'Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, as the Pelagians do vainly talk, but is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam,' &c. &c. This is an article which the Arminian subscribes. How does this agree with the doctrine of perfection, or the basis of the perfect band?

'The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn, and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God,' &c. This article the Arminian subscribes. How does this agree with free-will and human power to choose or refuse, come to Christ, or stay away?

'We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort.' This is another article which the Arminians subscribe. How does this agree with what the vile person in my text calls imputed nonsense?

'Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God; whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, he hath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.' This article the Arminian subscribes;

and what a conscience must men have, to swear in God's name, and subscribe with their hands, to this article, and never believe in it! yea, call it the devil's law, and a horrible decree! And, if this decree brings men by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour, then where is the doctrine of falling from grace; of being children of God to-day, and children of the devil to-morrow; and of many being in hell for whom Christ died?

The vile person in my text obscures the justice, truth, holiness, and immutability, of God, and misrepresents him. He sets forth a false Christ, who is not a Sovereign in his reign; who is not the everlasting righteousness of his people, as a surety; who is not immutable in his love, as God; and as having not perfected, for ever, them that are sanctified by his blood, as a priest; and as not being victorious over Satan and sin, as a king. He pretends to the Spirit of truth while he speaks lies; he mimics and counterfeits the operations and joys of the Holy Ghost; he opposes every truth essential to salvation, subscribes the above articles, and swears he is moved by the Spirit; he gives his hand and oath against his own soul, swears falsely, and becomes a perjured person against the Holy Ghost: thus making himself one of the worst of liars, by subscribing, and then denying, the truths of the everlasting covenant; and all to gain a name, and set up a party, by uttering errors against the Lord, and to destroy his own followers, and, if it were possible, the

very elect also, with lying words. This is the character of a vile person, whom the hypocrites call a man of candour, and of liberal sentiment. "O my soul! come not thou into their secret! Unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united!"

My dear friends, when you hear the bastard Calvinists, whose heads are at Zion, and their hearts at Horeb, crying out, 'Such live Arminians, but do not die Arminians!' then let them shew their repentance, and works meet to prove it to be genuine. Peter's repentance, and David's repentance, shall be as conspicuous as their sins. The Arminian, or, as my text says, the vile person, if ever he be saved, his recantation shall be as public as his desperate rebellion in uttering errors against the Lord; and his repentance as public as his public stubbornness and obstinacy. If any of God's people err, they must be restored and reclaimed, before they go hence. "They that erred in spirit shall come to understanding; and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." They must be converted from the error of their way, or die in their deception. Those that practise hypocrisy, and utter errors against the Lord, to destroy the poor with lying words; dying so, they go down into the grave with a lie in their hand. A deceived heart has turned such aside, and they cannot deliver their souls, Isa. xliv. 20. Into the heavenly Jerusalem shall nothing enter that loveth and maketh a lie: and if he that loves and makes

a lie is shut out, then what is to become of them whose whole practice is hypocrisy, and speaking villany, to destroy the poor with lying words, even when they speak right?" All liars," says God, "shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone," where the beast and false prophets are. The scriptures, my friends, cannot be broken the counsel of the Lord shall stand firm, his word shall abide for ever. It is Yea, and Amen; not a jot of it shall fail; it shall never pass away, but stand fast to a thousand generations. "Let God be true, but every man a liar."

Again; when you hear it reported that such men make a comfortable and glorious exit, examine their writings, and inquire for their public repentance and, if you find lies in the former, and no account of the latter, my text says they are vile persons; enemies to Christ, by uttering errors against him; and enemies to the saints, by seeking to destroy them with lying words. And when they tell you that such persons depart in peace, let them shew you that such made their calling and election sure: that they were called of God, pardoned by blood, and justified by imputed righteousness, and made sound in the truth. The elect are sons of peace, and so peace comes upon them. Such are called to peace in Christ, who receive pardon, and go in peace; who are justified by faith, and so have peace with God. The effect of righteousness is peace. Righteousness and peace must kiss each other; and peace always

goes with truth, but never with lies. He that hates the truth, never knew the way of peace. "Love the truth and peace," says God. "Good is the word of the Lord. Peace and truth shall be in my days," says Hezekiah. But a vile person, a worker of iniquity, a practiser of hypocrisy, an utterer of error against the Lord, a destroyer of the poor with lying words, shall such have peace? "No peace, saith my God, to the wicked." Can persons who live and die drunk with errors, with the wine of spiritual fornication, be blessed? Take heed, "lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; And it shall come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst; the Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses of this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven," Deut. xxix. 18-20. And, pray, is not that man's heart turned away from the Lord, who utters error against him? And he that makes flesh his arm, and trusts in himself that he is righteous, is he not an adorer of strange gods? And, surely, he has got a root that bears gall and wormwood, whose heart works ini