man confirms what I have long obferved, namely, that those who cleave to the law hate the Saviour and fuch as truft in themselves are implacable enemies to the grace, Spirit, and children, of God. They that are not with me are against me, fays the Saviour; and they that gather not with me fcatter abroad. The ancient enemies of Chrift curfed all his followers-This people that know not the law, are curfed. And this man curfes the things which they follow, I mean the things that make for peace.

If I am an Antinomian only because I cannot find a text in God's book that calls the law of Mofes the believer's only rule of life, what must this man be? And, if enforcing the law be doing the work of an evangelift, he is the man, for he difputes for it, and the works of it all the day long: therefore he cannot be faid to make it void; and, as he is a blafphemer of the faith, of the merit and fatisfaction of Chrift, how can he be faid to eftablifh the law? He cannot establish it by faith, because he curfes the doctrine that teaches looking to Jefus nor can curfing and fwearing, getting in debt, and living in idlenefs, be called establishing the law by works; for the law enforces labour, and fentences to death profane curfers and fwearers.

I wish my fifter would tell my accufers to take up their pen, and detect me: it would become a minifter much better than puzzling and prejudicing the minds of weaker veffels. Women are not fet in the front of the battle; and, if God honours them E 2

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with faith, it is better to brace their minds with truth than drive them into difputings about the law, which are unprofitable and vain. However, it is plain to me that thefe contenders for the law of Mofes are enemies to the law of truth: they never laid their fins to heart; nor do they give glory to God by being strong in his grace, and valiant for the law of faith; therefore I will turn the tables against them. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you: if ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the Lord of bofts, I will even fend a curfe upon you ; and I will curfe your bleffings; yea, I have curfed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. And ye shall know that I have fent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, faith the Lord of hofts. My covenant of life and peace was with him; and I gave them to him, for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: be walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the prieft's lips fhould keep knowledge, and they should feek the law at his mouth, for he is the meffenger of the Lord of bofts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, faith the Lord of bofts. Mal. ii. 1-8.

If all this be true, it is only those who know the plague of their own heart, and who are strong in faith, that give glory to God. He has curfed even the bleffings of the priests who are strangers to this.

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The covenant of life and peace is here called the law of truth; and they who hold it are faid to walk with God in peace and equity, and to turn many from iniquity; and the lips of the priests should keep this knowledge, and the people should feek this law of truth at their mouth; for fuch, and only fuch, are the meffengers of the Lord of hosts: for they who fwerve from this are faid to depart out of the way, and to cause many to ftumble at the law, and to corrupt the covenant of Levi. This is the judgment of the Lord of hofts upon this matter, Therefore have I made you contemptible and bafe before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, (which are the ways of life and peace) but have becn partial in the law (of truth). Mal. ii. 8, 9. If this be the cafe, Levi must have been an Antinomian as well as Mr. Huntington; and these priests, whofe bleffings are curfed of God, were of the fame caft as those who now oppofe me; and fome of them begin to appear as bafe and contemptible as ever they did. However, I hope I shall be satisfied with holding and enforcing this law of truth, and feeking the glory of him by whom grace and truth came. And I had much rather fee my fifter bedecked and furnished like Lemuel's virtuous woman, than find her contending for letter rules of action; and then I should hear fomething better from her than vain jangling, and fomething that never leads to licentioufnefs nor idleness.-Strength and honour are her cloathing, and Jhe fhall rejoice in time

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to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her boufhold, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rife up, and call her blefed; ber bufband alfo, and he praiseth her. Many daughters bave done virtuously, but fuch excel them all. Prov. xxxi. This is God's characteristic of a virtuous woman, and her actions; and it is the wisdom that is from above, and the law of kindness in Christ Jefus, that makes her act as fhe does. Yea, faith the Spirit; and fo fays the daily experience of

Thy humble fervant to command,

WINCHESTER Row,

FFB. 24, 1789.

WM. HUNTINGTON,

TO MRS. R. J. AT B-N-D.

DEAR MADAM,

YOUR kind letter came to hand; and I am thankful that any attempt of mine fhould be either owned or honoured of God. You had no need to have taken any pains in defcribing the perplexing workings of your mind. You never got out of the reach of my experience of law terrors, rebellion, and legal pride; I know the road well; my eye purfued you through all the strange labyrinths which you paffed; and I knew what cold entertainment you would meet with on that path. I know what it is to build towers to reach heaven without counting the coft: I have spent much time and toil in establishing my own righteousness, washing the Æthiopian white, and changing the leopard's fpots; and I knew that your profits would arife to the fame amount that mine did, namely, fhame and confufion of face.

I never faid that the law was not a rule of life to the unbelieving bond children; I believe it is in every fenfe. Mofes tells them that it shall be their righteousness if they obferve to do all the things of this law. Paul fays, The doer of the law shall be justified. The prophets declare that, if a man doth them, he fball live in them. And Chrift fays, If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. And we know