Modern Emigrant 
 
 
 A DISCOURSE 
 
 DELIVERED IN THB CITY OF NEW-YORK, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. J. M. HORNER, 
 
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 A DISCOURSE, 
 
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 O let me take ray eagle flight, 
 Where Liberty is known and felt ; 
 Where no despotic power can reign, 
 Over the souls or minds of men. 
 May I but scale the mountain top, 
 Or dwell within some humble cot, 
 Where 1 may freely wiite or speak, 
 Those thoughts which reason generate. 
 
 NEW-YORK : 
 
 PRINTED BY W. MITCHELL, 265, BOWERY. 
 
 1832. 

 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 My CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, When I was invited to address 
 you in the character of a Minister of Jesus Christ, I thought it 
 would not be amiss to submit to your notice my reasons for 
 leaving the land of my nativity, my beloved relations, and my 
 pastoral charge. If I do this, I must not only advert to the state 
 of religion in England, bui, to the laws and politics of that country. 
 I know that many professors, and some of the best of Christians, 
 are opposed to the idea of ministers introducing politics in their 
 discourses. 
 
 I am one of those who think that Ministers should not -give 
 themselves to poliiics, so as to unfit them for the discharge o 
 their more important duties. But that they should watch the 
 proceedings of the government under which they live, make 
 themselves acquainted with the politics of their own country, 
 and recommend to the people of their charge good and whole- 
 some laws, must be evident to every impartial mind. 
 
 If a Minister should see the people of his charge laden with 
 an unjust taxation, imposed upon by a heavy tithe system, 
 and laboring under disabilities because of their religious and 
 Christian creed, without speaking, writing, or exercising his 
 influence for their emancipation, in my opinion he would be 
 cruel to an extreme, enthusiastic beyond measure, or destitute 
 of the common feelings of humanity. To say that the professors 
 of religion should not concern themselves about the laws of their 
 country, and the politics which surround them, is to say that the 
 Dissenters of England should endure their religious disabilities, 
 their cruel tithe system, their oppressive government, without 
 speaking about them, or writing on the subject, or even petitioning 
 their Legislature for their liberty and support. Were I called 
 upon for a further justification for glancing at temporal govern- 
 ments in my discourses, I would do it by observing, that the 
 prophets in their predictions, and the apostles in preaching, often 
 noticed the governments under which they lived, and the politics 
 which surrounded them.
 
 A DISCOURSE. 
 
 " Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, 
 and preached Christ unto them. 9 ' Acts, 8, 5.^ 
 
 SAMARIA, in the original, tpnofr. The root of 
 which is IQP and signifies to keep, watch, guard. 
 Observe in yinv or Samaria, the Lord's people 
 were kept 
 
 1. From the oppression of their enemies, and 
 many of the troubles which the wars among them 
 occasioned. 
 
 2. In that city the Lord's chosen people had to 
 " watch and " guard" against the encroachments of 
 idolatry, and the influence of error. 
 
 This city stood about twenty miles north of 
 Jerusalem, being twelve miles south of Dothan. 
 This was a city of the Ephraimites, the capital of 
 the ten tribes of Israel : it was once wholly given 
 up to idolatry. At that time, the Jews being 
 afflicted with wars, fled to Samaria for shelter, 
 and introduced their holy religion among its in- 
 habitants. 
 
 When Philip went to preach the gospel of Christ 
 to the Samaritans, he found them in possession of 
 copies of the laws of Moses, which were corrupted 
 with sundry mistakes. Not merely those which arose 
 from the transcribers mistaking one Hebrew letter 
 for another, but because they were mixed with 
 tenets in favour of idolatry. 
 
 Those two circumstances, namely, that of the 
 Jews fleeing to Samaria from the storm of persecu- 
 tion, and that of Philip going to preach the goipel to
 
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 the Samaritans, reminds me of our venerable English 
 forefathers, who, when the rod of oppression was 
 shook over the English nation, and its Monarch 
 descended from the throne of justice to exercise an 
 undue authority, by inflicting pains and penalties, 
 and confiscating the goods of those who dared to 
 think for themselves in matters relative to their 
 souls and their God, fled from the land which 
 gave their birth, and to which they were attached 
 by many reciprocal ties. But where did they flee ? 
 Not to any of the European nations, for by so doing 
 they would not have bettered their condition ; not 
 to any of the nations professedly Christian, for even 
 there, I blush to add, an intolerant spirit reigned. 
 They fled to this country, now called the United 
 States of America, and where they, like the Jews, 
 or like Philip, introduced their holy religion wherever 
 they went. 
 
