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to see the devil flying away with me, he could not find it in his heart to cry, Stop, thief,' believing the devil had only got his own property. And he has publicly confessed there are three creatures in this world that his pious soul hates; namely, the Devil, doctor Priestley, and Huntington; but that he hates Huntington the worst of the three. Part of this is true, and part false. It is true that he hates Huntington; but the other two have received no damage by him in any thing. And I may say of my godfather as the prophet says of Jacob's brother, that, "He did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever," Amos i. 11. My reader may believe me when I say that I esteem his indignation and his reproach a greater treasure to me than either his affections or his prayers; for we are to be hated of all men, and especially of all such men, for Christ's name sake, Matt. x. 22. And this is so far from offending me, that I am pleased with it, and make myself merry at the reports of his zeal, which hath almost eaten him up; and he may go on, for his whole warfare is in defence of his own honour; and the more the Lord enlarges me, the more he is enlarged also. Sometime ago a report prevailed that several persons at Feversham, in Kent, read my books. Putting on the old man, for he knows nothing of the new, down he went, and fell upon them like Samson. At another time it happened on a Lord's day they

were disappointed of a minister, when it was proposed to read a sermon; and a sermon was read by a friend of mine. A gentleman of the faculty, who was then present, and who is a staunch friend of my revered godfather aforesaid, greatly admired the discourse, and said he never heard a better, and continued applauding it until he was informed that the Antinomian was the author. He then changed his voice, and gave charge that it might be read there no more. Sometime back it was reported that the Antinomians gained ground at Lewes, in Sussex. Whereupon our pious pursuer was soon found at Heathfield, setting all things to rights in that quarter. Not long since a daughter of mine in the faith, who belongs to Providence chapel, went with her husband to settle in the dock-yard at Sheerness, in Kent. It was no sooner found out that she was called to the knowledge of the truth under the Autinomian, but some strange spirit or other caught away my venerable godfather, so that he was seen no more at Heathfield, but found at Sheerness, where my daughter was desired to go and hear him. He did not know her personally, and therefore was compelled to do as he always does; that is, draw the bow at a venture: for, as he is at a point in nothing, so I defy him to take aim at any thing but the Antinomians. However, he gave her such a peal of thunder, but there was no lightning attended it, that terrified her so much she was scarcely able to keep her seat. She had not been

used to hear a Boanerges, and could compare it to nothing but the tempests she had heard at Gibraltar. "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools," Eccles. ix. 17. However, she felt her bonds and misery come on, and a keen appetite for the bread of life upon the back of it. This drove her to town, and to Providence chapel, where she got a little refreshment. My godfather had given her an appetite, and under the Antinomian she got a banquet; so that she blessed God for me, and soon after brought me a silver cup lined with gold; and entertained us for near two hours with my godfather's oration, declaring she never heard such an empty harangue of incoherent scraps before, and hoped in God she never should again.

A few pages back I informed my reader of the young clergyman at Brighton, and that I expected he would be a sort of armour-bearer to ward off some strokes from me, as our evangelists would now fall upon him. That gentleman is now sitting in my study, and informs me that the Boanerges aforesaid is at this time at Brighton, where he left him when he came away, though he had not been there for thirty years before. If report be true, the countess of Huntingdon left it in her will that no godfather of mine should ever enter any pulpit of hers. However, all things must give place to necessity. He is there, belabouring the sectarians, and telling them how

he hates at least one sort of them, namely, the Antinomians; for although there be those at Brighton who preach salvation from hell, yet he is no enemy to them, but to the Antinomians only: or, in other words, those who are born again. And I believe that many raw boys, who have set themselves up as teachers, and others as empty in their profession, have been emboldened to use such expressions and imprecations upon me, and the work of God on my soul, as would never have entered their minds, nor would they have dared to utter them, had they not been encouraged and patronized by this gentleman, who has given me the name of an Antinomian. A person who has now for some years belonged to us, and formerly attended the ministry of this Boanerges, has owned to me that he has heard me set forth in such a point of light, that he should have considered himself defiled if but the skirt of my coat had touched his garment in the streets. However, soon afterwards he fell into soul trouble, and wanted an interpreter. The disciple of Moses being of no use in explaining God's writing on the fleshly tables of the heart, he came to the Antinomian, where he got it, and has never been near my pious parent since.

The young clergyman at Brighton, having been at Lewes to hear me, upon his return was telling an independent minister of the same place of it, and that he now saw where the truth lay; how he had been undeceived by what he had

heard, and spake rather respectfully of the Antinomian. The other replied, 'What a great man in London (meaning the disciple of Moses, who has given me all my present names) says of him, is his only applicable character, that he is a spiritual blackguard, and if I thought what that Huntington preaches was the truth, I would go home immediately and burn the Bible.' These are some

of the fruits of a ministry which sounds out so much holiness and sanctification. And I firmly believe that the preacher himself is the sole author of all the sanctification and of all the holiness he ever preached, or can preach, for there is nothing like it in the Bible, except the names.

About two or three years ago I preached at Newark, Retford, Nottingham, Kegworth, and Sheepshead. At the latter place a young gentleman, a minister, and an assistant to another elderly one of the same place, being, as I suppose, sadly prejudiced against me from report, went about, and used all possible means to prevent people from coming to hear me. However the place was filled, and I preached from the marriage supper of the Lamb, Rev. xix. 9. A young man in bondage, who came with much prejudice, was set at liberty; and, upon the whole, the power of God attended it. After my departure the young minister before mentioned borrowed several of my books, in order to find fault and reproach the author. However, God's thoughts are not our thoughts; for by one of the books God found

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