gels were reprobated from the Lord for their reBellion in heaven; but know what the Lord saith concerning man throughout the Scriptures-they stand on conditions, as Man was created at first; and know what Moses said to the children of Israel," by the command of the Lord-I set before you good and evil, life and death, choose which you will; and our Saviour said in his Gospel, his servants ye are to whom ye yield yourselves to Obey. Therefore if men choose to follow the devil, as their Master, then with him they must go; but if they forsake sin, and look unto the Lord from the ends of the earth; the promise is, they shall be saved; for our Saviour said, HE came to seek and to save that which was lost; and whosoever came unto HIM he would in no wise cast them out. But from the doctrine I have heard of men, concerning election, they say the elect number was a people chosen of God from the foundation of the world, whom the Lord had elected as his own; then they never could be lost; and they must be the righteous, whom our Saviour said HE came not to call, and the whole that need not a physician; but our Saviour came to call simmers to repentance, and to heal the sick who saw a necessity of the merits of Christ, to heal their infirmities and cleanse them from sin, as a physician cleanseth the body from the infirmities of nature. So the believers in Christ see the necessity of relying on him, for strength and protection, to cleanse them from all sin for HE is the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the World; and St. John telleth us, the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin, if we' come unto HIM; and our Saviour telleth us, whosoever come unto him, HE will in no wise cast them out; and if we read the Gospel through, we shall find our Saviour's invitation was for all to turn unto him; and his promises were for all that did turn to him; and these were his elect throughout the world;

but the erroneous doctrine that: men preach of election and reprobation, saying, the Lord ordained before the foundation of the world that one part: should be saved and the other lost, in this manner they cast all the blame upon their Creator, and make the Lord the author of evil, telling the people, if they were not elected from the foundation of the. world, they cannot be saved do what they will, because the Lord had designed them for destruction before they were born., As the preachers of that doctrine bring forward Scriptures they do not understand the meaning of, nor for what types and shadows many things stand is unknown to man, as it was in the case of Jacob and Esau, who were the sons of Isaac, in whom the Lord said all the families of the earth should be blessed; but Esau was before Jacob, and Satan fell before man was created, and this is a mystery, men do not understand the meaning of Esau and Jacob, and therefore they wound the hearts of Christians, by bringing forward Scriptures they do not know the meaning of, and distress the minds of good people, thinking if they are not elected, all their prayers and petitions are in vain; if they seek the Lord HE will not be found of them and this doctrine hath wounded the hearts of many good people, till Satan hath hurried them on to despair; and I have known them to put an end to their existence that have been men of religious characters, and I heard of a lady who had been so much wounded by that doctrine, thinking she was not one of the elect, that she was almost lost in despair, and when a minister was reasoning with her, that whose ver came unto Christ, He would in no wise cast them out, that the Lord never said to the seeking seed of Jacob,, seek ye my face in vain; and whosoever turn unto ME, I will turn unto them, saith the Lord. While he was pleading with these arguments, the promises of God to all returning sinners, she took up a wine

sinners, as Stephen did, when he said ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye, who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it? Here the Apostle laid the sin to their charge for resisting the Spirit of Grace and the Spirit of God; and the same we may see by the prophet Isaiah-What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should have brought forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes: but the promises of God are by the prophetsif men would turn unto HIM, HE would turn unto them; and if their sins were as scarlet, the Lord would make them white as snow, if they were willing and obedient; but if they refused and rebelled, they should be destroyed; and this is the doctrine the Lord taught his prophets, and the doctrine of the Gospel, whereby the Lord will be clear when he judgeth, and just when he condemneth. But can you say, you can thus justify the Lord before your hearers in the day of judgment, if you tell them these promises were only made for the elect? Then if they were only made for the elect you must allow the elect are not sure; because this stands on conditions of their being destroyed; but I know the doctrine of election, and a book of Mr. Cooper's fell lately into my hands, where he affirms that the elect of the Lord are sure to go to heaven, because they were elected from the foundation of the world; and the others. are sure to go hell, however they may try by prayers and petitions to seek the Lord; it is all in vain ; their decrees are fixed for destruction! Now can you, justify this doctrine, to say a man can stand in the day of judgment with a just and merciful God, whose mercies are over all his works, and who so loyed the world that he gave his only begotten

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swore; it was sin that dwelled in him swore; neither was it him that got drunk; but it was sin that dwelled in him tempted him to give his mind to drinking; so it was sin and not him; but the Lord would lay nothing to the charge of his elect; and he was sure of going to heaven. The same excuse another made for stealing, after being found out, to the astonishment of many, as he had boasted, so much of his election, he said the devil would tempt God's people, and therefore the sin was not his to be led by it, neither would it be laid to his charge, as he knew he was one of God's elect. So here we see, from this doctrine, how it gives Satan an ad vantage over men to fill up one part with presumption, while the other he tempts to sink in despair, as the preachers of this doctrine do not understand all the mysteries of election and reprobation, or know how to explain it to their hearers; and therefore they cast every blame upon the creator of the uni verse, as though the Lord had decreed and ort dained that men should be wicked and sin against him. And now I ask you, how these ministers will appear in the awful day of judgment, to clear the honour and justice of a God, when their hearers stand before them, and say they taught them to believe the Lord would not accept them, if they sought him, HE would not be found of them, be cause the Lord had reprobated them from the foun dation of the world, and had told them they must be lost; for the love of Christ never was to shed his blood for them; so if they come unto him, for mercy HE would shew them none? Now I ask you how these ministers can answer for theirselves to plead the honour and justice of a God, in condemne ing these men, when he had told them it was in vain to repent? He cannot justify himself to [say he had pointed out the mercies and love of God to all that would turn unto him, and lay the blame to

sinners, as Stephen did, when he said ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye, who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it? Here the Apostle laid the sin to their charge for resisting the Spirit of Grace and the Spirit of God; and the same we may see by the prophet Isaiah-What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should have brought forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes: but the promises of God are by the prophetsif men would turn unto HIM, HE would turn unto them; and if their sins were as scarlet, the Lord would make them white as snow, if they were willing and obedient; but if they refused and rebelled, they should be destroyed; and this is the doctrine the Lord taught his prophets, and the doctrine of the Gospel, whereby the Lord will be clear when he judgeth, and just when he condemneth. But can you say, you can thus justify the Lord before your hearers in the day of judgment, if you tell them these promises were only made for the elect? Then if they were only made for the elect you must allow the elect are not sure; because this stands on conditions of their being destroyed; but I know the doctrine of election, and a book of Mr. Cooper's fell lately into my hands, where he affirms that the elect of the Lord are sure to go to heaven, because they were elected from the foundation of the world; and the others are sure to go hell, however they may try by prayers and petitions to seek the Lord; it is all in vain ; their decrees are fixed for destruction! Now can you, justify this doctrine, to say a man can stand in the day of judgment with a just and merciful God, whose mercies are over all his works, and who so loyed the world that he gave his only begotten

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