righteousness of Christ alone, imputed to us, and received by faith. “ Also I believe, that before we believe in Christ, notwithstanding the secret purpose of God in our favour, we are considered by the moral Governor of the world, as aliens, as children of wrath even as others; but that on our believing in his Son, we are considered as no more strangers and foreigners, but are admitted into his family, and have power or privilege to become the sons of God! "XIV. I believe all those who are effectually called of God never fall away so as to perish everlastingly; but persevere in holiness till they arrive at endless happiness. "XV. I believe it is the duty of every minister of Christ plainly and faithfully to preach the gospel to all who will hear it; and as I believe the inability of men to spiritual things to be wholly of the moral, and therefore of the criminal kind, and that it is their duty to love the Lord Jesus Christ and trust in him for salvation though they do not; I therefore believe free and solemn addresses, invitations, calls, and warnings to them to be not only consistent, but directly adapted, as means, in the hand of the Spirit of God, to bring them to Christ. I consider it as a part of my duty which I could not omit without being guilty of the blood of souls. "XVI. I believe the ordinances which Christ, as King of Zion, has instituted for his church throughout the gospel-day, are especially two; namely, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. I believe the subjects of both to be those who profess repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ; and on such I consider them as incumbent duties, I believe it essential to Christian Baptism that it be by immersion, or burying the person in water, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. I likewise believe Baptism as administered according to the primitive plan, to be pre-requisite to church communion; hence I judge, what is commonly called Strict Communion, to be consistent with the word of God. "XVII.-Although I disclaim personal holiness as having any share in our justification, I consider it as absolutely necessary to salvation; for without it no man shall see the Lord. "XVIII.—I believe the soul of man is created immortal; and that when the body dies, the soul returns to God who gave it, and there receives an immediate sentence, either to a state of happiness or misery, there to remain till the resurrection of the dead. - "XIX. As I said that the breaking up of God's plan has been gradual from the righteousness of Christ alone, imputed to us, and received by faith. "Also I believe, that before we believe in Christ, notwithstanding the secret purpose of God in our favour, we are considered by the moral Governor of the world, as aliens, as children of wrath even as others; but that on our believing in his Son, we are considered as no more strangers and foreigners, but are admitted into his family, and have power or privilege to become the sons of God! "XIV. I believe all those who are effectually called of God never fall away so as to perish everlastingly; but persevere in holiness till they arrive at endless happiness. "XV. I believe it is the duty of every minister of Christ plainly and faithfully to preach the gospel to all who will hear it; and as I believe the inability of men to spiritual things to be wholly of the moral, and therefore of the criminal kind, and that it is their duty to love the Lord Jesus Christ and trust in him for salvation though they do not; I therefore believe free and solemn addresses, invitations, calls, and warnings to them to be not only consistent, but directly adapted, as means, in the hand of the Spirit of God, to bring them to Christ. I consider it as a part of my duty which I could not omit without. being guilty of the blood of souls. "XVI. I believe the ordinances which Christ, as King of Zion, has instituted for his church throughout the gospel-day, are especially two; namely, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. I believe the subjects of both to be those who profess repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ; and on such I consider them as incumbent duties, I believe it essential to Christian Baptism that it be by immersion, or burying the person in water, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. I likewise believe Baptism as administered according to the primitive plan, to be pre-requisite to church communion; hence I judge, what is commonly called Strict Communion, to be consistent with the word of God. XVII.-Although I disclaim personal holiness as having any share in our justification, I consider it as absolutely necessary to salvation; for without it no man shall see the Lord. "XVIII.-I believe the soul of man is created immortal; and that when the body dies, the soul returns to God who gave it, and there receives an immediate sentence, either to a state of happiness or misery, there to remain till the resurrection of the dead. "XIX. As I said that the breaking up of God's plan has been gradual from the beginning, so I believe this gradation will yet be beautifully and eternally carried on. I firmly and joyfully believe that the kingdom of Christ will yet be gloriously extended, by the pouring out of God's Spirit upon the ministry of the word: and I consider it as an event, for the arrival of which it becomes all God's servants and churches most ardently to pray! It is one of the chief springs of my joy in this day of small things, that it will not be so always. “XX.-Finally, I believe that Christ will come a second time, not as before, to save the world, but to judge the world; and that in the presence of an assembled universe every son and daughter of Adam shall appear at God's tremendous bar, and give account of the things done in the body; that sinners, especially those who have rejected Christ, (God's way of salvation,) will be convicted, confounded, and righteously condemned!These shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous, who through grace have embraced Christ and followed him whithersoever he went, shall follow him there likewise, and enter with him into the eternal joy of their Lord. This solemn event I own on some accounts strikes me with trembling; yet on others I cannot look upon it but with a mixture of joy, when I consider it as the |