• 
ALARM TO THE 
ORLD 
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DEDICATED 
TO ALL RANKS OF MEN1 
BY 
A PROFESSED FRIEND TO ALL MANKINDBECGING THEY 
WOULD PREPARE FOR CHRIST'..f SECOND COMING, 
WHICH IS NEAR, EVEN AT THE DOORS. 
And the Angel 'which I Taw ford upon the fea, and upon the earth, lifted 
4 boo land to tiaTen, and jot tai e tins that liveth jorew and vver, 
that there fhouid be tine no lonpr. 
But in the elajs of the qvitc of the Seventh Angel, when 4e ./hall begin to 
fund, the trofiery of GOD Jail heinfied,* &e. Rev. to. 7. 
a This Ang,t1 conies betwixt the 6th and 7th Trumpet, and is the 
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The AUTHOR'S APOLOGY. 
I stem t jay, as fonte Authors can, that I was defined 
A7 make Ibis publication : Nor do .1 expe8 it will fuit the world in general ; 
-bleary, the world always like fmooth things, and have always quarreled 
"with Go Mejengers, tecaufe GOD would cboofe them hinfetf, and gene- 
rally chafe fresh as they did not like, fometimes they are mean, ignorant, and 
not coming from the right fource, as they fuppofe, viz. not approved by the 
great, and learned. So not being of their own choice, they rejeit both them, 
and God's snefiigely them.-This in General feemr to have been the cafe 
kith the predeeTcrs, and fucceffore of the poor Carpenter's fon, as well as 
,jfitrienfelf, of whom the learned of his dayjaid, as for this fellow we know 
l'httee:Whente he is. Nor do 1 expel? the following will be bitter received, or 
1ave any ether (PR in general, than to excite faro:, cr contempt. Though 
it may in form itEllances raft a little gloom on the mind: of form, jtifi 'while 
they are rading, as the dark day did, or as the lights in the north fame-
.'il•yes do, 'which are a forerunner of the dreadful feints which are juft 
about to b*,4 on a guilty nvorti, But I believe it will be for GOD'S glory : 
Iffich is the main thing I have in 'view. That the world vs,* be inexcu-
1;-4b:e, having been' warned of their danger. 'would further °Verve, that 
when I began to, write, I did not defign it for publication ; but rather for 
my own, and a friend's per:rfal. Put Oh I how does CHRIST, and all the 
writers of the New Teftament, caution us abundant!), againfi the deception 
qf she latter day; and toll us if it were teiqe the very 'eleel fhould be de-
re: z:ed. Yet, 'LAOIJICEAN like, we think we are rich and have need of 
mthing And it is In I here and 12 there; but we are commanded not to 
;,11.1:,A! lbr*, Luke 17, 1,3,, 
AN 
ALARM TO THE WORLD. 
COME near ye nations and hear, and harken ye people : 
Let the Earth hear, 'and the fullnef3 thereof. efaiah 34, at For the 
indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all 
their armies. vere 2. For my fword (hall be bathed in Heaven, &c. 
ver. 5. The fivord of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat 
with fame's, and with the blood of Lambs and Goats, with the fat 
Of the kidneys of rams, ver. 6. For it is the day of the Loan's venge-
ance, and the year of recompence for the controverfy of Zion, ver. 8. 
Deu. 32, 40, 41, 42. I Sam. 2, io. Pfm. 2,8, 9, & es), 23. Ifah. 471 
d 1. Chap. 59, ;6, r 7, 78. 'Chap. 63, 3, 4. Chap. 66, 16. Math. 24, 
38, 39. Jude 14. Ezek. 36, 5, 6. Rev. 19, 16, and on. And now, 
why will you not believe this dreadful day is juft at hand ? for it will 
furely come fuddeniy ; and in this generation. U hear, hear, for the 
time is at hand, and will come, and will not tarry. 
But hearken to the following voice of the dumb Afa. Oh, ye inha. 
bitants of the earth; hear thele words. I will fheke the Heavens and 
Earth, and overthrow the throne of kingdoms. Hag. 2, zt, 22. Heb. 
12, 2.6, 27. For behold, the day cometh that thall burn as an even, 
and (hall confume the wicked, Math. 3, z, & 4., 1. Rev. 19, 15, s6. 
Yet this (hall be one day known only to the LORD. Zech. 14, 7. 
Math. 24, 35. And though the 'teiflion tarry wait for it, for it wilt 
fpeak and will not lie. Hrtbk. 2, 1. And I believe this dreadful day is 
near at hand, and think we had much better be prepared, left it 
Ihoulel come on us, as the flood did on the old world, or as a thief in 
the night, and we be found amongq, and that out with the foolith 
Virgins. But how Elia!! We prepare for that which we do not believe 
will ever come ? And how can we believe, when eternal truth has 
laid it (hould come as a fnare, as a thief, as Noah's flood, &c. When 
they (hall cry, peace & fafety ' • fudden deltrudion cometh : And when 
the Laodicean Church is rich and increafed in goods, and bath need of 
nothing, the Amen comes and fpews her out of his mouth Pet haps 
you will fay this tremendous day you are fpeakiog of -is the day of 
Judgment ! I anfoer, it will be a (heedful day, but not the final Judg-
silent ; for at this time one is to be taken, and another left. Math. 
14, 40, 41. Chap. 25, IO. This day I am (peaking of, precedes the 
.gloricus day every illicit in the Bible. See Rev, 19, from vette it to 
the 
the 7th verfe of the meth Chap. 2 Pet. 3, 15. See the delcriptien of the 
fall of Babylon, Rev. 18. Then the glorious day, Chap. 19, to vette 
so. Bolt Ezekiel's Prophefy teems to be amply fulfilled at the preterit 
day. Ezek. 34, 78, 19. Seemeth it a final' thing to you, viz. (the 
teachers or fhepherds) to have eaten up the good pafture, but ye mutt 
tread down the refidue with your feet ; and to have drank of the deep 
waters ? But you muff foul the refidue with your feet ; and my flock 
eat that which ye have trodden, and drink that ye have fouled, &c. 
(but fee what follows) Col elST is a coming to reckon with the fat cat-
tle and be the fhepherd hirnfelf. But why are we warned fo muds 
againft the deception of the latter day, if there is no danger ? Pray 
take your Bibles and read. Math. 7, 15. Chap. 24., 24. Mar k 13, 22. 
Luke le, 2e•. John 10, 12, 1 Car. 11, 19. 2 Ccr. II, 13, 14, 15. Phil. 
3, 18, 19. AaE 20, 29, 30. 2 Thef. z, 9, so & 3, 6, 11. 1 Tim. 4. It 
2 Tim. 3, I• 2 Pet. 2, I, 2, 3. I John 4, I• Jude it, i 8. Rev. 3, 17. 
Chap. 13, 17. Chap. 16, a3. Chap. 18, II, to the end. But you will 
lay thee places fpeak of the Church of Rome. I anfwer, they do, 
and all other buyers and feller's. The Minillets of the Laodicean 
Church as well as the Other. And you may fee in the forecited 
18th of Rev. that they trade in all things good and bad, for gold, 
precious (tones, fine linen, odours, ointment, and frahltincenfe, art 
things reprefenting things holy, Lam. 4, r, I, the bone of Zion are 
comparable to fine gold, Sec. the others were things used as holy in the 
fanduary, fee Exod. 3o, 25, 37, and fine linen i. the righteoufnefs cf 
faints, Rev. 19, 14, but the wood, heath, iron, fleeves, &c. ate earth-
ly things. And the church of Rome, though (he is the great whore & 
mother of harlote, has the golden cup of the weld of Goo in her 
hand, though the has filled it with corrupt doarinee, which are art 
abomination, Rev. r7, 4.. But it is vain to fay, Om is but two 'le 
three erroneous fedaries, when St. John tells us the number of the 
beaft is 666, which I cannot conceive to be any thing elle than fia3. 
ries, though many of the learned have endeavoured to p,ove it to be 
fornething elle. Here I would obferve, that as no man might buy 
or fell, but thofe that had the mark, or name, or number of the beaft, 
Rev. 13, 16, 17. fo they are as follows, fiat, thofe thai have the mark 
Of the beaft in their foreheads are Papilla. Their Clergy tell tittle 
that if they do not come and have their fins pardoned, they will go 
to hell, and hell is a dreadful place, &c. Yet when they come, they 
will not pardon them without money, and if they will not give it they 
may go to hell, for all them, for they will not help them. rhe fecond 
fort, who carry the mark in their hands,are thole, who come and tell 
their bearersthey molt have theelotpel preached, and the ordinancesad-
minittered to them, in the Apofiolic form, arid order, or they will all 
go to hell : Well,fay the people, " will yvu do theft things for us and 
he our paffor ?" No, fay they, not tudels you oil! give us the tenth of 
your income ; and if they will not in give, they may all go to hell for 
all their help. Now thefe twalerts are eltablifilvd ky i.oy, and get:- 
Plly 
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rallyin other pail a of the world, are forced On the people whether 
they will or not. The third and fait fort I Mall mention, are thefe, 
whocatne and tell the people, yon mull have the Gape] preached tea 
you it is the means of grace; it is agreat privilege; it is GoD'S ap - 
poinment, &c. And where there is no fettled Minifter, they will be 
:very zealous on thofe fubjeets, and Teem even to make a zealous fire 
come down from heaven ; and when this falfe fire is kindled fufficienta 
ly, then they will begin to fnow what they are. For, as loon as this 
wealous people apply to the faid candidate to fettle and preach amongft 
theca, 0 yes, C.fays he)if you will give me three hundred pounds boun-
ty at my inlittment, and a hundred pounds a year wages, yearly; and 
bind yourferves by law to do it, I will undertake the berthenfome job 
rof getting you along to Heaven, and fliew you the way; but if not 
you may all go to Hell ; for it colt me fo much for learning, (and as 
alone pretend they can preach without fume afliftance of the Holy 
rohoft) and for the holy fpirit too; for I cannot afford Gon's word to 
yeou any cheaper. 0 abomination I how with feigned words do they 
make merchandize of you, Al. 20, ay. Pet. 2, 3. Now who that is 
taw totally blind and ignorant of the Bible, cannot fee and know that 
this is not the example of the Prophets and Apoftles? But hilt like 
13alaam, Micah's Prielt, the Pharifees, Matt. 23, 54, 75, 23, and Si. 
mon, Aas 8, z 8, and on. Be not deceived, GOD will not he mocked, 
for whatfoever man foa'eth, that (hail he reap : Now is there not great 
danger of being deceived ? or will you fay this is not the latter day ? 
Bit perhaps you will fay, why would you cleftroy all religions For, 
ago falary, no Minifter ; and no Minifter, no religion; and we (hall 
all turn Heathens ! Well if you have no religon but what is upheld 
by money and civil authority, you may as welt have none, for it will 
not carry you to Heaven I And for my part, if I mutt go to Hell, I 
tad as lief go withourreligion as with. Betides, CHRIST'S religion 
had neither money nor civil authority to hold it up; but had not only 
poverty to grapple with, but had the authority of the world againft 
sr, and yet was not overthrown ; nor would yours bell it was found-
ed on the rock that is true love to GOD and man : But money is the. 
; urn of all evil in religion. I remember fame time ago, I heard a nil-
nitter in fermon fay, " Chrift after he had entered upon his publick 
miniftry,-lived on the charity of his difciples, and they were the poorer 
fort of people too." And before he had got through with the fame 
difeoorle, he faid feveral times, " it was in vain for any owe to pretend 
to be CHs IT's difciple, unlefi they followed his examples," yet the. 
fame Minilter, as well as all the reft of the hirelings, had rather run 
*he rick of contradiaing thernfelves' 
 and CHRSIT too, than part with 
aheir idol, falaries ; and run the rifle of being bound hand and foot, 
yea they cannot take up this crofs, but had rather charge him with 
Laing an Auffere man, tee. Math, 25, 24, and on. And this day of 
eckon;rg is at hand, yea much nearer than you think. Hark I all 
ececk tea ratio transform yourfelvee into the minitte.rs of rielveonf. 
nets, 
nail, for in the following particulars you .plainly eontradi& the Lord a 
for he lays, " it is enough that the fervent be as his matter, and the , 
difciple as his Lord," But you fay no ; if he had no falary, I will 
have, or I won't preach, he lived on the charity of his poor difciples, 
but I won't, I will be maintained honourably, or I won't preach. He 
fays, if the world has hated me, it will hate you alto ; but you fay no ; 
if the world hate us, we !hall Toole our influence, to we mutt be hon-
ourable in the eyes of the world, or we can't do fo much good. lie 
lays, if they have perfecuted me, they will perfecute you. But you 
fay no ; we are his difciples, but the world has got to be fo good, they 
will not only not pet fecute us, but will give us money, becaufe we 
are his difciples. And now do you think when he comes, you Are fo , 
holy that he will thus take the lie at your hands, and yet hold you 
guiltlefs, and fave you by his merits ! no, no, he not deceived, he-, 
wilt not be fo eafily mocked by you ; but will fall on you prefently,and 
grind you to powder, Math. 21, 44. But you will fay, this is an en- 
lightened age. Take care that you do not give the Holy Ghoft tl,e 
lie in this alfo, for you will find every where in your Bibles, that juit . 
before the glorious day, there is to be as wicked an age as ever was ire. 
the world e there are fo many texts to prove this, that it is endleta to 
quote them. But you not only contradict Chrift, but Paul alfo ; for 
be lays, he that will live Godly than fuffer perfecution. 
But you fay no; we can live Godly in Chriil Jefira, and be good 
friends with the world, and even the Papifts too. Paul has corrima.n- 
ided you to labour, and eat your own bread with quietnefs ; and has. 
fetyou the example, ALB 20, 33,34, 35. Chap. 1$3, 3. a Cot.. 4, II, 
3 Theft: a, 9, a Their. 3, 8, 12. But you fay no ; if we work, vie 
fhall fall into difgrace, and fhan't work it right ; and we had rather 
run the rifque to confront Paul at that day, than loofe our God, Mien, 
anon.-. -Andhad rather do as Demetrius did, Aas 19, 24 and uo, 
than loofe your lucrative trade. But Paul took wager, you will lay. 
lout I fay he lays he only took what was fent to him as a free donation; 
and you can't deny it, if you will but compare a Cor. a 1, 8, 9, with 
Phil. 4, so, Is. But you will fee that Paul calls loch that do visa 
Wages, falfe apoftles, evil walkers, &c. z Cor. ri, ;3, rn, 15. Phil. 
I, 18, 19. But you are fo far from anfwering the charaaer of Chi 
mid his apoffles, that you look much more like Balsam, the nal iftess 
Jude is, Math. 23, 4 to 34. And you may read what your end will, 
be, chap. 24, 48, to the end, and chap. 25, 19, so. Befides all this, 
you take no notice of, but are entirely filent on one of the molt pointed 
Commands and examples Chrift gave his difciples juft before his death. 
