To show that the gospel is a system as partial as he supposes the Mosaick dispensation was, Mr. P. quotes from Isa. 61; "The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God." Why did he not quote the remaining part of the sentence? The words "vengeance of our God" seem to have been so grateful to his feelings, that he overlooked the remainder of the sentence, which reads thus: "to comfort all that mourn, to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." In Luke we are informed that Jesus "came to Nazareth....and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And.... he found the place where it was written, the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down." Is it to be presumed that Jesus omitted any essential part of that text? Most certainly not. Then the vengeance of our God" mentioned by Isa. is nothing incompatible

with the manifestation of grace to the objects of that vengeance. After Jesus had read that interesting passage, and had spoken of its fulfilment "all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth." There was

nothing ungracious or unmerciful in the passage which he read. Mr. P. has made another very important omission in quoting from the third chapter of Malachi. Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.' Here Mr. P. stops. He had quoted all which would coincide with his sentiments.

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But the next verse reads, "and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness." The similitudes used in this passage are clear and beautiful. A refiner's fire is designed to remove all dross and prepare the precious metal for use. Mr. P. will not admit the fire of hell to be purifying, he must allow this to be the fire of heaven. Fuller's soap is used not to destroy, but to cleanse the cloth. So Jesus the glorious messenger of redeeming grace, shall refine human nature from the dross of sin by the fervency of the spirit of immortal love and cleanse all mankind from all iniquity "that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Mr. P. has quoted the 10th, 11th and 12th, verses of the third chapter of Matthew-but instead of attempting to prove that those passages are in favor of his view of the subject, he has relied upon prejudice alone to sanction his construction. "I indeed baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire," that is, says the keen-eyed Mr. P. "he shall baptize his friends with the Holy Ghost and his enemies with fire"-the fire of hell, we presume! Oh! horrible! Baptize his enemies with the fire of an endless hell! If Mr. P. had not been baptized with superstition, how could he make such a comment? His comment is a direct violation of the text, which virtually declares that the same persons who shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost or spirit, shall also be baptized with fire-the fire of heavenly love, which always accompanies regeneration. it is not true that any person, in his earthly nature, brings forth good fruit exclusively. contrary "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"-therefore, instead of considering "every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit" to signify one class of mankind, and contending, or implying that there is another class who bring forth nothing but good fruit, (a class not mentioned in the bibie,) it is far more rational and consistent to consider every tree, to represent every individual of the human family, who requires the operation of the puryfying fire of heaven to remove effectually all manner of iniquity. Is Mr. P. no more of an agriculturalist than to suppose that chaff all grows on stalks by itself in the field-and the wheat on other stalks

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by itself? Such a supposition is no more absurd than to say wheat means one class of men, and chaff means another class of men. If saints are represented by wheat, and sinners by chaff-then all the wheat there is, was once chaff! Moreover, such a supposition implies that saints are sinless; is this according to matter of fact?

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up, it no longer exists-and whatever this representation may mean, it cannot inculcate the idea, of endless suffering. The truth is, every kernel of

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wheat is enveloped in chaff and every individual is afflicted more or less with the chaff of wickedness, which nothing but the unquenchable fire of heavenly purity and love can totally destroy. "For our God is a consuming fire," Heb. 12, 29. in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hand, from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil: he shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." Isa. 33, 14, 16.

Mr. P. says, "The Lord is appropriating the silver and gold, and the moral énergies of his people to the enlargement of Zion," &c. When Jesus sent forth his disciples to preach, he said unto them, "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses," &c. Now, our Bible Societies must beg money to enable thein to print bibles to sell-yes they

can afford to give away about one twentieth part of the whole they print, and sell the remainder! Our foreign missionaries must have an outfit of some thousands of dollars, and in many cases a wife besides, enabling them to appear in great splendor before the astonished inhabitants of the Indies! Home missionaries must be supported to itinerate and dispense the gospel of eternal misery in places where the people would not voluntarily sustain it-and in many cases where they would choose to dispense with such merchandize! Ten years since, a Missionary card, circulated in the city of New-York, read thus " Every cent is a precious drop in the Missionary ocean, on which Ministers must sail, and blessings flow to the islands of the seas, and to the ends of the earth before all shall know the Lord. Reader, pay a penny," &c. The ocean then "on which Ministers must sail," is money-money-money! How is all this cash to be obtained? Whole swarms of beggars, like frogs in Egypt, infest all parts of our land---work upon the sympathies of a frail nature-perplex with their importunities-eat out our substance'---and collect "silver and gold," and every thing else down to rags! O Presbyterians! When "ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, when he is made," will ye not "make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves?" Will the Hindoo, who worships an idol that dooms him, or his fellow-creatures, to be crushed to death beneath a ponderous car, gain any thing by conversion to that system of faith, which crushes millions on millions of the human race beneath the resistless weight of endless and almighty wrath? "Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy