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To the Congreftntion of the Macnab Street Presbyterian Churchy Hamilton : As the matters hereinafter treated of are of great importance to you, I ask you to read and consider carefully, firstly, the followuig passages of Scripture : — Hebrews, x. cap., 23 verse.—-' Let us hold fast the profession of our fiiith without wavering; for he is faithful tluit promised." Dkuteuoxomy, xxiii. cap., 21 verse.— " When thou slialt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slaek to pay it ; for the Lord tliy God will surely require it of thee: and it would be sin in thee." Mattjikav, v. cap., 33 verse.—" Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shall per- form unto the Lord thine oaths." Psalm xv., verses 1, 2, 4.— "Lord, who shah vjido in thy tabernacle ? He tliat walketh uprightly. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." Ajid secondly, — The following oaths of office, decreed and ordered by the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, to be taken by every Minister, Elder and Deacon, of that church, at his ordination : and therefore taken by the Reverend David Inglis, and the Elders and Deacons of our congregation, at their respective ordinations : " I do hereby declare that I do sincerely own and .believe the v^hole doctrine contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith, as approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland' in the year one thousand six hundred and forty-seven, to be the truths of God, and 1 do own the purity of worship presently authorised and practiced in this church, and also the Presbyterian Government and Discipline thereof: which Doctrine, Worship, and Church Government I am persuaded are founded on the Wo d of God and are agreeable thereto ; and I promise that, through the grace of God, I shall firmly and constantly adhere to the same, and to the utmost of my power shall iu my station assert, maintain, and defend the said Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government of this Church, by Sessions, Presbyteries, and Synods; that I shall, in my practice, conform myself to the said Worship, and submit to the said Discipline and Government, and never endeavor, directly u a ) ;;in the church; ^JZZtT^:ST '''n",'" "■« !'--"' X. " whiitsoovcr conlriirv tr. ^ ■ '-"^""^""s, Tenuis, and opinions Ialsoa,sl;j.outobe,.ri„„,i„d. Firstlv _Th„ th f . Go.ernraent, which your said Minis.cr El I ? T" "^ ^'^"'"^ --„ to . ,„„„,,. ,„, d„f„„aT;:' ^;; J ; :; -^ ^-ons h,™ Secondly,_That tlie worship when th posed-asit always must blT,?^^ """■''" ™''™' ""^ <=»'>'■ substance ; and which for.n ^n.l T' '"'"^' """"'>' ''»'•"' "'d -or,, consisted in t e ttr„; ,h T T°' "''"" '"'' "-■« ^ ""dibly with the minister in hit elteM.n ' '""""^ *""=''' "<" Ti.0 sitting (the forn.) and h t i ';:' '. -irir"' ■^'''" "'^'''"™-> of the bible, (the substance.) The "t' inW h';'''"f " " P""'"" iVe...y,erians,) ha^uot „;f:e a /chr/er.h!^T''^^^ persons so avowed or wore Worship, since these tHet?,r;:y^::;;:r '-" *^^^^ "--' '^« -^^p - ^y of the Session,-; 'rt ' , :7r;r ''"t"""" (' »'" '"•"■■'"4 the.last psalm of thefo^ ° ij^^'"' ':"" T"'" "'"' »'"S'-^' the evening diet of worship d ,1;' ^'\''"' ''" '^' l'^"''" »' '=77r'.r^-°wp-tir;:rc:""«^ ""-'- •>- in respect of said WolZ and " ''"" ^"'^ "«'■ "^ -mce they have not wilfully 3d "' ^"7™™™'-^ O'' whether he and departing from the wo^rs p as t!!- ' " "' ""= ^'""<'- "' ''- the Synod has not even inLenia Iv rT'T' u""" ■■""""'^"^ ' ^s oath, if it could do so by dec '^r*"^ """" "•"'" »"«h their ' ^ "^'"""""S ^""l" « change in the worship 801388 3 \--» This is a solemn matter ; an oath is not to be trifled with, even in law courts, and still less— if that be possible--in matters pertaining to the worship of Jehovah, "for the Lord will surely require it of thee"; His views of an oath, are evidently very difterent tro;n the views of vour Minister and Elders. The Ilev. D. Inglis and your Elders separately and each for himself, at his respective ordination, deliberately avowed (which avowing is a solemn oath in the sight of Jehovah, and of men, although not so recognized by law courts, and hence the breach thereof even should it be wilful and corrupt cannot be punished as perjury, such as wiltiil false swearing in law can be, and the person guilty th(3reof, justly rendered infamous for life) that he did own the purity of Worship then authorized and practised in the said Church, and also the Presbyterian Government and Discipline thereof; that he was persuaded the same were