John 13, 4, to 18, but this don't fuit your grandeur, to wail: and wive 
people's feet, nor do the people think it neceffary for the Minifter to, 
do it. So they are taught and believe a falfhood. Moreover, we I each 
that Gon is the fame yeflerday, to day, and forever. viz. in the fit 
difpenfation, the fecond difpenfation, and the Taft; for I under fohol.-
191iir4 iL; Aga; Ai URI Where the prophet Cap the earth abaleih-
forayer, 
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forever. Now what has been God's providential conduei refpeClini: 
the choice of teachers lince the gofpel day ? why when Chriff came into 
the world, he chofe feventy difciplee, and twelve Apoftles, and not a 
learned man among them ; nor would I have believed he ever would; 
had not Paul (as he faith hitufelf) been born out due time. But 
pray read and believe your Bibles, Math. I 
 as, 25, 26. a Car. 1, 19 to 
29. James 2, 5. Fhb. II, 27, by thefe texts you May plainly fee that 
rot the learned or worldly wife, but it huh pleafed an Infinitely wife 
Goel, from age to age for altnoft thefefix thoufand years, to raile up 
Men from among the fallen race, to declare his judgments, and their 
Wickednefs to them. Now thefe men have always been of God's own 
choofing, and not of Men's : Therefore Men have generally hated 
them, defpifed, and cluarelled with them. Herein they quarrel with 
God's prerogative.---And fhould you ferve any Earthly King thus, 
would he not immediately make war upon you ; efpecially if he fent 
the EmbafFador on a friendly defign. 0 ftupid World, what Mali t 
fay to you ; why I can tell you, you are the Laodicean church, but 
you will not own it ; and it I prove it, you will not believe. Yet 
your charaCter anf.vers exactly to it, and you may fee that the Amen, 
leho fpeaks to that church, is coming to fpew her out of his mouth ; 
and the time ie, at hand. 0 earth, earth, prepare to meet your Judge, 
who is even at the doors. I tell you it will he in this generation, for • 
if was certainly to be in the generation in which the fun was daekend, 
for tho' Heaven and Earth pals away, his word the!l not pafs away. 
0 ! turn ye, turn ye, for why will you die : Do you think you can 
confront him when he comes, to take vengeance on his enemies. 
Every word of the a 9th chap. of the Rev. from r S verfe to the end, 
is near, yea very near, to be fulfilled. And then immediately will 
begin to be fulfilled what is contained in the fix firfl verfes of the 2oth 
tehapter, juft as they ftand written. Well hash Ifaiah prophefied of 
this generation, chap. 29, eo and on, concerning this book of the Re- 
velations. For the Lord has paused upon you the fpirit of deep fleep ; 
and the vifion of all is become as the words of a book, orletter that is 
lealed. And the learned fay they can't read it, becaufe it is leafed. 
And the unlearned can't read it,. becaufe he is unlearned. Therefore, 
the Lord will proceed to do a marvellous thing among you, and a 
wonder, Habk. r, 5. But as to the book of the Revelations, I can 
con:pate it to nothing more ant, than a finall map, made by a very 
curler's artist en a finall piece of paper, containing one third of the 
globe : Now tho' this map may contain even the dwelling of every fa-
mily in that third part of the globe, yet it would be irnpoffible for any 
one, without fame of the Artift's (kill, to find on the map his own her 
hitation : And fa it is with this book, here is a prophefy of almoft two 
thoufand years ; and although every period is precifely let down, yet 
without tile dielates of the fame fpirit which dictated the penning of 
it, no one can underfiand it, fig as to find out the period in which they 
live. And, It:cattle men cannot go to college, and by human learning 
obtain 
obtain this fpirit of difrerninfnt, and for fear they ,chotit4 loft their 
lucrative empidynient, they teach 'the' wollrthat they cannot he 
underftoodn even thefe which are fulfilleele 'So they teach a falfhood ; 
for the Binle tells us.that rho' the *urld by %adorn do net know the 
things of Gud, yet the ;.,,:tirit fcarcheeallthings, even the deep things 
of God, i Cor. r, 2o, and on.aap. 2; #444 fo-yet'fi; to, Danl. 12, 10. 
Hofea 14, 9. John 7, On C11:11). 1. S. rstit. to Hint me: all the errors 
of the prefent day, wotild far exceed the limits of may pcefcnt • defign. 
I fhall only therefore motion the mein fpringe amt fame of the prrae 
cipal ftreams which flow from it.' And firft, it is an old and true pro• 
verb, that aefions fPeek louder these words, fubere; tho' liberal edu-
cation is an excellent thing, yet being put in the loom of the Holy 
Ghoft, to furnifhmen • for Chrift's tninitterse nod tent' you will not 
own it in words, any metre thin thee ,Pspifte will, that they wei fnip 
their images, yet your condua will condemn you, as moth as theirs, 
for you can no more worfeep Vvitheue it, than they without their images. 
And this idol you have let np in your hearts; and go a -whetting af-
ter it from Dan to Beeitlieba ; and God is fo angry toe this lilaipherne 
one conduct, that he has.altuolt forfaken the earth, and refirained the 
influences of his holy fpirit, and has left the world in general to wreft 
the fcripture to their own -dettruCtion, as a juft judgment on them. 
From this great goddefs Diana, hes fpran•g an innumerable number of 
filver thrines ; a few of which I fliall here mention. aft, From this 
fource the unfcripturel and poMpout way of fettling, maintaining Se 
ordaining of miniffers (prang, fir which you have neieher example 
nor precept, nor have you any popular ordinations among you, bite 
what has come through the Pope's hands, or has originated from lay 
bands 5 fo if the Papitts are apoftatee, as yob. truly hold ; and you 
fay lay ordination is not valid ; I dart know how your ordinations 
come to be fo very facred as you pretend, and endeavour to make the 
common people believe. Ste Milton .on 
id;y; The haleWay covenant, stalking a purgatory in the church, by 
having fame, not fit to go to heaven, end yet too good to go to hell. 
ettly. The damnable doeet ine called new divinity, fathering time (I 
ilindder•to name it) fin of Devils and wicked men on en Poly God ; 
and to fay that Adam in ionocency,-Itad no holy temper, • or habit of 
holinefs, &c athly. The doctrine of a national church, as praelifed by. 
many churches to nay knowledge; this is in a degree, tteiviug JeNifast 
again. 5thiy. Dalrine of the tmiverfal falvatton, itpuettrant to 
truth, and the general tenor of God'i word ; this, and new divinity, I 
believe to he footle of the Devil's bit engines to deceive mankind, asst 
Items to be relieved for this generation (July n poor New-England ; 
p-otir America ; it kerns as if thetDevil was.conteetiowe, having great
wrath, 
wrath, knowing, loss time is boa thorn eatly. The uuletip:ui al notion 
that if a nian it converted he %ill certainly be loved,' whether he eel). 
tholes to perfetiele et not ; foe he can't fall fermi grace. Now -
this is fo near the truth, that I believe thoufends defh era 
114sr:.;;Ii t for it is certain, that if a won it is uiy regcneraed, 
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7111.rophets, but were looking for grandenr, and a great, earthly Prince, 
who would deliver them from all their temporal enemies; and fuppot-
,iiig themfelves to be the only ele6t people ; and knowing thefe things 
would be fulfilled to the deft, they put the Lord to death for an im-
poftor ; yet they knew the time of his coming, according to Daniel's 
propheft , was accomplifhed ; yet their pride, honor, and felfrighte-
oufnefa, protripted them, rather than to own him, to commit the tin-
pardonable tin, by calling the holy fpirit, the fpirit of theDevil; and 
I believe there is no great difficulty in committing this fin now a days, 
for it is only calling the fpirit of God working in his children, the 
fpirit of the Devil, out of fpite ; becaufe their words and works, con-
demn our wicked works. But to return, as I have laid, thefe pro-
miles which the Jews interpreted to themfelves, will be fulfilled to the 
,sleet, every whit ; for he will come and deftroy his, and their enemies, 
with a dreadful overthrow ; raile the dead faints, according to Etch. 
37, se, r3, 24. Rev. se, te, 5,6, and Mathes, 5. Chap. 19, z8. Pfalms 
17, 1.5. Ifth. z6, se. Job 19, is, 26, 27. Danl. 12, 13. and that he 
will come on the earth, deftroy his'enemiee, and reign with his faints 
a thoufand years, ancilthen judge the world, are as plain doEtrines as 
any in the Bible ; and if fo, what a -fine anodine this thtle notion is to 
keep both faints and linnets eafy and fecure. That there is a going 
to be a glorious day of the outpouring of the holy fpirit, to conveet 
all, both Jews and Gentiles ; and I know of no lea but what (wallows 
down this fweet bate of opium, wittgreat delight ; for it is exceed. 
ing fweet, and the nearer we imagine it, the fweeter it taftei. 'But 0, 
-how will you be difappoirited when you hear the midnight cry ; be-
hold, the bridegroom cometh, &c. So when the ieveoth trumpet be• 
gins to found, the nary of God will be finiffied, as to the glorious 
day; fo when the feventh vial has done running, it will be done : But 
if you will deny that Chrift is ever to come until the final judgment, 
pray tell me what is Meant by Chrift's protnife to his difciples, of fit-
ing on twelve. thrones ? what his transfiguration meant ? what Iv to 
be underftood by what Job, David, Ifaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Mathew 
and St. John, has wrote in the forecited places ? and what Pea meant 
when he (aid the dead inthrift 'hall rife fiat, and heKings and -Plias 
But it thole things were generally believed, that day would not come 
like a thief, Noah's flood, &c. and whit is meant by Rev. 5, to ? But 
I (hall proceed. a ith. From the fame fource arifeth this error ; that 
there are fome good people among all feaaries ; this is not to be won. 
deed at,. for all knowing they are wrong in fome things, and not be-
ing willing to take up the crofs and come out from thole things which 
they know are wrong, they had rather jultify others in their wrongs; 
than by condemning them, condemn themfelves : This you call chari-
ty ; but if this-be charity, it feems John Baptift had but little; fee 
Math.;, 7, nor thrift hinsfelt, Chap. re, 34, nor /Isiah, Ifah. 48, s 
to 9, nor Stephen, Atts 7, Sr.'But you Will thy there were divinely 
infpired ; to this I (hall only anfwer : There is hut two fpirits, and 
/Ke that hat the fpirit of Clartft it divinely inrpired in lime degree or 
getter a 
he will not fall from grace ; and it is as true that he will' 
perfevere in holinefs if he is truly regenerated : But it is certain 
by the parable, Math. r 3, that the ttony and thorny ground hearers 
received a change which was not regeneration ; and, to were unfruit-
ful, John 5, 35. Math, 12, 43, 44. Heb. 6, 4. 2 Peter 2, 20, at, at. 
fo he that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is not 
worthy of the kingdom of God ; and many of his difciples went back 
and walked no more with him, &c. Luke 14, es to 34.: 7thly. The 
Methodift doe-trine ; that a man that is truly regenerated may fall 
from'grace ; now this is a delution ; for whom he loves, he loves to 
the end : And when the muttard teed of true grace is once Town in 
the heart, it will grow; and when the' leaven of true raving grace 
is once hid in the heart, it will work until the whole is leavened ; fo 
he that is born of God finneth not, viz. doth not finally fail away, for 
his feed reinaineth in him : And whofoever is born of God finneth 
not,-via. not unto death.; but God keepeth him, and none can pluck 
them out of his hands, John to, 28, 29, fo their pretending to, per-
feettion, and denying elettion, are delufions, and tend to hadeify the 
Deity, and are a degree (I believe) of blafphemy : For it tends to 
make God mutable like our wicked (elves. 8thly. The clevilifh Sha-
kerifin fcene of blafphemyr pretending they are as finlefs as God him-
(elf ; and many other damnable errors they propagate, and hold; as 
that Chi ift is perfonally come in them, &c. 9thly. The Baptift error, 
tho' I do not believe it to be a damnable one, to deny infant Baptifin ; 
yet I believe it is an error ; for certainly circumcifion typified bap-
tifin Betides, it is plain that it was a mercy or a bleffing that Abra-
ham might bring his children and fervants under obligations, by that 
lign of the feal ; and Paul plainly tells us, that they that have his 
faith, are blelled with him ; and that the bleffings of Abraham are corns 
on the Gentiles, thro' Jefus Chrift, &c. on as many as have the faith 
of faithful Abraham, who is the father of all true believers. nth. 
Behold t this Cockatrice egg has hatched another ferpent, which has 
the power of a bewitching charm, and bath even charmed almoft all 
God's children into an error, and it is very likely will hold them until 
the Bridegroom comes, and awakes them out of fleep, by the voice of 
the arch angel. This is fimiler to the grand Jewifft error, at Chrift's 
coming to fuffer for the fins of the eleet ; the juit for the unjult. Now 
the Jews read the prornifes and believed them, And were only miflaken 
inihe point of time when they were to be fulfilled, and the manner & 
how ; the very difciples themfel vesfeem to be 'deceived in thefe points, 
as-plainly appears by their differing about. vho thould be greeted, 
Math, zo, et and on, and by what they Paid to him going to Emmaus, 
Luke 24, 21, when they told him they verily thought it had been He 
that fhould have redeemed Ifrael ; and by the goeftion they allied hime 
AEls 2, 6-and it is plain that the difciples aid not, till fame time af 
ter his relterre6tion, undetftand that there was ever to be a-Gentile 
church, Mis so, et, 4 g. Chap. r it a, 3, 17. Eph. 3, et 5,. 6. Now be-
troth; the Jew; did nt widei4,110 14c krgalif49?, and voices of the' 
prophetse 
2 
other ; for .he that is not for us, is avian us, faith the Lord ; and we 
have all drank of one fpirit, who walk not after the fleth, &c. 12th. 
