iiblishcj for the Tennessee Baptist Education Society-C, K. Winston, J. H. Shepherd, J. H. Marshall Cominittee.

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1 H THE BAPTIST. VIRGINIA BAPTIST ANNIVERSA- RIES. The frst week n June s the annual pcrol for he g-atherng of the Baptst clan n ho good "Old Domnon." At the recent meetng, a smaller number of mnsters was present than usual, owng to the occurrence of the General Annversary ths year, and the nablty of many members to attend both. The Bble Socety receve.i a lttle over ^700 durng the year, and the Foregn Ms^ sonary Socety consderably over $5000. The GeneralJlssocaton sustaned 21 mssonares durng parts of, and 0 mnsters for the whole year. About 230 had been baptzed, two or three churches formed, severa Sunday schools establshed, and much good done n the temperance cause. The Educaton Socety supported seven beeefcares at the Rchmond College. Recepts $1300..n A proposton was made by Presdent Da?!?, ^ of Mercer Unversty, Georga, that Vrj-m.a 8hould support the Theologcal Department of that nsttuton, whch s endowed wuh over 855,000 as a heolwgcal fund, whle at the same tme the frends of educaton should not cease to patronze the Rchmon»l College. The Baptsts n Bucknjjham have recently purchased the Female Insttute n that county, and are takng measures to receve pupls, 150 of whom can be accommodatel. BOOK DEPOSITORY Norfh corner of the Publc Square^ yashvlle, Tennessee^ Where may be found a valuable assortment of Relgous Books to wt: cr, oy OUIH3, X "^'w.. ell on Communon; Hmton's Hstory Baptsm: Church Member's Gude; Imtaton of Chrst; Clams of Jesus; Scrpture Natur- nl Hstory; Malcom's Travels; Malcom s, Bble Dctonary; Memors of Mrs. Judson; do. of Boardman;do. Roger Wllams; do. j Vfm. Carey; Karen Apostle^Iy Progress m, Error and Recovery to Iruth; Baxter's Sants Rest; Chrstan L'mon; Church Dscl plne; Prmtve Church; Baptsmal Queston by Town and Hague; Way land's Poltcal Economy, large and small; do. Moral Sc-, ence, large and small; Encyclopeda ot Relgos Knowledge; The Baptst Manual, and The Psalmst, a new Hymn Book, publshed by the A. B. Publcaton Socety, Phl- adelphn, and Gouhl, Kendall & Lncoln, Boston, and many othe^.^^ THOMAS, Lbraran. Tennessee was unrepresente^l n hst Trennal conventon. Why? Because ^300 had not been contrbuted lor foregn Mssons from the whole Stale durng three years. Never may ths be sad agan. U. THE WORST TRANSLATION OV THE BIBLE. At one of the mssonary meetngs recently held n Phladelpha, sad Rev. R. Fuller: ««Wc sometmes speak, and justly too, of coverng up an<l concealng the meannj; of wonls n a professed translaton of the Bble! But do you want to know what s the worst translatdn gven of the Bble? It s that translaton of t gven n the nconsstent lves of professel Chrstans! For that translaton, { t be wrong, contradcta not only Baptsm, but the whole tenor of that gospel whch teacheth us to deny all ungodlness and worldly lusts, and to lve soberly, rghteously am godly n ths present evl world. Chrstans are wtnesses to testfy by ther lves as to the truth of what s proclamed on the Sabbath. And s t not to be feared that these wtnesses, n too many nstances, contradct, by ther lves, sx days n the week, what we preachers testfy on the seventh"' REVIEW OF BOOKS. The Defntons of Fath and Canons of Dscplne of he sx (llcumcncal Councls, wth the remanng Canons of the Code of the Unversal Church. Translated, wth notes, together wth the Jlpostolcal Canons, by the Rev. Wllam Andrew Hammond, M. A. of Chrst Church, Oxford. New-York, James A. Sparks Ths work s only a collecton of defntoh, canons and decrees, some by councls connected wth tlo anc.-nt Papal church, some by the Englsh Epscopal church, and others by the Amercan Epscopal church. The dea of settlnr <lfl»cultes, overwhelmn" hereses, and kllng ol" heretcs, by ssung' a canon or decree, s a lttle too much depc^dent upon the belef n the nfallblty of the church or ts hea<l, to sut our free republcan taste. How lttle of relance upon God appears n t. As matter of hstory, these ^'defntons, canons and decrees" are mportant and should be preserved. The preface to ths book says, "A very lttle acquantance wth the ancent hereses, whch lor the frst sx hundred years after Chrst related chefly to the ever blessed Trnty, and to the nature and person of our Lord, wll show that there s hardly any, perhaps not one, expresson n the longest of the Defntons of the CF:cumencal Councls, whch was not drected a«mnst some partcular heretcal opmon, and "the omsson of whch would not have been made use of by heretcs to further ther perncous desgns." THE BAPTIST Wllllc pul»l.-«lcd weekly, on u Ijurc Bperroyal flcct, In oclavoforn.nl S^ por annum. All Uohc who have Bhscrlwdanl those who Intend lo mhsctlbe, wll jlcasc remt the money Immcdlulcly on the rccelp ofhlb number. a«the Bccnnd wll not be sent unlll our terms are compled Wll. Tloewho Hove formed clubs In accordance wllt our proposton, wll address us as soon u poselble. blshcj for the Tennessee Baptst Educaton Socety-C, K. Wnston, J. H. Shepherd, J. H. Marshall Comnttee. R. B. C. HOWELL. > W. CAREY CRANE, 5 VOL. 1. THK I ons. "Ojc Lord, One Fath, One Baptsm. W. F. BANG & CO., PUBLISHERS. NASHVILLE, AUGUST 31, No. 2. BAPTIST. We now lay before our readers he second number of The Baptst, (revved,) and lake pleasure n sayng, to all concerned, lat arangemenls arc made by whch s contnuance, for one year at least, s secured. The paper wll, hereafler, be rerulurly ssued every Saturday mornng. Our terms requre payment n advance, but many of our sulscrbers have hcslaled to send he money, because they consdered the contnuance of the work doubtful. Every mpedment s now removed; the enerprze, wth the dvne blessng, wll be prosecuted; longer delay s unnecessary. STATK OF RELIGION. j From every purt of Tennessee, and ndeed he whole South West, complants come up of the coldness of our Churches and the declne of relgon. A few brght spots, t s true, present themselves, as wll be seen by the letters of brethren Talafero and Meachum, but all the remander s dark and repulsve. The Gospel s preached as heretofore, protracted, and other meetngs are held, but they are not accompaned by the power of the Holy Sprt, and no cheerng results follow! Brethren, s there any good reason for ths condton of thngs.^ Has the Gospel lost the power to anmate the Chrstan, to comfort those who mourn, to subdue the heart of the snner, all to brng men to love and obey the truth? The fault s undoubte<lly wholly our own. vve have forgolte our hh prvleges, and depoendcd to mngle n the slrfe.s and contests of the world; our nftectons have become cohl; we are no longer sprtual; and our God has wthdrawn from us hs favor! Chrstans have, n no small degree, lost the feprt of ther work. Stll, tme passes on ub before, snners are dyng n ther sns, the chans of evl uro beng fast rveted upon the neckfl of our fellow-ctzens, the judgment of the great day s approachng, where we must all appear, and can we reman thus ndfferent, wthout accumulatng awful gult? O brethren awake, and call upon God, lest he vst your nqutes wth fearful chastsement. Pray that your love, and fath, and zeal, may be enkndled anew; renounce the vantes of the world; examne your own hearts, and repent. "Draw ngh unto God, and he wll dravv ngh unto you," and agan bless and prosper you. It s not dffcult to determne the prncpal cause of our present calamtous condton. We are n the mdst of the most ntense poltcal exctennmt. In all parts of the country meetngs are constantly beng held, by both partes, attended by multtudes of all classes. The mpassoned eloquence of the speakers lashes the crowds nto almost phrenzed exctement. Such a tempest of feelng has never before pervaded the South West. Mnsters, Deacons, and people, to a great extent, mngle freely wth the throng, and feel all the nfluences of he populace. Relgon has, we fear, wth many of them, become, at least for the tme, a secondary concern. Not unfreqently the regular meengs of the house of God are forsaken, and our brethren, nstead of assemblng to pray, are found shoutng at the poltcal meetng. Is t, therefore, astonshng that sprtual dearth s upon us? Is t surprsng thnt the tempest of poltcs s sweepng away before t, all that s beautful ll morals and relgon. Should we be aston^hed that nutuy of our promsng young men arc bured n the runs, from whch they wll arse ho more? In ths free republc t s proper and necessary that chrstans should feel q deep nterest n the choce of our rulers, and n the mantenance of our glorous Consttuton and laws. But to do ths t s not necessary thot they should prove recreant to Chrst, degrade