founded on the Word of God, and agreeable thereto ; that he should firmly and constantly adhere to the same ; that he should hi his practice, conform himself to the said Worship, and submit to the said DUcipline and (^govern- ment and never endeavour directly or indirectly the prejudice or subversion ot the same ; and that he should follow no devisive course from the then order of the Church. And 1 again plainly ask, has he and they, in the change they have made in the Worship, by standing and singing said psalms, as aforesaid explained, " firmly and constantly adhered " to the said Worship and Government ; which they swore they felt persuaded were "founded on the Word of God, and agreeable thereto"? Have they "in their practice conformed themselves to the same " ? Most assuredly not. Have not they " directlv " not otdy " endeavoured " but succeeded in the '•subversion of the same"? And have they not "followed a d^K, sive course fro:n the order in the Church" by such their said procedure 1 Most assuredly they have. And have they not thereby violated, broken, trampled upon, firstly, their positive oath to " adhere to and conform; and secondly, their negative oath, " not to endeavour the prejudice or subversion, and to follow no divisive course." Most assuredly they have. And such violation has been calmly premeditated, and determinedly nmintained, in the face of repeated remonstrance, and clear exposition thereof, thereby shewing clearly an utter disregard of their oath, and a setting at deimnce of every principle of honesty and decency involved in such their oath. Ifow very deplorable such conduct is ! ! Spiritual ofhce bearers, the guides of the congregation in matters spiritual, in rnaaers pertaming to the salvation of the soul, guilty of a wilful breach of their oath ; and guilty of the additional sin of inducing all of you who have become members in full communion, to violate your nnphedoath; as in truth, all that your Minister and El.lers have positively swcnn to, as forecited, you iinpHedly d.d so, when you became members ; hence their sin is a double sin. And is not such conduct both in them and you truly fearful and lamentable ^ If a Lawyer was guilty of such conduct in a court of law, you would all justly reprobate the same, and he would very justly be punished by unprisoiHnent in the Penitentiary, and be rendered infamous, and m which you an would most heartily concur ; and do you think that Ministers and Elders of the Gospel should escape a like condemna- tion ? should they not rather be the more reprehensible ? I think » Christian would say so, whatever you may, for although you are very religious, I am afraid not a fev. of you have mistaken religion -as for instance that of Ignatius Loyola-for the Christianity of the Bible ; as assuredly the Bible does not teach as Ignatius Loyola did, that It IS lawful to forswear oneself! I have been met with the excuse, that the change in question is a matter of no importance ; assuredly the Synod did not think so when they compel every Minister, Elder and Deacon, to take the hereinbefore recited oath, first, in a positive form, and then nega- tive.y : and if a matter of no importance, why should your Ministers, Elders and Deacons have sworn to the same, calling Jehovah to witness hat they would adhero to a matter of no importance ; how profane . ! But every matter pertaining to the Worship of Jehovah .8 of great importance ; the very form in which the service is per- ormed is of the highest importance; whether we therein worship the Almighty reverently or not. One of yovr Elders promptly re- plied to my allegation to him, that he had broken his oath, that he had not and in reply to my question, what he would consiaer a breach th<.reof, he as promptly said, " Were I to allow read pray- ers. Ih.s was so very prompt, that I feel assured, the Session had agreed that this would be a breach of their oath, and should be by them cited as such • ^ ^ ■■ ^ ■A hence I call your atteniion thereto, and as ur- 5 douhtodly it has been cited elsewhere : " read prayers" may be as go(.d- nay, far better than many extempore prayers which I have been compelled to hear, both in Knox's Church in this City, a.id in our own Church: hence the objection does not lie in the substance, namely, the prayer, but in the form, naniely, the readinr; of it ; therefore the form here is the breach of the oath, just as the form I complain of is the breach. And is not this their illustration there- tore clearly in condemnation of their conduct? most certainly it is. There is no condemnation of " read