Anonymous

“ The reign of King Jesus with his people upon earth, though many eminent commentators, of whom I am far from undervaluing, yet of those, and these who have rested in their views of the Scriptures, I am ready to say, as Christ to his disciples, "O fools, and slow of heart;" to believe all that the prophets have said, and be thereby blinded to that so manifestly now before the eyes of all, that the man of sin and son of perdition is now clearly revealed, who hath opposed and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped. ”

“ For it is truly shameful to see men, so correct in letters and words, guilty of such blunders in the things of God. For as there are none of these higher powers to whom subjection is called for and due but of God, and God's ordinance; so it is the height of folly to set up kings not by God, and princes that he did not know, and say, these are the higher powers of God, to whom every soul is to be subject, in opposition to the God that made them, and his revelation, that is so soon to judge them for a never-ending eternity. ”

“ For why should any man, ruler or ruled, profess to believe in God and his revelation, and at the same time set himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, as if hypocrisy was enough for God; and his revelation fit only for the support of Popes and Kings, to the opposition of his dear Son, and his blessed reign upon earth. But seeing the third woe of God is to come suddenly on this third part of the beast, and the Kings are now actually gathered into a holy league, that Christ and liberty may not reign; the cry is to every sleeping Christian, in this midnight darkness, Lo! ”

“ Allow me, Sir, to caution you not to think it a light thing to fill up the judgment of God's word upon yourself, and those that hearken to your deception, as is to be seen in Mark xiii. 22, by seeking to deceive the elect of God, teaching them they are only fools who contend about election, and who are for striving to make it sure to themselves. ”

“ Mc. is a better politician than to waste his shot where this is no hope of success; and you are the more criminal in the sight of God, and every understanding Christian, to lead, by your example and exhortation, poor silly things into their private traps, who cannot resist being the children of error, and such twofold children of hell as heaven will never admit. ”

“ But are we, from that consideration, like Tabernaelites, and New Lights, to make of non-effect the express revelation of God's word, allowing every man a right to neglect and pervert the express precepts of God's word, as his blind misguided conscience shall direct. ”

“ The earth and its fulness is much more than enough for all its inhabitants, would corruption, and combination of graceless men, suffer it to do what God has given it to do: therefore, I maintain, there is no need for a Malthus plan, to destroy the poor from the earth, if we would destroy corruption, the cause of poverty. ”

“ It is a very erroneous and general idea of God's word, in the mouth of mostly all professors I have talked with, that because God hath sealed up his word that none shall add to it or diminish from it, he hath also sealed up that spirit from men by which the Scriptures were written, and no extraordinary gifts of God's spirit is now either to be expected or believed. So that hereby the tradition of the Doctors of this day is as effectually opposed to the spirit of God, as was that of the Rabbies to the person of Christ — that no good thing should come out of Nazareth. ”

“ Hence the imprisonment of such as dare to obey God's word rather than theirs; and hence is it that meetings have been lately called by our Doctors, to defeat the very word of God, and to force every conscience from its obedience to theirs—said to be for the poor. ”

“ Yet, such the wages of sin in these places and times, the people feel nothing but the taking of their money from them: they feel for that, but for the perverting of God's word and the constitution of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, they feel nothing more than stalled oxen, which like them will cry for meat. ”

“ Now it is not more clearly revealed in the Old Testament, that the Messiah would come in person, the King of Israel, to deliver his people, than it is in the New Testament, that he shall come in power, to reign with his people on earth a thousand years. ”

“ Before this, no man in Scotland, when Presbyterian principles reigned, was ever called to give to the poor what he could not spare from himself and depending connections, nor to rob shops and houses of merchandize, by giving for the poor what should have paid the merchant; nor were any forced unwillingly to that part of God's worship, for the fear of confiscation of goods or imprisonment. ”

“ The blessed and holy of Christ's first resurrection cannot be known, by reason of Doctors and their traditions: nothing that is not current with them can pass in these times: adherence to God's word, and knowledge of it, makes the poor and naked so much more hateful in the sight of the professors of this time, and has no more effect with our Doctors than it had with the Jewish Rabbies. ”

“ For that mystery of iniquity began its work in the Apostles' days, and was to be let grow until the pagan beast who opposed Christ in the reign of his prophetic office on earth, should by the force of Christianity be wounded in his seventh head, or government, making the pagan government declare itself Christian. So that the persecuting beast that was, is not, until healed into an Anti-Christian beast, to begin the opposition of Christ's reign on earth, by the persecuting all for offering unto God such sacrifices as his word requires ”

“ For if the eye be single in this respect, the body shall be full of light, by that spirit of God enabling them to see many things they never could perceive by human learning, and to prove many things even of God's word, that are not to be believed according to the general acceptation of commentators on God's word. ”

“ For while they craftily hide their principles in their preaching, they are busily employed, as a Mr. Walker observes, with their class or drill meetings, to get the simple entangled in their cursed errors. For this I do affirm, their errors are so shameless, that no man, acquainting himself with them and the Bible, will be deceived by them. ”

“ I answer for myself, and God is my witness of the truth I here relate, it is out of no disrespect to that divine injunction, not to forget the assembling of myself with others in the worship and obedience of God, as in his word ”

“ Whatever conceit these people have of themselves, in stating their objections to creeds or confessions, it is evident from their weakness of faith, in making every thing doubtful in God's word, and depend on men's conscience, they make themselves unfit to be received into any Christian society where the above Scripture is observed: 1 Cor. ”

“ I am not a despiser of God's public worship, but one much grieved at public assemblies; so far from worshipping God in spirit and truth, according to his word, they are open contemners of those who would ”

“ They are not like our worthy predecessors, who rather suffered unto the death than that they and their children should be denied the liberty of obeying God's word or law, or be the implicit slaves and creatures of erastian prelates, in opposition thereto. ”

“ For confirmation of this, sec Wesley's Christian Perfection, page 223: 'Mistakes and infirmities that flow from the corruptible body, are not contrary to this law of love, and therefore are no sin. The truth is, in a state of perfection every desire is in subjection to the obedience of Christ. The will is entirely subject to the will of God, and the affections wholly fixed on him.'—Page 239. I judge it is as impossible this man should be deceived herein, as that God should lie!
"Were you to condescend to answer my Letter, you would, no doubt, say, you hear no such doctrine from Mr. ”