2 18 THE BAPTIST. n love." Lot your motto be--"soft words, themselves as ctzens of the Kngdom of God, and dshonor ther holy relgon. Patrotsm and hard arguments." and relgon are not antagonstc prncples. Several very valuable communcatons wll It s, therefore, not necessry, t n, n- be found n our colutnns lo-dny, to whch we deed, crmnal, to sacrfce the one for the nvte the attenon of our renders. support of the other. Chrstanty teaches us to love, and serve our country, au.l to use TO CORRESPONDENTS AND SUBall proper and honorable means to pronoe SCRIBERS. those measures that we beleve to be essental To our correspondents we ask permsson to ts prosperty and honor. But when our to say, that several very nterestng conmuncaons poltcal zeal calls us from the dutes and sprt are on hand, whch shall receve at- of relgon, we dshonor ourselves, and njure tenton n due tme. And to our subscrbers our country. The professor of relgon and frends, that t wll be necessary for us who s not true to hs God, should not be regarded as more lkely than others to be fathful to hs government. all, at least for t few weeks, untl we can get matters arranged, and under wegh, to exercse j)atcnce. Beloved brethren, pause! Let us ponder ORDINATION. our condton and crcumstances. Return to Our brother Wllam A. Whtstt, was (as your duty. Seek that sprtualty of mnd, we understand no notce of the transacton that devoton of heart, whch you have lost. has been sent us) ordaned nt Concord, Davdson county, about a month snce, to the Do your duty as chrstan patrots. Mantan your hgh poston as chldren of God. mnstry, by Elder James Whtstt (hs grandfather) and R. W. January. Bro. W wll Do ths, and our darkness wll be dspelled, joy wll return to the house of God, the nfluences of the Holy Sprt wll no longer be preach regularly at Concord and Frankln. He s a young man of fervent pety, thorough wthheld from us, and we shall agan see snners converted, and the cause of truth and educaton, and brllant promse. salvaton advancng. WESTERN DISTRICT AUXILIARY. The annual meetng of ths body wll be held thsyear wth the Church at Mddleburg, Hardeman Co., cotnmoncng Frday before the second Lord's day n September (the 6th OUR RECEPTION. Our thanks are due to the corps edtoral for the cordal manner n whch they welcome our return to ther ranks. All the papers of our own denomnaton (wth a sngle excepton) from the St. Lawrence to the Sabne, and many of other Churches, have greeted U8 warmly, and affectonately. It remans wth us to prove, whch we shall ndustrously strve to do, by our devoton to the cause of Chrst, that we are not unworthy of ther confdence and fraternty. BE KIND. We agan solct communcatons from our frends n every quarter, on all subjects whch may nterest them. We partcularly request, however, that all artcles ntended for The Baptst be marked wth chrstan courtesy and love, towards every ndvdual and denomnaton. If a man dffer wth you n sentment on any subject, "treat hm not as an enemy, but admonsh hm as a brother." Our "Old Baptst," and "Ant-Mssonary brethren," have receved, perhaps, at our hands too much severty. We can never wn them but by love and kndness. Let us try the power of these weapons. It s requste to Jull fluecess, that we should ''speak the truth day of next month). The Delegates apponted by the General Assocaton to attend, arc Bshops R. Kmbrough, M. Hllsman, W. S. Perry and R. W. Nxon. CONCORD"^SOCIATION. Ths body h(?ld ts thrty-fourth Annversary two weeks snce. We wll notce ts proceedngs at large as soon as the mnutes are prnted. SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED. Bro. Rufus C. Burleson, of Hckorygrove, M.', wrtesas follows: "We desre that you should gve us n The Baptst, as soon as your lesure wll permt, an llustraton nnd I exposton ofthedoctrne of Depravty, Fath, Repentance, Remsson of Sns, and Regeneraton. In ths part of Msssspp, our Churchea are flled up wth young members, and our mnstry, qualfed to nstruct, s not suffcently numerous. The Campbelltea are exetng themselves to sow the seeds of heresy and dv8on,and unless promptly met wth truth, they wll unsettle the fath of some, am perhaps destroy them. Instruct us n thefe great doctno.s (d'tlk BMc, and we wll use them wth the more elucocy, not n the form of controversy, but by pourng them upon the mnds of our people, as the clouds do refreshng showers upon the sprn^rn;* grass." We promse brother B. to gve an essay, under the head of "Mnster's De >artment," ll conserutvn ordor, upon each of the topcs named, whch we trust!»e brethren wll employ to th(5 boat advantage. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, KY. Ths nsttuton, under the able Presdency of Rev. Howard Malcom, D. D., s now rr'etng the hgh antc[)atos of ts early frends. Its course of nstructon and general managcnont have rendered t to )ular and corntnmdpd a goodly number of slulents. At the recent commencement tlnj degree of Doctor of Dvnty was conferred on Rev. R. B. C Howell and Rev. R. T. Dllard. C. EAST TENNESSEE AUXILIARY CON- VENTION. From the mnutes of 1843, now before us, we gather the followng tems. Fve Agents and x Mssonares are employed. From the labors last year, the followng result flowed: 1163 conversons, 550 added to the Curch by baf)tsn, 8 Churches organzed, and 26 Deacons ordaned. A resoluton was passed n favor of takng mmedate measures for the establshment of a preparatory school, and the Correspondng Secretary was drected to secure a sutable teacher. The meetn;^ for the present year was held two weeks snce. Wll brethren advse us of proceedngs.^ C. RECEIPTS. A full lst of recepts wll be prepared by the Publshng Commttee, and nserted n our next paper. It s very >robable that mstakes and omssons may be made. We solct our frends to ad us n ths matter, and f any thng s wrong to advse us that t may be corrected. HOW MUCH DO THEY GIVE.? The Epscopalans number 60,000 communcants. The amount expended for Mssonares at home and abroad, s ^80,000, a lttle more than a dollar and a quarter for each comnnncant per year, or two and a hrlf cents a week. THE BAPTIST. 19 Tho Old School Presbyterans number 170,000 communcants, and contrbute about ^80,000 for Mssonary purposes, makng an average for each communcant of nearly ffty cents a year, or one cent a week. The Baptsts number nearly 800,000 members, and contrbute about ^100,000 per annum for Mssonary purposes ths gves an average of about twelve and a half cents year, or about one-fourth of a cent a week. The Methodsts number upwards of one mllon of mend>ers, and contrbute about $150,000 for Mssonary objects, an average of thrteen cents a year, or one-quarter of a rent per week. "The aggregate of the number of communcants mentoned n the foregong estmate, s 2,030,000." The aggregate amount of annual contrbutons for that number s $410,- 000, beng a general average of about 20 cents a year, or less than half a cent a week for each communcant. Half a cent a week, from the Chrstans of Amerca to spread the knowledge of God! "Tell t not n Gath, publsh t not n the streets of Askelon." C. BAPTISM, If Pedobaptsts deny that our Savour was mmersed, for argument's sake deny that he was crucfed, and then put them to provng that he wus urucfed. We boldly affrm that the testmony n fa«vor of Chrst's mmerson, s as strong, clear and rrefragable, as that he was crucfed. C. PREACHING IN STRANGE PLACES. Doddrdge, somewhere n bs varous wrtngs, advses n substance: that Mnsters should be anxous manly to preach such dscourses as shall exhbt the most heart relgon, and not those whch are flled wth the most head relgon. Strangers scrutnze our personal pety most, and when satsfed of that, whatever we may say, whch dsplays ntellect, wll be receved wth favor and treasured up. C. UNION UNIVERSITY. We commend the followng extract of a letter from Prof. Eaton to the attenton of our readers. Wth such facts before them, wll they wthhold ther free wll offerngs to the cause of Educaton: "There have been two young men here svthn a week past* to enter lhe~inslluton, who hove the mnstry vew, but they are