 Although the spirit of intolerance is in a measure 
 subsided, and freedom of thought and the exercise 
 of private judgment allowed, yet a spirit of emi- 
 gration prevails in eveiy part of England, for her 
 inhabitants are flocking to this country by hundreds 
 and by thousands. It is true that these modern 
 emigrants may not have the same reasons for leaving 
 their native land as their forefathers, nevertheless 
 they may have had powerful motives for taking up 
 their abode in this countiy. Whether this be true 
 or not with regard to many, it is true with regard to 
 myself; for I can assure you that I have not given up 
 my cottage of superfluity, my home of comforts, my 
 house of temporal and spiritual mercies, my dearest 
 relations, who were tied to me by the remembrance 
 of their fostering care, my pastoral charge, who 
 lived in my heart and partook of my homely, but I 
 hope the spiritual productions of my study ; my 
 native country, the inhabitants of which are as brave 
 and famous as any in the world, who are a repo- 
 sitory of arts and sciences, and a library of intellectual
 
 wealth ; I say I have not given up all these with- 
 out powerful inducements and reasons for taking 
 such an important step. If I were called upon to 
 give those reasons, I would cheerfully do so, among 
 which the following* would have a place : 
 
 1. Because of the influence of a bad Government. 
 
 You know that the inhabitants of any country are 
 in a great measure influenced by the Government 
 which exists among" them. 
 
 You may know from history, and I know by expe- 
 rience, that an aristocratical government is generally, 
 if not always, tyrannical in its enactments, oppressive 
 in its measures, and covetous in its demands. This 
 I know to be the case with the English Govern- 
 ment, for while it is desirous of exceeding eveiy 
 other country in its national splendour and ornamen- 
 tal palaces, it robs, plunders, and deprives the Lan- 
 cashire weavers, the farmers' labourers, and the parish 
 paupers of the common necessities of life, by its 
 enormous salaries and oppressive taxation. For 
 there are taxes on the man of God, who bestows 
 his gratuitous and theological lectures on the villagers; 
 taxes on the widow, who consecrates her mud- walled 
 cot to the worship of Jehovah ; taxes on the house 
 of God, which has been raised by the voluntary 
 subscription of the poor. And what is worse than 
 all is, that if the aged and infirm invite their minister 
 to preach in their parlour, and if the conscience of 
 die man of God dictates to him his exclusive alle- 
 giance to his Supreme in matters of religion, and he 
 banishes from his creed the idea of asking man 
 whether or not he may do his duty to his God ; and 
 should he comply with the request of those who 
 entertain the same views, and thus deliver his gospel 
 sermon to twenty-two or more aged, infirm, and 
 worn-out pilgrims, the one must be liable "to the
 
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 penalty of ten pounds, and the other to the penalty 
 of forty pounds. (George III. cap. 155.) 
 
 Besides these fines and penalties on things per- 
 taining to God, there are taxes on every article 
 which enters the mouth, or covers the back, or is 
 placed under the foot. Taxes upon every thing 
 which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste ; 
 taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion; taxes 
 on every thing on earth, and the waters under the*> 
 earth ; on every thing from abroad, or that is grown 
 at home ; taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every 
 value that is added to it by the industry of man ; 
 taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, 
 and the drug which restores him to health ; taxes on 
 the ermine which decorates the judge, the rope 
 which hangs the criminal, and the brass nails of the 
 coffin ; taxes on the ribands of the bride ; at bed or 
 at board, couchant or levant, they must pay. The 
 schoolboy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth 
 manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on 
 a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman pouring his 
 medicine, which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon 
 which has paid 15 per cent., throws himself back 
 upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., 
 makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires 
 in the arms of an apothecary,* who has paid one 
 hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to 
 death. His whole property is then taxed from 
 two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large 
 fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; 
 his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed 
 marble, and he is then gathered to his fathers to be 
 taxed no more. 
 
