of which I am generically the original. Ought we not all to be humble?

And what man, seeing this,

And having human feelings, does not blush,

And hang his head to think himself a man !-CowPER.

Sunt lacrymae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.-VIRG.

No fictions these, but stern realities!

We weep at things-who would not that is wise?
Cur kind is sufering; and we sympathize.

Homo sum! humani nil á me alienum puto.-TER.

I am a man! a common tie
Unites me to humanity.

We may well question whether men ever saw the exact parallel of Quaker presumption and folly, error and pretension, all confounded in one religious system,

"Since Abel worshipped or the world began !"

Fox, who pioneered the way, was a spiritual nonesuch. He boasts the highest kind of inspiration-God and he talking together with infinite familiarity on every subject. One would think that all heaven was bent upon making his acquaintance, and crowding into his company. I would not here insinuate that he was not a curiosity in sober fact, even to angels. What wonderful." openings" he had! and these not in theology alone; but also in law, metaphysics, languages, arts, and sciences; and especially in botany, chemistry, materia-medica, and astronomy; so that he once seriously

thought of becoming a practitioner of physic! What a prize would such a Galen prove in these days of cholera! Is it any wonder now that his skill, (which was not original at all in Barclay, Penn, and Sarah Grubb, for they learned the most of what they knew about the light within-they learned it all from George,) is it, I say, to be wondered at that he should have skill, quite as extraordinary at least, in biblical antiquities, sacred hermeneutics, and theological criticism? or that the demonstration of these (inspired furniture though they be) should be constituted in part-and no very inconsiderable part either-by the result, ascertained to his own satisfaction and that of divers others equally or homogeneously wise, that the scriptures of the New Testament contain no such divine institution as the sacrament or religious observance of the Lord's supper? Soberly-if nothing else existed in my knowledge as a criterion by which to stamp fallacy and stupidity on their claim. of inspiration, I should not hesitate, as a man and a christian and a minister of christianity, to denounce the pretension of Fox and all his retinue, as equally preposterous in reason, monstrous in history, and deleterious in practice! Among other ill effects of the abominable whim of the society is this-to degrade all inspiration in their thoughts. I never saw a Quaker who could be held with a text of scripture, against the current of his prejudices. Tell them of what is declared in "the oracles of God" against a female ministry, and they will sometimes say-"O that was only the opinion of

Paul!" Was it? How convenient for garrulous dames and spinsters of the society, that George could furnish them with a counter inspiration! And what if Paul was inspired to deliver to the church of God the glorious and most affecting eucharist, the Lord's supper? The answer is at hand. Since the new dispensation of the weaver's son, George the cordwainer, of Drayton in the Clay, Leicestershire, the spirituality of matters hath been so astonishingly improved, so " clearly seen and testified to," that now no more are such "outward things of the letter" availing or obligatory. This George plainly testifieth. "And behold," saith William Penn, "behold the blessed man and men that were sent of God in this excellent work and service!" Truly ordinary reformers and iconoclasts were cyphers to them. Luther was not inspired; Melancthon was his pupil and the neophyte of his instructions; and as for Calvin and Cranmer, down to Baxter, Howe, and Jeremy Taylor, they confessed their knowledge to be mainly derived from the devout application of their powerful minds and ponderous scholarship to the pages of a book, which, after all, they knew no better than to denominate, with religious and complacential awe, THE WORD OF GOD! Hence all the celebrated chieftains of the church, and lights of former ages, FROM WHOM THE GLORIOUS REFORMATION UNDER GOD RESULTED AND ADVANCED, with all our peerless protestant immunities, retire aghast; their fame collapses and their brightness dies, in contrast with the inspired oracles of Quakerism-oracles that throw

their collective splendor into dim obscurity, before that lucid welkin of day which has shone upon us so ravishingly, since the luminaries of the inward light have favored all christendom with their inspired discoveries! It is a demonstrable fact, however disgraceful to the spirituality of all the worthies above named and thousands of others it may possibly appear, it is nevertheless a fact that all of them, each to the day of his death, remained undelivered from the serious faith of the divine institution of the supper! Is it any wonder then that such lights of science,

Sagacious readers of the works of God,
And in his word sagacious,

as Bacon, Lock, Boyle, Milton, Newton, and their cotemporaries; not to mention the more modern ones of Edwards, Dwight, Scott, Hall, Jay, Chalmers, and others, equally splendid in the world of letters and in the firmament of piety; is it any wonder that they should have been held in the same persuasion? I suspect, however, that if the veil could be lifted that secretes the ineffable glory, there might be witnessed, in the recollections and the praises of the entire celestial host of ransomed men, some manifest resemblance to the eternal celebration, even there, of the same ceremonial! They have all "washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. THEREFORE are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple ;" while " worthy is the Lamb that was slain," is their song.

If any Friend may may chance to read this book as far as this, and cares candidly to examine the scriptural evidence in the case; though I must confess to him that it is rather "outward" after all; I do most kindly intreat him, notwithstanding the sport I have designedly made with that delirious enthusiast whom he so religiously reveres, I entreat him candidly to consult and compare the following scriptures-remarking, that they are only a few of many that might be advanced; and that the whole Bible, taken as one complete system of revealed truth, teems with the subject from beginning to end; as eternity also does! Matt. 26:26-30. Mark, 14: 22-26. Luke, 22: 14-20. Acts, 20: 7. 1 Cor. 5:7,8. 10:15-22. 11:17-34. Gal. 3:1. 3:20. 19:9. 22:12-15.

Rev.

Friends ordinarily say, in regard to the alleged proof of scripture; (1) that we do not understand it; (2) that it is "not in the letter" or "outward act "that the festival is to be celebrated; (3) that it is not the physical blood" [what other kind of blood is there?] of Christ that we are to drink; (4) that it is all spiritual, and in the heart to be seen and done; (5) that possibly the apostles might, in tenderness to the prejudices of the jewish converts, have allowed or even for a time performed it; (6) that in this age, however, it is of no necessity or use; (7) that they enjoy sweet communion with God apart from all such gross and visible forms, and withal such cumbrous and expensive observances; (8) that symbols and outward signs are childish under the gospel, and impede rather than aid pure