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5. This, I fay, then, walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the luft of the flesh. Now the works of the flesh are manifeft, which are thefe, adultery, fornication, uncleannefs, lafcivioufnefs; idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ftrife, feditions, herefies. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and fuch like, of the which I tell you before, as I have alfo told you in time past, that they which do fuch things, fhall not inherit the kingdom of God; but the fruit of the fpirit is love, joy, peace, long-fuffering, gentleness, goodnefs, faith, temperance: Againft fuch there is no law. Chap. v. 16. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Here the young people ended. This was all they knew of the Epiftle to the Galatians (a). And when they had done, the minifter of this little church concluded with this fentence, May the grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore.

We were delighted very much with this fervice, and with great pleasure attended their

(4) Their knowledge of the other Epiftles and the four Gofpels is of the fame kind. They have only fome verfes of each; but they are connected verfes, and form a difcourfe. They have the fermon on the Mount intire; the parable of the fower; the miracle of the loaves; the raifing of Lazarus; the transfiguration; and the crucifixion and afcention of Jefus. worship,

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worship, morning and afternoon, for two Sundays we were confined by the weather on the island. There was a chriftening on one of these days; and the manner was this: Their minifter took the child by an arm and the two legs, and dipped it in a deep vessel of water, faying at the fame time, I baptize you John Eagle into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There was no fign of the cross made. There were no sponsors. 1. Such is the little church of Scalpa; beautifub in fimplicity; heavenly in a want of many externals and in being free from many formal acts of piety. Without a landed fpiritualty, and a fulness of ceremonials; uncorrupted by learning, and undisturbed by fathers, councils, and convocations, they enjoy evangelical religion. They pray and live in the genius and fpirit of the gospel.

Athanafius, and his clamorous champions; they never heared of. The unchristian notions of Waterland, Trapp, and Berryman; the invented faith of our orthodox defenders, they have not an idea of. Their church has never fuffered by a Sherlock and Potter on the trinity (a); or by the fermons of an Edwards, Seed,

(a) Dean Sherlock, of whom South fays in his Trithe ifm charged, that he would find it a much harder work to look death in the face, than to write upon it.--- Dr. Patter, archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1747, was fucceeded by Dr. Herring, the prefent archbishop. It is amazing to fee how bithop Potter, in his zeal for three

Seed, or an Allen (a). The antichriftian book called Ophiomaches, and the other deftructive writings of the fame unhappy author, these poor christians are strangers to; and, as fortunately for them, quite unacquainted with the christian plan, and other works of the reverend

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diftin&t infinite underftandings, at the helm of the univerfe, abufes bifhop Hoadly and Dr. Sykes. Potter's works are three volumes 8vo. edit. 1754- And to do the prelate juftice, I muft obferve to you, that there are fome very fine things in his fermons, which may be feparated, to your pleasure and profit, from what is weak and paffionat. You will find this bishop well painted in Whilton's Memoirs of his own Life..

(a) In refpect of one of thofe tritheiftic divines, the reverend Mr. Jeremiah Seed, who is lately dead, and who preached Dr. Waterland's funeral fermon (in which fermon he tells a most notorious untruth, in saying that Waterland fript the ftrong man, as he calls Clarke, of his armour) I must, in juftice, let you know, that notwithflanding this gentleman's being a contender for the heresy of three Gods, yet he was a benevolent man, an upright chriftian, and a beautiful writer. Exclufive of his zeal for tritheism, which made him in this article as mad as the hero of La Mancha, he was in every thing elfe an excellent clergyman, and an admirable fcholar. I knew him well, and on account of his amiable qualities, very highly honour his memo❤ ry; tho no two ever differed more in religious fentis ments. Mr. Seed was for the doctrines of his church, as they were handed down from fathers to fathers, and as they are illuminated by modern commentators. He would ferioufly and earnestly tell me, that our future happynefs depended on believing the orthodox tenets of the church. I, on the contrary, ufed to laugh at them, and declare for the fcripture doctrine and rule of worfhipping God, as it lay in my Bible, in direct oppofition

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According to the fimply and withupon God their Father,

to the minds of his fathers, and the reasonings of his pretended orthodox theologers. I was for that doctrine and rule which requires us to worship God our heavenly Father, in the name of Jefus Chrift his Son, our Lord and Saviour, through the communion of the Holy Spirit: And to make a realizing, prefentiating faith of the unfeen things promifed by God to the faithful a prevailing principle, to difcriminat and govern my temper and life.In this refpect we never could agree. But he was too good a man to be unfriendly to me, because I would have no mafier but Chrift, and no Father but him who is in heaven.

(a) Dr. Hodges is a very extraordinary man. He comes on with an etymological evidence, and by forcing of Hebrew words, and derivations of words in a language dead fome thousand years ago, and of which there is but one book in the world, attempts to oppose the mind of the Lord Jefus, and fubvert that pure gospel theism, which the Chrift of God promulgated, and his bleffed apoftles preached to mankind. To this purpose D. D. with a front peculiar to the Hutchinfonians, gives a fense the most shocking to revelation, and by a falfe Hebrew learning, endeavours to establish three covenanting fupreme minds, three almighty contracting powers. This fenfelefs and abominable doctrine, which a true learning finds contrary to the mind of Mofes, and repugnant to the bleffed gospel of our divine mafter, D. D. has the forehead to call the chriftian plan, and to tell the prelates of our church, that if this adorable mystery (as he calls his three contracting powers) be not received as the religion of Jesus; if those prelates will not wage perpetual war with the Amalekites, who hold the contrary opinion, that is, with those chriftian Unitarians, who will not blafpheme the divine Unity, but maintain there is only ONE fupreme fovereign agent or being om

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Father, and live truly devoted towards him; just and peaceable and charitable towards men; meek and, humble and patient, kind and

nipotent in wifdom and action, who is to be worshipped in fpirit and truth, through one Mediator, Chrift Jefus, our advocate with the everlafting Father; and if the faid prelates will not militate, without fearing the im putation of wanting that quiet and peaceable spirit, which ought to be the ornament of a chriftian (well faid Hodges) if they will not even fleep under arms for the defence of the faid adorable mystery, three almighty contracting minds, equal in power, and all poffible perfections, and be as the church ought to be a church militant upon earth (Hodges's Preface); then is the candlestick removed from them. Amazing infolence! If his grace of Canterbury, that fair and amiable character, as the reverend Mr. Balguy, before his admirable fermons, truly and beautifully paints the prefent primate of all England, does not give up the fimple doctrine of the ! New Teftament, change his heavenly temper, and become a hacker and hewer of chriftians, who believe in God the Father almighty, and in Jefus Chrift bis only Son our Lord; if his grace is not an Hutchinfonian, and will not fight for three covenanting fupreme powers, then is his grace an Amalekite, in the opinion of Dr. Hodges, and he must expect to receive the Hutchinfonian's fire. For, as D. D. adds, chriftianity is a ftate of war, and the Hutchinfonians act against the infernal hoft (preface to the Chriftian Plan, p. 19) that is, those who will not confefs three CONTRACTING fupreme powers ; three COVENANTING infinite minds or fpirits; (which is falfe, antichriftian, politheiffic, and idolatrous); and acknowledge only one infinite fpirit, one fupreme God; the Father the only true God; who, in the fulness of time, when his adorable wisdom thought fit, fent the brightness of his glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon, our adorable Redeemer Chrift Jefus our Saviour, to purchafe us to God by his blood.