore the i and hi» dead and j$ off the le (ootof leir seed> irhohave its. Let > ap][dica- rldly wis- I, now ye colleges ? any one his day; ;n Judge id at this f my dis- i but you use holy flesh-pots in ? Witness, No ! Paul, did 1 ever command you by words, to make mo body, soul, and divinity, and then carnally to eat me up ? No ! my Lord, wo never got such a command from thee, nor did we ever think of the mere words of man, to make an eternal and divine Qod. The Judge may well say, I chose thee for this purpose, and thou art a true witness for me, for I sent you to the whole world to preach, not youreelf but me, and the kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy, to bo at hand, and to enter in it. But this lying race seems to suggest that they could not get it, except in the pale of their noly walls, and also intimates that the greatest servant of the devil, dying in his sins, but being buried in their holy ground, gives him his passport to a sure and certain liope of a glorious resurrection. A thought just now strikes me, p appose they would happen to bury below the consecrated soil, will the preamble of words from this consecrated man make an atonement for the want of the C0L>:'>crated soil, and bring a glorious resurrection, or has he consecrated it to the opposite side of the globe. Oh what a wonderiful amount of abominable superstition and idolatry, and domestic heathen paganism — will I say, christian deviltry. Yes Paul. Let the sea shores, and the streets, and the lanes of the city of Samaria witness, and the little churches in the dwelling houses, where they received peace and joy ; and I the Judge bear witness to the mountain top, and you Paul on Mar's hill, where the smallest child may explain its spiritual language, crying, hosanna with him who was less than least of all samts. I hear the Judge proclaim you do not belong to me, nor are you the successors of the apostles, and my law book tells me, you belong to the synagogue of Satan, and my sentence from the throne is, to you belongs the greater damna- tion. And ye popes and cardinals, priests and false prophets, and hypocritical sleight-of-hand men made ministers, you stand indicted for wearing broad bor- ders on your garments, and gowns, and bands, and your unlawful coveting and receiving money, and now Apostles, they say they are your successors, so bear a faithful testimony. Wherein did I allow you to wear broad phylacteries, or gowns, or bands. But the pope replies, oh my Lord, had not you a garment woven from the top throughout, and I wear it, and allow my priests to wear bands and gowns in venerable respect for you. Peter come forth as a witness. Did I give you my gown to wear, and did I allow you to enjoin on your suc- cessors to wear such garments in memory of me ? No 1 my Lord, but thou commanded us not to encumber ourselves with two coats in that warm country, but I never received a command to adorn my person, nor to leave such a com- mand to those that should come after me ; and thou knowest that, after thy resurrectioif, thou stood on the shore, when I girt my fisher's coat to me, and I believe thou seest it best that we should not have money by us, lest we should sit down in ease and sottishness, and sackcloth became us best, for soft clothing would not suit us in our camps on the sea shore. The Judge says to Peter, thou art a faithful witness. Paul did you get my garment ? No ! my Lord, but the scribes, pharisees, and lawyers, and the high priests cast lots for it, and murdered thee, and persecuted thy disciples ; and thou knowest 'veil that hun- ger and nakedness abide with me unto this day, but thou gave me health and strength to work at my craft, to administer to my necessities, and was not bur- densome to any. I was no loafer. And at other times the free contributions of the poor churches helped mo on my journey, for we, thy disciples, never for- justice, tola you cannot be brought or heard in this court of justice, although it may pass with the men to make laws to deprive the poor of the ordinances of the Gospel until they / came forward and gave evidence that they were not able to pay their pew rents ; and who authoiised a Methodist minister to deny a poor man his ticket because ho would not put his name down for two shillings, the man saying he i would give it if ho could, but that would not do — so the poor man got no ticket. '/ I have this from his own lips, and from two other witnesses : I was in his cabin, ' where there was neither bedstead or chair. And who authorized a bishop to forbid his curate to baptize a man's child unless a quintal of fish, amounting to about sixteen shillings were given him ; and these are holy hands to make holy walls and holy ground as they say — and these men confirm adults in doctrines i which they themselves know nothing about, that is holiness of heart and life, > and some goes as far as holy water and holy spittle. The Judge says, I never s allowed my disciples nor you to covet from the people, and your acts declare'> that you did so. Now Peter and the rest of the Apostles bear witness. Did/ 1 ever allow you, Peter, to turn the keys to bind so many thousands to yourself'* and so many hundreds to Matthew and Mark, and so many thousands to Luke/' and John, and so many fifties to Thomas and Bartholomew, &c. ; and these ' men have so much love for mo and thee, that they are following up thy pre- ' cepts in succession. Peter witness — my Lord thou knowest that they neither i love me nor thee, it is that they are cloaking and covering their hypocrisy.