uy law. 10 15 пу day." "-" As the hart panteth after the water brooks, fo panteth my foul after 3 Thee, O God"."-" Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy law." And the laft book in Bible is exprefsly declared to be "THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST which God gave unto Him, to fhew unto His fervants, things which must come to pass "." Not only our Church members, but our ffenting brethren unite in thankfulness that - national Church profeffes the fame thing, are forry they are on other accounts difters from a Church who fo fcripturally ∙lares its faith, and who not only profeffes reverence Scripture in words, but does fo deed and in truth, by conftantly reading Luke x. 24. fal. cxix. 18. 2 Pfal. cxix. 97. 3 Pfal. xlii. I. the believe that Mofes's account of the creati is a very imperfect one, though the best a count extant in his day-That we are by means bound by what St. Paul declares, b are to judge for ourfelves-That fo far fro our believing all the Scripture, they decla in direct contradiction thereto, that our S viour Jefus Chrift was not conceived by t Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, but was the feed of Jofeph; together with many oth deviations too numerous here to mention. We are aware that translation is not infp ration; but ftill we believe the Providen of God has been in a peculiar manner ov His Word, and that even in our tranflatio it is THE WORD OF GOD: And therefor not being able, for the beforementioned re fons, to refer to the feveral works of our di turbers, we demand to know of them short; Do you degrade Mofes into the recorder of a tradition? And unto a vain-glorious affumer in fpeaking in the name of his Maker, when he was not infpired by Him? Have you ever declared, that the testimony of St. Paul, the apoftle of us Gentiles, is not obligatory? Do not thofe who urge themfelves to be your friends belie you? Have you declared this? Have you denied that word which fays, "And the angel answered and faid unto her, "the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and "the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: Therefore alfo that Holy Thing "which fhall be born of thee shall be called "the Son of God'." If you have denied all or any of these things, where are you? Are you not like a ship at fea, without rudder or compass? You will poffibly fay, your reafon is your rudder and your compafs too. If fo, and all * Luke i. 35, the the admonitions contained in this book should unhappily be thrown away upon you, act so far like honeft men as to declare that YOUR OPINION, for which reafon is but another name (as you will not approve of what the reason of another man fhall fay) that your opinion is, at leaft for you, the only criterion to which you will refer. This will declare you publickly to be what we fear you are; but which God grant you may fee the error of, SETTERS UP OF YOUR OWNSELVES, for the opinion is the dearer felf, and confequently fetters up of a NEW RELIGION. If this be the cafe, let us part, and no longer be confidered as profeffing the fame religion; as we are for a very different one, namely, a religion which confifts in fol. lowing our bleffed Mafter, revering his word, believing that it was "God who at fundry "times, and in divers manners fpake in time past unto our fathers by the prophets'," and particularly, by that great prophet Moses, who, for the greatnefs of his office, and the dignity of his miffion, was worthy to be named as "like unto our heavenly Mafter "." ■ Heb. i. 1. 2 Deut. xviii. 15. We |