 Now, when we are thus oppressed with something 
 like Egyptian bondage, and surrounded with fallen 
 
 *No druggist or doctor in England can sell medicine, or 
 practise physic, without first paying one hundred pounds to 
 Government.
 
 cheeks, the impoverished circumstances, and the 
 cries of the poor, it cannot but affect the feeling-s of 
 humanity. And like a swallow, which from the 
 laws of nature predicts the near approach of an 
 inclement season, takes her anticipating' flight to 
 some distant region, where she may enjoy her liberty, 
 and a full supply of the calls of nature, so humanity, 
 affected by the heart-rending scenes of poverty, and 
 exorbitant demands of usurpers, cannot but desire to 
 take her flight to some distant shore, where she 
 may not be so much annoyed. The means, too, 
 by which that Government is formed, the materials 
 of which it is composed, are also appalling- to the 
 reflecting 1 mind. Here I do not allude to the majority 
 of the House of Parliament, nor to those illustrious 
 characters characters to whom nature has given 
 talents, and to whose minds reason has dictated 
 sound and political ideas who are the ornaments of 
 their country, the political lights of the world, and 
 theWashingtbns of their day, but to those charac- 
 ters and that hereditary system, which makes the 
 throne of England groan with the weight of novices, 
 and crowds the Upper House with characters, 
 whom nature never formed for an important office, 
 and for whom reason never demanded enormous 
 salaries. I cannot stay to be more explicit on these 
 particulars ; suffice it to say, that I believe the 
 English Government to be a mixture of Heathenism, 
 Popery, and Protestantism. Such is its nature, 
 that I believe the present day would blush to give 
 it birth, and that none but the dark ages of Popery 
 could have sent it into existence. 
 
 2. Because of the state of the Church in that 
 country. 
 
 I admit that in every corner of that country, the 
 gospel is preached, and the number of gospel 
 ministers is abundant, many of whom evince extra-
 
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 ordinary talents ; but, alas ! the church is afflicted 
 with scepticism, with imbecility of faith, with a 
 deadness of soul in spiritual matters, with divisions 
 and subdivisions, contentions and stiife. There are 
 but a few ministers who are satisfied with their 
 people, or whose people are satisfied with them. 
 Should a minister step out of the common formal 
 path, he is looked upon as a speckled bird, and set 
 up as a mark to be shot at. Such a stale of Chris- 
 tianity is sufficient to induce us to say, from such 
 " Good Lord deliver us." Here I would observe, 
 that I have desired to enjoy a more pure religious 
 atmosphere, and the friendly company of those who 
 are more zealous in matters pertaining to God, and 
 the salvation of men; and since American Chris- 
 tians have been represented to me to be such like 
 characters, I have ventured to come and witness 
 their zeal for the Lord of Hosts. 
 
 3. Because of Acquaintances and Christian 
 Friends. 
 
 Many of these have emigrated to this country, 
 whose talents will command respect, whose pious 
 demeanour will make them ornaments to America, 
 and whose heavenly graces will enable them to 
 adorn their Christian profession. Do not say that 
 this is a small inducement ; for the desire to enjoy 
 the company of pious, intimate, and long-tried friends, 
 induced a Hobab and a Jacob to leave the land^of 
 their nativity. I pity the soul that is destitute of 
 natural affection, for it betrays a littleness of mind ; 
 but I more especially pity the soul that is destitute 
 of love, for it displays a want of that grace which is 
 the most essential virtue to the Christian. 
 
 4. Became of the reputed and reviving state of 
 Christianity in this country. 
 
 The revivals of religion in America, form a very
 
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 general topic of conversation in England ; and many 
 a time when I have read of them, my heart has 
 burned with a sacred desire to be among- them. The 
 revival of Christianity, the political views of the 
 people, and the constitution of the United States, 
 have been topics of close study and deep interest to 
 me for seven years past ; and such were my views, 
 that I consider I should have been remiss in my duty, 
 and pierced my heart through with many sorrows, 
 had I not visited America. 
 
 I have now submitted to your consideration, my 
 reasons for the important step I have taken; and, 
 therefore I shall proceed to notice 
 
 1. The time to which the text refers us. 
 
 That was a time of violent persecution to the 
 church a time when the political atmosphere in 
 which they breathed, the Mosaical partialities, and 
 the deep-rooted prejudices of the Jews, appeared to 
 form a dark cloud, which threatened the annihilation 
 of the church ; a time when the Sun of Righteous- 
 ness appeared to be sunk in his orbit, and the light 
 of the gospel to withdraw its shining; a time, 
 when the powers of darkness appeared to be let 
 loose, and to seize with a salacious and insatiable 
 desire upon the innocent lambs of the fold of Christ ; 
 a time, when the hope of preserving Christianity 
 to evangelize the earth must have been faint, and 
 when the combined circumstances, the united powers 
 and wickedness of men, appeared to predict the 
 downfal of the Christian empire, and the giving up 
 of the world to heathenish superstition. But, O 
 my friends, " be not faithless, but believing ; rejoice, 
 and be exceedingly glad ;" for although this was a 
 time of thundering, Jehovah was behind the cloud, 
 and laughed at impossibilities ; and as he has loved 
 his church with an " everlasting love," and has
 