3 '20 T H E B A P T IS T. T11 E B A P T 1 S T. 21 poor n ths world's goods, and hcy have been oblged lo return home agan. One of them resdes n North Abhama, and the other n Wlson county. There are now two here and two more desre to come, makng sx. What shall bo done? The brethren have concluded to rent a house, ft t up, am put I hem n t. Wll the brethren n Nsshvlle Ths Church s wllng to furnsh all he eatables, f the other Churches wll pny he rent of the house and servants hre. It wll not only be a shnmo, but a sn, f the Churches refuse to ad hcse young men, who are prntng to proclam the nnsoarchable rches ol Chrst to a pershng world." Baptsts of TennC.ssco, njon \ou devolves the entre responsblty n ths matter. IVe leave t wth you and your Jnal Judge. "Ths artcle was wrtten a month ago. C. THE ATONEMENT. Wthout enterng nto an argument, we submt the followng vews of the atonement, for the consderaton of the enqurng. Symngton n hs able work, says: "that Chrst ded to atone ether 1. For all the sns of all men. 2. Or for the sns of some men. 3. Or for some of the sns of all men. 4. Or for sn n general." He tnantans the second proposton, nnd concludes that Chrst's dyng wll beneft those only to whom, n the soveregn good pleasure of the Almghty, the atonement wll be fnally appled. In a late number of the Amercan Bblcal Repostory, there s an artcle by the Rev. Alonzo Wheelock, Pastor of Sxteenth street Baptst Church, N. Y. cty, mantanng the followng vews: "That the death of Chrst on the Cross, for the world, was not the atonement of Chrst. That the atonement of Chrst conssts m ha subsequent, ofcal prestly act, n presentng hs ovvn blood as our Hgh Prest m that holy place above, nto whch he has, for us, entered., That as hs presthood s an unchangeable one, he ever lves n that holy place, and s ready at all tmes to make atonement wth hs blood, for every pentent transgressor, who comes to God through hm. That Chrst <led but once, and entered wth hs blood nto the holy place but once as our great Hgh Prest, but that ho atone«lor pentent snners often, and as often as they apply to God throurh hm for pardon. That Chrst ded fer all snners, but atones for none untl they repent. That as soon as our great Hgh Prest a- tones for a snner, he s forgven. That the doctrne, whch teaches thay he death of Chrst s the atonement n eflect, renders hs offce as our Hgh Prest merely nomnal, nasmuch as t takes from hm, when wthn the val, he offcal work of a Hgh Prest, whch was to make atonement then*. That the prestly servce wthn the val, s ah cssenlal as the death of the vctm. That to mantan that snners, whether of the elect»)r non-elect, are atoned for n a state of mpentence, s contrary lo the doctrne of atonement a.s lauht n the Bble. That the «lo(!trne whch teaches that ntononent s made for a snner, and yet he s not forgven, s n drcct :md open hostlty to the nsfrnnon furnshed by the Sacred Serptnres." TEMPFJIANCE CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY. Onr thanks are due to the Managers of the Ceb braon at Whte's creek, n ths county, for a grateful jrcsent whch would have well adorned a brdal day. It was our pleasure to attend the Celebraton, and after the readng of the Declaraton of Imlrpenclencc by the courteous Dr. Manlove, the Presdent of the day, we made a spcech upon the "Trumphs of the Washngtonan Reform." Mlton A. Haynes, Esq., succeeded wth an able and nterestng Oraton suted to the day; detalng numerous strkng ncdents, ^'onnectejl wth the settlement of the Watauga and Cumberlan<l Valle^. About 2000 persons partook of a sumptuous barbccue. After whch Volunteer Temperance Addresses were made by Messrs. Hollntrsworth and Stockell. A fne band of Musc was n attendance, enlvenng the, occason wth delghtful strans of ntmc. Over 130 sgned the pledge. C. 1 COLUMBUS, MISS. Bev. W. Carey Crane has receved a call to the Pastoral care of the Baptst Cnrch n, ths hghly mportant and growng place, whch he hasconsdered t hs duty to accept. C. ^ ELDER J. WHITSITT. It wll b? seen by the followng note, that our venerable Father Whtstt has gven hs late Essay on the Atonement to the Second Church n ths cty, to ad them n payng for ther place of worshp. We can say lo all those who feel dsposed to purchase t, that t s the producton of an old and venerated chrstan, who has stood upon the walls of Zon, unmpeached as a man or as a mnster, for ffty years, and that t s composed n the sprt of kndness and brotherly love. DEAR Bo. HOWELL You have seen that I have publshed a Treatse on the Atoneet, and as the Second Baptst Church n 1 Nashvlle are poor, and mm;d assstance, I have gven them the prolts of the sale of the ' most of them, whch I am n hopes they can sell, especally t our mnsters, who are (renlly n> that Church, wll assst her n the I sale (»f them. Yours respeclfullv, JAMES WHITSITT. August 19, 184. REVIVAL AND CHURCH CONSTI- TUTED. The followng letter detals most nterestng ntellgence: DOCTOK Ilowt \..-~l)ear Brother Ou Saturday the 20h J'y, a mcmng was commenced at lla' petl, \V llafnson Co., whch was protracted on* week, durng whch tme twelve or ffteen were ho )efully converted, and sxteen wrre added lo tl Churel The mnsters n attendance, were brn. Rushng, Heath am myself. Ou the 30tl July a three days meeun; was closed four mles north of Shelby vlle. Seven were baptsed, and these, to;tler wth others, who ln'ld h.-tlers ofdsrnsso, amountng n all to twenty, were, on that lay, by brn. Rushng, Heath and mysell, consttute.i nto a Church, to be known by the name of Hurrcane;;rove. Andrew Vannoy s the Clerk. Hs address s Shelbyvlhf, Tenn, The revval s spr«;alng tlrought ths whole regon. Yours, &,c. A. W. MEACIIUM. On the Gfh August, at Norhlok, br. M. agan wrtes; "I have closed my regular meetng at M'»untlebanon,.' Marsal. Several were hopefully cofverted. On Lord's day mornng 1 baptsed lrtecn. I lscotnued my meetng to assst l)r. Rushng at Northfork. We are now gon;,' on here wl fatlermg prospects. Between twenty and thrty have presented themselves for prayer, and fve have profe.ssed fath n Chrst *.Snce the above was wrtt«!n, wo l(!arn that the uotng at Northfork contnued 10 dys, that tht/rt; were 4U convursun!}, 37 joned tho Curch and 28 were baptsed. Two have been bapsed at Sh«lbyvlle, and on Sunday 18th at lla(»ctl 7 w» rt; baptsed. REV IVAL AND CONS IM U I ION. DI'CATUU, July 18, REV. Docro llowka.-vdear Brother \ nave some good newsl(j con.muncate to I'le Baptst. Wo closed a protracted meetng last nght wth the Sequatchee Churc, lbdsoe Co., Tenn. It was a very nterestng meetng from the frst, and contnued fve days. About thrty professed to fnd pardon, sxteen joned by experence, eght of whom were baptsed, by bro. Vernon, and some ffteen wll follow next Sabbath. The mnsters pr«jdcnt, were brn. McNabb and Vernon On Monday we consttuted a Church, called the Cumberland Mountan Church, most of the members lvng on that mountan. The Presbytery conssted of R. H. Talafero, J. A. McNabb, and A. Vernon. Bro. V. has accepted the pastoral charge. It s a precous lttle band. Ths s the thrd Church that Sequatclec has sent out wthn a few years, and yet she numbers more than a hundred members. The Lord has, n ths regon, wonderfully blessed the labors of the Mssonares. 1 am now on my way to a protracted meetng n McMnn county. May the Lord meet hs people there. You saw, I suppose, the dscourtesy wth whch I was lately treated n the Banner and Poneer! 1 dd not thnk that bro. Buck would have commtted such an offence aganst chrstan kndness. 1 wrote to hm as to other edtors, not very carefully mndng my stops, and neglectng to dot my s, and cross my t s, and behold the result! He never treated me so before, and I surely had no reason, to expect he would seek lo do me an njury. I conlled n hm, and was deceved! Your paper s a welcome vstor at my humble cottage, and 1 wll do all I can to extend ts crculaton. Aftectouately, &.c. R. H. TALIAFERO. NEWSPAPER LAWS. For the beneft of all whom t may concern, we publsh the laws regulatng the relatons r edtors and subscrbers to newspapers: 1. Subscrbers who do not gve express notce to the contrary, are consdered as wshng to cmtnue ther subscrptons, '. If subscrbers order the dscontnuance of ther papers, the publsher msy contnue to send them tll all arrearages are pad. 3. If subscrbers neglect or refuse to take ther paper from the offce lo whch they are drected, they are held responsble tll they have settled ther blls, and ordered ther paper dscontnued. 4. If subscrbers remove to other places wthout nformng t e publshers, and ther paper s sent to the former drecton, they are held responsble, 5. The courts have decded, that refusng to take a cws )aper or lerodcal from the oftce, or removng, and eavng t uncalled for, s prma faca evdence of INTENTIONAL FIIAUD. 6. If after a Post Master s nstructed by a subscrber to dscontnue hs paper, havng compled wth the condtons of dscontnuance, he shall fal to do so, and the paper shall contnue to come to hs olfce, the Post Master s responsble for payment.

