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The Stone laid before Joshua. 
 
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 SUBSTANCE 
 
 OF A 
 
 SERMON 
 
 By GEORGE WHITE. 
 
 PUBLISHED AT REQUEST. 
 
 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is 
 Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. iii. 11. 
 
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SERMON, 8cc. 
 
 Zfxhariah iii. 9. 
 
 Tor behold, tjie stone that I have laid before Joshua: 
 upon one stone shall be seven ej/es, behold, I will 
 engrave the graving thereof, saith that Lord of Hosts, 
 <i)id I will remove the iniquity of that laud in one 
 day. 
 
 It appears to be the leading design of the 
 •gospel of the grace of God, to set forth the 
 Lord Jesus in the glories and excellencies of 
 his person, and the perfection of his work, in 
 his offices and relations, his names and cha- 
 racters : for every name he bears; every me- 
 taphor made use of to set him forth, is signi- 
 ficant of his rich grace and mercv to the 
 church. " For how great is his goodness, and 
 how great is his beauty?" Zech. ix. 17. 
 4< We are complete in him." "For it hath 
 pleased the Father, that in him should all ful- 
 ness dwell. He hath blessed us with -every 
 spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ 
 JesUs/T 
 
 The Holy Spirit has brought forward the 
 richest metaphors, to take of the things of 
 ami shew thetn unto us. 
 
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 Thus, this blessed volume is filled with the 
 glory of Christ! Like the bush in which God 
 appeared to Moses, every leaf shines with the 
 effulgence of Him who dwells in the midst. 
 This part of holy writ is a prophecy of the 
 Messiah, the efficacy of his sacrifice, and flou- 
 rishing state of his kingdom. 
 
 To assist your meditations on this import- 
 ant portion of God's word, our plan will con- 
 sist of three parts. 
 
 In the first, We shall endeavour to explain 
 the text with the preceding verses. When 
 we attempt to explain it is usual to refer you 
 to the connexion, and this method is seldom 
 improper, more frequently necessary, for the 
 better illustration of the passage, and that the 
 doctrine advanced may appear to rise naturally 
 from the words ; but however improperly the 
 sour critic may view this, we can by no means 
 pass over such a rich repast without a taste (at 
 least). We have a lively description of the 
 Lord's dealings with a poor sinner, represented 
 to us under the character of Joshua, the high 
 priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, 
 and satan standing at his right hand to resist 
 him. Satan always resists the poor sinner that 
 is about to return to God, he will insinuate 
 hard thoughts of God: how many hard 
 struggles has the poor soul that is about to 
 
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 venture himself upon Christ, for life and sal- 
 vation. The devil raves when he fears the loss 
 of one of his subjects. It is recorded of the 
 lunatic whom Jesus healed, " As he was yet a 
 coming, the devil threw him down, and tare 
 him ; and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and 
 healed the child, and delivered him again to 
 his father," Luke ix. 42. The Lord rebuke 
 thee () satan, even the Lord that hath chosen 
 Jerusalem rebuke thee. He claims the sinner 
 as his right, is not this a brand plucked out of 
 the fire. Though he were fit fuel for destruc- 
 tion, I have ransomed him from going down to 
 the pit, yea I have chosen him, he is mine and 
 I am his. 
 
 Give up the claim satan, the Lord rebuke 
 thee thou enemy of souls. Now Joshua was 
 cloathed with filthy garments when he stood 
 before the angel of the covenant : we must come 
 to Christ filthy and polluted as we are, like the 
 poor ragged prodigal in our starving miserable 
 situation. The only fitness he requires is to 
 feel your need of him. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto those that stood 
 before him, saying, " Take away the filthy 
 garments from him/' and unto him he said, 
 " Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass 
 from thee, and I will .clothe thee, with change 
 of raiment/' Here you may see the justifica- 
 
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 tion of a sinner by faith, his iniquity is re- 
 moved, the best robe brought forth and not 
 only presented, but put upon him : imputed to 
 him for justification, 1! Cor. v. 21. " For he 
 hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no 
 sin, that we might be made the righteousness 
 of God in him." "Even the righteousness of 
 God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto 
 all, and upon all them that believe, for there is 
 no difference, " Rom. iii. 22. But to him that 
 worked not, but belie veth on him that justifieth 
 the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteous- 
 ness even as David also describeth the blessed- 
 ness of the man unto whom God imputeth 
 righteousness without works; saying, " Blessec} 
 are they Avhose iniquities are forgiven, and 
 "whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to 
 whom the Lord will not impute sin," Rom. iv, 
 5, 6, 7, 8. Moreover the Lord said, " Let 
 them set a fair mitre upon his head and clothe 
 him with garments, and the angel of the Lord 
 stood by." See the dignity the poor sinner is 
 brought to, he is taken from the dunghill and 
 set among princes. We are made kings and 
 priests unto God. Set a fair mitre upon his 
 head to distinguish him as one of the royal 
 house. We must have the garments of salva- 
 tion, the cloathing of the king's daughter is of 
 wrought gold and she is ail glorious within. The 
 
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 excellencies of Carmel and Sharon are given 
 unto her, she is adorned with the graces of the 
 Holy Spirit, by which she adorns the doctrines 
 of God her Saviour, testifying the influence of 
 the gospel of the grace of God by a walk con- 
 sistent thereunto. And the angel of the Lord 
 stood by : to see of the travail of his soul : the 
 reward of his blood. To see his merits trans- 
 ferred to us : he became poor, that we through 
 his poverty might be made rich. 
 
 He stands by to dignify the poor miserable 
 sinner. He delights to deck the worst, and 
 crown him with immortality and eternal life. 
 The angel of the Lord standing by may denote 
 the guardian care of Christ over his inherit- 
 ance, lest any hurt he will watch them night 
 and day. Thus are we kept by the power of 
 God through faith to salvation. Bunyan re- 
 presents Christian when eased of his burden by 
 a sight of the cross of Christ, still viewing till 
 tears were seen in his eyes for that joy and 
 gratitude which he felt, three shining ones ap- 
 pear to him and salute him with " Peace be 
 unto thee." Then one said — thy sins are for- 
 given thee — the second cloathed him in a fine 
 robe — the third set a mark upon his forehead, 
 and gave him a roll to read in by the way. 
 Christian gave three leaps for joy, and went on 
 hi? way rejoicing. 
 
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 Joshua is represented under the character of 
 High Priest, you may observe the dignity at- 
 tached to this office, and a solemn charge is 
 given him. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, 
 " If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou 
 wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge 
 my house, and I will give thee places to walk 
 among those that stand by." 
 
 " Hear now O Joshua the high priest and 
 thy fellows that sit before thee, for they are 
 men to be wondered at, for behold I will brins* 
 forth my servant the branch." This is a pro- 
 phecy of Christ the branch of righteousness, as 
 in Isaiah iv. 2. " In that day shall the branch 
 oFthe Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the 
 fruit of the earth shall be excellent and 
 comely." In these prophecies Christ is called 
 a branch, because as man Mediator he sprung 
 from God, his gift : the promised branch : the 
 second Adam ; a branch which shall blossom 
 from under itself, is not of man's planting, but 
 shall spring from a virgin by the peculiar power 
 of the Deity, and in the following verse you 
 have a prophecy of the same person prefigured 
 under another metaphor. For behold the stone 
 laid before Joshua; which stone is the Lord 
 Jesus, as in Dan. ii.* 34. " Thou sawest till 
 that a stone was cut out without hands." The 
 ffuil of God's eternal love, from thence is the 
 
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 shepherd the stone of Israel, the stone which 
 the builders refused is become the head stone 
 of the corner; the stone on which the church 
 is built, on which it is founded, and by which 
 it is supported : as the Lord declares by his 
 prophet, Isaiah xxviii. 16\ ' ; Behold, I lay in 
 Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a 
 precious corner stone, a sure foundation." 
 
 This stone is but one. For other founda- 
 tion can no man lay than that is laid, which is 
 Jesus Christ, which unites the church of the 
 living- God. 
 
 It is laid before Joshua and his companions 
 the priests as architects, to acknowledge it as 
 the stone laid in Zion, lay it for the foundation 
 of faith, build on it themselves, and represent 
 it as a strong hold for prisoners of hope to flee 
 unto, and cast themselves on it for life and 
 salvation. Thus Christ is laid in a gospel mi- 
 nistry, as Paul said, " I have laid the founda- 
 tion." 1 Cor. iii. 10. Upon one stone shall be 
 seren eyes, which may deuote the special Pro- 
 vidence of God the Father over Christ in his 
 mediatorial work. [Ie watched over him with 
 care and pleasure, as it is written : " I will 
 give my angels charge concerning thee, lest 
 thou dash thy foot against a stone," — also 
 Isaiah xlii. 4. 6. Or the seven eyes may de- 
 note a display of the perfections of Jehovah in 
 
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 the work of redemption. " He is Wonderful 
 in counsel, and excellent in working," Isaiah 
 xxviii. f29. All his attributes shine gloriously 
 in the work of redemption, which is the 
 masterpiece of Jehovah; here justice and 
 mercy meet together, righteousness and peace 
 embrace each other. Somcdivincs have thought, 
 the seven eyes represent the whole body of 
 the elect looking to Christ by faith, to him 
 they must look. " if I be lifted up saith. 
 Christ, I will draw all men unto me," but, I 
 should not suppose this idea is meant to be set 
 forth in this text. " Behold 1 will engrave the 
 graving thereof, saith" the Lord of Hosts." 
 These represent the characters by which Christ 
 was to be distinguished as the Messiah, espe- 
 cially his sufferings, by which He was made 
 perfect. All the prophecies were fulfilled in 
 Him; He had all the signs of the Messiah. 
 He hath laid (or caused to meet on Jlim), the 
 iniquity of us all. 
 
 A God of* justice was pleased to bruise him- 
 and put him to grief, and in the last clause of 
 this verse we are taught, that by Christ's satis- 
 faction deliverance from sin was purchased at 
 once, for all the elect in general. I will re- 
 move the iniquity of that land in one day, the 
 last day of Christ's passion the work was com- 
 pletely finished, and the iniquity of that land 
 
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 removed] representing the whole body pf the 
 eleet. The purchased possession, though we 
 were wallowing- in the field of blood, in sin, and 
 God might have justly rained down fire and 
 brimstone and swept us away with the besom 
 of destruction. But he hath purchased this 
 spot of land with his most precious blood, re- 
 moved our iniquity into the land of oblivion. 
 The day when this work was completed. The 
 vail of the temple was rent in twain. The w T ay 
 into the holy of Holies laid open. The party 
 wall between Jews and Gentiles broken down. 
 Now the blessings of this redemption extends 
 not only to the preserved of Israel, but to all 
 the nations of the earth. This is what the 
 apostle says, 2 Cor. v. 19. " God was in 
 Christ, reconciling the world to himself, Sec." 
 In that day, saith the Lord of Hosts, shall he 
 call every man his neighbour under the vine 
 and under the rig- tree. 
 
 Having endeavoured to explain the passage, 
 pur second part will consist of' doctrines drawn 
 from what has been before advanced. 
 
 First, We deduce the eternal security or' 
 the church, built on the stone laid before Jo- 
 shua, according to the words of Christ. Matt, 
 xvi. 18. c< And I say also unto tb.ee, that thou 
 art Peter, am! upon this rock will I build my 
 church : and the gates of hell shall not prevail 
 
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 against it." He that builds here builds on the 
 rock of ages, in whom there is everlasting 
 strength, on the eternal God whose mercy is 
 from everlasting to everlasting : " our defence 
 is the munition of rocks," Though earth and 
 hell be combined, coming in like a flood to 
 inundate and overwhelm the church, it shall 
 stand : it is built on a rock — a city that hath 
 foundations.- If our enemies can remove the 
 divinity of Christ, the precious corner stone, 
 then indeed they might shake the building. 
 41 If the foundations be destroyed what will 
 the righteous do ?" To allow that any part of 
 this spiritual building can be destroyed, is to 
 degrade the attributes of Jehovah, and to 
 mangle, disfigure, dismember all the doctrines 
 of the gospel, " Our life is hid with Christ in 
 God,'* Col. iii. 3. We have a double security. 
 Erskine observes on this text, that the attri- 
 butes of God encompass the Christian's life like 
 so many bulwarks or ramparts, *and these must 
 be broken through before the church can re- 
 ceive the least injury. 
 
 We are in the hand of Christ, and in his 
 Father's hand tvko is greater than ail, none 
 can pluck them out of his hand. We have his 
 oath and promise, and are sure that he cannot 
 deny himself. All that right against the church 
 fight against God, — All that fight against her 
 
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 munition of rocks and that distress her, shall 
 be as a dream of a night vision; as when an 
 hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth, 
 but he awaketii and his soul is empty ; or as 
 when a thirsty man dreameth and behold 
 cirinketh, but he awafceth and behold he i$ 
 faint and his soul hath appetite: so shall. the 
 multitude of all the nations be that fight against 
 mount Zion/' Isaiah xxix. 7, S. 
 
 Secondly, God's special providence over 
 Christ in his Mediatorial work, " Upon one 
 stone shall be seven eyes." God the Father 
 watched over him all through his work with 
 care and pleasure, as he promised in covenant 
 to-be with him. Isaiah xlii. 4. 6. "I the 
 Lord have called thee in righteousness, and 
 will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and 
 give thee for a covenant of the people, for a 
 light of the Gentiles. He shall not fail, nor 
 be discouraged, till he have set judgment in 
 the earth ; and the isles shall wait for his law." 
 Psalm xci. 11, 12. " For he shall give his an- 
 gels charge over thee to keep thee; in ail thy 
 ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, 
 lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. He 
 shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I 
 will be with him in trouble — I will deliver him 
 and honor him." 
 
 From these passages, we gather, that the Father 
 
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 had engaged to give his Son support to 'per- 
 form this great work. He gave him the 
 Spirit without measure, sent his angels to 
 minister unto him, and watch over him con- 
 tinually, enabled him to perform miracles to 
 support nature, and at times to baffle all the 
 designs of his enemies, that none could take 
 away his life, but he laid it down for his peo- 
 ple. " Pie had power to lay it down, and to 
 take it up again." 
 
 Thirdly, The necessity of an Atonement : 
 " I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the 
 Lord of Hosts" Such is the importance of 
 this doctrine, that every part of revelation, 
 either directly or indirectly, point to the sacri- 
 fice of Christ. All the Patriarch's, Prophets, 
 and Evangelists, as with one finger, point to 
 Calvary, and in language most expressive, 
 cry — " Behold the Lamb of God, that 
 taketh away the sin of the world." 
 
 Remove the doctrine of the Atonement and 
 you leave the Bible a confused jargon : but 
 while it is maintained, it is the wisdom of God 
 and the power of God. 
 
 Every page is sprinkled with blood divine ! 
 The doctrine of the Cross is the central point 
 in which all the lines of evangelical truth meet 
 and are united. What the Sun is to the Sys- 
 tem of Nature, that the doctrines of the Cross 
 
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 is to the system of the Gospel. It is the life 
 of it. — The revolving planets might as well exist 
 and keep their course without the attracting 
 influence ot the one, as a Gospel be exhibited, 
 wvrthy of the name, that should leave out the 
 other. 
 
 There was a necessity that Christ should 
 suffer; as God must do justice to his own cha- 
 racter, it became him to make the Captain of 
 our salvation perfect through sufferings. Heb. 
 ii. 10. — " And he was clothed in a vesture clip- 
 ped in blood, and his name is called the Word 
 of God." Rev. xix. 13. " Without shedding 
 of blood is no remission/' Heb. ix. 22. And 
 nothing less than the blood of a divine person 
 was sufficient : " Neither by the blood of 
 goats and calves, but by his own blood, he en- 
 tered once into the Holy Place, having obtained 
 eternal Redemption for us." Heb. ix. 12. As 
 Christ stood the surety of his people, it pleased 
 the Lord to bruise him, and put him to grief, to 
 smite the Shepherd that the sheep might be free. 
 God punished him in strict justice to the attri- 
 butes of Deity. " I will engrave the gravings 
 thereof, saith the Lord of Hosts." Thus Christ 
 suffered, in obedience to his Father's will; 
 satisfied Divine Justice, fulfilled the Law. He 
 drank the very dregs of the cup of wrath, 
 while all the vengeance of God was poured 
 
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 into bis soul; this marked him as the Messiah 
 that was to be cut off. " For all our iniquity 
 was laid on him/ * Isa. liii. 6. 
 
 Fourthly, The work that God accomplished 
 by the sacrifice of his Son, or the efficacy of 
 Christ's satisfaction. 
 
 " Twill remove the iniquity of that land in 
 one day. 1 ' Christ, by his doing and suffering, 
 obtained a right to all the elect, and God is 
 engaged to fulfil his promises made to him as 
 ]\led iator of the New Testament. Psa. ii. 8. 
 " Ask of me, and I will give thee the Heathen 
 for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of 
 the earth for thy possession." Isa. liii. 10, 11. 
 u If he shall make his soul an offering for siii-^-. 
 he shall see his seed, &c. He shall see of the 
 travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied." Isa. 
 lix. 4—6. " Surely my judgment is with the 
 Lord, and my work with my God. And he 
 said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be 
 my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, 
 and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will 
 also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that 
 thoumayestbe my salvation unto the end of 
 the earth. Thus we become his inheritance." 
 Eph. i. 11. " His peculiar treasure." Ps. 
 exxxv. 4. " His peculiar people." Tit. ii. 14. 
 And the Lord Jesus obtained for the Elect, by 
 bis satisfaction — freedom from all misery, and 
 
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 a right to eternal life — thus, " This is my 
 blood of the New Testament, which is shed for 
 many for the remission of sins " Mat xxvi. 28. 
 Gal. i. 4. " He gave himself for our sins, 
 that he might deliver us from this present evil 
 world, according to the will of God and our 
 Father." Tit. ii. 14. " He gave himself for 
 us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity^ 
 and purify unto himself a peculiar people 
 zealous of good works, so that we are redeemed 
 by Christ from all misery, in whom we have 
 redemption through his blood, the forgiveness 
 of sins according to the riches of his graces," 
 Eph. i. 7. H Wt are not only redeemed, but 
 justified." Rom. iii. 2 — 4. Being justified 
 freely by his grace, through the redemption that 
 is in Christ Jesus, the effect of which is eternal 
 liberty and salvation. In short, every blessing 
 we receive from a God of providence, and a 
 God of all grace, flows to us through the chan- 
 nel of Christ's blood. — " There's not a blessing 
 his hand bestows, but costs his heart a groan." 
 
 He hath brought in such a complete righte- 
 ousness, for which he is called — " The Lord our 
 righteousness," that we have a right to all the 
 benefit of the covenant of grace; to the sure 
 mercies of David, we may use the Apostle's 
 language of assurance. Rom. viii. 39, 33, 34. 
 
 lie that spared not his own Son, but de- 
 
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 livered him up for us all, how shall he not 
 with him also, freely give us all things — Who 
 shall lay any thing to the charge of God's 
 elect ? — It is God that justifieth — Who is he 
 that condemneth? It is Christ that died. Israel 
 shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting 
 salvation. Ye shall not be confounded, world 
 without end ; surely shall one say, " In the 
 Lord have I righteousness and strength, even 
 to him shall men come, and all that are in- 
 censed against him shall be ashamed. In the 
 Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and 
 shall glory." Isa. xlv. 17— 24-, 95.— " 'Christ 
 also loved the church, and gave himself for it, 
 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the 
 washing of water by the word, that he might 
 present it to himself a glorious church, not 
 having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but 
 that it should be holy and without blemish." 
 Eph. v. 25, 26, 27- " God will perform all his 
 purpose in the decree of Election, by the com- 
 plete salvation of his people, which includes the 
 eternal glorification of body and soul in the 
 presence of Christ; and it is much to our com- 
 fort that the Scriptures ascribe immutability to 
 #ie diyirte Electi<tti.^ Rom. ix. 11. " That the 
 purpose of God, according to election, might 
 stand/' 2 Tim. ii. 19- " The foundation of 
 God standeth sure having this seal ; the Lord 
 
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 knoweth them that are his/' Isa. xlix. 15, 16". 
 M Can a woman forget her sacking child, that 
 she should not have compassion on the son of 
 her Womb? — Yea, they mav fotget. yet I will 
 not fonjet thee. Behold I have graven thee on 
 the palms of my hands.** Rev. hi. ,5. u I will 
 not blot out his name out of the book of life/' 
 Isa. iv. 3. " And it shall come to pass, that 
 lie that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth 
 in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every 
 one that is written among the living in Jeru- 
 salem" 
 
 If these doctrines are fairly drawn, we pro- 
 ceed to the third part, which was to urge the 
 following motives. Some have wished to scout 
 even the term application from our sermons : 
 little regard need be paid to such as make a 
 man an offender for a word: of such Isaiah 
 speaks, chap. xxix. ver. 21. We are persuaded 
 that the Spirit of the Lord alone can make the 
 word effectual ; but there is a ministerial appli- 
 cation to the different situations of the Lord's 
 people, and the various classes of hearers. 
 
 First, We have motives to increase our faith, 
 and establish our hope. If the church be so 
 secure, we have reason to be strong in faith, 
 giving glory to God. The Apostle wishes that 
 our faith may grow exceedingly, that we may 
 abound in hope through the power of the Holy 
 
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 Ghost. — If our hope be cast as the anchor of 
 our souls, both sure and stedfast, upon Christ, 
 as the rock of ages, we shall be enabled, to re- 
 joice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence 
 in the flesh. ' We have motives for love and 
 gratitude because we are not our own, but are 
 bought with a price, we should therefore serve 
 God with our bodies and spirits which are his, 
 for the love of Christ constraineth us to love 
 him — his people — his word — and to serve him 
 in sincerity and in truth. The believer works, 
 from life, not for life. Those who have built 
 upon the stone laid before Joshua, are ex- 
 horted to rejoice : " Let the inhabitants of the 
 Rock sing, let them shout from the tops of the 
 mountains." Isa. xlii. 11. alsolsa. xii. 6. " Cry 
 out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for 
 great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of 
 thee." There is much encouragement for a 
 poor sensible sinner to come and build upon 
 this Stone for life and salvation. " We are 
 not come to the mount that might be touched 
 but to mount Zion, &c. &c." Ileb. xii. 22, 23. 
 I would say with the angel that exhorted Lot, 
 " Escape for thy life."- — Flee to the mountains 
 — to the city of refuge, to the strong holds, ye 
 prisoners of hope. — To the fountain opened for 
 sin and uncleanness. Ye that have no money 
 come, buy wine and milk without money and 
 
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 without price. Let him that is a-thirst come, 
 and whosoever will, let him come and take of 
 the waters of lire freely. — Like the poor ship- 
 wrecked sailor, I see you coming to the Rock 
 as unto a living stone, and as you nearly 
 reached it the violent waves of Satan's tempta- 
 tions have driven you back — try again — re- 
 member, it is for your life ; wrestle until you 
 can call the Lord your own. Isa. lv. 6, 7. 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 
 upon him while lie is near: ' ; Let the wicked 
 forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his 
 thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord and 
 he will have mercy upon him, and to our God 
 i\>r he will abundantly pardon." Here is a 
 prop against all despair, " Whosoever falleth 
 upon this Stone shall be broken.' 3 The contrite 
 heart, who thus relies upon Christ, shall in no 
 wise be cast out. But shall be safe, and go in 
 and out and find pasture. God hath sworn by 
 two immutable things, that we might have 
 strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to 
 the hope set before us in the Gospel. 
 
 Also, a motive for repentance:* which is a 
 tear that drops from the eye of faith — Behold 
 the graving* on this stone laid before Joshua, 
 Look on him whom you have pierced, and 
 mourn. See iniquity removed, through the suf- 
 ferings which he endured.- 
 
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 When we see sin in the glass of God's 
 forgiving love, then we have a godly sorrow' 
 for it, we abhor ourselves in dust and ashes. — 
 How" will this reflection aggravate the sin of 
 unbelief, to hear of iniquity being removed and 
 reject this great salvation. It is an awful thing 
 to perish under the sound of mercy ; this 
 thought will make hell ten times hotter, your 
 guilty conscience will gnaw with greater force, 
 and the wrath of God will bum with increas- 
 ing ag ravation. " It shall be more tolerable 
 for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you. Upon 
 whomsoever this stone shall fall, it will grind 
 him to powder. O ye despisers, wonder and 
 perish, this is the Stone of stumbling, and 
 Rock of offence laid aside by you builders. 5> 
 Isa. viii. 14, 15. iC And he shall be for a sanc- 
 tuary ; but for a stone of stumbling and for 
 a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel ; 
 for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem." And many among them shall fall 
 and be broken, and be snared and be taken. 
 
 Observe, the danger of buildiug on any 
 thing short of the Stone laid in Zion ; many 
 rest upon what they call moral virtues, which 
 is nothing more than common civility; such 
 a sanely foundation will not stand in the hour 
 of trial. 
 
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 Lastly, There is a motive to remove a party 
 spirit. " In that day, saith the Lord of Hosts, 
 shall ye call every man his neighbour under 
 the vine and under the fig-tree. This is 
 agreeable with Gal iii. 28, 29. " There is nei- 
 ther Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor 
 free, there is neither male nor female ; for ye 
 are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be 
 Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs 
 according to the promise." 
 
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P R E F A C E, 
 
 I observed a lively exhortation to prayer, 
 for the Jews, in the Evangelical Magazine 
 for January, which led me to enquire into 
 the best means to promote a spirit of prayer 
 On their behalf. 
 
 I found, upon searching into the Prophe- 
 chies relating to the Restoration of Israel, 
 my heart drawn out in prayer for them. 
 
 My printing this Extract is intended to 
 promote a serious concern in true Christians 
 for the conversion of God's ancient people. 
 
 The only apology I shall make is, that 
 my heart's desire and praver to God for 
 Israel is, that they might be saved. 
 
 Your willing servant 
 
 In the Gospel, 
 
 G. White. 
 
 Folkstone, Jan. 24, 1806. 
 
THE RESTORATION 
 
 Or THE 
 
 J E WS. 
 
 WE tnav reckon among the benefits of 
 the New Testament the restoration of I 
 Israel it eSj who were formerly rejected:, and 
 
 the bringing them back to the communion 
 of God in Christ. Paul has unfolded this 
 mystery to the Gentiles, Rom. ii. 25 — 27. 
 t( For I would not, brethren, that ye should 
 be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye should 
 be wise in your own conceits) that blindness 
 in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness 
 of the Gentiles be come in ; and so all Israel 
 shall be saved : as it is written, there shall 
 come out of Zion the deliverer, and shall 
 turn away ungodliness from Jacob ; for this 
 is my covenant unto them, w T hen I shall take 
 away their sins. 5 ' 
 
 On this place observe, First, That the^ 
 apostle here explains some mystery ; that 
 is, a secret thing, not known but by reve- 
 lation, and taken notice of but by few, and 
 happening beyond the expectation and judg- 
 ment of reason ; in fine, the whole method and 
 manner of executing which', lies in a great 
 Aa « 'measure 
 
6 
 
 measure concealed. See 1 Cor. ii. 7, and 
 1 Cor. xv. 51, and Eph. iii. 3. 
 
 Secondly, That it is the interest of th* 
 Gentiles to be acquainted with this mystery, 
 to prevent their entertaining higher thoughts 
 concerning themselves, and lower concern- 
 ing the Israelites : we are, therefore, to 
 take care, to enquire diligently, and with 
 attention, into what the prophets have fore- 
 told concerning this matter. 
 
 Thirdly, The apostle here speaks of the 
 people of Israel, not figuratively, but pro- 
 perly so called ; who were at this time 
 blind, obdurate, stupid, and hardened, of 
 which, v. 7, Isaiah foretold this judgment of 
 God against Israel at large, chap. vi. 9, 10, 
 Acts xxviii. 26, Isaiah xxix. 10, 11. To 
 this also seems applicable, that whirlwind of 
 the Lord, that fury and continuing whirl- 
 wind, which shall abide on the head of the 
 wicked ; of which, Jer. xxx. c 23. In short, 
 this is that forlorn condition of the blinded 
 nation of Jews, which, taking its rise in the 
 apostles' time, continues to this our day. 
 
 Fourthly, That this blindness is in part 
 happened to Israel. The whole nation, from 
 its first origin, even to the end of the world, 
 is considered as one whole ; a certain part 
 of which are those, who either have cr rt< 
 dc, or hereafter shall live in the days of i 
 wrath and indignation of God 
 lias tilled that p0ft o 
 
Fifthly, That blindness is to continue upon 
 them no longer, than till the fulness of the 
 Gentiles be come in ; that is, till the Gospel 
 is preached among all nations of the world 
 whatever, which, indeed, began to be done 
 by the apostles and their fellow-labourers ; 
 but could not be done perfectly, both on 
 account of the extent of the world and the 
 shortness of human life, and likewise be- 
 cause many nations (as all the American) 
 were at that time unknown. This, there- 
 fore, still remains to be done successively ; 
 God, in his admirable providence, paving 
 the way for his word. The offer of grace 
 was first made to the Israelites. When they 
 refused, it was sent to the Gentiles ; but 
 when the fulness of them shall be brought 
 in, it will be again given to the Israelites, 
 that the last may be first, and the first last. 
 Luke xiii. 30 ; see Luke xxi. 24. 
 
 Sixthly, That when the fulness of the. 5 
 Gentiles is brought in, all Israel shall be 
 saved: that is, as our Dutch commentators 
 well observe, not a few, but a very great 
 number, and in a manner the whole Jewish 
 nation, in a full body. Peter Martyr has 
 judiciously explained the fulness of the Gen- 
 tiles, and the whole body c f Israel, in the 
 following words : (< But we are to understand , 
 a limited fulness, and a fixed and determined 
 collection : which is therefore called fulness, 
 because there will be an exact and a very 
 
 great 
 
8 
 
 .great number of believers, so that the church 
 shall be publicly owned, and had in great 
 esteem among the Gentiles, just as all Israel 
 is to be taken for a great number of Jews, 
 among whom Christ should be publicly ac- 
 knowledged ; not that some, as well of the 
 Gentiles as'Jews, .shall not be lost/' 
 
 From what we have said before, it appears, 
 that they depart from the apostle's meaning, 
 who, by all Israel, understand the mystical 
 Israel, or the people of God, consisting 
 both of Jews and Gentiles, without admitting 
 the conversion of the whole Jewish nation 
 to Christ, in the sense we have mentioned. 
 Notwithstanding, this may be confirmed by 
 the following arguments : 
 
 First, The apostle speaks of that Israel, to 
 whom he ascribes his own pedigree, v. 1, 
 whom he calls his flesh, that is, his kindred, 
 v. 14, and the natural branches, v. 91 ; whom 
 he constantly distinguishes from the Gentiles, 
 to whom, he testifies, blindness is happened. 
 Ail this is applicable to Israel, properly sa> 
 called. 
 
