not have endured it. Well: let us for once omit an obnoxious word. and only say, When the Father brought the brightness of his Glory, (or as above, the image of the invisible God,) into the world, he bade the winds and flames adore him! Yea, for uniformity's sake, we add, he bade the winds and flames redeem Jacob from all evil and mischief.' He bade the winds and flames encamp about the beds of those that fear the Lord, and bear them up in their hands, lest at any time they should dash their foot against a

stone.

"Ah Clement! poor Clement! though Paul calls thee the beloved Clement; I perceive that thou wast totally blind in quoting the above passage: thou didst neither understand Greek nor the Improved Version. Thou hast said, 'By him [the Son] would God have us to taste the knowledge of immortality, who being the brightness of his Glory, is so much better than the angels, having obtained by inheritance, a more excellent name than they. For thus it is written, who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers flames; but to the Son, thus speaks the Lord, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee. Sit thou on my right hand till I make thy enemies thy footstool.' Epis. ad Corinth. sect. xxxvi. Add to this the citation, verse 10, from the 102d Psalm, "Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.' The connection forces us to understand this of Christ, otherwise the aim of the apostle to prove him to be superior to an

gels is completely superseded. They are de nominated ministering spirits, whereas the Son is enthroned for ever with the proper appellation of God.

"To avoid tautology in the subsequent strictures we shall here notice but one text more, Rev. v. 14. And the elders fell down and worshipped-[Him that liveth for ever and ever]. Grotius has noticed that this is not in the Greek manuscript. Montanus has therefore oinitted it.' Who else has made complaint? The sense does not seem complete without it. You add, This is only a symbol, representing Christ in a visionary scene, which cannot justify the actually worshiping of him when he is not visible, and in direct opposition to his own express command. Luke xi. 1, 2; John iv. 23, 24.' Then you do grant that all heaven and earth worshipped him in vision; and common sense will grant that the worship of the Seraphim, as seen in Isaiah's vision, (vi.) was so real and fervent a worship that the door-post moved at the voice of him that cried.' And as to saying, that the true worshippers worship the Father, his Divinity being then hidden in the likeness of sinful flesh, he would not allow the noble youth to call him good; though on another occasion, he calls himself the good Shepherd. Your proof is unavailing.

"You quote Dr, Doddridge as saying, that 'this vision was probably in the imagination of St. John.' The case before us ought to warn other ministers not to trifle between truth and error; the fear of man bringeth a snare; the Arians sent

the Doctor many pupils, and he seemed too much afraid to speak out. You injure the Doctor by a false and mutilated quotation. His whole words are, 'I beheld, and lo, to my great astonishment, in the midst of the space between the throne and the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, there stood this illustrious person, whose titles I had just been hearing; though spoken of by the name of the lion of the tribe of Judah, the symbol of his person in this mysterious vision, was very different, for he appeared as a lamb, who had been slain for sacrifice.' When the lamb took the book, the elders sung a new song, saying, thou art worthy to take the book from the hand of God, and to open the seals thereof, for thou O blessed Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, thou wast slain to expiate our guilt, and thou hast redeemed us to God, by thy precious blood.

"And I beheld this glorious scene with inexpressible pleasure; and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne, and of the living creatures, which betokened in general the angelic nature; and the voice of the elders, which represented the church. And the multitude of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands. And there was not so much as one discordant voice, nor one cold and languid heart in the whole assembly. And I heard them saying, 'worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power over universal nature, and all the riches it can boast; worthy is he to whom we should ascribe consummate and unsearchable wisdom, and re

sistless might, and peerless honour, and resplendent glory, and immortal blessing; worthy is he of all the dignity and glory, the benediction and homage of the heavenly world, through the ages of eternity! And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all things that are in them, seemed to echo back the voice.

"And I heard them saying, to him who sits upon the throne, and to His Son, the Lamb, the worthy partaker of his throne and kingdom, be perpetual blessing, and the profoundest honour, and consummate glory, and almighty strength, ascribed for ever and ever. And the four living

creatures said, Amen.'

"It is hoped after this, that Dr. Doddridge will no more be quoted as a favourer of Unitarianism, because he calls this a visionary scene of the Lamb, &c. On the subject of the atonement and of the work of regeneration, few men are more clear, explicit, and strong; these are the two cardinal points, which are ever indicative of a sound belief in the Godhead. Instead therefore of prostituting all your wit, and learning, and talents to corrupt the faith of your fathers; instead of fabricating a cold-hearted system of philosophy, which must ultimately lead to deism, to pyrrhonism, and Atheism, it is most devoutly to be wished, that you would join the Doctor, join the Elders, join the Seraphim, join the innumerable choirs of angels, join every creature in heaven and earth, in the new anthem of praise for redeeming grace, saying, 'To him who sits upon the throne

and to his Son, the Lamb, the worthy partaker of his throne and kingdom, be perpetual blessing, and the profoundest honour, and consummate glory, and almighty strength, ascribed for ever and ever. Amen.'

TESTIMONIES OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHErs.

"Having considered some of the early opinions respecting the Messiah as preserved in the Pagan writings, and extant in the holy scriptures, we may glance at the unequivocal testimonies of the fathers who flourished during the first three centuries, and before the Arian controversy. These writings, says Augustine, were almost infinite, though few of them have come down to us. However, those which have reached us are full and explicit on four grand points, as laboriously collected by bishop Bull, and further illustrated by his Dutch annotator professor Grabe.

I. "That the Son existed before the Blessed Virgin; that is, before the foundation of the heavens, and the earth; and that the universe was made by the Son.

II. "That the Son is one substance with the Father, uncreated, and unchangeable in

nature.

III. "That the Son is co-eternal with the Father.

IV." That the Son is subordinate to the Father in no other sense than as God of God, light of light, God of very God; begotten not made, &c. "1. That Jesus Christ existed before the Virgin Mary the Arians never attempted to deny. Jus

very