-' Now my Lord, try them by their own statute, by which thou triest the riehl man of old. If you intend to be my disciple go and sell all that thou hast and>i give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come follow meff by faith, and trust me for my grace ; now give up your thousands a yeap and follow me, I never deceived any — I had not where to lay my head. Now test your faith : let all go and trust on nothing but me, and I give you tay^(fi{ for security. I am Almighty, all sufficient, and the bishop who rejects this secu- rity, and will not be as his Lord, declares he loves his hundreds and thoupfT'ida more than thee, Lord, and thou hast said, they are not worthy of thee, thei. c "p ^ they are contrary to thy will, neither are they thy servants, when they- disobi y i thee. Yes, Lord, and when my flesh wanted to know how much I wanted to* have, my witness is, that thou never engaged not so much as one pound per annum, but left me to live and draw from thy all sufficiency, and Abraham bears witness that thou art all-sufficient, and Paul declares thy grace is snffi> • cient. Oh hear the Judge's approbatory sentence — the battle is fought, the'i victory won, enter into thy Master's joy, for thou sufl:ered the loss of all thinjp i lor me ; and Peter witnesses, thou Lord never taught us necessity on thia^. ground, but the opposite, freely ye have received, freely give ; and it nevef u cost this race of men one shilling for their qualification, and the imperative la^ i from the giver is, to dispense his ordinances to his people freely, and leave con» ; sequences to the giver of the commandments^ We do not belong 'to> the<' earthly college god firai, who make merchandize of thy people, those titheit men, and those that go to the world, and of necessity enforce their dues from k the people. If they ever belonged to us, they have left us like Judas, and found the tithe tribe that took !hee and thy garments, and use it for a cloak to cover their knavery and craft, and sleight of hand« And we thy disciples further declare and witness against those coveteous and self righteous oppressors of the poor. The Judge says, my prayer is answered, ye faithful disciples, ye are one, as the father and I are one, and thou art true witnesses', and as thesetit men, in union with the worl(' and the devil, had their day of shewing their 1 100 THUrn DKFKNDKD. laws and appljinff them by neceuity and high-handed power; now I as judge proclaim this to Be my day, for their probation is ended, and I now proclaim from the throne of righteousness. Woe unto you scribes, hypocrites, and law- yers, who have mystified the way, that the poor cannot see it, let alone enter m, therefore to these belong the greater damnation. Oh hear yo my little ones. First. I warn you not to be partakers of other men's sins. Second, Have no fellowship with the unfruitfiil works of darkness. Third, Stand not in their way, and take no counsel with such. Fourth, Do not bid them God speed, for he that biddeth them God speed is a partaker of their evil deeds. (Second Epistle of St. John.) Oh ye survivors, who have not the sentence of death passed upon you, but as sure as the Judge has warned you, so sure shall you fall with those blind leaders, who proclaim, lo here is Christ, lo there I am, Rev. such an one, I am Bachelor such an one, and D. D., &c. Oh what an amonnt of worldly dust arises to mystify their senses, and to eclipse the sun of righteousness. And would you dare to say, lo here is Christ and the apostles' distinguishing honors. Oh be honest and tell the truth, for they are from the world and your father the devil, as a boon for your kind compliance with them. To give fifty pounds to a curate, because he is poor and does the work, but you give hundreds for half the work, and thousands to those whom our Lord calls ravening wolves. Why heathenism, everything consider- ed, is not to be compared to such deviltry. Lo here is Christ : you are not to intrude on my parish, for you are illiterate, and cannot put. yourself on a par with me, when you have not received the bishop's hands blessing. But these blind guides do not see Christ's inscription, and that grace which constrains them to go without fee or reward, and leave consequences with him who com- mands. jBut they in effect say, that is not Christ, but lo here is Christ, and our bishop's hands are greater than the love of Christ, and the command, go to the world, and preach. Again Mr. — proclaimed, lo here is Christ, woe unto you poor il(|^rate leaders and local preachers, nor do any others know what they say. Now suppose this were true, would the world take us to legislate, no ; and we understand God never allowed man to legislate for him, for he is sclf- existont and independent, and when the disciples began to legislate and teach him, he brought them to their place, which was to submit and obey the mandates from his throne, and proclaim them as from the throne and not from them- selves. And he must be an uncommon blind goat to make such an application to those who hitye neither office nor power to legislate, and he must be doubly blind when he did not see himself (uie legislator) the very opposite to Christ, to whom the woes of God belong; and yet in his popish majesty he proclaims, here is Christ, and the poor dupes bow at his shriue. Oh ye poor and illiterate, five. us half words and broken sentences, with truth embodied, rather than ^wery shell tongue oratory, when lies are the substance. Another says, lo here is Chnst, that never calls any to preach who are poor and illiterate, but exults the college taught me. Oh poor fellow, he has not so learned Christ, or he would n^ be in this dark world'a metroj^lis. Another says, lo here is Christ, that is, our community must have it, otherwise the best interest of the commu- nity will be lost, for men of inferior education will presume, he did not know what, ^c. Oh how he answers to that old provero, '* There is nothing like leather." Now the best interests of every man, is his soul's interests, and this gentleman, in effect, says, that his education and teaching is far preferable to we teachingof Christ's holy anointing oil ; but Christ tells us we need no other teaching. Hese is a flat contradiction, but to reconcile them, Christ is alone in his spiritual grace and kingdom ; but the opposite belongs to the kingdom below, and the best interest there is the flesh, and I leave bun consistent with his owi out yoi of tnes( " r^jt hi fully b the sen he is CO be