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was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ; but after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster," Gal. iii. 24, 25. "In that he saith a new covenant he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." The ministration written and engraven on tables of stone is done away and abolished, 2 Cor. iii. 7. 11. "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all all things are become new." New creatures under a new covenant, that we should walk in newness of life, Rom. vi. 4; and serve in newness of Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. vii. 6. Ministers of the letter, who travail with death, and servants who serve in the oldness of the let ter, are both rejected and despised of God. God seeketh such worshippers as shall worship him in spirit and in truth. All this Antinomianism I have learned out of the Bible.

I must observe one thing more, which is this: that it is in vain to enforce love unless we preach the faith. Faith most come first, for we can have no love till faith discovers it, and lays hold of it. "We have believed the love that God hath to us.' "He that believeth not is condemned already, and the wrath of God abideth on him.” And surely a man damned, and under wrath, cannot Jove God. The Apostles preached Christ to the people; they preached repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To preach Jesus Christ is the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to alli

nations for the obedience of faith, Rom. xvi. 25, 26. "And the law is not of faith, [but of works;] the man that doeth them shall live in them," Gal. iii. 12. These quotations are intended to shew my reader what God's word says of the law; and that it doth declare that, "The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit," Rom. viii. 4.

"That the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient."

That, "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts;" and, "The fruit of the Spirit [in such] is love, joy, peace, meekness, temperance, and against such there is no law."

That no one law was ever found written by God himself in any man's heart but in those who are born again of the Holy Ghost, and who are in covenant with God.

These have the testimony and approbation of God himself: yea, even Abraham, before the law was given, obtained this good report through faith. "Abraham," says God, "obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws," Gen. xxvi. 5. And God bears the same testimony to all the spiritual seed of Abraham. "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness; the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings," Isai. li. 7. But where

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do we find such a testimony given to letter-men? They are said to turn aside to vain jangling;

Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm," 1 Tim. i. 6, 7. But then this is not a good report through faith, but a bad report through unbelief. There are no enemies or reproachers that can lay any wilful wickedness or loose living to our charge; we defy them. My whole crime is that I do not assert that the believer is under the law as his rule of life; nor do I believe this to be true, because God says he is not under the law, but under grace.

1. I will undertake to prove that every law of God is fulfilled in God's spiritual family, though God's spiritual children are not under the law, as God himself declares.

2. And, as I do not believe this, it would be sin in me to advance it; "For whatsoever is not of faith is sin," Rom. xiv. 23.

3. I never found any such words in my Bible, nor in any one Apostolic commission given forth by Christ: and, as there are no such commands given, I cannot be said to transgress them; "For where no law is, there is no transgression."

4. The Spirit is promised to guide us into all truth. But, among all the lessons that he has ever taught me, he never taught me this; nor do I believe that any one now upon the face of the earth can affirm, with an appeal to God, that ever the Spirit of God put it either into his heart or into

his mouth. And they are no ambassadors of his "that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, saith the Lord," Jer. xxiii. 31, 32.

Nor are we afraid to meet any of our accusers upon the footing of good works. We have collected within these few years more than two thousand pounds, to assist others in building places of worship in the country, and seven hundred pounds to enlarge our own place. And in none of our collections do we go from house to house, much less send to beg a guinea of those who make no pretensions to religion, which many do. No, nor do we even go among any of the evangelists, nor to any other but to those, and only those, who are often seen attending the worship of God among us. We do not give the hand to the Assyrians for bread, nor call to the Egyptians for help. And many pounds that have been sent to us when collecting for places of worship, I say many pounds have been sent us unasked for; and, because we did not like the profession of the givers, we have always sent their money back to them again. If we sow spiritual things in the souls of any, it is a light thing if we reap of their carnal things, 1 Cor, ix. 11. This is the apostolic rule; and we think it is wrong to reap where we have never sowed. Paul told Philemon that he owed himself to Paul, because he had been instrumental in conveying the grace of God to Philemon.

We keep a bank of charity among ourselves, to

relieve our own poor; and this is supported, not by a two-penny rate, much less by the Arminian tribute of a penny a week. We do nothing in this poor, low, mean, contemptible, pitiful way; but rather despise it. Ours is supported by subscriptions and voluntary contributions; and we seldom distribute less than three or four hundred guineas per annum. And, if at any time the bank gets low, half a dozen words from the pulpit brings in sixty or seven pounds to recruit it.

Nor do we spend, as many do, twenty minutes or half an hour in pumping, pressing, squeezing, and extorting a few shillings out of the pockets of worldlings, who appear in a sheep's skin. We seldom or ever spend two minutes at this labour.

A gentleman, not long ago, to whom we gave a collection, with a few words, got one hundred and forty-five pounds under one discourse; and, had he mentioned it in the evening, I doubt not but it would have amounted to upwards of two hundred pounds. But he was so struck with the liberality of the Antinomians, that he could say no more to them, finding they did not want a spur nor a whip, but a bridle with a Turkey bit. However, they differed much in opinion from him; he was straitened in his own bowels, but not in theirs; for they went home, and primed and loaded again, and murmured not a little because he did not bring his shears and take off a little more wool, Ezek. xxxiv. 31, in the evening.

Nor can any of our evangelical slanderers charge