saith God, "is my covenant with them." But, to make the incorruptible seed, the word of God, that liveth and abideth for ever, and by which a saint is born again, to be the moral law, is a most dreadful perversion of scripture.

And why should this press hard upon Mr. Huntington, who has a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly? Indeed, if I had guided my affairs with so much indiscretion as to contract enormous debts, and never pay; or mump a livelihood, by putting on of a sheep's-skin, and telling lies in the name of God; every part of God's word would doubtless press hard upon me, if I had any feeling at all. But then these things lie upon my enemies: they can lay no such things to my charge. Blessed be God, I can say through grace, that if they come upon the footing of good works, I should have no objection to be weighed in an even balance with ten thousand John Rylands, and all the prophetesses that have appeared in Great Britain since the first rise of the venerable Mother Shipton.

Quot. As though the apostle had said, I lay down no new rule for you as believers, to form your life and conversation by.

Answ. This lie never came out of the mouth of John. He declared, that if any man had not the doctrine of Christ, he had not God; and, if a man brought the whole law of Moses in his headinto one of the saints' assemblies, it had no weight with John. If a man come unto you, and bring

not this doctrine of Christ, receive him not into your house, nor bid him God speed. John, and all the rest of the apostles, give Maria the lie; as it is written, "Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain, which went out from us, have troubled you with words subverting your souls; saying, Ye must be circumcised and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment." Hence we see, that this lie is wholly Maria's own. John the evangelist is by no means the father of it, though John at Enfield may.

Quot. I lay down no new rule for you as believers.

Answ. This is another lie: the apostles lay down a new rule for new creatures, and that in opposition to Maria's rule: " For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature: and, as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God."

Quot. I refer you to the old commandment, the same that was given to you from the beginning.

Answ. This old commandment is not the moral law; and that Maria might have seen, if she had read the whole chapter. The old commandment, from the beginning of Christ's ministry, was the commandment of life upon mount Zion, which John counsels his disciples to keep in their heart. "Let that, therefore, abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye

have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father," 1 John, ii. 24. But the moral law, which worketh wrath, reveals no such union as this which is here called an abiding in the Son and in the Father; for those that are of the works of the law, are under the curse; and instead of being in the Son, and in the Father, they are without God, and without Christ, in the world; and as far from Father and Son as the vengeance of heaven can set them.

Quot. If the law is so done away, as that the believer, do what he will, cannot sin, because there is no law to forbid; and, by forbidding, render the action criminal, &c. why did the Holy Spirit dictate, under the gospel dispensation, this scripture; "Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law ?"

Answ. My reader will see, that this is an oblique stroke at the gospel of the Son of God; that the believer in Christ, whom the Holy Ghost declares is redeemed from the law, Gal. iii. 13; delivered from the law, Rom. vii. 6; and who is not under the law, but under grace, Rom. vi. 14; do what he will, says Maria, cannot sin; because, as he is delivered from the law, there is no law to forbid sin; and as God has declared that he is not under the law, there is no law forbidding, so as to render his actions criminal, saith Maria. This is making Christ the minister of sin, and rendering

the gospel as no rule of right and wrong; for, if the believer is delivered from the law, he cannot sin, for there is no other law to forbid, and not forbidding, cannot make the action criminal; so that, according to Maria, the gospel is an encourager of sin. Maria knows nothing of any law but the moral law: she knows nothing of the law of equity or conscience, against which the heathens sin without the moral law, and shall perish without law, being a law to themselves.

She knows nothing of the law of faith, which is Christ's law, by which those that believe, shall be justified; and those that believe not, shall be damned; and, by transgressing the same, they sin against Christ. But I had forgot, that this law excludes boasting, and therefore it must press exceeding hard upon Maria, John Ryland, and Co. who seek honour one of another.

Maria knows nothing of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus; and that those who do despite to the Spirit of grace, or sin against the Holy Ghost, have never forgiveness.

Nor does she know any thing of a throne of grace, nor of the laws of Zion, where God cites his own children for their misdemeanors, which Paul speaks of: "If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but, when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

Nor does Maria know any thing of James's glorious law, which regulates both the words and

actions of the saints of God, and by which they must all be judged, and not by the moral law; for God himself declares, that we are not under that. But this law, mentioned by James, Maria never saw: "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty; for he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy [in the heart of the saint] rejoiceth against judgment," by the law of liberty. But Maria adds,

Quot. "Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law."

Answ. Sin is a transgression of every law of God and man; nor can we suppose, that God delivers his children from the law, which is the strength of sin, that we should live in every abomination. Paul says, that we are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that we should be married to another, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. However, charging the grace of God with such consequences, has ever been the labour of the Arminian, and of every bond child in a profession. And Paul assigns a reason why we are delivered from the law; not that we should live in sin, but that we should be made fruitful by grace: "For, when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death ;" therefore a deliverance from the law was needful. How shall the believer, who is dead to sin, live