 Secondly, He lays before us a mystery : 
 but it was no mystery, that a veiy few Jews 
 were converted to Christ, together with the 
 Gentiles; for we have daily instances of 
 that. * 
 
 Thirdly, He reminds the Gentiles, not to 
 exult over, or despise the Jews, from this 
 argument, that, as they themselves were now 
 
 taken 
 
9 
 
 taken in among the people of God, so* in 
 like manner, the Jews were in due time to 
 be taken in again. But if the apostle meant, 
 that the" body of the Jewish nation was to 
 continue in their hardness, and but a few 
 'of them to be saved, who, joined to the 
 Gentiles, should form a mystical Israel, the 
 whole of that discourse would be more 
 adapted to the commendation of the Gen- 
 tiles than of the Israelites, and encourage, 
 rather than repress, the pride of the Gen- 
 tiles. 
 
 Fourthly, As the fall and diminishing of 
 Israel, v. 12, and their casting away, z\ 15, 
 are to be understood ; so likewise the re- 
 ceiving and saving them : for here the rules 
 of a just opposition must be observed. But 
 the fall, diminishing, and casting away of 
 Israel, are to be understood of the gene- 
 rality of the Jewish nation ; therefore, the 
 receiving and saving of Israel in like 
 manner. 
 
 From which it is evident, that Grotius 
 trifles when he is positive," that this pro- 
 phecy was fulfilled at that time when the 
 idols and military ensigns, of the Romans 
 were openly seen in the temple ; because, 
 that then many, who had embraced Christi- 
 anity, together with those who had been 
 Christians be Fore, were exempted from the 
 following calamities. To which was added 
 the conversion of many Jews, upon the 
 a 5 destruction 
 
10 
 
 destruction of the city and temple ; since 
 now the truth of Christ's predictions ap- 
 peared in a much clearer light, and the 
 galling yoke of personal bondage had broken 
 the obstinacy of many, as Vespasian and 
 Titus put no bar in the way : for proving 1 * 
 this, he quotes a passage from Justin adversus 
 Tryphonem. But such absurd imaginations 
 are contrary to the light of all history. For, 
 •during the siege/ the whole of the Jewish 
 nation, which was all over plunged in their 
 guilt and perfidy, were made to suffer the 
 just punishment of their sins ; which is very 
 far from that salvation, which Paul here as- 
 sures us of. If any joined the Christians at 
 that time, their number was so inconsidera- 
 ble, compared with the rest, as that it is ri- 
 diculous to give them the name of all Israel. 
 Justin says nothing, but that some of them, 
 being daily instructed in the name of Christ, 
 had quitted the way of error : which differs 
 very much from all Israel. We may add, 
 that by that fancy of Grotius, the times of 
 casting away and receiving are entirely con- 
 founded ; for never was the breaking of£ 
 and cutting away the natural branches, more 
 palpably seen, according to the Baptist's 
 prophecy, Mat. iii. 10, than at the time 
 that Grotius imagines they were grafted in. 
 
 In fine, the prophetic testimony, alledged 
 by the apostle from Isaiah lix. 20, confirms 
 our explanation ; where the Hebrew words 
 
 properly 
 
11 
 
 properly denote, the Redeemer sltaJ.l come to 
 Zion ; or, according to the Septuagint, on 
 account of Zion, and unto them that turn 
 from defection in Jacob. Paul, generally 
 following the Septuagint, has rendered the 
 words somewhat differently, but to the same 
 purpose and meaning. Observe, 
 
 First, That the apostle here very justly 
 explains Zion and Jacob of the Jews ; for, 
 these are the natural sons of Jacob, natives, 
 citizens of Zioc ; the others are only natu- 
 ralized : that name, therefore, primarily and 
 of itself agrees to them. And then ^lso he 
 speaks of those with whom the covenant 
 was made ; as it is said, v. 2i, this is my co- 
 venant xoith ilicm : but that testament and 
 covenant belong to Israel, ichose are the 
 covenants and promises. Rom. ix. 4. See 
 Lev. xxvi 44, 45. Moreover, Zion and 
 Jacob denote, not some few of Israel, but 
 the whole body of that nation, as Gen. xlix.7 ; 
 for in Zion all the tribes had a right, Psalm 
 exxii. 4. 
 
 Secondlv, The sxxel is promised to Zion ; 
 that is, the Kinsman-redeemer, who can 
 justly say, these are mine, and that in right 
 of consanguinity, for I am the nearest kins- 
 man. True it is, Christ may be called the 
 goel and near kinsman of all nations, on ac- 
 count of his being of the same human na- 
 ture with them, which he assumed : yet he 
 is chiefly and first of ail the god of Israel, 
 a G because 
 
12 
 
 because of them are the fathers, of whom 
 as concerning the flesh Christ came, Bom. 
 ix. 5. And therefore, perhaps, the apostle 
 said, the Redeemer shall come out of Zion; 
 for as the relation, which is expressed by the 
 term god, could not -be set forth by the 
 Greek pvoptnc, he was willing, by this means, 
 to make up the imperfection of the Greek 
 language, by intimating, that the Redeemer 
 was in such a manner to come to Zion, as 
 at the same time, with respect to his human 
 nature, to come out of Zion. The advent 
 of the Deliverer supposes, also, such a time, 
 in which other lords, besides Jehovah, were 
 to rule over Zion, Isaiah xxvi. 13, from 
 whose illegal dominion he was, w<ith a stretch- 
 ed out arm, to set free, and deliver his 
 people. 
 
 Thirdly, The work of this Redeemer will 
 be, to turn away iniquity from Jacob, In 
 the Hebrew it runs, he shall come to those 
 that return from defection. The meaning is 
 the same : he will impart his grace and sal- 
 vation to those, who, by a true faith and re- 
 pentance, shall return unto God. And as 
 they cannot give this repentance unto them- 
 selves, the Redeemer will bestow it upon 
 them* See Acts v. 3 i. Not only the Greeks 
 have thus rendered the words of the pro- 
 phet, but also the Chaldee, and to turn the 
 rebellious of Hie house of Jacob to the law. 
 And to this purpose is what follows in Isaiah 
 
 chap. 
 
13 
 
 chap. lix. 21, concerning giving the Spirit 
 of God in Israel, and the putting his word 
 in their mouth. The sum of the whole is, 
 that, by the efficacy of the Redeemer, the 
 Jews arc in due time to be converted from 
 their rebellion and transgressions. 
 
 Fourthly, As this is not vet accomplished, 
 as to the whole body of the Israelites, and 
 yet the Scripture must be fulfilled, the apos- 
 tle has justly inferred, that in the last times 
 it will be perfectly fulfilled : for, seeing the 
 foundation thereof is God's covenant with 
 Israel, and this a firm covenant, stable, im- 
 mutable, and suspended on no ambiguous 
 condition, ( for what condition could that co- 
 venant admit, w T hich allots both remission 
 of sins and repentance to Israel ? ) it is not 
 possible, but that every thing shall happen 
 exactly, according to the promise and pre- 
 diction. And this is my covenant with them, 
 saith God. But concerning this covenant 
 he speaks as follows, Isaiah liv. 10, (i For the 
 mountains shall depart, and the hills be re- 
 moved, but my kindness shall not depart 
 from thee, neither shall the covenant of my 
 peace be removed, saith Jehovah, that hath 
 mercy on thee." And again, Jtr\ xxxiii. 
 25, 26, " Thus saith Jehovah, if my cove- 
 nant be not with day and night, and if I 
 have not appointed the ordinances of heaven 
 and earth, then I will cast away the seed of 
 Jacob, and David my servant." Add Psalm 
 
 cv. 
 
11 
 
 cv. 8, 9, and Dent. iv. 3L All this being 
 addressed to the whole body of the nation, 
 it must of necessity be fulfilled at the ap- 
 pointed time. 
 
 Fifthly, But because some, perhaps, might 
 think that those horrid crimes, of which the 
 Israelites had been guilty, might hinder that 
 blessing: of God from coming to them : the 
 apostle adds a testimony, whereby God pro- 
 mises to take away their sins ; which cannot 
 but be accompanied with repentance and 
 faith in the Messiah, and the communication 
 of his grace. True, indeed, it is, we have 
 not those words in Isaiah liv ; but yet they 
 are in Isaiah xxvil. 9, where the Greek version 
 hasthevery words, otuv >.u>[*.a.i raq a^u^uq mvm a.q>e. 
 It is not unusual with the apostle to collect 
 several testimonies into one, and to explain 
 the words of one passage by those of an- 
 other. And indeed this observation was of 
 great importance ; for, if any thing should 
 seem to stand in the way of the restoration 
 of the Jews, it was their extreme impiety : 
 wherefore there are frequent promises con- 
 cerning the expiation of the crimes they 
 had committed, as Deut. xxxii. 43, Jer. 
 xxxiii. 8, and Jer. 1. 20. 
 
 Some, perhaps, may say, are there not 
 clearer expressions in proof of this matter 
 in the prophets ? Why then does the apostle 
 pitch upon these, the force and cogency of 
 which does not at first sight appear ? I answer, 
 
 there 
 
15 
 
 there are such, which we shall presently 
 produce ; but here the supreme and admira- 
 ble wisdom of the Holy Spirit shines forth, 
 partly, because by selecting these, he would 
 bring us to consider entire prophecies, which 
 as it were, he points out to us, and of such 
 a nature as to give full conviction of this 
 matter. Partly, that by arguing from pro- 
 phecies less evident, he might constrain us 
 to give credit to such as are more clear and 
 express : for, who will take upon him to 
 wrest to a different meaning such evident 
 testimonies, as by the very sound of their 
 words lead to their sense, when he observes, 
 that Paul draws his reasons from such as 
 seemed much more remote from the pur- 
 pose ? 
 
 Should any one desire clearer testimonies, 
 we offer the following to his consideration : 
 From Moses, Lev. xxvi. 4i — 45, Deut iv. 
 30, 31, Deut. xxx. 1 — 6, and Deut. xxxii.43. 
 From the Psalms, Ps. cii. 14 — 18, and Ps. 
 lxxxv. 9, 10. From Isaiah, Isa. xi. 11, 12, 
 Isa. xix. 24, 25, Isa. xlix. 14, &c. Isa. Ixii. 
 throughout. From Jeremiah, Jer. iii. 18, 
 Sec. Jer. xxxi. 1, and from v. 31 to the end ; 
 Jer. xxxii. 37, &c. Jer. xxxiii. 24 — 26. 
 From Ezekiel, Ezek. xxxvi. 24 to the end; 
 Ezek. xxvii, throughout, especially from 
 v, 15, ; Ezek. xxxix. 25, to the end. Add 
 Hosea iii. 5. All these promises are more 
 sublime, than that the time can be assigned 
 
 m 
 
16 
 
 in which they can be supposed to have been 
 as yet fulfilled. From the New Testament, 
 add Mat, xxiii. 29, Lake xxi. 24, 2 Cor. 
 iii. 16. 
 
 The reader may please to see what we 
 have said on this head in a particular book 
 concerning the Ten Tribes of Israel, from 
 chap. ix. to the end ; where he will find 
 most of those prophecies carefully and at 
 greater length explained. 
 
 As from all this it is evident, we are to 
 expect the general conversion of the Israel- 
 ites in time to come, not indeed of every 
 individual, but of the whole body of the 
 nation, and of the twelve tribes. We chuse 
 not to multiply minute questions, either out 
 of curiosity or incredulity, concerning the 
 time, place, manner, means, and the like 
 circumstances of this mystery, which God 
 has reserved in his power. Let us maintain 
 the- thing itself, and leave the manner of it 
 to God. We shall then best of all undein 
 stand those obscure prophecies which de- 
 scribe it, when we shall be able to compare 
 the event with them. Our Calvin, as his 
 manner is, speaks with prudence and gra- 
 vity : " Whenever the longer delay is apt to 
 throw us into despair, let us recollect the 
 name mystery, by which Paul clearly puts 
 us in mind, that this conversion is not to be 
 in the ordinary or usual manner.; and there- 
 fore they act amiss, who attempt to measure 
 
 it 
 
17 
 
 k by their own private sentiments : for, 
 what more perverse, than to account incre- 
 dible what falls not in with our opinion ?" 
 
 Being therefore called a mystery, because 
 incomprehensible, until the time of its re- 
 velation. Moreover, it is revealed to us, as 
 it was to the Romans, that our faith, ac- 
 quiescing in the word, may support our 
 expectation, until the effect itself be made" 
 manifest. We shall conclude these things 
 with the wish and words of Maimonides, at 
 the end of his " JVIo?e Jseiochun." But 
 jnay the great and good God himself purif} 
 all Israel, according to his promise : then 
 the eyes of the blind will be opened. The 
 people sitting in darkness have seen a great 
 light: to those who sat in the shadow 7 of 
 death, the light is arisen. 
 
 To this restoration of Israel shall be joined 
 the riches of the whole church, and, as it 
 were, life from the dead, Bom. xi. 1?. Now 
 if the fall of them be the riches of the 
 world, and the diminishing of them the riches 
 of the Gentiles, how much more their ful- 
 ness ? And v. 15, For if the casting away 
 of them be the reconciling of the world, 
 what shall the receiving of them be, but 
 life from the dead ? 
 
 The apostle intimates, that much greater 
 and more extensive benefits shall redound to 
 the Christian church, from the fulness and 
 restoration of the Jews, than did to the. 
 
 Gentiles 
 
18 
 
 Gentiles from their fall and diminution : 
 greater, I say, intensively } or with respect 
 to degrees ; and larger, with respect to 
 extent. 
 
 As to intenscness, or degrees, it is sup- 
 posed, that about the time of the conversion 
 of the Jews, the Gentile world will be like 
 a dead person, in a manner almost as Christ 
 describes the church of Sardis, Rev. iii. 1, c 2; 
 namely, both that light of saving knowledge, 
 and that fervent piety, and that lively and- 
 vigorous simplicity of antient Christianity, 
 will, in a course of years, be very muel) 
 impaired. Many nations, who had formerly 
 embraced the Gospel with much zeal, after- 
 wards almost to be extinguished by the 
 venom of mahometanism, popeiy, libertin- 
 ism, and atheism, would verify this pro- 
 phecy : but upon the restoration of the 
 Jews, these will suddenly arise, as out of 
 the grave : a new light will shine upon them; 
 a new zeal be kindled up ; the life of Christ 
 be again manifested in his mystical body, 
 more lively, perhaps, and vigorous, than 
 ever. Tht n, doubtless, many Scripture- 
 prophecies will, after their accomplishment, 
 be better understood ; and such, as now ap- 
 pear dark riddles, shall then be found to 
 contain a most distinct description of facts. 
 Many candles joined together give a greater 
 light : a new fire laid near another gives a 
 greater heat. And such will the accession 
 
 of 
 
19 
 
 of the Jews be to the church of the Gen- 
 tiles. 
 
 And not only so, but also many nations, 
 among whom the name of Christ had long 
 before been forgotten, shall be seen to flock 
 again to the standard of salvation then 
 erected. For there is a certain fulness of 
 the Gentiles, to be gathered together by the 
 successive preaching of the Gospel, which 
 goes before the restoration of Israel, of 
 which, v. 25 ; and another richness of the 
 Gentiles, that comes after the recovery of 
 Israel. For while the Gospel was published 
 now to this, then to that nation, others gra- 
 dually departed from Christ: but when the 
 fulness of the Jews is come, it is altogether 
 probable, that these nations will in great 
 numbers return to Christ. An almost innu- 
 merable multitude of Jews reside in Asia 
 and Africa, among the Persians, Turks, In- 
 dians, Chinese, Japanese, and Tartars. When, 
 therefore, by the almighty hand of God, 
 these shall be brought to the communion of 
 the Messiah, their love to him will be more 
 ardent, as their hatred against him had been 
 formerly more bitter. And is it not more 
 than probable, that the nations, among 
 whom they live, being excited by their ex- 
 ample and admonitions, shall come into the 
 fellowship of the same faith ? Certainly, 
 the w T ords of the apostle lead us to this. 
 
 Agreeably 
 
20 
 
 Agreeably to which James has said,, Acts 
 \v. 15 — 17. And to this agree the words 
 of the prophets; as it is written, " After this 
 I will return, and will build again the ta- 
 bernacle of David, which is fallen down ; 
 and I will build again the ruins thereof, 
 and 1 will set it up : that the residue of men 
 might seek after the Lord, and all the Gen- 
 tiles, upon whom my name is called, saith, 
 the Lord, who doth all these things." 
 
 The reparation of the fallen tabernacle of 
 David signifies, the restoration of true and 
 spiritual worship among the Israelites. And 
 when that shall come to pass, the rest of 
 mankind, who never gave up their names to 
 Christ, and the nations, upon whom his 
 name was formerly called, but who, by 
 their thoughtlessness, lost the benefit of the 
 Gospel, will then with emulation seek the 
 Lord. And what is more evident, than 
 that prophecy in Isaiah — the prophet, chap. 
 lix. 20, 21, having foretold the restoration 
 of Israel, according to the apostle's com- 
 mentary, immediately, chap. lx. 1, exclaims, 
 " Arise ! shine ! for thy light is come, and 
 the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee." 
 Verse 3, " And the Gentiles shall come to 
 thy light, and kings to the brightness of 
 thy rising," &c. Moreover, the riches of 
 the church at that time are described v. 17, 
 <{ for brass I will bring gold, and for iron I 
 
 will 
 
21 
 
 will bring silver, and for wood brass, and 
 for stones iron :" the most magnificent 
 words to the same purpose follow these. 
 From the consideration of which, Peter 
 Martyr has said, that, indeed, according to 
 almost all the prophets, especially Isaiah, 
 the happiness of the church will be great, 
 which it has not yet attained to, but it is 
 probable that it will then ( on the conversion 
 of the Jews) attain to it. We have not, in- 
 deed^ the least doubt, that there are many 
 prophecies, both in the Old and New Testa- 
 ment, to this purpose, the full meaning of 
 which we ardently pray the Supreme Being 
 raay teach his people by the event, the 
 only undoubted interpreter of prophecies. 
 It is, however, our duty to be modest on 
 the head, and not rashly intrude into the 
 secrets of Providence, nor boldly abuse 
 what we are neither allowed to know, nor 
 suffered to search into. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
INFANT BAPTISM 
 
 r=* 
 
 EXTRACT 
 
 FRO* 
 
 HERMAN "iriTSIUS. 
 
 By GEORGE WHITE. 
 
 For the promise 16 unto you, and to your chiklien,...P£TEP > , 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED TOR WILLIAMS & SMITH, STATIONERS* CGURTi 
 
 LEDGATE.STREET. 
 
 BY W, HENET, 76, FLEET-STREET. 
 
 1806. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 IT is common for those that oppose Infant 
 Baptism to make use of this learned author, 
 as if he xccre wliolly on their side. I have 
 often wished his sentiments on this suhject 
 were more generally known ; and as they are 
 given without the least rancour, or reflection 
 on his opponents, this Extract may he more 
 freely recommended. 
 
 G. W. 
 
 F0LKST05E, Jtm. 10, %0p> 
 
LYR'I.YT BAPTISM. 
 
 There is one thing thai, I think, ought not 
 to be omitted here, seeing it is of very great , 
 moment to our consolation, — namely, that 
 Baptism is, by the will of God, to be admi- 
 nistered not only to adult believers, but aUo 
 to their children. The grounds for this, and 
 these "beyond all exceptions, are to be met 
 with in Scripture ; so that there is no neces- 
 sity, with the Papists, who shamefully preva- 
 ricate in a good cause, to have recourse in 
 this matter to unwritten tradition. 
 
 We readily acknowledge, that there is no 
 express and special command of God, or of 
 Christ, concerning Infant-baptism ; yet there 
 are general commands, from which this spe- 
 cial command is deduced by evident conse- 
 quence. For, to begin with what is most 
 general : Gen declared to Abraham that it 
 was his constant and unchangeable will, that 
 the sign of the covenant should not be de- 
 nied to those in covenant with him, when he 
 said, Gen. xvii. 13, "and my covenant shall 
 be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." 
 By these words, he commands the sign of the 
 covenant to be in the flesh of all the posterity 
 of Abraham, with which he had entered into 
 a 2 a covenant 
 
a covenant of grace. From this general in- 
 junction he infers, v. 14, the necessity of 
 circumcision; because he then gave it as a 
 sign of the covenant. When, therefore, upon 
 the change of the economy,- he substituted 
 in the place of circumcision another sign of 
 the covenant, in consequence of that general 
 command, all those in covenant are bound 
 to take upon them the new sign. Moreover, 
 believers under the New Testament belong to 
 the spiritual posterity of Abraham, and are, 
 if we consider its substance, partakers of the 
 same gracious covenant, Bom. iv. 16, 17; 
 not adults only, but also their children, as 
 we shall presently shew. Whence it follows, 
 that the sign of the covenant in their body is 
 not to be denied to the young children of 
 believers, any more than to believers them- 
 selves. 
 
 There is another tommand of Christ, MoJ, 
 xxviii. 19, ff t3oye, therefore, and p^rrH^T., 
 ^disciple all nations, baptizing them/' <vc.< 
 There Chiust commands disciples to be ga- 
 thered into his school, and sealed, as persons 
 in covenant with him, wjth the seal of bap- 
 tism. But it is evident, when parents be- 
 come the disciples of Christ, their children 
 are also accounted in the number of disciples. 
 Just as among the Jews, together with the 
 proselyte parents, their young children were 
 initiated in the Jewish rites. It was nor, 
 therefore, necessary that Christ should ex- 
 pressly 
 
pressly mention the baptism of Infants : for, 
 as it was a received custom among the Jews, 
 that, together with the parents, who gave up 
 their names to the God of Israel, their young 
 children should be baptized, (as we have 
 shewn above) the apostles being sent to bap- 
 tize the nations, and accustomed to the rites 
 of their own country, could not but think, 
 that, together with the parents who made a 
 profession of the faith of Christ, they ought 
 to baptize their Infants, unless Christ had re- 
 pealed the received custom by a contrary 
 command; which as we no where read he 
 did, we *are absolutely to conclude, that what 
 we have now explained was our Lord's in- 
 tention.* 
 
 Peter supplies us with another argument, 
 Acts ii. 38, 39, " Be baptized every one of 
 you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the 
 remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift 
 of the Holy Ghost : for the promise is unto 
 }ou, and to vcur children/' &c. Where the 
 -apostle argues thus : they to whom the pro- 
 mise of grace was made are to be baptized, 
 we submit ; but the promise of grace was 
 made not only to parents, but to children : it 
 
 * Agreeably with this, we find tl\Q apostles baptizing 
 whole families : the Jailor's, recorded in Acts xvi. 33, 
 He was baptized, ho and ail his straightway. Aho_, 
 liydia and her household. — Acts xvi. 15. 
 
 Paul baptized the household of Stephanas. 
 
 a 3 therefore 
 
6 
 
 therefore follows, that not onlv parents, but 
 children are to be baptized. Both proposi- 
 tions are the apostle Peter's. Now the whole 
 difficulty consists in this : who are we here to 
 understand by the children,, who partake of 
 the promise of grace ? whether adults only 
 actually called, who are capable of making 
 a profession of their faith, or also younger 
 children and infants. The orthodox justly 
 affirm the last ; not only because mention 
 simply is made of children, without distinc- 
 tion of age; but also because God expressly 
 promised to Abraham, to be the God of his 
 seed, which he applies to an infant eight days 
 old, Gen. xvii. 7 — 12. We add, that as Christ 
 permitted little children to come to him, laid 
 his hands upon them, and declared, that of 
 such is the kingdom of heaven, Mat. xvi. 
 13—15. But whom Matthew calls ™$*., little 
 children, JLuke, chap, xviii. 15, calls %<p«, 
 infants ; which word, according to Eustathius, 
 properly signifies a new-born child at the 
 breast. Hence, also, Peter says, f im*ftwu*pk 
 fyifr,, as new-born babes, .1 Pet, ii. 2. And 
 here it appears we are, by all means, to keep 
 to the propriety of terms, both in the noun 
 %po 5 and in the verb ^oap^.tv; when it is 
 said., tB£0ffe$f£09 h ot.vTu t* %£u, and they brought 
 unto him infants also: they appear to have 
 been carried in arms. It is therefore evident 
 that to infants are also made the promises of 
 grace and salvation, 
 
 Let 
 
Let the fourth arguments stand thus: ft is 
 unjustifiable to exclude from baptism those 
 who are made partakers of the Holy Ghost; 
 for thus Peter, Acts x. 47, " Can any forbid 
 water that these should not be baptized, who 
 have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" 
 True, indeed it is, that the Holy Spirit dis- 
 covered himself in those, of whom Peter 
 there speaks, by some extraordinary gifts, 
 which of themselves were not saving : yet 
 the principal argument for the right to bap- 
 tism cannot be drawn from hence. The 
 apostle considers those extraordinary gifts as 
 the effects of the santifying Spirit, bestowed 
 on all the elect, and as special indications of 
 the divine bounty towards them ; whereby 
 the truth of the gospel was sealed in them. 
 Compare Gal. iii. 2; and thence, as from the 
 thing signified, he argues to the participation 
 of the sign. We moreover presume, even 
 the children of believers have received the 
 Holy Spirit: for otherwise they could neither 
 be holy, which yet Paul declares them to be, 
 1 Cor. vii. 14; nor be Christ's, to whom 
 none belongs who has not his Spirit, Rom. 
 viii. 9; nor see the kingdom of heaven, to 
 which none is admitted but he who is born 
 of water and of the Spirit, John iii. 5. — 
 Whence it follows, that water cannot be for- 
 bid that infants should not be baptized. 
 
 Fifthly. They who belong to the church 
 of God have a right to baptism. The reason 
 
 is, 
 
8 
 
 is, because baptism is the sign of association 
 with, and seal of invitation into, the church. 
 Acts ii. 41, they were baptized; "and the 
 same day there were added (namely, to the 
 church) about three thousand souls." And 
 then it is represented as the privilege of the 
 w T hole church, that she is cleansed by Christ 
 with the washing of water, by the word, 
 Eph. v. 26. But that infants belong to the 
 church appears from this, that w T hen God 
 commanded his church to be gathered toge- 
 ther, he did not suffer their little ones, and 
 those that sucked the breasts, to be absent, 
 Dent xxix. 10, 11, Joel ii. 16; and protests 
 that they were born unto him, Ezek. xvi. 20. 
 Sixthly. We argue from this, that baptism 
 has succeeded in the room of circumcision. 
 The apostle declares this, Col. ii. II, 12; 
 where he proves the abrogation of the cere- 
 monial, law, and especially of circumcision 
 with respect to believers of the New Testa- 
 ment, from this consideration, and the spiri- 
 tual thing formerly signified and sealed by 
 circumcision, is now signified and sealed by 
 baptism; intimating, that what circumcision 
 was to the Old Testament-church, the same 
 now is baptism to the New, and indeed in a 
 far more eminent and perfect manner, be* 
 cause baptism is an introduction at once into 
 the libertv and grace of the New Testament ; 
 vhereas circumcision contained the profession 
 of a bondage and yoke, But it' is evident, 
 
 that 
 
that circumcision was administered to in- 
 fants : it therefore follows, that we are to 
 have the same sentiment concerning bap- 
 .tism. And, indeed, nothing can be advanced 
 against the baptism of infants, which may 
 not equally militate against their circum- 
 cision. 
 
 Here certainly appears the extraordinary 
 love of our God, in that as soon as we are 
 born, and just as we come from our mother, 
 he hath commanded us to be solemnly brought 
 from her bosom, as it were into his own 
 arms, that he should bestow upon us, in the 
 very cradle, the tokens of our dignity and 
 future kingdom ; that he should put that song 
 in our mouth, tf Thou didst make me hope 
 when I was upon my mother's breast : I was 
 cast upon thee from the womb . thou art my 
 God from my mother's belly." Ps. xx. 9, 10. 
 That, in a word, he should join us to himself 
 in the most solemn covenant from our most 
 tender years : the remembrance of which, as 
 it inglorious and fall of consolation to us, so 
 in like manner it tends to promote Christian 
 virtues, and the strictest holiness, through the 
 whole course of our lives. 
 
 Nothing ought to be dearer to us, than to 
 keep sacred and inviolable that covenant of 
 our youth, — that first and most solemn en- 
 gagement, that was made to God in our name. 
 Nor is it an objection, that \s c e were first 
 bound in that covenant without our know- 
 ledge ; 
 
10 
 
 ledge ; for no adult person, when he h in 
 formed of the excellency of that holy c a" 
 j^ent wbch was bestowed in rnfaSy can 
 be offended that, according to the will of 
 Goo, h e was devoted so early by his n ion' 
 parents to the Supreme Being ; unle" £?£ 
 same tune, he is resolved to SJeiSS 
 
 ft cannot also fail to be very delightful to 
 godly parents to present to Goo^d h ° 
 
 «',oy the light and consecrated in the water 
 of tne myshcal font; or, as Dion vsius the 
 geudareopagite, elegantly expressed t "in 
 the d.vme symbols of a divine birth, and re- 
 ccmmended to the grace of Goo by the power 
 cnre of W tT Ch ™*\ '*« this L kefirs 
 
 Slows « w w, CUlm B L aptkma - s Peaks a 
 tolw'tn • th °" ? . cMd ? S^'e not time 
 to \ ce to ga,n upon him : Jet him be sane 
 
 Sf r ° m K a ChUd ' ? ' nd ^crated to tie 
 Spirit from his tender years." And certain 
 
 ;| no other benefit accrued from £g££ 
 
 t»m, every prudent person will own it to Ke 
 
 great ; that it lays the most inviolable 
 
 »ty on parents carefully to train up heir 
 
 chtldren, which they have so early devoted 
 
 '?-, ' "Vi? m ' vsteries of th e Christian re- 
 <V nnd the practice of true piety, both 
 taction, admonition, and sW exam- 
 
 pie. 
 