accu commifli him. ( cursed, of heavi abode is and at tl Christ'* people tl a race ol in pervei and do b hell, and per, and that wor] prophets, night ; it it an eas) they are ( and curee now, and or low mi rized you I deny th ness, and that I tax bodies of to exchauj able with if we love( that the that they to settle t thy bar, o world the sermon th and we de contradict( been thy and fine so my Lord, t world's ba The Judg( i>ring then all self-rigl ail the wo€ TIUITII DKFl NDI.IK 101 tiifi own, for the world loves his own ; but never let um honr you Again belch out your lying contradictionH of Christ. Another geiitleinHn begging for one of these college manufactories said, who could understand this text, namely — " liot him bo anathema maranatha," unless he were a learned man. How aw- fully blind was ho, that he could not see the scripture explaining itself. But the scripture says, the God of this world hath blintfcfl their minds, and perhaps he is consistnnt, for those taught by the anointing oil and kept by it, can never be accursed, and of course they never can explain with him ; when the devils are commiAHioncd to lift the hatch and drag him down, and hold their iubilee over him. Oh hear him exclaim, 1 diower that [ling stone 3 men, that jus of Peter, lughtera. 1 •ow Christ's iy appetites; oa are more it, b© more [Sow assure RK Ciod JH iiiiclmngcjihly true, «o Hiiru Hhall thoBC popon, and p^i»•st^ and fulsn }»ronhetj«, utid men niit., &q. And oh my Lord, time would fail (me and us) to tell what we have done and prophecied in thy name, also the pains we took, and the trouble we gave our- selves to keep down the illiterate from presuming upon the premises and high functions of thine anointed ; and behold Loi-d, what our holy hands and our transubstantiating words have done for thee &c. &c. The Judge calls John from the isle of Patmos to witness. John did I ever respect or despise Churches for their name or place. No, my Lord, it was owing to their character whether they were accepted or despised ; and whether they had been faithful to thee or not : not by the creed or say so's of men, but for savoring of the things of men they were rejected ; and their doting age or youthful glee is no recommendation to thee. The Judge says, I accept your evidence that you never had any of the titles or honors of earth. Yes, my Lord, this is our evidence ; and this race of men do always take great pains to have the souls born of thee speechless ; and thy apostles witness Lord, that thou as a parent would rather have the children crying, and the lambs bleating, than have them dead and dumb, and the stones crying out. Yes Lord, and we remember what thou has taught us in Matt. xvi. 6 — 12, where thon has commanded us to beware of the leaven of the pharisees and sadducees. What are the say so's and commandsments of men, in compa- rison to the doctrines of Christ ; and we further witness, Lord, that we abode with thee, and never compromised with the world; and thou being our security we did not fear what man could do, with all their high handed tyranny, even to the loss of our lives for thy sake and the gospel's. Yes, my disciples, says the Lord, spiritual and eternal life is yours in heaven. Oh ye sinners, hear the Judge proclaim all your righteousness to be as filthy rags, and of all your gorgeous temples, which the devil has persuaded you to glory in more than in me, there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down. Oh behold at the word of the Judge, and listen to the crash of your flimsy fabrics — they lie in ruins. See the eyes running down in tears, and the shrieks of the lost, proclaiming all our glory is gone. Oh hear the Judge's sentence on the tongues : Though you speak vrith the tongues of men and angels, it will profit you nothing (abstractly from me). Oh hear the shell and sound tongues pro- claim — the devil has deceived us, for he bid us to eat of the tree of knowledge in the colleges, and that the humble spirit and grace of Christ would grow thereon, but he has deceived us, and substituted sound, show, and shadows, for humility and grace. Oh wretches that we are,wchave deceived others and are ourselves deceived. Oh m' :t this tongue for ever rattle in hell. The Judge now proclaims that there is no honor except that which cometh from above, from God only ; and ye honorable worldly selfish men, I never knew you, for none can be admitted to heaven but those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Oh hear this, ye who trust in the honors and titles of this world, and see ye to it, that ye lose not yourselves, and your names be not found in the Lai ab's Book of Life, and when ye find that it is not, ye begin to exclaim — my name is not there, I am undone forever. And ye Reverend D. D.'s exclaim — I am indeed D. D, dead and damned forever. Again thoJudge warns you and gives you your sentence, casts them into worse than midnight darkness for offending, and striving to stop the breath, and thereby murder these little ones of mine. Oh how the devil has beguiled us : we see it now, but oh it is too late ! it is too late I It is not whom man oommendeth — God is the Judge, and the Apostles may witness and say to these, will God pay you » compliment, to take you and your trumpery toys of this world into heaven. Oh hear the Judge commanding the devil and hi^ angels to take their own and they cify and who chan and witli come and heavj too to hi dowi glorii TRUTH DEFENDED. 