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Answ. They are much easier to be discer in the Bible, than they are in Timothy's Look glass; for, instead of setting the saint's evider in a fair light, he has uttered things which he derstands not, and so darkened counsel by wo without knowledge.

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you know, that God's kingdom stands in righteousness, peace, and joy; and that the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace; and that God fills his people with joy and peace in believing. Stick to this, that a Christian's safety is more certainly known by his own choice, than by divine joys. However, we will examine man's choice, and God's joys, and set each before our reader, and let him see which he prefers. "Choose you this day whom you will serve," says Joshua; "whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord. The Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord." Here, reader, is their choice, which was voluntary and free: there was neither compulsion nor force in it; but gratitude to God for bringing them out of Egypt, and dispossessing the Amorites, prompted them to make this choice. But Joshua was not satisfied with this darling evidence of our friend Timothy's, but rather withstood it. "And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God: he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins," Joshua xxiv. 19. Joshua insinuates here, that they must be pardoned sinners who serve the Lord acceptably; and when sin, which separates

between God and the soul, is removed, the sinner comes to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon his head, and obtains joy and gladness, when sorrow and sighing flee away. Now, which evidence would my reader choose, man's choice, or the joy of the Lord, which is man's strength? Sure I am, that the soul that is a stranger to the terrors of the Lord, and to the joys of the Lord, could never yet sing of mercy nor of judgment; nor does he know the power of either law or gospel. Let him choose what he may, he is dead in trespasses and sins.

Quot. That choice, that is the effect of grace, is habitual and permanent. Amidst all the waves of this tempestuous sea, it will always steer the soul to anchor under the rock of ages.

Answ. Man's choice is habitual, says Timothy but suppose the soul should get into one of Job's frames, and choose strangling rather than life, where is the habit of it then? It is permanent:' but suppose the soul, like Jonah, should choose to run away, where then is its permanency? But what is still more, this choice will always steer the soul to anchor under the rock of ages.' But that anchorage is not good: to anchor under the rock is too low. Hope must anchor in that which is within the veil; it must anchor in the Godhead, which dwells within the veil of the manhood. If Timothy had said, that God's choice is habitually the same, and permanent, I should have liked it much better.

Quot. Hypocrites and formal professors may mimic some expressions; but there are some scriptures which are neither understood by them, nor scarce ever noticed.

Answ. If to mimic the expressions of the saints, and to be without understanding in the scriptures, be the marks of an hypocrite, or a formal professor, our friend Timothy bids as fair to be a stage-player as any man that I ever saw or read. That he mimics the expressions of a Christian, cannot be denied; and that he has no understanding in the scriptures, is as evident, for there is not one text opened or explained in both his volumes. Nor is there one text that he has applied, that is applicable to the subject to which he has applied it: himself has tacitly owned, that God has not given him eyes to see; and this acknowledgment is true.

Quot. "I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only." It is evident to me, that it was the design of the Holy Ghost in having such experience as this text contains, recorded, that Christians should read their own characters in the language of David, and others, to the world's end.

Answ. Now reader, we will look at Timothy's sense of this text, and the mysterious use that he makes of it. First, "I will go," says the Psalmist, "in the strength of the Lord:" this is an holy resolution of the mind. "I will make mention of

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