From the fame fource Iprings another abominable error, which makes 
Void come of the mot comfortable promices to believers, (if rightly 
tonderaood) which, are as follows : La! I am with you to the end of the 
world, and thefe figns (hall follow thole that believe, &c. and alt 
things are potlible to him that believeth ; atk and ye thrill receive, 
He that lacketh wifdom, let him afk of God, who giveth to all who alk 
in faith, nothing waver-Inge John 14, le. Now thefe wavering, col-
lege learnt merchairts of the gape!, have made the world in general 
believe, that, though they fart and pray:ever fo much, it is an enthu-
fiattical notion to cape& any gracious anfwer of prayer ; otherways 
than by a common providence, and.it is needful for them fo to teach, 
and make the. people fo, believe ; for if they can't make the people be-
lieve they are as holy as any body, they will fall into difgrace, and fo 
wont work it right. ao ycu make void the law of God, to eftablith 
your .own traditions ; and by there abominable ways, you have quite 
bariithed falling out ofthe church, except upon fettling a minitter, or 
fornething of the kind, which is all a !ham from firft to left ; becaufe 
there is neither exatenhe nor precept for this pompous way of ordina-
tion in.the Bible and by reafon of thole, and fuch like doarines, fa-
mily religion of all forts is entirely out offathion ; fuch as family fall. 
ing and prayer ; infttuaing children and fervanta, to pray, fall, &c, 
s3th. But here Itarts up another error, to make void the law of God 3 
TINT yuu know that in your confeflion of faith, you fa', The fcrip- 
tures of the old and new TeffaMent are the word of God, and a per-
ft:0 rule of life and prgliase, inolliega of religion ;" this is true; but 
vehen you come to be ctillenged to produce example or precept, for 
the juffification.of your lives and praEliceso how (pick will you fly 
fretto your own article of faith, and God's too; and fay, 0, there are 
snarly things left prudential with the Churh, Now is not this raying, 
here is a perfect rule, imoetica 2 and do you thick you can by fuch 
ev'afive anfwera, efcape the cur las of the book, or Keep your names 
fr um being taken out sf it ? If you.thus add, and diminifft, as fuits 
yciroown turn, backwards and forwards as you plea fe, what will you 
do at theeteckaning day with there places of fcripture, Frov. 3o, 6, 
neut. las ea, Rea. ea, Exod. as, 40. But as I am not your Judge, 
I (hall leave you to prepare to anfwer thefe things to him, who caufed 
them to be put into the records of. divine truth ; hut as a friend I beg 
leave to tell you, I believe you had better leave off this illicit trade in 
religion in time. ; at tr. From the fame fource flows this abomination 
to the Lord, viz. that preaching is a trade'by which it is right for a 
roan to enrich himfelf, as by any other trade or occupation vvhatro• 
eyes; this is a thing never found out by Chaff's tniniffers before nor 
after his cemirg, till the rife of Antichriff ; but it is generally believed 
1.1:3,/ days ; And it is rolled as a facet morfel under the tongue, by 
thofe that make; inerchandiie cf the gofpel ; but take care, (you:that 
your ferieues at the rate of three or four dollars a preachment) 
tali 
that you do not cheat your employers, and fell them mouldy bread, 
and linking meat, that will not nourifh them ; and they die for 
lack of vifion ; or cloath them with the Spider's web of your own 
fpinning,or the figleaves of their own rigbteoufnefs, which will not be 
a fufficrent covering at the reckoning day. Lookout laity, for if you 
are deceived, you are loft forever I 0 eternity, eternity, an endleft 
duration. teth. And laft, I (hall mention one that reaches from the 
Pope on the throne, to the Shaker on the dunghill ; and this is built 
on want of love to God and one another, viz. Every Church muff fo • 
km* bind every member to !land by that particular felt, to which 
they join ; and if any one member fees they are ever lb wrong, they 
muff convince the whole, and make them turn about, or they are fore 
to be dealt with ; and if they will not turn about again, and embrace 
their errors, they are lure to be excommunicated ; and delivered to the 
Devil to be buffeted, &c. And they will fay, Chrilt told his Church, 
46 whatioever ye bind on earth, (hall be bound in heaven," and you 
Ought to be very careful what you do, tee. and all this in the molt fo• 
lemn manner, and ten times more ; and charge theta with the breach 
of a mott faletnn covenant, &c. and by there means, will affright poor, 
ignorant people, to live and die in the praaice of known errors: 
Poor creatures ; they little think they had better break their covenant 
with men, and lo incur their difplearate, than to break the commands 
of God, and fo incur his difp!eafure : But oh ! this is the crofs, the 
grevious crofs : &ticks, they fee others do fo who profefs, and they 
think mutt be good men, and if they are, God will certainly -forgive
them, and fo he will me too ; fo meafuting yourfelves by yourfelves, 
you deceiVe yourfelves, (as Paul faith,) From the fame !butte flaring: 
the amazing ignorance of the lign of the prefent time. The prevail. 
jag nee le61 of reading and ftuclying the fcriptures; and indeed if any 
cite does fait and pray, and Rudy their Bib!es, and fo gain any know; 
ledge of God's word, and the iign of the prefent time, he is certain of 
being called an Enthufialt, &c. But I than proceed to fay fomething 
concerning the lign of the prefent time, from what I find in the Reve-
lations, which you will remember, I before compared to a mats; &c. 
But I (hall only treat of filch things as are ne,ceffary, in the concifeti: 
Manner, to convey my ideas of the figns of the prefent time, without 
meddling with any thing heretofore laid cn the fubje6t by any other au-
thor. Now we find in this book of the Revelations, Chap. s, 4, sr, 
that St. John was-dire5ted to write, and fend his prophefe to the fever 
churches of Afia ; now if thefe prophefies were only to thole Leven 
churches, as fuch they do not concern us at all, but are all fulfilled; 
for thefe churches have been extina feveral hundred years, and fo the 
Bible is fulfilled ; which to believe would be a damnable error indeed, 
equal to the doarine of univerfal falvation ; but this is not the cafe; 
as it is clear from the trumpets, vials, and elpecially from the loth 
chapter ; yet St. John is no where direEted to alter his fide, or make 
anti new fublisription to any other church, or churches. Then necel-
farily theft ea:deg:at:rota will fo low. Fiat, that each of thole elor. 
circa 
tires are to be underflood, a diftina period of the church. td, 
`,each of the Angels are to be underftood, to he all Chrilt's true mihi-
'Acts, in each of there periods, who are endowed with the Holy Ghoft, 
lip any deg, ee, In as to he able by the fcripture to difcern the fign oft he 
time ; &declare God's Judgments to the world ; as' will further appear 
lay she two witnefres : Now all thefe periods being paft, but one, I 
Shall only fpeek 'of the two latt ; and here note, the prornifes to the 
Viriladelphian church, which no other church has, Chap. 3, 8. Be-
bold, I have let before thee an open dodr, and no Man can (hut it. 
alt. This fignifies that the church, helot?, or at the beginning of this 
period, was confined, Or much enibarrafred. zd. That flie fhould have 
enlargement ; and this enlargement was never to be taken away ; 
therefore, wherever this church irato be found, there is liberty of 
'confcience ; and ever (hall be .to the end, or to Chrift's coming : 
Now this is enough to know this church by; for there is no other coun-
try nor nation on earth brat this, brit what has an eftabliffiedeeligion ; 
end have made laws to Prohibit the free exercife of confcience, in 
elsings of religion ?, here will arife another necefrary confequence ; 
tb'as if the door is never to be that againft this church, then. the Lao-
dicean church muff arife in the fame place; and this is the very church 
now ex-thing in this land; as will appear more plain in treating of the 
trumpet's.' Second promife : behold I will make them of the fynna-
gogue of Satan, (which fay they are Jews, or the true fpiritual feed of 
'Abraham, and are not, but do lie) come and werfhip at thy feet ; and 
so know that I have loved thee. How plain this has been fulfilled by 
the acknowledgement that has been made by all (hangers, who have 
edited this country formerly, efpecially the firft century ; fee Salmon't 
account of the religion of this land, and others. Third promife : I 
will keep thee from the hour of temptaliOn ; which (hall come upon 
all the world ; to try them that dwell upon the earth : Here (he had a 
promife, that Chrift would gather in the members of this chatch,be-
fore the great troubles came, that thould follow upon the rife of the 
Laodicean church, and her errors ; and before the great "troubles: 
which attended oar gaining independence in the left 'revolution, and 
the pouring out of the feventh vial, &c. and then follows Chriit's 
Watch word ; behold I come quickly : the fourth promife is to 
thole that (hall live through and overcome thefe troubles and 
temptations ; and the word quickly, denotes that the period will 
Ise (bort that the Laodicean church will continue, before Chritt will 
iome ; and as to the feventh' 
 or Laodicean church, I would obferve 
that it is the Amen, (which Signifies left, as Omega does, being the 
Slat( letter in the Greek alphabet, Chap. ez, 13.) that fpeaks to thit 
church, and as to the chargters of this church, if they do not exactly 
anfwer to the charader of the prefent American church, I know not 
*hat refainhlance is. I Shall only take notice of two things More here. 
lend firft, what a friendly admonition Chrift gives, vette 19 ; he zeal. 
ZAIS therefore, and repent. zd. Behold I Rand at the door and knock. 
Wear wirer: a friend is got lo near us, as to hand at the door an4 
knock,' 
4nock, we expea to fee him inhantaneoully. Now he has been knocli-
ing very loud, by his providences, ever fince the dark day.; yet ac-, 
cording to his own words, Luke 21, 35. Math. 24, 36. How fecure 
& ftupid the world is ; nor will you believe, till you fee the fon amen 
come 0 Stupidity and blindnefs. The next Chapter treats ,of the 
Millenneum. And here note,. God is Peen upon the throne of his., 
providence, bringing about the infinitely wife purpofes thereof, as 
Kings 22, 19. which are in this throne and round about ite. And 
the four beafts, are the foul difpenfatiens of the church or earth, in, 
oppofitiornto the four monarchies in Daniel a, 31, & on. Zech., 1, r 
and answer to the four. Carpenters, verfe 20, 2r.. Thefe holy beads 
reprefent the church before the flood ; the church after the flood ; be-, 
fore the givingesf Moles'. law; under the law, and under, the gospel ; 
the two Taft are alfo typified by Ezekiels two (ticks, Chap. $7,. r 5, and 
our. Here I would make. one obfervation worth noticing, viz. That 
as the Holy Bible is God's word, and began with this world, fo it ends 
with the world ; and tells nothing what (hall be more or lefs afier the 
general .Judgment ; only that the faints (hail be happy, and the wick.' 
ed miierable 5 this may be a ftrange idea to many, but is as true I. 
believe, as that Alpha wee the 114, and Omega the la(t letters in the. 
Greek alphabet;but to return. As to the e),ez, of thefe beafts, they, 
are ferret impulfes of the holy fpirit, by which the faints (efpecially-
an thole who are called to be witoeffes) fee and underhand things, the . 
world knows nothing of, r John 2, 20, 27. t Cor. a, 10. John 3, 8. 
The reafcn why they are called bealts, is, becaufe of their imperfedia , 
on in their militant (tete ; and as to the ufe. of their wings, as Ifaisib 
feeret, Chap. 6, 2, 3. With twain they cover their. faces ; fo the world; 
sahhat know them ; with twain they cover their feet ; fo the world, 
fees not their dole walk with God ; and with team he did fly ; that 
is, the fpirit carries them beyond what the men of tire world can un-.. 
derhand. There is the ferne thing again rinder a litthedifferent 
tude, in Ezek. 1,4, to the end ; and now alt ho' the next three Chap...., 
tets contain the periods, under a different fithilitude, over again, front 
(Thrifts' firft cons.rne, to his fecund ; yet to explain them as I under. 
!land them woind flvell this pamphlet to a folio; I (hall therefore only 
lay that Chrift's fecond coming is plainly let forth, Chap, 5, 8, to the . 
end, and Chap. 7, 9, to she 'rid. And now I (hail proceed to lay Come-
thing concerning the fixth and feventli Trumpets. And here note; 
Et. John fees God upon the throne of his providence, bringing about 
the purples thereof, Ch,p, 4, 2, acid 5, s. r Koreas 22, 19, 20, and 
it is abfolusey necetrary that a e lo uncle, stand it. And thefe Angels, 
(ho' produced by Gral's providence, as Pt,a,aoh was, yet they do rot 
come out of ik temple, or Sr tie church, as the Angels of the fevea , 
churches, or thole which pout out the vials do ; as will appear wheat 
see come to (peak of the vial:;bur there Angels are feid to Stand be- 
thee GO, Chap. 8, a, as the Dragon dote before the weenie, Chap. 
iz, 4, viz. in ;thee trio:( to, or agsirs(t the fainis, or taatls; nod the(?!-. 
angels~ arslies fseele perfonte hut Foyer-le gr 
The fuundieg cf the Trumpets, dnubtlels allude to Motet's directing 
the Ifraelites to found their Trumpets when they went to war, Numb. 
le, 2, 9. Chap. 35, 6. Judges 7, an, 22, and lb denOte War, in or by 
that. power ; who gives the alarm ; which is here called founding the 
Trumpet. It is needfull here alto to explain, what is to be undatftood 
lee the great River Euphrates. Now. Motes in Geo. 2, to, and on, 
delceihes all three of the other oceans ; calling them by the ,name of 
ritere; but of this he only lays, and the fourthit Euphrates ; nor was 
there any thing further known about it, till that period-came' 
 when 
the fixth Trumpet was to found ; as to what lay on the other fide of 
it, or whether it could be croffed or not, by any people of record or 
hiltory. Here I would note, that whatever is done in any. power, by 
the content or leave of the power or Angel, (which I under(tand fr. 
nonymous terms here) is laid to be done by that Angel, or power. 
As Great-Britain, or the Parliament, • or the King, read: war on us, 
vac, Now the Angel that founded this Trumpet, was the Spanith pow-
er, in Ferdinand and ,Ifabella's reign ; when Chriftopher Columbus 
found this continent gift. Now lays St. John, Chap. 9, 13, I heard 
a voice from the four horns of the golden ;titer, which is before God ; 
Paying to this Angel which had the Trumpet, loofe the four Angels 
which are hound on, in, or by this river or fea ; and this voice is the 
voice of God's providence, occalioned. by the fuffering of the faints, 
which was dye-Atilt, about this time ; and this voice coming from the 
fehr horns ; as horn. are powers, as you may fee Chap. 76, 12. The 
golden altar,fappofed there were true wen fhipers in each of thefe horns, 
Arid you mull mind in this book, Chrift's church is never called but 
erase, in any one period, tho' in eeer lb many places. Now this An-
gel was to look theft four Angels, (this was Spain) about the. time 
the inriuifition was invented, to perfecute the faints.. Columbus came 
in America firll ; this was at the firft hour; then France, Holland and 
England, following on, antwering. to the day, month, and year ; 
so flay the third part of men, that is, the native inhabitants of this 
vett Wellern Continent ; and how he tells of guns. that fhould be ufed 
to kill them, for lays he, out of their mouths 'trued fmoak, fire and 
briniffone, and the reit repented nut ; how exaa this prophecy is ful-
filled, as to the Indians; who Hill (notwithltanding all the pains that 
has been taken) worthip devils ; are murderers, and Savage yet ; a very 
few excepted : And as I laid that there was no place that the Philadel• 
ohlan chtirch could antwer to but here, fo there is no place, or nati• 
on under heaven, that can aufwer to there prophecies, as this does. 
Here note, that when St. JohrhiPeaks of -the church's Second removal, 
rs, 54, into the wiltlerstele, he fays ; and to the woman was 
oiven two wings of a great Eagle, that the might fly, &c. How ftrange 
that she lira fellers of New England fhould come over in a Snow 
celled the Eagle, which always carry their fails on two triallsbnly.7 
 
tut to return; bafiaie this Trumpet has done founding, here is also-
7iier Angel or pooer, Chao. ro, a. And I faw another mighty Angel 
turtle (101-11 heaven, viz. eccduccd by God's providence—clothed 
IN 'it 
a 
with a cloud, viz, unknown heathen lands ; and a rainbow was upon 
his head, viz, his head was in the form of a rainbow ; but here note, 
he had no crown, as the horns have, Chap. 13, 1, and his face as it 
Were the fun, viz, his face was towards the riling fun, and his feet 
as pillars olfire, viz. the ruling power is zealous and open, and 
(hall warm or heat ether powers : Now loth not this figure aniser to. 
the United States of America ? See how, the fame zeal has caught and, 
fired France, &c. verfe 2d. And he had in his hand a little book opera 
viz. there then be liberty in this power to Rudy the Bible as much, 
as they pleafe, and as the book is called little, it signifies there will be 
Tome little light concerning the fulfilment of the prophefies ; for Sr. 
