God, while others wonder at me, and say with the Psalmist, I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge: Psalm lxxi. 7.

"We have had some of these envious ones stand in convocation in the by-road which leads to Hendon, and hold a council, and debate upon the matter for hours together, what the rent is, what the taxes, the number of the family, the keep of the horses and ser vants, the taxes of the house, coach, &c. and what must unavoidably be the amount of the whole yearly; while Mr. Wstood on the other side of the wall, and heard the debates, and the conclusion. And here they took more pains than ever I did; for I never once cast up either the income or outgoings till the income tax was made; only I observed this, that the income seldom trod upon the heels of the outgoings; there was generally a little space between them, and in that gap erected my watch-tower, and in which ward I have sometimes been whole nights, when other folks have been in bed and asleep. At the chapel door also we were not a little troubled with this sort of well-wishers, sometimes twenty or more, about the coalheaver's state coach, to examine matters, and look into things. And this continued, more or less, for near two years. Indeed, it is but lately that this wonder of wonders has begun to

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cease. And yet my friends, who executed all this business for me, took care to give them all the information that malice itself could expect; for the initials of my name, W. H., together with the initials of my state, S.S. were put upon every pannel of the coach, upon the pads of the harness, and upon the very winkers of the bridles. And all this was done to satisfy those, who were the principal mourners on this occasion, that the thing was real, and not counterfeit; that it was not a hackney carriage, nor a glass coach; not borrowed, nor hired, nor a job; but the despised Doctor's own carriage, which the King of kings had sent him without asking for, and, at that time, without any expectation of any such thing."

S. S., which, according to his own solution, purports Sinner Saved, implies the degree that he claims in the university of christi anity. See p. 206.

Since the first appearance of his Clerical Criticisms, which are yet considerably extended at this time, One simus has met with two redoubtable antagonists; but William Huntington, of course, has found two valorous

advocates. Of these two friends or foes, as the affair happens to point, one modestly calls himself Seek Truth;' while the other openly says that his name is W. M. Smith, M. G.,' or, as he explains the thing, • Minister of the Gospel.' Job wished that his adversary had written a book'-the adversaries of Onesimus have written two of what some men call books.

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Defending the diploma of Sinner Saved,' as became him, "neither Onesimus nor his admirers," says W. M. Smith, M. G. " can erase it from the soul of the venerable herald (William Huntington, S. S.) of truth; though they may cast their aspersions, as the Jews did at the Title written on the Cross on which the Lord Jesus was crucified: but Pilate would not alter it; he declared, what he had written should remain; Pilate could not alter it, as that name belonged to Jesus before chaos was formed. And I am fully persuaded that William Huntington well knows, by internal evidence, from what quarter Sinner Saved' derives its origin; and unless Onesimus, and his adherents, are made partakers of the grace which constitutes a 'Sinner Saved,' I am confident that it will be dreadful when death lays his hand on them: they will go to the generations of their fathers, and shall never see light!" Page 6 of this Letter to Onesimus.-Now, without animadverting on

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the arrogance with which this Minister of the Gospel' presumes to prejudge the final sentence of the Judge of all the Earth;' what must be thought of the irreligi ous effrontery, to call it no worse, which led him to pronounce William Huntington's title of Sinner Saved' to be much the same as 6 the title written on the Cross on which the Lord Jesus was crucified !!'***** By his own Master let each stand or fall.

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Mister Seek Truth' also labours to explain the epithetSinner Saved.'-" Had the gentleman (Onesimus) but referred to the account given by Mr. H.," observes this answerer," in the preface of his life, he would have found what sense Mr. H. applied to the term 'Sinner Saved.' He there states his meaning to be, made wise unto Salvation; or, as Luke expresses it, having the knowledge of salvation by the Forgiveness of Sins.' And this, as he (W. H.) justly adds," subjoins Seek Truth,' '"is true wisdom; all wisdom, short of this, is of no use to the soul: and to walk in the happy enjoyment of pardon and peace, is to walk in wisdom's pleasant way."

Seek Truth' is also one of the elect great. He thinks high, and swells, and speaks out. "When the gentleman (Onesimus) understands the Rudiments of Christianity," saith he," he will be better able to com

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prehend Mr. Huntington's meaning; and, till then, I will seriously recommend him to abstain from all religi ous controversy."Page 18.

It is the vain boast of Sinner Saved,' let 'Seek Truth' know, that pains the ears of men. Sinners though we are in this world, we must wait for the next world to know that we are saved! If we are to make' not only 'our calling,' but even our election, sure;' if of the 'many' that' are called, but few are chosen ;' if, though 'the elect' are chosen,' the called and chosen' are

yet to be faithful;' if we must

stand fast in the faith,'

and yet he that thinketh he standeth'-is to take heed

lest he fall;' if we are only to

reap in due time,' when

endure to the end, the

we faint not ;' if of such as same shall be saved;' and if even the righteous can scarcely be saved;' where, if these things be, is the 'Sinner Saved' on earth? Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.