11 
 
 pie. They incur the guilt of an impious 
 robber or thief, as Bucer has gravely ob- 
 served, who are not at the greatest pains to 
 bring up and form those they have consecrated 
 by baptism to the Lord Christ, to the obe- 
 dience of Christ : For by this neglect, as 
 much as in them lies, they again rob God of 
 the children they gave up to him, and betray 
 and enslave them to the devil. 
 
 f i x i s 
 
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 C&e IPilgtim'g progress 
 
 By GEORGeAvHJTE. 
 
 / PART. 
 
 The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto Ten Virgins, 
 ^hich took their Lamps, and vent forth to meet their Bride- 
 groom ; and five of ihem -were wise, and five were foolish. — — 
 "While the Bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 
 
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 The Parable of the Ten Virgins ap- 
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 present state of the religious world : 
 
 Half of the profession is owing to 
 connexion ; and when the cry is made, 
 that half will say to those that they are 
 connected with, — Give us of your oil, 
 for our lamps are gone out. —Without 
 personal religion, we shall never be able 
 to stand in the day of God's wrath. 
 
 G. S. White. 
 
 T.un bridge Wells, 
 Ju»t \\th y ]$06. 
 
! H i 
 
 PROGRESS OF RELIGION 
 
 mi i rTIVi i- 
 
 After I had been musing on the death 
 oi' him who wrote the Pilgrim's Progress, 
 and who intended to give ns an aceount pi 
 -Christian's four sons, with their wives and 
 children, I dreamed, and thought they were 
 presented to my mind. — After Christiana 
 and those other pilgrims had passed the wa- 
 ters of Jordan, — the river without any 
 bridge, — I thought I heard one say, that 
 they were yet alive, and so would be, for the 
 increase of the church, in the place where 
 they were for a time. He that I heard 
 speak said further, That what Christiana had 
 said to them, before her departure, had so 
 forcibly impressed their minds, that they saw 
 it their duty to be active in increasing the 
 church of God. He said, moreover, that on 
 account of the zeal and activity of Christi- 
 ana's family, their fame was noised abroad, 
 all the country round about : that Matthews 
 children were so much like Mercy, their mo- 
 ther, in benevolence to the poor, that they 
 had established a society for the relief of wi~ 
 
dows and orphans, the sick and afflicted : 
 and James, who was to have the daughter of 
 Gaius, had many children, who were hospi- 
 table, and received all that had even the ap- 
 pearance of pilgrims. In this they excelled 
 the old man, Gaius : he would only have to 
 do with real pilgrims ; but, since his death, 
 this has been thought too rigid and particu- 
 lar; as they hoped the best of all that were 
 in the way, however they got in. And you 
 must know, said my deponent, that all the 
 people round, of any decency or respectabi- 
 lity, are set out on pilgrimage ; and this 
 made travelling pleasant and easy : they ne- 
 ver met with any opposition, on account of 
 their strength or number. The Devil himself 
 was as quiet as a mouse. No barking of the 
 dog, that used to be near the wicket-gate. 
 We never feel much of a burden, like Chris- 
 tian and others formerly ; and if we do for a 
 little, we have a way of bearing each other's 
 burden : and if we ever get in the Slough of 
 Despond, we help one another out, and so 
 fulfil the law of Christ.-— I thought I said to 
 tlie person that spake to me, I perceive you 
 are one among these good people: — Pray 
 tell me what you call the country in which 
 you live ? He said, it was known by the name 
 of Carnal Policy ; that is, the country at 
 large ; but the capital town was by the inha- 
 bitants called Security; but some spiteful 
 people had given it the name of Carnal 
 
Security. Then I thought I asked him, why 
 the}" should call it by a name that the inha- 
 bitants denied. He answered, that some 
 people of bitter spirit would do any thing out 
 of envy. They see how comfortable and hap- 
 py the inhabitants are> and so envy us our 
 comfort. But our town is Security itself, and 
 we do not care how we are secured ; no at- 
 tack whatever can prevail against our com- 
 fort and union. But you must know, these 
 spiteful souls have altered the names of many 
 of the inhabitants : my name is IV'neman, but 
 I am called Wofldly Wiseman : so those that 
 have always been called Evangelists (who 
 directed our ai;".estors in the right way) 
 these game people have nick-named them, 
 and each of them is known bv the name of 
 Mr. Smoothman. It is to the increase of the 
 number of these servants of God, that we 
 owe our comfort ami happiness. Poor 
 Christian, when he went on pilgrimage, only 
 met with Evangelist once or twice in all his 
 way ; and we attribute most of his troubles 
 to this circumstance. If he had lived now, 
 he would not have carried his burden so 
 long, nor tried so many things to get rid of 
 k : this is not the case with any m our town. 
 Our ministers have mended the road where 
 it was bad, levelled the hill Difficulty, and 
 there are no lions in the way to the house 
 Beautiful ; and, you know, Great Heart slew 
 giant Grim^ that used to back the lioas ; and 
 
since Watchful the porter has been dead, the 
 door is always kept open, there are so many 
 enter therein. There are other accommoda- 
 tions within than what there was formerly; 
 but we spend our time happily and comfort- 
 ably together in the palace called Beautiful. 
 You must know, that Prudence and Discre- 
 tion have been dead some time; and we have 
 altered the names of -the other two : she that 
 was called Charity is now called Candour, 
 and the other young lady, Hope-for-tbe-best. 
 Xirtv, we as much as possible keep at the pa- 
 ku:e called Beautiful-: we never go down in 
 the valley that -Christian fought Appollyon 
 in ; but, as Doubting Castle is demolished, 
 and giant Despair beheaded, with Diffidence 
 his wife, we walk constantly out in the Plea- 
 sant Meadow, and enjoy the comforts of life. 
 Just below this meadow, the hill Lucre 
 stands ; and our friends gather at the silver 
 mines as prudence requires ; and on this ac- 
 count, those spiteful people tay we are like 
 Demas, and Bye-ends, and Love-gain ; and 
 that our Evangelists are the same, born in 
 the town of Fairspeech : but / only call this 
 Christian Prudence : and there is no living 
 in that plain called Ease, without ^the exercise 
 of this grace or virtue. And you must know* 
 that ever since Faithful was burnt, we have 
 had no persecution in the place where Vanity 
 Fair is held. As we visit the hill Lucre, and 
 dig. at the silver mines, we can buy some of 
 
8 
 
 *their merchandize; and we are rather re-^ 
 spected tl>an otherwise. — Poor Faithful suf- 
 fered in his day, but the people were more 
 like barbarians than a civilized nation. But, 
 to shew you the bitter spirit of some people 
 that envy us, I must tell you their stiange 
 notions : they think that, if Faithful were 
 living now, he would certainly be burnt. 
 This shows zvhat they are, more than any 
 thing I have yet mentioned. But I should 
 tell you, ihatthe family who live where Gaius 
 used to live, are so benevolent, that they re- 
 ceive some of the people belonging to the 
 fair ; and this removes all prejudice. 
 
 We are careful never to go near the Valley 
 of the Shadow of Death ; and, lest we should 
 fall into the snares and pits in this valley, our 
 ministers persuade us to remain in the plain 
 -called Ease, as much as possible : that it is 
 safer to It content without the enjoyment of 
 the Delectable Mountains ; though there are 
 some shepherds that dwell on these moun- 
 tains, and they wont be satisfied m ithout we 
 come thither also ; but we can distinguish 
 every thing as easily as if we dwelt on Mount 
 Clear itself. And there are some people that 
 have been on Mount Alarvel, and they tell 
 us such marvellous things, that we are con- 
 strained to call them Enthusiasts. The 
 -shepherds that dwell on the mountains are of 
 a narrow mind : they think none are right but 
 those that were a long time before they got 
 
3 
 
 admittance at the wicket-gate, and had some 
 particular revelation at the Cross; and even 
 if you attempt to ascend the mountains, they 
 say we are only on Mount Error. — But I 
 must tell you something that has happened 
 lately in our town : this, to me, is the strang- 
 est thing that I have ever met with; and I 
 am now an old man, as you may perceive. 
 
 The youngest son of Christiana, soon after 
 her departure, became an Evangelist; and 
 from the beginning, he united with his bre- 
 thren round. He was always satisfied with 
 the country round about, and dwelt in our 
 market-town. He has lately got upon Mount 
 Marvel ; and, to be sure, he tells us strange 
 things : first, he says he dreamed, and 
 thought he was taken suddenly ill, and soon 
 found that his sickness was unto death ; 
 though, he said, every fear of death appeared 
 to be removed, yet he had upbraidings of 
 conscience, for not warning his relations of 
 their danger, who were now surrounding him 
 and weeping. He spoke to them with ear- 
 nestness ; saying, this will be the last opportu- 
 nity I shall have to tell you " Ye must be 
 born again.'* His conscience smote him, be- 
 cause he had dwelt in our country, and in 
 the capital town ; that he had trifled with the 
 souls of the people ; and only requested to 
 preach once more, to deliver his soul. He 
 was permitted (as he dreamed) to come in 
 bis disembodied state, full of lave, and joy, 
 
10 . 
 
 and peace ; but solemn beyond description 
 As he approached, his friends were weeping, 
 and exclaiming, " Mysterious Providence 1 
 that one so useful, so young, should be taken 
 off!" He thought he answered, with holy 
 warmth, " I can explain the providence, and 
 justify the conduct of God. I was not useful, 
 .as ye suppose : many things took my at- 
 tention in Carnal Policy ; and I was too in- 
 timate with Worldly Wiseman. I have been 
 in Carnal Security too long. How many op- 
 portunities have I lost, and how little have I 
 warned you ! Be sincere ; examine your- 
 selves ; be faithful ; long to fleie away. Tho' 
 the Lord wont permit me -to labour among 
 you, for his glory, yet he has taken me to 
 himself." In this conversation he awoke., 
 without preaching to the people (as he 
 thought) ; but the subject still abode in his 
 mind; and this passage of scripture struck 
 him forcibly (JLom. 13, 11, 12.)— " And that, 
 knowing the time, that now it is high time to 
 awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation 
 nearer than we believed. The night is far 
 spent, the day is at hand ; let us cast off 
 the works of darkness, and put on the armour 
 of light" 
 
 He preached the sermon to us.; but did 
 not tell the dream, till very lately. And now, 
 Jie says every thing he knows against me : — 
 that, because I live in Carnal Policy, I must 
 he carnal, sensual, and devilish ; that I turned 
 
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 Christian aside at his first setting out ; that 
 all who dwell in oar country are just nigh the 
 City of Destruction ; and, except we enter in 
 at the wicket-gate, we shall be all damned 
 together ; that we are nothing better than 
 Pliable, who never felt the burden of sin, but 
 set out on pilgrimage immediately, with joy, 
 on hearing of the glories of the gospel : and 
 he declares, if we hear much about what 
 Christians ??uist feel, we shall all fall into the 
 Slough of Despond ; but turn back, the near- 
 est way home ; and though we have been so 
 long at the palace Beautiful, he is sure we got 
 in since Watchful the porter has been dead : 
 that we neither entered at the wicket-gate, 
 nor ever understood the things that Christian 
 saw at the Interpreters house ; and that he 
 will pray to the Lord the King to turn us out 
 of the palace Beautiful, for we have made his 
 hquse a den of thieves ; and he expects we 
 shall all perish in the wilderness where Chris- 
 tian and Hopeful saw Talkative, or overtake 
 Bye-ends, and so turn aside to Demas, hav- 
 ing loved this present evil world. And as for 
 our capital town, he says it is rightly named 
 Carnal Security ; that all who dwell in it must 
 be wrong, and must be feeding on the husks 
 that the swine do eat; and as for his own 
 brethren, Matthew, James, and the other, 
 Mercy, and their wives and children, they 
 must all leave the town and the country alto- 
 gether ; and he believes that they bill leave, 
 
L2 
 
 sooner or later, because God cannot give zip 
 Ephraim, though he may let hiiii alone for a 
 little, to go after his idols. 
 
 And this word idol awoke me ; for I 
 thought something of the Idle Shepherd, and 
 supposed it wrong to sleep so long at a time ; 
 but after looking at the text, I found it was 
 Idol Shepherd, and comforted myself with the 
 thought, that I was not the Jirst who had 
 made this mistake. 
 
 Perhaps, before this has had such a circu- 
 lation as the Pilgrim's Progress, I may dream 
 again ; and if I do, Mr. Worldly Wiseman 
 shall not have all the talk to himself: but if 
 he had not told you this dream, you had 
 never heard it ; for being a party concerned, 
 and having dwelt in the country that he de- 
 scribed, I felt more than I can tell you at 
 present. 
 
 Farewell / 
 
 [To be continued.']* 
 
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 FROGRESS' OF RELIGION. 
 
 AFTER THE PLAN 
 
 CTje ipilgrinTsi ISrogresfsr* 
 
 By GEORGE WHITE. 
 
 SECOND PART, 
 
 The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a Man which 
 sowed good seed in li is field : but while Me;; slept, his Enemy 
 came and sowed Tares among the Wheat, and went his way.— 
 But when the Blade was sprung up, and brought forth Fruit, 
 then appeared the Tares also. Matt. xiii. 24 — 26. 
 
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THE 
 
 PROGRESS OF RELIGION. 
 
 SLCO.YD RJRT. 
 
 At a time when I could not sleep as sound 
 as usual, I dreamed, and there was presented 
 to my view a great multitude coming full 
 drive out of Carnal Policy, and some from 
 Carnal Security ; but. as I thought, the great- 
 est part of them ran across the plain towards 
 ;the town called Apostacy, the other side the 
 city of Destruction, where Turn away dwelt. 
 A man of the name of Atheist, and his com- 
 panion, Deist, seemed to head this rabble ; 
 and they entered Apostacy with three cheers, 
 as if they would give loose to their hearts' 
 lusts, and sin, as it were, with a cart-rope. — 
 " The last state of these men shall be worse 
 than the first." 
 
 I thought several stood in the plain, and 
 they were afraid to look over either side ; and 
 the city of Destruction lay just behind them, 
 so that they did exceedingly shake and trem- 
 ble; yea, quaked for fear, not knowing 
 whither to flee, 
 
Now here Evangelist met them and 'Chris- 
 tiana's sons; and Mercy knew him; — and 
 Matthew said, O Sir, we set out on Pilgrim- 
 age when quite young, and we found these 
 ways, — ways of pleasantness and paths of 
 peace; hut since those who were our guides 
 and acquaintances have gene over the river, 
 we have dwelt in the town on the right hand 
 side of the way. 
 
 Evangelist. And what brought you out of 
 that dangerous place" thousands of foolish vir- 
 gins are destroyed there, and many wise sleep 
 till they hear the midnight cry. " When the 
 strong man armed keeps his house, his go< 
 are at peace." 
 
 Ah! said Mercy, that would have been 
 our case, had it not been for the warning voice 
 of our younger brother. But whither shall 
 we flee? 
 
 Evan. To the wicket gate; according to 
 the word of our Lord, " I am the door — by 
 me, if any man enter in. — But, said Mercy, we 
 have smncd against light and knowledge, 
 against the Holy Ghost, — we never shall be 
 admitted ; — we must perish in the slough just 
 above. 
 
 Evan. Do you see yonder shining light that 
 makes its appearance like the morning, and a 
 voice says, " Return, ye backsliding children, 
 and I will have mercy upon you ?" They said, 
 we think we see a glimmering light; but you 
 called it a shining light. 
 
 o o 
 
Eran. Yes, it will arise brighter and 
 brighter. And as I beheld in my dream, 
 Evangelist persuaded them to flee to Christ, 
 and bade them farewell. 
 
 So they encouraged each other with these 
 words : — " Come, and let us return unto the 
 Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; 
 he hath smitten, and he will bind us up ; after 
 two days will he revive us; in the third day 
 he will raise us up, and we shall live in his 
 sistfit : then shall we know, if we follow on 
 to know the Lord, his goings forth are prepared 
 as the morning ; and he shall come unto us 
 as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto 
 the earth/' These words were spoken by the 
 youngest son of Christiana. 
 
 All appeared to take encouragement to go 
 forward. Now, there were with them many of 
 their relations and kinsfolk: — those of the 
 household of Mercy, called Benevolence, and 
 distant relations to Gaius, who certainly was 
 rightly named Hospitable. I thought they all 
 went together for a little way. and Christiana's 
 family talked of past experience ; and they 
 began to smell the Slough of Despond before 
 they got at it, for at that time of the year it 
 cast forth a stench; and I thought they went 
 forward with reluctance but not with caution ; 
 and without thinking of the steps, they en- 
 deavoured to cross the Slough, and they all 
 stuck fast in the mire: some mourned aid 
 groaned; others cried out, " The waters are 
 
Gome in, even to my soul !" — and you must 
 know that there had been so much rubbish 
 thrown into this Slough, on pretence to mend 
 it, that it formed a kind of miry clay and 
 horrible pit without water; and the more 
 they strove to get out, the deeper they were in 
 the mire; and they tried to help each other; but 
 with their striving they sunk into deeper mire-; 
 — when I began to pity the poor wretches. 
 I thought Mr. Worldly Wiseman came to 
 their help, and offered his assistance to them ; 
 but upbraided them with leaving the 
 town, in which they were secure. — He was 
 sure they were insane to leave such a respect- 
 able connexion of friends and so many com- 
 forts, for no cue knows what. 
 
 JVlr. Worldly Wiseman added, we have in 
 our country a religious body of people, plain 
 in their manners, both in conversation and 
 dress; and they have as much policy as any 
 people living, though they don't resemble their 
 first founders in quaking, but in cheating. 
 Let me beg of you to return; — but Christians 
 family could not hear this " charmer, charm 
 he, .ever so wisely." At last, said those that 
 belonged to the family of the Benevolents, we 
 will accept of thy help rather than lie here. 
 
 So they got out of the Slough, and began to 
 help several others ; those distant relations of 
 old Gaius. JVlr. Worldly Wiseman gave them 
 assistance, because he remembered .their hos- 
 pitality. 
 
^3 
 
 But after they were out of the Slough, they 
 began with one consent to declare they would 
 not return with him to Carnal Policy ; for 
 they disliked the very name of the place : 
 and these overbearing grinders of the poor, 
 ihat had such a mask of hypocrisy, these they 
 hated also. 
 
 So Mr. Worldly Wiseman recommended 
 them to go to the town of Morality just above-: 
 there, he said, you will find a worthy family 
 or more, especially Mr. Legality's; they strove 
 " to do to others as they would others should 
 do to them." 
 
 So I saw in my dream that Mr. Worldly 
 Wiseman returned to Carnal Policy, (for that 
 was his native place, and no other air would 
 agree with him) : there he died ; — " for to be 
 carnally minded is death." Now, I observed 
 that those who went to the town of Morality 
 were a goodly number; and that town had 
 been much forsaken, -so that they easily got 
 accommodation; and Mr. Legality offered 
 them refreshment, and took them to a bath 
 that he had in his garden, and washed them 
 from the dirt of the Slough of Despond ; but 
 one washing was not sufficient, for they smelt 
 so dreadfully : but after several duckings, and 
 making use of some perfumes that they sold 
 at that town, they became quite clean and 
 sweet; and made up their minds there to 
 reside. 
 
 New, I thought in my dream that not long 
 
8 
 
 after they supposed they were quite snug and 
 •coinfci table in the town of Morality, they 
 heard such dreadful thundering that shook 
 the whole neighbourhood, and such flashes of 
 lightning, that these new inhabitants looked 
 thunder-struck, till some of their neighbours 
 explained the nature of this business. 
 
 It seems it proceeded from Mount Sinai, 
 that hung over the town; and after the death 
 of one ot the inhabitants, there would be such 
 dreadful thundering ! and a voice sounding 
 from the Mount, " Cur ed is every one that 
 continueth not in all tilings written in the 
 ,book of the law to do them," I heard one 
 say, that the whole town of Morality would be 
 burnt to ashes, with a fiery law that would 
 proceed from the mountain. " Every mans 
 work is to be tried so as by lire." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream, that those gentle- 
 men that Mr. Worldly Wiseman said spiteful 
 people had nicked-named Messrs. Smooth- 
 men, began to be alarmed on account of such 
 numbers leaving the country, especially the 
 family of the Benevolents and Hospilables; 
 such families were great upholders of those 
 ^gentlemen ; and many that had gone to the 
 town called Apostacy were generous, and 
 generally thought all they heard from the 
 pulpit was good ; at least they took it for 
 .granted that all ministers must be right. 
 
 Now, I thought, I saw one of the most 
 learned of the cloth engaged to go over and 
 
9 
 
 attack Mr. Atheist and Mr. Deist upon their 
 own ground; and he got assistance from all 
 his learned brethren, and went accoutred and 
 armed for a warm engagement. 
 
 Now, as Messrs. Atheist and Deist had 
 many ultimate acquaintances that were learn- 
 ed s such as Mr. Arius and Mr. Socinus, fox 
 ■they had lately left the country of Carnal. 
 Policy and gone over to Apostacy, and they 
 very willingly offered their assistance to over- 
 throw the Calvinistic system; and they ob- 
 served, to do so they must rind fault with dif- 
 ferent parts of Revelation, — especially the 
 English translation, rather than Revelation 
 
 Now I thought in my dream that there was 
 a meeting appointed for the debate; and after 
 the chairman was chosen, he said, " I believe 
 natural and revealed religion are the^topics 
 which the gentlemen present are to deliver 
 their free thoughts. * As it appeared to me 
 they began with natural religion, and the 
 Deist by far had the advantage, this occa- 
 ued very warm sentences from every indi- 
 vidual ; and some of them were so vociferous, 
 they awoke me from my dream ; and "as I am 
 naturally fond of a little argumentation, I 
 lament the chairman did not caution the com- 
 pany to beware of improper warmth, as when 
 many people are weak in argument they make 
 Up, as they think, with strength of iun 
 
 But as I have been disturbed', and so pre- 
 
10 
 
 vented hearing the conclusion of the debate, 
 I must tell you my own thoughts on the re- 
 sult of such a meeting. 
 
 Mr. Smoothman going over to Apostacy to 
 debate with Messrs. Atheist and Deist, and 
 Messrs. Alius and Socinus, upon their own 
 ground, appears to me to give them the ad- 
 vantage they appeared to have ; for every 
 " cock can crow best upon his own dung- 
 Mi :" and as for admitting the subject of na- 
 tural religion in the debate, is to throw away 
 the " sword of the Spirit ;" without which we 
 shall never give them a single wound. 
 
 The very idea of natural religion ought to 
 be expunged from fallen men ; and those that 
 -pretend to dispute to argue for it, are not con- 
 vinced of their depravity. 
 
 i am of an opinion that the Deists do well 
 to keep upon this ground ; and if we are fools 
 -enough to engage with them in such a field, 
 they will get the rising ground. 
 
 I do not wonder at what Voltaire did among 
 the Popish priests ; his ideas were more ra- 
 tional than theirs : and he was bv far the most 
 :honest man. It would be easy tor a Deist to 
 overthrow the greatest part of the clergy of 
 the Church of England. 
 
 The Arians and Socinians have the advan- 
 tage when they attack Calvinists that have not 
 the " root of the matter in them." 
 
 These infidels have never yet attacked true 
 religion; and it is impossible they ever should, 
 
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 for they do not know what it is, nor how to- 
 attack ft; for the carnal mind cannot discern 
 spiritual things ; and a man must discern a 
 thing before he can see it wrong, much less 
 prove it to be so. 
 
 A poor ignorant man that has experienced 
 the power of religion in his soul, and knows 
 the work of the Spirit experimentally, can 
 overthrow all the learned Deists, Socinians, 
 and Arians in the world ; and all the learning 
 in the world, without declaring what God 
 hath done for our souls, will have no effect. — 
 The weapons of our warfare are not carnal 
 but spiritual, and mighty through God to the 
 pulling down the strong holds of Satan. 
 
 If I should dream again, I will not trouble 
 you with any thing but the dream itself: their 
 having awoke me before I heard the debate, 
 rather vexed me ; and if I have been too 
 warm you will account for it. 
 
 Farewell ! 
 
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 PROGRESS OF RELIGION 
 
 THIRD PART. 
 
 1 used to envy those persons that were in 
 the habit of dreaming, as I thought they lost 
 no time by sleeping ; but little expected that I 
 should be favoured with such long; and fre- 
 quent dreams : the two last have brought on 
 another. And, as I dreamed, one told me, 
 after the late sifting in the country of Carnal 
 Policy, the professional gentlemen in that 
 neighbourhood were not a little put about, 
 and, after the late debate, the learned among 
 the hetrodox began to crow over them. 
 
 Now I thought Messrs. Smoothmen began 
 to put their heads together, how they should 
 bring the orthodox sentiments into respecta- 
 bility, and nothing could be devised so likely 
 as to encourage literary attainments; and, for 
 this purpose, it was proposed, that academies 
 should be established, that candidates for the 
 ministry might have an opportunity of im- 
 proving their talents, and so be able more 
 
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forcibly to attack the learned among the 
 hetrodox ; this plan seemed to be generally 
 approved of; and one observed, that it would 
 be likely to have more effect on the public at 
 large ; as a student from college, whether 
 Oxton, Cheshutit, .or Homerton, sounded 
 better than a man from a tinker's budget, 
 coalbarge, or menial servant; and, after four 
 years polishing, no one will suspect them of 
 such low original, nor think of asking what 
 these gentlemen were before their academical 
 preparation. Also, the reverend gentlemen 
 agreed to establish certain associations, that 
 they might not only have opportunity for a 
 week's recreation together, but talk of plans 
 to encourage the Progress of Religion: as 
 their design was liberal and their hearts 
 enlarged, they took care, at their several 
 meetings, to condemn all such as were of a 
 narroxo mind. Notwithstanding all these ex- 
 tra exertions, it appeared that tilings were 
 not so prosperous as they could wish ; there- 
 fore it was supposed, that, if their labours 
 were not successful at home, it would be 
 right to have compassion on the heathen 
 abroad ; after maturely deliberating on such 
 a design, thev made no doubt that such a be- 
 nevolent plan would take the attention of 
 the religious public, and by that means their 
 respectability would be increased, and so 
 their craft would be delivered from the dan- 
 ger which threatened them. 
 
I thought T saw, in my dream, a little man 
 start up, looking wonderful cunning, saying 
 how much he approved of the apostolic de- 
 sign, and he hoped it would bring back the 
 worthy families of the Hospitables and Be* 
 nevolents, as he greatly regretted their loss. 
 Thus they reasoned at different associations : 
 That there were prophecies that authorized 
 them to believe the heathen world must be 
 converted, the fulness of the Gentiles with 
 the Jews must be brought home, and it is 
 truly apostolic to go and preach to the hea- 
 then : as one observed, " What should we 
 have been were it not for their missionary 
 exertions r v Here I thought one asked, if 
 they meant to go as missionaries or send 
 others to labour among the heathen : the 
 reverend gentlemen soon agreed that none of 
 them should leave their charges at home, but 
 that they would form a society for the pur- 
 pose of sending others ; and they could draw 
 plans tor their labours, point out the places 
 where, and the manner how, they should la- 
 bour, collect the monies, examine the young 
 men, quality them for their work, &c. &c. 
 
 Now, as this society was to supersede 
 every other of -the same nature, it was thought 
 proper to establish it upon the most liberal 
 plan; so a guinea a year was to constitute a)>y 
 one a member of this evangelical body. It 
 was of no consequence what their religious 
 or political opinions were, wliether Deists, 
 B 2 
 
6 
 
 Arians, Socinians, Churchmen, Desenters, 
 or Methodists; as one said " If we can pro- 
 cure a guinea a year from any man, to do good, 
 it was certainly right to l>eeome ' all things to 
 all men,' so that, by any means, we might gain 
 gome." 
 
 So I thought they began, with one consent, 
 to prove the propriety of such proceedings ; 
 for it appeared, some had hinted that such 
 conduct was not apostolic ; that, instead of 
 sending others, they went themselves ; that 
 God would never own such a society; that 
 the devil might be a member for a guinea a 
 year ! and, as these same persons were free in 
 their manner of condemning, they declared 
 that many of the devil's guineas were in the 
 list, though his name had not been inserted 
 among the subscribers, but put down, A 
 Friend, £. 5 ! and one reason has been given 
 for his liberality to the Missionary Society; 
 that it was used as the devil's rattle. 
 
 But I understood these same persons were 
 thought nothing of by the directors of the 
 Society, they looked upon them as Antino- 
 niians; and it should seem, by their prejudice 
 against such an evangelical society, that they 
 ■were not only against the law but against the 
 gospel ; however, as they were looked upon 
 as strange men by all of moderate sentiments, 
 it was thou giit proper to treat all they said 
 with silent contempt. 
 
 It appeared to iue, iu my dream, that, such 
 
• spirit of the times, that no opposi- 
 tion could stop the progress of such a bene- 1 
 voient design; the careless were awakened, 
 tin- cold ami lukevvarni received Ivc-h life, 
 the dea< stupid were carried away with 
 
 the crowd ; great numbers returned from the 
 town of Morality; ;md, among the lest, the 
 family of the Benevolents, and a great part 
 of the HospitaWes. Thev were determined 
 to follow the Apostle of the Gentiles, and 
 scud men (not preach) where Christ was not 
 
 • ! . l» -t they should build upon another 
 .nion. This part of their conduct 
 
 I understood) received public approba- 
 lion atone of the annual meetings, on which 
 occasion the preacher exhausted himself and 
 his audience by expatiating two hours and a 
 
 liu If. 
 
 -. as I < specteti to hoar further of the 
 pros this Society, the yom . n of 
 
 Christiana turned my thoughts by a certain 
 declamation against those with whom he had! 
 n connected : he declared, that a late 
 noble Countess left her concerns with a ladv 
 that lived in Carnal Policy, and that she hud 
 united with other- in the neighbourhood to 
 carry on the design of his late noble patro- 
 ness. Evangelists increased greatly (such as 
 they were) but they chiefly sprang from the 
 neighbourhood, and therefore suriereu them- 
 es to be driven about by such as had no 
 itmient hi her than the natives of Carnal 
 
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 Policy. He said, he saw those places in- 
 tended for houses of prayer becoming dens of 
 thieves, ana that Worldly Wisdom was the 
 chief agent in the whole connexion. What 
 hurt the mind of this young man was, the 
 great number that had got into the palace 
 called Beautiful since Watchful the porter's 
 death; that he entered, one day, with the 
 Sword of the Spirit in his hand, and cleared 
 the palace of the whole of them : he slew, 
 dead on the spot, Miss Candour and Miss 
 Hope-for-the-best; and, according to the 
 command of his Master, put four virgins, as 
 at the first, Prudence, Discretion, Piety, and 
 Charity, and set a porter at the gate, by the 
 name of Watchful. Now I thought I saw in 
 my dream some Few, that were cast out of 
 the palace, go down into the valley of Humi- 
 liation ; but the greatest part of them ran 
 down the hill Difficulty; and one part turned 
 aside to the great wood, on the right-hand* 
 side of the way, whilst the other part went 
 straight to The Dark Mountains ; though it 
 was written over, " The way called Destruc- 
 tion.'' 
 