John is ordered to take this book and eat it, verfes 8, 9, so. fee Ezek. 
d, 8, and 3. I to 4, Jerh. 15, 16. Now as St. fohn has been dead fo 
many hundred years, this can't be he, but Come one in this power, 
with force degree of difcernment of the fulfilment of the prophecies, 
and agrees with verfes a & t I, of the s I Chapter. But to return—
He, (viz. the Angel) let his right foot on the lea, and his left on the 
land, viz. the molt populous part on the. lea, and the other on the 
aforefaid unknown lands, verfe 3d. and cried with a loud voice ;' 
this was the cry of liberty, and our appeal to heaven !all war, which 
was like the roar of a Lion, and was heard all over Europe ; now the 
feven thunders being Cealed up, I (hall fay nothing about them, for the 
book forbids meddling with God's fecrets ; and here again I would 
remind you that whatever done in any power, is laid to be done by, 
that power,' and as for what folloWs in the 5, 6 & 7 verses, I (hall 
only refer you to the beginning of this pamphlet ; and as I base laid 
above what I meant to fay on the folloWing vet lee of this chapter, and 
firth ofthe next chapter, I Mall proceed to the fecond yeah of the se 
Chapter ; but the court which is without the temple, leave out, and 
meafure it not, viz, meddle not with the errors cf any, without the 
limitsof the place where the Philadelphiah and Laodicean .churches 
were or are : For note, thefe prophefies were to the feven churches, 
Chap. 1, is. Now all' are here called Gentiles, but the true church, 
and the true church is by thefe to be trodden under foot, until the, 
words of God are fulfilled, Chap. 17, 17, and the two witneffes are all 
the prophets before Chrilt, and atter Chrilt, who bore witnsfs to the 
truth, and fuffered thatae from the world, for the truth's take; and. 
the fire that proceeded out of their mouths are God's judgment-se 
which they denounce, which will fooner or later &interne the wicked; 
who are their enemies ; ro they Hand before or againfl the God of the 
earth, as the true w knell-es have, before and nine Child's coming; and, 
this agrees to the two' Cand!efticks, which fignifies the Jewish and 
Gentile churches, and are alto called Olive branches, Z-..ch. 4, 3, in 
to the end : They are called two flicks Ezek. 37, 15, and en. Pitt,. 
to, & e, 14, there are the clond of witneffes. James 5, so. Heb. 
12, s, and Chap. as, 37. The beaft that kills them is civil eoe er 
the great city is Europe, The time of their lying dead, is the fame as 
it Chap, Is, and 15 time generaticns and a half; but how cog is 
Ittli“atic1,9 
1f 
refers to fo many places in fcripture, it is almoft endlefs to quote 
them, fee Chap. 19, 17 to the end. a Chron. 35, 2.5. Jerh. 22, so. 
Joel 3, 14. Plain, 2, 9, Ezek. 39, le and on. Rev. 2, 27. Math 21, 
44. And tho' there is not one book in the Bible, but what fpeaks of 
this tremendous day under Ionic figure or other; yet how little notice 
is taken of it, tho' it is juft upon us : For behold, the feventh 
vial already begins to run; for as the (lath fell on the natives of this 
land, I conclude the left of it will continue to the end : And as the 
feeenth is poured out into the air, and the air extends all round the 
globe, fo I conclude this feventh has began already to run in the ea ft • 
ern parts of the world ; and when one of thofe powers fall, which is 
called the tenth part of the city, then the vial will extend this way, 
and is agreeable to Chap. I1, 13. And when the vial comes here, it 
will be done, or the )aft of it will run out in this land ; fo the glori-
ous new Jerufalem will be in this land, agreeable to thefe words 
The fiat (hall be left, and the IA (hall be fire(. But remember, the 
ufhering in of this day, is to be like Noah's flood ; for as it was in 
the days of Noah, fo (hall it be in the day when the fon of man is re-
sented. Now as Noah's flood was unexpeeted, fo will this day conic 
as that was Ridden, fo will this be, as St. Paul fays, in the twinkling 
-of an eye; as there was but one that bore teftimony of that, and he 
was flighted and defpifed, fo it is likely it will be at that time. And 
now I (hall proceed to make fume remarks. r. God is a fovereign, 
:cloth not give an, account of his conduit to his creatures, but eioikech 
all things according to the counfels of his own infinite wifdom. 2. It 
has been God's general method, when he was about to bring any great 
rj udgment on the world, to raife up fome trom among the, fallen race, 
to tell them of it, and warn them of their danger, and intreat them to 
repent, and turn to the Lord. 3. Thole that the Lord hat fo railed 
up, have generally been filch, that the world would not hear, but have 
defpifed, rejected, and perfecuted 5 either becaufe they were poor and 
unlearned, or becaufe they thought they railed on them, when they 
told them of their wickednefs, and denounced God's judgments againtt 
them, if they did not turn ; and yet thofe nell'engers always Rid, -and 
always will do it, out of love and pity ; and yet the more zealous they 
are, the more they are hated ; and the more abundant they love and 
pity, the more they are reviled & hated; & the more religious any are, 
that are not truly fo, the more they fpite and envy thole that deteel 
them, as you may fee, Jerh, ao, 1,2. Math. 25, 3, Aas §, 1—Chap. 
241 I. And if the Lord fhould come and drive out all the buyers and 
fellers out of the churches now, as he did once out of the Temple, A 
believe there would be very few left ; but Oh I I pity my poor deceiv-
ed friends. 4. That Chrifts' fecond coming will be as contrary to the 
expeCtation of the world, as the flood was contrary to the expeaatioo 
of the old world ; and that he will then appear to his faints, as he 
did to the difciples, when he was transfigured in the mount ; and this 
can't be the final judgment, but a thoufand years before, according to 
Job ;9, 25, 2.6 27, Hag). 17, t5. Ifah. 26, e9. Ezek. 37, 12, 13,`24. 
Math. 5, 
iy 
generation is at this day, I cannot tell, nor exaCtly when they began 
their Rending on their feet lignifies their ftrenuoufly Rending for the 
ancient purity of fume gofpel truth, which it denied ; their being 
received up to heaven, is their fitting up the Apoftolic datrine of 
Chrift's fecond coining, by the influences of the holy fpirit, working 
in their minds, or his mind that begins this; but as it was in the days 
of Noah, fo ft:all it be at this day ; fo the number will be very final! ; 
the cloud fignifies the darknefs that will cover mankind, that the 
will not know any thing about the matter. The earthquake fuppofes 
a great rupture in the world ; and the tenth part of the city's falling, 
fuppofes the tenth part of that city will fall where the witnefIes lie dead, 
and a great many of the inhabitants be dettroyed ; and then the fe-
venth Trumpet will found, which I believe will be in that, as well as 
this land, and then the myftery of God will be finiflied, as he hath de-
clared to his fervants the prophets ; now remember the teftimony of 
Jefus is the fpirit of prophecy, Chap. if; so. And again, defire 
fpiiitual gifts, but rather that you may prophecy ; for greater is he 
that prophefieth, than he that fpeaketh with tongues : And again, 
quench not the fpirit, defpife not prophefying. And now I (hall pro-
ceed to fay a few words about the fixth and leventh vials ; and here 
note, thefe Angels come out of the Temple, that is the church; their 
clothing fine linen, which is the righteoufnefs of faints ; their breaths 
girded with golden girdles,which are the truths of God's word et& one of 
the four beafts gives them the vials, viz, the gofpel church. 
For you 
will remember I have told you what thefefour holy heath are : And now 
libel' proceed to fpeak of the fixth vial. And the fixth Angel poured 
out his vial : Now the golden vials denote Tome particular truths re-
feting to thole (even periods of the church ; the plagues; God's judg-
ments. Now this vial fell on, or acrofs the river Euphrates, for na• 
tions do not inhabit the lea, And under the fixth Trumpet the way 
was found acrofs the Atlantic; fo this vial fell on the natives of this 
land, and dried them up, that the way for the four kings of the eaft, 
might be prepared, viz. the four powers bound by this river or lea, 
Chap, 16, t3: And I law three unclean fpirits, like frogs; now thefe 
are evil counfellurs, and falfe teachers, that will hop and croak about ; 
the cult comes out of the mouth of the Dragon, viz, a Pagan power ; 
the fecond out of the mouth of the beaft, viz, fume civilized power ; 
the third out of the mouth of the falfe prophet, which is a degenerat-
ed church, which is fallen from the truth, as Jerh. 28,15. Chap. 20, 
S. Now where as they are fail to go forth to the kings of the earth, 
and of the whole world, working miracles, &c. viz. the principal men 
and powers in this part of the world will adhere to them ; they will he 
eery zealous and cunning in deception, even to a wonder or miracle, 
and will inftigate them to war, and to rejea the true religion of Jelus, 
even to a miracle, and gather all their force to war, and againft the 
etuth, and it it were pollible deceive the very elea : Then follows 
Chrifts' watch word, and advice much the fame as to the Laodicean 
church, Chap 3, i8. Math. 24, 42, & 25, 13, verfe 16, and they were 
gathered into a place called is the Hebrew tongue, Armagedon this' 
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?slath. 5, 5, & re, 28. Danl. 12, r I. Rev. g, 10. Chap. so, 4, 6. 
}lett; 12, 22, 23, 24. Thefe are but a few texts of many that could be 
quoted ; pray take your Bibles and read them, and let your hearts to 
leek the Lord, and prepare to hear the midnight cry ; behold the 
bridegroom corneal, go ye out to meet him. e. This will be the 
trying time with the churches, and then we (hail know, which are 
built on the Prophets, and Apodles, Jefus Chritt being the chief 
corner done. Such will (tend, when the winds, rain, and dorm comes 
and beats upon them. But thole that are built on the fandy founda-
tion of worldly wifdom, traditions of men, money, and liberal edu• 
cation will fall, and great will be the fall, Math. 7, 24.. 6. Oh ! poor 
New England ! poor America ! what (hall I do for you ? for the time 
is at hand. Alma eighteen hundred years ago, there was a man lived 
in the world, who Paid and did a great many things ; he was a poor 
man, and not much noticed by the learned and great ; for a number 
of years he worked at the carpenters trade, but after a while this poor 
ignorant man, (as he was looked upon by the learned) began to preach ; 
and who minded him ? not the learned and great, for fay they, have 
gny of the Rulers or Pharifees believed on hint ? But this people, who 
know not the law, and believe on him, are accufed. Well then, who 
did believe on him ? why a poor company of fithermen, as much dela 
piled as himfelf almoft, were his followers. Well, but he wrought 
fwere very great miracles,' which they could not deny ; well fay they, 
he has a Devil, he is a wizard ; we know the Lord fpaece to Moles, 
but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is. Well, after 
a while, thefe good ru'ers, and regukir teachers, began to be' alarmed, 
there were fo many believed on, & went after this impottor, (as they 
called him) and began to difpute him, and try to catch him in 'his 
talk, and inquire of him, who gave him his credentials or authority ; 
for, as they had the lute power of ordination, they fuppofed he was 
not regularly authorized, and fo could not be a true teacher. Well, 
this he anfwers at one time, by alking them a queftion, they did not 
fee fit to anfwer, for they did not think they were obliged to anfwer 
filch impertinent quellieus. At another time, when they made the 
fame enquiry, he told them, as he was in the Temple, deftroy this 
Temple, and within three days I will raife it'up again. Well this (as 
they viewed it) they knew was impodible ; fo now they knew he Was 
a deceiver ; and now they were determined to kill hina if they could, 
for fay they, if we let him thus alone, he will overthrow our religion, 
and the Remens will come and take us away ; and one of the greateft 
of them all, God's high Pr id, the Prefident, or Moderator, told them 
they did rot know an 1 thing ateiut it ; how expedient it was for one 
man to die for them, that the whole nation perith not; well this they 
all received as good counfel ; but the next thing was, hoW they (hould 
catch him, for it teems he kept hid now ; well the Chief Pried, who 
was Chief Judge in Ecciefiadical matters, and the red of the teachers, 
oho were very zealous in religion, and prayed a great deal) gave or, 
dere that if any man knew where he war, to tell them, fo that 
they 
,ley might take him, for now they were determined to kill him, and 
fo rid them(elves of danger, and the impohor both: Well, but how to 
accomplith this affair, without making an uproar, they did not very 
well know. Now mind, thefe very men, were the rulers and teachers 
of the only church (as they fuppofed, or knew of on earth, or that 
ever was to be, as I have before obferved) and fo were in no dangerof 
doing wrong in matters of religion. But to return : Now when they 
had concluded how and what to do, they contrive and hire one of hit 
company to betray him into their hands ; this no doubt ftrenghtheneet 
them mightily, to think they had gained one of his bed friends over 
to their party, fo by his help they in the night caught this impoftor, 
and dealer with familiar fpirits, and Devils, as they call him ; well 
they bring him before the council, and all his friends now forfake 
him, for only two follow him jolt for witnefTes, as God would have 
it, yet one of them was to intimidated, that he thrice denied that, 
he fo much as knew him : Now it feems tho' they had got him, yet 
they were peftered to get fuch witnefs as they wanted, and fo a 
queftioning him, to fee if they could not make out fomething that 
way, but he nut anfwering to their likeing, one of the officers (truck 
him for his tam anfwer to their Prefident ; then the Prefident dandS 
up, and adjures him to tell who, or what he was. Now lays the poor 
arraigned criminal (as they looked upon him) titre.] haft faid,viz. your 
condu& thews who and what I am, neverthelefs, hereafter than ye 
fee the fon of man, fitting on the right hand of power, &c, Oh ! with 
abat rage is he now filled, to tare his clothes, laying, he bath fpoken 
Blafphemy : What think ye ? 0 he is worthy of death fay they, and 
then begin to fpit on, and buffet him; now all this was done by thofe 
who fay Abraham and God were their fathers ; and all this and teat 
times more, for nothing bat becaufe he told them the truth, and how 
wicked they were, and denounced God's woes againft them. And 
can his followers if they are faithful, expe& to efcape contempt at lead, 
in this wicked generation ? No, Purely, for he has over and over told 
them they 1hould not. I have faid more on this remark than I timid, 
if it bad not appeared to me, that I had Peen a little glimpfe of fome-
thing that way, and I believe if it fhould pleafe an infinitely wife God 
to raife up poor men, as he has done, to detea and condemn the 
almminationa there are praerifed in religion now a days, they would 
fuffer as much derifion at lead, as ever they did, if not death ; and I 
believe this will be the cafe, when the witnefles come to rife and 
ttand on their feet. Remark 7th. Some hundreds of years ago, there 
was one Stephen, a follower of the Carpenter's fun, and he talked fo 
vouch about the good people and church of his day, that they arraign-
ed him, to reclaim him and convince him of his errors ; but he was 
fo cunning, that they could not well anfwer him. Well what do they 
Why they Ilk up the people, which were all church members, and 
call a general council, and bring hitn to immediate trial ; well when 
it came to, they could make out nothing againft him, only as they 
hired falfe mithefres, and it Items they could not tell owe word he ha4 
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fail, but only that be had fpoken blafphemy, in laying that that im-
pollor (as they call him) which they had a little before put to death, 
ihoreld change the rights which Moles gave them ; well this was blaf-
phertly enough. Now their great high Prieft (peaks, who wore the 
pontific robe; methinks I fee how grave and majeflic he looked, and 
how zealous for their holy place, (as they called it in the accufation) 
and holy religion, and begins to queftion him. Well now the poor 
criminal at the bar begins to fpeak, and firth, he makes a great long 
recital of things done fome hundred years before; I dare fay they did 
slot think it at all to the purpole ; but by and by he comes to the cafe 
an hand, and rails on them molt monftroully, and charges them with 
ncircumcifed hearts, and ears, and tells them their fathers had killed 
the Prophets, and they had refitted the Holy Ghoft, and were murder-
ers, &c. Now this was intolerable, that fuch a poor criminal fhould 
tail fo on God's high Prieft, and all the good church, therefore they 
raft him out of the city and honed him, calling on God, &c. Now if 
a man was thus openly to confront the Prefidents of our Colleges, and 
the (warms of hirelings that come from then! yearly, and call them 
Antichrills, as I believe they moftly if not all are, would he not be 
in danger ? Judge ye. Remark 8. As there were witneffes for God in 
the Jewifh church, and thofe were generally poor and defpifed 5 fo 
there has been in the gofpel church much the fame, until the witneffea 
viere killed ; and it is altogether likely, and I believe certain, that it 
it will be fo when they come to rife again, for as it was in the days of 
Noah faith the Lord ; and in your condudt you as much refitt the 
lioly Ghoft as the Jews did ; for you reject the poor if they teach 
truth, and will have none but the learned and worldly wife, no more 
than they ; nay you deny the power of the Holy Ghoft, to furnifh 
men for teachers, unlefs they are college learnt, and in fo doing you 
defpife Chrift and his Apoftles, for they were not college learnt ; nor 
an you buy the Holy Ghoft now, any more than Simon could, nor 
can you difcern the things of God, by your worldly wifdom, any 
more than they could, fee John 7, 48. a Cor. r, zi & 2, 8. But the 
preaching of the crols is to yon foolifhnefs, for your wifdom being of 
this world, ye cannot difcern the blowing of the fpirit, John 1, 8, is, 
az. Noreen you with all your rhetoric, and retrograde, make a liar 
of him, who has laid ye cannot ferve God and Mammon, and the 
friendthip of this world is enmity with God, & unlefs you take up the 
rofs & follow nee, ye cannot be my difciples, you that turn religion to 
word!y advantage, tre, to ferve your covetous ends, & bellies, be you ever 
fo great & grand. The poor Carpenter's fon will return by and by, 
with his name written, Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, and will 
:hind you hand and foot, &c. I beg you therefore to become the meek, 
And lowly followers of the Lamb of God, before he tares you to pieces, 
el ad there be none to deliver you ; pray look into your Bibles, and fee 
whether you look like the Carpenters' fon, and his followers, which 
care a pattern for all their followers, or do you not much more referee-
-oft, the haughty Phaifes, who loved the upperrnoft feats, greetings in 
the 
$he Market, and to be called, reverend, reverend, and for a pretence, 
made long prayers, and made fuch an appearance of outward holinefs. 
