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We beg leave to announce again that the Publishers have a set of the MONTHLY REPOSITORY Complete in Eighteen Volumes; and that of them may be had also such of the former Volumes and Numbers as are not out of print. The Proof Impressions of the Portrait of RAMMOHUN ROY, given in the last Number, in 4to., on India Paper, for framing, may be had of the Publishers, price 28. 6d. Some Proofs of the former Portraits in The Monthly Repository remain, and may be had at the same price. ERRATUM. Vol. XVIII. p. 700, col. 1, line 20 from the top, read woav for Socav. UT why," it may be asked, for this purpose all the truths of "Bwill not the denevese be- Christianity, beautifully connected to come Methodists? Why have not the clergy allowed full liberty of action to M. Malan, and all those zealous missionaries who appear consumed with the desire of converting the world?" It would, undoubtedly, have been more agreeable to leave them to their own contentious course, than to become the aim of all their pamphlets, and, to say nothing more, to be exposed to the exaggeration used in their discourses, and the bitterness of their recriminations; and nothing less than imperative duty, and a conviction of the danger which menaced their religion, would have determined the pastors to oppose sectarian encroachments, placed as they had been in a false light, subjected to accusations from every quarter, and forced to remain silent. Without entering here into discussions of too deep a nature, and foreign to the design of this piece, which is historical and not polemical, I shall content myself with replying, that the clergy have given their voice against Methodism, and fortified the minds of their flock against it, because it swerves from the religion of Christ; because it leads its discicles to conduct and sentiments far different from those which the Saviour enjoins on his children; because its effects are entirely opposite to those produced by Christianity: three reasons which might furnish matter for a long work, though I shall treat them briefly. 1st. Methodism is in itself widely different from the religion of Christ. What is the final object of Christianity? To give us strength, to furnish us with means for accomplishing the great end for which the Creator has placed us in this world; to lead us by the hand till we obtain eternal salvation, after a life of watchfulness: VOL. XIX. gether, are as brilliant lights to illu minate our path; as landmarks to direct, and, if need be, to support us. Now, what is the practice of the Methodists? From amongst all the articles of faith they select some favourite points, detach them from the connected whole, and present them to the adoration of the faithful: these points are their watchword, their rallying signal; all who do not adopt their phraseology are denied the name of Christians; those, on the contrary, who repeat it are the elect, the righteous, that is to say, they are Methodists. The salient points of their system are these: Mankind is corrupt through the sin of the first man. The child is already in a state of condemnation at the moment in which his first cry is heard. God was irritated against this guilty race, and required blood to placate him; the second person of the Trinity came to die on earth, took upon him the sins of men, and appeased the wrath of the Most High. The man who believes is washed and justified; he is passed from death unto life. His faith is a gratuitous gift. The elect is saved by irresistible grace; his conversion is a miracle; when it takes place he is immediately regenerated. Good works are altogether unavailing to conversion. He who is once regenerated perseveres to the end; salvation is the inheritance of which he is assured. The spirit of God communicates itself to his mind by an internal revelation, of which his own feelings are the witness. The second death, eternal death, is the portion of the unregenerate. The unregenerate are all those who are not Methodists. The followers of Whitefield believe in absolute predestination to life or to death, independently of the conduct of the individual. When we read the discourses of the Saviour, when we study, when we feel the gospel, how remote do we find it from the creed of the Methodists, regarded altogether! I will point out some of the discrepancies. The gospel represents Jesus as seeking after all the lost sheep of his fold; Methodism represents him as seek ing only those who are elected. The gospel shews that the separation of the sheep and the goats does not take place until the last judg‐ ment; Methodism points out in this world which are the sheep-the faithful, and which are the goats-those who are delivered up to Satan. The gospel describes redemption as embracing the whole of the human race; Methodism shews its own disciples alone as redeemed by blood. To excite our vigilance, the gospel represents the seductions and perils of the world under the image of an enemy roaming about and ready to devour us if he find us sleeping, or heedless, or given up to the influence of the passions; Methodism persuades its adherents that this enemy respects and flees from them. : The gospel enjoins repentance for our sins as a perpetual duty. The Christian, ought to deplore his misery, his weaknesses, and to seek pardon, for them in the name of Jesus Christ; Methodism imposes that duty on the world; that is to say, on all men except themselves; for they are rege nerate, and the change has been ef fected in them instantaneously, mira culously it is not a progressive act; they know and they proclaim the day, the hour, the minute of their regeneration. Let the man of the world weep; let him, with David, offer unto God a broken and a contrite heart; as to the Methodist, he is born again, he is a new man; he has sinned, but his sins were of former days; since divine grace has surrounded him, as a light from heaven shined round about Saul on the way to Damascus, he has been the