“ And it may be understood, that no man can offer a higher insult to the feelings and dignity of the people in this place, than to say that he that lives godly, in an ungodly generation, will not be persecuted, saying nothing of the perversion of the word of truth, and the attempt to prove that "he that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way is not a thief and a robber!" ”

“ You, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Were James, Peter, Paul and thousands of the righteous, slain for the testimony of Christ, or were they not? and if so, why did they not pursue a course in life differently, so as to avoid those painful afflictions, miseries and death? But to decide this matter I add the word of the Lord himself, and let Mr. Bradley, and his followers reconcile it with their creed: John 15:18,19,20: also 16:2:
"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ”

“ On this item from Solomon I only remark, that to give it the interpretation the gentleman would have us receive, concerning the wicked and the sinner, we may say that the righteous have no joy after death, with as much propriety as we can that the wicked and sinner have no affliction or misery, because if they are to be recompensed in the earth, or in this life, as Mr. ”

“ Bradley, or any other man who thus perverts the word of life, and insults the good feelings of those who have been dispossessed of their homes and houses by lawless marauders, for their religion's sake! ”