4 22 THE BAPTIST. THE MODEL No. 2. CHURCH. It s a fact notable, that no Pedobnptat has ever perpetrated so glarng and presumptuous a mstake as to atrrm, much less to pretend to prove, that rther any of the one hundred and twenty men and loonen, who n the character of dscples composed the Jerusalem Church, n ts or-n, were nfants; that nny of those who on the day of Pentecost receved the word and were bap' worthy of acceptaton, however specous or erudte. The declaraton of a Dvne, Synod, Councl, or thousands of Canoncal Decrees can never nvaldate, however hey may obscure, pervert, or wrest "the Scrptures of Truth." To substtute for Scrture, the slence of Scrpture, la njdeltj. It renders the Bble nugatory and useless. It exalts bewldered and corrupt reason above Revelaton. It s nsultng to Jehovah and ncongruous wth Chrstanty. It s Phlosophy, not llelgu; and that Phlosophy s false. It unhnges Protestantsm, whch clams "the B ble alone as contanng ts Relgon." It s dangerous to admt such a prncple nto Chrstan Phlosophy. It were better alled to the Systems that no nfants xocre members of the Jerusalem Church; and more strange s It, tha hs of Voltare, Hume, or Rosseau. Such, s, however, the tendency of a pertnaceous adhertnce to error by men who scorn lo ebage admsson should have been stecutyp.ml hy : the Presbyteran Tract Socety. j from wrong lo rght. PHILO. Now,a8 ths church s the mo.her of al, the Churches of Chrst, and ther model and No. 3. pattern by dvne a.poument, t s ncum- lzed^ssev^ nbants; or, that the three thousand added to them, on that occason, were nfants; or, that 'Hhe saved added to them, thereafter, daly," were nfants; or, that ^nhejve thousand men added, on a suhse-, nuent occason, were nfants; or, '^le be-, levers, who were the more added tn the Lord,'^ were nfants, all of whch Ls recorded n the frst four or fve chapters of Acts. And, m o r e surprsng, s t, stll, that Dr. Mdler, has admtted a fact, so fatal to hs systcmn, bent upon Pedobaptsts to show the memb e r s h p of at least one nfant, n tho modrl church. Here, then, would be an end ot all cavl. Such a fact demonstrated, would forever slence audncous Bap:^ts. Su. h proof s a desderatum. U cannot be lound n LuUe's hstory of that church. There s no other authentc chroncle. To plead the s. lenceofthe record, s thrr only alternatve, and even that s unavalabh- snce the nnmber and character of the orgnal members and of the accessons to that church, so crtcally and so precsely exhbted by Luke contradd them, and slence any nference favorable to Pedobaptsm, derved from hs slence ^forhehas spoken. Here, then, may a Baptst plant hmself as upon a rock an mpregnable fortress, and demnn.l of the Pedobaptst world to show from the nspred record of Luke, n the Acts of the Aposh-s, the nembershp, baptsm, or communon of an nfant, one nfant n the model church tf Jerusalem. U never has been shown never has been atte,,,pted-nevcr has been aflrmed-never can bo shown-never. Who does not seek a sold foundaton upon whc to buld hs fath am p ctrc? And wh^ docs not admre the ws, dom and lcnrjvolcnrr nf!lmt Oo.l wlo hy releved hm from the necessty of uncertanty.' And who would not prefer to be guded by what tho Sprt has wrtten, rather than by what t has not wrttenl And logcal argument, or deducton, contradctory of the testmony of tho Word of Lfe cannot be The frst Chrstan Church became local and vsble n the cty of Jerusalem aecordng to Luke. (Acts 1, 12 ch. seq.) Shoubl alfof the facts and ncdents connected wth the orgn, and development of ths body ecelesastlc, as traced by Luke n the Acts of the A )Ostles be arranged by somo sklful hand chronologcally n the dentcal words of that hstoran, solated Vom ts connectons wth other crcumstances chroncled by the Physcan, the portrature so exhbted, would bo nstantly recognzed, by Chrstendom, as tho Model Baptst Insttuton, wth the dtterence only of the second mpresson beng less perfec than the or^nal, n the lvng expres- 8on of the pcture, yet retanng emphatcally marked n graphc b:>ldness every dstnctve feature n mnutest exactness. And were the outlnes of ths church as sketched by the pen - cls of the Prophets, collected nto a sngle fgure and compared wth le prototype, the beholder would be struck wth tho concdence, regardng one as the «lrawng, tho other as the pantng an rresstble sheld aganst nfdelty, alone adequate to ts refutaton. A rebuke to kngs, herarches and poltco-cccleslastcal establshments, vvhcl alone 'jolvcs lc mystery nf thu conspracy of all kngdoms poltcal, ecclesastc, and spurous, to obscure defame, and annhlate the (true hstory of the) orgn of that sect calle«l n mockery Baptsts.^' By a strange Provlence, however, t h a t studous effort of malce, n ts macbess, has wtnessed tho glorous truth t sought to hde. As profane authors hurlng ther mssles aganst Chrst and hs Gospel and Kngdom have manufactured a chan of evdence n proof of Chrstanty, reachng from the days of Cajsar to the nneteenth century, so the enemes of the Baptsts, n bulls, anathemas, canons, decrees, councl, and n the n.lelctons of ther bshops, hstorans, cardnals, popes, nqustors and polemcs, and by gbbets, racks, crosses, slakes, fres, swonls, wars and rvers ofllood have n every century erected monuments to the memory of Baptsts, more endurng than the eternal lrass wth nscrptons wrtten oft ll the lfe-blood of these wtnesses to God's truth. And what commands admraton s, th t n Luke's account of tho Model Church ths consjrr cy s clroncled, as well the altcmmpt to ntroduc"! modern Pedobaptst Judasm nto the Jerusalem Church and the exemplary frmness wth whch that model, partcular, local, vsble church, embracng n ts me'nltershp all of tho Ajjostles, ressted and tlwared tle dabolcal seht'e for the re" susrtao of h! corpse of Judasm and ts marrage wl Chrstanty, whch unfortunately n after ages was accomplshed, and as the frut ot ths unho.y unon pnxlced the apostacy and ts numerous tran ot sstorlond. The two epo'is menfonod by Luke, here comnemoralcd, are the persecuton whch caused the dsperson of the Jerusalem Church and the councl of that whole church, ncludng n ts membershp the Apostles wch decreed, that "a?/o/ce not be put upon the neck of the I/-sc/j/e's" the Pedobaptst yoke of the.ludastc covenant of crcume-son. Tno antquty of PebdMpsm n enbryo mght be all<)\vel to d.te too «;.rly, especally snce Paul the contemporary (d*!.uk(! allows t to already work n hs day, than u hc.l no olium- evl ld he more elaborately wthslaul n all of hs Epstles, the chef of whch seem to have been for the especal demolton of Pedobaptsn, or rather ts exposure and detecton untl the fullness of tme. PHILO. One glass of lquor each day at G j conts, costs :t!22 81 a year. THE BAPTIST. 23 AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. It wll ho seen by the followng comrauncaton of our Rev. and beloved brother Doctor Babcock, that he regarded an artcle of our Assocate n our last paper, referrng to the Amercan and Foregn Bble Socety, as exceptonable. That our brethren may have the whole matter before them, we publsh, wth pleasure, the letter n full: Bble Rooms, 350 Broom St. > New York, July \blh, J Rev. Dr. Howell JWj/ Dear Brother^ Ths mornng "The Baptst" of June 29th was put nto my hands: and my attenton drected to the retarks of your Assocate Edtor, bro. Crane, at the bottom of the 13th page callng n queston the wsdom of the Socety's polcy n publshng Englsh Bbles and Testaments. Fully acquttng bro. C. of any ntentonal wrong n ths matter, and frankly acknowledgng that I was once of the same opnon whch he now expresses, I wsh to offer some suggestons for hs and your consde.-nton, whch I hope may serve to put ths matter n a correct lght. 1, It has been delberately decded by a vey large majorty of the great Baptst famly, n vew of the course pursued towards us by the Amercan Bble Socety, and especally n vew of ther flat refusal so to modfy ther arrangements that we could co-operate wth them n the home supply, whje excluded by them from equal partcpaton n the Foregn, that we should devote a sutable j»orton of our recepts to furnshng Bbles and Testaments n Englsh, German, Welch, for home use. On that decson the Board were bound to act, and have, as pru- (b ntly and economcally as possble, procured st M-eotype plates for only two Englsh Bbles, h.«others whch we sell beng obtaned on purchase elsewhere. Wo even went so far as to ap)ly to the Amercan Bble Socety to t:ell ns ther prnted sheets as "the Frends B. Assocaton n Phladelpha" do» that we mght bnd them up, and ssue them as called fo^, whch applcaton they decdedly refused. We do occasonally buy a few of ther books ready bound, of such knds as are called for, and whch we do not publsh; but there s naturally a strong ndsposton to have any more tlealmg wth such a concern than we are actua lly oblged to. Now n what other way coull our Board carry out the drectons of the Socety, than that they have adopted? And s t qute rght to represent them as obtanng funds, on pleas for the foregn versons, am then usng them for another purpose.^ Both objects have been embraced m all om* pleas, snce the frst year; and to both though very unequally, have the funds been appled: ^130,000 to the Foregn, and only ^34,250 to the home supply n tho 7 years, or nearly 4 to 1 for foregn translatons. 2, I am now convnced that good polcy requres us to be strctly ndependent of the Amercan Bble Socety, and hence lo prmt our own books. Even now, ther Agents ore

