I.

Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness, Isa. xli, 10.

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you, Ezek. xxxvi,

25.

I the Lord do keep it [the spiritual vineyard] lest any hurt it. I will keep it night and day, Isaiah xxvii, 3.

I will give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes, Ezek. xi, 20.

David my servant shall be king over them; and, &c, they shall walk in my judgments, Ezekiel xxxvii, 24.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto the good works which God [by his word of command, by providential occurrences, and by secret intimations of his will, apontours] hath before prepared, that we should walk in them, Eph. ii, 10.

God hath saved us, and called us with a holy CALLING; not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ before the world began, 2 Tim. i, 9.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, Jer. xxiv, 7.

II.

Cursed is the man that maketh flesh his arm, Jer. xvii, 5. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee, Psa. lv, 22.

Wash ye, make you clean, Isa. i, 16. O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved, Jer. iv, 14.

Keep thyself pure, 1 Tim. v, 22. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life, Prov. iv, 23.

What does the Lord require of thee but, &c, to walk humbly with thy God? Micah vi, 8. And Enoch set himself to walk with God, Gen. v, 24.

He that saith he abideth in him, [God manifested in the flesh,].ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked, 1 John ii, 6.

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy, Gal. vi, 16. That they might set their hope in God, &c, and not be as their fathers, a stubborn generation, &c, that set not their heart aright, &c, and refused to walk in his law. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity, Psa. lxxviii, 7, 10; xxvi, 11.

The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared unto all men, teaching us that we should live soberly, &c. Give diligence to make your CALLING sure. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Titus ii, 11, 12; 2 Pet. i, 10; Heb. ii, 3.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord, Hos. vi, 3.

The word in the original is in the conjugation Hithpahel, which signifies to cause one's self to do a thing. Our translation does not do it justice. Nor can Zelotes reasonably object to the meaning of the word used by Moses, unless he can prove that Enoch had no hand, and no foot, in his walking with God; and that God dragged him as if he had been a passive cart, or a recoiling cannon. However, I readily grant that Enoch did not set himself to walk with God without the help of that saving grace, which has appeared to all men," and which so many receive in vain."

I.

I will put my fear in their hearts, Jer. xxxii, 40.

The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, Deut. xxx, 6.

I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, Jer. xxxi, 33.

We love him, because he first loved us, 1 John iv, 19.

By grace ye are SAVED, through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, Eph. ii, 8. It is of faith, that it might be by grace, Rom. iv, 16.

Not for thy righteousness, &c, dost thou go and possess their land, Deut. ix, 5.

Not of works, lest any man should boast, Eph. ii, 9.

Thou hast hid those things from the wise and prudent, [in their own eyes,] and revealed them unto babes, Luke x, 21.

II.

They shall not find me, &c, that they did not choose the fear the Lord, Prov. i, 29.

Circumcise therefore the fores of your heart, Deut. x, 16.

Let every man be swift to h &c. Receive with meekness ingrafted word, which is able save your souls, James i, 19, Thy word have I hid in my he Psa. cxix, 11.

The Father loveth you, bec ye have believed, John xvi, 27.

Believe, &c, and thou shal SAVED, Acts xvi, 31. Receive the grace of God in vain, 2 vi, 1. Looking diligently lest man fail of [or be wanting to] grace of God, Heb. xii, 15.

Inherit the kingdom, &c, ↑ was hungry, and ye gave me &c, Matt. xxv, 34.

Charge them, &c, to do A &c, that they may lay hold eternal life, 1 Tim. vi, 17, &c

Who is wise, and he shall u stand these things? prudent, a shall know them? Hos. xi None of the wicked shall u stand, but the wise shall unders Dan. xii, 10.

If I am not mistaken, the balance of the preceding scriptures s that Pharisaism and Antinomianism are equally unscriptural; the monious opposition of those passages evincing, (1.) That our free is subordinately a worker with God's free grace in every thing proper atonement for sin, and the first implanting of the light enlightens every man that comes into the world: such an atone having been fully completed by Christ's blood, and such an impla being entirely performed by his Spirit. (2.) That Honestus is dreadfully mistaken, when he makes next to nothing of free grac her works. (3.) That Zelotes obtrudes a most dangerous paradox the simple, when he preaches finished salvation in the Chrispian of the word. And (4.) That St. Paul speaks as the oracles of when he says, "God worketh in you, &c, therefore work ye out own salvation."

SECTION IX.

Displaying the most wonderful work of free grace, the general redemp tion of the lost world of the ungodly by Jesus Christ: and the most astonishing work of free will, the obstinate neglect of that redemption, by those who do despite to the Spirit of grace.

HONESTUS has such high thoughts of his uprightness and good works, that he sometimes doubts if he is a lost sinner by nature, and if the virtue of Christ's blood is absolutely necessary to his justification. And the mind of Zelotes is so full of absolute election and reprobating partiality, that he thinks the sacrifice of Christ was confined to the little part of mankind which he calls "the Church, the pleasant children, Israel, Jacob, Ephraim, God's people, the elect, the little flock," &c. Those happy souls, if you believe him, are loved with an everlasting love, and all the rest of mankind are hated with an everlasting hate. Christ never bled, never died for these. God purposely let them fall in the first Adam, and absolutely denied them all interest in Christ the second Adam, that they might necessarily be wicked and infallibly be damned, "to illustrate his glory by their destruction."

To rectify those mistakes; to show Honestus that all men, without exception, are so wicked by nature as to stand in need of Christ's atoning blood; and to convince Zelotes that Christ was so good as to shed it for all men, without exception; I throw into my Scales some of the weights stamped with general redemption: I say some, because others have already been produced in the third section.

How ALL men are temporally re. Why some men are not eternally deemed by Christ's blood.

THE WEIGHTS OF FREE GRACE.

NOTE. General redemption by price and free grace cannot fail, because it is entirely the work of CHRIST, who does all things well.

We see Jesus, who was made a httle lower than the angels [i. e. was made man] for the suffering of death, &c, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man, Heb. ii, 9.

When we were yet without strength, Christ died for the ungod ly, Rom. v, 6. The Son of man is come to save that which is lost, Luke xix, 10. Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world, John i, 29. God so ved the world, that he gave his mly begotten Son, &c, that the

redeemed by Christ's Spirit.

THE WEIGHTS OF FREE WILL.

NOTE. General redemption by power and free will can and does fail, because many refuse to the last, subordinately "to work out their own salvation." As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live ;-turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezek. xviii, 23; xxxiii, 11.

And now, &c, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now I will, &c, lay it waste, &c, I will also command the clouds