meekness the ingrafted word, which is able
to save your souls," James 1 : 21. Seek God with a full heart, repent sincerely, cleanse yourselves inwardly before the Lord, let go world, flesh, false doctrine, and every thing contrary to the honor, will, and word of God; bear, believe and follow Jesus Christ, the only, and true shepherd of your souls, who sought you in suck great love, and pur- chased you with such a precious price, then you may, of a truth, boast that you are the people of God, and the church of Christ. To him, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, be praise and the eternal kingdom, Amen.
APPEAL TO CORRUPT SECTS.
Christ said, "Falsechrists and false proph- ets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed, behold, I have foretold you all things," Mark 13: 22, 23. O, you backsliding, erring children! Mind, had you taken to heart this faithful warn- ing of oiu- Lord and Savior, Christ ; had you acknowledged kis Spirit, doctrine, and koly life as a perfect Spirit, doctrine and life, and acknowledged kim as tke true Propket, promised in Scripture; andkadyou received kim as tke tnie and living Son of God; you would never kave been led so far from kis ways, nor would suck frigktful errors kave taken place. But, O Lord ! I fear tkat some of you are so far enckanted, tkat you vdll nevermore come to Ckrist, tke true Skepkerd; for you, tkrougk a perverted and obscure understanding of tke Scriptiu-es, defend, as just and rigkt, tke abominable works of ungodliness, wkick are not only con- trary to tke Spirit, word and will of Ckrist, but also contrary to reasonable modesty, nature, and reason. Is it not a grievous error, tkat you suifer yourselves to be so sorely bewitcked by suck worthless persons, and so lamentably misled from one unclean sect to another; first to that of Munster, next to Battenberg, now Davidists; from Beelzebub to Lucifer, and from Belial to Behemoth 'i Ever learn- ing, but never able to come to the knowl- edge of tke real trutk. You suffer your selves to be led about by every wind of doctrine. You ckoose out a way for your- selves, as do also tke priests and monks; you kold not to the head, Christ, from which all the body, fitly joined together, Cometh imto a perfect man, unto the meas- ui'e of the stature of the fullness of Christ. I fear that your sins vfill be punished; for you are earthly, and carnal minded, whereby you thnist from you the pui'e j knowledge of Christ, and kate kis cross; ' and against all admonition of Scriptures, against tke undeceiving example of Ckrist j and kis saints, you conform yoiu'selves in i tke splendor, pomp, eating, drinking, folly, I kypocrisy, and false worskip, of this proud, useless, vain and idolatrous world, which you should, by right, instruct and admonish by a pious, humble, sober, and godly walk.
O, you backsliding children! consider how grievously you disgrace the holy Moses, who teaches and speaks to you out of the mouth of God. He says, "I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hear- ken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him," Deut. 18: 18, 19. This is repeated by Peter and Ste- phen in Acts 3: 23; and 7: 37.
What do you do with all the great prophets of God, as David, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, who, in so many places, with such plain words, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, direct us to Christ and his word? They must either testify to lies, or your prophets must be deceivers and false teachers. This is incontrovertible.
Did not holy Paul say, "But though we,