prayers" iii the Westminster Standards, but » the purity of worship as authorised and [)ractised " in our Church, as strictly forbids the same, as it does the standing and singing of ti.e Psalms, both being alike contrary to the san>e. Again, does not the change aforesaid declare that Jehovah is not suinrientiy worshiped in the old way? and also that Ife is better worshipped in the new way ? Most certainly. And also, as it is admitted, that the Lord is well enough worshipped in the sitting and singing all the Psalms except those as to which the change has been made, is not either the one portion of the worship at direct variance and in hostility to the other portion, or else that the Rev. D. Inglis and his Session have been specially favoured with a vision, that the Almighty would prefer to be worshipped at the said last Psalms, standing ?— and who dare avow such a blasphemy !— but either the one or the other must be. And to shew that your Minister and El- ders, and not a few of you, think that you are worshiping or profess- ing to worship the Almighty, in standing and singing these Psalms, better t^an I do, in sitting and singing the same, you, as soon as you sec me looking at your performance, cease from staring around the church at your neighbours and their garments, and drop your eyes at once upon your Psalm Books: I cannot however give your Minister such praise for such an attempt at profession, for he stares most consummately through the church while so standing ; yet when he sees me looking at him, the semi defiant, and semi martyr heroic expression of countenance which he assumes, accomp^;nied with the throwing back of the head, and the turning up of the eyes to the ceiling over his head, is almost irresistible; yea, verily it is. I have endeavoured, to the utmost 'of my power, to induce your said oifice-bearers to act rightly, and abandon the new system. I addressed your minister by letter, also some of the Elders, and 6 finally the Session as a Session, and sent a copy of such ,ny last letter to each of the members thereof; but although several of them made public such my letter, and thereby were guilty ot a breach of one of the duties of their oflice, namely seeresy, (the Session beinir a private court, not a public one, as the Presbytery and S^nod are ) they have not deigned to inform m- what action they took in the matter. No doubt, I am one of those very unfortunate persons whom the 1 ree Church styles " adherents," a class who are permitted' to enjoy the privilege to h.ve packets to be fleeced, and also of not being allowed to enquire what becomes of their money-(l consider It, however, a pleasing tribute to us, that we of that class, in the midst of such gross abandonments of the standards of our church by members thereof are admitted to be "adherents," certainly we should be thankful, ;,ro tan(o)-anci as the Rev. D. Ingiis holds that all -^adherenrs" are children of the devil-a most heretical and atiocious doctrine, (as proof that he so holds, read the following extract from his letter to the Glof.e newspaper, of date 8th Ma>' 1806, published in the G/oh of June 6th, 1850, written in defence of an overture prepared by him, and no doubt cautiously so, and intro- duced by him int.. thf Synod, "to declare the law of the Presby- terian Church, in reference to the right of sutlrage and management m the secular atfaa-s of the church ;" and which extract is : - It is not for a moment contemplated to place the temporalities of every coiigregntion under the entire control of the superior church courts • but rather to place them in the hands of the people -the commu- mcants in each congregation. The question is not oetween Ministers or Elders and people, nor between the Church Courts and the Conrrre- gations, hut between those who are in communion with the church Ind those who are not. To whom should the affairs of the congregation be entrusted ? To the ch urch as represented by her members, or to the church and the world mingled:^ This extract which I have given at length, that I may not be accused of citing a part by which his meaning might be obscured, is too clear to admit of a doubt • he places the "communicants," or members in full communion, on the one hand, and all others, called by him » the world," on the other And to determine the true meaning of the expression he thus uses namely, "the world," let us read the address of our Saviour to the' children of the world, in the Gospel according to John, cap. viii v I * * J ••1^ 23-4-^ ; "Ye are from beneath, I am from above. Ye arc of this world, lam not of this world. Yo are of your father tho devil." That is conolusivt', evidence that " the world " are the devil's children. And also witness the very gross attack he made upon "adherents," in his udtlress immediately before he and you sat down and partook of the last sacrament of the supper) — I certainly could not expect that he would deign to reply to one of said class. And as the El- ders have acted likewise, they must hold the same heretical aiid pruvatica! doctrine ; I say pi-avatical as well as heretical, a-, it in>- pliedly niuintains, th.