Well might the Lord fay if it were pofilb1e they fhould deceive the very 
ilea. And they than have power to snake fire come down in the fight 
of men, that is vehement zeal, to deceive, &c. Rev. 13, 13. ASits 20, 
29, 30. 0 my brethren at the laity, take heed to yourfelvee, put no 
tiara in man, but read your Bibles, fait and pray, cry mightily to 
God for his holy fpirit, to guide you into all truth, and fear not them 
that kill the body only,but fear him that can cart both foul and body into 
hell ; thy from the wrath to come before it be too late ; for I tell yore 
again in the name of the Lord, behold the Judge hands at the door, 
and if you are found wanting, all the men in the world, learned or 
unlearned, cannot help or lave you from- the dreadful fentence, depart 
ye curled, &c. Perhaps you think the (event!! Trumpet will not found 
in your day, but whether you will hear or forbear, I tell you it i.e 
near to come, and then he that is filthy will be filthy hill ; perhaps 
you will think me crazy, I tell you I don't care what you think of me 
prepare to meet your Judge, who is jolt at the doors. Pray leave oh' 
your covetous prattices, worldly mindednefs and fraudulence, for 
when once the mailer of the houfe is rifen up and fhut to the door, 
end you are without, your cries will do you no good. 0 my brethren 
of the human race, what can I fay, or do, to awake you out of fleep, 
before this tremendous day overtakes you. I (hould be willing to ex • 
traft the bleod from my veins to write with, and blot it with my 
tears, if I thought that would move you to prepare for what is befora 
you ; for Babylon the Great is jolt going to fall, therefore come out 
of her, left you drink of her cup; for in one day (hall her calamity 
come ; death and mourning ; and (he fball utterly be burnt with fire, 
for ftrong is the Lord God who judges her ; and the time, is at hand, 
and woe to you that bite with the teeth, and cry, peace, peace t 
who ear up the fin ref the people, and fet your hearts on their iniqui-
ties ; for behold the Lord cometh, with ten thourand of his feints, to 
take vengeance on all who defpife the meek and lowly lamb of God,ire 
his faints. Woe unto the foolilb prophets, that follow their own, 
fpirit: 0 Ifrael, thy Prophets are like the foxes of the defers, Leek. 
13, 3, 4. Behold thefe men have let up this idol falary in their he4rtr, 
therefore the Lord will not be inquired of by them, nor will the Lord 
(pale, without true repentance, tho' Noah, Daniel and Job, Rood 
the gap, verfe 14, ao, at. 
A POEM. 
The King who reigns above the Then Alleluia be the long 
lky, 
Then join ye faints, and angle 
My foul with rapture views him all 
nigh ; 
And found his praifes•round the 
ile lure will come, nor tarry ball. 
Wog, 
Dellnefs be gone. rook epee/ 
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The tbouland years will foon 
commence, 
When faints and prophets (hall 
arife
' 
And found his praifes through 
the fkiee ; 
0 may I join that heavenly 
train, 
And praife my glorious Saviour's 
name. 
Awake my mufe, awake and 
ling, 
And praile the whole creations' 
king. 
Be comes with mildly array'd, 
And all his foes ihall be afraid 
I (hall now proceed to anfwer fome queitions, which I think wilt 
tloubtlefs arife in the minds of thofe that read what I have wrote in this 
pamphlet. 
Qe lit. What moved you to write the foregoing dreadful denuncia-
tions ? 
A. The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and ye hear the found there-
of, but can't tell whence it cometh, or whether it goeth s Moreover, 
the Lord charged his followers, that whatever they heard in the ear, 
to proclaim on the houfe-tops ; and this mutt mean the fecret impul-
les of the holy fpirit, which has always been filth a mighty myftery to 
the men of the world. 
Qa. id. Do you think you shall make any body embrace your fenti-
fronts ? 
A. No, no, if the old world did not believe Noah, nor the Jews 
thtir Prophets, Chrift nor his followers, (whole !hoes I am not wor-
thy to clean) but reje5ted them becaufe they were poor and unlearned, 
will any one think I am fo great a fool as to expe61 to (peed better ? 
betides, if very many fhould believe my prediations, it would make 
them Hie, for it would not be as in the days that were before the 
flood, for there was but eight then, the reit were eating and'cliinking, 
&c. But it would rejoice my very heart, to fee my' predi&ions made 
void as Jonah's was at Nineveh, by a hearty repentance and turning to 
God, from all iniquity, fraudulence and covetoufnefs, (which poor 
old Paul, that was whipped fo much) laid was idolatry. 
ed. But do you think you are divinely infpired to write thus ? 
A. There are but two fit its, the fpirit of truth, and the fpirit of er-
tor ; and I need not tell you by which I am moved, for'if I do, }toot 
lit ail! judge for yourfeivesi and have AP ioditputable right fo to doe 
tig 
tin there is neither force, nor bite, in Cheiiis religion ; but he that 
has ears to hear, let him hear ; betides if it is the fpirit of truth, and 
you (}could call it the fpirit of error, it would be doing no more than 
as great profeirors as you have done ; who laid thuu waft altogether 
born in fin, and dolt thou teach ut, John 9, 34. But remember, calling 
the holy fpirit the fpirit of the Devil, is blalpherny againft H 
the oly 
t holt, as much now as ever it was. 
Q 4th. But do you not think you may be miftaken ? You are is 
Fallible creature, and no more to be depended upon than any body elfe. 
A. I may be miitaken, but God's word can't be miltaken, but is 
true. I am very fallible, therefore I tell you put nu trult in man, but 
fearch the faiptures, fait and pray, lett ye enter into temptation, and 
don't depend on any man, for he is a fool that trufteth to his owa 
heart ; but pray for the holy fpirit, without which you can't difcerre 
the things of the fpirit ; and the word is fpirit arni life to them that 
hear aright ; and the time is at hand, therefore give all diligence tie 
make your calling and eleelian ftire, before it he too late, and the 
night overtake you ; for ye know not the day, nor the hour where 
the fon of man cometh. Bleffed is that fervent, whom his Lot d (hall 
ind *etching ; bait woe to them that are unprepared. 
Q. 5th. But do you not think there will be a glorious thy of the 
outpouring of the holy fpirit, before Chriit's coming, and a general 
ingathering of Jews and Gentiles into one chnrch, to embrace the 
chriftian religion ? 
A. No, for thole prornifes are not to the Jew: nor Gentiles as rUCh, 
but to the elea only, as is plain froth almoft innumerable icriptures, & 
I will cite a few, if you will get your Bibles and read them, Math. 5. 
5. Rev. 5, so, Sr 20, 4, 5, 6, cc rbpared to rei'tek: 37, 13, 14, &c, And 
then fee how Paul treats of this matter.After the Jewifh church was foe 
unbelief rejeited, it teems the Gentile churches began to think all 
'The Jews were reietled ; but he rays th'ey are one in Cot ift Jefus, and 
*tall be gathered together in hint, &c. And the poesnifes were not 
to Abraham, or his natural feed, but to Chriit, and, his feed, Rome 
4, 13, 16.,Chap. t, 17. Chap. 9, 6, 7, 8. Chap. II, 7, 24. Now mind 
in this halt verfe, the Zion deliverer comes to take away their iniquity, 
Chap. a, 28, 29. John is, 52. Gal. 3, 16, 29. lieb. az, as, to the 
end. 
Q 6th. Btit do you think there are no good people now a days 
A. You will remember I have before told you, that I fuppoted the 
ceventh vial had already began to run, and that the feventh Trumpet; 
was near to found, and therefore Chritt's coming muff be very near ; 
and if his coming is to be (as he lays) as it was in the days of Noah. & 
in the days of Lot, &c. You mutt think that to antwee thefe types, 
there can't he a great many true witneffes at the prefent day, for if 
it well parable the vet y elect were to be deceived ; and even the were 
Virgins are to be afleep. And tho' there may be as many as there was 
s Kings to, 18. yet they being afleep, hear no fruit, nor can they 
btaktioreis too/settee oath', by ooec bet binafslf ; end if there bc 
any 
The world Mall bear the Truni.i 
pet found, 
And Antichrift fall to the 
ground ; 
And merchants who the gape! 
fell, 
Will then be doomed doyvn to 
hell ; 
The faints in dull (hall rife and 
join, 
The heavenly fong tweet and 
divitre ; 
'then may I fee his fmiling faces 
And ever ling redeeming grace. 
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any fuc7e, I think it high ritnTtO awalte, and let their iiglatls one, t-ont , 
they may be bleffed with thefe fervants that watch, and not be found 
amonga thole that fay, my Lord delayeth his coming, &c. Now my 
Yliencis and fees, don't deceive yourfelves, and think you can be 
Chritre difciples, and not take up the crofs and follow him, for you 
can't make a liar of him, and be laved by his atonement. 
(teth. But what is it to take up the crofs and follow him ? Is it 
noeanderrying oufelves the pleaforea and vanities of this world ? 
A. No, this is only refitting temptations, and mortifying our lulls. 
(ZdStle. Well, is it not reading, praying, fading, and Itudying to 
kriavv our duty, to which we are fa naturally averse t 
A.' No; for thee are meadpleafing and delightfome to a child of 
God, for in thefe duties, if ever, he enjoys the light of God's counteff 
:lance, and has communion with the father and fon, and enjoys that 
peace, which the world can neither glye nor tale, and theie are hi" 
holy things or pearls. 
, fZ 9th, Will, is:it not gieine nor breadici'theehungry, tz.clothes to the 
naked, which our covetous hearts are fO much, naturally averfe to do ? 
A. NO, for then a poor man that has nothing to give away, could 
not be Chrift's difciple, neither is' this any trots to him that bath a 
willing heart, and God accepteth no other; ,befides, I never heard of 
lien's being perfecuted for exercifing this benevolent virtue, but are 
neiverfally applatided, and etteeraid, by all ranks and denominations, 
the heathen not excepted. 
to. Is it not our being very zealous in religion, and efpecially 
for- the fea'we belong to, and condemning all others but thole we 
bet' ne to 
A.e'No, for none have been more zealous for religion, and for con-
demning others, even unto death, than the Pliarifees, Roman Catho• 
licks, and Heathen Idolaters. But to anfwer affirmetively. 
aft. We mutt evince, to the world, by words and actions, that we 
do not leek worldly honours, or profits, by the prat-lice of religion, or 
any virtue, but the honor that comes from God only, r Thefe 2, 6, 9. 
John 5, 44.'2 Car. to, se. And we mutt, in the plaineft and mutt 
pointed way, endeavour to convince all that make gain of, or by, 
godlineis or leek for hondurs, or to make profits of religion from 
men' n that they are importers ; not the followers of the prophets, the 
meek and lowly jefus, nor his appetites, but run alter the error of 
.Balaarn, Ste. 2d. We mull fiend up for, and contend molt earnefily 
for fuel) truths as are moil flighted or denyed, asd even lay down our 
lives rather than give up one gofpel truth ' • for any man, or number of 
men, he they ever fo wean or learned ; fee Elijah and Micaiah be-
foi-e. Ahab, Jeremiah before Zedekiah, the three children before Nebu. 
dradnezzar, Stephen before the, high prieft and council, Paul before 
Feltos, king Agrippa, and Bernice, fee the hiffory of the Martyrs ; 
nor mull we omit one duty, for fear of man ; fee Daniel on his keel 
three times a day, contrary to the king's decree ; Ire Peter and lehrt 
'Riot! the COL12Cit, Ails +o no, 33, I:9', Chap. 5, 29 & on ; nor molt 
%e l.= 
'we fear them becattfe;ebey are great ± . yd. When we are reviled as ige 
norant, feirconceited, telfwilled and wicked, abominable coverian,e 
'breakers, &c. we mutt fake it patiently, not rendering evil for evil, bee 
still ftrive to convince and reclaim, as long as there is any hope, and 
-if we are rejetled of men, arid cell out, we mutt bear it patiently, and 
till thew our loVe.for their foult. 4111. We mutt forfekt and leperate 
from all that are enemies to the crofs of Cliritt ; for how can we fay to 
-a brother, let me pull out the mofe out 'of thine eye, and behold a 
. beam 'is in :trine own eye. And happy is he that condemneth not arta-
liter in the thing which beetimfe.lf elloweth ; and faith John, he that 
btddeth a deceiveet3od's fpeed, is ['weaker of his deeds, Rom. 16, re, 
43. Here we are coromanded to vvitrearefor from Arch, who make gaits 
'of aeodlinefs, or byreligion, grrify rt eir bellies, or covetnufnels. 
