Creator, none but himself could make reconciliation. Mofes. To the law and the prophets the Lord your God is one God. This article is the prime and first principle of the law; therefore, cannot be touched, but must remain one, and in the fingular number, without infringement. Boy. This is the ground and fundamental article of the chriftian religion. These are the words of Chrift, in the 12th chapter of St. Mark. Here, O Ifrael, the Lord thy God is one God. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole foul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the firft commandment; and the fecond is like to it. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf. On thefe two commandments chriftianity is established. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are one God, in Three Perfons. One Father, one Son, one Holy Spirit. Mofes. This is inconclufive and irreconcileable. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. This destroys the fingular and brings in the plural number, which Ifrael never can admit. Boy. One Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits, which comprise one God. Genefis ft chapter, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. Ver, 26. And God faid, let let Us make man. Explain who this Spirit of God is, and the plural Us. Mofes. This is unfathomable, and not within the narrow limits of our faculties to comprehend. Who is he that dares fearch into the depths of the Almighty, or alter his precepts? his revealed will remains unalterable, which actuates his fervants and teaches them divine truths. Luther. Him that dives into Majesty will be oppreffed with Glory; I cannot tell what this boy aims at; young man, you should pay a proper respect to your elders; this is fome fuperftition, or prieftcraft, that he picked up amongst incoherent and wizardly crew. Confider, child, that I am feated on the Throne of Grace, and Mofes, a Doctor in Ifrael. I therefore decide that we be not oppreffed, or put ourselves in jeopardy of difmay, or being hipped, which generally with us, on our fide the water, brings on a fit of despair, and frequently ends, being champions, in the ufe either of a razor, knife, pistol, halter, or fome other fashionable pleasantry, and not feldom by water. It is, therefore, resolved, on my return, to iffue a decree to mulet every incendiary, that may inflame with religion my good people, by which decree the minds of the turbulent will be animated to try the merits of their caufe, and as the fpirit of our countrymen, being inflamed with the fpirit of English liberty, will gainfay my decree, it will be productive of very large fums to increafe and fill my treasury, which will be a great faving: whilft with the thunder I 2 of of our voice we proclaim, a Remnant of all fhall be faved, I find myself transported and befide myself in a ravery or phrenzy, fo that the tears of joy trickle down my cheeks for adminiftering to you both the medicine of reconcilement. Boy. In the 15th chapter of Genefis, Almighty God makes his covenant with Abram, and in the 17th renews it, changes his name Abram into Abraham, being made father of many nations; and feals and confirms the covenant with circumcifion. In the 22d chapter, Almighty God, by His Angel, calls to Abraham out of Heaven, the fecond time, and faid, By myfelf have Ifworn, faith the Lord, for becaufe thou hast done this thing, and haft not withheld thy Son, thy only Son; that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply thy feed as the ftars of heaven, and as the fands on the fea fhore; and thy feed fhall poffefs the gate of His enemy; and in thy feed fhall all the nations of the earth be bleffed. You will note, that this Seed or Offspring is in the fingular number. Since this covenant and promife is near four thousand years. Remove Jefus Chrift and his covenant, which is chriftianity, and in fpirit contemplate the state and completion, or fulfilling of this fcripture. Mofes. Deplorable, miferable and abject ftate; I am abforbed and loft in a labyrinth of intricacies; bewildered, furrounded, oppreffèd with an ocean of difficulties, dark and perplexed ideas, which move diforderly as fœtufes without affifting the understanding chain, down the the foul with fetters of melancholy and black defpair, our fcriptures laid before us, with ftrict and fevere injunctions of implicit and perfect obedience. O my God, what is man, when for our fins you are angry with us? what can I fay, or plead in excufe for the fins of your poor fervant and nation? O my Lord, you have dif perfed your people and withdrawn the light of your countenance from us. O my God, Ifrael has been plunged in fome great iniquity which, through our obftinacy, thou haft destroyed us; yet, O Lord, thou haft left us a name in the earth, though for our punishment: a name of malediction. Luther. Why this disturbance of mind, reverend scribe? you are the happy man, if fuch a man can be found; your character is inimitable; you are known on the Exchange of London by the name of the good Jew; your heart melts, while your purfe relieves the indigent; your fortune is affluent; yet poor to yourself, but rich to others. Forty thousand in our funds, and twenty thousand in Holland, is no trifle, which fums might mightily accumulate, if you will pass them into my hands, which would ease you of a great burthen and much anxiety; for, be affured your present perplexity is owing to the fall of stocks, and which bears an angry afpect; but I being of the church have daily opportunities of putting out money, both in church and ftate, to high advantages. My own fecurity, which I fhall immediately grant you, and the fooner the better, as I have many very high and urgent 13 matters matters at present, and which makes my return to England neceffary, I have been cafting the matter, and have rated the £40,000 in our funds at £20,000, owing to the fall of stock; you will make up twenty on this fide the water. Total £40,000, at 4 per cent. in grofs, yearly, is 800 200 200 For the watchfulnefs, care, lofs of reft, pro- Mofes's annuity, or yearly income, 250 £. 1600 1550-1550 £ 50 Boy. In the 28th chapter of Genefis, Almighty God eonfirms his promise of calling all nations to the covenant of the Meffiah; and Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went towards Haran. And he lighted on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the fun was fet; and he took of the ftones of that place, and put them for his pillow, and lay down to fleep, and he dreamed and beheld a ladder fet upon the earth, and the top reached to |