\t by the act ofcommunici'ting, all cummunicantft are " sons of God," and therefore their salvation sure. But is suca conduct to 1)0 wondered at? Un(|uestionahly not. When once the water makes a breach in the banks of a river, how wide does that breach speedily become ! So it is with the human mind : when one heresy is once held, how soon does another follow ! Witness, for example, the conduct of ^our Minister. First, his Millenarian heresy ; then his said heresy in respect of " adherents ;" now, the aforesaid wilful breach of the worship of our church. In order that the peculiar grossness of the Millenarian heresy in him may be seen, we will again turn to his said oath of ofbce. *' I do sincerely own and believe the lohole doctrine contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith, to be the truth " " And I shall constantly and firmly adhere to the s; ^d to the utmost of my power assert, maintain and defe.id ' And I disown !ill Popish, Arian, Socinian, Armlnian, . : other docrines, tenets and oj)inions v/hatsoever contrary to v.. isistent with the aforesaid Confession of Faith." And let us also read the following extracts from the said Confession of Faith ; the Shorter Cathechism; (which Catechism, he, ipon every performance by him and you who are heads of families, of that peculiar duty to your Creator — the rite of baptism, obligatory upon you as professing Christians, and consequent upon the performance by you of your duty to the Slate, enforces upon you, and that uKjst properly, in the proper performance by him of his duty in the premises, whilst he is a Minister of our church.) And the Larger Catechism. These Catechisms being co-ordinate standards with, and explanatory of the said Confession of Faith. Confession of Faith, chap. viii. sec. 4. " He (our Saviour) ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth at the right N hand of h„ f.lhor, ,„„ki„g i„,„co,sio„ ; an,l ,Ml „,urn ,o S«,ln. 'n>na,u,a„.M,anl.e„.lnf,l,ea.orUr Shorten Cateolns^/anC,^; ho d3ad „„ th., thinl ,)»,, i„ „,oe„,,;„„ up i„,., Moaveh, i„t t", « « "''" Trer., J""-* ^''"""^■-■.•■x, since his seltle,„eni amo„<,«t ,„ preached respecting the Millenarian heresy. rie ha, ver oV ,' et :;"th': "' t"""' "-' "'"''''•"' ^ '•" --^ -t"! '?•'>" : J udea, tor a thousand .ears : in feet, he p, cached „ea,.Jy all the ^n grossness of the Afillenarian heres;^, until that I put a stop o i bv my correspondence with hi,,, i„ Ja„ua,-y, A. I). iMg ^ These doctrines you will see n.ost clearly are in di,.oet violation of th sa,d standard., and therefore of his said oath. Not only it h" e n «,y n,en,n,n therein of a personal reign of o„r Saviour" ,„ e.rth direct denial thereof, ,n the various allegations forecitcd, nan.ely i„ o!:r:'t"r""V"/":;" "■" ^■"^'^' •■" "■'" ""' ^»^ ■> '"• "■» »-«^ qiotlns /" , lu" T"- ^'^'"''''" '- '=■=-" than these quotuu^ns ? In order that the word " a^/ain " should not be u.iscon- str d the word " .«„,/ " is used, and that sccou, co„u,.y is d larTd to h t„ jn,l,e the^oorkl, not to reign at Jerusalem, asy«,r Mi toer ahsely alleges. Again " Christ „,„..«, inUrceuio: „„ \u a,^"Z >» oar na,„re contin„„n, heforc tl,c Father in He„vcJ' "Z nature or the human body of „„r Saviour, cannot be „ wo plac at one and t e sa.ne t,n,e, and Hea-en is a l.,ality. hence Til^lZt He,::,":;:::!:''"'"'" '" "- "™"""""-^ ""^•^ ^^^^ Heav.n, whilst intercession is to be made; and even the Rev. D. 1 -':i ■i. Infilis will not bave tho boldness to deny t^at intercession will be made until \hv, end o*' tha world, when our Saviour comes to judg- ment, tlu^ri'foni the great .'lin of the Millenarian he.esy ; for until the jud^'nient day, nxii require ibo intercession of our Saviour, and th.y numot'bc saved without auch his intercession; and if our Saviour is to reign at Jerusalua during 1000 years, He cannoi be in Heaver in his human nature, //ier^ to mi*ke intercession, and where only he can make it; therefore all the huni&n fami'.y who are not saved at such his coming, snd al) who are born during that 1000 years, and