feffed not the talents of difcriminating with accuracy, or meeting objections in different forms," (P. 118,) and we fhould, indeed, be furprized if any perfon became a found divine, a good biblical and evangelical fcholar, who only reads his Bible on his knees. We with our ftudents in divinity to be converfant with the original Hebrew, and to confult the best commentators, the fynopfis of Poole, and the observations of Lowth, Blaney, and Newcome, on the prophets; to read the Greek Teftament with the beft annotations, and confult the Fathers, and the works of Bull, as its beft interpreters; we wish the Clergymen of the Church of England to know "and love the Lord their God, with all the heart, with all the foul, with all the mind, (or understanding,) and with all the ftrength, and to love their neighbours as theinfelves ;" (Mark, xii. 30.) to love him with all their faculties, and not to learn the way of falvation from experiences, inward calls, fovereign grace, (P. 137,) female devotees, or a "Mrs. Talbot, the PARENT of the CHURCH." (P. 43.)

Thefe Gofpel-minifters, as their followers are instructed to call them, upbraid the Clergy of our Church with not preaching the whole counfel of God. We boldly reply to fuch charge, that the found and orthodox divines, of whom there are thousands in England, firmly believe, and frequently preach, as pure and true doctrines, thofe contained in the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th articles of our faith, on which thefe feparatifts continually dwell, and almost exclufively; and though Mr. Cadogan and Mr. Cecil reprobate Antinomian doctrines, yet it is allowed by them, that an "Antinomian teacher could urge no evangelical doctrine nor privilege, that the paftor of Reading (Mr. Cadogan) did not as firmly maintain." (Memoirs, P. 88.) "If these confcientious Ministers of the church," (P. 37,) who preach the "renunciation of righteoufnefs,"" evangelical religion," and the "fufficiency of Chriftian grace," to the elect, the called, the faints, will deliberately weigh the probable confequences refulting from fuch doctrines propagated amongst the poor and illiterate, they cannot but admit that there is confiderable danger, left, while divine grace is continually exalted, and the merits of Chrift perpetually dwelt upon, that fome auditors may pervert fuch doctrines, as convenient to their finful courfe of life, as indulgent to their immorality and profligacy, (defpifing the decora and honefta, which Mr. Cadogan reprobates, P. 229;) and, who having only a vain confidence and faith in Chrift, may hereafter forrowfully cry, "LORD, LORD JESUS, JESUS," who will reply to them, "I know not whence ye are.” Κύριε, κύριε, ανοιξον ημίν, και αποκριθείς ερεί αυτοίς, εκ οίδα υμιν ποθεν εςε. (Luke xiii. 25.)

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But found members of the church preach doctrines that 'cannot be fo misunderstood, doctrines that will receive the approbation of every unprejudiced judge; they highly venerate the merits of Chrift, and commemorate them with due honour and reverence; they afcribe our salvation folely to his merits, as well deliverance from eternal punishment for our fins, as acceptance with the Almighty. But they preach alfo the neceffity of good works, as grateful to God, and acceptable to Chrift, that we should be created in Jefus Chrift to good works;" (Ephef. ii. 10.) "zealous of good works ;" (Tit. ii. 14.) for God will render to every one according to his

works." Rom. ii. 6.

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The univerfal depravity of the fons of Adam, their impoffibility of attaining juftification by their own works, and their acceptance through the fole fatisfaction and mediation of the perfect Jefus, are the principles of every true member of the Church of England; yet only the principles of Christianity. But there are other principles which thefe fectaries teach not, omit, or misreprefent; one of which is "the doctrines of baptifm." (Hebrews vi. 2.) The church of England catechifm ftates, "I heartily thank my heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of falvation," by BAPTISM; the neceffary confequence deducible from this is, that our church fuppofes all thofe who are baptized to be in a ftate of falvation. But what do these feceders inculcate? That no one knows Chrift, is a true Chriftian, until he can fpecify the precife time and hour of his converfion, until he can fpeak of his experience; though their leader, and Bishop, Romaine, almost at the close of his life," faw much before him to be learnt and experienced." (P. 168.) Thus Mrs. Littlehales, who had been regularly educated and baptized, in conformity to the canons of the church, is reprefented by Mr. Cadogan, at the age of fifty-nine, as having " only been a follower of the Lord thirty years;" ergo, we are not followers of the Lord by baptifm. Indeed, these fchifmatics, either deficient in the power of difcrimination, or perverfely blind, represent the inhabitants of England as heathens in the age of the Apostles; and thofe, whom they affect to have converted, are faid to have "turned from idols and vanities." P. 42.

