lieved by all those who now believe in my visitation to thee, that I shall accomplish in the end, that I am now working a way to complete the happiness of mankind, who believe in ME and my Gospel, and the fulfilment thereof. Therefore, let no man presumptuously say, it is another SAVIOUR that ye are now looking to for your Salvation. I tell them, no: it is the PROMISE which stands in my Gospel; it is the PROMISE which stands throughout the Psalms, and the Prophets; it is the SON whom I said should be revealed. Therefore, if they do not believe the FIRST, that I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT, and to bring to light what was concealed from man; if they do not rely on ME for this POWER, as spoken in my Gospel, and by my disciples, that it is the fulfilment of the FIRST; those that do not thus believe can never believe in the SECOND; and therefore, it is through the MERITS of CHRIST JESUS that all believers must now rely, that HE hath power to fulfil his words, and make the SoN known, whom HE said should be revealed..

"Thou hast nothing to marvel that such a man should persuade his hearers not to read the Books, which I have ordered thee to bring together of the Scriptures, and explained them; which he knoweth he cannot do; and which he knoweth might open the eyes of the understanding of many of his hearers, to observe the Scriptures, how they stand, and believe, from the explanations, that I shall fulfil them, according to the wisdom of God, but not of man.

"Now come to his observation concerning the Sacrament, in what manner he forbids the believers attending, saying, "the Church of England cuts them off, whilst they remain impenitent, like an unfruitful branch. And let none of them

venture to approach the table of the Lord, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation; as they certainly do not discern the Lord's Body, holding as they do damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them."

"Now come to the service of the Communion: -" Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross, for our redemption; who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full, perfect, and sufficient, sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his

coming again.'

"Let him answer, how he dares to go to the altar, to read this collect to his hearers, to remind them of my coming again, to be looking for it, according to my Gospel and the words of my Disciples, and now forbid those to approach the table, who are looking for the fulfilment thereof, and for my coming, according to the Gospel, that is set forth at the altar. Here, I tell thee, he is like the epistle which he pointed out against the believers; for he is bringing in false doctrine, heresy, and schism; and it is his own destruction he hath to fear, if he doth not repent of the evil of his ways: for he is not only deceiving himself, but his hearers likewise.

"Now come to the Epistle of Jude, which he pointed out, and I shall shew thee his folly, from the 12th verse: "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit

withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots."

"Here let him answer, where is his charity, to believe in the Gospel, and the fulfilment thereof? If he have no charity to believe in the fulfilment; then he cannot have faith to believe in its truth; then where is the fruit, which he can bring forward to mankind? Is not all withered and dead to him, twice plucked up by the roots? For, by plucking up the first, not believing that my Gospel will be fulfilled, he must. pluck up the second likewise; so that such a man is dead to the whole; and is described by Jude" feeding themselves without fear." He doth not fear the destruction he is bringing on himself, or the destruction he is bringing on his hearers, by making them believe that there is no truth in the Gospel. Where is the man who can come forward and prove the Gospel true, that all is fulfilled, which is spoken in the Gospel? This is impossible for man to do. And now let him look to the words in the collect"a full, perfect, and sufficient, sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world.". What answer will he make, to say that this was ever fulfilled? Or where did I promise in my Gospel to fulfil it, till my second coming, to send the SPIRIT of TRUTH, which is the COMFORTER, that should come in my NAME and abide with you for ever? So here are clouds without water; because they are as clouds before the sun, that its shining lustre might not appear to warm the earth: but they are without water to wet the earth, that it may bring forth its increase."

Verses 16-19. "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lust; and their

mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit."

"And here the SPIRIT is denied by him; then my Gospel must be denied likewise; therefore his boasting of a belief in the Gospel, while he is turning away those who believe in its fulfilment, is like the boasting spoken of by the Apostle, whom he hath quoted against the believers. For all his speeches are but swelling words of vanity, and deceiving the hearers.

"Now discern in what manner he hath placed together Mahomet, the Gospel, the visitation of my Spirit to thee, and all impostors and visionaries, as though they stood in the same likeness; for he hath brought forward nothing to shew the difference, or to prove the difference; then may not an Atheist, from his words, say that all the visionaries were in one likeness. Dreams and visions were seen by my Disciples, which is recorded in the Gospel; so when placed together in this manner, it gives room for Satan's working in the hearts of men to place them alike. And such doetrine is but adding fuel to the fire that is already kindled in Deists and Atheists, who presumptuously come forward against the Scriptures with blasphemy, as these men have come forward against thee, speaking evil of things which they know nothing about.

"Now come to the end, what he said of Mahomet: "He composed an absurd and impious system; which was formed partly from visions,

which he pretended to have seen; and partly from extracts out of the Old and New Testament. The book is called the Koran; and this medley of truth and error, sets aside the Bible among all the followers of Mahomet to the present day. In this respect the Koran has decidedly the advantage, that the visions which it contains are said to be written in the most elegant stile which the Arabic language affords; whilst, on the contrary, Joanna's dreams are the most vulgar and abominable trash, that ever was read or written."

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"I shall answer thee from his observation. might as well have said that the Koran excelleth the Gospel, from the dreams and visions therein contained; for, when Peter was ordered to kill and eat, from the dream and vision shewn to him, and other dreams and visions throughout the Revelations, what John saw of Satan's being chained down, and what he saw in the 12th chapter, of Satan's malice against the woman; thus he might say in his heart, that the Koran excelleth the Gospel, as well as to say it excelleth thy dreams and visions, which he calleth vulgar: because I shewed thee, in the beginning, the fallen fruit with a black veil round them, which I compared to the hearts of men; and whose likeness thou hast seen and proved. But know what Solomon saith: "Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee; reprove a fool, and he will hate thee." Where a man hath wis dom to see things which may be a reproof to him, he may call himself in question, whether he hath acted in that likeness, and take the reproof to himself, and he may love the person that gave the reproof: if he judge it from the Lord, he will say with David, Blessed be the rod of the Lord;