dure many hardships in this life, death is the boundary of them all; whereas, death is only the beginning of the bitterest pains of man, unhappy man!

Surely to preach the gospel to those who are reprobated by decree, is to add insult to injury; and yet, in this city of Philadelphia; I could point to clergymen who get from 1500 to 2000 dollars per annum,

for reading (not preaching) two sermons to such individuals every sabbath, which are sometimes in vindication of absolute reprobation; yet these priest-ridden people pay a man an enormous salary for thus insulting their understandings, by reading sermons (which a school-boy could do perhaps better than they can) which dooms them to irrecoverable woe.

This brings to my mind, an anecdote of a chimney sweep: The boy had got from a woman whose chimney he had just swept, a piece of bread and butter, and sat down on a stone step to eat it.

dog happened to be at some distance, looking and longing for some of it; which the boy recognizing, called the dog, and held a small piece of his bread and butter in one hand, and his brush in the other, and when the dog opened his mouth to take the bread, the boy struck him forcibly with his brush, on the top of his nose. The comparison is not applicable to our subject in one respect, and that is, the dog, although perhaps a spaniel, was not so servile as to lick the hand that thus added injury to insult. It is morally impossible to point out the inconsistency, the absurdity, as well as the blasphemy of this blasphemous doctrine ! If it is true, it was solemn mockery for Christ to command, or his ministers to "preach his gospel to every creature” that is human! Such ministers, who advocate and preach this doctrine, have continually a lie in their mouths. In one breath they cry out in the language of Scripture, “ The spirit and the bride say come, and let him that hears come, and whoever will may come, and take of the waters of life freely, without money and without price ;" yet, in the next breath they vociferate, “ Christ, by the grace of God, died only for the elect!" Does not this doctrine impeach God with perjury? He has solemnly sworn, that he has “no pleasure in the death of a sinner,” and at the same time, commands

every one of them to “ turn from their sins and live." Ezek. xxxiii. 11. Would God make this declaration, in conjunction with this oath, if he did not will their happiness ? and if it was not possible for them to turn from their sins and live? It is impossible. Those dignified clergymen, who advocate this cruel doctrine, must be deluded by the devil, whose primary object it is to depreciate the excellency of the divine character, than which, nothing can do it more effectually than the above doctrine.

The Scriptures, from first to last, prove by the most indubitable testimony, that Christ died to redeem (without partiality) the whole human race. It is expressly declared, that he died for the ungodly and sinners: As therefore, all are sinners till regenerated by the influence of his holy spirit, he must therefore, most assuredly have died for us all. It may be answered, if he died to enlighten us all, how comes it to pass, so large a majority of the human family remain in total intellectual darkness? I answer, because they shut their eyes against the light. How absurd it would appear, for any man to assert, that the sun at noon-day gave no light, because there were a number of stubborn individuals, voluntary prisoners in a dungeon, where no right could come, and of course in total darkness! The sun does his part, by illuminating all persons, who do not hide themselves from his golden light; it is exactly so with the Son of Righteousness, who is arisen to all, and shines with heavenly lustre upon all but such supremely ungrateful

rebels, who shut themselves out from the light, and calumniate the holy spirit by which it is manifested to a guilty, ruined world. If therefore, such rebels are doomed to eternal darkness, the impartiality of Jehovah should not in justice be impeached, but the obduracy and ingratitude of All necessary means and measures are abundantly provided, for the temporal and eternal happiness of man, by the boundless mercy of God; if therefore he is unhappy, either here or hereafter, it is his obduracy and ingratitude makes him so..

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The doctrine of the universality of Christ's death, which Scripture, reason, and even common sense unanimously consolidate, seems to be so obvious to the meanest capacity, that it is almost wasting time to attempt to elucidate it by argumentation. I would ask, is it not more reasonable (even leaving Scripture testimony out of the question) to believe, that "Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every