107 ihear ., &c. J and ( ovir- l higli id our 1 from les for hether ihee or of men idation ^ of the race of 18 ; and ihildren B stones latt.xvi. harisees compa- abode security ', even to says the he Judge gorgeous me, there iwn. Oh fabrics— ks of the ce on the will profit igues pro- :nowledge uld grow adows, for rs and are ?he Judge om above, knew you, ten in the id titles of nes be not re begin to jverend D. thoJudge ti midnight by murder it now, but th_-God is pay you » ito neaven. their own l)ind thoni hand anil foot, and ?. them into outer darkness — there to weep and gnash their teeth. I now leav u you with the Judge, and again caution you to beware of say so's and think so's, and the me and us's of tlie devil, and all the machinery of deception in use to overthrow the Thxis saith the Lord. So you see that all our works, forms, modes and Ordinances are only useful to declare our profession and testify our faith, and all the virtue flows through God's mercy in Jesus Christ. Let us then remember that bodily exercise profiteth nothing, and let us not hear any more of a form and holy hands regenerating children, which God has done to Adam's seed by the gift of his Son, mdependent of your legislation and the honor ascribed to your holy hands and the quantity of water to regenerate those whom God through grace and truth has justified. Oh this self righteous Church must perish with me and us. The great evil among the ministers of the day is, that they exercise lordship over God's heritage, instead of being servants of the flock, as the apostles were, and as our blessed Lord taught liis disciples to be both by precept and example, which the word minister implies. No doubt these gentlemen would accept of the sound, but they seeia to be very ignorant, for it seems they never learned the practical grammar of the latter (a servant to the people) How ill instructed must those minds be who think they are above those whose servants they were sent to be — they have surely become intoxicated with the pride wine of the prince of the power of the air. An in- cident I will relate to prove or illustrate the above : my mother, suggested we (meaning herself and family) were better than the common people, owing to her having been distantly related to the kings of Scotland. Tes ! says she, me and mine have royal blood in our veins. But my father (good man) taught us the reverse — what God had taught him — viz. : that God nad made all flesh of one blood, and that all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man as the flower of the field, that fades and dies ; and tliat king Nebuchadnezzar's blood was not better than the poorest person in his realm. Again, he said he believed she belonged to Adam's family, the same as he did, and he could know no difference. Now suppose I had received my mother's instruction, the devil would have come in and filled me with his nature, and then have me belching up his pride wine (mo and us). Oh let us take heed unto the wholesome counsel of the father, and dread to follow the way the pride of the mother would lead us, for you may be sure her advice and counsel is not good, when she has left her spiritual hus- band, only using his name as a cloak, to lay down in adultery with the flesh, and its gratifying lusts ; and the daughters are surely not much better, when they deny the government of the father, for they say in effect we will not cru- cify the flesh, with its affections and lusts — and thus is the world supreme first and last. I was acquainted with a lady who was a true daughter of the mother, who seemed to be all flesh and the world, but she had received a spiritual change within her, and a stronger than the strong man took possession of her, and then ^e casts ofi' the useless trumpery that would divide or share her heart with God ; for her heart and acts said, away ye vain ostrich feathers, and floun- ces, rings, and lockets, pins, and broaches, and she never bowed herself to the world's fashions again. I wish that all popes, priests, and ministers would wrestle with all their hearts with God, and weep and pray, then God would come into their hearts and make his abode there, and then they would loathe and throw off this nauseous stuff from their stomach, and with this balm of heavenly love in their hearts, they would find that He pever gave a command too hard nor too harsh, but that his grace would enable them to obey— even to loss of life. And until the present race of ministers is swept away, or brought down by godly sorrow and repentance — we never can have t^ose millennium glories spoken of in the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, for it is contrary 108 TRUTH DETRNDBn. to the nature of the&e^roud men, to come down and let a little child lead them. Now I come to show God the Father's way of carrying on his work from first to last. First, in the Old Testament dispensation, witness Joshua vi., 6, how he preferred the rams' horns to the silver trumpets, and Joseph the despised to save the despisers. Again David's sling and stone, to show that he was not de- pendent on Saul's armour, to gain a victory. And the unchangeable God has selected such men in the new dispensation, and we admire the ^^ther's wisdom in revealing himself to babes. Again, when the disciples left the position and character of little children, and were overgrowing themselves, and becoming, as they thought, great and wise men, and beginning independently to legislate, which of them should be the greatest, Jesus did not seem to be pleased with them, as he admonished them and thanked the Father for them, and brought them to the statute of the Father and the Son — a little child. I now come to shew in what sense Christ's disciples and ministers should resemble little chil«> dren. First, the child is dependent on the parent's strength to support and sus- tain it. Second, It is dependent on the parent for its food. Third, It is de- pendent for its clothing. Fourth, for washing and cleansing. Fifth, For teach- mg, leading and guiding. At length they become so familiar with the voice of the parent that they will not know the voice of a stranger ; and if they should see or hear one, they run to the arms of the parent, and without timidity or fear, throw themselves on his bosom. Sixthly, The parent bestows all the afore- mentioned things out of pure love, and not on the principle of merit. Seventh, The more feeble, passive, and dependent the child, the more attention does he receive from the kind and loving parent. Eighthly, If the child falls and is be- smeared with mud, the parent takes it into his