ordinances, as well as of taking from them? ⟨Is⟩ God content to barter with us on this point, by giving up with frequent communion, if we will ⟨annex⟩ a few more days, sermons, ministers, and people to it, when seldom administered? Where does he either make, or declare his acceptance of, this proposal?’[1]— The reader is requested to endeavour to answer these queries; in his own mind, as in the sight of God.
Advice to Youth
ALL in this country bear the name of Christians, and acknowledge the truth of the Bible; yet there is reason to fear, that the revelation of God is in general completely mistaken: Christianity commended as containing an admirable system of morality, while the foundation of this morality is entirely overlooked. Love to God and men is universally acknowledged to be a duty; but men disobey God, and injure one another, from the strength of their passions, in the indulgence of which they endeavour to obtain happiness.
The Bible lays the axe to the root of human corruption. It informs us, that so far as the present life is concerned, our doom is fixed; that, in consequence of sin, sorrow, disappointment and death are our lot in this world: and that we may as well expect to stop the sun in his course, as to escape them. It also informs us, that God so loved the world as
- ↑ Apology, &c. p. 37.