!:th. And tartly, all thefe things netiftbe 'dove one of tree love !or the, 
caufe of Chritt and religion, and true unfeigned love to our' fellow 
creatures, and of this no onecan be judge but God, and our own con-
efciences, for the men of the world have always made up a Wrong judg-
ement in this matter, & have from Abel, doitn to the prefent titne,def. 
pifed, rejeEted, difdaitied, hated le per fecutecl, their bet friends; and 
while they have by every argument, and pertuation iri their power, 
endeavoured tofaye them from eternal damnation, in return, the 
-men of the world have ever treated, them as their wora enemies. But 
Oh I what amazing love, is exerci:ed, by any one who tries to di) all the 
:good he poffibly can`, to them he is fenfible will only hete him inoree, 
and treat him the worfe for his love and kindnef, ; but don't let us ha 
enittaken as Saulekas, and think we are doing God .fervice, when wl 
are per fecuting our, and Chrilt's friends. But let every one alive with 
all their ('kill and might; to fulfill this law of Chrilt, to love, and try 
to enlighten thole that dtfdain and hate them ; this will he following 
the examples of the prophets, Chrilt and his difciples, and will redound 
to the glory of God, and our own prefent and future happinefs. 
I thall now conclude this pamphlet, with a Dialogue between a int-
oilier, the church, and a merober. Note, Mirt. fiends foraMinittere 
'Weal. 'for :1,Mtn-kber. 
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 I came to talk with you about .fome _things et lay 
a- with fuch weight on my Mind,'I am greatly troubled about 
them. I hope Sirnyou will allow me to tile plainnels, for I am nut 
capable of oratory, and to fletten would be infelious. 
Min. Very well, I am not fond of rhetoric,- or flattery in converfe-
tion, but choofe the plainelt and eafieft -way of conveying ideas in cone 
verlation, especially when we converfe en ferious funjeds, we ought 
cot to conceal our meaning with ambiguous words by any means ; 
would have you tale plainnefs, and I thin take no exception. 
Mem, I thank you Sir, for the liberty you have been pleafed to give,. 
Fie, and hope you will not take it :waifs it I :ilk a few criettions fee in 
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iormation, for Ir am Lo ignorant, I' am greatly at a lofs about Matey 
things, and want inftruttion from fonaebody. 
Min. You may afk as many queltions as you pleafe, and I will en• 
deavoot to anfwer them it I can ; but you are net to very ignorant, I 
don't think, as yon pretend. 
Mem. Why Sir, a man mull be ignorant that don't know his duty, 
end I frankly acknowledge that I do not in many things ; however, 
If have a good deal to fay, and would be glad to enter on tne fubjea.. 
Min. Well, you may proceed if you pleafe,I am ready to anfwer.. 
Mem. Well Sir, you preached awhile ago corn- tbefe wards. " 
was a man of forrow, and acquainted with grief," & under the doetrin-
al part you Paid, " that after Chrift entered upon his publick miniltry, 
be lived upon the charity of his difcipks, aid they were the poorer 
tort of people too:" And in the improvement, you Paid feveral times 
over, " that it was in vain for us to pretend we were his difciplese un-
lefs we follow his examples." Do you think Sir,you preached the truth ? 
Min. Yes I believe I did, for you know he lays, " the fon of man 
bath not where to lay his head," and he had nothing to pay his trie-
bute with, without working a miraele. Arid "he that will not take 
up the crefe and follow me, cannot be my difciple, for the fervent 
is not greater than his mailer, nor the difciple- than his Lord ; and it 
te enough that the fervent be as his mailer, and the difeiple as his 
Lord." So I think the do4`teine and improvement are easily proved. 
Mem. Sir, I rejoice to find we under (laird thelcripture fo nearly alike. 
Well Sir, what do you undeftend by thole places of fcripture, Deut.. 
1 z. 3z. What thing' (never si command you, obferve to do it ; thou 
than not add thereto, nor diminifli from it ? 
Min. Why this feeras very plain, that the Jewith church was not 
to introduce any ceremonies or traditions into the church, or to take 
any out ; but was to obferve theca juft as he had given and wrote 
them down, until that prophet, (as he calls Chrift} Mould come, and 
Lim lhould they hear in all things ; and whofcever would not hear 
that prophet, fhould he cut elf frora arnongit the people, Deut. tS, 
a 5 to 19, and is the fame as in Woe. 3o, 6, which fays, add thou n,cit 
to his words, left he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar, and be-
eaufe the Jewiflt church did not obferve thefe things, the Lord tells 
shim, ye nuke void the law of God, to ellablith your own traditions. 
Mem. Well Sir, and v.hat does that mean, Rev, rez, ra. For I tef-
eify unto every man that hearetb the words of the prophecy of this 
book ; if any man (hall add unto thefe things, God Mall add unto him, 
the plagues that are written in this bor k, arid if any man (hail take 
:Away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God (hall take 
away his part out of the book of life; the holy city, &c. 
Min. Really, friendethere is a very copious meaning to this place of 
fcripture, and I don't know as time will admit of a full explanation; 
hut I can touch upon fetne of the principal things, if you pleafe. 
Mem. Do Sir, it will give roe great fatiefatlion to hear if it be but a 
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Well, rut:Tole it means, fi; ft, that the canon of holy wilt, 
it filled up' completely, and that we are to attend to the examples 'and 
precepts' of the Bible, and net introduce any 'thing in religion, but 
what is warranted by the,cnmmands, or precepts, or examples in the 
Bible, viz. Neither 'add nor dirbinith, agreeable to one of our articles 
if faith, which Pays, ss the book We call the Bible, containing the, old 
and new TeRaments, is 'per-lea Jule of life and pra6tice in things of 
religion," acid is agreeable. to what has 'been. laid upon Mofes's and 
Oolomon's words, before explained, Se agrees with what the Lord lays', 
when the'Devil tempted him to turn the tiones to bread ; he lays, man 
Malt not hie by le sad alone; but by every word of Gode viz, We are 
net to pick and chide, but obferve all God's ordinances and cOminancre 
silents, Pfam. z 9, 6. Then (hall I not be afhamed, when I have ref-
pee to all thy commandments. 
Mem. Well, do you think the men of the world ate any better nose 
days, than formerly ? 
Min. I don't know as the wicked are any better, it is a day of light, 
and there is a great proficiency made in literature, but that don't proi-e 
that wicked men are any better, for we know, the more light men frOr 
zgaioft, the. vvorfe it will be for them. 
Mem. Weil Sir, do you ftippofelhere are any more than two forte, 
ftrittly (peaking, viz. faints and finners, among mankind now a days 
"Min. No, no, we doubtlefs all belong to Chritt's kingdom, or Satan's. 
Mem, Very good, Sir, Well I hear'd a minitler preach a while agd, 
and'he Paid, he thought 'it very charitable, to fuppole there were 
half as many good people in any congregatioii, Ns half the number of 
the church members, not that he luppoled there' Were no faints but 
lOat were in the church, and the reh belonged to the World. Be you 
of that mind Sir t 
Min. Yes, tho' it is truly lamentable, I can't condemn it as un-
charitable. 
"Mem. Sir, don't you fuppofe that Chrift and his difciples were 
perfe6t pattern for golpel minifters 
Min. Yes. 
Mem. 'And don't you think it is neceffary they thould have fame 
degree of she holy fpirit as a qualification ? 
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Min. Yes, I fuppole they ought to be good men, and all good men 
have the holy fpirit in a greater or leffe'r degree. 
Mem. Well Sir, don't you think that men rue apt to (peak molt about 
that which is uppermoll in their minds ; for inftance, foppcfng a man 
had an independent fortune in Japan, and he was necefIarily detained 
here, & had but a very fcanty living here, & you (hould pay the man a 
vifit, would you not expeel he would be very apt to (peak krnethieg 
about in, or if he was afraid of bring cheated out of it, or that his 
title might be difputed, or the like; would it not he very natural to 
fuppore he would talk much about it, and how he thould get to it, make 
his claim good, and about the laws, manners, people, government, 
employment,8e,c• of the ectontry. 
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Min. Yee, you know it is written, where your treafure is, there wTi 
your head be alto ; and out of the abundance of the heart, the mautla 
ipeaketh, &c. 
Mem. Sir, you anfwer me juft as I have thought a great while. But 
don't you fuppofe that all addrefres to the Deity are, things of religion, 
and of a facred nature ? I mean praying, giving thanks, ringing Pfahns, 
preaching, falling, meditating on the fcriptures, ftudying our dinY tG 
Cod and man, &c. Are not thefe parts of divine fervice ? 
Min Yes, thefe are all things of a religious and totem nature, & 
you might have added, going to meeting, 'attending the ordinancei, 
Arc which are all parts of divine fervice. 
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Mem. 'And does not the maintaining religion come under the fame 
.Mead too ?, 
MM. Yes, for David lays he would not offer burnt offerings of that 
'which did colt him nothing, :a n d you know they advifed Paul to be at 
asharges with others that went in with' him to purify themfelves ; and 
,iPaul calls it a grace to-,give bountifully for religious purpofes, and 
icommends liberality to teachers, &c. 
Mem.' Well Sir, don't you fuppofe God is the fame in his attributes, 
providence:, and dirpenfations towards mankind, a; he always wee 
from the beginning. - 
Min. Yes, the Bible Pays he is the fame veflerday, to day, and forg 
ever ; and he is the fame and changeth not, &c. 
Mem. Well Sir, I retnember that Civil", after he adminiffered the 
Lord's hipper, took a baton of water and we:lied his difciples fret, and 
*wiped them with a towel, and laid, ye call ine Lord and matter, and 
ye fay well, for fo I am ; if your Lord and mailer has wathed your 
teat, ye ought to wafli one anothers feet, for I have given you the 
example, tilat ye fhould do as I have-done toyou. -Verily, verily, I 
fay unto you, the fervent is not greater than his Lord;-Sec. Ard if ye 
thefe things, happy are ye if ye do them. Now -what is meant 
by this example, and command, John 13; 4, & on. 
Min. Why I think expofitors.generally agree, that this fignifies the 
avalhing of regeneratio.n ; and we don't find that the fathers prallifed 
iit by their writings. 
Mena. But Sir,, here is a plain command, and example of Chriffe 
and all the expofitors in the 'world can't blot it out ; and fuppoting 
.the fathers as you fay wrote nothing about it, yet you can't prove 
they did not praCtice it, fo that all this won't make out that you do 
snot make void the command and example of Chriff ; therefore in this 
If think you diminith and as for its signifying regeneraton, I own it 
Aloes, and fo does the communion of bread and wine signify the fpiri-
vial feeding on CM ift's body and blood; but do you omit the out-
ward part, becaufe it has a fpiritual meaning, and the Jews might with 
as much propriety have omited all their facritices, bscaute they had a 
efoiritual meaning ; to in this r think Sir, you take away from the 
aeords of the book. 'Don't be angry Sir, for you know you faid, yole 
si..i.lzed plain dealing belt in ditcour le; at firtt. 
Aiin, No, u3, .1 am no: Lulch.3-ioezi about it, for I do not thick 
it 
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!t is E ntial, betides, 7 don't think the church would Content, if r 
was a mind to do it to them. 
Mena. Well Sir, I think this rather argues Oupidity, to think it is 
not effintial whether we attend to Chrifts' commands or examples 3.: 
and it is evident that the people are taught to believe a fa!thood, iii 
they are taught that it is not neceifary ftri&ly to ()Verve Cbrilt'a come 
wands and examples, whether you or they like it or 'not. 
Why it teems to me you are very cenforious, thus to judge-
se all off at a lump. 
Mem: Sir, I do not judge you, your own words judge you ; for yots 
raid in the antvier of my fourth queftion, we bad no right to diminith, 
and in the anfwer of the third; you faid the Jews were to obferve theik, 
rites and ceremonies, juft as they were wrote, without addition or 
ilitesunition ; and you laid welted no right to add or diminifh, lo that' 
if is not I, but the Bible, and your own- expofition of it, that con... 
demos you, for he that breaketh one command is guilty of all, Jamee 
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 to, nor can you get rid of it, as I can fee. But Sir, I find that 
4..).hrift has given us another command, Math, so, 7.' And as ye go, 
preach, &c. verfe 8, Freely ye have received, freely give ; now here 
is another command, and you have laid in the anfwer of my fistt quer-
tion, that this was the example the Lord had let; and St. Paul lays, 
he has let the lame example, and gives the fame command, Attie eoe 
33, 34., 35. Now here you make void another plain command and eke 
ample. I want to hear-you entwer. 
,Why .1 think this is eafily anfwered 3 for you know the work. 
min is worthy' of his hire ; and .who goeth a warfare at any time, at-
las-own charges, &c. And St. Paul lays he took wages ; and you fhan'e• 
muzzle the Ox that treaded] out the corn, &c. all which places I think' 
prove that minilters ought to be maintained, and I Mppole it- is left:, 
diferet2onary with the church, how to provide for their fuppora ; and 
for my part, it is eqUal to me how, fo they will provide for my fop., 
port, and my family, cornforthbly. 
Mem. Well Sir, you have laid down nnanfwerable proofs, I know, 
of tome things, but hope you will have patience while I anfwer each oft-. 
your propofitions. 
Min. Yes, you may fay what you 'skate, for I believe you are an-
fwered fcriprm ally. 
Mem. Well Sir, as to the :guff, did you ever know a workman, el-
peciaily a young beginner, to tic three htindied pounds bounty, helot* 
or at the time of his engaging, and yearly wages for life after; now 
this feems to be outdoing Bataan], for it teems he only Aced a bound' 
before hand ; and it is more than Michah's odd: terrired, for he only 
agreed for a yearly peefion, and Untie are the only two you. can find 
in the B:ble, that ever agreed either fer bounty or wages. Nor can yoct 
find any latch precept, nor example among the prophets, Chili nor 
his followers, therefore you not only have no command, or example tee , 
go by, only thtfe, but right as:.infi both ; and as fur Paul's wordo 
which you rinted, 2 Tim. 1, a, & og, it is plain ,that St. Paul is been 
exhorting yeungTiranthy to endnre hardnefs, as a geed foldier, and 
utit. 