 Some time after this the Young Evangelist 
 went to the Interpreter's house, just opposite 
 a town called Vainglory, which was the birth- 
 place of Formality and Hypocrisy; and, as he 
 entered the house of tire Interpreter, he se- 
 cretly prayed for the destruction of Vain- 
 glory, and all the inhabitants. When he* 
 
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 came into the house he found his brethren 
 Mercy and some others, and they were speak- 
 ing of the state of their minds; as he heard 
 them speak of their backsliding he lifted \m 
 heart to God, and said : " Oh ! that I never 
 may he left to wander from thy shadow again, 
 nor to slight the sanctuary service of my 
 Cruel !'' 4k Blessed are they that dwell in thy 
 house, they will be still praising thee : blessed 
 is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose 
 heart are the ways of them: who, passing 
 through the valley of Baca, make it a well ; 
 the ram also tillcth the pools.'' Psalm lxxxiv. 
 4 — o. ; and, at last, he vented the fulness of 
 his soul in praise and acclamations of joy? 
 saying, " Oh ! my God ! as the earth bring- 
 etli forth her bud-, and as the garden causeth 
 the things that are sown in it to spring forth, 
 so the Lord God doth cause righteousness 
 and praise to spring forth in my once barren, 
 but now revived, heart." Isaiah lxi. 11. As 
 soon as the Interpreter saw the young man 
 he .said, Come in, I will shew thee that 
 which will be profitable to thee. So he com- 
 manded his man to light a candle, and bid 
 Joseph follow him, and so had him into a 
 private room, and bid his man open the door; 
 the which when he had done, Joseph saw the 
 picture of a very grave person hang up 
 against the wall, and this was the fashion of 
 it : it had his eyes lifted up to heaven, the 
 best of books in its hands, the law of truth 
 b 4 
 
10 
 
 was written upon its lips, the world was be- 
 hind its back ; it stood as if it pleaded with 
 man, and a crown of gold did hang over its 
 head. 
 
 Then said said Joseph, What means this? 
 
 Interpreter. The man whose picture this 
 is is One of a Thousand ; he can beget chil- 
 dren, travail in birth with children, and nurse 
 them himself when they are born! And 
 whereas thou seest him with his eyes Jilted 
 upioheaven, the best of books in his hand, 
 and the law of truth writ on his lips ; it is to 
 show thee, that his work is to know and un- 
 fold dark things to sinners, even as also thou 
 seest him stand as if he pleaded with mem 
 And whereas thou seest the world as cast be- 
 hind him, and that a crowd hangs over his 
 head ; that is to shew thee, that, slighting and 
 despising the things that are' present, for the 
 love that he hath to his Master's service, he is 
 sure, in the world that comes next, to have 
 glory for his reward. " Now/' said the In- 
 terpreter, " I have shewed thee this picture, 
 because the man. whose picture this is, is the 
 only man whom the Lord hath authorized to 
 be a guide to the Celestial City j wherefore 
 take good heed to what I have shewed thee, 
 and bear well in thy mind what thou hast 
 seen."' 
 
 After Joseph had been some time thinking 
 in silence, he cried out, " Who is sufficient 
 for these things r" he also told the Interpre- 
 
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 for how little he had felt the importance of 
 so great a work all the time he lived in Car- 
 nal Security; acceptance, he confessed, was 
 his chief aim, and, he believed, the only aim of 
 all that dwell in the country of Carnal Policy, 
 and he did not think that any real blessing 
 attended their labours. 
 
 Interpreter*. How long did you dwell in 
 Carnal Security, and what were the means of 
 bringing you out of that dangerous place ? 
 
 Joseph. The first time I lived there I did 
 not remain above a year, but this- last time 
 nearly four ; and there I should have re- 
 mained had not the Lord of the Way brought 
 me out bv his own hands : first, he shewed 
 me the danger I was in. by a dream; and, 
 after a fall on the Mount of Corruption, he 
 manifested his pardoning love, and I expe- 
 rienced such fresh discoveries of his mercy to 
 my soul that it was like fire in my bones v and 
 I could not but speak of the things which I 
 saw and heard, and the alarm was soon sounded 
 abroad, that I was going to leave the country 
 altogether. 
 
 Interpreter. Praise the Lord for his good- 
 ness to thee, my son ; trust in him, for, if thou 
 continue faithful, thou wilt have many things 
 to suffer: but think this an honour; and I 
 wish thee God speed. 
 
 Now I saw, in my dream, that the Young 
 Evangelist ran up the highway, till he came 
 at a place somewhat ascending, and upon 
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that place stood a cross, ami, a little below, 
 in the bottom, a sepulchre. Then he stood 
 awhile to look and wonder; lie looked, there- 
 fore, and looked again, even till the springs 
 that were in his head sent the water down his 
 cheeks, not only because of the sight he then 
 had, but he remembered the revelation he 
 before experienced ; so he gave three leaps 
 for joy, and went on rejoicing with joy un- 
 speakable and full of glory. He went on 
 thus till he came at the bottom, where he be- 
 gan to expostulate with the simple ones, the 
 slothful, and presumptuous, that were lying 
 fast asleep, a little out of the way ; seeing 
 them in this case, he went to them, if perad- 
 venture, he might awake them, but he seemed 
 as one thatmocketh. They looked upon him, 
 and began to reply in this sort : Simple said, 
 " I see no danger." Sloth said, " Yet a lit- 
 tle more sleep :" and, Presumption said, 
 " Every tub must stand upon his own bot- 
 tom," and so they lay down to sleep again, 
 and he went on his way. As he was troubled 
 about their awful state, he espied tw r o men 
 come tumbling over the wall, on the left- 
 hand, on the narrow way, and they made up 
 apace to him. The name of the one Was 
 Formality, and the name of the other Hypo- 
 crisy. As they drew up unto him he thus 
 entered with them into discourse : 
 
 Joseph. Gentlemen, whence come you ? 
 whither go you ? 
 
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 For???, and Hyp. We were born in the 
 land of Vainglory, and we are going for 
 
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 praise to Mount Zion. 
 
 Joseph. Why came you not in at the 
 
 gate which standeth at the beginning of the 
 way ? Know ye not that it is written, that 
 " he that cometh not in by the door, but 
 elimbeth up some other way, the same is a 
 thief and a robber ?" 
 
 Form, and Hyp. They said, that to go to 
 the gate of entrance was, by all their coun- 
 trymen, counted too far about; and, there- 
 fore, their usual way was, to make a short 
 cut of it, and to climb over the wall, as they 
 had done. 
 
 Joseph. But it will be counted a trespass 
 against the Lord of the city, whither we are 
 bound, thus to violate his revealed will. 
 
 Form and Hyp. They told him, that as 
 for that, he needed not trouble his head 
 thereabout, for what they did they had cus- 
 tom for; and could produce, if need were, 
 testimony that would witness it for more than 
 a thousand years. 
 
 Joseph. But will it stand a trial at law ? 
 
 Form, and Hyp. They told him, that 
 custom being of so long a standing as above 
 
 o o- o 
 
 a thousand years, would, doubtless, now 
 admitted as a thing legal by an impartial 
 judge: " And besides." say they, " if we 
 get into the way, what matter which way we 
 get in ? if we are in we are in : thou i rt 
 
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14 
 
 in the wav, who, as we perceive, came in at 
 the gate ; and we are also in the wav that 
 came tumbling over the walls : wherein now 
 is thy condition better than ours?'' 
 
 Joseph. I walk by the rule of my Master, 
 you walk by the rude working of your fan- 
 cies ; you arc counted thieves already by the 
 Lord of the Way, therefore, I doubt, you will 
 not be found true men at the end of the 
 way: you cainc in by yourselves, without his 
 direction, and shall go out by yourselves, 
 without his mercy. To this they made him 
 but little answer, only they bid him to look to 
 himself. 
 
 Then I saw that they went on every man 
 in his way, without much conference one 
 with another; ^ave, that these two men told 
 Joseph, that, as to laws and ordinances, they 
 doubted not but they should as conscienti- 
 ously do them as he : therefore, said they, 
 we see not wherein thou ditrerest from us, 
 but by the coat that- is now on thy back ; 
 which was, as wc trow, given thee by some 
 of thy neighbours, to hide the shame of thy 
 nakedness. 
 
 Joseph. By laws and ordinances you will 
 not be saved, since you came not in by the 
 door : and, as for this coat, that is on my 
 back, it was given me by the Lord of the 
 place whither I go ; and that, as you say, to 
 cover my nakedness with ; and, as I take it, 
 a token of kindness to me, for I had nothing 
 
feat rags before; and, besides, thus I comfort 
 myself as I go: Surely (think I) when I 
 come to the gate of the eity, the Lord thereof 
 will know me for good, since I have his coat 
 on mv back ; a coat that he gave me freelv, 
 in the day that he stripped me of my rags. 
 I have, moreover, a mark in my forehead, 
 of which, perhaps, you have taken no notice, 
 which one oi' my Lord's most intimate asso- 
 ciates fixed therein, the day that my burden 
 fell off my shoulders : I will tell you, more- 
 over, that I had then given me a roll, sealed, 
 to comfort me, by reading, as I go on the 
 way; I was ako bid to give it in at the Ce- 
 lestial Gate, in token of my certain going in 
 after it; all which, I doubt, you want, and 
 want them because you came not in at the 
 gate. 
 
 Now 7 , I understood, in my dream, that in 
 consequence of a slip or two that young 
 Joseph met with, he had a sharp combat with 
 Apoliyon, in the V'alley of Humiliation, and 
 manv devilish temptations in the Valley of 
 the Shadow of Death ; and it appeared so 
 much the worse, as he went through that 
 valley alone. Lut, soon after, he overtook a 
 companion in tribulation, whose name was 
 Faithful, and thus they entered into dis- 
 course : 
 
 Joseph. My honoured and well-beloved 
 brother Faithful; I am glad that I have over- 
 taken you. 
 
16 
 
 Faithful. How long did you stay in: 
 Carnal Security after I left the town ? 
 
 Joseph. Till I could stay no longer ; for 
 there was great talk, presently after you were 
 gone out, of the dreadful situation of our 
 town. 
 
 Faithful. What! did your neighbours 
 talk so ? 
 
 Joseph. Yes ; it was, for awhile, in every 
 body's mouth. 
 
 Faithful. What! and did no more of 
 them but you come out to escape the dan- 
 ger ? 
 
 Joseph. Though there was, as I said, a 
 great talk thereabout, yet I do not think they 
 did firmly believe the dangerous state of their 
 country; for, in the heat of the discourse, 
 I heard some of them, deridingly, speak of 
 you, and of your desperate manner of acting, 
 for so they called it. But 1 did believe, and 
 do still, that the end of that country all a- 
 round will be with fire and brimstone from 
 above, and therefore I have made my escape. 
 
 Faithful. Did you warn them of their 
 danger before you left? 
 
 Joseph. Yes, with the greatest sincerity ; 
 but I seemed as one that was mad unto 
 them, and so they reported. 
 
 Faithful. Well, my young friend, let us 
 leave them, and talk of things that more im- 
 mediately concern ourselves. Tell me, now, 
 what you have met with in the way, as you 
 
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 came : for I know you have met with some 
 things, or else it may be written for a wonder. 
 
 Joseph. I escaped the slough, that I per- 
 ceive you fell into, and came on without that 
 danger; only I met with one, whose name 
 was Wanton, who had liked to have done 
 me a mischief. 
 
 Faithful. It was well you escaped her 
 net : your namesake was hard put to it by 
 her, and he escaped her as you did, but it 
 had like to have cost him his life : but what 
 did she do to you ? 
 
 Joseph. You cannot think what a flatter- 
 ing tongue she had ; she lay at me hard to 
 turn aside with her, promising me all manner 
 of content. 
 
 Faithful. Nay, she did not promise you 
 the content of a good conscience. 
 
 Joseph. You know that I mean all car- 
 nal and fleshly content. 
 
 Faithful. Thank God you have escaped 
 her ! "the abhorred of the Lord shall fall 
 into her ditch." Prov. xxii. 24. 
 
 Joseph. Nay, I know not whether I did 
 wholly escape her. 
 
 Faithful. Why, I hope, you did not con- 
 sent to her desire. 
 
 Joseph. No, not to defile myself: for I 
 remembered an old writing that I had seen, 
 which said, " her steps take hojd of hell." 
 Prov. v. 5. ; Job xxxi. i. : so I shut mine 
 eyes, because I would not be bewitched with 
 
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 her looks ; then she railed on me,, and I came ; 
 on my way. 
 
 Faith j id. Did you meet with no other 
 assault as you came? 
 
 Joseph. Yes; a severe blow from Moses, 
 because of my secret inclining to Adam the 
 First, and a longing for his three daughters ^ 
 u the Lust of the" Flesh, the Lust "of the 
 Eyes, and the Pride of Life :" he had,, 
 doubtless, made an end of ine, but for One 
 that came by, who bid him forbear. I also 
 had a sharp contest with Apollyon, in the 
 Valley of Humiliation ; there also I met with 
 one Discontent, who would willingly have 
 persuaded me to go back again, with him : 
 there also I met with Shame. 
 
 Faith) al. I think we must cry to him for 
 help against Shame, that would have us be 
 valiant for truth upon the earth. 
 
 Joseph. It was a dreadful combat I had 
 with that foul fiend Apollyon ; yea, I thought 
 yerily he would have killed me ; especially 
 when he gat mc down, and crushed me under 
 him as if he would have crushed me ta 
 pieces : for, as he threw me, my sword flew 
 out of my hand ; nay, he told me he was sure 
 of me ; but I cried unto God, and he heard 
 me, and delivered me out of all my troubles. 
 Then I entered into the Valley of the Sha- 
 dow of Death, and had no light for almost 
 half the way through it. I thought I should 
 have been killed there over and over • bu.t r 
 
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 at last, day broke, and the sun arose, and 
 I went through that which was behind with 
 far more eas^e and quiet. They looked on 
 one aide, and saw Talkative : then Faith* 
 fill said, Do you know that man yonder? 
 
 Joseph. I think I do T I met with a man 
 much like him, and had a great deal of talk 
 with him; and, I roust say, I was pleased with 
 his ehat. 
 
 'Faithful. His name is Talkative; he is a 
 tall man, and something more comely at a 
 distance than at hand ; lie dwelltth in Car- 
 nal Security: I wonder that you should be 
 a stranger to him, only I consider that the 
 town is large, lie is the son of one Say- 
 *well ; he dwells in Prating Row ; and, not- 
 withstanding his jlne tongue, he is but a 
 sorry fellow. 
 
 Joseph. Well, he seemed to me to be a 
 sensible mail. 
 
 Fditltful. lie appears best to them that 
 have not a thorough acquaintance with him; 
 for he is best abroad, near home he is ugly 
 enough: your idea of him brings to my mind 
 what I have observed in the work of the 
 painter, whose pictures show best at a dis- 
 tance, but are very un pleasing at close sight. 
 God forbid that I should accuse any falsely;, 
 but I will give you a further discovery of 
 him : this man is for any company, and for 
 any talk ; as he talketh now with you, so will 
 ho tali: when he is on the ale-bench ; and tliQ 
 
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 more drink he liath in his crown the more of 
 these things he hath in his mouth ; religioa 
 hath no place in his heart, or house, or 
 conversation, and all he hath lies in his 
 tongue; and his religion is, to make a noise 
 therewith. 
 
 Joseph. Then I am in that man greatly 
 deceived. 
 
 Faithful. Deceived ! you may be sure of 
 it. Remember the Proverb; " They say and 
 do not; but the kingdom of God is not in 
 word but in power.* He talketh of prayer, 
 of repentance, of death, and of the new 
 birth } but he knows but only to talk of 
 them. I have been in his family, and have 
 observed him both at home and abroad, and 
 I know what I say of him is the truth. Hi3 
 house is as empty of religion as the white of 
 an egg is of savour ; there is neither prayer nor 
 sign of repentance for sin ; yea, the brute in 
 his kind serves God far better than he. He. 
 is the very stain, reproach, and shame of 
 religion, to all that know him ; it can hardly 
 have a good word in all that end of the town 
 where he dwells, through him. Tims say 
 the common people that know him, Saint 
 abroad and a devil at home', his poor family 
 find it so : he is such a churl, such a railer 
 at, and so unreasonable with his servants^ 
 that they neither know how to do for or to 
 speak to him : men that have any dealings 
 with him say. Id better deal with a Turk 
 
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 than with him. This Talkative, If it be 
 possible, will go beyond them, defraud, be- 
 guile, and over-reach them : besides, he 
 brings up his sons to follow his steps; and, if 
 lie finds in any of them a foolish timorous- 
 ness, he calls them fools and blockheads, and 
 by no means will employ them in much, or 
 speak to their commendation before others, 
 For my part, I am of opinion, that he has, by 
 his wicked life, caused many to stumble and 
 fall, and will be, if God prevents not, the 
 ruin of many more. Had I known him no 
 more than you, I might, perhaps, have 
 thought of him, as at the first, you did: yea, 
 had I received this report at their hands 
 only that are enemies to religion, I should 
 have thought it had been a slander, a lot that 
 often falls from bad men's mouths upon good 
 men's names and professions. But all these 
 things, and a great many more, as bad, of my 
 own knowledge, I can prove him guilty of.. 
 Ucsides, good men are ashamed of him, and 
 they can neither call him brother nor friend; 
 the very naming of him among them makes 
 them blush, if they know him. 
 
 Joseph. Well, I see that saying and doing 
 arc two things ; and, hereafter, I shall better 
 observe the distinction 
 
 Faithful. They are two things indeed, 
 and are as diverse as are the soul and the 
 body; for, as the body without the soul is but 
 a cfead carcass, so saying, if it be aione^ is 
 
but a dead carcass only. The soul of religion 
 is the practical part: pure religion, and un- 
 defiled before God and the Father, is this : 
 " to visit the fatherless and widows in their 
 afflictions, and to keep himself unspotted from 
 the world." This Talkative is not aware of;, 
 lie thinks that hearing and saying will make a 
 good Christian, and thus he deceiveth his 
 soul. Hearing is but as the sowing of the 
 seed, talking is not sufficient to prove that 
 fruit is indeed in the heart and life : and let 
 us assure ou shelves, that, at the day of doom, 
 men shall be judged according to their fruit: 
 the end of the world is compared to our 
 harvest, and you know men at harvest regard 
 nothing but fruit; not that any thing can be 
 accepted that is not of faith ; but I speak 
 this to show how insignificant the profession 
 of Talkative will be at that day. 
 
 Joseph. This brings to my mind that of 
 Moses, by which he described the beast that 
 is unclean. He is such a one that parteth 
 the hoof and cheweth the cud; not that 
 parteth the hoof only, or that cheweth the 
 cud only : the hare cheweth the cud, but yet 
 it is unclean, because he parteth not the 
 hoof. And this truly resembk th Talkative; 
 'he cheweth upon the word, but yet he dl- 
 videth not the hoof; he parteth not the way 
 of sinners ; but, as the hare, he retaineth the 
 foot of a dog or bear, and, therefore, he is-, 
 unclean. 
 
Faithful. You have spoken, for aught I 
 know, the true gospel sense of those texts; 
 and I will add another thing: Paul calletfa 
 some men; yea, and those great talkers too, 
 " sounding brass and tinkling cymbals :" that 
 is, as he expounds them in another place, 
 " things without life, giving sound :" things 
 without life; that is, without true faith and 
 grace of the gospel ; and, consequently, 
 things that shall never be placed in the king- 
 dom of heaven among those that are the 
 children of life ; though their sound, by their 
 talk, be as it were the tongue or voice of an 
 angel. 
 
 Joseph. There are many sad characters 
 live in that dreadful country of Carnal Po- 
 licy, and vou seldom hear of any leaving, 
 excepting such as go to Apostacy: have you 
 seen any one lately from those parts. 
 
 Faithful. Yes; I met with one, who told 
 me, that, notwithstanding ail the exertions of 
 the people in that neighbourhood for the 
 heathen abroad, they were diligent in making 
 converts at home ; for they had established 
 societies- for the poor, called " The Sick 
 Man's Friend ; and the visitors were always 
 to inculcate on the sick folk, that after their 
 recovery, they should come to hear their 
 ministers. Messrs. Smoothmen have like- 
 wise established Sunday Schools, to bring up 
 the rising generation in the Christian way. 
 
 Joseph. Well, those tilings make a great 
 
appearance, and many parts of scripture 
 seem to countenance such exertions; but I 
 never can believe that anv good thing can 
 spring from Carnal Policy. 
 
 FaithfuL I was told also, that several of 
 the reverend Smoothmen have been, for some 
 years, seeking a minister, to itinerate in the 
 villages, as they have so much compassion on 
 the poor ignorant people ; and, as it is impossi- 
 ble for them to leave their respective charges to 
 preach themselves, it was a zealous act to 
 employ others ; and, as they say, it is right 
 alwavs to be zealously arlected in a good 
 thing. 
 
 Joseph. When I first hearYl of this de- 
 sign, 1 thought it -a desirable object, and 
 offered to begin labouring to the poor peo- 
 ple ; but I can expect no good to attend 
 such an object, as it first sprang from Carnal 
 Policy. 
 
 Faithful. If God had intended a mini- 
 ster for that work he would, most certainly, 
 have sent one ere this ; for I understand they 
 have been seeking these four years, but have 
 found none. 
 
 Joseph. Have you heard respecting the 
 progress of the Missionary Society establish- 
 ed in Carnal Policy? 
 
 Faithful. If one might believe The Evan- 
 gelical Magazine, published for the principal 
 inhabitants of Carnal Security, it will appear 
 that the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in; 
 
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 and that now the Society have turned their 
 attention to the state of the Jews ; and, as 
 they say, God has raised up a man to per- 
 form the work : but -they thought it prudent 
 to give him three or four years instructions, 
 least God should not have qualified him suf- 
 ficiently! 
 
 Joseph. When T dwelt in the midst of the 
 Smoothmen I heard this German ambassa- 
 dor, and I am inclined to believe what those 
 bad-spirited men have said, that he is not 
 converted himself, and that he will never be 
 the mean of converting his brethren, except- 
 ing a few, that may turn for a livelihood, as 
 they say lie did. 
 
 Faithful I am told that they have turned 
 their attention to the Jews, on account of 
 their disappointment among the Gentiles. 
 In the first place, they sent a large body 
 of missionaries to the . South Seas, where 
 Christ was not named ; some of these ser- 
 vants of God turned Deists, others married 
 the natives, others came home again ; and, 
 not to this day, do I hear that one of the 
 natives has been converted to God. 
 
 Joseph. Did not the French take a 
 ship-load of goods and preachers, or some- 
 thing? 
 
 Faithful Yes; and that convinces me 
 that God never directed the Society to buy 
 the ship, nor that he sent one of the men ap- 
 pointea to labour abroad ; for, ii he had, he 
 
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 would have protected them from every ad- 
 versary. 
 
 Joseph. These disappointments were e- 
 nough to damp the spirit of the society. 
 
 Faithful. Yes ; and, I should have thought, 
 enough to show them their folly, but Carnal 
 Policy is so fruitful of invention ; and this 
 helped them to a scheme to raise the spirit of 
 the religious world ; and that was, to bring 
 over some Hottentots, and make it appear 
 that they were converted, so the first fruits of 
 Africa were made a show of! and this had 
 the desireel effect, more money than ever 
 was raised, and more young men offered than 
 they could well qualify at a time, 
 
 Joseph. I heard of some one asking if 
 the Hottentots were really converted or not, 
 and if the gentleman that converted them 
 was himself a man of God : this, I must say, 
 was a question that I never thought of putting. 
 
 Faithful. I have heard, lately, that the 
 Roman Catholics seem inclined to join the 
 Missionary Society, and, if they should, they 
 will carry all before them. 
 
 Joseph. Well, what was said of the church 
 of Sardis may be said of the present church, 
 they have a name to live whilst they are 
 dead, and there are only a few names that 
 have not defiled their garments. 
 
 Faithful. These feza names are loaded 
 with all manner of evil and contempt, falsely, 
 for their love to the truth. God will surely 
 
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 avenge his own elect, that cry day and night 
 unto him. 
 
 Joseph. All the while I lived in Carnal 
 Security I dreaded these men as Antinomians, 
 and such as held the truth in unrighteousness ; 
 whereas I find them men devoted to God, 
 spiritual in their conversation, and such as 
 have the law of God written on their hearts ; 
 their mouth can speak of wisdom and their 
 tongue talk of judgment. 
 
 Just as I was pleased with the conversa- 
 tion of these two men, one came running > 
 and cried out, saying, what an uproar there 
 was all round the country, respecting the 
 Young Evangelist, that was turned something': 
 some said he was turned mad ; others, that he 
 was turned Antinomian ; others, that a bad 
 spirit and a narrow one possessed him. Now 
 this hubbub awoke me from my sleep, and 
 behold, it was a dream! When I dream 
 again I hope to hear some more conversa- 
 tion between Faithful and the Young Evan- 
 gelist. 
 
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 Solomon says, A dream cometh through the 
 multitude of business, and it is only on this 
 ground, that I can account for such long 
 and frequent dreams. The one I am about 
 to present you with, is not the least curi- 
 ous : 
 
 There were presented to my view, a 
 groupe of Methodist Parsons, and some 
 were of the meaner sort. They appeared 
 in a great bustle, and this arrested my atten- 
 tion more particularly, to the place where 
 they were. At the head of them, appeared 
 a Layman, in appearance not unlike a Jus- 
 tice of the Peace ; he was using a pair of 
 Royal Patent Iron Tongs, and crying vehe- 
 mently, "Hold'em ! Hoidem !"" And] thought 
 I saw in my dream, a few of the Parsons 
 b 2 
 
turning their backs on him ; some said, " We 
 can't submit to an Ironmonger, and a Clerk; 
 it is beneath our dignity, after such high 
 patronage ;" one said he would settle among 
 the regular Disssenters ; others, that they 
 would leave off preaching, and they said 
 they were thankful, that they had wives with 
 money. Just beneath the dignified Layman, 
 sat a Great Man, in a little compass, writing, 
 for he was by trade, a scribe; behind these 
 two stood a company of men, of less dig- 
 nity, called Assistant Committee-men, and 
 five others, that were Directors of a certain 
 College, and they looked wonderfully pleas- 
 ed, and said with one accord, " We shall 
 be Devisees next." 
 
 There sat underneath all these, an old 
 gentleman that has the title of Reverend, 
 by his name* one should think he came from 
 Paddy's Land; he looked very pitiful, and 
 said he hoped the gentlemen would leave 
 off some old cloaths, which led me to think 
 he was a* broken-down Parson. At the 
 front of all these, stood a bold Youth, of a 
 stern countenance, crying, " Strictures, or Re- 
 formation !'' and to the man that held the tongs, 
 he said, " Those iron tongs wont HolcCemr 
 The little Scribe said, " Take care what you 
 say, Sir, that gentleman is a Justice of the 
 Peace ;" there stood a man, they called the 
 Pious Lawyer, and, by his outward looks, you 
 would think he was rightly named, he said, 
 
" That Savage young man is against me, and 
 all the managers." Now there appeared in 
 a waiting posture, some parsons of Pha- 
 raoh's lean kind; and, to a man, they bowed, 
 and said, " We are your most obedient hum- 
 ble servants." 
 
 To that, the Ironmonger and Clerk said, 
 " All the Ministers and Managers are our 
 servants.'' One poor parson came crying, 
 and saying, " What will become of my fa- 
 mily?" a few others looked very grim, and 
 said, " We are all waiting for appointments, 
 we wish to know where we are to go next ;" 
 at that, the man with the Royal Patent 
 Tongs, addressed himself to them, saying, 
 *' If you are not quiet, you irmst have a sharp 
 rebuke ; that madman has given us so much 
 trouble, we hardly know what we are about. 
 We have been obliged to employ a coun- 
 sellor, attornies in town, attornies at the 
 Wells, sheriffs-officers, constables, and many 
 ether spiritual weapons ; for you know our 
 weapons are not carnal, but mighty, &c." 
 A very tall, raw looking young man, said, 
 " I am sure he is mad, and I must know, 
 for I was a horse-doctor ;" just below this 
 tall man, stood a very little parson, (not a 
 young one) though he is called so. He 
 looked very cunning, and said, " These are 
 sharp times, friend Scout-heart;" behind these, 
 stood a tall stout man, with very broad should- 
 b 3 
 
ers, in appearance like & Waggoner ; he said 
 he had been a Porter, and he could again. 
 All such expressions, from those reverend 
 gentlemen, astonished me not a little, and 
 I thought, in my dream, that I produced a 
 plan of reformation, but, because of the 
 Devisees, none would second the motion ; 
 and, therefore, I must be expelled as a 
 mover of sedition : this almost awoke me 
 out of my sleep, and removed all the scenery 
 from my view ; but, having been much fa- 
 tigued, I slept on, and, before morning, I 
 dreamt again, and saw faithful, and the 
 young Evangelist; they appeared in close 
 conversation, and, as they drew nearer, I 
 thought Joseph said to Faithful, " You will 
 certainly be burnt, if you attempt to inter- 
 fere with the people at Vanity Fair; what 
 you have said against the county of Covet- 
 ing, the town of Lovegain, and the town 
 just opposite, called Graceless, where Tem- 
 porary lived, has raised such a dreadful out- 
 cry against you, that Giant Slaygood is 
 raised from the dead, and poor Mr. Feeble- 
 mind has fallen into his clutches." 
 
 Faithful. If Giant Slaygood be risen 
 again, I'll send Greatheart after him, and 
 he will rescue the feeble-minded ; but I am 
 determined to set fire to the town of Fair- 
 speech, the birth place of Bye-ends. 
 