5 T H E B A P T I S T. T H E B A P T I S T. constantly attenptnn^, all over the country, Also the followng Deacons. J. \V. Maneese, to brng our Churches nto co-operuton wth John VVoo<l, John T. Stout, Elus ther auxlares: How much more would Fort, D. J. Bucks, J. VV. Fountleroy. they be able to do n ths way, f we dd nothng The hous«; was then lully oran/ed, by for home dstrbuton, orobtunod al our books of them, just lke l r othm- Auxlares? electng II. W. Nxon, Molerator, and W. S. Perry, Secret ry, who '.:-'onl:ly took ther Our Churches wll not, cnut bo res )cctve staf<s, nd then the meeln,' pro- brought, re^'ularly lo co-o )t!rate wl wo dstnct ceeded to buses"*. Bble Socetes. If hfv nmly lsten Isr. Receved by the lans of Elder U. T. to and ad owdthey wll do u ell. For so n'.l Anderson, a comnntmon IVotn Ehler 'P. tpled are the calls for (lllermt l>u related B. Hpley, as flu' Clsannru of a C(»mnttee objects of relgous benevolnre, lmt there M[)ponted at the last J\ln-^fer's and Dea<'on's wll ordnarly, be no lkelhood ol gett^^ Meetnf, to report at a sbseqnenr fn<'etng two Bble Socete.-s' app.-als bclore h»! same what mprovcehs, fany, there can be made Church succes.sfully ll the samt- y'.n-. But uj on or preseh or^an/aton, JUd practce f we do not furnsh Bd)le and Trstaments to p'ursned at our merngs. the Churches and Socftes corbntng to After the re.'ujnr of the sum'a Conmttee, us, they wll con.l,n, and \vll pretty soon consstn: ol" Elder U. '\ Anderson, S. Hmker, turn ther contrbutons to a Socety h;t wll and Pratt llams, were apponted to furnsh what they want. Experence has reduce the comnncaton above allud;d to proved ths. Besdes we need the actvty of nto resolutons, vvlo w rldrew for a slnn t the benevolent prncple n all our auxlares tme, and returned and made the follow ng to be exercsed n supplyng the desttute a* report, vz: round then). If our auxlares do nothng of 1. Rc^ohed, That the acternoon «)f the frst ths knd, and those of the Amrrcan Socety (lay be devoted to prayer an<l jrase, ntermngled have the whole of ths feld left open to them, wth lve«' eonl'erete»; on the sat«! of t s easy to see that they wll gan a double relgon and elnrc!es. advantage, n exercsng non? tnlly ther benevolent 2. Itesohed, That all the meetngs Im; publc', actvty, and \vnn'j:lo h»m.>clv< s the full tde of sympathy oflm- phlc. am that crcsms be omted. 3. Jler^o/vcd, 'I hat (Jomnttec le a t»t- 3. Bro. C. may be assured that tn? "cantlon < d to.'xame t!e s. n publshng h). B's. and T's." wlch ht^ 4. Jesn/v ', That the n-h-uon uf tr..-te- recommends s rgdly regarded. NVr own ral experef f -Iosj the h-ne-s of rln-neetr. nothng but stereorype [)lates,no pre.^s s, ofces, bnderes or aught el.<e wlch can be \\'l«'i re->dwlo-. were accej)te<!, and the dspensed wth. By rgd f.conomy lave commttee dsc harmed. reduced the cost prces of all tlu; phun; r boo;<, Th(; setse of the meetng was then t;;k«; from 10 to 30 percent, and tljc Vncrran IJ. on tn* above resolutons, se :!rately, when Socety have been oblged to <'fmn.'t! ther he frst and tourth were adojttd, and the ' I plan of dong busness, so.s to k < jace and 3(1 w ere n jerted. wth our reducton of prce-. 'Men.I'j ' f ', ll [nrsnance ol'le atlojjon Fnally If each ndvdu;l, <r loe l v -u:/- (d' tlu 1st re^dluon, to spend some tme n gestsrevoluton and cbagt; cm'r.nalj, a In n (: a\er, ju as \.e.; and at the retjtn'st oftlo can we ever have a settod [ul ( y e\;m er Moera"f, I'hl r U. T. Ander>()n led n lp our great Baptst fmly to he unlcd n t? h volo,.! ex. r-.-e of the even;^^. W'c had "A word to the wse," c. Yours truly, a t!"rsat tme. T< n a<,''reed!o aj)ponl the Pastor and KUFUS BABCOCK, Members of tl-^ Chnrel a commttee to arratge preachm: lor durng Co 11 c j) 0 n d n^ Sec rctcvy. the contnuance of th«; meetng. 'J'hen adjourned to meet on to-morrow MNsrE'S MEI:TING. mornng at half past 8 o'clock, Frday before the 3d Lord's day n Jutje, 1844, the Mnsters and Deacons n(;t at the Saturday. Met pursuant to adjournment, Whppoorvvll Meetng House pursuant to. asd alter pray(m' by Elder P. Wllams, proceeded to busness. appontment of the last Bethel IJajtst As.'-ocaton. je.sterday. Frst Read and receved the Mnuts of The ntrudfmory sermon was delvered by The*lollowng brethren arrverl and took ElderH. B. Wgrm, (lom John, 18th chap., ther seals, vz: A. D. Trmble, a leenlate, and part of the SGtl verse, vz: "My kngdom am S. Noe and l^'dward Mosby. s not of ths world " The Essay on the Atonement, wr'ten by The house was then called to order by Elder Ehler P. Wllams, was then called lor, and R. W. Nxon, the former Moderator. after beng read by the author, was referred The followng brethren were present, vz: to a prvate sesson for crtcsm. Mnsters. C. H. Morrow, H. B. VVggn, The Essay on F nth, wrtten by Elder VV. R. T. Anderson, S. Baker, R. W, Nxon, S. Baldry, was called for, and aft# beng W. S. Perry, W. J. Morton, W. S. Baldry, read, was also referred to a prvate sesson Wm. Baldwn, Wm. Brsendne, Thomas for crtcsm. Felts, N. Lacy, James Lamb. The followng brethren arrved and look ther seats, vz: D. Haddoxand Wn. Anderson, Deacons. The couunttee apponted to regulate the preachng durng tne meetng reported, that Elder S. Baker preach to-day at 11 o'clock, and tha Elder Morrson follow hm, and that Elder R. Wllams preach ths evenng, and that Elder W. S. Bahly follow hm. Then calle«l f«u- the Essay on Repentance, prepared by Elder R. W. Nxon, and after readng the same, t was referred as the others, for crtcsm. The Essay ou Mllenum, wrtten by Elder R. T. Anderso',.vas called for, read and referred as the others. The followng bretbreu arrved and took ther seats, vz: Jackson Gum, a lcentate, and Thomas (Jrubbs, W lls Loran, Wllam Watkns, N. Lung and Samuel Bolh!, Deacons. Then adjourned, to meet at the call of the Char. Durngthe nterval ha»l prc:chng occonlng to the drecton of the contuttee; after whch the Chrnan of the Commtee to regulate preachnt:, announced the followng arrangement lor lo-morrow, vz: Elder R. T. Anderson at 10 o'rock, followed by Elder Lad>; and that Elder S. Baker preach n the evenng, and that Elder R. \V. Nxon lollow htn The Church then apponted prayer meetng n the moru:; at 9 o'clock. reu net n prvate sesson for busness, and frst called up the Introductory Sermon for crtcsm, and after some frendly remarks by dferent brethren, the same was passed. The Essays were heu called up fur crtcsm n the order n whch they were presente«l. That on the Atonement beng fr-t; and after beng lead by the author, aul some frendly remarks, the same was passed. The second Essay, wrtten by Elder \V. S. Baldy, ou F.th, was then taken up, and, after sonuj remarks, was also passed. Then apponted Eh'.er R. T. Anderson and H. B. Wggn, a Commttee to select eght subjects, aul persons to wrte essays on the same for crtcsm at the next annual meetu;, and that they nclude themselves n the,rragement, and that lh«?y also a[)pout some person to preach the next Introductory Sermon. Then adjourned to neet on Monday mornng, 8 o'clock. On Sunday, Elder R. T. Anderson preachcd to a very large and an attentve audence from the 8th rhap. of Romans; and Elder James Lamb, from the 5th chap, of Matthew and 8th verse. In the evenng Elder S. Baker commenced dreachng from 2d Samuel, 12th chap., commencng at the 16th verse, and endng at the 23d verse; but owng to the appearance of a cloud and some ran the fnshmg of the dscourse was postponed untl to-morrow. Monday Mornng Met pursuant to adjournment, and after prayer by Elder Lamb, poceeded to busness. Frst read and receved the Mnutes of Satunlay. Brother C. W., late a Deacon, arrved and took hs seat. Then called for he Report of the Com* mttee to select subjects for essays to be wrtten upb for the next annual meetng, who made the folo wn;; report, vz: That Elder S. Baker wrte on the Trnty. Elder Thomas Felts on the connexon between Prayer anl Mnsteral Success. Elder J. Laub, on the best method for conductng the Home Mssonary Enterprze. Ehler W. J. Morton on Practcal Pety. Elder R. V/llamson Church Government. Elder R. T. Anderson on Church Dscplne. Elder H. B. Wggn on Readng Relgous Books and Perolcals. J. Fountleroy on the Dutes of Deacons. Polder T. G. Keen on Pastoral Dutes. Introductory Sermon by Elder O. H. Morrow. Then apponted a Commttee,consstng of Elder R. T. Anderson, R. W. Nxon, and R. Wllams, to draw up an account of the frst Mnsters and Deacons Meetng, and present the same to the next annual meetng, as the Mnutes of that meetng have been lost. Then called up the Essay of Elder R. W. Nxon on Refx^ntance, and after beng read and some remarks, the same was passed. Then called up the Essay of Elder R. T. Anderson, on the Mllenum, whch was read n part by hm, accordng to the drecton of the house, and after varous remarks from dfferent brethren, the same was passed. Brother P. Barker, a Deacon, arrved and took hs seat. The next Mnsters and Deacons Meetng at Hopewell Church, at the usual tme. Then aljournel to hear the Sermon of El- «ler S. Baker; after whch the meetng was called to order agan, and Elder R. T. Anderson, as the oldest Mnster, and Jackson Gunn, a lcentate, gave an nterestng relaton of ther Chrstan experence and call to the mnstry. The House adjourned sne de. R. W. NIXON, Mod. W. S. PERRT, See. CAMP MEETINGS. A Camp Meetng wll be held at Bradley's Creek, commencng Frday before the 2d Lord's tlay n September. At Unon, Frday before the 3d Lord's day n September. At Concord, Frday before the 4th Lord's day n September. At McCrory's Creek, Frday before the 5th Lord's day n September. At Lttlecedarlck, Frday before the 1st Lord's day n Ocobor.

