those whom the Lord would not have grieved and irrepar able injury may be done: hence, grieve not the woundedfor the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

Therefore for a few individuals to have the absolute control over others, without a possibility of redress, seems hardly to correspond with the fitness of things; or for five or six hundred men to govern more than two hundred thousand; with a power to make rules to bind them when they have no voice or representation in the affair! "the authority of the conference or of us," "by order and succession," from J. W. who said Lord King had convinced him many years ago, that Presbyter or Elder and Bishop were of the same order, and meant one and the same thing. If so, who was at the bottom of the present mode by devising it for America, but T. C. and F. A.; and Adam begat a son in his own like

There has been considerable improvement, in some respects for the better; but more might be done by curtailing power, and having a committee, and to hear, advise and grant appeals, in some cases.

And had this been done timely in England, there never would have been that separation; neither as much conces sion as they found it proper to make afterward. See A. K's. Journal, and the Portraiture of Methodism.

There is much polemical contention about certain names and modes of opinion in the days in which we live; as though our eternity was at stake and the welfare of millions yet unborn was dependent thereupon. Whereas the truth is, that most people have not independency of mind, sufficient to think, and to judge and to act for themselves; but most bodies in the community, whether civil or religious, are swayed by a few ambitious leading individuals, who are influenced either by pride or avarice for power or moneyhence the exertions to pull on every string, to give influence to their particular party over the public mind, and obtain special acts of legislation for an incorporation, to favor their peculiar sect, as exemplified by the Baptists' petition to Congress from the Mississippi, the Church of England in Alex

See the preface to the Methodist Hymn Book---And the first edition of the minutes of 20 years conference, and compare with Clarke's notes on Acts xx.

andria, and also in the State of Maryland, the Episcopal Methodists in the State of New York, as exemplified by the Act of General Conference in 1820, and as avowed also by the Bishop's circular letter, &c.

The struggle among four or five sister churches, so called, with their offspring daughters coming on, I hope may not terminate in a political union ecclesiastically; to sap our own foundation of national freedom, and produce a styled the "Mother of Harlots !"

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BABYLON"

The pompous name of "ORTHODOX," and the cant phrase HETERODOX" mean any thing and every thing and nothing, according to people's notions and whims in the revolutions and turn of times, as exemplified among the nations of the earth. Popery was orthodoxy, and Luther and his ism heterodox, until the latter was received and established by law; so in England, what was orthodox in one reign, was heterodox in the next-hence each in turn would burn heretics, &c.

Modern Episcopacy claims the prerogative of making laws to govern the People, &c. and if any of the executive or judiciary power is delegated to the people, it is a special favor; the people possess it by GRACE and not by RIGHT!Even the rattle box, called District Conference, to amuse the local brethren, must have a shout and cry of grace, grace unto it!

Thank God! those things are going down the Hill! Independency of mind is waking up. Just Rights are acknowledged by some; and are now coming into view.No matter what may be the cause; the end is what we are to look at in the providence of God.

The Allied Sovereigns officially declare a systematic plan by which the revolutionary principle and practice is still going on! Hence the origin of the suppression of Free Masonry in the several kingdoms and empires of the Old World; as the medium of confidential knowledge, and the continuation of the illuminati, from Voltaire, as one cause of American principles apparent in all the South of Europe.

Ecclesiastical power must have its bounds and kept within proper limits. What next summer may bring forth is in the womb of futurity. Whether conciliatory measures will be adopted, and a meeting of each other half way, by mutual forbearance, as exemplified in the Convention at Philadel

phia, in 1787, on the subject of slavery in the great reciprocal concentration, called the Constitution in the federal compact, or whether the North and South will split, or societies omnifarious spring up, time must exhibit, but Dagon must fall, and Babylon must come down!

PROPHETICALLY.

MANY are the opinions concerning those scripture prophecies which relate to Jacob and Esau; as though God loved one before he was born and designed him for happiness, and absolutely hated the other, and designed him to eternal misery after making him serve the other. But whoever will have patience and enquiry enough to excite them to turn to the following passages, and carefully compare and read them, will find them to relate to nations in this world, and not to individuals in a future state.

Rom. ix. 10-13, with Genesis xxv. 22, 23, and xxvii. 27 -29, and 28-40, with Hebrews xi. 29, and Malachi i. 2, 3, 4, with Amos vii. 2, 5, Jeremiah xviii. 1-10, Deut. ii. 1— 8, Genesis xxvii, 29; 2 Sam. viii. 14; 2 Chr. xxi. 8-10.

