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refer to the Scriptures, and give chapter and verse, in evidence of this meeting of, and bargain between their sacred Three? No. They have human authorities for their support. Reader, I will refer you to the Scriptures, to learn what God's covenant with His Son is, the covenant of the Sacred Duality; not the covenant of the sacred Three, viz: 1st. The Pope-2d. Calvin-3d. Arminius. These are the sacred Three!!! Here's the Trinity of worthies! I will also refer you to the Scriptures, to learn what kind of grace, God's grace is, in contradistinction to the grace of the sacred Three, viz: The pope of Rome, the Geneva reformer, and the father of Pharisaism in modern times, the popular Arminius. Examine the Psalm containing my text; also, Isa. xlii. 1-7; xlv. 22-25; xlix. 6–9; 1 Tim. ii. 1-7; Rom. iii. 19—24; xi. 7-36; Ephes. i. 9-14; 2 Cor. v. 19; Acts iii. 21; Colos. i. 16.

Men are indignant, their blood boils in anger, every nerve thrills in sympathetic wrath, every muscle swells in fury, while the whole man is roused to exasperation, when rights, privileges, and property are invaded, and the consequences are all limited to the brief period of an ephemeral existence in this transitory world. O consis tency! thou art indeed a pearl of great price. How unconcerned will men look on, when their never-ending existence beyond the grave, and their rights appertaining to another and a better world are invaded! Perchance they will lend their aid, and succour the ruthless hand, that is extended to rob them of a future Heaven! Yea, more than this, will they do in their madness:-They will put their hands into their pockets, and pay, and honour, and respect the man, who will basely filch from them the rich inheritance contained in the Will of their Heavenly Father, and consign them to a future and a cruel Hell! "The ox knoweth his owner,' "" says the book-What do men know? I'll tell you, reader, they know how to deceive themselves; and also, how to deceive their neighbours.*

Let it stand recorded, and it is now a matter of history, that the Presbyterian host in the United States of America, is broken. Two General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Churches have been in session at one and the same time; each claiming to be the only true, legitimate, and lawful Assembly; and, after a hot dispute about the ownership of their real estate and other property, have been at war, and in the month of March, in the year 1839, a Court of the State of Pennsylvania, before

Verse 9th, in connexion of our text, is peculiarly expressive in its imagery: It follows immediately after the

whom their suit at law was brought, decided in favour of the New-school Presbyterians against the Old-school Presbyterians. Also, that the distinction that marks the contending belligerents, consists in this--The Old-school Presbyterians, contend for the damnation of all the non-elect, and the salvation of all the elect; and will admit of no salvation, nor damnation, contrary to their creed and dogmas; therefore, they are opposed to using any extraordinary means, in the shape of protracted meetings, and schemes for getting up revivals to save non-elect sinners. On the other hand, the New-school, who have been inoculated with the virus of Arminianism, are determined to save immortal-non-elect-souls; and, therefore, to get up revivals, protracted meetings, and drive a wholesale business in their merchandize of souls.

Reader, the simple truth can be told in few words; the leaven of unrighteousness has been at work, until the whole lump has become leav ened. What is the matter? Why, a regular battle in a court of law : Between whom? Ans. Presbyterians. What is the subject of dispute? Ans. Human dogmas. Therefore, the belligerents, and their matter of dispute, have no more relation to the Lord Jesus Christ, and His Gospel, than political disputants and their politics, have a relation to Christ and His Gospel.

Orthodoxy has been exposed, however unwittingly, by its partisans. In the Discussion between Mr. Hughes of the Catholic, and Mr. John Breckinridge of the Presbyterian church, the parties militant agreed that the correct definition of Religious Doctrines, is "Those tenets of faith and morals which a denomination teaches as having been revealed by Almighty God." But the champion of Presbyterianism, alias orthodoxy, (in p. 306 of the Discussion,) in proof of the high esteem in which Calvin and his dogmas have been held by the orthodox, says,

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Hooker, the immortal defender of Episcopacy, says, of Calvin, in his Preface to his Ecclesiastical Polity,' on the origin of popular church government, 'that he [Calvin] was incomparably the wisest man that ever the French Church did enjoy'-that in Exposition of the Scriptures, the perfectest divines in the Reformed Churches were judged to be they who were skilfulest in Calvin's writings; his books being almost the very canon to judge both doctrine and discipline by."

Here we have a precious orthodox confession. Not the Scriptures, but Calvin's writings were the test of religious doctrine! A very candid confession, and as true now as in days of yore, as the manner of teaching students of divinity in our Presbyterian Theological Seminaries abundantly proves and establishes; for Calvin's writings in our modern times, have been "almost the very canon to judge both doctrine and discipline by," in every Presbyterian school of divinity!

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Mr. B. however, says, "We condemned him for his conduct to SERVEThen he adds, "It has been much exaggerated." But, I say, that, such was Calvin's treachery, and cold-blooded cruelty, and deliberate malice, and studied revenge on that occasion, no language, however strong and forcible, no description, however vivid, no hyperbole however extravagant, combined, can exceed the vileness of that transaction; nor paint in colors too frightful, the hellish malice of the Geneva reformer. Treachery, murder, and falsehood; and all three deliberate, and afterward boasted of, by the wretch himself! He gloried in his shame!

