are given up to a reprobate mind, are under; as by my remarks in previous replies to you, I declared of the Puseyites, and other apostates who have turned from the holy commandments delivered unto them, 2 Peter ii. 21; Jude xi. 12, 13. But I did not use the words, put under ban! Those are Onesimus's own words, when in falsifying my sentences, and perverting the words of the living God, "betraying me with a kiss" into the hands of the Puseyites, and betraying innocent blood. He says the Old Watchman hath declared, "Chalmers and his friends equally guilty as Pusey, Newman, and Froude; and, indeed, put every dissenter in the three kingdoms equally under ban." Now I am not certain, oh, my professed friend, Onesimus, but in so publishing you have maliciously, and knowingly sinned against the Spirit of grace and truth, which is the wilful and presumptuous sins we are considering. Because peoples of the three kingdoms know, by my publications for twenty-five years past, that, although I am a dissenter from the non-essential forms and modes of the national-protestant Established Church, and am what men call an Independent, I have laboured for Christian union, communion, and free correspondence among all peoples "that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity," declaring, against all opposition that One Spirit, the Holy Ghost rested upon all graciously, influentially abiding in all, so rendered of old, and now renders all blessings one to the other. See Num. xi. 25, 26, 29. Indeed, so it is, whatever a few zealous young bigots, or perplexed beguiled men, like Onesimus, may say or publish to the contrary, see Num. xi. 28. Know ye, Onesimus, that I have, in the counsel and blessing of the Holy Ghost for the many years aforesaid, proved that the non-essential forms and modes used by protestant trinitarians, that is, godly Episcopalians, Presbyterians, May, 1845.]

Baptists, Independents, Congregationalists, or others, are for the praise, honour, and glory of the glorious Three-One, and for the benefit of his election, as for the earth's being salted, or the ungenerated preservation, in a certain degree of morality, Matt. v. 13, and for the light and security of families, and uniting cords and bands of society in the nations of the earth. Read the Bible from Gen. iii. and iv. chaps., to Num. xi. chap. and onward to the end of the Old Testament, into and through the New to Luke ix. 49, 50, and there you will find the Lord God rebuking John for daring to ask him to forbid a minister casting out a devil in his name that did not follow John and the other apostles. I say, Onesimus, I am disappointed, for I did not think you to be so weak a bigot as you prove yourself to me in the midst of your perplexity. Take, I pray you, my counsel, namely, cease to scoff at the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, or others, and, above all, from encouraging wilful, presumptuous sinners, for, by so doing, you are in a most perilous position. May God bless my counsel to you.

Amen.

And as to your declaring so falsely and cruelly that "I have put Chalmers and his friends under ban," blessed be God I have, and do declare, "the worthy blessed Chalmers, and his friends," God's loving, faithful, zealous servants, but Onesimus a bold liar. So that really, I cannot say, whether the cloak he is coveted with, is that of Onesimus the run-away bond slave, or the converted Onesimus, having the Spirit and blessing according to the everlasting covenant of life and peace, a meetness for heaven for Christ's sake, Isa xliv. 3; Col. i. 12, having on the imputed righteousness of Christ for justification before the Godhead, angels, and men, as all we watchmen have on Zion's walls, and all the elect renewed citizens, see Ps. xxxii. 1, 2, 5, 6; Rom. iv. 6, 7. 8. and the Epistle of Paul to

Philemon. Now, in your next publication, Onesimus, inform us, by scriptural proofs, and true experience what, and who you are, for in the greatness of your perplexity, and folly through your reply in the April number, you have, as the wise man said, "swallowed up yourself." Eccl. x. 12. Oh, my friend by profession, Onesimus, you are so foolish that you condemn all ministers, witnesses, and editors that cannot consent to follow you in your encouraging wilful presumptuous sins and sinners, therefore, whilst I humbly petition the Godblessed, faithful editors of the "Spiritual Magazine" to insert my reply to you, I say you are a most dangerous man in your present line of ministry, because in your perverting the words and right ways of the Lord, labouring to turn peoples from the faith, you encourage wilful presumptuous sinners, like Joab of old, to flee in false confidence to " take hold of the horns of the altar," which were figures of Christ's power and authority to save, and to give repentance, and forgiveness of sins to all the heirs of the Holy Ghost, the Father's elect, and Christ's members, Ps. liii. and ciii; Acts v. 31. But never so unto the wilful presumptuous reprobates who flee to him in the guilt of their sins, in false confidence, against the judgment and vindictive sentence of the Holy Ghost, as spoken by Soloman to Joab, or by Paul to the characters in Heb. vi. and x., and all the scriptures from Gen. iv. 11, to Jude 11., to Rev. xxii. 15, 18. Therefore, mark ye, Onesimus, Joab in his false confidence in the guilt of his wilful presumptuous sins, was taken from his vain presuming hold of the horns of the altar, and slain by the sword of justice, 1 Kings ii. 28, 29, 33. How your end may be, we venture not to determine, although we all testify as one Watchman on Zion's walls, that you have perverted the words of the living God," therefore, in all compassion