6 2(» THE BAPTIST. THE BAPTIST. 27 MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT. Instead of the skeleton of f sermon ths week, we wll nsert the artcle on Depravty by John Gll, D. D., found n hs body of Dvnty, and commend t. to the partcular attenton of all our brethren: TOTAL DEPRAVITY. I shall prove that human nature s totally depraved. 1. The heathens themselves have acknowledged and lamented t; they assert, that no man s born wthout sn f; that every man s naturally vcous g* ; that there s an evl dsposton, or vcous atteclon, that s n- ))lanted and grows up n man A ; and that there s a fatal porton of evl n all when born, from whence are tle depravty of the soul, dseases, Sto. and that the cause of vcosty s rather from our frst [ arents, and from frst prncples, than from ourselves k ; and Ccero I partcularly laments that men should be broujyht nto lfe by nature- as a step mother, wth a naked, fral and nfrm body, and wth a mnd or soul prone to lusts. 2. Revelaton asserts t ; the t^crptures abound wth testmones of t, affrnnng that no man can bo born pure and clean ; that whatever s born of the flesh, or comes nto the world by ordnary "(eneraon, s flesh, carnal, and corrupt; that all men, Jews and Gentles, are under sn, under the j^ub, polluton, and domnon of sn ; tjat the magnaton of the thoughts of man's heart s only evl, and that contnually; that the heart s decetful and lesperately wcked; and out of t proceeds all that s vle and snful, Jobxv. 4. John. 6. Rom.. 9. Gon. v. 5. Jer. xv. 9. Matt. xv Reason confrms t, that so t must Ite; that f a tree s corrupt, t can brng forth no other than corrupt frut; that f the root of manknd s unholy, the branches must be so too; f the fountan s mpure, the streams must be so lkewse; f mmfdate parents are unclean, ther posterty mu^jr be unclean, snce a clean thng cannot be hrought out of un unclean; and f God has made of one man's blood all natons that are upon the face of the earth, and that hlood s tanted wth sn, all that proceed from hm by ordnary generaton must have the same tant. 4. All experence testfes the truth of ths; no man was ever born nto the world wthout sn; no one has ever be"n exempt from ths cotragon and deflement of nature, there s none that doeth goodj no not one, Rom.. 10, that does goon naturally and of bmself; the reason s, because there s none by nature good; of all the mllons of men that have proceeded from Adam by ordnary generaton, not one has been found wthout /'Whch Plato calls and defacs t ;taxta ey ^vat, an evl n naturo, Plato, Dcfntones. Nam vts nemo sne nusctur -llorat. Satyr satyt 3. V. 68. Uncuque dedt vtum natura creata, Propert. I. 2. cleg. 22. ver. 17. h LuortuB, I. 2 m vta Arlslppt. Plutarch, de Conaol. ad Apoll. vol. 2. p k Tma3U8 LocrusdoNatura Mund, p. 21. De Rcpublca, 1. 3 apud Augaat. contr. Julan, I 1, c. 12- sn; there s but one ndvdual of human nature that can bo mentoned as an excepton to ths, and that s the human nature of Chrst; and that s excepted because of ts wonderful producton, and dd not descend from Adam by ordnary generaton. 5. The necessty ' f redempton by Chrst, an<l of regeneraton by the Sprt of Chrst, shews that men nmst be n a corrupt state, or tlere would have been no need of these. The redempton of men from sn, and from a van conversaton, supposes them to be under the powor of sn, and the nfluence of t, to lead a van snful lfe; and f mon were free from the polluton of sn, the hlood of Chrst to cleanse from all sn would have been unm-cessary; hs beng made wstlom, rghteousness, s»mctfcaton and redempton to them, njples that they were foolsh and unwse, and they were unrghteous and unholy, and slaves to sn and Satan: regeneraton and sanctf'aton r.re absolutely necessary to a mn's enjoyment of eternal happness; except a man be born agan, he cannot sec the kngdom of God; and xothout holness no man shall see the Lord, John. 3. Htl). x. 14. but what occason would there have bern for man's beng born aaan, or havng a new su()ernalural brth, f he was not defled by hs frst and natural brth; or of beng sanctfed, f he was not unholy and unclean. II. The names by whch ths corrupton of nature vs expressed n scrpture deserve notce, snce they not only serve to gve more lght nto the nature of t, but also to confrm t; t s often called sn tself, beng a want of codormty to the law of God, and contrary to t; t repn s nted as very n-tve, workng all manner of concupscence, and death tst'lf; decevng, slayng, kllng, and as exceedng snful, even to an hyperbole, beng bg wth all sn, and the source of all, Rom. v. 8, &,c. It has the name of ndwellng sn; the apo.-tle speaks of t as such wth respect to hmself, sn that dwelleth n me, Rom. v. 17. t s not what comes and goes, or s only a vstor now and then, but an nhahtant, and a very tronhlosome one; t hnders.all the good, and does all theuvl t can; and t abdes, and wll abde, as long as men are n ths tabernacle, the body; and even n the sants, untl the earthly house of ths tabernacle s dssolved; t s lke the spreadng leprosy n the house, whch was not to le cure«l mtl the house was pulled down, and the stones and tnder carred nto an unclean place; so the tabernacle of the body wll not l)( rd of the (corrupton of nature, untl t s unpnned and td\en down, and carred to the grave. It s sad to bo the law of sn, and u law n the njend)ers ; whch has force, )enver, anl authorty wth t; t regns lke a lng; yea, rather as a tyrant; for t regns unto death, unless grace prevents It; t enacts laws, and requres obedence to them; and obedence s yelded to the lusts of t; men serve dvers lusts and pleasures, Rom. v. 23. Sonetncs t s called the body of sn, because t conssts of varous parts nnd ncmbor8, s a body docs; t a an aggregate. or an assemblage of sns, and ncludes all n t, Rom. v. 6. Sonetmes t goes by the name of the old man, becauee t s the eltect of the poson of the old serpent; t s near as old as the frst man; and s as old as every man n whom t s; t exsts as early as man hmself does, Eph. v. 22. Very ofte t s called flesh, because t s propagated by the flesh, and s carnal and corrupt, and s opposed to the sprt or prncple of grace, whch s fvom the sprt of God; and n whch no good thng, nothng that s sprtual, dwells. Once or»), t s named lust or concupscence; whch s sn tself, and the mother of sn; t conssts of varous branches, called fleshly lusts, and worldly lusts, the lust of th(j flesh, the lust of the eyes, atd the prde of lfe. The Jews commonly (called t, the evl fgment, or magnaton. III. 'I hs corn[)on of nature s unversal. 1. Wth respect to the ndvduals of manknd. Our frst parents were, and all descendng from them by ordnary generaton are tanted wth t. Ths corrupton, mmedately upon the sll of our frst parents, took place n ther, as appears from the sh.me, confuson, and fear they were at once fllecl wth; from ther lm-o^s stupdty am folly, n thnkng to hde tems«;lves from God among the trees of the garden, IVom ther attempts to conceal,.pallate, and excuse ther sn, the woman by l yng tle blame on the serpent, the man on tln^ woman, and ultmately o; God hmself". Ther mmedate offsprng took the contagmn from them; the frst nuu born nto the world, Can, the corrupton of nature soon appeared n hm, n hs wrathful and envous countenance, when hs brother's sacrfce was j)relerred to hs; nor could he be easy untl he had shed hs brother's blood, whch hedd: and though Abel s called rghteous Abel, as he was, through the rhteousness of Chrst mputed to hm, and on account of the new man creattjd n h unto rghteousness and true holness; n consequence of whch he lved soberly and rghteously, yet he was not wthout sn; or otherwse, why dd he offer sacrfce, and by fath looked to the sacrfce of Chrst, whch was to be ollered up to make atonement for hs sns, jnd thxt; of others.^ In the room of Abel, whom Can slew, God rased up another seed to Adam, wlom he begot n bs own lkeness, nfujr hs mage; not n the lkeess and mage of God, n whch Adam was createl, but n that whch he had brought upon hmself, through hs sn and fall: the posterty of ths man, and of Can, pe-ojled and flled the whole world before the flood. And wtat s the account that s gven of them.^ It s ths, that the earth vvud corrrupt through them^ that all Uesh bad corrupted hs way on the earth: and that only one man found grace n the sght of God, and that the magnaton of the thoughts of man's heart was only evl contnually,^ Gen. v. 25. And as for the nhabtants of the new world, who sprung from Noah nnd hs three suns, who descended n a rght lno from Seth, much the same s sad of them, Gen. v. 21. In short, all natons 'd' ho eu thj whch tnuy be dvded nto Jtjwa and Gentles, and whch nclude the whole, are all under sn, under the gult and polluton of t; not the Gentles only, whose tmes of gnorance God wnked at, and whom he suffered to walk n ther own ways, whch were snful ones; but even the people of Israel, whom God chose to be a specal and pecular people, these were always rebels lons, from the tme they were a people; all the whle Moses was wth them; n the tmes of the Judges; and when under the government of Kngs; as ther several captvtes testfy; they were a seed of evldoers, a people laden wth nquty: n every age or perod of tme, whenever God took a survey of the scte and condton of tnanknd, ths was the sum of the account; They are corrupt, Vc. Psal. xv see Rom The contentons, quarrels, and wars whch have been n the world, n nl ages, are a strong, constant, and contnued proof of the depravty of human nature; for these come of lusts that war n the members, James v. 1. whch as t s true of the war between flesh and sprt n the soul; and of the anmostes and confntons among professors of relgon; so of wars among natons, n a cvl sense; and whch have been from the begnnng, and stll contnue: a quarrel there was between the two frst men that were born nto the world, whch ssued n bloodshed; and as soon {<s kngdoms and states were formed, and kngs over them, we hear of wars between them. Look over the hstores of all ages, and of all natons n them, and you wll fnd them full of accounts of these thngs; all whch have rsen from the prde, ambton, and lusts of men. Yea, ths depravty and corrupton of nature has appeared, not only among the men of the world n all ages, but even among the people of God, and after they have been called by grace: there never was a just man that d«l good, and snned not; n many thngs, n al thngs they sn and offend; n them, that s, n ther flesh, ther corrupt parr, no :.'ood thng dwells: such that say tley have no sn, deceve themselves, and the truth s not n them. II. Ths corrupton of nature s general, wth respect to the parts of man, to all the powers and facultes of hs soul, and to the membe.s of hs body.