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 promised that the " gates of hell shall never prevail 
 against it," so will he subvert the powers of dark- 
 nesss, frustrate the wicked designs of the ungodly, 
 and cause the wrath of man to praise him. Yea, 
 God did over-rule that persecution, and caused it to 
 disperse the Apostles to disseminate the gospel, and 
 build up his church. Through that persecution, the 
 gospel was sent to Samaria, to the Gentiles, to 
 Rome, to Spain, to France, and to England ; and 
 when the violent hand of persecution was raised 
 in England against the Non-Conformists, they fled 
 to this country, and brought with them the mild 
 truths, the enlightening truths, the all-glorious and 
 soul-reviving truths of the Gospel of Christ. 
 
 II. We have here a particular account of what 
 Philip did ; and, therefore, let us notice 
 
 1. The place he chose. 
 
 It was Samaria, which, in the New Testament, 
 signifies the territory between Judea and Galilee, 
 and where the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and 
 Issachar, had dwelt. We might have supposed 
 that Samaria was the last place that Philip would 
 have visited, and that there was the least probability 
 of introducing the gospel there, because of the deep- 
 rooted prejudices of its inhabitants against the Jews, 
 so much so, that they even refused civil dealings 
 with them. (John, iv. 9.) And we all know that 
 prejudice, which is invariably connected with igno- 
 rance, forms a mighty barrier to the introduction of 
 any doctrine, however scriptural that doctrine may 
 be; therefore we see, that if we are desirous of 
 being informed how necessary it is that our minds 
 possess " Charity, Charity, which doth not behave 
 herself unseemly ;" which deliberately meditates on 
 every new idea which strikes the mind ; Charity, 
 which will not allow herself to be influenced by sec-
 
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 tarianisrn, nor confined within the precincts of a party 
 spirit ; Charity which always listens to the voice 
 of Reason, and with calmness and deliberation at- 
 tends to logical productions. 
 
 2. The means Philip used to gain success. 
 
 Those were not the artificial show of heathenism, 
 nor the theatrical or priestly splendour of the Papists, 
 which merely work upon the senses without carry- 
 ing conviction to the heart ; neither did he act like 
 Mahomet, who enforced his doctrines, and imposed 
 his dogmas by sword and bloodshed, by fines and 
 penalties ; but he gave plain statements of divine 
 truths, accompanied with the working- of miracles, 
 which spoke volumes to eveiy reflecting- mind, and 
 carried with them a conviction of the holy truths he 
 preached. 
 
 See what the Gospel Word can do, 
 When plainly stated, and set forth ; 
 What mighty changes it achieves, 
 Whene'er it is received by Faith. 
 
 3. The success which attended Philip's labours. 
 
 We may here observe that his success was very 
 great, for the Holy Ghost has stated, " That when 
 the people saw the miracles which Philip wrought, 
 and heard him preach the thing-s concerning- the 
 kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, 
 they were baptized, both men and women," which 
 circumstance occasioned great and general joy in 
 that city. We may also consider that this great 
 work of conversion was not confined to the metro- 
 polis of that country, but that it spread into all the 
 suburbs and villages of the Samaritans. Thus we 
 see that the word ran among them like fire among 
 dry stubble, which I consider amply shows that the 
 work was of God ; so that we perceive when
 
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 the gospel is preached in its purity, it is powerful 
 and highly calculated to bring men to themselves, 
 to religion, and to God. 
 
 The Gospel is a mighty sword, ' 
 Which slays the selfishness of men ; 
 It brings their souls to know the Lord, 
 And shows them how a heaven to gain. 
 
 III. There are two or three considerations, which, 
 if noticed, will tend to show that Philip's success 
 was extraordinary ; and those were 
 
 1. We may consider that many centuries prior to 
 that time, and even down to the moment that Philip 
 began preaching among them, they had been given 
 up to idolatry, and that the idolaters were always 
 prejudiced against Christianity. 
 