until our Saviour again ascends to Heaven, must be eternally lost. I therefore think that I am justified in saying, that aught else than such conduct as I have described, could not be expected from him, unless through the riches of the Grace of Jehovah manifested in liim ; as moral honesty, apart from Christian pi'nciple, should ring in his ears, iliat as he does not believe the doo-rines contained in the standards of our Church " to be the truths of God," he should at once leave the same, and no longer, Judas like, eat o\ her Itcu.I, whilst " lifting up the heel" against her, as he h«>- been thus grossly doing. It does appear from the conduct of the Rev. D. Inglis, and the Rbv. W, Ormiston, of the United Presbyterian Church, in this city, that they have combined together to overthrow the authorised and practiced purity of worship of the Churches .: .ay respectively belong to ; as })oth have in respect thereof pursued the same line of conduct, both for ahout a year or so, have occasionally asked their respective congregatif)ns to stand and sing a Psalm, and both within two weeks or so of each other, introduced the new order into their respective churches. Mr. Ormiston is certainly (to his credit in that respect be it stiid) more consistent in his conduct than Mr. Inglis, as Mr. Inglis professes to be governed by and to act in harmony with the said stand irds. Whereas Mr. Ormiston in the last or nearly the last sermon he preached in our Church, boldly declared, " What have we to do with the Confessions of Augsburg, Dort, Westminster, &c.f they were good enough in their day ; but what have we to do with them now? away with them." So t.iat whatever he may have sworn to observe, having changed the purity of worship as practiced in the church he belongs to when he was ordained, aa Mr. Inglis has in our church, 1 docs not wish to imitate Mr. Inglis, in professing entire obedience to standards, which he does not obey. 10 The Rev. D. [nglis, In his sermon on Sabbath evening the 18th instant, lamentod most loudly the " indifference " to the gospel manifested by congregations hearing the same preached, and attri- buted it to the " hardness of the human heart ;" which undoubtedly is true, but he lid not enqinve hoiv the natural hardness of the human heart was increased, and how the outward and ordinary means of grace, namely, the reading and preaching of the word, apparently had so little effect. Had he so enquired, and that honestly, he would have found that much of it is owing to the ungodly conduct of the Ministers of the Gospel ;— for instance, in their swearing to the standards of a church, in order to acquire therein place, power, and money— the stipend, and almost constantly violating the same standards and their oath. Yea, if they are Millenarians, swearing that they believe what they well know they do not believe. The judgment which » the world " justly forms as to such conduct, and the melancholy effect of such conduct upon it, are easily seen. I have been sneered at by two or three weak-minded beings and knaves, (both of said classes having a great horror of the Apostle Paul's conduct in withstanding the Apostle Peter to the face, when he was blameable) for being what they were pleased to call a fault- finder ; and they instanced as proof thereof, what they were also pleased to call falsely, my quarrels with the Rev. R. Irvine and his congregation ; but unfortunately for all such weaklings and knaves, the notorious unenviable position which that degraded being, and the few base and dastardly creatures, who supported him and each other in their atrocious conduct to me, (for I never quarrelled with any of them, I would not descend thereto, I merely defended myself against their most infamous attacks upon me) now occupy towards each other, and in the world ; and the judgment of the world in respect of them ; prove that my judgment of them was not severe enough. Some of these creatures are now amongst you, driven from Knox's Church by the brutal outrages and scandalous quarrels among them- selves, and their former dearly-beloved pastor— the Rev. R. Irvine : and yet your Minister and Elders gladly permitted them to sit at the communion table, and condemn all those who have sufficient moral honesty- even should they be of "the world"- -to feel a horror at sitting beside such creatures, (whose rottenness is so manifest, that even they cannot in truth be called '•' lohifed sepulchres,") in the cele- 11 bration or more properly the desecration by them, of the most sacred and solemn ordinance upon earth. " For every tree is l