 Joseph. What do you think the people 
 diverted themselves with, at the last Vanity 
 
Fair ? I was told a ship was built, called 
 the ship Duff, and that it was for the most 
 curious purpose that ever was known. Here 
 I thought, I saw in my dream, a young 
 man approaching, appearing as if he came 
 from the town of Vanity Fair. As I thought 
 Faithful eyed him, and said, " Ah ! whither, 
 away, young man." 
 
 Carnal Reason, answered the young man, 
 is my name, and I have been spending some 
 time in the town above, but am returning 
 to Carnal Policy, my native country. 
 
 Faithful. Are you not the son of Mr. 
 Wordly Wiseman, who dwelt in those parts? 
 
 Carnal Reason^ Yes, I am Sir, and we 
 are a very ancient family, and are respected 
 by all the inhabitants of our country. I 
 shall have something to relate that will be 
 pleasing to flesh and blood ; I never was so 
 delighted at Vanity Fair, as at this which 
 has lasted so Ions; : instead of having our 
 rationality insulted with the common trum- 
 pery, that is usual at fairs, we have had 
 represented to us, the execution of a most 
 noble design, that of launching the ship 
 Duff, intended to carry the glorious gospel 
 to the South Seas ; if you had heard the 
 evangelical men on board sing their sweet 
 hymns, you would have thought it had been 
 a floating heaven ; indeed I never desire a 
 better heaven. 
 
 b 4 
 
Faithfuh I suppose not Sir, it is suit- 
 able to yourcamal reasoning, and outward 
 show of will-worship; for my part, I think 
 you uiight as well have sent a ship-load of 
 apes and peacocks, &c. as what were sent to 
 vert the heathen. 
 
 Carnal Reason. I perceive you are a 
 bitter spirited man, one of the Antinomians, 
 and, as you are void of reasoning powers, I 
 wiria you good morning. 
 
 Joseph. I wish, Sir, you iiucl not been 
 so severe at first, we should hav:' heard more 
 of this wonderful performance, for Mr. Car- 
 nal Reason appeared wonderfully taken with 
 it; he did not appear to think any thing of 
 the great expenses of the fair. 
 
 Faithful. It is at such times that fools 
 spend their money freely, whilst they are 
 intoxicated with novelty, but only wait a 
 little, and you will hear another story ; that 
 dreadful town of Fairspeech, lies so near 
 Vanity Fair, and every fair time, it supplies 
 them with four new actors, with their vel- 
 vet tongues, and each of them spout away 
 for hours together, and all intended to 
 empty the people's pockets : some govern- 
 ments would put a stop to those fairs, they 
 are the ruin of the country, the cause of 
 so many bankruptcies, for if people spend 
 so much money at fairs, no wonder they 
 can't pay their creditors. 
 
 Joseph. Let me beg of you not to go 
 
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 near the fair, you can't help speaking the 
 truth, and you will certainly be burnt. 
 
 Faithful. Oh no, the good laws of the 
 country prevent my having any^fears in that 
 respect; to be sure, truth is a libel, and 
 they wont allow any justification to be of 
 weight; you cannot be faithful without sub- 
 jecting yourself to these things, and I would 
 not alter my name, nor act inconsistent with 
 it, if I were to be burned, as my grand- 
 father was ; and if I live till the next fair, I 
 must be passing through the town, and I 
 am determined to speak against their mer- 
 chandize, and exhort them to "buy the truth, 
 and sell it not." 
 
 Joseph. I have just seen some " Hints 
 on the Security of the Established Churchy 
 published by a member of that church, but 
 he does not choose to degrade his name by 
 the publication. I should think he was fish- 
 ing for preferment ■ by his manner of writ- 
 
 ing. 
 
 Faithful. If the Established Church had 
 no better security than such Hints could 
 afford, it would be bad times with the clergy ; 
 but I don't see the least danger of the c i 
 falling, the malls are generally strong, and 
 there are plenty of church rates to keep 
 the repairs good ; this member is become 
 nervous of late, and fears without the least 
 appearance of danger ; and, though Dissent- 
 35 
 
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 ers increase, they are such a dull set that 
 they will never do much mischief, and those 
 few that are zealous for the truth, dont 
 think it worth their time to oppose the 
 church, for no informed person expects any 
 thing like truth preached within her walls. 
 
 Joseph. I think this member of the Esta- 
 blished Church, wants much to be noticed as 
 an author, and he has tried several publica- 
 tions without success ; at last the Hints ap- 
 pear ; if I were belonging to the Established 
 Church, I should feel hurt to think that it 
 stood in need of such foolish Hints to prop 
 it up, against a few unlearned Methodists, 
 when one se? % vant of God would stop a thou- 
 sand of their mouths, and put an end to 
 their preaching harangues. 
 
 Faithful If I must be faithful, I will say, 
 I think there is more danger from the wick- 
 edness of the clergy, than from Dissenters. 
 
 I thought I saw in my dream, that, as 
 Faithful and the young Evangelist were 
 thus conversing, there drew nigh to them a 
 man much like a parson, but rather meanly 
 clad ; and he held a subscription book in 
 his hand, and said he wished to present a 
 case to them. Faithful asked what case he 
 meant, he answered, a peculiar case. "I am 
 begging for a chapel ; and, though we have 
 many attend that love the gospel, it is out 
 of our power to raise sufficient money to 
 pay our expenses ; and I have been up- 
 
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 wards of five hunred miles to liquidate our 
 debt, and still I am considerably behind." 
 
 Joseph. There are too many cases such 
 as your's. I knew a person that had Jive 
 such rases one morning ; I thim> you should 
 not build chapels till you could pay for 
 them. 
 
 Faithful. For my part, I would have all 
 such bagging parsons and vagrants taken 
 up, as soon as tliev enter into a town, and 
 treated according; as the law directs : there 
 are so many of your cloth, that tney are 
 quite a burden to the public. At this the 
 reverend Smoothman turned away, and 
 muttered something against such bitter spi- 
 rited people. 
 
 Then Joseph looked round him, and said, 
 " This is about the place where Christian 
 and Hopeful overtook Eye-ends, and that 
 man with his begging case, put me in mind 
 of him ; such fellows always lurk about the 
 plain called Ease." 
 
 Faithful. Ah ! and yonder stands the 
 hill Lucre, and Demas will call him aside 
 to the silver mine, and so he will forsake 
 us ; though the pillar of salt stands just 
 opposite, and it is written on it, " Remem- 
 ber Lot's Wife " Many false professors of 
 religion turn aside here, having loved this 
 present evil world. I never think much of 
 peooie's experience in the things of God, 
 b 6 
 
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 unless the root of all evil is cut, for this is 
 always done where the root of the matter is 
 found in a man. 
 
 Joseph. The way is beset with, many 
 snares and pits, besides those that are in 
 the Valley of the Shadow of Death. There 
 I thought I saw the mouth of Hell, there 
 was a ditch on one side, and a quag on the 
 other; and here are gins and traps of every 
 kind, to take the unwary traveller ; but the 
 elect are kept by the power of God, through 
 faith, unto salvation. It lias been my prayer 
 for some time to the Lord of the Wav that 
 he would keep me, and guide me for his 
 great Name's sake. 
 
 Faithful. The Lord hath said, " I will 
 instruct thee, and ttach thee in the way 
 which thou shall yo; I will guide thee with 
 ye,' 1 none teacheth like him; and he 
 hath promised that the Spirit of truth shall 
 guide you into all truth, and the Lord has 
 lately led me into the meaning of several 
 parts of scripture, which 1 have been much 
 perplexed about, by the different opinions 
 of so many commentators. Ezekiefs visi- 
 
 of God, by the river of Chebar, I 
 is in answer to that promise, " The pure in 
 rt shall see God," the Cherubims show 
 the mystery of the Trinity, and of the per- 
 son of Christ, as God and Man in one per- 
 son. The Psalmist addresses him, thus ; 
 " Thou that dwellestin the cherubims, shine 
 
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 forth." Psal. lxx. v. 1. Ezekiel tells us, 
 that he had the same vision renewed to 
 him ; and it is worthy of observation, that, 
 in the 10th chapter, he sometimes speaks 
 of the living creatures in the singular, and 
 sometimes in the plural, this is to show the 
 unity of the Godhead. The vision that 
 John had in the Isle of Patmos is the same, 
 and the four living creatures are spoken of 
 in the same manner as the cherubims ; and 
 the 14th and loth verses of the oth chapter of 
 Revelations prove, that it can mean nothing 
 else but a vision of God, as revealed in the 
 covenant, which God shows his people ; 
 and this is the secret that is with them that 
 fear the Lord. Isaiah had the same vision 
 of the seraphims, when he declares, " Mine 
 eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts ;" 
 and every soul that is born from above 
 has this vision of God, though all cannot 
 express it so clearly. 
 
 Joseph. I confess, I never understood 
 those parts of scripture before, and w?s 
 always afraid of thinking of them, lest I 
 should think contrary to great men's opini- 
 ons ; but I see clearly now, that it was a 
 vision that Christian had at Mount Cal- 
 vary, and this was the same vision that I 
 had, when God delivered me from my bur- 
 den of wrath and guilt, which I laboured 
 under so lon^. 
 
 Faithful. I have also seen, wkat is meant 
 
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 by the two witnesses which John speaks of. 
 These are the two olive trees, and the two 
 candlesticks standing before the God of the 
 earth. These are the two anointed ones 
 that Zechariah saw, and they are Christ, 
 the Word, and the Holy Spirit; these are 
 the two witnesses that prophesied in sack- 
 cloth, declaring the destruction of Jerusalem ; 
 this is what John had revealed to him, and 
 this is set forth by the measuring of Jeru- 
 salem, both as Zechariah saw, and as John 
 bears record, only that Zechariah saw the 
 re-building of it, and John the destruction. 
 Rev. xi. 1, 2. And there was given me a 
 reed, like unto a rod; and the angel stood, 
 saying, " Rise, and measure the temple of 
 God, and the altar, and them that worship 
 therein ; but the court, which is without, 
 leave out, and measure it not, for it is given 
 unto the Gentiles ; and the Holy City shall 
 they tread under foot forty-two months." 
 Now the slaying of these witnesses, was to 
 be when they had finished their testimony; 
 and this is represented as taking place, in 
 the street of the great city, which, spiritually, 
 is called Sodcm and Egypt, where also our 
 Lord was crucified. Rev. xi. 8. Now it 
 was after the resurrection of Christ that 
 the Holy Spirit descended ; and the two wit- 
 nesses stood upon their feet, for the testi- 
 mony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy: 
 after this came the destruction that was 
 
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 threatened ; and the apostles turning to the 
 Gentiles, is set forth in the 11th and ICth 
 verses, "And their enemies beheld them, and 
 great fear fell upon them, which saw them : 
 and the same hour was there a great earth- 
 quake, and the tenth part of the city fell, 
 and in the earthquake were slain cf men 
 seven thousand; and the remnant were 
 affrighted, and gave glory to the God of 
 Heaven." 
 
 Joseph. What the Lord has shewed you, 
 has cast greater light on these parts of scrip- 
 ture than I have ever seen before, and it 
 has removed a great deal of perplexity from 
 my mind. 
 
 Faithful. I am also persuaded, that 
 where God says, " Behold, I create new 
 heavens, and a new earth ; and the former 
 shall not be remembered, nor come into 
 mind." Isaiah lxv. 17, means the call of 
 the Gentiles, as the whole of that chapter 
 refers to it, and to nothing else ; thus it be- 
 gins, " I am sought of them that asked not 
 for me, I am found of them that sought me 
 not : I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a 
 nation that was not called by my name." 
 By the heavens, and earth, were meant, Jews 
 and Gentiles ; hence Isaiah addresses both, 
 " Hear, O heavens, and give ear O earth !" 
 and the Gentile church, and dreadful state 
 of the Jews is what John saw, a new hea- 
 ven and a new earth; compare Isaiah lxv. 17, 
 
16 
 
 and following verses, with Rev. xxi. to the 
 10th verse. 
 
 Joseph. The Lord's people have an 
 unction from the Holy One, and they know 
 all things, even as John speaks. But the 
 anointing which ye have received of him, 
 abideth in you, and ye need not that any 
 man teach you ; but as the same anointing 
 teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and 
 is no lie ; and even as it hath taught you, 
 ye shall abide in him. 
 
 Faithful. The most learned, without this 
 eyesalve, darken council with words with- 
 out knowledge ; of this stamp is a Sermon, 
 lately printed, on the Office and Operations 
 of the Spirit of God as a Witness. The 
 preacher intended it as an antidote against 
 the virulent poison of the Sandemanian 
 heresy, but he does not convince me that 
 he has experienced the Spirit's work on his 
 own soul, any more than the Hibernian 
 Stranger. 
 
 Joseph. Certainly, our own experience 
 is what we should bring against such a 
 damnable heresy. 
 
 Faithful. Such men may well preach in 
 favour of academies, as I believe they are 
 gill ignorant of the anointing of the Holy 
 Ghost; yet one of these blind guides, has 
 had the presumption to write a Treatise on. 
 Experience ; but it is such experience as will 
 feed hypocrites : he is far more fit to write 
 
17 
 
 a Dictionary, as all the knowledge he has 
 ever got, has been collected from old au- 
 thors. These are the evangelical preachers 
 of the present day ; their damnation is just, 
 and from all such, " Good Lord deliver us." 
 Here, I thought I saw in my dream, one 
 running with fresh news from Carnal Policy, 
 respecting the conversion of the Jews, and 
 after a long preamble, he said, " These are 
 general Cases, which Christians must resolve 
 to make provision for, if they are desirous 
 that measures for evangelizing the Jews 
 should be zealously and successfully prose- 
 cuted. 
 
 Faithful. We must expect that, by the 
 exertions of Buonaparte and the Missionary 
 Society, the Jews will be converted to some- 
 thing ; but whether it be to Buonaparte's 
 religion , or to the religion of the Missionary 
 Society, they will be tenfold more the chil- 
 dren of the Devil than before : it is the 
 work of God to translate men, (Jews or 
 Gentiles) from the kingdom of Satan into 
 the kingdom of God's dear Son; but such 
 men as the Missionary Society know nothing 
 of the nature of the new birth, though they 
 talk of the necessity of regeneration. 
 
 Joseph. I think it is a new scheme to 
 increase the funds, and there must be 
 money raised to bring home the poor 
 wretches from the South Seas ; and when 
 they come home, though they could not 
 
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 convert the Gentiles, yet they may the 
 Jews, and new actors will be wanted, as the 
 German puppet is nearly worn out. 
 
 Faithful. I understand, that at the next 
 annual association of the reverend Smooth- 
 men, in the county of Kent, one of the 
 most loving among them is to preach on 
 the communion of Christian churches ; and 
 I would recommend him to take his text 
 out of the Evangelical Magazine, where 
 the candour of a carnal Vicar is applauded 
 for acting friendly towards the Dissenting 
 interest in his parish ; and the writer wishes 
 that " ministers of all denominations were 
 so cordially united to assist each other in 
 the common cause." 
 
 Joseph. The Devil must laugh in his 
 sleeve, to see so many Evangelical Clergy, 
 Dissenters, Methodists, and every other mo- 
 derate sect, united to carry on his design, 
 which *is to erect the Image of the Whore 
 of Babylon. 
 
 Faithful. If I had as much courage as 
 Macgowan, I should like to visit Horrida 
 Vallis, to hear the Dialogues of Devils on 
 the present state of religion. Infidelis, 
 Avaro, Fastosus, Impiator, and Discordans, 
 must rejoice that they have gained such 
 ground in England. 
 
 Joseph. What numbers of Methodists 
 and Dissenters are going to Hell every 
 year to be undeceived ! and how they must 
 
19 
 
 curse those wretched men that have kept 
 them in the dark, and prejudiced their minds 
 against the truth ! such parsons will have 
 the warmest hell of any that have gone be- 
 fore them. 
 
 Faithful. How it must please old Belze- 
 bub, that so many are preparing every year 
 to keep up the cause ! he knew he could 
 not carry on the farce without several aca- 
 demies. 
 
 Joseph. I have found, Jeremiah xx. 7th 
 to the 14th verse, suitable to the testimony 
 I have borne against those hypocrites. "For 
 since I spake, I cried out, I cried vio- 
 lence and spoil ; because the word of the 
 Lord was made a reproach unto me, and 
 a derision daily : then I said, I will not 
 make mention of him, nor spake any more 
 in his name, but his word was in mine 
 heart, as a burning fire shut up in my 
 bones ; and I was weary with forbearing, 
 and I could not, for I heard the defam- 
 ing of many fear on every side." Report 
 say, they, arid we will report it; all my 
 familiars watch for my halting, saying, "Per- 
 adventure he will be enticed, and we shall 
 prevail against him, and we shall take our 
 revenge on him ; but the Lord is with me 
 as a mighty terrible one: therefore, my 
 persecutors shall stumble, and they shall 
 not prevail, they shall be greatly ashamed, 
 for they shall not prosper; their everlast- 
 
20 
 
 ing confusion shall never be forgotten. 
 Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord, 
 for he hath delivered the soul of the poor 
 from the hand of evil doers." Then said 
 they, " Come, and let us devise devices against 
 Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from 
 the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor 
 the word from the prophet. Come, and 
 let me smite him with the tongue, and let 
 us not give heed to any of his words." 
 
 "Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken 
 to the voice of them that contend with 
 me. Shall evil be recompensed for good? 
 for they have digged a pit for my soul. 
 
 Remember that I stood before to speak 
 good for them, yet Lord thou knowest all 
 their councel against me, to slay me; for- 
 give not their iniquity, neither blot out 
 their sin from thy sight, but let them be 
 overthrown before thee ; deal thus with them 
 in the time of thine anger." 
 
 I thought I saw, in my dream, those 
 few that were driven out of the Palace 
 Beautiful, and that went into the Valley 
 of Humiliation ; I saw them in a sharp com- 
 bat with Apollyon, and I expected he 
 would have swallowed them up alive: you 
 cannot think (except you had been there 
 as I was) how the poor souls trembled, 
 and cried for help, but the Devil told 
 them, they never came in at the wicket gate, 
 and that all their religion had been hypo- 
 
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 crisy ; that they had sinned against the Holy 
 Ghost, and that now he was sure of them; 
 and with that they swooned away, and they 
 had no strength shut up or left; seeing 
 I i in this situation, my feelings were 
 such that they awoke me : when i dream 
 again, I hope to see their deliverance from 
 the power of th ry. 
 
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 FIFTH PART. 
 
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THE 
 
 PROGRESS OF RELIGION 
 
 FIFTH PART. 
 
 Having had much acquaintance with the 
 inhabitants of Carnal Policy, my mind is 
 frequently roving in that country, even the 
 night-watches : sometimes I am at a general 
 conference of the Arminian Methodists, where 
 I hear them resolving on different motions, 
 for the better regulating that Popish body of 
 double-milled hypocrites. At one of those 
 annual infernal conferences, it was thougnt 
 proper to move for the removal of the wore 
 Arminian from the title of their Magazine, at 
 many prefered the term Methodist, it beinr 
 rather more popular in the present day; bu 
 lest any part of the connexion should fe< 
 hurt at the loss of such a szceet name, ■•■ 
 was resolved to call it — the Arminian c- 
 Methodist Magazine, which contains greaU 
 
4 
 
 abominations, if possible, than the (falsely 
 called) Evangelical Magazine : sometimes it 
 is resolved what doctrines must be preached 
 the ensuing year, and this is generally altered 
 according to the times. 
 
 Now all this is expected from such time- 
 serving priests: but I sometimes hear those 
 that call themselves Calvinists, making re- 
 ligious hand-bills, together with religious 
 tract societies, intended to convert more of 
 the human race to what is called Christian- 
 ity; but all such converts are made twofold 
 more the children of the Devil than before. 
 I sometimes think, in my dream, tnat surely 
 the Reverend Smoothmen must be greatly 
 put to their trumps when they flee to such 
 foolish subterfuges : anything new does won- 
 ders; and what these religious hand-bills will 
 bring about still remains to be proved. 
 
 Now, I saw in my dream, that, by the help 
 of the Witch of End or s Master, Giant Maui 
 was raised to life, even as Solomon said — 
 " A man that beareth false witness against 
 his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a 
 sharp arrow." The sweet-spirited Smoothmen 
 carry such weapons about them, to stab the 
 character of the Antinomians. This Giant 
 Maul, lived in the davs of Christ: hence he 
 was called a gluttonous man — a drunkard — 
 a friend of publicans and sinners ; they said, 
 he had a devil, that he cast out devils by 
 Beelzebub ; that is saying, he had a bad spi- 
 
fit, a bitter spirit, a narrow spirit ; and yet 
 he cast out devils. " He that be irs false 
 Witness is a maul." In answer to those ac- 
 cuser, Christ asked—" H I by Beelzebub 
 cast out c;evils, by whom do your sons cast 
 them out : but if I, the finger of God, cast 
 out devils, then the kingdom of God is come 
 nigh unto you." The Pharisees of that day 
 blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, because 
 they said — " He hath an "unclean spirit." 
 Mark iii. 30. Here Faithful said, he knew 
 several that had committed the sin against 
 the Holy Ghost; two of whom he had ac- 
 quainted with their awful state. 
 
 Joseph. And I know of no ground of hope 
 that repentance can be granted to them, 
 though Dr. Hawker lias published " AProp 
 against all Despair;" a Wiser than he says— 
 " The fear of the wicked shad] come upon 
 him ;" and we are taught, not to pray for 
 those that commit the sin unto death. 
 
 Faithful. As for that noted Author you 
 mentioned, I think he u» in the flesh, and, 
 therefore, cannot please God, not even with his 
 " PoorMaiVs Commentary," "Zion"s Pilgrim/ 1 
 nor his flaming preaching, wherewith he 
 feeds so many hypocrites. 
 
 Joseph. This is the work the author of the 
 "Theological Dictionary" is so active in; and 
 finding his " Treatise of Experience'' pleas- 
 ed so many old hypocrites, he has since 'pub- 
 lished what he calls — " A Guide to young 
 
Christians :" but it is a blind guide, and dis- 
 covers the author to be in the dark. 
 
 Faithful. Such kind of men are not a- 
 shamed to write against the truth of God, 
 notwithstanding the awful judgments that are 
 constantly overtaking them : there was one 
 Not-right, struck dead with a thunderbolt; 
 and there was one in the same parish with me 
 taken off to hell, at the ordination of one of 
 the Smoothmen ; and there is one Out-of-the 
 Way, living in the same town, a proud, p?e- 
 sumptious hypocrite : I have written two 
 Letters to him, telling him his dangerous 
 situation. 
 
 Joseph. There is a man, they called The 
 Coachman, who has long since cried out a- 
 gainst the hypocrisy of the religious world, 
 and of the old Doctor he lived with : I have 
 heard him say — " He was as blind as a bat :" 
 so far I can unite with him ; but I have lately 
 told him, he was a presumptuous prophet 
 and a filthy dreamer, and he had better re- 
 turn to his coachbox, than continue to drive 
 hypocrites from one refuge of lies into a 
 zvorze : he will die like Hananiah ; and what 
 was said of Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, is true 
 concerning him. 
 
 Faithful. There is, near you, a family, 
 called the Dick-son's, which would be pro- 
 perly named Old Nick's-sons; for I am sure 
 they are sons of the Devil, and workers of 
 iniquity, and are walking in thf same path 
 with old 13onham. 
 
Joseph. That great bishop, Hills, that 
 was made such a wonder of, told a friend of 
 mine, " that he preached other men's expe- 
 rience, and that he had none of his own ; and 
 that he was sure of going to hell." This my 
 friend had from his 0wn mouth, and he will 
 certify the truth of it before any one : how 
 many such great men there are, in the present 
 day, whose end will be like his ! — " He that 
 getteth riches, and not by right, will be a fool 
 at the end." Jeremiah said, " These men 
 were as the parti idge, that sitteth on e^gs 
 and hatcheth them not." " The heart is deceit- 
 ful above all things, and desperately wicked ; 
 who can know it? I the Lord search the 
 heart: I try the reins, even to give every 
 man according to his ways, and according 
 to the fruit of his doings." 
 
 Faith. Your brother Samuel was brought 
 up in the temple, that he might be an eye- 
 witness of the abominations carried on in the 
 time of old Eli ; a no!, afterwards, God made 
 him expose them. Now the sons of Eli were 
 sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord. 
 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very 
 great before the Lord : for men abhorred the 
 offering of the Lord : they even lay with the 
 women that assembled at the door of the ta- 
 bernacle of the congregation. 
 
 Joseph, There is an Independent minister 
 in London, who, not long ago, was carrica- 
 tured with one of his female members, weigh' 
 
ing one against another, in allusion to the 
 place where his Meeting-house stands : he 
 has brought up three sons in the academy 
 for ministers ; and, I think, they will turn out 
 the sons of Eli, but at present they are very 
 popular preachers, and they have comfort- 
 able settlements. 
 
 Faithful. The late Dr. Hunter ordained a 
 young man. who follows thestyle of his bishop, 
 and is very much followed by the ladies, on ac- 
 count of his velvet tongue : but is condemned 
 by a few Antinomies, at Peckham, as a blind 
 guide; but the young Orator told me, that 
 these bitter-spirited men were thought no- 
 thing of by the respectable dissenters in his 
 neighbourhood. This young Bengo is pecu- 
 liarly pathetic in funeral sermons ; and his 
 c< Fugitive Pieces," are admired, as adapted 
 to convert the boarding-school young ladies 
 and gentlemen. 
 
 Joseph. The Devil has workmen suited to 
 the class of h)| ocrites he wishes to keep up: 
 among some " Doddridge's Rise and Pro- 
 gress of Religion in the Soul," is fixed as a 
 standard ; others were converted by Beau- 
 Joy's Little Bool: ; therefore, his " Guide to 
 Pilgrims," or his " Treatise on Faith," as it is 
 called, is praised as wonderfully useful : but 
 all such converts as he or his book have 
 made, are in that road, the end of which is 
 destruction. 
 
