snivel, to be wild in their brain, to be enthusiastic in their notions, and to run about the streets. If this witness be true, I wonder that the Vicar was not a snivelling enthusiast before now; for he has been paddling in election for these ten years past. However, my reader will see by this, that himself is wild-brained enough; and I am sure that he needeth a world of tame brains to make a consistent chain of doctrines out of such inconsistent materials as these.

I will never believe that he would have given up the doctrines of election, if he had been in the happy enjoyment of what the doctrine of election holds forth, and secures to the humble believer.

The word of God says, that the elect are ordained to eternal life, which is comfortable tidings to him that sensibly knows the damps of legal and spiritual death. The word of God declares that we are ordained to peace, which is sweet to every sensible rebel. Paul says we are predestinated to the adoption of children; which is pleasing news to the soul that is sick of the slavery of Satan's family; and that we are predestinated to be conformed to the image of God's son, and any poor sinner will be glad of this, who knows the self-condemned and fallen image of the Earthly Adam.

We are likewise predestinated to good works, and to eternal glory; and what chosen vessel in his right mind, would wish to preach against these

things, suppose he could please all the old women in Benson by doing of it? He avowed in the presence of man, that Christ died for all men; for them that were in prison, for that man on horseback also,' said he, and that many were in hell for whom Christ died. If so, then Christ's death avails but little. As for universal redemption,' said he, 'it is a truth, and I am determined to abide by that system, although it should offend those who were so closely connected with me, and all my congregation beside;' being determined to set his face like a flint, and stand like an iron pillar to defend it. Yea, he declared himself bent upon this, even if all his congregation left him, and he himself be forced to preach to a new people.

That very night in which he gave his people this his confession and determination, that very night God laid his afflicting hand upon him, and he preached no more for eight weeks. Those that feared God saw visibly that he had visited his apostacy with the rod, and his erroneous confession with stripes; but after he was bruised in the mortar, he came out like the wise man's fool, just as he went in; for neither his errors nor his impenitency departed from him; for he even opposed the testimony of a faithful divine in the establishment, who came from Reading, and would not let him preach for him. The pious parson of Wallingford gave me leave to publish his name, if I chose; and the whole of this I

had from them to whom he delivered this confession and yet in a letter which he sent to a friend, he flatly denied all this, and said it was a false report. But alas! a man who will deal falsely in God's covenant, and deceive souls with false doctrines, will stick at nothing. But how the Rev. Mr. H. could stand forth and vindicate him in his pulpit in London, I know not. However, when he got into his pulpit at Wallingford, Mr. H. overthrew the whole doctrine, so strenuously contended for by Mr. P. For the people informed me, that while he rebuked them, and vindicated Mr. P. he at the same time took his text out of the seventeenth chapter of St. John, which Mr. P. had declared belonged to none but the spirits of just men made perfect. This was an entertainment for the people that feared God; for they saw that he innocently tore Mr. P's doctrine to pieces, even while he was endeavouring to vindicate him, and blaming the people for leaving him.

He publicly declared, that the devils were in heaven, which he attempted to prove from the beginning of the book of Job, but that they could not stay there, because they could not sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. But how the devils, who are bound in chains under darkness, and reserved unto the judgment of the great day, should come into the realms of everlasting light, I know not!

He also laboured hard to enforce the doctrine of final apostacy from grace, which he endeavoured to prove from a most comfortable part of the word of God, namely, " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes: nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from Him." Here he artfully secured all the lovingkindness to Him, but excluded all the family beside. The redeemed, he said, were in heaven already, and lovingkindness is secured only to Him the head; not to them. It would be endless for me to give you an account of all the improvements that he has made on the doctrines of grace; and what improvements we are further to expect may be guessed at by this sample. However, he honestly owns, that if universal redemption be not a truth, that he himself shall never be saved. You see his case is desperate; he hopes to be saved, because he thinks none will be lost. From all such conspiracy and rebellion, from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism, from hardness of heart, and contempt of God's word and commandment, Good Lord deliver us!

P.S. I have found some simple honest souls at Wallingford, who saw Mr. P's first slip, and seem to have better eyes than the preacher; they are

fitting up a little place, and will want some assistance from us, which I hope will not be long wanting on our part.

Farewell; may the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his son Jesus Christ our Lord; and may the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be with us all. Amen and Amen; saith your souls' wellwisher in Christ Jesus.