as we meet with in his letters on Theron and Afpafio. However, this we may be certain of, that all his attempts to obfcure, disguise and pervert the gospel of Christ, will, as the like have ever done, issue in the farther clearing up of the truth, the disappointment and confufion of its oppofers, the honour of God, and the joy and confirmation of all who know and love the truth. As the fun never shines more brightly than after he has been for fome time under a cloud; fo however truth may, for a time, be eclipsed and enveloped in a cloud of erroneous and heretical fancies, it will, at last, work itself clear of them all, and shine with a more striking and refulgent splendor than it did before. It may, and will be opposed as long as the great adversary thereof has any emiffaries and influence in this lower world, but it will at last be victorious over error and all opposition. Great is the truth and will prevail. The following remarks I submit to the judgment of the impartial and judicious, defiring that no regard may be paid to what I have advanced farther than, after the strictest examination, it is found agreeable to the Sacred Oracles, and the analogy of faith. I hope the candid reader will make allowance for defects of style and other inaccuracies of a like nature. If what is offered should be of use for undeceiving any who may have have been imposed upon by the deceitful artifices whereby the author of the letters has endeavoured to darken, perplex, and overthrow the true doctrine of the grace of God; for keeping others from being feduced by his fallacious and fophiftical reasonings; or for vindicating those important truths of the gospel which he has attempted to pervert and prostitute, and establishing any in the faith of the truth, in which they have been instructed; it will be a fufficient recompence for what trouble I have undergone in following this extraordinary writer through fome of those tiresome and gloomy paths of mysticism, ambiguity and error in which he endeavours to intangle his unwary and ignorant readers. There are many combinations formed against the cause and kingdom of Christ in our day; but those who have the interests of Zion at heart, and prefer Jerufalem to their chief joy, may comfort themselves with this confideration; that the multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion, including, among others, all hereticks and fubtil underminers of the truth, shall be as the dream of a night vision. The Lord Jesus must reign till he hath put all his enemies under bis feet; and in the mean time, upon all the glory, up on all the truths, ordinances and institutions of Christ, and upon all his faithful servants and followers, there is, and shall be a defence. CON : CONTENTS. VOLUME I. Palemon's Creed confronted with the Scriptures, p. 1-18. ARTICLE I. REMARKS. PAlamon's ftrange notion concerning the Divine Being-His extraordinary criticism on John iv. 24. examined. His notions of the Supreme Being fimilar to that of the old Anthropomorphites, and J. Biddle, an English Socinian, in the last century, p. 23. The sentiments of some heathen philosophers more orthodox than those of the letter-writer on this subject, p. 25.Strange paraphrafe on the words of our Lord, John iv. 24. p. 27. The fame text preverted by Socinus. His corrupt gloss upon it, though far from being so absurd and nonsensical as that of our author, rejected, and the commonly received interpretation thereof admitted by some of his most learned disciples, p. 30. False glosses put upon the Scriptures why fo readily admitted by many, p. 32. ARTICLE II. REMARKS. Palemon's strange assertion concerning the object of worship, smells rank of the Socinian error concerning the the person of Chrift; not easily reconciled with what the Scripture teaches concerning the divinity of Chrift, and the hypostatical union between the divine and human natures in his perfon; and lays a founda- tion for Idolatry, p. 34. The letter-writer justly suspected of adopting some Socinian notions concerning the perfon of Christ. His GLORIFIED MAN EX- ercising and displaying every divine perfection, appears to be much the same with the DEIFIED MAN of the So- The commonly received distinction between the co- mon rejects as a scholaftic or systematic dream, vindica- ted;-shewed to be scriptural, and every way agree- able to the apoftolic gospel. The reality and propri- ety of fuch a distinction supposed in the apostle Paul's reasonings, in his epistles to the Romans and Galatians, with regard to the law and the promise, works and grace, the old and new covenant, p. 54. The denying that there was a covenant of works made with Adam, as the head and representative of mankind, the source of many pernicious errors and capital mistakes concerning reli- gion, p. 71. Palamon's new edition of the covenant of works confidered, p. 74. His doctrine contrafted with what the Apostle Paul teaches in relation to this point, p. 75. The falvation of believers not of grace, according to Palemon's hypothesis, but a debt Palamon's account of the manner in which the know- ledge and faith of the truth, which he affirms to be the fole |