his own family ever encouraged squabbles, from a principle of love. When love becomes predominant in the mind, hatred must be cast out, for they are as opposite as light and darkness, heaven and hell. And thus, when the angel of love, casts out the devil of hatred; and the angel of mercy, the devil of cruelty; the angel of temperance, the devil of intemperance; and the angel of hope, the devil of despair; and the angel of faith, the devil of infidelity—when every heavenly disposition comes to take possession of the mind, darkness and all its angels every thing impure, and unholy, will be no more found in heaven. This is the end of true religion; and when the mind is brought under the influence of this regulating principle, where is the necessity of ministers of man's ordination; seeing that all those who submit to this baptism of the spirit, come under the faith to the purifying of the soul, a witness for Christ, a minister of Christ. All that a minister can do for his brethren, is, to call them to this self-same gospel, which will enable them to testify what their ears have heard, their eyes seen, and their hands handled, of the good word of life and power of the world to come.

Election is not a foreordination from the foundation of the world. It is an absurdity to believe, that some of the human family are doomed from eternity to misery, and others to sing prais

es in endless bliss. It is an absurdity and almost amounts to blasphemy. All men are

placed in a situation, and endowed with a capacity of arising into the state of the elect, or of descending into a state of reprobation.

Now as we attend to the little leaven it will leaven the whole lump, and the spirit will grow stronger and stronger by cultivation: and as we attend to this, we shall come more and more under its influence, and these heavenly dispositions will become more and more our governors. And by attending thereunto we shall become elected, for the election stands not in any thing but in our own obedience. All souls are mine, saith the Lord.

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ter, so is the soul of the servant, as the soul of the mistress so is the soul of the hand maid. And therefore we have reason to believe from this, that the gift is universally bestowed. we have other evidences in the Scriptures, that election is not a foreordination of God. This would make him unjust, which is contrary to all the attributes of divinity with which we are acquainted. But as we attend to this manifestation, though small at first, it will grow in us and increase: And as has been observed, it will grow till it overcome all opposition, and becomes the greatest of herbs, so that every opposite disposition will lodge in the branches; and

we shall become heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, though obedience to the manifestation wherewith we have been favoured from God. But on the contrary, if we disregard the law written in the heart, and run counter to the tender intimations of Divine love, we shall involve ourselves in the guilt and misery of reprobation. I want this to be impressed upon all our minds, that if we do not come under the influence of this divine principle, and if we "will not have this man to rule over us," but remain under the influence of our own passions and unsubdued lusts-this little leaven, this divine manifestation, this baptism of the holy Ghost, will gradually become weaker and weaker, and our hearts more and more hardened; till we experience a loss of its power, and we shall become ready to wound and inflict injury, with impunity, upon our brother without cause, and we shall thus become reprobates in every thought, word and action. This is the true ground of election and reprobation; and it is not from a foreordination from the foundation of the world. Those therefore who attend to this manifestation, will become holy, apostolic and catholic-they will be catholic in spirit, catholic in principle, and holy in practice; and these can say, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,

born of the Virgin Mary, &c. because they have experienced that it took place not only formerly, but believe that he is conceived of the Holy Ghost, and born and brought forth in virgin purity, and that it is he that yet suffers under Pontius Pilate, as we become willing to resign the heavenly dispositions by yielding to the domination of opposite passions.

Therefore I want us to be individually careful lest we bring ourselves under the punishment due unto sin, for I presume that, many things proscribed by men are not unlawful; nay, are not many things prescribed by man, sinful? There is a great variety of things, which are considered commendable among men which are atrociously sinful. Has not this been the case within the times which many of us can recollect? Has it not exalted the greatest enemies of mankind to worldly honour and glory, even the blood thirsty warrior, and a variety of others under the influence of the infernal passions, their pride and ambition? There have been hosts of these devils who have been enemies of the human mind. In that quarter of the world from which I came, they have spread ruin and destruction; nay, every evil of which we can conceive. Women have been made widows, and children fatherless, the ruin of civil societies, and the downfall of nations have been produced by the same, and yet these have

been stamped with the name of glorious; but in the eye of that wisdom which is pure and holy, that which is above the wisdom of man, and which is easily recognized without outward preaching, and confers that blessing which will unite us under the government of divine wisdom, and lead us certainly into the gospel dispensation, this is exceedingly wicked.

These heavenly virtues emanate from God: whereas, every thought of the imagination of the worldly minded, the literal believer, if suffered to be engendered in their minds, prompts to join in religious society. It becomes almost necessary for an individual to become a member of some religious society, that he may have a fair character in the world. Religion notwithstanding all its corruption, is considered honourable. If a man be not a partaker in the rites and ceremonies of the day, he will scarcely pass for a Christian. But if he fulfill the rituals of any one of these various churches of the present day; if he be zealous in the performance of public and family worship, so called; if he gives liberally to the ministers, missionaries, bible societies, and other institutions which are characteristic, I hope, only of this age, he passes for a good Christian; and in the view of thousands, he passes for a saint; when perhaps his mind is under