-~l, To the powers and facultes of the soul of man, to all that s wthn hm; hs heart s decetful and despe- I lately wcked; hs nward pnrt s wckedness tself; the thoughts of hs heart are evl, van, and snful; yea, the magnaton of the thoughts of hs heart, the very substratum of thought, the frst motons that are n man thatwav; the tnnd and conscence, a-e de~ fled, and nothng can remove the pol'ulon but the blood of Jesus; the understandng s darkened through the blnduess and gnorance that s n t; so that a mere natural man cannot dscern the thngs of the Sprt of God; whatever knowledge men have of thng.s natural and cvl, they have none of thngs sprtual: wse they are to do evl, but to do good they have no knowledge; they know not, nor wll they understand: the wll s uvcrdo to that whch good; the carnal

7 rnd n omly lo God, nml not.s!> (m,'; to llc law of (Jod; nor cm t he, w rot h.-? Sracc; t s lan,.sth", ()l)..(t!at<', ;m u«rversc, un!l ru; stony Ikmh- s.kf away, and a luart offlo,.!!.s rv. n. Tl.'.dlVcoH arc nordnate?, rnn n a \ -.)n" cl.mnrl arc f\rd OM uroj; ()I>j(M-r<; p; n In.,., t,,,.y should l.)vo, and I tvc v. l :t!, v -M-ld lloy hatcth' ^jood, and Imvc" t!.' evl; tl.-y aro luv''s ol" and ploasnrcs, rather t!.an Invrrs of' ('.ml, men, and uood ln:js. In short, h: r<«1:0 placo (dean, no part lrt>- lon th.- M;, and nllncncc ol' sn. 2. All tlw! nu-njhm-s of tlo l)nd\',rr drulcd wth t; thf totjn; s a ltto n«,'nh«t. and s a world of :( nty 'srll", and d. lrs Ik; who f{ lm)dy;th(,' several nenhers of t ar(^ used as nsrntmmrs of unrulteonstu's<; several of them arc parf'ularly mentoned n the 'general account o[' man's' depravty, Kon.. as the throat, l;.-:, month, and" leet, all employed m tho sorvco of sn. It s not meant that man s as do >raved n dc-rcc a> possble, hut that all hs pow-rs arc depraved. IV. Tho tme when :o corrupton of nature takes place n man; the lowest date of t I'll I-: la I'T IST. s hs youth; T/c ma'^natnn of nvvs hem l IS evl from hs ynl/, (;en. v. that s. as soon as he s capahc of cxcrcsn- hs reason, and of connnttur actual sn; "and whch, at ths a^r^, dehy aj)pcas n lyn^' and ^lsobedence to parents; and ths s sad^, not ol some partcular men, or of some ndvduals, but of men n general; and not only as n the tmes of Noah, but n all succecd"?;eneratonso the end (d the world. Ths depravty of nature s n some passa::cs carred up hrhcr, even to n n's hrtl; the wcked nre eslnn'^ cdfrom the xcomb: that s, from God, alenated from the lfe of God; hen:: under the power ot moral death, or henr <lead n tresspasses and sns; Thej on astrm/ as soot as thcj are born, speakng les. Fsal. Iv. 3. that s, as soon as they are capable ofspeakn^r: and the sn ol" I'^n;:, rldren are very early addcted to; and ths s sad, not only of suel who n the evmt turn out very wcked, jroll^'ate and abandoned snners, but even such as are born of relgous parents, have a relrous educaon, and be, cone relgous themsrdves, an? callrd transgressors from the womb, Isa. xlv. 8. s, as soon as capable of c(nnmttnu' actual transgressons. Davd carres the polluton of hs nature stll hgher, when he says: le hold, 1 was shapcn n rujutt/; and n\s] dd my mother conceve me, Rsa'l. l. f. whch he observes, not to tsve ualr, but rather to gravate, hs actual trans-resmon he was confessng, n that h;- ha<l been so early an I,m long snful; and that whereas he was not gnorant of the corruj)to! of hs ature, and how prone le was to sn that he should be no more upon hs guard aganst t. lletloesnot say, ny sn, and my nquty, though t was hs, beng n hs nuturej but sn and nquty, beng vvhtu was conon to hm wth the rejt of uunknd; and what had attended lu'n at the formuton of hm n the womb, and so before he could coutnt any acuul.sn: and thereforo must dc.-n tluj o;4nal corrupton d" hs nature; and that as soo as the soul and body were- unted to-'ehcr he w ;s a snful cre;tnrc. To h-;>enst (d' tn- words t s oljected, llat Davd s()eaks only of hs oler's -n; and n't ;d h.fs a:c ^'scn that I.er >n w a the sn of ;,dnl'e-)', TIk.-bows IIP!!: ll' t)/a( ; fur fle pnru' of hum \n ;M'e are );,'l/'d wfhl.- ' I l'<'t.l:' tir - \! s to.>nch an nerpretal" of t, al ll!' ' of de character ol' 'w MMDce!! )er-, o!"\\hom n(jhm:j[ of xml s.-i-lr.ted III ll(;saeed wn n:,'-.; ths bl. " tll' fot ary. In t he w a s a jns and ro l::(m< e'--,on; Davd \al.'d ho-elf U Mtn h- relato' t 1 f'r;-. ;nd, ;d< to le '::arded for l.-r >ake, l^ d..\ \ \ 1. H. JJe^des, f fh- had le' the ea-e, D,\, w mld have '" I'll llle-tuafe; anl by a law n Israel, w o'lld have Im( n tornd ete mu' nlo the con <:re^r,aton of the j.ord, and could not b.-vt; bore any olle' the cnrcl or >t te; nor dd t a;ser he -.-ope and de-:.'n (d" Davd, t.) I e.\»o-e te of Ie:-^. <..r,m.ll\ s own paren, w ble he - CO!;!'. >^.11J.cd I anent Ml,' hs own; lujr doc- the tar..' -// belor to h " nother, but t ) hns.'lf; tlr ^ hm; 1- not, tl.t hs nother ben: n -n or that -he n and tnangh sn conceved hn; but that In? was conceved beng :n.-n, or that as -oon as thu mass of human nature' v\as.-haj»ed.and lorned n hm, and sold and bod\ were untej lo-ether. In' was n ^n,.and.-n n hm: or he bec.ane ; snful crc.ature. 'J'hat all m.nknd are corr!j);ed n h-.-;me manner, oher pas- >a_'<'s are fh and»'\pre.-s for t, Job. mv. J. dmhn. G. I'-al. IVII..S. Kp. n. Am f Davd, a III III -o fanons for early pety and rel-mn, one after (;od"< ow n he./rt, w lom ho '-ed up [,, C.l/l I,,-, u ll, w ;;s lated u th MM n h-^.u-al lorn.aton, then sr.dv the same must be true ol".all others; who,'afcr hm, can r<e up and say, t \\as not so w th hn.? I.asly, some wdl have these wonu fmur.atve am h> perbol<-al,.and^onlv ne.n, that he had often snned from h^ voth; but' men, n conf»'s-nlf.-n. <lo not suallv»'x;4- «crate t, but ded.ar t planlv, n^enonslv, jnst ;s t -^; :!nl, ndeed, the.snfnhe.-s.d n'lture, cannot well bo hvperbo t/.ed; and f.^uch a trnre was attempted, t m-hl be'allowed ol, w t hout lowcrn,'- t. that V. The way and manner n w hd the cornpton of natna- s c..nv( \cd to man, to hecone.-mn by t. I. hennnot, be d"(;o<l "I- I.y mh-!..n fr..m he; he s of purer eyrtha t.. behol.l t; he has no plea<m- m f h 1" '!'"nnable t,. hm, a,. th^ r. fore would ucv er mnse and MLpIant t n the nature ol'mc; ^ome (.( th" a.ecnt In-retcv f.,ncn-d, thev uee two fn-' prncples, or ben-; the one goo,, and Ife o;her evl; an.i that all tat 1- ^;ood eonn's Irom th" one; and all that s evd Iron, tn- other: but ths s to make two lr.,, eanses, and so two gods; a.l ho.-e dametr- to each other, as l>arkertes, do jsorcan t be by uhalou (d' parenls,, ether lr.-.t or nmedate; there are.-^olne xvho ' ver snned after the.smltude of AdanV ranygrosson, nn.i yet de: whch they vvuum Mol, were Ihoy not gulty and pollued: hee a T H K J A P T I S T. are m:ny l>orn nto the world who never Icnew ther mmedate jctreuls, and ther«d"ore (;ould not mtate them. Some ther fthers (lt? before they are bo n; and some lose both parents before captd)!!' of mtntor, and l tn.' tant s at tln-r formaton, and I)(dor«! ther brth, t s mpossbh: lo be by mt.aton., S. Nor does ths come to pass lhn»-gh souls beng n a n(>e.\-lent sta'c. Some of the heathen phloso ders, IVvtbaL'nras and Plato, h(dd a )r(;-.ex<tencf; ol' souls b(d'or(! the world was;.and wrch noton was a.iopted by Oru'cn, who held, that souls n ls pre-e.\stent tate, -nned eaeh - parat<dy f"r ' them<(dves; r.nd lor ther sns, were thnr.-t n tnn? nto hnna bod'e-, or nt(» <t!her-. n wdtd th'-y snl'er. Some thnk th- o'on was embrace I by some (d'thc;.lew - n Chr-t's tme, and e\'n )V some of hs l"ollo\\('rs; as s urel from.lohn \. but then t - not allowed of by hm. And s-nne mo lern chrstans bav- mbbed the same lle.then-h and Jew -h noton; w ho, rd»-er\ nu' that sme passal'es of scr )'nr' speak of the pre ex'-tenc(! of ('hr<t, 111 hs dvne nature, or.a< a dvne I'ersfn, b;\ e nterpreted them of tn? pre-cxstencc of hs human soul;.and h.ve proceeb.'d to a--ert the pre- e\-tenco of all souls, but wthout ny c'olor of re.son or ^crplure-authonty. I. Nor s ths to be accounted for by the traducton of the soul from 'nmetlnte arents; or by the gener.ton of t, toether wth the body. fr(m them. Could ths ndeed be establ.-hed, t, would 'jreatly remove the dllcdty whc attends the doctrne (»f the propagaton (d the cernpton of n.ature!>y n.tur.al ^t ner.alcu; heuc(? All-tn was once nclned lo t on ths :u?count; but t s so b; wth.absurdtes, (s has been se-en n )rec< dn': chapter,) that t cannot be admtted;.as, that sprt s < duced out of matter, and g<'n'r.ate(l from t, and therefore must be materal, <'orruptlie and mortal; for whatever.