preaches up the impossibility of obeying his Lord's commands, denying the efficacy or application of this provision, and would fain make us believe that he whom he calls Lord is an austere man and a hard master, wanting to reap where he has not sowed, and to gather where he has not strewed. For although he enjoins a perfection of obedience in his fear, it is impossible with all the aid which he hath given to us to comply with this condition of receiving his blessing.

Christian reader, it would be wearisome to follow this pretended champion of the bible, through all his inconsistency and opposition to its sacred truths, enough has been done, it is presumed, to shew his unworthiness for the task which he has assumed. Enough most certainly to shew, that a beam is in his eye, and that it will be difficult for him, even as far as he has now gone, to escape the character pronounced by unerring wisdom upon such as neglect to inspect into their own proper standing, and to do their own necessary business and who from detracting motives meddle with the concerns of others, under whatever feigned pretence.

I sincerely wish him unfeigned repentance, and an acknowledgment to the truth as it is in Jesus; and that the Lord may have mercy upon him.

INDEX.

PART I.

CHAP.

1. Miscellaneous Remarks on the First and Second

chapters of the Vindication

II. Remarks on Water Baptism

III. Remarks on the "Lord's Supper" and "Holy
Sabbath"

IV. Remarks on the subjects of Human Depravity, the
Incarnation of Christ, and his Atonement
Remarks on Rand's "General View"

V.

1. Rand's Admissions to the point at issue; Gener I

Remarks on his First Chapter

II. Whether the Scriptures are the "Word of God" 100
III. Remarks on Raud's Third Chapter, which he calls

"Reasoning for the Inferiority of the Scrip-

tures, and in favour of New Revelations ex-

amined"

IV. Considerations on the contents of Rand's Fourth
Chapter, of "What is sufficient evidence that
a man is inspired to satisfy himself; to con-
vince others; and to accredit his message
with succeeding generations? All necessary
evidence for the Inspiration of the sacred
writers."

Remarks on Rand's Fifth Chapter

117

164

V.

176

VI. Rand's Sixth Chapter, entitled "Additional Rea-
sons why we should not look for Inspiration,"
examined

179

186

VIII.

VII. Remarks on Rand's Seventh Chapter, called
"Some Pretended Revelations examined"
Rand's Eighth Chapter, entitled "The state of
the heathen evinces that Inspiration does not
with them supply the want of the Scriptures,"
examined

IX. Conclusion

199

214

The following extract from the late Governor Liv ingston's Observations, published in the American Museum of 1790, vol. 8, p. 255, was intended to have been inserted as a counter balance to Cotton Mather and Asa Ronds' aspersions of the character of George Fox, but was mislaid when this book was printed. It being since recovered, is here inserted for the same purpose. "For, as to my own part, I doubt not that the Gospel may be preached, and successfully preached, without this immense apparatus of human erudition; an apparatus that hath but too often proved the unhappy means of inflating with literary pride, and terminated in that wisdom" by which the world knew not God;" while it arrogantly despised, as "the foolishness of preaching," that by which it pleased God to save them that believe. Indeed I know it may, because I know it has been, and still is. The apostles had not this kind of preparation. Except St. Paul, they were all illiterate fishermen or mechanics; and George Fox alone has, without human learning, done more towards the restoration of real, primitive, unadulterated Christianity, and the extirpation of priestcraft, superstition and ridiculous unavailing rites and ceremonies, than any other reformer in Protestant Christendom, has with it. But the apostles and primitive evangelists were, you say, in preaching the Gospel, illuminated and directed by the Holy Spirit; and therefore wanted not the assistance of systematic codes, and folio volumes of cabalistical criticisms. They were so; and who dare, in modern times, or at any time, preach that same Gospel without the like illumination and direction: if, without it, he pretends to preach any Gospel, I am sure it would be a Gospel of his own making, or that of his scholastic preceptors."