 Faithfhl. The exhortation that God gives 
 
9 
 
 to his watchmen set upon the walls of Jeru- 
 salem is, " Go through, go through the gates ; 
 prepare ye the way of the people : cast up, 
 cast up the highway; gather out the stones; 
 lift up a standard for the people; behold, the 
 Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the 
 world, say ye to the daughter of Zion, Be- 
 hold thy salvation cometh ; behold, his re- 
 ward is with him, and his work before him, 
 and they shall call them — The holy People ; 
 The redeemed of the Lord ; and thou shalt 
 be called — Sought out : a city not forsaken." 
 Joseph. I have lately thought on the un- 
 scriptural practice of admitting all sorts of 
 people to the Lord's Supper : I was told of a 
 person that went intoxicated with liquor; and 
 when the bread was oftered, put that aside, 
 and took the wine, and drank all that was in 
 the cup ; however shocking this may be, I 
 know that equally improper persons are con- 
 tinually eating and drinking condemnation to 
 themselves, not discerning the Lord's bodv. 
 In my last I hoped to see the deliverance of 
 those poor souls tried b\ the Devil: because 
 they had joined a False church; and the Lord 
 has been pleased to send me a living testi- 
 mony, which I shall lay before you, verbatim, 
 from the original : 
 
10 
 
 to mr. george savage white. 
 Sir, 
 May grace and peace be multiplied to you 
 and your's ; may God give you an under- 
 standing in all divine things; may a dou- 
 ble portion of the Spirit be given unto you ; 
 may God the Spirit lead you into the mystery 
 of the Father and of Christ ! for, indeed, if 
 these things abide in you, you will not be 
 barren or unfruitful ; may you still be enabled 
 to thrash the mountains as chaff, and while 
 the serpents are hissing in the mow, making 
 a wide mouth, and drawing out the tongue, you 
 shall ride upon their high places, being shod 
 with the Gospel of the grace of God : " for 
 this is the heritage of the Lord's servants, and 
 their rightetusness is of me, saith the Lord." 
 1 have had it on my mind for some time to 
 send you the dealing of the Lord upon my 
 soul : for, blessed be God ! since I have heard 
 the word preached by your mouth, God hath 
 been pleased of his great goodness to bring 
 me back upon his everlasting shoulders, (after 
 three years awful backsliding) to reveal his 
 pardoning love and mercy to me, filling my 
 soul with love, peace and joy; the best robe 
 of Chrirt's righteousness was brought to 
 clothe me withal : the shoes, the ring, the 
 fatted calf : this is keeping holiday; this is 
 finding life, righteousness, and honur ! When 
 God is pleased to shine upon the soul in this 
 
II 
 
 xvay, how it melts the soul! Love, peace, 
 and joy flow in, while Jesus takes possession : 
 winter is gone far enough away, the time of 
 the singing of birds is come to a witness while 
 this feast lasteth ! In writing this Account I 
 shall begin where God began with me, so 
 tar as I can recollect, as I have nothing 
 written. I was born and brought up a few 
 miles from this place; my father was a poor 
 labouring man, having a large family : (here I 
 shall pass over particulars). As I grew up, 
 vice and immorality grew with me: for- 
 swearing and blasphemy there were very few 
 to equal me ; I was a hardened presumptu- 
 ous wretch, insomuch, that men, quite igno- 
 rant themselves, have been astonished to 
 hear my oaths and curses, but all this time 
 not without lashes of concience ; it could not 
 be said of me, as of Master Bunyan : " I was 
 a town swearer," but I was a country devil ; 
 thus I went on, post-haste, in the road to eter- 
 nal misery; but God, who saith to the proud 
 waves of the sea, " Hitherto shall he go, but 
 no further," was pleased to stop yne. I was 
 quickly brought to the bar of God, con- 
 victed and condemned; I had no hope, no 
 refuge, to fly to; this was in the year 1781. 
 A man that wrought for my master, and hav- 
 ing had some conversation with me, lent me 
 Bunyans "Two Covenants;" I had a great in- 
 clination to read it; and, by reading, God was 
 pleased of his great goodness to shew me my 
 
K 
 
 state : I felt I was a sinner, for the ar- 
 rows of the Almighty drank up my spirits, 
 my sins stared me in the face; my bones 
 were broken, my comeliness turned to cor- 
 ruption! thus 1 went sighing, groaning, and 
 crying, " No hope !" I had no hope : I was 
 deadl'n trespasses and sins; thus was I cut 
 down, without hope and without a covering ; 
 a lar<Te catalogue of sins were brought to my 
 mynund; God appeared in his law against 
 ire ! nothing but wrath, hell, and destruction 
 before me 1 in this state I remained for 
 about three weeks. As I was reading again in 
 Bunyans " Covenants," that without shedding 
 of blood there is no remission of sins, either 
 my own blood, or the blood of another; 1 
 thought, if I could but know what this blood 
 was, and how it was applied | Now, you must 
 know, though I was born in a Christian land, 
 I knew no more of Christ than a heathen 
 savage ! but God, who keeps his eyes upon 
 his elect vessels, saw me weltering in my 
 blood, cast out in the open fields, to the 
 loathing of my person; he past by in a time 
 of love, (though I knew it not then, nor tor 
 many years after) as I was reading the words 
 in the book, it was as if a voice from heaven 
 spoke to me, "The blood of Jesus Christ 
 cleanseth us from all sin:" the burden fell 
 immediately off my back, and joy flowed 
 into my soul ; I laid the book down, I cried 
 and prayed, but cannot fully express my feel- 
 
]3 
 
 ings at that time ; my soul was melted within 
 me, and thus I continued for three days, or 
 more : at this time I heeded not that sink of 
 sin which remained in my heart; I soon 
 went about, trying to make others see and 
 feci as I did : but, alas! this was poor work ; 
 and God was pleased to let me go on till I 
 was filled with my own ways. Ephraim is 
 joined to idols ; let him alone, saith God : 
 by my cackling about, that damnable whore 
 of Babylon laid hold on me — got me to her 
 bed — where I lay eighteen years; cursed 
 strumpet ! (I mean the false church.) During 
 this time I could make very little out, for I 
 was completely buried in the sands : some- 
 times 1 had a gleam of hope, but for the 
 greatest part of this time I was intoxicated : 
 1 was made drunk with the wine of her for- 
 nication. I would observe, that soon after 
 this revelation of Christ to my soul (for I be- 
 lieve now it was a revelation of Christ, though 
 I have been so many years in the dark about 
 it) that I was sorely harased with blasphem- 
 ous thoughts to curse God : against this I 
 prayed, and cried ; let me be at whatever I 
 might, cleaning my master's horse — stirrups 
 — bridle — shoes — eating, drinking — or what- 
 ever, I was pushed on to do it ; new : curse 
 God now. But the blessed God, who stop- 
 peth the proud waves of the sea, was pleased 
 to cause the Enemy of souls to leave off 
 c 
 
14 
 
 tempting me in this way in about three weeks, 
 and never has tempted me in this way since; 
 but temptations to put an end to my exist- 
 ence I have had many times: blessed be 
 God ! here I am now ; and I know the Devil 
 will not make an end of me. But, to return, 
 though I do not wish to dwell loner on this 
 eighteen years captivity in the enemy's land ; 
 then I was looking to those that had a garb 
 of sanctity, as holy beings ; at this time I had 
 a dream ; and, as I thought, I heard very 
 sweet music in the air, and it took my atten- 
 tion : I thought a voice spoke to me, and 
 told me — " my works were not perfect before 
 God ;" this, for a while, had weight on my 
 mind, but at length it wore off: for, being 
 drunk with the whore of Babylon, I could 
 make nothing out. Now I read some of 
 that holy man, Mr. Huntington's Works, but 
 that did not suit, but condemned me : for I 
 saw, if he were right, I was wrong ; therefore 
 I laid this aside for some time; it was " light 
 shining in darkness,*' all this time I was in 
 the enemy's land, but, blessed be God ! the 
 time now came that I must be brought up 
 out of the land : a mighty famine arose ; the 
 husk that I had so long been feeding on, be- 
 gan to be my sorrowful meat ; the Whore's 
 eyes could no longer enchant me, nor be- 
 witch; I saw that her steps took hold on hell ; 
 here I found it hard work indeed to get out 
 of her clutches ; God, who hath a set time to 
 
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 favour his chosen ones, looked with love and 
 pity on my soul; brought me out of. the ene- 
 my's land with a strong hand and mighty 
 arm, for his own name's sake ; the Devil 
 roared, but all in vain ; though Pharaoh* 
 pursued with all his host, God took me by 
 the hand, and brought me out- from among 
 them: this was in the year 1799. About 
 this time, I heard Mr. Huntington in Lon- 
 don; God was pleased to cause that veil of 
 darkness, which the Devil had so long blinded 
 my mind with, to be dispersed, and to shine 
 with a ray of divine light into my poor soul: 
 now the pillows that those blind guides had 
 sewed under my armholes, the kerchiefs, and 
 the veil, were all tore off together, and I went 
 down into the furnace; law and terror seized 
 me again, the arrows of God stuck fast in me, 
 and Satan came in as flood, even into my 
 soul, to doubt the Scriptures, or if there be 
 any truth in religion, but the Lord soon de- 
 livered me, and brought be out of the horri- 
 ble pit and miry clay, set my feet upon the 
 ■Rock, Christ, and established my goings ; the 
 Lord was pleased, by his Spirit, to reveal his 
 pardoning love to my soul ; I had the same 
 melting of soul as at the first : I was crying, 
 singing, mourning, rejoicing : there is none 
 know what this is, but those who have felt it; 
 neither did I know, so as to be satisfied that 
 it was the work of the Lord ; but I read the 
 Bible with new eyes, and I had a new heart 
 
16 
 
 given me ; the heart of stone was taken away 
 and a heart of flesh given, according to God's 
 promise. About this time Mr. Bramson be- 
 gan to preach at Tunbridge Wells ; and whe- 
 ther he was sent of God to preach or not, I 
 cannot tell : this I know — he hath spoken 
 precious truths. Now I had another dream : 
 I thought I was on a very immense large 
 high rock, or, rather, on the side of it : what 
 supported me on it was, that I stood on it 
 with my feet, leaned on it with my arms, and 
 I rested my back against it: while I was in 
 this posture, a very large stone came rolling 
 off the top, on the left-hand where I stood, 
 as it went down it dashed again and again 
 against the side of the rock, and I feared it 
 would shake the rock where I stood, and 
 then I must fall ; but it shook it not, but went 
 down again quite out of sight into a dark 
 abyss, and I awoke ; and here I leave it. 
 
 Blessed be God, who teacheth to profit, 
 that he hath brought me on in a right way 
 for his holy name's sake : but never, tiil very 
 lately, could I fee my interest in Christ, nor 
 call God mv Father, for fear of the greatest 
 presumption. While I was in the enemy's 
 land, with the Whore of Babylon, I presumed 
 to call God the Father — my blessed Jesus ; 
 and appeared as holy as the Devil could make 
 ine. This makes me hate with a perfect ha- 
 tred all this damnable work : for well I know, 
 " It is not of him that willeth, nor of him 
 
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 that runneth, but of God, that sheweth 
 mercy ; v may God the Spirit lead and guide 
 me for his great name's sake ; for, though the 
 Lord has been pleased to open my grave, 
 and to bring me up out of my grave, I have yet 
 a heart that would depart from him. I have 
 very much been foiled in thinking all my 
 religion arose from my own fleshly passions, 
 and whether I was elected or not. In the 
 year 1804, as I was at Cranbrook, to hear 
 that man of God Mr, Huntington, all that 
 night, and next day, I was in a very sweet 
 frame of soul : " I was humbled in the dust, 
 as the fire melteth wax so was my soul melted 
 within me ;" I was weeping all night : sleep- 
 ing and waking I thought it was a manifesta- 
 tion of Christ to my soul ; but was afraid to 
 say so, for fear it would wear off, and so it 
 did. I come now to the three years back- 
 sliding from God, which I hin red of at the 
 first : a gradual declension took place, and I 
 was as completely miserable as any mortal 
 out of hell i the first of this declension was 
 consulting ease ; from not going to hear the 
 word darkness seized my mind ; a hi 
 gloom was diffused through ail my soul; I 
 could neither pray, nor read, nor hear ; I 
 declined the ways of God to a witness — I 
 hated to see a child of God; this was a time 
 be Devil's sifting^ and he did it to the 
 : but, blessed be my God and Father — 
 roc one grain fell to the earth — he had no- 
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 thing but the chaff, and that must be burnt. 
 I was far from God — I saw neither sun, 
 moon, nor stars — in a horrible pit ; Satan ac- 
 cused — conscience witnessed, and I doubted 
 ail that had gone before: I did not go back 
 to the false church: for, though I was so 
 dark and bewildered in my soul, I had light 
 enough to see them wrong; all this time 
 there was a secret hope in my soul that I 
 should come forth again; after I had been 
 tried I should come forth as gold : I had 
 no power to come out, I was bound hand 
 and foot fast in irons : a poor starved state 
 this, but here I was for three years ! Now 
 the set time is come to favour this rebel once 
 more, and bring him back on his everlasting 
 shoulders ; clothe him, and sit him down in 
 his right mind : the way the Lord did this 
 was, by sending a young Elihu, George 
 Savage White, to be an interpreter to me ; 
 to cast up the highway, and to take the 
 stumbling-block out of the way. I came to 
 the Chapel to hear you, very much afraid in 
 my mind that I should not be able to judge 
 rightly, as I had been so bewildered ; but 
 blessed be God, who promised the Spirit 
 should take of the things of Jesus and shew 
 them to us, I felt the witness in my soul ; I 
 knew you were no imposture ; I knew God 
 was there, and that God was in you ; now I 
 was brought back with weeping, mourning, 
 and supplication : thus was I brought to ab- 
 
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 hor myself and my doings (which were far 
 from being good) in dust and ashes. Now 
 the Lord was pleased to grant that I should 
 no longer be an alien but a fellow citizen 
 with the household of God : I found a great 
 warmth in my soul, and a desire to speak to 
 you, which I thank God I did ; you asked 
 how, or what it was that caused me to take 
 up a profession ? I told you : your answer 
 was — that you had no doubt, but that it was 
 a genuine work of the Spirit of God, and 
 that what I felt in my soul was a real de- 
 liverance ; this I could never make out be- 
 fore, neither did i believe it because you 
 spoke it : that would have been making flesh 
 of my arm, for " cursed is man that trusteth 
 in man;" but it was God, and God alone 
 shall have all the praise ; for, very soon after, 
 God was pleased to reveal his pardoning 
 love and mercy to my soul, so full and so 
 free, that I could no longer refuse to be 
 comforted, as in times past, but was con- 
 strained, to say, with poor Thomas, " My 
 Lord and my God!'' light, life, and joy, 
 flowed powerfully into my soul, while Jesus 
 took possession of my heart : his flesh is meat 
 indeed, and his blood drink indeed ; as far 
 as the East is from the West so far hath he 
 caused my iniquities to be removed : both 
 original and actual, they are all nailed to the 
 cross ! Now the fatted calf comes forward : 
 the ring, the shoes, and the robe of Christ's 
 
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 righteousness ; " winter is gone, the time of 
 the singing of birds is come :" here is a feast 
 of fat tilings indeed ! Perhaps some may say 
 I am presumptious : but I can but speak of 
 what mine eyes have seen, my mouth tasted, 
 and my hands have handled of the Word of 
 Life, and what is all religion without this ? 
 this is life and peace : my life was hid with 
 Christ in God ; and Christ, who is my life, 
 hath appeared with him in glory ; my beloved 
 is mine, and I am his. I am taken from the 
 dunghil and set among the princes of God's 
 people; thus have I been presented in the 
 kings palace, which favour is great indeed. 
 Thus have I heard of God, by the hearing of 
 the ear ; and thus have mine eyes seen him ; 
 'wherefore I abhor myself in dust and ashes, 
 I dread the garments spotted by the flesh ; 
 but it is no longer I that uo it, but sin that 
 dwelleth in me : for in my mind I would 
 serve God. May God keep and guide you, 
 for his great name's sake; this is Lie wish 
 of, DANIEL WAGHORN, 
 
 A Sinner Saved. 
 
 Deai^ Brother in the Path of Tribulation, 
 
 I thank you for your Epistle: and I 
 thank God, that I can read the writing and un- 
 derstand the interpretation thereof: having 
 walked in the same footsteps these la t ten 
 years. The hist work was the new birth, 
 
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 and, in the simplicity of your first love, you 
 wert taken captive ; but the Lord preserveth 
 the simple ones; you were brought low, and 
 he helped you. Your first dream was from 
 God : for God speaketh once, yea, twice, 
 yet man perceiveth it not : in a dream, in a 
 vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth 
 upon men, in slumberings upon the bed, then 
 he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their 
 instruction, that he may withdraw man from 
 his purpose, and hide pride from men ; he 
 keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his 
 life from perishing by the sword. Your being 
 brought out of captivity was in answer to 
 this promise : — " Behold I will bring it health 
 and cure ; and I will cure them, and will 
 reveal unto them the abundance of peace and 
 truth; and I will cause the captivity of Judah 
 and the captivity of Israel to return, and will 
 build them as at the first; and I will cleanse 
 them from all their iniquity whereby they 
 have sinned against me ; and I will pardon 
 all their iniquities whereby they have sinned 
 and whereby they have transgressed against 
 me ; and it shall be to me a name of joy, a 
 praise, and an honour before all the nations 
 of the earth, which shall hear all the good 
 that I do unto them; and they shall fear 
 and tremble for all the o;oodness and for all 
 the prosperity that I procure unto it." 
 
 Your return after backsliding, is like the 
 case of the Prodigal : the dream you had 
 when Uramson began preaching was a to- 
 
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 ken of his fall, and he is now dashing 
 against the rock, but he will not be able to 
 shake your standing, " Therefore, behold 
 the day iscome,' , saith the Lord, " that it shall 
 be no more said — " The Lord liveth that 
 brought us out of Egypt, but the Lord liveth 
 that brought up the children of Israel from 
 the land of the North, and from all the lands 
 whither he had driven them : and I will bring 
 them again into their land that I gave unto 
 their fathers: behold, I will send for many 
 fishes, and they shall fish them ; and, after, I 
 will send for many hunters, and they shall 
 hunt them from every mountain and from 
 every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." 
 You have been made to say — " O Lord, 
 my strength and my fortress, and my re- 
 fuge in the day of affliction ! the Gentiles 
 shall come unto thee from the ends of the 
 earth, and shall say— Surely our fathers have 
 inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein 
 they have no profit: shall a man make gods 
 unto himself, and they are gods ? therefore, 
 behold, I will this once cause them to know, 
 I will cause them to know mine hand, and 
 my might ; and they shall know that my 
 name is the Lord." You will yet have trials, 
 as you are not out of the gun-shot of the 
 enemy ; you will only be strong in the Lord, 
 and in the power of his might. When it is 
 well with thee, remember me, 
 
 A Servant of all, for Christ's sake, 
 
 G. S. WHITE. 
 
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 I have lately seen a Memoir of the late 
 Abraham Booth, and there is not one mark 
 of true conversion in it; neither do I believe 
 he was ever called to be a minister or a 
 christian, and therefore I do not wonder at 
 some dissatisfied persons having complained 
 of his ministry as being dry, legal, and of an 
 Arminian cast; it is possible to preach and 
 Write all he did, and yet not be born of God. 
 I was pleased with a few lines of an old 
 book called " The Sincere Convert upon a 
 false Spirit/' As there is a true spirit that 
 witnesseth to our spirits that we are the sons 
 of God; so there is a false spirit, just like 
 the true one, witnessing to hypocrites that 
 they are the sons of God. We are bid to 
 try the spirits : now, if these spirits were not 
 like God's true Spirit, what need of trial ? as 
 what need one try whether dirt be gold, 
 which are so unlike each other ? " As the 
 true Spirit witnesseth, so the false spirit 
 witnesseth also " Matt, xxiii. 24. 
 
 First — The Spirit of God humbles the soul : 
 so, before men have the witness of the false 
 spirit: they are much cast down and dejected 
 in spirit; and hereupon they pray for ease, 
 and purpose to lead new lives, and cast 
 away the weapons and submit ; Ps. lxvi. 3. 
 
 Secondly — The Spirit of God in the Gospel 
 reveals Jesus Christ, and his willingness to 
 save ; so the false spirit discovereth Christ's 
 cexcellency and willingness to receive him, 
 
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 if he he will but come in. It fareth with 
 his soul, as with surveyors of lands, that take 
 an exact compass of other men's grounds, 
 of which they shall never enjoy a foot. So 
 did Balaam : this false spirit sheweth them 
 the glory of heaven and God's people ; here- 
 upon the soul cometh to be affected and to 
 taste the goodness and sweetness of Jesus 
 Christ, as those did ; (Heb. vi.) and the soul 
 breaks out into a passionate admiration: — 
 " Oh ! that ever there should be any hope 
 for such a vile wretch as I am, and have 
 been !" and so joys exceedingly, like a man 
 half-way wrapt up into heaven. Hereupon 
 the soul being comforted after it was wound- 
 ed, now calleth God — "My God H and 
 Christ, " My sweet Saviour I" and now he 
 doubts not, but he shall.be saved; why? 
 " Because I have received much comfort, 
 after much sorrow and doubting ; (Hos. viii. 
 2, 3.) and yet remain a deluded and mi- 
 serable creature still. 
 
 I read a Tract, called — " The French 
 Convert ;" and it put me in mind of some of 
 the converts that the Evangelical Magazine 
 speaks of: merely a change of sentiments, 
 or a work upon the fleshly passions; — " That 
 which is born of the rlesh is flesh : but that 
 which is born of the spirit, is spirit/' 
 
 The is the Author of — " The Village Dia- 
 logues," who is very zealous for the Cow Pox, 
 has been a flaming Preacher about Surry, 
 
and an opposer of the truth of God, but is 
 now silent in darkness. There is one Bailey, 
 in the same county, who has acted like a 
 bailiff to me, in arresting my character, in 
 secret, and endeavouring to degrade my mi- 
 nistry : he goes about begging for a chapel, 
 and selling quack medicines, and acts more 
 like a quack-doctor than a minister of Christ. 
 The Secretary to the Missionary Society has 
 published some u Village Sermons," to convert 
 the poor people in the country; but the 
 author and the bookseller have got more 
 profit by them than any one else : one would 
 suppose, by the last edition of Matthew 
 Henry's Bible, that he was in partnership 
 with some printer. If I could not see a 
 greater cause of Mr. Whitfield's preaching 
 beins useful than what these foolish editors 
 attribute it to, I should have a mean opinion 
 of it altogether ; Matthew Henry is a great 
 help to such blind guides as they, but is ofti 
 use to a servant or God. The Evangelical 
 Clergy and the Independents follow Henry 
 in sermonizing, but the Particular Baptists 
 follow Doctor Gill; and, when he gets them 
 into the water, he carries them easily to see 
 the eternal worship of the Son of God's eter- 
 nal justification, with his absurd view of the 
 Millennium : how shockingly have good men 
 been led away with his notions ! I have 
 been told by a preacher, in the same cou- 
 
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 nexion with the Horse Doctor, that he bought 
 a volume of sermons, on the Spirit's work, 
 to fit him for Tun bridge Wells ; but he had 
 the presumption to declare that he was in- 
 fluenced by the Spirit of God in his preach- 
 ing; though I offered to prove, before him, 
 or any one he chose, that he had preached 
 his sermons ten times over, nearly verbatim. 
 As I have had occasion to write some let- 
 ters to different characters, I shall add thein 
 to this little Tract; the first is to Mr. Bram- 
 son, at Mayfield, a man they call The Coach- 
 man. A friend of mine requested rne to look 
 at the Third Epistle of John, 9th and 10th 
 verses, as suitable to you ; and, as you have 
 been very industrious to degrade my ministry 
 in the most deceitful and hypocritical man- 
 ner, I shall send my thoughts on you. Like 
 Diotrephes, you love to have the pre-eminence 
 among the people ; wherefore, if I come, I 
 will remember his deeds which he doeth, 
 prating against us with malicious words ; 
 and, not content therewith, neither doth he 
 himself receive the brethren, and forbideth 
 them that would, and casteth them out of 
 the church ; all this is because he loveth 
 to have pre-eminence ; therefore envy rageth, 
 and is cruel: though you cannot prove one 
 single error that I hold, yet you have the 
 presumption to prate against me; and, be- 
 cause your words don't come to pass, I shall 
 call you a presumptuous prophet: wherefore 
 
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 we arc commanded not to hearken to such 
 a dreamer of dreams, for I believe your 
 dreams are from the Devil; you have spoken 
 presumptuously, and the Lord hath said, 
 " Thou shalt not be afraid of him." Deut. 18. 
 120, 21, $2: read chap. xiii. verses 1, 2, 3. 
 What the Lord said concerning Shemaiah, the 
 Xchelamite, is true concerning you; read 
 Jef. xxix. three last verses; read also Hana- 
 niah's false prophecy ; and as Jeremiah was 
 commanded to say to him, so am I to you. 
 * The Lord hath" not sent thee, but thou 
 makest this people to trust in a lie ; thou 
 hast taught rebellion against the Lord." The 
 Lord is against the prophet that steals his 
 words from his neighbour, and the Lord 15 
 against thee for stealing thy words from Mr. 
 Huntington : " Thy fruit will fail, and thy leaf 
 fade, and I shall live to see it." Some of 
 the Lord's people have been deceived by 
 you for some years, but the Lord has sent 
 me to open their eyes. You pretend to be 
 an Ambassador, but you have no commis- 
 sion, the pride of thy heart hath deceived 
 thee : those that have heard you tell me 
 that you have no new fruit, except when 
 Mr. H. sends out a new book : your waters 
 
 do not flow out of the sanctuarv. 
 
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 The Lord hath said to me, " I have set 
 thee as a tower and a fortress among them, 
 that thou mayest search and try their ways." 
 Before next New Year's Day you will be 
 
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 discovered to be a blind guide, and the citi- 
 zens of Zion will see it. Thus saith the 
 Lord, " I have heard what the prophets said, 
 that prophecy lies in my name; saying, I 
 have dreamed, I have dreamed 1" How long 
 shall this lie in the hearts of the prophets 
 that prophecy lies? yea, they are prophets 
 of the deceit of their own heart. 
 
 I shall call these Thoughts, " Sling-stones 
 from the Wells :"' and, as I have overcome a 
 Lion and a Bear, 1 doubt not of over- 
 coming such an uncircu incised Philistine as 
 you. 
 
 In opposition to all blind guides, I sub- 
 scribe myself an apostle, not of man, nor 
 by man ; but by the revelation of Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Jan. 1st. 1807. G. S. *VV. 
 
 Mr. Bramsox, 
 I should not have thought it worth the 
 trouble of writing another Letter to you, had 
 you not carried a somethhig about in vour 
 pocket, and spoke of it as an Answer to me, 
 when you have never dared answer or face 
 me. I am more and more confirmed in 
 w hat I accused you of. " The sword is upon 
 your arm and vour right eve ; vour arm shall 
 be clean dried up, and your right-eye utterly 
 darkened ;" you have discovered yourself by 
 iieeing to the rankest hypocrites for counsel 
 
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 and advice ; persons that, you told me. knew 
 nothing of religion : but now you have 
 changed your tone, and speak of them as 
 the wheat, whilst you condemn Constable, 
 Macryan, Mephem, and Daniel Waghdrn, 
 as knowing nothing. These men, with some 
 others, are willing to meet you, to testify 
 what God has taught them ; but you dare not 
 face them, your conscience tells you that 
 you are falling and your hypocrisy will be 
 discovered. It you do not come forward, 
 or send yonr pretended answers, I shall ex- 
 pose you in print. Air. Jenkins spoke of 
 you to me with such a distance that shewed 
 me ail was not right, and now I see it. 
 You talk of proof of your ministry; but 
 you cannot produce, out of your nine years 
 preachment, what God has been pleased to 
 attend mine with these last six months, 
 " I would know not the speech of them 
 which are puffed up, but the power for the 
 kingdom of God is not in word but in 
 power." All that your prating has done is, 
 clear to me: vou have brought a few of the 
 Lord's people into bondage, and you have 
 drove 1 some hypocrites from one refuge of. 
 lies to another; they are twofold more the. 
 children of hell than before. 
 
 When you first pretended to preach: 
 Daniel Waghorn had a dream, which I send 
 you, in bis own words: " I thought I was on< 
 
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 a very immense large high rock, or, rather, 
 on the side of it; what supported me on it 
 was, that I stood on it with my feet, leaned 
 on it with my arm, and I rested my back 
 against it: while I was in this posture, a 
 iarge stone came rolling off, on the left-hand 
 where I stood, as it went down it dashed, 
 a^ain and a^ain, against the side of the rock : 
 I feared it would shake the rock where I 
 stood, and then I must fall; but it shook it 
 not, but went down quite out of sight into 
 a dark abyss." The fall of that stone repre- 
 sents you, and you are now dashing against 
 the rock ; and, at last, you will fall into the 
 «lark abyss. 
 
 You followed Tom Smith's line of things, 
 -and your fall will be like his ; there are very 
 few of your hearers that know anything sav- 
 ingly, and those few that do are in dread- 
 ful bondage : you have not profited the Lord's 
 people at all, but you have profited yourself, 
 by making gain of them. I write this in 
 faithfulness, tor I am full of the fury of the 
 Lord. In abhorrence to all blind guides, I 
 subscribe myself, 
 
 An Ambassador of Jesus Christ. 
 
 G. & W. 
 
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 to mr. luckhurst, dkacon of a fa] 
 church at tunbrjdge. 
 
 Sjr, 
 As you have accused in injusdy, of speak- 
 ing against you; I !■ eg leave to inform 
 
 you, that I have never taken the least notice, 
 either by accusation, or in any other way, as I 
 was altogether unacquainted with you; and 
 it is my uniform conduct to pass no censure 
 on any man without having a sufficient 
 knowledge of his character. 
 
 I am sorry to find that you have acted so 
 unlike a gentleman, (putting aside your pro- 
 fession as a Christian and a Deacon, of what 
 you call a Gospel Church,) in loading me 
 with opprobrious names, in language like 
 that of Billingsgate ; and that without your 
 ever passing a word with me, or hearing me 
 preach. I have given you no provocation, 
 so that your saving L was influenced by the 
 Devil must arise from prejudice, which you 
 are suffered to be led by, rather than re- 
 flection and proper investigation. " Those 
 that use the office of a Deacon, should be 
 found blameless, grave; not double-tongued ; 
 not given to much wine ; not greedy of 
 ill thy lucre; holding the mystery of the faith 
 in a pure conscience ; and you, as well as 
 your Wife, shou-ld not be slanderers, but 
 sober, faithful in all things. Now, Sir, if 
 jou had answered to the character of a 
 
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 Deacon, according to the Apostle's descrip- 
 tion, you would not have acted as you have 
 against me, and against the kingdom of God, 
 which I preach. — u The most upright of you 
 are as a thorn hedge." 
 
 You have, at several times, talked of call- 
 ing on me, for the purpose of shewing me 
 my errors ; and, especially, what you are pleas- 
 ed to call lies — in The Progress of Religion. 
 I believe what is there printed, and 1 have 
 not, knowingly, accused any falsely ; and, 
 if you think I have, and would point out 
 wherein I have so acted, without abusing me 
 behind my back, I would have received your 
 observations with thanks. 
 
 My opposition to the Missionary Society 
 arises from a persuasion that their exertions 
 spring from Carnal Policy; and that they are 
 not led forth by the power of the Spirit of 
 God. I once thought as you do, that it 
 was a glorious design : but that was owing 
 to inexperience, and want of reflection on 
 what true conversion is ; and whatever my 
 enemies may attribute the change of my 
 mind to, it matters nothing to me : I know 
 it is from a persuasion, that the Directors of 
 the Missionary Society know not the Scrip- 
 tures nor the power of God. I shall make 
 no apology for thus addressing you, as you- 
 have taken greater liberty with my name and 
 ministry than I thought proper to pass un- 
 noticed. 
 
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 1 deny ever saying you committed the sin 
 against the Holy Ghost; but I would warn 
 you to take heed to your words : for " by 
 your words you will be justified ; and by 
 your words you will be condemned." 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your's, very faithfully, 
 London, G.S.W. 
 
 March 27, 1807. 
 
 to the reverend mr. white. 
 
 Sir, 
 I know nothing of your person, doctrine, 
 or manner of life; nothing of your motives: 
 I judge you not, I condemn you not ; to 
 your own Master you stand or fall ; far be it 
 from me to wish the latter: but God will 
 do all his pleasure, and make manifest every 
 character. Though judgment against an evil 
 work is not always speedily performed, yet it 
 lingers not. ' 
 
 The reason I address you is this : — Bcinor 
 in company in London, the circumstances 
 which of late have transpired in Tunbridge 
 "Wells came upon the carpet, as the saying 
 is ; — hence individuals would show their 
 opinions : "And I," said one, " will deliver a 
 known truth; and then leave you to judge 
 from events. 
 
 . The subject was delivered : " Well," said I, 
 : * I will inform White or it ; and he uiay then 
 give Despotism a deadly blow/' Four years, 
 
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 last August, Lady Ann Erskine sent a simple- 
 hearted plain man, one who had spent twen- 
 ty years in the connexion, and gone through 
 much tribulation, to labour in the Chapel at 
 Tunbridge Wells ; and it was designed that 
 the pooi- man should spend his winter in that 
 place, if his ministry was in general use- 
 ful. (Now the hearers themselves must yet 
 be judges whether the poor man's labours 
 tended to profit or not.) However, so it 
 was, that this same man learned, the very 
 first Sabbath, from the ^countenance, spirit, 
 and conduct of a Tradesman's Wife, whose 
 capricious will was sole manager there, that 
 his stay would be very short; and so it was : 
 for she rested not till the man was recalled, 
 which, I think, was seven weeks ; I cannot 
 speak exactly as to time ; she wanted her 
 Idol : she did not obtain the man she wanted, 
 but an old Veteran was sent off, and a Young 
 Man, just entering on his ministry, succeeded 
 him. The Old Man was slighted when he ar- 
 rived in London, under a supposition that 
 his labours were incompetent to the place, 
 until he produced a recommendation from 
 the party that dismissed him ; even then he 
 was weeks out of employ. The man made no 
 communication of his mind at the Wells; but, 
 with secret groans, and with a silent indigna- 
 tion, arose at four o'clock on the Monday 
 morning, and proceeded for town, leaving 
 the hated spot where Despotism had reared 
 
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 so hifib her unhumbled crest: (observe he 
 hated it in no other point of view.) " Shall not, 
 (said the man) God visit for all these things?" 
 May you, Sir, prove yourself, by grace di- 
 vine, a Christian, and a slayer of Despotism. 
 Tunbridge Wells. TRUTH. 
 
