to view: "God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." His power is unbounded and unlimited, not even limited by any previous unalterable decree of his own making.

Our Saviour repeatedly, I may say invariably, shows the universality of the Love of the Father; and holds forth the language of invitation and encouragement, "Strive to enter in at the straight gate-Come unto me all ye that labour-If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink ;"—and we see in the parable of the marriage supper, that the guests were bidden, and the invitation was even renewed when the supper was ready; but the refusal was their own act; they would not; and what was the consequence? "Go out into the highways, &c. for none of those shall partake." Luke 14.

Will any one dare to say that those halt, lame, and blind, were previously elected, and that all those who refused to attend to the invitation were absolutely fore-ordained from all eternity to act the part they did? For though this may be said to be only a parable, yet it is so true a picture of the case, that we may assume it is a case of actual existence, in order to try the argument. Was there a possibility that those who were originally bidden to the supper,

could have complied with the 'call; that any one of them who did not attend could possibly have attended; if it be said there was a possibibility, then the argument for election and reprobation at once falls to the ground; but if it be said they could not have accepted the invitation; is it for a moment to be supposed that a God of infinite justice, mercy, and truth would in this manner call and invite, his poor dependant creatures to partake of that which it was totally impossible they could ever have any part in. Is not this to charge the Almighty with Hypocrisy ?

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On Page 173. Read what Job Scott says his Journal page 95 of those who " entomb rather than enshrine the meaning of the Scriptures."

Page 174. "The person who disclaims" &c. and the description of those who are depending on themselves; -but the work must be progressive; our Saviour compares the Kingdom to a grain of mustard seed, to a little leaven, &c.-but as the gift is occupied with, the talent committed gains other talents, and then, "to him that hath shall be given,"—" because thou hast been faithful in a little thou shalt be made ruler over more." We see that the unprofitable servant had also the means put in his power,

but he would not occupy, he would not do his part; he was willing to let his Lord do the work for him without any trouble to himself; perhaps he was presumptuous enough to suppose that he was elected, that he stood so well with his master he had no need to be uneasy.

Page 175. "If holiness be any condition of obtaining Heaven"-most certainly it is a condition and an indispensable one; "without holiness no man shall see the Lord;" "nothing that worketh abomination or that loveth or maketh a lie shall enter into the Kingdom."

Page 182. What a number of unscriptural expressions or phrases!

On Page 188. Why find fault with one man's perversion of good, or another's rejection of it, if both previously and unalterably decreed?

Page 190. "True believers with minds renewed." Is this an instantaneous work, or how are they to be made so? The writer of this work appears to know nothing of, or at least to take no notice of, that gradual work whereby the soul of man is purified and made holy. The seed is first sown; the growth then is progressive as there is a submitting to the work : "he shall sit as a refiner."

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On Page 206 § 72. The author seems entirely to lose sight of the middle track, between making man's work and righteousness the im'mediate cause of salvation, and the oppositeextreme of not allowing him any power to act..

Page 290." If they are brought to enjoy," How are they to be brought to this? Surely if this is to be done by an over-ruling power, without any act or co-operation of their own, the work is made easy, and such may well commit their all to Him, who has so highly distinguished them.

Page 210. "They are made wise, and become truly exalted by being made humble.” Are they made so inevitably without any effort, without any will of their own? See JAMES iv. 7th to 10th verse.

On Page 211. Why paint the dreadful picfure of the death-bed of a sinner, if it were totally out of his power to avoid his doom? Why not rather veil it? Read the account of Rochester and of Altamont.

Page 214. "With the book of God in our hands." Is this the only touchstone? Surely it is not to the outward testimony of the Scriptures

that we are to look in this most essential point; but to that superior intelligence from which the Scriptures proceeded, and to which they point and direct us. "Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith," &c. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Is this examination to be only by the Scriptures? If so, how are we to know which of all the different explanations of them is correct?"Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." 1 JOHN ii. 20. "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." ii. 14. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God." Rom. viii. 16. The spirit searcheth all things."

On Page 217. Where is the Almighty engaged by an oath, to do" for us exceeding abundantly," &c. EPH. iii. 20.

Page 218. Original sin is here plainly held up ;-but is sin imputed before transgression?

Man "cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works, tó faith and calling upon God;"-but the means are put in his power by the mercy of an Allpowerful, as well as All-merciful Creator," who so loved the world that he gave his only