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which shines in the night like burning gold,* now appears a miserable patch of rotten wood. Their helmet is paper, whose only virtue is derived from some great name, such as CALVIN, written on it in capitals. Yet their countenance is very fierce, and smoke issues from their mouth and nostrils. Did you not see their weapons, you might expect a terrible conflict; and, as it is, they will make a stout resistance to every thing but "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.".

I fully anticipate all that will be said of these remarks; the contemptuous slangs of Arminianism! Socinianism! Ribaldry! Slander! that will be thrown out. But, that reason which renders man the lord of this terrestrial globe, and which continually strives to rescue him from the reign of his passions and prejudices, if allowed to speak, will show the reader that my premises are true; and, as for the conclusions, I wait for time and experience, those grand correctors of folly, to justify them. That tribunal before which I am perfectly certain this production will fare the best, will be the consciences of the very men I accuse? For they well know that I speak the truth. Were they, indeed, as ardently engaged in promoting truth, as they are error; in removing old prejudices, as thoy are in supporting them; in promoting the spread of light and reformation, as they are in extinguishing the one, and resisting the other, still using the means to do it which they are using, they would have reason to be ashamed of their conduct, and would merit the disapprobation of all men; for the end cannot sanctify the means.

The cause of Jesus Christ, important and glorious in its nature, divine in its origin, and pure in its principles, uniform and resistless in its progress, and secure of its final issue, asks no assistance from those artifices by which the schemes of ambition are accomplished, much less does it fear those artifices, or the more bold attacks of wicked men. And it will progress and prosper; neither shall the gates of hell prevail against it. Let these men continue to plot and whisper; let them summon to their aid their sharpest satire and best logic-their boldest assertions, and most pious tones, still their scheme is not on the ground of truth, and

* Foxfire.

it will not stand. After having wasted their wit on phantoms of their own creation, their zeal in vain efforts, and all their mighty resources in building castles in the air, they must at last bow to the truth in those solemn scenes where the illusions of ambition are not known, and where the adorations of a multitude, led on by sophistry and intrigue, can no longer give countenance.

INVESTIGATOR.

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