Rom. xi. 25, with Luke xxi. 24, Rev. xi. 2, see Wesley's Notes on Rev. xi. 2—7, xii. 12, xiii. 1, proposition 8, observation 18-22, with verse ii. &c. xvi. 10-16, xvii. 8-12, xviii. 9-19, and xix. 19, &c. Six things took place at the time appointed, and in the order of time; upwards of eighty years after the same was written in Dutch, and more than fifty after their publication in English.

The image of Daniel in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar; the four revolving empires of the world in succession, involves Church and State, as he appears to have been the first who attempted to burn people for non-conformity, i. e. "heterodoxy." We of course must be living in the days of the toes, which shew we are in the close of that vision, when the stone cut out without hands, &c. is to annihilate the image: We have seen the kingdom of the Stone, but the kingdom of the Mountain is yet to come. O ye people of God, be looking up-join in spirit as the heart of one man, to swell the solemn cry- THY KINGDOM COME"-that God may send forth judgment unto victory!

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PROPHECY CONCERNING AMERICA.

In this age of unbelief and changeful events, nothing seems more needful to establish our faith in the truth of divine revelation, and satisfy our minds with respect to the future, than a consideration of the prophecies of Scripture; not one jot or title of which will ever fail in its accomplishment. We would call attention at this time to the important prophecy in Isaiah, respecting this country, and to the effects which the principles of liberty that originated here have already produced in other countries, and are hereafter yet to produce. America is so plainly designated and described in the prophecy, that there need be no mistake in the application of it to America, or more particularly to the United States, as we shall proceed to show. We shall follow the more original reading, or marginal notes in our larger Bibles, instead of the common text, as much better calculated to express the ideas intended by the inspired prophet;* premising, also, that the first word in the chapter, translated woe," in our present copies is improperly rendered.Adam Clarke, after giving the original word, says: "This interjection should be translated ho! for it is properly a participle of calling. Hoi Land! Attend-give ear." prophecy which we proceed to consider, will be found in the 18th chapter of Isaiah, and in accordance with the reading

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* Edward King, of the Royal Society, England, who wrote on the prophecies the latter part of the last century, in remarking on the chapter containing this prophecy, observes: "There is one prophecy of Isaiah, which has long been considered as the most obscure amongst all the prophetical writings. It is still indeed obscure, as it stands in our translation; but if translated only by the assistance of the plain marginal corrections ( the reading in our Bibles, leads us to some very surprising apprehensions." The translators of the Bible, it would seem, not knowing to what country this prophecy could refer, but supposing it must refer to Egypt, very much warped the original text to accommodate it to that country, as their own marginal readings sufficiently show.

before stated, and the correction of Adam Clarke, is as follows:

"Ho! to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia."

How exactly resembling wings is America, being narrow in the middle, and afterwards extending to broad and lengthy dimensions in North and South America. Calmet in remarking on the rivers of Ethiopia, mentioned in Zephania, iii. 10, "thinks," says A. Clarke, "that these rivers mean the Nile, which by seven mouths fall into the Mediterranean. The Nile comes from Ethiopia, properly so called; and runs through all Egypt, and falls into the sea at the place which the Scripture calls, Cush, or Ethiopia." The Nile is strictly a river of Ethiopia, and in numerous streams runs into the sea. These streams seem to have been the most distant rivers, then known, in the direction of America from Judea; and the land described in the prophecy, is represented as being beyond these rivers.-Indeed, America is the only country in the world, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia from Judea, or in any other direction of the globe from the land of Canaan, that in any respect resembles wings; and hence the prophecy can justly apply to no other country but to America. The land is thus further described:

"2. That sendeth ambassadors by sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters."

"What country except this, send their ambassadors by sea, and a long way also, as the expression "upon the waters" evidently implies. All here must go by the sea, and must also go a great distance upon the waters of the ocean, and they can go to the other nations of the world in no other way. Vessels of bulrushes too, mean light, swift sailing vessels. And where in any part of the world, are vessels made so light, and so calculated for swift sailing, as those of America.* On this account it is that the Grand

*As an evidence of the correctnes of their remarks, we select the following from the United State Gazette.]

We copied last week an interesting chapter from the Adventures of a