arms, washes the mud from the child, and that freely, charging nothing for its clean garments ; and although the parents' ears are often greeted with the pitiful cries of their children, yet they would rather have them crying than dumb. And I would look forward to uie promised glorious millenium, when the proud devouring lion shall be at peace with the timid lamb, and a little child shall lead them — when the strong shall bear with the infirmities of the weak, and all their wills be lost in their Father's will, and all their glory and interest centred in his government, sceptre, and kingdom. God's children do not depend on a knowledge of sounds and words, but on a knowledge far superior, viz., facts and experience ; and they would sooner doubt their own existence, than doubt their acceptance, when their humble passiveness and faith are presented to their Father's undying love which shall never be withdrawn. God's sovereignty was displayed in old times in destroying the great and the mighty by the h^^nds of a stnpling ; and in the Gospel dispensation, God commences with babes ; and in carrying on his work, he informs them that it is their duty to ask him respecting their titles, names, offices, and work, and also tells them that their greatness in his estimation consists in their servitude, toil, and labour, and endurance of hardship in his service. He does not require them to conquer in their own strength, for by His strength they shall crush even death, their last enemy, beneath their feet ; and to the end the glcrious Gospel promises shall shine forth in childlike innocency and sweet simplicity, for it is the unalterable decree of the revealed will of God. To His children God has given capacious minds, sound judgments, and noble principles : they advocate the truth as it is in Jesus, and their own experience proves the truth of God's promises. He can multiply the barrel of meal and cruse of oil, and can deliver from the paw of the lion and the bear, llieir experience begets hope ; and they believe that He who did deliver can deliver again — He who fed the five thousand with a few loaves and fishes, can, and if necessary will, do it s^j^ain ; and although the flock be taken f of theii refine a meet fc those o declare men in (surely shining unpolisl be no si the woi matter the devi fruit, wl Ishal preachei order ta who ha^ the itchi more thi — not in peace, p creeds, u of men t back froi and drin I will m( learning was also will tell ' blotteth i thorn in the stocli was ship catalogue stren^ Friends) the Metl they tell conferen are all pi I do mai to the sp in God's who ahal ofGodt< rid of all and Grac aright is take war circumsti to increa TRUTU D£Fl£KDfCD. lOQ them, iirstto lowhe led to lot de- od has riodom 3n and omin^, gislate, kI with wrought ome to ,le chil- ind 8U8- t is de- r teach- voice of should idity or 10 afore- >eventh, does he [idisbe- rom the blthough ren, yei forward all be at le strong in their , sceptre, inds and nd they ;e, when [ring love I in old ing; and rying on especting fatness in irance of heir own 5t enemy, lall shine )le decree as minds, 3 in Jesus, 1 multiply f the lion it He who few loaves flock be taken from the fold, and the herd from the stall, yet will th«y trust in the God of their salvation. This is the university that God puts his tliildren into, to refine and purify, and take away from them the dross of earth, and make them meet for the white robes of glory. All this is very plain ; yet the worldly and those of college manufacture trample and tread upon these children, and openly declwre to the world that God never called such to preach the Gospel. These men in eifect deny God's sovereign choice and revealed will, and proclaim (surely their father the devil has mtoxicated and blinded them !) that it is their shining silver trumpets that do all the good to men's souls, and not the rough unpolished rams' horns of those who lack their college learning. There need be no stronger evidence to prove that these monopolising teachers belong to the world, the flesh, and the devil ; and they need not add lie to lie, for it is no matter what bishopricks they own or offices they hold, theirs is the nature of the devil, and the very opposite of God, who tells us to judge them by their fruit, which is that of the thorn and the thistle. I shall now prove that the Apostles' preaching and that of the generality of preachers in the present day is not the same. There is a system of logical order taught by men, which is not scriptural ; and I fear that many of £ose who have themselves received the gospel as little children, in order to please the itching ears of the world, begin to conform to it, and study system and form more than the Holy Spirit's unction, and then they become the servants of men — not in the sense that God wishes them to be, but men-pleasers, preaching peace, peace, when there is no pe.«ice. They fill themselves with the husks of creeds, modes, and forms ; and the Scriptures declare, that being the servants of men they cannot be the servants of God. But I hope God will bring them back from feeding at the swine-trough of the world, that they may again eat and drink the honey fi'om the true Rock, Christ — not the rolling stone Peter. I will mention two facts to prove that the Apostles' preaching was not the learning of the day, but facts and experience. The royal psalmist's preaching was also fact and experience, for he says, "Gome ye that fear the Lord, and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul : he pardoneth all my sins, and blotteth out like a cloud my transgressions." The apostle Paul speaks about a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of satan, sent to bufifet him ; his feet crushed in the stocks, and his back furrowed with stripes ; how he was stoned, how he was shipwrecked, how he was a day and a night in the deep ; and he closes the catalogue of his sufferings by saying, " His grace was sufficient for me, and His strength was perfected in my weakness." Such preaching the Quakers (or Friends) have, when the Spirit's unction flows into their hearts ; and such also the Methodists have in their love feasts, fellowship, and class meetings, when they tell to each other what God hath done for their souls ; and also in the conference meetings of our Baptist friends. I am not going to affirm that they are all preaching truth. No ; I believe there are hypocrites among them all ; but I do maintain that it is the apostolic usage and system of preaching, according to the spirit and truth of their experience. The gospel is preached already in God's book, the Bible, and the sentence of woe is denounced against any who shall add to or diminish from that book. Did all men possess the Spirit of God to destroy their pride and their innate selfishness, we should soon get rid of all this perverse disputing of men, and they would feel that God's Spirit and Grace was all-sufficient to complete a christian. But to view God*s word aright is to view His dealings with His enemies of various characters, and take warning to have no counsel with them ; also to view the character and circumstances of his people, and the timely support given to them as a means to increase onr Faith, and to draw more and more grace from that fountain of no TRUTH OKFEMDKa divine love, and then bear your witness in truth. I am on my journey home, I am 80 far saved by grace through faith. Let it not be borrowed or lip lan- guage, but let God witness that it was the heart that speakn it ; and this is the preaching that will always tell to the glory of God, while the flowery shell ton- fues, and an acquired flow of oratory, only tells on the itching ears of the world, am happy in being able to insert from the pen of one of my Presbyterian friends, a specimen of the same kind of preaching, from the Memoir of the Rev. B.i M. McCheyne, minister of St Peters Church, Dundee, Scotland, page 116, speaking of a scries of meetings, he says, ** About one hundred remained, and at the conclusion of a solemn address to these anxious souls, (this was tlie apos- tles' way of preaching), suddenly the power of God descended on the people, and at another similar meeting it was like a flood burst forth, and tears were streaming from the eyes of many, and some falling to the ground weeping and crying for mercy. Many believers doubted, and the ungodly were enraged, but the Avord of the Lord grew and prevailed." I am sorry to see so many minis- ters ignorant of the spirit's pentecostial breeze, and did they strive to know the constitution of the minds that the holy spirit is operating upon, being taught by him, they would make every allowance for the new born soul : having inhaled into its long composed lungs the healing balm — tlie balm of Gilead — it then expresses its gi'atitude in loud hosaunas to God and the Lamb, and also to know the still small voice of God, and sink into humble love ; and oh how sweet is the Father's voice, which whispers — I am all sufficient, do your duty, and leave consequences to me ; and repeats hiswhispers again and again, saying — Rejoice evermore in my strength, I woidd not for the world stop the breath or kill one of these heaven-born souls ; and should I attempt to do so, it would prove that I did not belong to that kingdom, and expose my ignorance of it : but I would be glad to put down an hypocritical man, who lives not in accordance with his own preaching, or God's most holy word — who glories in letters and literary acquirements, and which seem to him the essential qualifications for every thing. Now God does not, and if he did they would be one, which cannot be, for their glorying and joy would be one, and there would be no enmity. Oh hear the crying out — Give me learning ! oh give me education ! but you will hardly ever hear one of them crying out for the yoke of Christ — to learn the gramma- tical science of humility ; and if these men are taughi of God and on the safe way to heaven, I am not — ^for we are directly opposite, nearly as opposite as God and the world can be. As tor me, I am determined to have Christ, first and last, as my teacher — to bring all things to my remembrance, whatsoever he has said unto me ; and I hope by God's grace ever to be enabled to resist the fair speeches and smooth tongues of the w^orldly wise men ; for they are so sel- fish, I cannot trust one of them. Here I satisfy myself that the essential quali- fication for preaching the gospel is God's spirit, nature, and grace — which will always tend to its centre (God), and they are to administer the gospel according to the proportion of grace received; and what they have experienced and known of the good word of life, they may tell to others, and God has promised that they shall receive more. First, When I consider the age of these commissioned preachers. Second, Their want of letters. OThird, Their waiting on the Spirit to qualify and jpenew their commission. Fourth, God never gave a com- mand to any to learn letters or languages. And fifth, They never went to Jerusalem to get one of the learned to teach them. No doubt had they been taught in the world's wisdom, the pride wine would soon have burst out amongst them, they would not have allowed the disciples to be content with the sub- stance without the shadow ; and from these &ct8 before me, I must believe in this kind of preaching, with these spiritual taught men, and by their allegiance TRUTH DEFENDED. lU irnoy home, or lip lan- d tliis IS the ry shell ton- (f the world. resbyterian of the Rev. 1, page 116, mained, and as tlie apoB- the people, tears were veeping and enraged, but many minis- to know the ig taught by sing inhaled sad — it then jlso to know low sweet is y, and leave ng — Rejoice 1 or kill one i prove that but I would nee with his and literary every thing, be, for their )h hear the will hardly he gramma- l on the safe >osite aa God ist, first and oever he has isist the fair ' are so sel- lential quali- —which will el according I and known romised that )inmissioned )n the Spirit jave a com- 3ver went to d they