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proposing the noblest, the highest rewards for virtuous, and severe punishment for vicious conduct. It is the sentence of " well done, good and "faithful servants," that is the ticket of admission, if I may so express myself, to eternal life, and not whether you was zealous for a creed, a system, or "non-descript peculiarities." To "generalize," to comprehend the whole race of man in benevolence and charity, is an attribute of Deity; to singularize, disqualify, and exclude, is the mark of ignorance, uncharitableness, and antichrist. The best christians that ever lived, heard of neither the Nicene or the Athanasian creed, and I am confident many Gentiles shall enter into life. Did not the same God who created Mrs. More, make also Lady Mac Sarcasm? Is God the God of the Jews, of the Gentiles, of the Christians, and not of the Turks also? Did not the whole heathen mythology lead to the worship of one God, although they had their demi-gods and goddesses ? Did not some of these subaltern divinities represent certain virtues? If the christian calendar were purified, how many impure she-saints, how many rogue-saints would there not be thrown out, for saints are in christianity, what gods were in heathenism. Do not, by her own account, as many sins, as many crimes, exist in christian countries, as in the polished nations of antiquity? What is the difference between the object and motives of the late war, and any other curse which God permitted to exist in any former age of the world? Have not the christian King, the catholic King,

and the Defender of the Faith, with their subjects, mutually hated each other, and done their utmost to "sink, burn and destroy one the other?" Would they not all resemble their master, after whose name they are called, if they lived in good neighbourhood, and "dwelt in unity?" Does Mrs. More's" distinguishing peculiarities" tend to accelerate this blessed day, or to perpetuate animosity, a discordia fratrum, or spiritually, by enactments that dare to reach beyond the grave, to "sink, burn, and destroy eternally! Mrs. Hannah should retire to some lazar-house, for a cure of the disorders of the human heart, " drink milk," for in true christianity she is yet a babe, a stranger to the " bond of perfectness!"

Vol. 6, page 114.

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"There is so little of the Author of christianity left in "his own religion, that an apprehensive believer is ready "to exclaim, with the woman at the sepulchre, They "have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they "have laid him.' The locality of Hell and the existence "of an Evil Spirit are annihilated, or considered as abstract "ideas. When they are alluded to, it is periphrastically; "or they are discontinued not on the ground of their being "awful and terrible, but they are set aside as topics too "vulgar for the polished, too illiberal for the learned, and as savouring too much of credulity for the enlightened.” The first sentence of this paragraph I entirely agree with. They indeed have taken away my “Lord," but it is in a very different sense from Mrs. Hannah. I ask, who has taken him away? Ever since the time of Constantine he has been partially absent.

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and decrees, have perverted the truths of the gospel. Peter, Jack, and Martin have tore the lace from off the coat; but still the coat remains, and Martin has restored it in a considerable degree, and brushed it up, and made it look decent. But where have they laid my Lord? Have they hid him in the Athanasian creed and confessions of faith? Come, let us reason together; for "God "has a controversy with thee!" Yes! they have hid him; but the gospels still remain, and there he may be found, if your "soul loveth him," and I will tell you who and what he is; for you are not yet acquainted with him. I speak not this in Bitterness or in wrath, but in argument, in pity, and in tears. Jesus, the gospel, the good-news, the glad tidings, is "meekness and lowliness in "heart, peace on earth, goodwill towards men! : "His yoke is easy, his burden is light." Here the peculiarities" are described. They are preached on the mount, they are contained in a few aphorisms. "Do unto others as you would

they should do unto you;" "love your enemies, "do good to them that hate you and persecute

you, and pray for them who despitefully use "you." These are the principles of the divine ethics, which Christ revealed and preached; and on these topics there is a field for descanting, and preaching usefully till the end of the world.

For what purpose has God made man? Is it not to enjoy him, to glorify him, to be happy in this state and the next. That he should create beings, endowed with such wonderful faculties as

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reason, memory and imagination, for any other it is impossible, without denying his attributes of goodness, mercy and benevolence, to conceive and believe. How, then, is God's glory and the happiness of mankind promoted? By obedience to his first command, "increase and "multiply, and replenish the earth;" by rendering that existence which God confers happy, by doing good universally to all, being equally God's creatures; by worshipping God the father of all. And how is the happiness of the millions that inhabit this world to be effected and ensured? By the wisest laws, and universal charity, that love inculcated by our eldest brother, who gave us a new law, the commandment of love.

Here are no metaphysical disquisitions. The purest morality, on the most sublime motives, viz. the love of virtue for its own sake. The intellectual pleasures arising from a contemplation of all the adorable attributes of the divine mind, imitation of those attributes, by comprehending the whole race within our love and charity, being all brethren of one great family, looking up for every good in the present and future life to the general and great father of all; these enforced by threats and promises, are the duties required of man.For the practice of these, and enjoyment of the delights arising from the observance of them, sublime endowments, bright genius, extensive reading, and profound erudition are not necessary. The attributes of God are written on the works of nature, in characters legible to the meanest

capacity. It is duties in actual life that God has required of us; and the eternal allotment of man is not determined by any gloss, or speculative, metaphysical creed, of human invention. If so, "who "then can be saved?" What ecclesiastic in the world can tell who the author of the Athanasian creed was, or, if he speaks honestly, can say he understands it, and believes the whole of it? If, then, the learned, excepting Hannah More and the non-descripts, who are in the "secrets of the Almighty, and perfectly know and understand "all his decrees from eternity," do not comprehend this complicated piece of metaphysics, shall the middling and the labouring classes of the people of this country, as well as those nations who never heard of it, " without doubt everlastingly "perish?" I think Mrs. Hannah, as she knows several senators, and pretends to have great influence, ought, in charity to them, to apply to move the "Omnipotence of Parliament" to pass an act of indemnity, to exempt, at least, his Majesty's subjects from the penalties of this creed. Let not Mrs. Hannah, who can reason maliciously when it serves her purpose, run away with and propagate the idea, that Sir Archibald is not or thodox. I have always been orthodox, and I am sure more so than she, or my brother Sir Abraham Elton, I am always, I hope, more charitable; and I am a steady and an invariable friend to the Hierarchy in the church, and royalty in the state, because that mode is most conducive to order and

good government. The ecclesiastic is the best

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