towards you, Jude 22, and toward all that may have been beguiled by your doctrines, we set in order before you the words of the living God, as in my former replies, from Gen. iii. and iv. to the book of Num., in which we find the Holy Ghost records, "the soul that doeth presumptuously, reproach. eth the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people: his iniquity upon him." Num. xv. 30, 31. But Onesimus has got a new way, if he is a pastor of a church, that is, he will have no barrier against wilful presumptuous sins. No excommunication; no declarations that those who sin wilfully, presumptuously, shall perish in their sins. Thus Onesimus, Joab like, opposing all Watchmen from Adam to Noah, to David, to Paul, Peter, James, John, and their successors to us, shouts, saying, we have been erring and dreaming, adding many other falsehoods, and then magnifying his office against God, his laws and testimony, Onesimus says to all wilful presumptuous sinners, 'Cheer up, thy sins, which are many, are all forgiven." Oh, how awful. As God liveth, Onesimus, your state is peril ous. Read Num. xv. 31; Deut. xxvii. 18. But Onesimus before that in his reply to the Old Watchman's remarks, vainly mocking, scoffing, and laughing heartily at him, with intentions to prevent peoples from noticing his God-sent remarks, says, Satan was not the first creature that committed the sin against the Holy Ghost; but I say again he was, and I say also, in union with all God's watchmen, ancient and modern, that Satan was also the first wilful presumptuous sinner. Come ye, Onesi mus, into the school of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, our Judge, Lawgiver, and King, and be corrected and counselled, and if his blessed Majesty shall give his blessing, you shall be rendered yet a doctor of divinity. You see, Onesimus, our school books are the Old and New Testament, and

in our schools these words, in the power of the Holy Ghost and the Father always sounds, directing us to Christ our Master, this is my be. loved Son, hear ye him." Thus our ears are opened, and our eyes to his sayings and records, which are to prove Satan conceived wilful presumptuous sin first in heaven against the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, which was a malicious wicked turning from the holy commandment delivered to him with all the angelic hosts to worship him, and hearken to the voice of his words. So he left his first estate. See Gen. iii. 4, to Jude 6. And Satan was the sower of the seed of wilful presumptuous sins into all the non-elect angels, as the divine records prove, and as they received the evil seed, and with Satan committed wilful presumptuons sins, they found the same unto death, that is, death to all life of light, comfort, and approbation before the Glorious Three-One. And being charged with folly," a fearful looking for of judgment filled all, Heb. x. 26, 27, and being reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day, Jude 6, they were cast to the earth. Then Satan, being incarnate in the serpent, and by lying unto our first parents, declaring the Holy Ghost to be a lying, deceitful, unclean Spirit, even as he said of him by the scribes and pharisees, as he rested without measure, John iii. 34, on Immanuel, the last Adam, see Mark iii. 30. He, Satan, committed upon earth the first blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and received the curse, and all plagues, see Gen. iii. 14; Rev. xxii. 18. And although Onesimus has denied it, we testify, in the Holy Ghost, that Satan was the self-conceiver, the committer, sower, and leader of wilful presumptuous sins and sinners, and of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; and we testify that he was the father of sins, but that he never had the permitted

power to sow the seeds of wilful presumptuous sins, or blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, into the elect angels, or elect human race, for proofs, see Ps. ciii. 20; Rev. xii. 7. Nay, the Holy Ghost proves that not only the human election are preserved in Christ Jesus from those sins before effectual calling, Jude 1, but afterwards, unto the soul's being taken into glory. 1 John iii. 9; Rev. xxii. 21. Finally, Onesimus, know ye, the devil, that is, Satan, Beelzebub, the prince of devils, was called by God a murderer from the beginning, and a liar, and the father of lies, John viii. 44; we, therefore, counsel you to take heed of him, and resist him, and if you are so enabled you may escape. But we are not assured but you live as you allow peoples to live and indulge, in wilful presumptuous sins, encouraging them to go, in God-rejected confidence, to Christ for pardon and cleansing, promising them pardon and cleansing, with which doctrines you end your reply to an Old Watchman. And then condemn an Inquirer after truth, falsifying his faithful testimony. And I say, although I know not the man, that Onesimus shall never disprove the man's sentence, namely,