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ruff in Chritt, and not in his own ftringth, ina wart riatiehtly for 
reward, as the hufoandman cloth till atter hayed., viz. till Chrift thould 
come to reward him ; 'and as for St. Paul's wages which you fay he 
took, 2 Cor. r s, 8, he only took what the Philippian church fent hint 
gratis, as you may fee by comparing this with Phil. 4, so to ig, And 
you may fee in the forecited, It Cor. vet. 13,, that be calls fuch as do 
exact wages, falfe Apoftles, deceitful workers, &c. And as for the Ox 
not being muzzled, it only fu,ppofes that we !hall give the minitter 
lomething to ear, drink & wear, when he fpends his whole time in 
preaching, and not let him (Offer no more than you do sour Oxen at 
work ; neither will it hear any other comment, for he don't fay ycol 
Mall feed hint as you do your fatting Oxen, but Ezekiel Pays frame, 
thing about fuch cattle, Chap. 34, oo. And as for your fuppofing this 
matter of maintaining religion or the minifter is left difcretionarily 
with the church, it's only laying the Bible is a perfed rule imper-
feet ; for you owned in the anfwer of my t r queftion, it was a part 
ufletigion, and proved it ; and in the anfwer of the 4th, where yon 
quoted one of the articles of faith, Sec. you proved the Bible was a 
perfeta pattern; and if the maintainance of nainitters, as von have laid, 
is a part of religion, I don't fee but you have not only flung away the 
,pra6lice of Old an New-Tellament times, but have introduced a new 
acne, and fo are guilty of both adding and diminithing, according to 
'your own plan. And according to the anfwer of my od queftion, yon 
can't pretend fairly, according to your own words, to be a difciple of 
Chrill, for you neither keep his commands, nor follow hie. exatnples ; 
'and you can't but remember, that you laid, that be for our fakes be-
come poor—and he fays, he that will not forfake all, take up the crafts 
ar'd come after me, cannot be my difciple. But it kerns you had ra• 
ther make friends with the Mammon of uniighteoufnefs, that when 
ye fad, they may receive you, &c. And be tells you that man can't 
terve two matter's, God and Mammon, Luke 16, 13. 
Min. Why I don't underftand this parable fu, for I do not thick 
,it was fpoken ironically, but only means we thould not abufe the good 
'things of this world, but ofe them fo that they may ferve for our jot.-
tification or acceptance hereafter ; and I think you are very cenfori• 
ous, thus to rail on Chrift's minifters and churches. 
Mem. Well, but Sir, y cu jolt now Paid it was equal to you how they 
inaintained you, fo they did hut make you, and your family comfort-
able ; fo it feems you don't care how you get it, if you do but have it ; 
this feems to he very much like Gehazi, 2 Kings 5, as, when be ran 
after Naaman the Syrian, and told him his matter had fent him for a 
revtard, and I thick the people's compliance is jolt like Naamans' 
compliance ; and as for your not believing the parable, and thinking 
1 rail on you, you fee the Pharifees thought the fame, when my mat-
ter put forth the parable, for Pays the text, the Pharifees that were 
covetouo derided him, &c. ver. 54. 
Min. I do nat think fueb hard judging right. and condemning every 
hotly, and thinking no body right but yolltfel, it thews pride anit 
ignoraiice4 
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and,reircdriteitettneil, and ielfiville'dnefileo. 
Mem. Well Sir, I don't care what you fay of me ; but Sir, you a 
little while ago faid 'that David would not offer facrifice of that which 
cothint nothing, gut yoo won't attend the altar, without you can 
lataaaid for it, pretty roundly too. 
Min. I think.what you-have mentioned laft, is right in yotir own 
feecandleyeto for St. Paul fays, s Cor. 9, 13, know ye nor, that they 
who minifter about holy things, live of the things of the temple ; arid` 
they yibielowoitat the altar are partakers with the altar, fo alfo hath the 
Bard ordained that they whb preach the gofpel 'Nall live of the golpela 
I4bw'pray Bow will you anlwer St, Paul, for hrre he Pays Clout has or-
dained it, that he that preaches the gofpel than live of the gofpel. 
contradia this-? 
:oMettr: Why Sir, I have` never laid that he that pieaclied the gofpel,, 
Mould:not have a fripport, but liaVe laid before, that they h'ad a right: 
tb'aitypport ; theefame-woy you faid Chola had his fupport ; and it 
isislain'Patit had his the: attte way too. Belt I fay, they have no tight 
to goitolti. town to town, anti' therafelvev up to the highest bidder,; 
anti if the- people tion't'give what they atle they will away fonie where 
andlo:apoor town; or parifh, Stanek no chance for an- eloquent 
good minifter, ;tithe)? ate filed, any more than a poor man (who 
cah'opay brut. ten pounds)thit to' ride a good'hor fe ; betides, you know 
acording to the rule of equity every,man_ought to receive according.to 
his wiatth, or labour, and if you can tett me how mitch Christ or hie 
Apottlechad a year, I will content yoU'ihould have.a's much. P.tay'Sir, 
tell me hay atatieft they aced, for Cettainlyohe fervant ought not to have 
more than his maker, lintels he is better ; and 'this was one of, the 
tokensiit• lent to John teaptiftO to prove he was' the true ; 
that alit-poor had the golpel preaehed to them. 1,"4,Uve Sir, I wait your 
anfwere Wow muds did her they'aik a year. 
Min. This is no quellion at ell, nor do I think' Iona obliged to an- 
fwer fuels impertinent quattiono , • 
Mem', Why Sir, .you anfwered it very frankly, in the 
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aficed,• and 'faid .that.Chtitt lived upon the charity of his difeiples ; 
and iii' flit anfwer of ehe •fecond, you laid we had in right to pretend' 
We were his difciplese it'we.did not follow his examples-, and I only 
tate you upon your oars plan all alOng y acrd if you will not reconcile 
this swatter, I will never gO to hear you preach again, for you hate 
virtually 'hid you are not one of Chriti' difciples ; and he Etas corn: 
nYanded me, to beware of them that come in (heaps clo;'6ing ; and 
Fath'told me I' fhouldknow them by their fruits, and you have told 
rite your fruit is; that you 'will not preach, if the town won't pay your 
fatary; which is above alaundred pounds a year; fo I thi,,Ic you that,/ 
What you-are, very-plain. 
Min. Well, I do pot tlaiokftich talk for edigcation, for you ferns to 
be fatal no't'hing 'but intiediives, and 1 dd not like fuel judging and 
condemning at all. 
Mani: Sii,„yois (aid you liked'freedotn and pla'.n dealing in ccdnver-
ration brit ; • it Iiiirisyisti hiVechangeri ybrii Mind., But I will ma;irt 
one etittvation more upon !VIAL bac been laid, If you please. 
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toed let us hear them.- 
Mem. Well Sir, you laid you did not think what the miniver laid 
about the number of reel chrillians in any congregation was unchari. 
table. Nov there i3 not in general in our congregat ionsmore than one 
fooh part church members, and take out half of their for falfe pro. 
f0114s, leaves but a twelfth part true sluidians, and the :eft belong tc 
,the world, according to your own words. 
And what then, this is no matter of-tejoieing, is it . 
Mem: No Sir, but it is a matter of lamentation to all good men, that 
there (hold be but one twelfth part laved in thinland Ofliglit, as we ef. 
teem it, & e he other eleventh'periih. But Sir, Cheift rays that if the world 
has hatedine, it .will'hite you, &lilt has perfecuted me, it will perfee 
cute you, noin the world ye (boll have tribulation. And Paul fays yea; 
& all they that will live Godly in Chrift Jells Clan Puffer perfecution, 
Now Sir, you have laid God was the fame in his difpenfations towards 
man, & that wicked men are no better now adays thatothey.ufed to be. 
And no if Chrilt and Paul has fpoken thetruth in the above afferti-
kins, I pray you to tell me how thefe eleven twelfths {hew their hatted 
to, and pet fecute you, milers: paying you a hundred pounds-- a year; 
and thowaeg you the molt profound reverence, is perfecutione 
Min. Well, if you hare got through,,I would-maks one or two ob 
fervations myfelf. 
Merv. r have not got through, but wait for your •anfwer to the 
above c;ueflion, for I want to-hear hole you will evade the above are 
I:ertions, and not give Chrift,' and St. Paul the lie, and many other 
texts of the fame import. 
Min. Why you will hardly'givc rae time to (peak, yoteace to talk-
ative, and you judge of every thing yourfelf contrary to St. Paul's in-
junflion .judge nothing before the time, &c. and you teem to favor 
very much of the Shakers notion, that no body is rihht but yourfelf. 
VIThy its (}range tcerne that you ftiould think- that you know every 
icing, & every body elfefoignorant they know nothioo, this is not fol. 
sowing St. Nei advice, let each eileem others better than themfelves, 
Mem. Sir, this does not enfwer my qoeftion, to compare me to 
Coe fliaktrs, tree. nor do youcall this railery, or judging on your 4de, 
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')ut I wind yotoanfwer none of my questions, and you have quoted 
t. Paul's wordi, jolt as the tetnoter did the prophet's, toperfnade the. 
ord to throw Itimfelf down- from the temple, for you have made nc
lirtinaion, fo accoiding to your quoting the words, we mutt deem 
Wizard, a Shaker, or an Atiteitt, better than one's fell; tho' one had 
;t. Paul's fai-li ; and fo you would intimate that we mutt not preten4 
to know a Wolf in Sheeps clothing, fo, if we can't know them, I with 
to know bow we than obey Chrift's mandate, that is, beware of thofe 
that come to you in Sheeps earthing, &c. 
Min. Well, I feppcife you pretend to a fpirit of difcernment to know 
them, don't you 
Meal. Sir, the Lord lays ye than know them by their fruits. But 
all th7:: don't anfwer my tali, nor formtr quetlions. I want to hcaF 
von. 
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'Min. Nor have you anfwered my lalt quettion as I fee yet. 
'Mem. Sir, ,I thdught I had anfwered it, but face you want - fine-
ther anfwer; I *ill anfwer in your own words, viz. Where your trail • 
fureis; there will your heart be alto ; and out of the abundance of 
the licart, the mouth fpeaketh, and St. Paul lays, the fpirit searches 
all thingsoyea the deep things of. God, and we have all drank of one 
Ipitit. And pleafe.to read Chrill!aprayereelohn t7 zo. That all be-
lievers may be one in him, &c. Sir, will you plea're to anfwer spy 
Aueftions now ? 
Min. _I do not know what, you would be at, you have anfvtered my 
(quettioni aayou liked, and I have anfwered yours as I thought bell, 
and if you do not like them, you mutt let them alone, t help it, 
as I know of, 
Mem. Well Sir, I will,fay but a•-few words store, and trouble rya 
no further at prefent, viz. I read in Rev. 13, i6, 17. That thereus 
three forts Of deceivers. The firtt 'have the mark in their forehead ; 
the fecond in their hand ; the third have only the number of his name. 
Now Sir; the firft I take to be ehofe that tell their hearers that if they 
do not come and ;have their fins pardoned, they will all go to hell, and 
hell is a dreadfol,place of torment, and there they mutt lie for ever and 
,ever ! But yet they will not abfelve thernwithout raeney. The fecond 
tell the people they mutt have the gofpel preached, but they will not 
preach without a tenth. Whe third get liberal education; and go 
about from place to place, and tell the people they come in the name 
Of the Lord, to preach the everlailing gofrel, and it is abrolively ne-
ceffary for their falvation,, to build them up in faith and holinefe, 
unto eteseal life, and i: is one of the greateft privileges God ever be-
llowed on mankind. Well, the people hear for their lives, and are 
convinced it is their duty forthwith to have a minister, and fo make 
immediate application to laid candidate to fettle and preach with them 
for life. No, (aye-he, not unlefs you ate all agreed that you will give 
me three hundred pounds bounty, at or upon my engaging, and a 
yearly falary, fo that I-may live at cafe, and in plenty, and idlenefs, 
all the tea of my days, only upon -the Sabbath, when I am as much 
obliged to wordiip God as any body etre e then-I will work hard, for • 
it is an arduous work, and who is fuftictent for the: things ; and if 
you will not fo give, I will go my way. But, fay the people, do you 
think yap are one of Chrills' miniffers ? 0 yes, I have beep examined 
by jolt fuch men as myfelf, only a little older, and they have given • 
me licence, and I believe I am orthodox. Well, Pays the people, we 
are poor, think .eighty pounds won't do ? No, rays he ; if you will ' 
give me 'a hundred pounds, and -the town will be bound to rnake it •' 
good, I will day, if not, I will go where I can get it. Now Sir, does 
this look like Jetus Chrid and hit faithful followers, who would preach 
even in the very jaws of death ? Or dues it look like the hireling; that 
.ecth becaufe he is an hireling ? Or i3 not this your piatur-, better 
drawn than you would with to fee it ? And don't it anfwer to the nuns 
her of the beaft, which is a civD magidi ate, who aih have a gait re. 
venue 
venue from the people, to aggrandize himfelf? Pray Sir, canyon eke.; 
youttelf. 
MM. I think you make me and the church no better than the Pa-
,pitt,and I believe ft:eh railing againft Chriit'seninifters and churchesis 
eonfulferable, and I really believe l.am a minifter of Chritt, and think 
a church of Chritt, and it is- written,. thateehatfoever ye bind on earth, 
thali he bound in heaven, and whatfoever ye look on earth, .fhall-be 
)(Dared in heaven. And now as we are all ola mind, thatyou have 
broke covenant with us, and wickedly railed:upon Chrilt's aninifter, 
and church, and if you refute to mike fuitable refleaionseweraukas 
tfte !aft remedy ,to reclaim you, 
,excommunicate yhu I. and novel a-de 
menial you, in the name of the Lord, to confider' in time and turn 
seeopt, confider what a difadvantage it will lay you under, and youe 
family, and how it will tremble fume of your beet friends, and tuna 
. ;bout, and the church will receive you with ocean arms, end be friende 
ly to you, end try to help you. 
Mere. Well Sir, It feems you have fomething to think on tooalor 
I believe I ant one of his little ones; and you know, he lays, in as 
much as you have done it to one of the leaft of thefe, you hevetione 
it unto the ; for if I fhould happen to be as the man whom the-Pha-
rifees can our, becaufe he owned Chrift, John 9the your cafe.would-
_he bad, and you know they were as great proteffors as you can be. 
for they laid •God, was their father, but were mad. with the poor beg-
ar, becaule they could not anfwer him,, ver. lo, and learned oobe 
taught by him, ver, 34, and I hope Jefus will do to me as he did toehat 
poor defpifed creature, verfes 35, 36, 37, le. .But it feemer she refult 
of what you have laid is this, in (hors, if I will give up my fltbleoand 
eonfcience, and fay the creed after you, you will let-me go toheamen, 
of not, voo will fend me to hell Now I will not givetnern up for no 
man, nor number of men, be they ever fo good or great, unlefs von 
can make roe believe that youcan, and will anfwer for me at Chrithh 
awful bar, where the fecrets.of all hearts will he laid 'open -before An- 
eels, Men & Devito, and i believe the timels at hand, and that the 
relent American church, is the-Laodicean church, and.the Amen: is 
lett coming to fpew her out of hisenouth,. and I advifeycu to be nen • 
dy, to .go forth. to meet the, bridegroom, left he break you with asod 
of iron, and daps you to ;elects like a .potter's veffel, when he comes 
ea tread she wine. prefe of his father's wrath ; you ad vile me tontoe & 
confider ; I have already contidered of every thing you bave.faid, and 
a great deal more ; you have, advanced nothing but .vehan I have 
e bought cn, .and the,cenfequences before new. 
Min. You e, e a enanfirll of words, but ae't it strange that )ou Mould 
teink you know mote than any body Wee Don't it favor of felt con-
(eit and hauehtinefs,. that, no body can tell you any • thing, hot what 
you hive emnidered of it before, and the confequetices'n Bus I think 
eco are liable to miitakes as. well as others, and have been mittattert 
of en , and in.reany things which you have talked to me. about, and 
on a= e alwaes, very Rofithee in all your affertions. 
,h'ienneWel'. Sire all this has not anfvverod one of try queftians yet, 
s. 
end I 
I bave always known, that as you was to be judge, you would not 
give judgment againit yousfelf, And told you. at the very firit of the 
.controverfy ; but I have a repel to make, that is, that you would 
„Thew, me where is the church fince the gofpel day pro' tifed entering 
into covenant with one another, to (tend- by one another, right or 
wrong, and if one diffented, he molt turroill the reit, or he excorn• 
,,neunicated ; for Lfind no fuck practice. 
min. Why• did not. God make a covenant with Abraham ? And 
not the children oUtrael renew the covenant at Gilgal.? And we 
seed ofhbeelluVenant's being often renewed in the days of the Kings ; 
anti time ;istvidence enough, I think, that the church has always had 
,a,neeenent,and .I .did not know alt any body would difpute it, fe I 
think it is not worth multiplying words about. 
:Mein. Well Sir, then if yen fay it'sborns, it mutt be horns ; but 
;you have -not brought either example, prattiee, or precept out of the 
Ne_w•Teitament, to proveit, -nor do I believe you nen, or any thing 
that looks that way. 
. Min. 'Why it really looks Clone to me, that any man of your 
, 
fenfe fhould raife. fuch cavits. 
-Nem• And ihonhlt look.ftrange, that you fhould make void the 
;ewe of God, to eftabliih your own traditions, .which I think you do 
irestany inflaoces 5 for youhave.faid, that finging was one part of ree 
,ligien,, and divine. nature ; and the enemies to true fpiritual wor fhip 
very cunningly have contrived it, to take this part of divine let vice 
;,ent of the mouths of proteffoes, & put it into the mouths of the molt 
eulgaeand.profane in many instances, and feem to think the Lorervilll 
be pleafed with a melodious voice, but you will find at lag, that he 
wilino..neore accept of•fuch worship, than-he will be pleafed with the 
oratory of a learned man, for he has faid, he feeketh fuch to worth!? 
him who worfhip in fpirit and truth. 
,Why it feems to me you run things to great extremes, and 
have ftrange ideas. Why we don't ,fuppofe that God is pleated with 
voices of wicked perfons, nor do we luppefe that iris acceptable, onfy 
as the faints join in it, and ling in.their hearts, end fo make melody 
teothe Lord, in their hearts, through Jefus Chritt. 
oMern..Well Sir, this-is as ftrange an idea to me, as my !aft °hip:rya-
tton was to you. Why Sir, do you fuppofe that when this facrifice of 
ooreeifeois polluted, by wicked lips and hearts, it can be purified fo 
going through the heart of a faint, as that Chritt will take it and Orb' 
his,ownenetits prefentit to the-Father -an acceptable facridce, or„vviil 
you make them aninaaive machine, like an organ, that can do fled
eller good nor evil, only as they are atted upon, or don't this favor 
a little of.idolotry, to fuppofe we can worrytip God acceptably, by or 
through another, and one too that we keow turns away his ear them 
hearing the law, and fo is an abomination, Pot'. 2,g, 9. Or will you 
fuppofe its going through the faint to Omit, and to hum him to GO 
the Father, will make it more acceptable by a double purification, 'or 
. do you fuppofe if Baal's prieft had killed a facrifice, and laid it on the 
Altar, and one of the true prietis had come and burnt it, would that 
have made -it acceptable,? 
ISML 
Min. Well I do not think it worth tebile.fo fpend Ile' time id 11*i. 
difputes, for you atefo (elf. wife, that nobody can inform you, floe 
reform you, for you think you know every thing, and nobody elte 
;knows nothing ; you are full of words to no purpole, and teem tit 
igloey in your own attainments of knowledge, ; ' • 
Mein .Well Sir, alleheleafperfliMs, and a ft-tout:end more, anfwer 
none of my quettionr. But Sir, you have laid, that giving thanks was 
:One par,e of divine fervice ; and where do yoti find any command, pre- 
y
I;eept or ceample, in old or Ille.W.Teffament, Icir giving thanks, after 
ou have done eating ; for,' will you fay, this is left diferetionary too, 
-and,f) make the Bible More imper leer; or do yOu think God has not 
:revealed his mind, as to this, fo well as you know it ? or what will you 
fay fo this or I challenge you to And either example or' precept foi 
the practice, for it is exident,Chritt did not do it, when he fed the mul-
titude, nor St.:Paul on beiard the (hip; therefore I believe this is'a 
breach of thancommand you quoted, Ptoti. 3o, 6. Add thou not unto 
lbis'wcirds, left he reprove thee, and thou be found a liatn 
; think you are very:perempfory' and arrogant,in all your at-
Terlions, challenging every body, as if you .was the Only man in die 
world that could either read' r- under nand the Bible. Wut I believe 
other folks underftand it as well as you ; I am lure that David in die 
Pfalm2, often calls upon all to thank Ged for every thing; and alwaya. 
And St. ,Paul lays, give thanks always, for all things, and in ever=y 
thing give thanks, Stc. I have 'raid more in anfwer to this cavil, than 
I would have done, but it feems to condethe the pratlice of all good 
nen, I don't know but in all ages, but I -think fuck cavils frivolous, 
and not worth anfweeieg. • 
Meni. Well Sir, according as you have quoted and applied the 
above.worde, we are never to pray, nor fan, nor work, nor nothing 
elte,but give thank:, & fo arc not to live by eves>, word of God, hilt 
by this one poly, nor have you brought a (Ingle example, or precept, 
in at] you have laid, but hale treated me just as the Pharilees did the 
,r113.11 whom they derided, John 9, 28. But there- is one obfervaticin 
;more I, wOuld snake wilt leave, and I Will done. 
Min. For my part, I think there has heen a great deal -laid to no 
,e)nreofeolready ; nor do I think it will anfwer any good purpofe, to 
fay any snore, 
?4(nr. Why Sir, I have but a few woida more that I intend to fay at 
,prerctit. 
M
Min. Well fay on, we will hear you out, if it is not too lengthy. 
etn. Why Sir, I only wanted to make one fitornremark more viv. 
J reineteber !bine time back in the conierfation, you very' juftly ob• 
ferved that we were apt to converfe molt on what was uppermoft in 
our minds, E. quoted the,fe words, "out of the abundance of the heart 
the mouth 1peaketh," Ize„ Now if we are to judge w.heie tnena hearts 
or e by their converfation, I believe we !ball find they are manly of 
this world, and as for my railing on you, I den't think I have railed 
on work than my brother Stephen did on the good high prieff, and 
:church of the ,jeas.
. , 
Min. Stephen etas divinely infpted. Do.you pretencrtodir,ine 
Mem. 
.3? 
- Mein. '0.711 there are.but tiro fpicitt, a goad & a bad, and if I tell' 
you which I think fioVerns me, it will do no good, for you have an 
undoubted right to judge for yourfelf, and will ['ado; but I win' to 
know, where iirtlte-New•Tetiarnent you find the church ever excom-
municating anybut the incentious perfon ? 
Min. I think we read of Paul's delivering Hymenius and Alexander 
to Satan, thatthey Might learn not to blafphenie. 
Mem. Very well, jolt:now when rooted Stephen's example to vin. 
dicate myfelf, you anted me if I was divinely inipited, but now you' 
can affume fpirit of' infpiration,. enTraulc- me with thofe blaf• 
ptietnerv, s Tim, 1, :b. 
Note. The above Pamphlet & Dialogue- was fitted far the prefs ire 
June, 1791, fince which the writer has, Sept. 1792,, been excommuni-
cated by the milliner and a (mall m ijgrity of the church, as lien, iree 
fornied. The two articles of charge against him, were krff„ breach or 
covenant, in fePerating from the congregation & church..Now'if this 
is a breach olcoverant which is cenfurahleethen all that have feperat. 
ed from the church of Rome, church of England, &c. were jottly cen-
rtired,'and if my ingentionfie telling the caufe of my feoetation, as ire; 
the foregoing Dialogue, is railery, thee were all the diffentett, (who 
were bold enough to do the:fame)•railers,..fo uere jutfly exconememi 
coed, and' pei fecutrde and are all gone to.Ht11.--- 0 abomination .t. 
where is your boafted of, land of liberty ? If when a man. has.joined 
to a church,right or wrong, he nruft continue in that church for life, 
or be curft'arid cut offin the' name of the Lord: 0 abominable Roe 
man tyranny. Is this your church covenant, that a man may never 
fiiparatefroni you ?- Or if he does, and gives unanfwerable. realone foie 
fo doing, will you then fell to cut ling him in the name of the Lord, 
Sr deliver him to Satan out of revenge, under a cloak of religion too e 
nay yoboareniet contentherewith, but you will treat him' With all 
manner of difdain & contempt, refuting to eat, or fo much as (hake 
hands witheltirro • and this becaufe'hedoes—not think you tigh'r, Sc. 
ingentioutly tells you lb Stunanfwerebly proves it to your face ; -nay. 
a-forfeit your word 'Mc), in the flee of a 'whole congregation, when yogi 
had promifed to give him liberty to make his defence, you interrupt-
ed, &-would not (offer him to (peak entire than four or five.minutes at 
moft. I now recommend to the minifter & church, to read indges 9, 
29, Co. Job 42, 7, S; 9. Dot .the curie caufelefs shall' not comeo 
Wolf. 26, a. 
r , 
Here follows an-opesa letter, wrote by the Author to the Minifier, then 
fame week he was excommunicated. 
Mr: PERRY, Whereas, you have curled me with a mod grits'» 
oils cut(e in the name of the -Lord Jefus Chrift, and have been the 
caufe or means of many joining in the faroe,'for nothing but becaufte 
1 halle infitted on the incontinency of your plan, and condemned youe 
VT t of your Own mouth • therefore I Irnpe you will heartily join wide 
s 
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in 
she in the following petition, viz. That the vifible hand of,God may 
immediately touch the guilty by a vifible token of his difpleafure, be. 
twixt you and me; that the innocent may go free, that men may ,know 
there is a God that regards the affairs of men. SIMON HOUGH, 
Richmond, Sept.:22, '1792. 
To David. Perry. 
P. S. Sir, if you did ae agreeable to your promife, and, the church's 
& by & with the fpirit of Chritt in hindetiog me before I had gOt thro' 
from laying what I had to fay, after proiniffingi lhoulddae heard withs. 
out in terruption, the halt Lords day, which I was informed you .& the 
churchhad done; then the Lord be with Si blefs you, itryour 
church, and miniftry ; 'but if you did wickedly forfeit your plighted 
faith, & the church's before the Lord; then the Lord make you an ex• 
ample in the fame place, of hisdifpleafure, until you repent.. AVien. 
And now Rev. Gentlemen of the like occupation, if you 
apprehend your craft in danger, only do as Dernetriui did, AtIs 19; 
24 to 35, or tell the' people as the Pharifcei did their heaters, John 70. 
48. Chap, io, co. And I believe they will generally adhere to yoU; 
but I do not think there is the lead danger, for I believe you will all 
deep on, in your idolatrous, „covetous nays, until the feventh 
And now you have read my Pamphlet & diaiogue through; and i1 
you believe it, prepare to meet the Bridegroom, Matt. 2s, 19. Chap. 
a+, 44. ff you fay where is the promife ofhis coming, fee a Pet. 3, 3, 
Rev. 19, r 1, to 'the end. But fhOuld you generally believe' it, it 
would not be true: for then that day would not cope like Noah's flood, 
sco. nor would you, 'like Pharoah, ruili headlong into the red In of 
GA's wrath. 
A compofure, or Poem, on ClikIST'e Second Coming. 
founds, to your great affonifhttient ! 
p 
4 
A UGUST, convulfive, dreary 
fcene, 
Chrill's fecond coming's whet I 
I mean ; 
Oh I wicked world, will you not 
fear, 
When the Archangel's trump you 
hear ? 
The found will echo through the 
fity, 
Proclaim the King of Kings is 
nigh ; 
Sinners will be afraid, 
And terribly difmay'd, 
Hypocrity will fall, 
With all its plalftercd wall; 
The times ;1114444 
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•••••••••••••••. 
The Fig tree hath put forth its 
leaves, 
Which fpeaks the day upon the 
eaves 
Lo, here ; lo, there 1 each fee do 
cry, 
Yet each this Gofpel truth deny, 
Yet as a fnare, or thief, 'tis true; 
0,_wicked word ! come on 
ycia. 
Prepare; or-feil therod, 
l his is the word of God, 
And if you it deny, 
YoU furely loon will try 
The awful truth. 
The wicked then he will deffroy, 
ineLt aAd paci:g3 both
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4:cole 
T 
The w 
b 
On ve igb, it you may 
fe 
Wrote ord of Lords, and King 
, Kings, 
Angelo and Saints with him he 
brings 
An P,ngel from the Sun," 
The howls of Heaven call, 
The fiefh, and blood to eat, 
Of men, and holies all ; 
Sinners prepare. 
Then the falfe prophet and the 
be alt, 
Make for the birds a gorgeous 
fea ft ; 
Then Satan's bound a thoufand 
years,t 
By Revelation plain appears, 
In doleful, dreary gloom to 
dwell, 
Confin'd in the dark tomb of hell, 
With David's key lock'd in, 
To howl his doleful din, 
In the dark ocean Sea, - 
With broken head to be, 
A thoufand years. 
The meek elect then have the 
ear th,t 
A nation at that day has birth, 
Beatific Vifion, glorious day, 
As in the mount he did difplay, 
Jerufalem from God comes down, 
The Saints in it each have a 
crown ; 
A thoufand years they reign, 
With the Lamb that once was 
(lain, 
Apoftles crown'd their ftand, 
* Ezek. 39, 17—Rev, 191 17. 
Rev. 20, a 
Math 5, 5, & 19, zo, 
415.• 
The time is sow at hand, 
The Bridegroom's near. 
King David and King Solomon; 
Were but faint types of Chrift 
their fon, 
The Jewilh church and Canaan's 
land, 
Prefigured what is near at hand, 
Jerufalem, the Temple too, 
Did but a faint refemblance fhew, 
When Chrift returns again, 
Molt glorioufly to reign, 
Jehovah Shammah He, 
Sk.11 in the city be, 
This is his name.11 
Jerufalem comes from above; 
The bride in it enjoys her love, 
What joys are of this city told ! 
What glories then will faints be. 
hold 
Life's tree is there, & waters flow, 
The golden ftreets its glory (how. 
And all divinely bright, 
Without a (bade of night, 
The 7th trump is near, 
As plainly doth appear,§ 
Then comes the day. 
And when the thourana yvaiS are 
paft, 
The final judgment comes at la% 
Then earth, and fea, and death 
and Hell, 
And all that in dark regions dwell, 
Appear before God's glorious fon 
To give account what they have, 
done : 
The books oped by the fon, 
Impartial juftice done, 
Saints waft to endlefs light, 
Sinners to dreary Night, 
So ends this world. 
Ezek. 48,35.—Rev. ze, 3 chap 
22, 5. 
§ Rev. so, 6, 7. 
name will 
En RATA. 
In the 4th page salt line from the top—for Math. read Malachi.... 
Inge, 8thr line from the top, after 
Kings 22, 19, read, And the four 
tir.t ahtip:es,sict.h line from the bottom, for on one, read about one —15th 
4,41 which are in his throne and round about its are the four difpen- , 
1( 1 
't hand pf, 
`s difplea