been out amongst ith the sub- st believe in ir alli^ance and faithfulness to their God, He will bring about the millennium, and the con- version of the world — and these are the true successors of the Apostles, of the real Apostolic line, not receiving or transferring grace from one to another to fit them for the christian ministry, but being perfect judges of grace in ita effects on themselves and others, enabling him or them to sacrifice all for the kingdom of heaven's sake, and thus prove themselves to be his disciples. And let heaven and earth witness, that we according to (tur conscious judgment, accept of you, as our co-workers and true yokefellows in Christ's spiritual vineyard, and none should be above another, but in love serving one another ; and we signify our acceptance of him, by praying that God would accept of him, and bless him, and make him a blessing ; and we assert that men's practice of laying on of hands has no power, or that there is any virtue or eflScacy in that super- perstitious practice. The first, is Christ's by the word, and the second is the Apoptles' usage, and either of them will do; but on man's part it is nothing but his approval, and they are accountable, for an honest and faithful performance of duty. And I would further say, that the essential qualification and fitness for a minister of Christ is, to have Christ himself continually supplying him with, his grace and faith, and a true judgment and a sound mind respecting the truths of the Bible, and never substitute any creed or canons of mother or daughters, for the word, spirit, or nature, of the Bible. Also, he should be a man possessing so much of God, that his conscience could not bo biased nor affected by eitlier praise or flattery or the influences of the rich and great- who with all their money could not purchase him or cause him to swerve from his allegiance to his everlasting Father (God), and never forget his law, or conde- scend to man's low estate. I further notice the character of these successors of Christ and his Apostles — such as these little ones going on, not depending on the world, but on him who overrules both them and it ; and he olten peimits the world, his and their enemy, to buffet them, for fear they should compromise and join league with the world and the flesh ; and their father teaches them to live by faith, and in his work and his way of doing his work he becomes secu- rity for them in soul and body, and these little ones, having nothing to depend upon, lose their will in their Father's, and in his strength they go, taking no thought what they shall eat, or what they shall dritik, or how they snail be cloth- ed: but when they begin to be in want, they go and tell their Father all about it, for He can make a miser's purse strings burst, or liberalize the heart of another Zr(> and daughters, who are ready to give battle to the ej rnies of man — the "^o/*! the flesl^ and the devil — and if necessary to die for his honour, and in . <\- fence of his cause — but they will not under any circumstances, beat a retreat. These are the men whose character is recorded in Wesley's Hymns, page 616. These men practice baptiein «s a christian rite, and by this act and deed, deny the efficacy of Jewish saci. "nes or meritorious works for salvation ; having done their duty, leaves it to be ac ' . ' ed witlh God. They also place the suppei* of the Lord as a christian duty, to en * fortb the remembrance of his dying love, and by this act and deed denying sdl oliiiiir sacrifice?: and that he (Christ) is the only way to the Father, and they the ci rest onGo(VBiaithfulne88 for acceptance ; and when they pray for the sick, laying their hands upon them as the apostles did, God has promised to hear their prayers for his truth's sake. Also when we have proved converts in the knowledge of his grace, and in the knowledge of repent- ance and jufitification before GocI, and their lives prove the truth of their pro- fession, they may signify the same by accepting them; otherwise when men are born of angels < aniongn rej«)ice 1 and prii religion, Chn8t J were bel love — at rejoice v from the words a; the devil corrupti* is notniii vine^rl Bo* , . man j ha ly in the reverse h Attend to del; and ordinatioi acts provi exalted s pocket pr the sight that the t the Fathc truth whe all mankii your nam< yourself tc wish to de nations w( Christian i commence and superc and r " ^n* then lot tl Christ, yoi he has ex\ tempt to b: Lord's will who was tl So you ma word, that tion, still tr! support, an< stantiation, out of his s upon you a light— and TKUTII DEtENDEI). 117 l)orn of (ik)d, wo tA^ufy imr approval by rejoicii. r with them, to^uthcr with tho un^ls of (jtxl, who rejoico uTor ono rvpontMiit siniiur. And oileu whiMi visiting nmongfltthc Hnmll c.hiirchoH aikI chriBtian fainili< in tho counlr) ray hcnK would rejoice to seo thu work ofthu Ijord going on amongi^t them, and I I'ol it my duty and privilego to en4#avour by all muann to cid'irni tlu in i. the faith of our holy reli^on, and to onduavour to root and grouna ihum in thu faith, as it is in • .link that the Holy Ghost » conveyed by imposition or unction uf any roan\^ handij, is abominable ; for if this was so, they would have God complete ly in thoir trammels, as they imagine or think they have ; and they would reverse his system which is, not to reject the humble, and spiritual, and true. Attend to them and they will convey the spirit to the earthly, sensual, and infi- del ; and tho flesh having tho spirit under its control, they will never miss an ordination, where they got spirit, and truth, and character dismissed, and by their acts prove thuir superior knowledge ; and *' think so," is their venerable and exalted sttitutc. But tho Apostles prove that all the offerihgs of the mass, pocket preaching, praying, singing, pipeing, and harping, is an abomination in the sight of God, and that he will spue thent out of his mouth, and they prove that tne true humble spiritual otforing will never bo denied, but accepted by