But these readers of the BIBLE, (here obferve another means of delufion and evafion practifed by these gospelpreachers, who always confound the Old and New Testament, jumble them together, and give them one denomination; gofpel-preachers, yet generally taking the topic on which they Speak from the Old Teftament; the "dry-bones" for the refurrection; the "wild affes colt" for man, in an unregenerate

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regenerate ftate, as furnishing great opportunities for alleg rizing,) do not know "whether there be different degrees of glory in a future ftate." P. 142.

"What pity, what difgrace to us, that the Bible is not our model for praying and preaching too! But what comfort to every member of the church of England, that he cannot, confiftently with his profeffion, receive any thing as truth, but what is read in holy fcripture, or to be proved thereby! See Article 6th of the Church of England. P. 8, note.

What then fays the New Testament? One "fhall receive a prophet's reward;" another, "a righteous man's reward;" and a third, though "inferior to both, fhall in no wife lofe his reward." One fhall be "made ruler over ten cities"another over five," and " another over two;" and as "one ftar differeth from another ftar in glory, fo alfo is the refurrection of the dead." Thefe are gospel and divine doctrines, but they militate against indiscriminate election, and therefore are not preached by the advocates of falvation to all believing followers.

Mr. Cecil states, that Mr. Cadogan was "what many would call a high-churchman," (p. 98.) we fuppofe in oppofition to fome Minifters, (ordained by Bishops, who preach both in conventicles and churches with impunity,) and "yet he was a decided Calvinist, but the reverse of a bitter and contentious one;" (P. 98.) yet this high-churchman of the church of England was totally indifferent whether his wife attended the confecrated houfe of God, or a fectarian chapel; for he writes to her "I hope you heard Chrift Jefus the Lord preached, whether you went to a church or a diffenting meeting." (P. 348.) Nay, it is very probable that fhe was advised to attend the worship of a fchifm-house, "if one of the five hundred registered in Mr. Romaine's lift" did not officiate in the parish where the vifited.

We trust that these pretenders to fuperior illumination, the infpiration of the prophets and evangelifts, will not, for the future, fcandalize the found Clergy and Parfons of the church of England, as men" afhamed of the gospel of Chrift," (P. 431,) because they only profefs to have received the filent aid of the Holy Ghoft, (whofe office it is to fanctify, not the office of Jefus, as thefe deceivers teach,)" given to every man to profit withal;" we hope they will learn to difcriminate better hereafter, than to call "the love of Chrift the love of Jehovah," (P. 39,) when they commit, their fermons to the prefs; for they can talk nonfenfe to their hearers without detection. But we cannot conclude our comments on this publication,

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by an honourable gentleman, without noticing a proof of want of charity, which it is impoffible to account for, except by a fuppofition that he wifhed to ingratiate himself with the lower orders at the expence of the fuperior ranks.

"The gofpel, which proclaims this grace, brings down and levels with the duft all forts and conditions of men: it teaches the WISE, the MIGHTY, the NOBLE, (IF ANY SUCH ARE CALLED,) to share its bleffings in common with the poor; whofe privilege it is to be evangelized, and chofen rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which God hath promised to them that love him." P. 136.

We ask this "judger of another," whether David or Solomon were called? Whether Jofeph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, or Cornelius, were called? Surely, fuch false infinuations manifeft not the fruits of a Chriftian spirit, but the "leaven of malice :" and, furely, the loyalty of these men, and their attachment to our established government, must be ftrongly questioned, when we find them adopting the following language: "To the poor we look for reformation." P. 89.

"It is to be lamented, that perfons, placed in fuperior stations, and qualified to do the most good by their rank or wealth, are the leaft difpofed to do it by their habits or inclinations. They want all their money and their time for their pleasures; and, living in a conftant round of diffipation, they know nothing of mifery but by the name. So great are their calls for the sports of the country, and the diverfions of the town, that they have nothing left for the relief of the poor." P. 236.

The world can bear witnefs, that this is a mifreprefentation, (for British liberality, generofity, and charity, are themes of praise in every clime,) not fpoken from the candour and truth that is by Jefus Chrift.

Mr. Eyre, a refpectable and orthodox divine, who has fucceeded to the Vicarage of Reading, in the room of Mr. Cadogan, is reprefented, more than once, in thefe Memoirs, as not preaching vital Chriftianity, or the faving doctrines of Chrift. Surely this is a libel !-The language of this volume is frequently incorrect, and replete with canting expreffions-"waiting and praying faith;" (P. 182,) preaching and living the gospel," &c. P. 279.

"I have retained the original word svaly Corras,t which we render' have the gospel preached to them.”

To be evangelized conveys no idea to an illiterate reader; but it is myftical, and, therefore, anfwers their purpofe. REVIEWER.

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