subject of light and of knowledge, joy has been his inheritance; contrition and grief belong to them on whom grace has not fallen. The gospel commands us to be ever watchful, ever on the alert, because we know not what hour the Lord doth come, and he will take with him those only whom he shall find ready, with their loins girded and their lamps burning. The Saviour attached so much importance to this injunction that he reserved it for the termination, the crowning, as it were, of his instructions; and to render it more efficacious, he clothed it in the vivid colouring of an intelligible and im pressive parable; Methodism often talks of the sins of its disciples, but they are the sins committed prior to their conversion, which, being complete and without reserve, takes place once for all, and they are transformed into the image of Christ. The gospel exhorts us to work out qur own salvation with fear and trembling; The Methodists, whose salvation is wrought out and perfected, have only to labour for the salvation of others; therefore they employ itinerant commissioners, men, women, girls, no matter which, who go about the world, not like the apostles carrying neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes, but well attired, loaded with guineas, and, six days of the week out of the seven, refusing none of the sweetest enjoy. ments of life. The gospel declares that to enter into the kingdom of heaven, we must do the will of our Father which is in heaven; that eternal life is promised to the redeemed, on the condition that by patient continuance in well-doing they accept the covenant, and seek for glory and honour and immortality; laborious efforts must be made; the Christian is a wrestler, and he must strive; Methodism teaches that good works and sanctification are produced neces sarily by faith in Jesus Christ, and as the Methodist possesses that faith, he is no longer required to work out his own salvation, and to tremble for his own sake; he has to work and to tremble only for the sake of others. The gospel frequently mentions dis trust, backsliding, and the possibility of losing the gift of God; St. Peter plainly expresses this in his 2nd Epistle, ii. 20, 21: For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; Methodism teaches that the sins committed in a state of grace cannot cause us to fall away, or exclude us from salvation. Such, on the first head, are some of the arguments which have prevented the pastors of Geneva from falling into the snare, and exchanging the gospel for Methodism. 2ndly. Conduct and sentiments of the Methodists. If we examine the conduct and sentiments of the Methodists, we shall see how important it is to preserve ourselves from them. Charity is the basis of the Christian life. This do, and thou shalt live, said the Saviour. Charity thinketh no evil; faith without charity is unavailing; these are the declarations of the Holy Spirit, 1 Cor. xiii. The Methodists condemn whatever is inconsistent with Methodism; we hear them say with out emotion, with the most perfect calmness, "we are certain of our own salvation, but the multitude are doomed to destruction; you yourselves are doomed to destruction." Intolerance and a condemning spirit characterize these persons. Humility, that sentiment which inspires the painful thought that we have not improved the divine grace and assistance; humility, that Christian virtue, is practically blotted out from the catalogue of virtues; Methodism sounds the trumpet to proclaim its deeds; if a missionary be sent out, or a Bible or little tract given away, reports and memorials must announce the circumstance to the world. If the Methodist does not walk about, like the Pharisees of Jerusalem, with broad phylacteries, laden with portions of the sacred books, yet tre is never without the Bible in his pocket; he watches for the moment when he can pull it out and publicly display it; every where, in his own house, in the street, in stage coaches, in all his conversation, he is every minute pronouncing the name of the Lord, and the words piety and faith are ever on his lips; he prays with the ostentation of those who prayed at the corners of the streets; his eyes are habitually turned towards heaven, and on his countenance is written, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, and with this sentiment, he believes that he goes down to his house justified. Even the women, in this sect, lose the reserve and modesty which are their natural characteristics; instead of keeping at home and serving as examples of private virtues, witnessed only by God and their little circle of friends, like the peacock spreading its admired plumage, they go about attracting attention, in what they call -doing the work of the Lord, or revealing his counsel. They thus acquire an unshrinking self-possession which sometimes amounts almost to audacity; girls of 13 or 14 years of age lecture their pastors, and unblushingly accuse them of not being Christians; young ladies likewise write epistles to clergymen, filled with passages of Scripture improperly applied; or go to those ministers at their own houses to oppose them in what they consider the glorious fight of faith; in their presumptuous ignorance they give a repetition of what they have heard addressed to the president of their religious assembly, and youthful maidens thus take upon them to catechise and instruct their own instructors. Children gravely and shamelessly deny the Christianity of their parents, and pronounce sentence of damnation upon them: we often hear them quoting the irreverent speech of the Dairyman's Daughter, who interrupted her father as he prayed and wept by the side of her death-bed, by sa ying, ther, weep not for me, but weep for your own sins." Fa How ostentatious is this sect in their Jewish observance of the Sabbath; in their prohibition during that day of the most innocent pleasures! Religion amongst them assumes not the appearance of a friend, a sister, a mother, anxious and zealous for our |