 This is one instance, out of numbers which 
 I could mention, from personal knowledge, of 
 the manner that Limb of the Whore of Baby- 
 lon treats every one that has the least ap- 
 pearance of truth or honesty about them. 
 
 to mr. daniel dickenson. 
 Sir, 
 Being informed, by Mr. Pratt, that you en- 
 deavoured to persuade him against my mi- 
 nistry; though he told you the Spirit of the 
 Lord had attended it with power to his 
 soul, and that he believed me to be endowed 
 with a double portion of God's Spirit; I 
 beg leave to expostulate with you on some 
 expressions that you then uttered. You said, 
 you should persuade all, that you had any 
 respect for, to leave my preaching : that you 
 would as well unite with infernal spirits as 
 with what I preach. Now, every one that 
 bears testimony that I preach by the Spirit 
 of God, must believe that you attribute the 
 influence of God's Spirit to the spirit of the 
 
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 Devil. Have you ever considered the conse- 
 quences of such conduct? why do not you 
 take the trouble to point out to me what 
 error I have fallen into? you should find in 
 me an acknowledgment of your openness and 
 zeal for what you call truth. I really hoped 
 better things of you ; and, from your approba- 
 tion of Bunyan's Works, I was led to think 
 that you savoured the things that were of 
 God: but I find, you, like the Pharisees of 
 old, to speak well of the dead saints and 
 persecute the living ones. I am astonished 
 the more at you. as you told me, the day I 
 dined with you, that you thought the awak- 
 ing that I had experienced in my mind was 
 for some extensive work in the church. 
 
 When you profess to have experienced the 
 work of God on your soul, how can you en- 
 courage such preachers as only preach the 
 letter of the word, and not the same expe- 
 rience with the prophets and apostles? You 
 have the picture of Christianity presented to 
 you, and you applaud it as the living Chris- 
 tian : only take the trouble to ask your pre- 
 sent preacher, if he has not packets of written 
 sermons by him ; and some of them he has 
 preached over ten times, which I can prove 
 with the greatest ease. 
 
 Are you never staggered to hear such men 
 pray for the Spirit of God to give them what 
 they shall speak, when they have committed 
 to memory every idea in the sermon ? surely, 
 
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 you must love to be deceived, or you would 
 investigate such matters. Your saying, you 
 shall pray for us, gave me no pleasure, as 
 your prayers can do us no good while you 
 remain in your present state. I write these 
 few lines, not from prejudice, but from a 
 spirit of faithfulness ; and, as such, I sub- 
 scribe myself, 
 
 A Servant of all, for Christ's sake, 
 
 G. S. W. 
 
 MR. DAXIEL DICKEXSOX : 
 
 I have reflected on what you say was the 
 ground on which you endeavoured to per- 
 suade several against my preaching — the 
 Letter I wrote to John Bonham : and you 
 still say, you could as soon unite with "in- 
 fernal spirits, as with the Author of such 
 Epistles. It would become you to prove, 
 that what I have charged that person with is 
 false : if you will make it appear that he is a 
 child of God ; and, consequently, cannot be 
 involved in the great transgression, you may 
 then say, I have accused him unjustly. 
 . I can assure you, and appeal to God to 
 witness, that my conscience does not accuse 
 me for writing what I did — either matter, 
 manner, or spirit thereof: for I believe it with 
 my whole soul. You are mistaken in think- 
 ing that I have lashes of conscience for 
 
 E 
 
what you call my rebellion at Brighton or 
 for ally thing I have preached or wiote. ever 
 since all that I have said against the Ma- 
 nager's and Preachers I am more and more 
 confirmed in, as the Lord liveth, as it respects 
 the Letters I wrote, and that were written in 
 answer to me : so far from being ashamed of 
 them I sent them to two booksellers in 
 London for publication, an d they wouW 1 have 
 been printed, but that the late Lo.d Chan- 
 cellor makes truth a libel. I can appeal to 
 the God of Truth, that I have not, know- 
 1 accused any falsely : I can mentmn 
 Sal that belieVe John Bonham to have 
 committed the Unpardonable bin ; and I am 
 Wot the only one that think your biothei 
 Step hen is in the same state. Take heed to 
 v 2 words, for « by your words yon will be 
 justified, and by your words you will be 
 
 ^YoTsafyou had seen the same as Mr; 
 
 Prltt w Ss ed, that he had found the Word 
 
 ..come with great power, and h^uch^g 
 
 ment under it ; so you say, when I preacnec 
 
 at the Chapel it was like a shock of electa 
 
 c ity- however the effects may seem to you 
 
 £?ny have acknowledged to me the taunbbj 
 
 effects the Word had on their souls. As 
 
 Mr and Mrs. Wanmore what effects th 
 
 Word had on them; also Mr. Hagate : 
 
 mention these as living near you, but cou 
 
 speak of manv others round this country) bt 
 
39 
 
 you are like the parched heath — " you do 
 not see when good cometh : the light hath 
 shone, and you choose darkness rather than 
 light." I am astonished at your ignorance 
 of the passages of Scripture you insert : 
 how shamefully have you perverted them ! 
 the persons 1 read your Letter to were 
 shocked that you couid so wrest the Scrip- 
 tures. Did I not come in the name of 
 Christ; and was it not evident from trie op- 
 position of such Pharisees as you, though the 
 common people heard me gladly, yet proud 
 hypocrites gnashed their teeth ! how were 
 your countenances fallen ! fearfulness seized 
 the hypocrites, and those that heard not the 
 Christ that I preached was cut off from 
 among the people. As it respects my friends, 
 that you call my admirers, I find the more 
 they know me, the more they are convinced 
 that God has sent me; but, if I stood alone, 
 I know that God must vindicate the truth 
 which I preach ; and that you will be obliged 
 to acknowledge, here or in hell. My saying, 
 that I sit in judgment seems to hurt you : 
 I believe all God's ministers sit in judgment, 
 and you must be blind not to see the same ; 
 God has been purging his flour of late, and 
 the dust is got into your eyes. You say, the 
 error that I have fallen into is — " I do not 
 preach Christ, but myself: that I do not wish 
 the cause of God to prosper, but wish one of 
 my own." You do not know what preaching 
 
40 
 
 Christ is : this is the mystery that has been 
 hid from ages and from generations, but is 
 now made manifest to the saints ; which is 
 " Christ in them the hope of glory." The new 
 creation, in which Christ is all and in all, is 
 what 1 preach ; and which, to such as you, 
 " is a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks fool- 
 ishness ; but to those that believe the wisdom 
 of God and the power of God ;" the Gospel, 
 which is the power of God to salvation ; and 
 this is not preached at any place twenty 
 miles round, excepting an occasional sermon 
 or so. If I wish to have a cause of my own 
 I do not request people to leave other places; 
 I do not hire them to come, nor promise to 
 carry them in waggons ; I do not invite the 
 church singers, and send notes of invitation 
 all round the country, like your brother, 
 which he does to encourage the cause of the 
 Devil. As God hath said — " They shall 
 surely gather together, but not by me ; and 
 all that gather together against thee, shall 
 fall for thy sake." All the present gathering 
 together of your foolish shepherd will all 
 fall, as sure as there is a God in heaven. 
 " The sword is upon his right arm and his 
 right eye : his right arm shall be clear dried 
 lip, and his right eye utterly darkened," — 
 He preaches a god that he has made up at 
 the College. 
 
 Now, to vindicate his written Sermons, 
 and his preaching them over ten times at 
 
41 
 
 different places, you mangle and pervert three 
 passages of Scripture; let me beg of )ou to 
 read the connexion of each, and see if they 
 have any thing to do with committing Ser- 
 mons to memory. I can say, before God, 
 that, ever since I have been at the Wells, I 
 have not known any thing I should preach, 
 any more than the people, before I entered 
 the pulpit. You accuse me of sameness : 
 I appeal to those that have heard me for 
 eight months, and better judges than you, to 
 prove this false. As it respects the Fourth 
 Part of " The Progress of Religion," there are 
 several explanations of Scripture which I ne- 
 ver saw printed by any man before. You tell 
 me I am beside myself: you are not the first 
 Pharisee that said this of a Gospel minister. 
 I am not yet twenty-three years of age, 
 and have I not marks of not being born an 
 ideot any more than }Our wherein am I de- 
 ranged? what deficiency in my intellects, 
 either in natural things, or spiritual. As it 
 respects my having the rod, and returning 
 with broken bones, and being brought to the 
 feet of Jesus, this is all misapplied to me at 
 present. I should rather go to hell than not 
 believe what I now preach. Your saying, you 
 love all that the Lord Jesus loves, is a lie: I 
 know some that co*ild die as martyrs to show 
 their love to Christ, and you do not love 
 them, but unite with the rankest hypocrites, 
 such as Robert Russel. You say, we deserve 
 e 3 
 
42 
 
 persecution; and I know we shall have it: 
 but " woe unto those by whom it cometh." 
 I am, Sir, very faithfully Your's, 
 
 G. S. W. 
 
 MR. DANIEL DICKENSON. 
 
 Having waited what I think, a sufficient 
 time for your answer, I take this opportunity 
 of writing a few more Thoughts, which my 
 last sheet would not contain. 
 
 Your Letter was full of accusations, with- 
 out any proof for one thing you bring for- 
 ward ; like Tertullus, the orator, against Paul : 
 I shall, therefore, expect you will bring for- 
 ward your strong reason, in vindication of 
 your accusations. You say, the work I am 
 engaged in is a work of my own, or worse 
 than my own ; that must be the Devil's : that 
 I am a minister of Satan, transformed as a 
 minister of righteousness. " Now the tree 
 is known by its fruit." Why do not you prove 
 that the fruit, of my ministry is not the fruit 
 of God's ministers; are they not a flame of 
 fire having the spirit of burning — burning and 
 shining lights ? but where is there any sign of 
 fire in your blind guides? only sparks of their 
 own kindling : Five of them have compassed 
 themselves about with sparks, at the Chapel, 
 since I left it; what trace have they left be- 
 hind ? — " their way, is as the way of the ser- 
 pent upon a rock." 
 
43 
 
 You say, that you verily believe that the 
 reason I have so much to say against preach- 
 ers is, because this dwells in my heart richly, 
 instead of the word of* God : i% That out of 
 the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak- 
 eth ;" yet you declare, I commit it to me- 
 mory beforehand; if it dwells in my heart 
 richly I have no occasion to commit it to 
 memory : the truth is, that the word of God 
 dwells in my heart richly ; and that is the 
 cause of my condemning such a generation 
 of vipers, because I have the Spirit of Christ, 
 and if any man have not the same spirit he 
 is none of his. 
 
 All your experience is from the Devil : 
 you have been in labour, and have brought 
 forth the wind of Confusion. All your spirit 
 of meekness, candour, love, voluntary humi- 
 lity, outward shew in the flesh of will- worship, 
 is from the Prince of Darkness. " If the lmht 
 that be in you be darkness, how great is that 
 darkness F If you die in your present state 
 you will go to hell, as sure as you are now 
 living upon the earth. 
 
 You say, that I, and my colleagues, like 
 the Pharisees, who made long prayers to be 
 seen of men, have our reward ; what you 
 mean by this charge I cannot say: — I wish 
 you would explain yourself more fully, and 
 tell what you mean by saying, that " I am 
 beside myself;'' and that you have not per- 
 secuted me. What do you call your degrading 
 
44 
 
 me, and my ministry, behind my back, and 
 comparing me with infernal spirits? because 
 this was covered over with a promise to pray 
 for me, like the Papist's pretending to pray 
 for the martyrs before they condemned them ! 
 the Connexion you belong to is a Limb of 
 the Whore of Babylon. Mr. Pratt declares, 
 that he told you the Spirit of God attended 
 my preaching with power to his soul, and 
 that he believes me to be endowed with a 
 double portion of God's Spirit; how can 
 you deny it? Mr. P. says, he has no 
 remonstrances in his mind for anything you 
 said to him. Don't fancy your words have 
 so much power; I can assure you they are 
 neither weighty or powerful to me. 
 
 I call upon you to prove that I preach 
 myself, and that I do not wish the cause of 
 God to prosper ; I would know not the 
 words of them that are puffed up, but the 
 power. I expect more than accusation ; I 
 am ready to prove all that I have accused 
 any man of at any time : you cannot prove 
 the things whereof you now accuse me. But 
 this I confess unto thee : that, after the way 
 which you call heresy, I worship the God of my 
 Fathers ; believing all things which are writ- 
 ten in the Law and in the Prophets, and 
 have hope toward God, (which you also 
 allow) that there shall be a resurrection of 
 the dead, both of the just and unjust; and 
 herein do 1 exercise myself; to have always 
 
4.5 
 
 a conscience void of offence toward God 
 and Man. 
 
 I subscribe myself, a Minister, not of the 
 Letter, but of the Spirit. 
 
 TUn Fcb dg 2olh! 1IS? G - S * ^ HI TE. 
 
 Sir, Canterbury, Aug. 13th 1806. 
 
 I have read vour Letter with some degree 
 of astonishment ; and, instead of writing to 
 Messrs. Oldham and Butcher, on the sub- 
 ject of Reformation, I write to you. Had 
 I only seen your printed Rules, I might 
 liave thought you a sincere friend to the 
 Ministers of the Connexion, although your 
 misguided zeal had hurried you beyond all 
 bounds ; for you therein assume an autho- 
 rity which none of the Trustees ever did. 
 A stranger would be apt to mistake you for 
 a Missionary from Rome; and that you had 
 received authority from the Holy Pontiff, to 
 let loose all the thunder of the Vatican at 
 your pleasure. 
 
 But, when I read your Letter to Mr; Elvy, 
 of the 1st instant, the mask falls off, and 
 the character of an hypocrite in this business 
 is clearly depicted. Your words are : " I 
 don't think there is one preacher in the Con- 
 nexion that has given sufficient proof that 
 he is sent of God." In unison with your 
 ideas of faithfulness, you ought to have in- 
 
46 
 
 sorted this in all your Letters to them, but 
 this would not have answered your purpose ; 
 it is, therefore, artfully concealed. Until you 
 can act consistently, I would advice you 
 to reform yourself, and let the reformation 
 of the Connexion alone. I beg not to be 
 troubled with any more of your Letters ; if 
 you do, I shall send them back unopened. 
 I am, very faithfully, Your's. 
 
 JOHN M&FFEN. 
 
 Mr. John Meffen, 
 You forbid my answering this Letter by 
 post, by saying, you should send my Letters 
 back unopened ; I, therefore, answer it in a 
 few words, in this public manner. 
 
 As it respects my ideas of reformation, they 
 arose from having too good an id^a of the 
 Connexion ; I see now that nothing but utter 
 destruction will satisfy the vengeance of 
 God, which is hanging over it. You tell 
 me "That a stranger would mistake me for a 
 Missionary from Rome ; and that I had re- 
 ceived authority from the Holy Pontiff to 
 let loose all the thunder of the Vatican at 
 my pleasure." Such a stranger as you may 
 make this mistake; for you are a stranger 
 to yourself, a stranger to God, a stranger to 
 the light of truth ! therefore, you call dark- 
 ness light, and light darkness. The thunders 
 that have been let loose have come out of 
 
47 
 
 Zion, and God is still thundering upon 
 you. I believe, as I said before, that there 
 is not a Minister of God among you, and 
 all you Managers are children of the Devil 
 and workers of iniquity, deceiving and be- 
 ing deceived; you are living a half-starved 
 life, to have the name of Ministers; and you, 
 and your Managers and Congregations, are 
 going the broad road to destruction. 
 
 You belong to the Whore of Babylon, 
 and " her steps take hold on Hell, the ab- 
 horred of the Lord shall fall therein." 
 
 In opposition to all your Connexion, I 
 remain, an Ambassador of Jesus Christ. 
 
 G. S. WHITE, 
 
 Day & Co. Printers, 13, Gosweii Street. 
 
Lately published by the same Author, 
 Sold by Jil. Jones, No. 1. Paternoster Row- 
 
 Progress of Religion, First Part, Price 3d. 
 
 Part the Second, Price 3d. 
 
 Part the Third, Price 6d. 
 
 Part the Fourth, Price 4d. 
 
 Stone laid before Joshua, 6d. 
 
 Restoration of the Jews, 3d. 
 
 Infant Baptism, 2d. 
 
 The Christian Memorial : being the Sub- 
 stance of the Author's Experience; and 
 his Call to the Ministry — is preparing for 
 " the Press. 
 
 Sold also at the Authors, Tunbridge Wells; 
 by Baxter, Lewes; J. White } Brighton 
 and J. White, Bath. 
 
AX 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 TO THE 
 
 SCOURGE OF SMALL CORDS, 
 
 TO DRIVE 
 
 THE BUYERS AND SELLERS 
 
 OUT CF 
 
 THE TEMPLE. 
 
 /Jh-,*e 
 
 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far 
 country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto thent 
 liis goods ; and unto one he gave five talers-ts, to another two, 
 and to another one; to every man according to his several ability, 
 and straightway took his journey. 
 
 Matt. xxv. 13, 14 ,15. 
 
 Turjj aside, and thou shalt see greater abominations thun 
 
 these ! 
 
 LOXDOX: 
 
 Printed by W. Day & Co. 13, Goswell Street, 
 
 SOLD BY M. JONES, No. 1, PATERNOSTER HOW. 
 
 Trice S\m 
 
 pence. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 WHEN the Jove of God filled the minis- 
 terial office, he made use of a Scourge of 
 small Cords, to drive the Buyers and Sellers 
 out of the Temple : this zvas to shoxv, that 
 it was not by might nor by power, but by 
 the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts. I consi- 
 der that the ojfice of the Ministry is the 
 same, whoever the person may be that the 
 Spirit of God rests upon for that xcork*. 
 Whoever has observed the rise and fall of 
 religious establishments, must perceive, that, 
 however pure, in the first instance, a church 
 may be in her members, doctrines, and of- 
 ficers, it may degenerate to error ana su- 
 perstition ; there is no doubt, but that the 
 Church of Rome, in its first establishment, 
 was purely apostolic ; but what reason have 
 to rejoice in the fall of that anti-chris- 
 tian powejr I the Pope was a stated minister 
 a long time, but Buonaparte has made an 
 
IV 
 
 itinerant of lain. Observe the present Lu- 
 therans in Germany, observe the Established 
 Church of England, Presbyterians, Inde- 
 pendents, Baptists, Calvinistic Methodists 
 (passing by Anninians of different names ;) 
 see if their silver is not become dross, their 
 nine mixed with water. I expect it will be 
 the same icith places where the Gospel is 
 preached at present, after the death of the 
 present ministers. John Banyans chapel is 
 at Bedford, but nothing of the power with 
 which he wrote and spake is left there : 
 how suitable is the warning voice of Isaiah 
 to the present generation ! Forms of reli- 
 gion were always generally attended to, but 
 the power icas, and is now, confined to a very 
 few. My prayer is, that God may separate 
 the precious from the evil. 
 
 G. S. WHITE. 
 
 Bethlehem Chapeh 
 
APPENDI X, 
 &c. &c. 
 
 A WARNING VOICE, OR ISAIAHS COM- 
 PLAINT. 
 
 Jo. EAR the word of the Lord, ye rulers 
 of Sodom ! give ear unto the law of our 
 God, ye people of Gomorrah ! 
 
 " To what purpose is the multitude of your 
 sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I am 
 full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the 
 fat of led beasts; and I delight not in the. 
 blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he- 
 goats. When ye come to appear before me, 
 who hath required this at your hand, to 
 tread my courts? bring no more vain obla- 
 tions; incense is an abomination unco me; 
 the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of 
 assemblies, I cannot away with; it is ini- 
 , even the solemn meeting. 
 
 '' Your new moons, and your appointed 
 feasts, my soul hateth : they are a trouble 
 unto me; I am weary to bear them : And* 
 when ye spread forth your hands, I v. ill 
 
hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye 
 make many prayers, I will not hear; your 
 hands are full of blood. 
 
 "Wash you, make you clean, put away the 
 evil of your doings from before mine eyes, 
 cease to do evil, learn to do well ; seek 
 judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the 
 fatherless, plead for the widow. If ye be 
 willing and obedient ye shall eat the good 
 of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel ye 
 shall be devoured with the sword, for the 
 mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. How 
 5s the faithful city become an -harlot! it was 
 full of judgment, righteousness lodged in it, 
 but now murderers. 
 
 " Thy silver is become dross, thy wine 
 mixed with water, thy princes are rebellious, 
 and companions of thieves ; every one lov^th 
 gifts, and folio weth after rewards ; they 
 judge not the fatherless, neither cloth the 
 cause of the widow come unto them. There- 
 fore, saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, the 
 Mighty One of Israel; Ah! I will ease me 
 of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mhie 
 enemies ; and I will turn my hand upon 
 thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and 
 take away all thy sin ; and 1 will restore thy 
 judges as at the first, and thy counsellors 
 as at the beginning: afterward, thou shalt 
 be called, ' The city of righteousness, the 
 faithful city.' 
 
 kC Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, 
 
and her converts -with righteousness. The- 
 destruction of the transgressors and of the 
 sinners shall be together; and they that for- 
 sake the Lord shall be consumed. 
 
 " Come, now, and let us reason together 
 saith the Lord ; ' though your sins be as 
 scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; 
 though they be red like crimson, they shall 
 be as wool."*' Isaiah i. 18. 
 
 to the revekexd g. s. white. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 I have carefully examined the Letters, and 
 can but lament such severe strictures should 
 have become necessary where there had been 
 so much professed friendship. What has 
 happened to you from this unexpected quar- 
 ter, is no more than might have been ex- 
 pected, by those who had the least spiritual 
 eyesight. 
 
 You was too much taken up with those 
 persons, for you could not hear the least 
 ehanje against them ; in short, your lang;uaae 
 of one of them, would have made one con- 
 clude, that there was such a being; in the 
 world as an infallible person. Your con- 
 science told you you were not faithful in 
 your ministry until a verv late period. Your 
 tongue was muzzled; you are the best judge 
 with what it was stopt. 
 
 I am truly happy that God has brought 
 
8 
 
 you to account, but have no doubt you are 
 not very well pleased with him, for using 
 those very persons you was so very tender 
 of, in order to bring you to your spiritual- 
 senses. 
 
 This affair now being public, I think it 
 should be settled in the same manner. 
 
 The subject should be brought before the 
 Subscribers; but then, nothing could discover 
 more unfair dealing than you not to have, 
 been permitted to be present. 
 
 I do not like the referring the matter to 
 " gentlemen in London," (fellow Managers 
 I suppose.) 
 
 You are perfectly right in offering to meet 
 all parties, face to face, at Brighton Chapel. 
 
 What Doctor Ford says about leaving the 
 temporal concerns to the Managers, amounts 
 to this : 
 
 That a minister of the Gospel must not 
 reprove sin wherever he sees it ; that he must 
 tell the poor man he will go to hell if he 
 does not forsake all sin, but to take care 
 you do not affront the Managers, (and, from 
 several items in the letters, this is prudent.) 
 
 If the ministers are by all means to be so 
 confined, I ask, how is the man to declare 
 the whole counsel of God? 
 
 If the Trustees will not suffer the minister 
 to interfere in endeavouring to set things in 
 an apostolic order in the churches, why do 
 they appoint ministers to churches? 
 
9 
 
 The message in the Revelations was sent" 
 to the angel of each church, not to Trustees 
 (who, perhaps, never was at one of their 
 churches.) 
 
 Why do not the Trustees know the state 
 of their churches? and why do they not (as 
 Paul did) look out, among their churches, 
 men " full of the Holy Ghost for Managers:"' 
 and then the ministers would not be treated 
 like under servants by some unbelieving 
 Managers. 
 
 Every man that subscribes to carry on the 
 Gospel, at any place, in any chapel, ought 
 to be acquainted with the manner it is ex- 
 pended. 
 
 It is desirable this affair should be ho- 
 norably settled, and I hope it will. I should 
 like to know Mr. R. ? s opinion of Mr. B.'s 
 accounts : I should like to be there, should 
 there be a meeting of the parties ; however, 
 I hope you will act wisely, and as becoming 
 the Gospel you preach. 
 
 Shall expect to hear from you in the 
 course of the week. 
 
 Remaining yours, very affectionately, 
 
 JAMES WHITE. 
 
 P. S. My remarks concerning the Direct- 
 ors of your connexion are not new ; I al- 
 ways understood they were very defective. 
 I am astonished to find you have cause ta 
 speak any otherwise of Mr. and Mrs. 13. - 
 
10 
 
 than that of your sincere friends; but, if it 
 can be proved otherwise, they must be the 
 greatest hypocrites I know. 
 
 TO MR. J. WHITE. 
 D E A II BROTH ER, Tunbmige Wefis. 
 
 What lias been discovered in the persons 
 alluded to in your letter, has taught me the 
 meaning of the following passage : " Cease 
 from man whose breath is in his nostrils."' 
 
 I never coul(^ have supposed that such 
 hypocrisy and guile could have been over 
 so many abominations; however, it has 
 opened mine eyes, for I was always inclined 
 to nurse the bastards of Ashdod. God is 
 dealing with me bv a strong hand, that I 
 might not say a confederacy to all that say 
 a confederacy. I have learned more this 
 last year than I should had I been in all the 
 colleges- in the world: I shall only say, at 
 present ; that I believe Devisees, Trustees, 
 Managers, and Ministers, are much alike; 
 they have begotten one another in their own 
 likeness, and I strove with all my power to 
 be like them; but, as it was with Ishmaei 
 and Isaac, the son of the bond woman per- 
 secuted the son of the free woman ; and I 
 have only to be thankful to God that he has 
 not suffered me to be like them ; I hate the 
 garments spotted by the flesh ; but I see 
 clearly that God is overruling for good my 
 connexion with such a nest of hypocrites; 
 
11 
 
 so Samuel was brought up in the temple, 
 to discover, and afterwards to expose, the 
 abominations there. 
 
 I remain your's sincerely. 
 G. S.*W. 
 
 Mr. White, 
 I shall feel myself obliged, in your inform- 
 ing me, if the Letter you inserted, in a late 
 Publication of your's, is a true copy, either 
 in letter or import, of the one you thought 
 yourself justified in sending me. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 »*£&. J- LUCKHURST. 
 
 MR. LUCKHURST, DEAC0X OF A FALSE 
 CHURCH AT TUXERIDGE. 
 
 This morning's post brought me your Note; 
 but, as the saying is, " I could make neither 
 top nor tail to it." You pretend, you wish 
 to know if the Letter I inserted in my last 
 publication be a true copy : you must know 
 thaUit is ; to the best of my knowledge it 
 contains the same words I wrote to you, 
 with this difference : in the printed Letter I 
 call you a deacon of a false church ; and, as 
 you have given me an opportunity, I will 
 explain myself on that head : in the first 
 place, your minister is false, a minister of 
 Satan transformed as an angel of light; now 
 " if the eye be darkened, the whole body is 
 
IE 
 
 full of darkness." I am sure that no divine 
 light has ever shone into the heart of either 
 minister, deacon, or people, nor into the 
 hearts of either of the Pod mores' : as for the 
 youngest Podmore, he is the most conceited 
 fool that ever ascended a pulpit, (though, in 
 general, the greatest fools get there :) if you 
 choose, you may tell him, from me, that he 
 will as surely be damned as there is a God 
 of Truth ! Such have been the ministers of 
 your congregation ! what fruit have they left ? 
 " for the tree is known ty its fruit;" look 
 round your church, inquire into the conduct 
 of your members, . and see if they are not a 
 disgrace to any people calling themselves 
 Christians, professing to believe the scriptures 
 of God's Spirit, and to have experienced 
 the distinguishing love of God. 
 
 Christ declared that no man that did a 
 miracle in his name could speak lightly of 
 him ; but you speak lightly of his ministers, 
 of the truth preached by them ; you attri- 
 bute the work performed by God's Spirit to 
 the influence of the devil : it was to sucli as 
 you that Christ said, " Ye generation of 
 vipers ! how can you escape the damnation of 
 hell !" that is as much as to say, it is impos- 
 sible that repentance can be granted to such. 
 
 I am, Sir, in opposition to the inhabitants 
 of Babylon, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Bethlehem Chapel, /~t o WT-ITTT? 
 
 Julj 28, 1807. **• 3» V> lii l *-" 
 
Mr. "Whitt,, 
 No religion, of human invention, will ever' 
 stand the fiery test of forsaking, and being 
 forsaken of all. About a year ago, I in- 
 quired of you, bow you would like to en- 
 dure such a sifting as Isaiah, ehap. xvih 
 5, 6, 7, verses, and forward ; as when the 
 harvest-man should go before thee, and 
 take off all the standing corn, and leave thee 
 only the gleaning of the Valley of Rephaim ; 
 or a few berries upon the upper and outmost 
 boughs of the olive tree, scarcely ejt^iigh in 
 hand, or hope, for the greatest reason or 
 little faith to live upon. The other night you 
 said, " You had almost wished for the trial, as 
 proof of vour faithfulness ;" but who is to 
 be persuaded? none of them whom God has 
 decreed shall sleep quietly in their graves, 
 though a poor stinking Lazarus arise from 
 the dead ; not one of the hard-hearted Phari- 
 sees, if grace don't soften them ; nor yet the 
 soft-hearted hypocrites, though they can drop 
 a tear or two, and say, " liuhold, how he 
 loved- him!" Who then shall believe you? 
 why, a few poor creeping cast-out creatures, 
 under the character of lost ears of corn, 
 and lelt-behind berries, when the harvest- 
 man hath filled his arm, and the olive^a- 
 therer lus- basket. Well, if 1 don't mistake^ 
 your seed-time bids fair for a cross. 
 
 But be of good cheer ! if it should be so ? 
 
14 
 
 you are not the first; the old Prophet made 
 a very good shift ; the Lord and Master fared 
 hard. Paul, with the rest of his troubles, 
 suffered hunger; but, it is to be observed, 
 the multitude was fed : yes, but that was the 
 multitude ; so it was, but the disciples were 
 filled also : here is a great miracle ! five 
 thousand fed with five loaves and a few 
 small fishes ! 
 
 " They sat down to eat, then rose up to play ; 
 They got what they could, and then went their way." 
 