the Father, Son, and lloly Ghost. Ihcy cannot deny themselves spirit and truth when lawfully presented (without any self), lliereforo I would say to all mankind, and to all denominations of christians, it is needless to change your names or sentiments from ono to another, thinking by that to recommend yourself to God, for any namo will do if you have Christ in the heart. I could wish to destroy the superstition of names and party spirit, and that all denomi- nations would give up their peculiar names and call themselves by the namd of Christian Children's Society, whi .'h is the name and character of those who commenced the gospel dispunsaVion. I think this would destroy the idolatry and superstition of names. It would also be well to get rid of our beloved so and f ^nd get our beloved Christ and our beloved christian brethren. And tlien xut the people tell their priests and ministers, if you are the beloved ot Christ, you are commanded to bo our servants in the Lord, for his soke ; and he has expressly commanded you not to bo lords over God's heritage, nor at- tempt to bind or loose according to your own will, but to act according to the Lord's will ; therefore, we want your characters to answer to that of Abraham, who was the father of the faitliful, mid the little ones he carried in his bosom. So you may teach these little ones that they may desire the pure milk of the word, that they may grow thereby, and that they may, through much tribula- tion, still trust themselves in their Father's arms, who has promised to preserve, support, and defend them. If you do not give up all — I say all — your transub- stantiation, all your say so's and contradictions of Christ, He will dismiss you out of his service, for I am sure you neither serve Christ nor us, and we look upon you as God has described you — devil's angels transformed into angels of light — and we will neither go your flowery road to hell nor assist you on the v'i| 118 TROTH DPWKNbEO. h * % way. And seeing as Moses did, that the pleasures and lionours of this world are but for a season, we choose ratlier to suffer affliction and loss here, than to lose our Christ and his reward. And I would rather bo one of his little ones, with all theii" ijjnorance and illiterateness, than obtain all the treasures of the world's glory, that is but for a season. Oh how the devil fools mankind — for he has his votaries boasting and glorying in this world's materials, as if they were to last for ever. Oh what a blessing it is to see as Moses saw : we would do duty and labor on, and give all to God to do his part^ for the whole of the offlcacy rests with him, to give his Spirit's blessing. I cannot but admire how well Wesley, in his bynms, describes it. Page 92 : — I wait my vigour to renew, Tliine imase to retrieve, ol ni. i The veil of outward tbingt pass through, And gasp in thee to live. ' I work, and own the labor vain. And thus from works I oease: ' ' ' '' t I strive, and see my fraitiesa pain, Till God create my peaee. > ', - Fruitless, till thou thyself impart. Mast all my efforts prove: They oaooot change a ainfv! heart; They eaunot purohaae love. "' I do the tbingt thy laws enjoin, And then the strife give o'er; '- ' ''" To thee I then the whole ttisign; I trust in means no more. I trutt io bira who stands between The Father's wrath and me: JesQ, thou great eternal Mean, I look for all from thee! Also page 93. I wish all these formalists who sound their brass and tink- ling symbols, would apply it to themselves. And that the people of every denomination were firm, like the blind man that witnessed for Jesus, who, v/hen lie was tui'ued out from among them, Je^us took him up and confirmed him. And that these men were all faithful to the command, to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers into his vineyard. Tliis passage proves that this part of God's work does not belong to any man ; therefore, let no man presume or take upon himself the prerogative of the most high, but keep in your place and pray to him, and rest assured that if- he cannot give grace and quality, you cannot. But faithful is he that hath promised, and he will do it. This is my stand, and I pray and strive to believe ; but with the times and sea- sons for God answering my prayera, I have nothing to do. God proved the faith of Cornelius, then was God s answering time. Oh, to have our will lost in I ' , and to walk no more by sight, but by faith in the invisible God, to no moi»al eye unseen. I now feel quite satisfied at their (the Methodists) putting me out, for it has driven me closer to my master (Jesus). If I would compro- mise with men, I would have to give up my conscience and deny Jesus. Oh for more of that religion that prefers the company of our dear Lord, to any other transient visitor. Oh, how childlike I feel. I have nothing to contend for but the honor of Jesus, who is all my boast ; and he being my most honor- able portion, I am bound to witness for him, and speak for him, and recommend all to come to him for freedom : for if (as the Scripture says) the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed, and then you will not envy the proud nor such as turn aside to lies. Oh ye popes and ministers, repent ! repent ! of your attempts to blind the eyes of the ignorant ; repent ! repent ! of your deceitful conduct in leading them to the wrong foundation, and for your wick- edness in passing button moulds for the pure golden guineas of God's most holy spirit. Repent! repent ! of your attempts to rob God of his throne and of his sovereignty, in choosing, and preparing, and qualifying men to do his work. Who are you that you should resist God ? Repent ! repent ! of your many contradictions of Jesus ; Jrou are like Peter who attempted to stop Jesus from going up to Jerusalem ; but our blessed Lord said to Peter, " Get thee behind me Satan." Again, Peter said his Lord should not wash his (Peter's) feet. Again the pr stone, Thefo is iu h family, materii liar. 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