distinctions, and they are thus simply recognised in the scripture. It is against these surprisals of the evil in hin that the believer has to watch and pray. As he walketh in the Spirit, and bringeth forth its fruits, so will the flesh be overcome; where love is, andmeekness, and bountifulness, there will not be hatred, and pride, and covetousness. -This is walking in the light-this it is "not to know any thing by ourselves;" and thus whilst the believer is daily conscious of sin in Him, and can set his seal to the words of the Apostle John, (1 John, i, 8.) he is at the same time able to say, that through the Spirit he mortifies the deeds of the body, and therefore never pleads for transgression, whilst he also remembers that whosoever says that he is like Adam-i.e, clear from sin in him, is said by the Apostle to deceive himself and that the truth is not in him.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

IN concluding this attempt to set before the Society of Friends the real character of those writings which have been commended to their regard, and to shew their contrariety with the simple doctrines of the gospel, as set forth in the holy scriptures, I would again repeat my earnest desire, that those amongst them who have already seen that there is full remission of sins and acceptance with God through faith in the offering of the body of Jesus once for all, may zealously watch over themselves, lest they prove a stumbling block in the way of inquirers rather than faithful witnesses for the truth. Many are the tests proposed to us in the word of God, whereby we are called to examine ourselves and prove ourselves, whether we be in the faith; and none, who by the Holy Spirit have been enabled to say that Jesus is the Lord, and to feel that their sins are forgiven them for His name's sake, can be regardless about maintaining a testimony against the world.

Those who truly believe with the heart, not with the understanding only, receive the spirit of adoption, and consequently the love of the Father. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his;" and "By this we know that we love Him if we keep His commandments." To the new creature in Christ Jesus, His commandments are not grievous, though to the flesh, they ever will be so; for

it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be ; so that until these vile bodies are changed and fashioned like unto His glorious body, there will be a warfare within us: yet the law of the Spirit of life in Him setteth us free from the dominion of the law of sin; so that it remaineth a solemn truth that if we walk after the flesh we shall die; even though professing to call Jesus, Lord. To the workers of iniquity, His sentence is, "I never knew you," and the hope of the hypocrite shall be cut off.

The full declaration of the gospel of Christ must ever be liable to the question of the gainsayer:-" Shall we thus continue in sin that grace may abound?" And woe unto those who, through fear of this reproval, would limit the extent of that grace. Yet it behoves those who publish these glad tidings to the weary and heavy laden, that with godly fear they watch against crying peace where there is no peace; and may none who read the foregoing pages, be confirmed by them in self indulgent worldliness, or imagine that they believe in Jesus, while in works they deny Him, and serve that world by which He was crucified, and the God of which is in reality their God.

There is yet another class whom I would anxiously and affectionately warn; -those who have not only been convinced in their understanding, but have really been converted by the power of the Holy Ghost, trusting in Jesus, and therefore receiving, according to His promise, the salvation of their souls that they rest not slothfully in the possession even of this glorious gift, but remember what is their high and holy calling, even to be a peculiar people, zealous of good works :-shining as lights in the world, and

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holding forth the word of life,-proving their sonship by their obedience, their gratitude, by conformity to Him in His humiliation, whose glory they hope to share.

And whilst considering this subject of service unto the Lord and conformity to Jesus in the midst of a world at enmity with Him, let us not despise the example of the early Friends so far as it was regulated by principles of faith; but whilst earnestly contending against the unscriptural statements of their faith, and rejoicing in the clear light which God's own word sheds upon our path, let us beware that there be not in us a less determined testimony against what we see to be evil, nor a less firm adherence to that which we know to be good. Let us not love the world which they truly said to be lying in the wicked one, but renouncing its pomps and vanities, in however refined a form, its wars, and politics, and idle literature, seek diligently to be found followers of Him who pleased not Himself, but whose meat and drink it was to do His Father's will. May we remember that there is such a thing as being saved yet so as by fire, having our work burnt and losing the reward which His grace proposed; there is such a thing as being ashamed to meet Him at His coming, who died that we might live, and there is also held out to us the blessedness of an abundant entrance into His kingdom, together with the joyful sentence of "well done good and faithful servant." May nothing short of this be our aim, that so we may glorify Him who hath called us, and declare plainly to the world that we are not of it, but that we seek a city which hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.

APPENDIX.-A.

BAPTISM.

"As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of ONE shall many be made righteous." (Rom, v, 19.) "Ye are complete in HIM." (Col. ii, 10.)

THESE words reveal the mystery of the gospel as now addressed to us. They declare that righteousness and fitness for glory are derived solely from personal union, through the Spirit, with Another-even with the Lord Jesus as the Second Adam,-a new covenant Head, in whom all who believe are "accepted," (Ephes. i, 6.) being made one with Him, bone of His bone, and flesh. of His flesh. (Eph. v, 35.) He died, and they died in Him;-He rose, and they rose in Him;-and therefore the Apostle says, that the Church is "begotten again (i.e. regenerated) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." (1 Pet, i, 3.) In Him they are translated out of that state in which they were placed by their connexion with the first Adam, into that state in which they are placed by Him as the Second Adam.

This is the full, we might almost say the most important sense of regeneration; "begotten again by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." It most profitably draws the mind