 2. That the minds of the Samaritans were em- 
 bittered against Jerusalem in particular, and the 
 Jews in general. 
 
 3. That at that time Simon the Sorcerer gave 
 out that he was a great character, who mightily 
 deluded the people by his wickedness and magic 
 art ; for to him they had regard, yea he had long 
 ascended the throne of their minds, and ruled with 
 a mighty influence over their sentiments and con- 
 duct. Now, when we consider that those great 
 obstacles which stood in the way to an introduction 
 of the gospel among the Samaritans, were overcome 
 by the preaching of Philip, it will be evident that 
 his success was extraordinary. 
 
 IV. The work in which Philip employed himself 
 when at the city of Samaria. " He preached Christ 
 unto them ;" that is, he preached the Saviour unto 
 them as an all-sufficient sacrifice to be offered to 
 justice for the sins of his people ; and, in order to do 
 this, he must have preached
 
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 1. Their incapability to atone for themselves ; 
 
 For they would not accept of a sacrifice on their 
 behalf, except they were fir*t convinced of their need 
 of one. They could not receive such a conviction, 
 without being shown their fallen state as sinners, 
 their weakness and infirmity. 
 
 2. Philip must have preached Christ's mysterious 
 union with Deity. 
 
 If he showed them their utter incapability to 
 atone for themselves, he must likewise have pre- 
 sented to their consideration a superior character, 
 who possessed a capability to obey the MosaicaA 
 law, and who by his death could satisfy the demands 
 of Divine Justice : therefore he preached Christ un- 
 to them as a mighty God come in the flesh to 
 destroy the works of the Devil ; as a Saviour most 
 eminently fitted ; who could restore their lapsed 
 powers, and implant in them heavenly tempers ; 
 whose mysterious incarnation could endear them to 
 God ; whose natural birth could procure their 
 spiritual regeneration ; and whose unspotted life 
 could restore them to a blissful immortality. 
 Methinks that he would preach him as the joy of 
 mourners, the glory of the infamous, and the salva- 
 tion of the lost. 
 
 Yea, he would preach Christ as being wonderful 
 in his prophetic, priestly, and kingly offices : as one 
 who had gained a triumphant conquest over death, 
 hell, and all his inveterate enemies : as one whose 
 doctrines would trample upon the arguments of the 
 subtle, the power of princes, the blindness of zeal, 
 the force of custom, the pleasures of sin, and all the 
 attempts of the wicked. It is easy to imagine that 
 his extensive mind, his ardent soul, his honest heart, 
 were all impressed with the greatness of his work, 
 the importance of his character, and the glory of his 
 Master.
 
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 3. Philip must have preached the manner of 
 Christ's crucifixion and death. 
 
 He showed them the analogy of the predictions 
 of the Prophets, with Christ's life, miracles, and 
 death ; and, being near the very spot which was 
 the stage and not the corner on which these things 
 were transacted, he would be enabled to produce 
 incontestible evidence of the fulfilment of those 
 predictions. 
 
 4. Philip must have preached the triumphant 
 resurrection of Christ ; 
 
 And, to convince them of the truth of 
 that essential doctrine, he would not have to 
 resort to any garbled argument, nor any " cun- 
 ningly-devised fable ;" no, nor yet to the pages of 
 ancient or modern history, but to clear and evi- 
 dent facts, which transpired on the public platform 
 of their own neighbourhood, and which must have 
 been so clear and evident to them, as to put to 
 silence the sceptical characters, and convince the 
 gainsayers. 
 
 5. Philip preached Christ as a King having a 
 kingdom, and mildly swaying his sceptre over the 
 same ; and, therefore, he preached 
 
 1. Christ's capability and manner, by which he 
 would overcome all his enemies ; and here I ima- 
 gine he would not need to make elaborate discourses, 
 in order to convince them that Christ's enemies 
 were numerous, formidable in their strength, and 
 terrific in their stately combinations ; for they were 
 at that time eye-witnesses of the superstitions of the 
 Heathens, the spite of Pagans, and the malice of the 
 Jews, all of which combined to oppose Christianity. 
 The very first thought that impressed their minds, 
 the first moments of reflection they devoted to the
 
