Jacob had his anointed pillar, and his Galeed to look to, and there he was commanded to go and build an altar to God, who answered him in the day of his distress.

Moses had the pascal lamb to look at, and by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

Israel had the passover, Moses the mediator, and Aaron the priest, set before them, which were all eminent types of Christ.

And when they came into the Holy Land to engage in the battles of the Lord, they had Joshua the son of Nun to look, to as a saviour, and captain of the Lord's host, whom the Gentiles called Jesus.

The Israelites afterwards had the judges to look to, such as Jephthah, Gideon, Samson, Samuel, &c. And in David's time, they had the ark, a throne of grace, and a gracious king to look at, all types of Christ. And in Solomon's days they had the temple to look to, where all was commanded to look that felt the plague of their own hearts; and here Jonah looked from the whale's belly, and here Daniel looked at the expense of the lion's den. And it is plain, that both Jonah and Daniel received the promised blessing by looking there; and all these types now centre in the one great antitype Christ Jesus, who is called the sacrifice, the altar, the pillar, the witness, the lamb, the mediator, the priest, the captain, the sa

viour, the ark, the judge, the king, the temple, the mercy-seat, and the vail: and it is to him alone we must all cast our eyes, if we would look for redemption in Israel; "Look to me, and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth; for I am God, and besides me there is no saviour."

I find that the greatest advocates for the Lord's prayer, are those that appear to be destitute of the spirit of God, and of all people they are the last that should use it; it is the spirit of adoption that cries Abba, Father; and he who is stranger to that spirit, only compasses his maker about with his lips when he calls God his father; and the Saviour's words are applicable to him, “You are of your father the devil."

However I am no judge over you; but as I cannot find Christ in any covenant character in the Lord's prayer, I take it for granted that it served the disciples for that time, while the Saviour, the substance of all the above-mentioned shadows, was with them; but they were to see him as their altar, priest, and sacrifice, offered up upon the cross; and after that, they were to receive the Spirit through him, and to offer up their spiritual petitions through the same mediator by whom they received the spirit of prayer from on high; and to this agrees the Saviour, "Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name," though ye have often used the prayer that I taught you, yet "hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name; and in that day ye shall ask me nothing," as ye

have done; "Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you;" though ye have used the form that I taught you, yet "hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken to you in proverbs; but the time cometh, that I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but shall shew you plainly of the Father; at that day ye shall ask in my name."

And I believe the disciples did as Jesus commanded them, when the Spirit of prayer came upon them; for they prayed in Christ's name, and spake as the Spirit gave them utterance. Nor can I find in all the Bible that they ever used the Lord's prayer after the Holy Ghost came upon them. The Lord's prayer served them very well while the mediator was personally with them, and one of the company; but when the Saviour was exalted at the right hand of the Father, he then sent forth the Spirit to testify of him, and to teach them that he was an object of prayer as well as the Father. "He is thy Lord, and worship thou him." Or if they asked of the Father, it was to be in his name. I have said nothing in all this against the Lord's prayer; I have only assigned my reasons for not using it.

I believe it to be the most compendious and comprehensive set of words in the whole world; and he must be a Christian indeed, in spirit, practice, and principle, that uses it; or else, as I said

before, he will act the part of Ephraim, compass his Maker about with lies. Your asserting that there is the Saviour's name in the Lord's prayer, in Our Father,' Christ, being called the everlasting father, is very weak. To go to God the father, in the name of the everlasting father, is an odd way of expression, and has nothing in it respecting the mediatorial office of Christ. The mediator respects chiefly his manhood, whereas everlasting father respects chiefly his godhead. "There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." The new and living way of access to God, is consecrated through the vail, that is to say Christ's flesh, Heb. x. 20; and he that goes to God any other way, whether he uses the Lord's prayer, or men's prayers, goes to God as a fool goes.

For my part, I can say the Lord's prayer, being so used to it formerly, with my lips, while my heart and thoughts are all over the world; and I suppose this is sometimes the case with you; and if it is, though you do honour God with your lips in saying the Lord's prayer, yet your heart being far from him, is but vain worship. However, I have no dominion over your faith, nor do I desire that your confidence should stand in my wisdom, but in God's power; nor should I have troubled you on this subject, if you had not begun in that furious manner to cavil at me.

As to what I said against the form of prayer, or church service in the pulpit, it is true; God on the

sabbath day is more abused and mocked by that form, by graceless souls, than he is by all the open profanity that sinners are guilty of all the six working days besides. I insisted upon it, that it is not prayer; and you know it is in general called reading the prayers, or performing divine service. But there is a material difference between praying, and reading of other men's prayers; and as to divine service, the word divine might be left out; for while that service is performed, any discerning eye may see that there is no divinity operating on the servants, therefore it ought to be called forced service; for when that long harangue is over, the people look as lively as a Papist does when he arrives at the end of Lent, when he is allowed to quit the Pope's stocks, and fill his belly.

Performing of service it is; lip-labour and bodily exercise, that profiteth little. God himself has promised to create the fruit of the lips, but such lips go on without any new creating work of his; that is done to their hand.

Your bringing no proof in favour of it, but Mr. Whitefield and other good men's approving and using of it, has no weight with me; I don't pin my faith upon good men's formality, but upon Christ crucified. Aaron was a good man, but I have no command from God to worship his calf, though he builds an altar, and tells us plainly in his proclamation, that his new-invented piece of service was a feast to the Lord.

Though the Holy Ghost be an infallible Spirit,