the most to be prized in this world, as it will be the leading subject in the world above, which is redemption by Christ for sinful man. The dying love of Jesus, our kind Friend, is a delightful theme; and notwithstand ing the insults that are daily offered to his name, and the reproaches that are continually heaped on his people, I can now bless God for his unspeakable mercy, in that he hath been pleased to make Christ appear to my soul's view and understanding, so gracious, so merciful, so powerful and condescending, that the thought of his being my Saviour sinks me in the dust and how can it be otherwise, since I am quickened to know the exceeding sinfulness of sin, to feel the plague of my heart, the folly and vanity of my sinful life, the lusting and evil desires of the flesh, and the malice, subtilty, and deceiving power of the devil. But to experience these things counter-balanced by the subduing power of the Holy Ghost, to know that he helps my infirmities at a throne of grace. revealing the love and unchangable nature of God, and the faithful word of promise of Christ Jesus, is receiving at the Lord's hand double for all my sins; not double death nor torment, but double or superabounding grace: for as sin in my soul and body, in an unregenerate state, did abound, now grace, that is discovered to me out of the fulness and perfections of Jesus Christ, doth much more abound. Yes, I believe the grace of Christ Jesus abounds more to the glory of God, than ever any thing could dishonour him, for in all things he hath the pre-emi

nence.

Dost thou know any thing, my very dear friend, respecting heavenly , or spiritual intercourse, that is, the Holy Ghost taking of the things of Christ and revealing them to thy soul. Did you ever meditate with heavenly affection on the reception that our Lord, the Son of God, met with in this world? A manger was

the place of his birth, and although he was the life of all things here, yet he was subject to poverty; he suffered, and patiently bore the reproaches and contempt of the creatures by whose power they came into this life, and who by the same power were sustained; and at a time when he was affording them the relief they required, he raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, cleansed the lepers, healed the sick, and made the dumb speak, and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel which he preached. Have you considered his trials, his temptations, his agony and pains, with the base insults he met with from the Jewish mob and their rulers, both in his ministry and at his trial, and, above all, his cruel death on the cross to make an atonement for the sins of the people. Upon him fell the anger and wrath of God against sin; they who believe in Christ are indebted nothing to the law when they die, for Christ Jesus became their debtor, and stood in their law-place, and suffered every curse of the law: the curses of mount Ebal fell upon him, whilst every believer is blessed. Hast thou considered the consternation of the whole universe at his death, darkness was over all the earth, the earth quaked, the rocks rent, and many bodies of the saints arose out of their graves, and went into Jerusalem, and appeared unto many. I expect, both by their conversation to those whom they appeared, and by the inditing of the thing by the Holy Ghost, they knew they were saints, because they no doubt spoke of that dear and insulted Saviour, who had been the sole occasion of their return, so soon to the place where they had spent their lives in waiting for his coming; but a thought now strikes me, whether or no, those bodies of the saints, did ever return to those tombs from which they had been released through the sufferings and death of Christ, I am apt to think they never did, but

attended on their Saviour, with holy angels until his ascension into heaven and then followed him into glory; angels attended his birth, life, sufferings and death, watched over his tomb, rolled away the stone, and two were seen after he was ascended into the presence of the Eternal Father. What a heavenly and glorious shout was then, when manhood joined to the Godhead entered the abode of him," who only hath immortality dwelling in the light." Surely, if ever the arches of heaven rung with the shouts of joy, it was then: well may I think so, for there is joy over one sinner that repenteth. Holy Elisha was attended by thousands, these were all at his Lord's command, but what will be the joy of saved saints and angels, when he prepares to come again to pass sentence on all creation, then time will be no more, then the bodies of all his saints will be called out of the graves, and those that remain alive will be caught up together to meet the Lord. Then every reprobate, and unbelieving sin

He is of a legal spirit, who is under the law, and apprehends himself bound to keep it, as the condition of life, requiring of him, Do this and thou shalt live. In his understanding he sees this, and no other way to life; in his will he is continually inclined to it, and in his heart he loves it; because he fancies it is in his own power to attain life in this way, and he can merit it by his own works, which mightily gratifies his self-love, and indulges his pride.

W. ROMAINE.

The Faithfulness of God in answer to Zion's Complaint, or a Warning Voice against the awful Sin of Despair and Distrust in God's Providential Care in a Time of Care and Destitution, Two Sermons, by Henry Heap. 12mo. pp. 60. London: Hamilton.

MANY years have passed by since a publication by the author of this Sermon has fallen under our notice. Well do we remember the high position he formerly occupied as one of the most influential of the gospel ministers in this metropolis; and we well remember his lamented lapse into associations which occasioned without doubt a mutilation in his statements

of divine truth, and consequently a blight upon his ministerial usefulness. In this, his latest publication, we with real pleasure recognize him again (so far as we can judge from this sermon) the gospel minister whose ministrations the Lord will yet again bless. In the wise arrangements of our covenant Father, some of his beloved ones are suffered a long time to abide beneath the cloud, and it seems hard when the tribulation is occasioned by those with whom we once took sweet counsel, and with whom we once walked together to the house of the Lord: but though God moves in a way mysterious to us in our present benighted state, we know he is too