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 subject, they would feel irresistibly convinced that 
 Christ's opponents were more numerous than any 
 other principality or kingdom had to contend with. 
 Philip, of course, would take this opportunity of 
 exhibiting the glory of Christ, by showing them how 
 he would overcome his innumerable, combined, and 
 stately enemies ; and, in doing this, he did not pre- 
 tend to show them that Christ would assume any 
 worldly grandeur to work upon the senses of his 
 antagonists, or that he would wield a powerful 
 sword to subdue their inveterate opposition, or 
 command a warlike army of thousands to establish 
 his kingdom in the world ; but he would show them 
 how that Christ had commissioned his disciples, 
 men of no name, without any pretensions to worldly 
 pomp and grandeur, without sword in their hand, or 
 armies to command, should go forth and make a 
 simple statement of facts, and preach the gospel of 
 the kingdom of God ; and that the gospel which was 
 so generally despised, should subdue kingdoms, set 
 men right, and convert them to its glorious truths. 
 
 O let thy kingdom come, great God, 
 Subdue the nations round : 
 May the whole earth thy Gospel own, 
 And listen to its sound ! 
 
 May kingdoms which in darkness lie, 
 Be brought beneath its light, 
 Lay down their weapons, and no more 
 Presume with thee to fight. 
 
 May Pagan tribes and Indian castes, 
 Be broken and subdued ; 
 Give them to feel thy sovereign grace, 
 Canst raise them by thy Word. 
 
 2. Philip preached Christ unto them as a King, 
 who had enacted laws for the government of his 
 kingdom, and also described the nature of them ; 
 and while exhibiting the goodness of those laws, he 
 would show that they were decreed by him who
 
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 had all power, and that they were signed and sealed 
 by him who had spoken, and would most assuredly 
 bring- it to pass. He would endeavour to convince 
 them, that Christ had enacted laws for the govern- 
 ment of nations, cities, families, masters and ser- 
 vants ; and, that as far as they were governed by 
 them, so should they have peace in this life, as well 
 as an hope of that which is to come. 
 
 3. PMlip preached Christ the King of Kings, 
 and Lord of Lords/ and therefore the best qualified 
 to remunerate his heroes, his warriors, and all who 
 enlisted in the glorious cause of subduing kingdoms, 
 promoting righteousness, and evangelizing the earths 
 The truth of these sentiments may be shown by 
 consulting those words, Col. 2, 9, where it is said 
 that Christ possesses all fulness ; that is, a fulness of 
 repentance for sin, a fulness of justification for the 
 soul, and a fulness of glorification at the right hand 
 of the Majesty on high. When Christ spoke of his 
 people, and the remuneration with which he will 
 bless them, he spoke of them in the following 
 manner : " I give unto them eternal life, and they 
 shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them 
 out of my hand." John, 10,28. 
 
 Now unto Him who is able to enlist you in his 
 cause, to help you to fight manfully the battle of 
 the Lord, and to crown you with laurels that will 
 never fade, and with glory which will never fall from 
 your heads, be ascribed all honour, might, majesty, 
 and dominion, now and for ever. Amen.
 
 ADDRESSED TO THE 
 
 BAPTIST DENOMINATION 
 
 IN GENERAL.
 
 A LETTER, 
 
 ADDRESSED TO 
 
 THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION 
 
 IN GENERAL, 
 
 the Members of those Churches composing 
 the New York, Warwick, Hudson River, and 
 Danbury Associations, in particular. 
 
 MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS : 
 
 Whereas a number of the members composing 
 the above Associations, have united their influence, 
 and exercised the utmost of their power to load my 
 name with infamy, and sink my character in disgrace, 
 I take the liberty of laying before you the following 
 remarks : 
 
 I was always an admirer of the American Con- 
 stitution. For seven years past, I have been accus- 
 tomed to read tho wuiKs which are abundantly 
 circulated "* England by the Americans, for the 
 purpose of encouraging the spirit of emigration, 
 therefore it is nearly that time since I first made up 
 my mind to cross the Atlantic, and place my feet on 
 your land, which then appeared to me to flow with 
 the milk of political freedom, and the honey of reli- 
 gious liberty. 
 
 When in England, I was one among the many 
 thousands of Baptists who approve of OPEN COM- 
 MTJNIONISM,* and when I arrived in this country, I 
 fearlessly avowed the doctrines of Open Comniu- 
 nionism to be rivetted on my mind, inclosed within 
 my heart, and stamped on the pages of my New 
 
 * OPEN COMMUNIONISM implies that we admit all tho Lord's 
 people to participate with us the emblems of the Lord'* broken 
 body, and the spilling of his blood.

 
 
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