declaration of God's Decree, that the heathen and the uttermost parts of the earth shall be given to His Son, as his inheritance and possession, viz: "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." That is, emphatically, the heathen, and the uttermost parts of the earth, the Son's inheritance and possession. The whole, not a part; not some of them, provided they shall not do, or believe certain things; but, imperatively-"Thou shalt BREAK THEM with a rod of iron; thou shalt [imperatively,] DASH THEM in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Consider this imagery: Imagine an arm of more than Herculean strength, brandishing a bar or rod of iron; and the frail ware of the potter, the object, on which descends the ponderous missile; breaking the brittle vessel, and dashing it to pieces. Can the ware of the potter resist the rod of iron, when it strikes, smashing, in the fury of its descending violence, all that opposes it? Here is the expressive imagery that indicates both, the power of the Mediator, God's Son Jesus, and the imbecility of the opposition of sinners to the full accomplishment of all God's purposes; also, the triumphant issue of His Decree, in the Heathen and the uttermost parts of the earth, the inheritance and possession of Jesus, God's Elect, being possessed by him; and the utter destruction of the earthly image, figuratively understood, as designated by the vessel of the potter.

There is important collateral testimony, confirming and illustrating the truth I have considered. The prophet Jeremiah, by command of the LORD, went to the potter's house, and beheld, and lo, a vessel was marred on the wheel. But the potter, instead of casting away the mar red vessel, as modern bigots have done, reconstructed it. Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet, saying, "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel." (Jer. xviii. 1-6.) Reader, I appeal to you: Have you ever been to the potter's house? If not, go; for the same process is in operation now, of moulding earthen vessels with the hand, on a wheel, that existed in the days of Jeremiah the prophet. Therefore go, and behold the cooperation of the clay, on the wheel, aiding the potter; proving, and illustrating the truth, consistency, and beauties of modern Arminianism!!!

The Psalmist, (lxxiii. 20,) in his "dark saying," predicts the resurrection, and glory of the risen Lord, saying, "As a dream when one awaketh; O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image." The earthen vesselthe earthly image-therefore, despising it, Jesus the Mediator and King in Zion, will raise all his inheritance and possession given him by the DECREE of JEHOVAH, in the heavenly image; and the despised earthen vessel or image, he will dash to pieces. The testimony of Paul, also, is full to the point, (1 Cor. xv. 49, 50,) that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." Now God's Son is to inherit all nations; all people; all the kindreds of the earth; all men for whom he tasted death; the ungodly, for whom he died; the őlov tov kóσpov, (olou tou kosmou,) the whole world, the genus humanum, for whom he is the propitiation; in the sense of being the Physician, whose medicine cures the patient of all his diseases; therefore, the earthly image, the potter's vessel, the imperfect thing, must be destroyed. Having considered the imagery, the second thing mentioned as particularly requiring our candid and serious attention, reader, is,

The prophetic truth, contained in the connexion of our text. When Peter addressed the men of Israel in the Temple at Jerusalem, after the ascension of our Lord to heaven, he affirmed of God's Son Jesus, "And he shall send Jesus Christ, who before was preached unto you; whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which [the times of restitution of all things,] God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." (Acts iii. 20, 21.) In the original, ap' aionos, from the age, or since the age; in the sense of the Jewish or Mosaical age, or dispensation; during the continuance of which, (from about 1920 years, beginning with Abraham, etc.,) down to about 430 years before the appearance of Christ; at which period the Old Testament prophets end; the predictions that Peter affirmed were made. "The times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS," therefore, constituted the prophetic truth, emphatically, of the predictions of God's holy prophets. I ask, and who will answer! Do the terms used in, and which constitute the phrase, "The times of restitution of ALL things," signify the restitution of the few elect, and the endless damnation and misery of the many nonelect, among the children of men? Is endless misery in a future Hell, the subject of the predictions of God's

holy prophets, as affirmed by Peter? or, is it by the makers of human creeds, prophecies, decrees, and faith? Can language be more explicit in its signification, than that used in the connexion of our text? Does the phrase "Heathen, and the uttermost parts of the earth," which designates "the inheritance and possession" of the Son of God, by the Decree of the FATHER, signify a few elect? Are we to construe prophetic truth, in a way and manner to harmonize with the decrees, dogmas, creeds, and confessions of faith, of sectarians and bigots? Shall we impiously contradict the record of Inspiration, and give the lie to God's holy prophets, and the disciples and apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ? This would be a decision, I admit, in the fullest sense of the term; but it would also be a vile prostitution of terms and phrases, and amount to a virtual rejection of the Scriptures of Truth.

Third-Our last proposition named for our consideration, is, The doctrinal import of the connexion of our text; or the second Psalm. As a matter of course, such is the relation of things, that the doctrinal import of the Scriptures of truth, must harmonize with the imagery used for illustration; and the truth taught, by the imagery, and affirmed in the language used. Therefore, by the phrase "doctrinal import," I wish to be understood to signify the principles of the prophets; and, more espe cially, the principles contained in their predictions. Here is the subject, and the patient. Let us inquire,

First-What is the subject? The answer must be, that the subject is, emphatically, the Decree of JEHOVAH, and the affirmation of that Decree, in its full import, by the Spirit of Truth; who is represented as affirming, in the person of the Son of God, of that Decree, and of himself, as a party immediately concerned, and the actual recipient of the Decree; his Father, the Author of the Decree, promulgating the Decree to the Son; and the Son, the recipient of the Decree, declaring it, and making it known.

Second-What is the patient of the Decree? The Sovereign JEHOVAH, the Great Father, and His Son, are the parties-the heathen, and all those designated as the uttermost parts of the earth, and prefigured in the imagery, as the potter's vessel, viz: the earthly image, constitute the patient of the Decree. They stand in the same relation to the Decree, that a lot of land, conveyed in and by a Warranty deed, or an estate, conveyed by a Will, stand

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