 But his disciples must stay with him, and, 
 for their entertainment, they must carefully 
 gather up the fragments ; which being done, 
 in twelve baskets full, one full basket for 
 every tribe in Israel. I have seen the bas- 
 kets ! and, what is more wonderful, I have 
 both taken and eat bread out of them ! They 
 were filled for the sustenance of the poor ; 
 they are, like the Widow's cruise, ever empty- 
 ing, yet ever full. I have been supplied 
 from the stock a little age ; and, at times, I 
 have been so well satisfied with the store, 
 that I have declared I should never want ; at 
 other times I have grumbled in my heart, in 
 language like this; " That the Master of the 
 feast was more sparing of the fragments than 
 he was of the whole loaves and fishes." But 
 when I have considered, that they, like oxen 
 fatting for the slaughter, would kick, and, like 
 Sodom, with her fulness of bread, prove 
 their destruction ; I have been content to be 
 
15 
 
 at half allowance, and thankful for my coarse 
 fare; at other times I have queried whether 
 those baskets could endure time's continual 
 rack; but now I am persuaded that the last 
 child of God goes to his last bed, and, sleep 
 when or where he will, lie shall not go with- 
 out his belly full ; he hath promised bread 
 and water, and. to tins moment, he hath made 
 his promise good ; and to his praise I can 
 speak it, bread only had seldom made me a 
 meal ; and though I have but fragments, 
 they have often been better than a fishes 
 head, fins, or tail. 
 
 Now the amount of what little I have said 
 is this': God only knows what is coming as a 
 trial of faith and patience ; it is good to be 
 prepared for the worst, the best is the easiest 
 perhaps to be encountered with. 
 
 Satan says, "Your credit sinks ; your congre- 
 gation gets thinner :" well be it so, God's name 
 and credit is still the same, and will be so 
 in the estimation of the very last stone of 
 the building. I told you, you would find 
 but a very few hereabouts, but if you find 
 them all, how can you expect any more ? in 
 the estimation of such you are honourable 
 for the work's sake, in their love and affec- 
 tions as a brother, and in the tribulations 
 and in the afflictions and patience of the 
 saints a partner : and may God give that 
 union and strength of soul, that we may not 
 only live together, but be willing to die with. 
 
15 
 
 by, or for each other!. Would you bsiieve 
 me, if I teil you, that I have had more of that 
 dinner this day, than ever I remember to 
 have felt in all my life before ! 
 
 But, before I conclude, I have to tell you, 
 that Mr. Wicker, of Frant, a near neighbour 
 of mine, stands ready to give an evidence of 
 Mr. Brainson's being sent of God to preach 
 the Gospel in opposition to what you have 
 written, whether verbal or in writing, I can- 
 not tell ; but I hope you will request what 
 he so freely offers : on my telling him once, 
 that I feared for Bramson, he gave me a 
 reason for the Hope that was in him for his 
 mission ; but, if I am a judge, and remember 
 right, it was a very muddy one; however* 
 I think he should not be passed by, for I 
 think he is the only one. 
 
 Fare thee well, 
 
 *,/£?«*. JAMES TULLEY. 
 
 JOSEPH KING, Bethlehem ChapeL 
 
 The enclosed Epistles were sent to me; and, 
 as they wholly concern you, I send them as 
 they are ; shall only add, as you are free in 
 calling me a wild man, a mad man, &c. that 
 I feel myself at liberty to speak my thoughts 
 on you. 
 
 You have been one of the blackest hypo- 
 crites of this generation ; and the Coachmau 
 has driven you about to that degree, that 
 
17 
 
 you are. set on fire of hell ; and you have the 
 earnest of eternal damnation in your soul, 
 enmity against the truth of God. You hold 
 forth Bryan and Goldsmith as Christians, hut 
 they have the mark of Cain ; you are going 
 in the gainsaying of Core, and you have 
 followed the way of Balaam for reward. 
 
 Your present Parson is a Balaamite, and 
 that is the reason you stand up for him. 
 Constable tells me that he never believed you 
 had a ray of divine light ; that you are now 
 walking in darkness ; that all the cutting and 
 melting you have ever had has been from 
 the Devil. 
 
 In opposition to all broken-down Parsons, 
 I remain, 
 
 " A tree planted by the water-side, whose 
 waters flow out of the Sanctuary.*' 
 
 Tuubridge Weils. G. S. V, HI IE. 
 
 Mr. White, 
 Meeting, the other day, with a broken-down 
 brother tradesman of yours, an entire bank- 
 rupt, who, having one of your bills in his 
 hand ; and, I suppose, observing how you 
 (as he thought) was calling upon your corres- 
 pondents for credit, to justify you as a u,ood 
 workman, and believing, a: lie same time, 
 that you condemned almost ad workmen of 
 the same kind, especially such as set up with 
 c 3 
 
IS 
 
 other mens* materials; taking it for granted, 
 as you have before observed, that all such, 
 or the most of them, in eight, ten, or twelve 
 years, having spent their borrowed stock, 
 (for alas ! master ! it was borrowed !) flee 
 from the care of their fold, beins; but hire- 
 lings ; some to the keeping of a public house, 
 some a shop, some one trade and some an- 
 other ; and some as common strollers, mump- 
 ing their living from door to door : not one, 
 if grace don't compel them, will know the 
 rod what it is for, nor him that hath appointed 
 it. So far are they from the open confession 
 of their fault, that if a servant of God only 
 hint at it, if he put forth only one finger, it 
 is so heavy upon them, and touches all that 
 they have, they will curse him to his face. 
 "Woe be unto such ! for they are in the verge, 
 if not directly in the great transgression. 
 Meeting, as I was going to tell you, with 
 such an one, and asking him, " What he was 
 so intent upon ?" he answered, "Wild! wild! 
 surely it is a wild man!" I replied, "If you, 
 or the rest of you, were in your senses, you 
 would not call him a madman ; and now I 
 will tell you, what I think of you ; and that 
 is, if ever you had any knowledge of these 
 things (meaning in the theory,) you are be- 
 come like the ostrich, whom God hath de- 
 prived of her wisdom; and now you are 
 become a downright fool in religion. "' I then 
 endeavoured to pass on ; but he desired to 
 
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 ask me one question before we parted, which 
 was this: "Whether there ever was any con- 
 sistency in me?" a question which might have 
 puzzled all the lawyers, schoolmasters, or 
 letter preachers in the world, as much as it 
 did me. I returned the question, asking 
 him, " If ever there were any in him? telling 
 him there was not time now to decide the 
 matter; but I was willing, hereafter, before 
 good judges, on paper." 
 
 Now, Sir, I shall drop this sheet in your 
 hands ; if you please you may cut off half, 
 or send them both to Mr. Ring : you hear 
 he calls you a wild man, and me an incon- 
 sistent one, and this, I suppose, he will call 
 madness altogether. If you choose to sue 
 him at pen-law, you will save me the trou- 
 ble ; I am not afraid of loosing the day, but 
 of want of time ; if I had that I would pen 
 every drop of ink I have in my bottle. 
 
 Yours, JAMES TULLEY. 
 
 Mr. Ring, 
 Solomon says, * A man may as well meet a 
 bear robbed of her whelps as a fool in his 
 folly." I have pondered your question; and 
 I am persuaded, through grace, I can give 
 you a suitable solution, but do not choose 
 to do it at this time, knowing that broken- 
 down tradesmen and farmers, if they work 
 at all, must work with other mens' tools, and 
 plough with other mens' heifers. I now re- 
 
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 quest of you to be consistent; remember, 
 saying and doing are two things ; saying men 
 are so-and-so, and not proving it by facts, 
 are very great inconsistencies; saying, you 
 are a judge of men, and not telling us who 
 made you a judge, or how you came by this 
 spirit of judgment, is but the essence of mad- 
 ness and a wild brain ; consequently, very 
 great inconsistencies. I now tell you ho- 
 nestly what I think of you : I believe you 
 began praying with a lie, and preaching with 
 a lie; and, though you may be free from both 
 these ways of lying now, yet, as you go prat- 
 ing about one and another being wrong, and 
 yourself right, I think you are a consistant 
 liar. I wish you not to be offended, nor count 
 me saucy ; remember, " Honesty is the best po- 
 licy," if I am wrong, come ibrth, as a man of 
 God, and make it appear sc*; if you do not, 
 I shall take it for granted, it is not in your, 
 power. Now, if you grant me my request, 
 which is a reason of your hope, you may ask 
 the same thing of me; and, in the' strength 
 of the Lord, I will give it you. If you don't 
 answer, I shall write again : if you dont take 
 them in, I shall take none again, but let thern 
 go where they will. 
 
 JAMES TULLEY. 
 
 TO WILLIAM OTTAWAY. 
 
 You ask me some questions in your elaborate 
 Epistle, which if 1 could not answer in the 
 
21 
 
 affirmative, I should not dare speak in the 
 name of the Lord. You ask me, " Are you 
 enthroned dread judge? are you invested with 
 authority from the court of heaven to take 
 that awful seat?" I answer, " I am enthroned 
 dread judge, and my authority is from the 
 court of heaven ; which commission makes 
 me bold in condemning all such blind guides 
 as yourself.'' To execute the judgment 
 written upon them, this honour have all his 
 saints, and, more particularly, God's minis- 
 ters ; and I believe myself as much set upon 
 a throne to judge this generation as the 
 Twelve Apostles were to judge the twelve 
 tribes of Israel. Your second question is, 
 " Have you sufficient discernment to fulfil 
 that sacred office ?" I answer in the affirma- 
 tive ; for God would not put me in that of- 
 fice, without qualifying me for it. On these 
 premises you allow me to be your judge ; 
 and, " whether you will hear or forbear," I 
 condemn you, as a Christian and a minister; 
 and when you prove to the citizens of Zion 
 that you are anything more than a presump- 
 tuous hypocrite, you will make my judgment 
 of nothing worth ; but you are only built on 
 the testimony of hypocrites, which is the 
 worst mark you can have, for hypocrites love 
 hypocrites. 
 
 As it respects your criticism on a sentence 
 in my Letter to you, I am sorry that I am 
 obliged to send you to your dictionary for the 
 
meaning of the word believe : you should 
 really go to college before you. turn critic. 
 I said, " I believe ; that is, I am fully con- 
 vinced, you are in the broad road to hell." I 
 am by no means against a fair and candid 
 examination of any cause in Zion's contro- 
 versy, and, for this purpose, I am alvva\s at 
 home ; neither am I against discussing any 
 subject by letter. That I have prayed for 
 God to stop the mouths of blind guides is 
 true, and I can see an answer to my pray-* 
 ers, though they still go prating about ; for 
 if Hopkins, at Tunbridge, were to preach ever 
 so long the citizens of Zion would never 
 hear his voice : read the xiiith chap, of Eze- 
 kiel, for I think that chapter fulfilled i within 
 these six months I have seen their eyes 
 darkened and their arms clean dried up; 
 while the Lord has said to me, " In that day 
 will I cause the horn of the House of Israel 
 to bud forth, and I will give thee the open- 
 ing of the mouth in the midst of them, and 
 they shall know that I am the Lord : I have 
 seen the prophets become wind, and the word 
 is not in them." Jer. v. 13. (instance, George 
 Lee.) God hath said respecting such as you, 
 " Though they cry in mine ears with a loud 
 voice, yet will I not hear them." Ezek. viii. 
 18. Hear now this, O foolish people, and 
 without understanding ! " which have eyes and 
 gee not, which have ears and hear not!" 
 
 G. S. W. 
 
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 There having been great controversy, re- 
 specting the sin against the Holy Ghost, in 
 consequence of my charging that sin upon a 
 certain individual ; some said there was no 
 such sin in our day, others declared that no 
 one could know what the sin was; others 
 acknowledged there was such a sin, but it 
 was impossible to say who committed it; 
 consequently, that it must be wrong to point 
 out any individual, and say, " Thou art the 
 man !" Amidst these different opinions, I 
 could but judge according to the spirit of 
 judgment given me ; and I thought that the 
 sin consisted in a word spoken against the 
 Holy Ghost; and that such as the Jewish 
 Pharisees, were the people involved in that 
 transgression : that Christ, as a minister of the 
 Gospel, charged them with it; thereby giving 
 an example to all the ministers of the Spirit 
 of God that should follow, Under these con- 
 siderations, I wrote to an old hypocrite, who 
 had from time to time, with enmity and malice, 
 declared that the spirit by which he preached 
 was from the Devil. I should not here have 
 inserted the Epistle, (having inserted the sub- 
 stance of it in other letters) but that many 
 had declared I was ashamed to publish it. 
 
 TO JOHN BOXHAM. 
 
 Whereas you have endeavoured (though 
 without effect) to degrade my ministry, to 
 Mrs. Farley, and to Mr. Henry Ring ; I take 
 
I 2 * 
 
 this opportunity to send my thoughts on you : 
 I believe you to be a profound hypocrite ; 
 and what Air. Jenkins told you, "That you have 
 never stepped in the way of a Christian." 
 You have committed the sin against the Holy 
 Ghost; we are commanded not to pray for 
 you, as you are past recovery: this you Mill 
 remember when you are in the burning lake. 
 In opposition to all hypocrites, 
 
 I remain, &c. G. S. W. 
 
 " To execute the judgment written upon 
 them, this honour have all his saints." 
 
 THE COACHMAN FLOGGED WITH HIS OWN 
 WHIP. 
 
 Mr. Bramsox, 
 It is not uncommon for fools to make a rod 
 for their own back; and, as every thief ought 
 to be whipped publicly, I shall take you from 
 the coach-box, and present you at the cart's 
 tail. I have waited for your defence, but, 
 alas ! you can neither defend yourself nor 
 get any counsellor to plead for you. -Perjury 
 and theft are the crimes brought against you ; 
 and I now send you your condemnatory sen- 
 tence, signed with the Kings own hand and 
 seal. Ezekiel v. 3,4. u Then said he unto 
 me, this is the curse that goeth forth over 
 the face of the whole earth ; for every one 
 that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side, 
 (according to the flying roll) and every one 
 
that svseareth shall be cut off as on that side 
 according to it." " I will bring it forth saith 
 the Lord of Hosts, and it shall enter into the 
 house of the thief, and into the house of him 
 that sweareth falsely by my name ; and it shall 
 remain in the midst of his house, and shall 
 consume it, with the timber thereof, and the 
 stones thereof/' 
 
 In many instances you have acted like 
 Balaam : in your first setting out you rode an 
 ass, but you used him cruelly, you were far 
 from merciful to your beast, and he reproved 
 you, even with a man's voice : if you ask me 
 who I mean by the Ass, I answer, Master 
 Coe, at Frant, pastor of a Baptist Church at 
 Rutherfleld ! Now, I expect you will use 
 every enchantment to curse Israel, yet you 
 know that they are blessed. 
 
 Take care how you act, after your public 
 whipping, or I shall publish your trial at full 
 length, which will be entitled, " The Coach- 
 man tried, cast, and condemned." 
 
 I expect also to live to publish your last 
 dying speech and confession, by royal pro- 
 clamation, from the V r alley of Decision. 
 
 As you have endeavoured to silence the 
 evidence of the! witnesses, by paying no 
 regard to their Letters, sent by post, 1 
 take this opportunity to give them publi- 
 city. 
 
 G. S. W. 
 
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7 o ~fl? fi'ttt.'rrvJtm. 
 
 26 
 
 SlR, Michael's Farm, My 8, 180r. 
 
 I have given a very great offence to some 
 people, by saying, " I know you are a very 
 great hypocrite;" and whereas I say so, I 
 know it to be the truth ; and, you, having un- 
 derstanding as men in common, must know 
 that you are, though you set it forth that you 
 are not : you tell lies wilfully ; I have heard 
 you advance things from the pulpit for cer- 
 tain truths, that I am certain you know no- 
 thing about, and you know so too ; I have 
 heard you tell different stories respecting Mr. 
 White, when you have been at different 
 places, according as you thought would suit; 
 your company best. Had the dearest friend 
 I have in the world told me of these things 
 I could not have believed; but, as I have been 
 an eye and ear witness, I am obliged to be- 
 lieve it ; and it is very clear to me that you 
 have acted in this presumptuous manner to 
 satisfy your own lusts. I don't know how 
 your friends can justify you in such conduct 
 as this, except they can make it appear to 
 be risht what I have heard the Arminians 
 advance ; that we say, " one who is the elect 
 of God may live in all manner of sin, he will 
 certainly go to heaven when he dies !" but the 
 Spirit of God teaches no such lesson as this. 
 
 I understand you advanced from the pul- 
 pit at Bojrshead, about seven weeks since, 
 " that there were some people pretended to 
 
sav you were a hypocrite, but you said they 
 were a set of people that knew nothing ;" 
 now, I believe that there are many people 
 who would wish to see you on that subject, 
 to dispute the point; as for my part. I should 
 be very happy to see you; and if I don't 
 make appear to be right what I have writ- 
 ten I will publicly acknowledge myself 
 wrong. If I knozs enough to prove you a 
 hypocrite, it is all I pretend to knoxv ; your 
 telling the people at Frant I was a hypocrite 
 gives me no uneasiness at all, for I admit 
 of it ; for I know " when I would do good evil 
 is present with me ; what I hate that I do :" 
 but, when you frequented my house, it was 
 very much to your discredit, if you saw any- 
 thing in me, or my family, contrary to what 
 we profess, not to have told us of it. I 
 undertake to prove you a hypocrite, contrary 
 to what you profess; and, as you pretend to 
 be a shepherd over the flock, it is expected 
 you should go before the flock and point out 
 the footsteps of it; it is a dreadful shepherd, 
 that knows he has «;ot the scab in his flock. 
 If he does not use all the means that lies in 
 his power to be rid of it; that is like saying, 
 " All is well !"' when you know the end thereof is 
 death. You never came to my house but 
 my wife and I were glad to see you, and 
 looked upon you as an honest friend ; little 
 did we think there was " death in the pot :" for 
 I do not think that a minister who is led by 
 
2S 
 
 the Spirit of God can walk in the way you 
 have done ; neither can I think anything of 
 your preaching till you acknowledge all your 
 former preaching vain ; hut it is very likely 
 you may keep on preaching, thinking you 
 shall blind the minds of the people as well 
 as you have done ; but your snare is laid so 
 plain, that any one, having a desire to inspect 
 it, may easily see it. I believe, when I met 
 you in the lane near Constables, I met no 
 better than the devil ; I thought you talked 
 strangely : I asked you what reason you had 
 to say such things, and you pretended to give 
 a reason for it ; but, if that were a proper 
 one, I am sure it proves you a false man; 
 but I can see no evidence at all in that say- 
 ing Mr. White could not know anything 
 about preaching, as he was so intimate with 
 Farley, and old Coe ; only look back on your- 
 self, since you have been a preacher ! 
 
 Tunbridge Wells. W. POLLINGTOK 
 
 Mr White, 
 The enclosed is a blundering scroll, intended 
 for Mr. Bramson, wrote and spelt badly, but 
 nearly as well as I can ; not altered nor cor- 
 rected from the first scratch of my pen. 
 
 I have not sent to you, designing to appear 
 great, but to let you know a little of the 
 abundance of my. heart; I intend, also, to 
 let him know that you have seen it, having 
 some hope that it may crush, or have some 
 
tendency to it, that cockatrice pride in his 
 den; and who, that knows what mischief that 
 monster does, but would have him killed, (as 
 Mr. Hart says) whatever betide ? " Not one T 
 says Recollection, while he hugs them in his 
 arms; i{ No, not one !" till he stings them : then 
 let my dear friend, Honest, as he has begun, 
 stand, in the strength of the Lord, like a 
 brazen wall, fearing no faces, courting no 
 smiles, swayed by no number, awed by no 
 authority, not in hopes of riches, nor yet in 
 fear of poverty. Watch, wait, and depend 
 upon the arm of the Almighty ; " Stand fast 1" 
 saith my soul ; so saith the souls of a few 
 more; be thou their joy and crown of rejoic- 
 ing, and we hope to be that of thine. Your's, 
 I trust, in never failing union, decreed so in 
 eternity's best bonds, made known but a 
 short time, never to have an end ; Amen ! so 
 saith my spirit, Amen ! Please to return the 
 enclosed again, with another cover, by the 
 postman, or on 'Friday morning, if I am at 
 chapel. 
 
 . JAMES TULLEY. 
 
 Friend, and Friend of the Lord's! I trust I 
 am bound, in faithfulness to God and my 
 own conscience, to acknowledge, that the Lord 
 bid you ; I believe, pronounce every word 
 you have wrote to Mr. Bramson ; and I be- 
 lieve, that God will, in his own way, make 
 D 3 
 
30 
 
 every sentence appear to Mr. B. (either in 
 time or in eternity) to be just; meantime, I 
 have to observe, none, but the misled travel- 
 ler after his return, such an one, as Mr. , 
 
 (I hope you know who I mean,) or myself, can 
 tell at what distance that far country lieth 
 off. Well, stand your ground, it is upon 
 life and death; look on, watch the battle, 
 that which is appointed to the sword, or fa- 
 mine, or pestilence, shall fall thereby, and 
 only the remnant shall return ; while your 
 well-wisher, and soul-lover hopes you will 
 take the Wise Man's advice : " Be thou in 
 the fear of the Lord all the day long." 
 
 JAMES TULLEY. 
 
 to boanerges. 
 Sir, 
 As you saw the last Letter 1 sent to Mr. 
 Eramson, I am rather at a loss to know what 
 you can want to see a copy of it for : I tell 
 you (not from fear or shame of anything I 
 have wrote or spoke,) that I have no copy, 
 nor can 1 recollect scarcely any tiling of it ; 
 but, least you, or any one beside, should dis- 
 believe me, I will repeat what I can recol- 
 lect : " You seem like those monsters of old, 
 (as the world called them) God's worthies, 
 whom the world thought unworthy of a be- 
 ing among them ; I say, you seem like them ; 
 not content with preaching, but you must 
 use your pen, ink, and parchments, paper, 
 
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 or the press : now, if you have devised this 
 as a mean to prove whether I am honest 
 hearted or false ! saying within yourself, If 
 he is afraid or ashamed to see it in print, he 
 will keep it back: I only reply, use your 
 pleasure ; take care you don't spend your 
 strength for nought, nor your money for that 
 which wont profit, for I believe nine out of 
 ten would not have one of your books if 
 they thought one line that I had written was 
 in it ; and I speak this as a proof of it, that 
 I never received, from all my acquaintance, 
 one answer for ten such shameful and bad 
 spirited Letters that I have sent them : some 
 have joyfully told me that they put it in the 
 lire; of which number is Bramson and my 
 own sister, to both of whom I again say, as 
 before : " Take care, Thomas Bramson and 
 Sarah Tulley ! take care the ashes don't rise 
 against you in judgment, and God's hot dis- 
 pleasure." Others have sent them back in a 
 blank case of paper; yet, blank as it was, I 
 tell them plainly, it was as good an answer, 
 for me, as their stupid, blind, dead, and blank 
 hearts could muster ; witness what I say for 
 one Airs. Thomas Baker : others have, seem- 
 ingly, taken no notice, but have stirred up a 
 fire in the hearts of the ungodly rabble, to 
 burn me out of my nest ; of this sort are se- 
 veral of Mr. Bramsons dear children, and 
 that holy man Bishqp Coe ! Bnt, Sir, least I 
 should forget myself, as you requested a re- 
 
cital, I will give it from both as well as I am 
 able. In the first Letter to Bramson, I ac- 
 cused him of lying and perjury, of the rankest 
 poison of Antinomianism, of gadding about, 
 of efieminacy, of the cutting off the heads of 
 the knowing and experienced of God's people, 
 and uniting, particularly, with such as knew 
 nothing of love to God, nor to anything else 
 but to him ; of establishing many in the rot- 
 ten persuasion of this : that the Devil's work 
 in the flesh and carnal corruptions were sure 
 marks of spiritual convictions, calling them 
 heart plagues, and so sporting with them, 
 till the very objects of it might be seen to 
 take pleasure in them; so I observed, 
 
 ' That, by these unlawful measures, 
 
 Heart plagues were soon become heart pleasures.' 
 
 I have to say, that, to this, he came person- 
 ally, and answered, with seeming penitence, 
 with tears in his eyes, confessing almost all I 
 had accused him of to be but too true ; tell- 
 ing me, he would keep it till the day of his 
 death, except I would give him leave to burn 
 it; which 1 did, and was now desirous of re- 
 conciling black with white, or making that 
 straight which now appears so very crooked, 
 and numbering that which I fear will always 
 be wanting; " But God is," as Job says, " of 
 one mind, steady to his purpose, and none can 
 turn him ;" and hath he said, that, " whatsoever 
 is done in a corner shall be proclaimed upon 
 the house-top f then, so it must be, and we 
 
ourselves oftentimes the proclaimer of it; 
 and so it came to pass in this, for he had no 
 sooner heard of, and had seen and heard 
 you, than he took his old garments and dressed 
 you up in, or rather an image, that he dreamed 
 he saw; making you out effeminate, soft, and 
 one who knew nothing more than the playing 
 with the fleshly passions, spreading the Devil's 
 net, or carrying away chickens in a kite's 
 talons. 
 
 " I come now to the Second Letter, which, 
 from the above, and what follows, I took oc- 
 casion to write ; hearing him say he had 
 preached nothing but Bramson for nine years 
 out of ten, and that he could not preach in 
 that condemning way any longer for all the 
 world ; and that all the people in the meeting 
 may be Christians ; repeating it again : yes, 
 you all may, for what I know ; and seeing the 
 people flock, from time to time, as they did 
 to John's baptism, but all invitation without 
 any honest warning ; I told him he was now 
 yoking two wild beasts together, Antinomi- 
 anism and Arminianism. 
 
 I told him, there were present such as I had 
 heard him condemn ; and, that if he did not 
 know them now, I did know them to be rankest 
 hypocrites ; I told him, likewise, that he en- 
 deavoured to drive away all discerning eyes 
 and ears, and that he was seating himself in 
 the congregation of the dead, and that he was 
 but a blind leader of the blind ; I told him 
 
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 he condemned a more righteous man than 
 himself, and that he had accused him, without 
 knozckdge, of the same things he himself had 
 been guilty of; I told him, if he were axhild 
 of God, he was a gross backslider, and that 
 1 knew, from experience, what a backslider 
 was; likewise, the spirit of a backslider, *and 
 the way lie returns; and that he would never 
 he able to deceive me anv more ; nor should I 
 ever believe he was returned till he had ac- 
 knowledged me just in accusing him, and that 
 he had dealt unjustly with you, and, till then, 
 I should account him as a heathen man .or 
 a publican, and, perhaps, shortly, worse ; and 
 now I am forced to say, that 1 believe he is 
 following the ways of Balaam for a timely 
 gain, and running greedily after the gainsay- 
 ing of Core, for an eternal reward ; and, if I 
 am wrong, let him, or the best of his friends, 
 make me a liar, and my speech of nothing 
 worth ; which, if ever it is clone, in God's own 
 wa} T , I trust, next to my own soul's comfort, 
 it will be my pleasure; so much saith one 
 who knoweth something of the Spirit's teach- 
 ing from that of man's, who has been made 
 to ponder over thirty years profession to 
 make the distinction, and then only by the 
 winnowing of him, whose fan is in his hand, 
 and who says, ' From all your idols I will 
 cleanse you.' Fare thee well, beloved of the 
 Lord ! may grace, peace, and truth, rest upon 
 thee ! JAMES TULLEY." 
 
35 
 
 These, with some other private witnesses, 
 are so many testimonies to convince me, that 
 The Coachman, (being a hypocrite) should 
 never have j uciged others, '•' for with w hatsoever 
 judgment he judge he shall be judged, and 
 with what measure he mete it shall be mea- 
 sured to him again ;" to such Christ said, 
 V Judge not that ye be not judged," and why 
 " beholdest thou the mote that is in thy bro- 
 ther's eye, but considerest not the beam that 
 is in thine own eye r" thou hypocrite ! first cast 
 out the beam out of thine own eye, and then 
 shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out 
 ©f thy brother's eye." I believe Christ aimed 
 at Judas when he thus spoke ; and I believe 
 the man I am alluding to is much such an- 
 other as Judas ; and it will be a wonder of 
 wonders, if he don't go to his own place with 
 him. 
 
 TO MR. JAMES TULLE Y. 
 
 Fellow Soldier, 
 Thou knowest that it is usual in our army (es- 
 pecially in warm engagements) for the soldiers to 
 be afraid of each other ; sometimes the officers 
 are afraid of the privates, sometimes the privates 
 of the officers, and sometimes the officers of each 
 other: so has it been between thee and me ; if 
 thou hast been clear of fears of me, I have had 
 my fears of thee ; how is it they have worn off 
 so amazingly ? why, I have observed, that thou 
 art of royal blood, thy sword appears to me to be 
 of a Jerusalem blade : besides, I once had a 
 glimpse of thy Memorial ; though I said but little 
 
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 I was much pleased that it bore the mark of our 
 fellow citizens. But, say you, " Whv afraid of me 
 in particular r" Don't be jealous, for, I assure you, 
 there is not *a man oft the face of the earth, that 
 I have heard, professes to be in the army of God; 
 but I have my doubts of, yea, even of some, that, 
 at other times, I was assured had received a crown 
 of reward ; but then, I have doubted of myself, 
 even when I have been fighting, and that with 
 zeal and courage; yet, I have known that I would 
 not touch, to hurt, one of the King's army not for 
 a thousand worlds. I received thine epistles, 
 which appear to be written in affection, faithful- 
 ness, and understanding; and I write these few 
 lines, that thou mayest he assured that I sincerely 
 wish to be a fellow helper of thy joy ; and if, in 
 any field of battle, thou perceivest me, in any way, 
 to act the part of a traitor, I give thee full autho- 
 rity to thrust me through with thy sword : but, 
 remember, if I perceive the same in thee, and feel 
 zeal for the King, I shall use but a word and a 
 blow, and it may be, the blow first. 
 
 I wrote to Mr. Wicker, saying, that I was ready 
 to prove, in opposition to him, or any other man, 
 that Bramson was not a minister of God's Spirit, 
 but that he was following the way of Balaam for 
 reward. 
 
 I subscribe myself, A Soldier of Jesus Christ, 
 
 Bethlehem Chapel. G. S. WHITE. 
 
 P. S. I do not at present fear the want of bread 
 and water, as I abound with blessings. 
 
 The Ch?'istian Memorial ; being the Substance of 
 the Author s Experience aiid Call to the Mi- 
 nistru, together with his Confession of Faith, 
 is preparing for the Press. 
 
 Day Cc Co. fruiters, 13, Gosvvell Street. 
 
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