- ;^cner;ted s corruptble, and consequently the soul 's not mor-' tal; a <octrne never lo be ;:ven up: and, be- '^les, accordng to the scrpture--, the soul s mmedately created!>y (Jod. 'I'lat ths corrupton of n.ature s covt-yed by generaton, seems certan; see John. G. for snce nature s conveyed nlh.at w ay, the sn of nature also must come n lke manner. But how to account for ths, consstent w th the justcc, holness, and goodness of God, s a dffculty, and s one of the greatest drcultrs n the whole scln.'me of dvne truths; wherefore some have thought t more advsalle to st down and lament ths corrupton, and consder how we must be delvered from t, than to encjure 'lrously n wlat w ay and manner t cotmvs nto us; as a man h.t s falb?n nto a pt, does not so much con(;er hmself how he came nto t, as Iow to get out of t, and to In? cd(*ans?d Irom the flth he hasconlracted n t. I5ut a sob?r cmury nto ths mtter, wth a due regard to t'"; perfectons of God, the sacred scrpture.^, and the analogy of fath, may be both lawful and luulablf. The dllculty s chely occasoned by the manner n whch the case s put; as, that tho soul that comnn pure nnd holy out of the h.'nd of God; should bo unted to a snful body, and be <lefled by t; but f t can be made out, that nether of these s the facr, that the body s not jroperly and formally s.dul, wlen the soul s frst unted lo t, nor tn! soul jmrc; and holy w hen created by (Jod; that s not ll such scse as the soul of Ad;;m w as w hen created; the dflculty w ll be gr'atly les^em-l, f nor entrely r(?moved. 1. r.ct t be d)<erv( (I then, that the conta- L'on of sn (bn's not take place on the body apart, nor on the soulajarl; but upon both when unted tog-tber, and not before: t was not the body apart n the su!)-^lance of Adam's lle-h that -nned; nor was tn? soul apart repres ted by hm; but loth as n unon, and as (me man, one person; for not bodes and sons s«'parat( ly, but men vvere consdered n Ad.m, and..nned n hm, and so as the mpuaton <d" the^ult of hs sn s not made to the body.apart, nor to the soul apart, but to both as unc.'d; when, tnd not before, t bec<mes a son (d* Adam, a uv.nber of lm;.so the corrupton of nature, derved from hm, takes place on nether apart, but U»on them as unted toether, and consttultd man. The body,.anfec«dent to ts unon to a ratonal -onl, s nooe?- tl.an a brute, an anmal, lke ot'-r anmal-; and s not a subject ether of mor.tl L'oo I (O' moral evl; as t comes from. cor jt body, and s of a corruptble see«l, t has n t the se<.'(n of many evls, as other anmals h:ve, accordng to ther n.atnre; but then these are natural «?vls not moral (tes; :s the savagencss. ferceness, and cruelty ot lons, lu'ars, w»)lves, &c. But when ths body comes to be unted to a ratonal soul, t become then a jart of ratona! <-realure, l KM'ome- under a law,.and ts nature m)t ben;; conformable to that law, ts nature, and the evl--, vco-tes of t ;rc formally snful. It has before a dsposton, an!pttud»' to what s snful; and contans lt fuel for sn, whnd ts vcous lusts and appettes kndle, w hen!hese become formrlly snful,throtgh tf becommx a part of a ratonal crcature;and these ncreasng, operate upon, and ;;radually defle the soul. Shouhl t be sad, that matter cannot oj)erate on sprt; ths maybe ' sooner sad than proved. How easy s t to observe, that when our bodes arc ndsposed throug dseases and pan, w hat an ell.'ct ths las upon our mnds; from the temperament and consttuton of tn? body, many ncommodtes and dsadvantages arse unto the ' soul: person-- that h.ve much of the alra bds, or black choler n hen, a mebnchoy and bodly dsorder, what a gloomness does t throw upon the nud.^ and to what passon, anger and w rath, are me n of a sangune comple.von subject.^ and lo what s nsanty owng, but lo a dsorder n the bran.^ and lo \ a defect there must t be attrbuted, that some are dots, and oters of very mean cajactes, and very short memores; nnd where the bodly organs, are not well attempered and accomodat'd, the soul s cramped, aud cannot <luly perform ts fuctons'and ofloes; am a man mst be nattentve to hmself, f he does not observe, that as by thoughts n the mnd motons nre excte<l nrhehody. L.

8 115 ^30 T H E B A P T I S T. whether snful, cvl, or relgous; so nn.nons of the body are often the mcjns anl occason ofexcng thoughts n the nnl. II. It s not fact that souls are now created by God pure and hrjy; tat s JJM Adam's soul was created, wl or^jntl r<,'htcousness and purty; wth a propensy to that whch s good, and wth power to do l But they are created wth a want o( orgnal rghteousness am holne-s; \v:lot a propensty to good, and wthout power lo perform; and a reason wll he gven pescntly, why t s so; and why t should he so. And Buuh a creaton may h.; comreve.l o(, wthout any mputaton of unnghleou-ess to God, and wthout m dnr hm the author of sn. It may he conceved <)( wthout any njury to the perfectons of Gol, as, that ho may create a soul n ts pure essence, wth all ts natural powers and )ro )erles, wthout any qualtes of moral purty or mpurty, holness or unholne^s; or that he may create one wtl a waul of r;ht(u)ses>, and wt!; an mpotence to good, and wthout any pro- ])ensy to t; snt^e hy so doul' he does not put any snfulness nto the soul, clnaton to ^n. Anl that the souls (d" tnen should he now so creatcd, t s hut.ju-t and Cfptahle, as wll appear by the followng consderatons: Adam's or:mal rghteousness was not p-rsonal, but tn; rghteousness of hs nature; he hal t no: as a prvate sngle )erson, but as a publc hea!, as the root, orgn, and parent ot manknd; so that had he stood n hs ntegrty, t wouhl have been eo-n'eyed 1<j hs poste-rty by natural generaton; just as he havng snned, the eor up ton of nature s (!< r:\ed to hem n the same way; what he hal, le lutd n)t Inr hmmlf only, but for hs >ostert\; am what he lo^t, he lost mf for hmself only, but for lls posterty: and he snned not as a sngle prvate person, but as the head, root, or^n, am parent of all hs otvsprg; they were all n hm, and snned n hm as one man; so that t was but just that they should be deprved as he, of the rlory of God, that s, ot" the mage of God,whch ch»'lly lay n orgnal rghteousness, n an nclmuon to good, and a power to ])erforn t; and beng strpped of ths, <)r beng devod of t, an nclnaton to sn follows upon t, as soon as t olfers; and n the room of t umghteousness am nnholness take plaee; for, as Austn says, the loss of good, takes the name of evl; and ths beng the case, how easly may t he aueonntejl lor, thll a soul wthout any fence or guard, wantng orgnal r:!teousm ss, be gradtally mas tered and overcom«; by the corrupt am seussual a K-ll»;.s ol'lae bony. Audo all hs agrees what a learned author* well observes, *'Go»l s to be consdered by us, not as a Creator only, but also as JI Judge; he s the Cre ator of the soul, as to ts substance; n respcct to whch t s pure when created. Moreover, God s a Judge, when he creates a soul, as to ths crcunstance; namely, that not a soul smply s to bo creutud l»y hm; but a soul of * Sundford or Parkor do IJosconsu Chrat ad nforos, s. U5, p. 121, 122. one of the sons of Adam: n ths refl )ect t s just wth hm to»!cyejt h«? soul, as to hs own mage, lost n Adam; frotn"whc1r«h;s-t;rton follows a want of orgnal rghteousness; from whch want, orgnal sn tself s )ropa- " should t bo sad, that though the justce :ml holues of God are cleared Irom all mputaton, n ths way of eorsderng thngs; yet t does not seem so agreeable to the goodles- anl kndne.-s of God t(» cr«!at(j such a soul, and mk,' t to a body, n the plght and condton before leserbed; >m:(! the natural I'luscpeee of t serms to be unavotlably the moral pollut. of them both. To whch njay be repletl, that Gol ths proceeds aceordmr to the ;^nal law of nature, fxed by hmself; and wheh, aecordf to the nvarable course of thnt,'s, apjears to b^^ ths, v>. h re-pect to the projagaon of n'ankml: ''lat when mat ter gem.-rated, s prepared f(»r the reee )t(m» of the soul; as soon as that preparaton s ln>hed; that v<my nstant a fol s rcated, and ready at hand to be untv,\ to t, and t s. A '.al.leath, whch s^ no other than a «leprvau of the mage of (od, a lo>s of ornal r-heousness, and an ncapacty to attan to t, was threatened to Ad nl, and llcted on h as a punshment..\nd >^nce' all bs po<ter\ snned n hm, why should not the s ne pa>s upon them? and, mb ed, t > by the just ordnaton of Cod, that thn,'s are as\hey be, n con>e(jnence of Adam's sn, who cannot do an unjust thng; there s no unr^ht(;ousness n hm; he s rghteous m all hs ways, and holy n all hs works; and so n ths..\nl here w«; shoubl re-t the malt«.'r; n bs wc should acjuesce; and hnble ourselves under le mghty hat.! ol God. T W F X V K KXCKLL.KN R IIULES, For promotn^ harmony among ehurc) memlters, as follows: 1. 'I'o brar wth, and not!* magnfy each OIIKM'S falngs and nl'.ntcs, rememberng that we are all subject to them. Gal. v. I, '2. To seek oecasm)s for socal prayer, atd rdgous conference wth each other. Matt. w. 20; 1 Thess. v. 17; Heb. x. 3. ''o pray one for another n our socal meetngs, nd patcularly n prvate, not omttn: to pray lor our pas'or. JameS v. IG; llom. XV. 30; 1 Thess. v. '5; 2 Thess To avod gong from house to house, for the purpose of hearng new s and nterferng wth other people's busmss. Prov.xxv Always to turn a deaf ear to jny slanler(.»us report, and to lay no elnrge brought aganst any person untl well Ibnnded. Lev. xx. 10; Prov. x If a member be n fault, to tell hm of t n prvate, before t s mentoned to others. Matt, xv. 15; James, v. 19, 'J o watch agnsta shyness of eaclj oler, and put th(5 best constructon on any acton that has the ajpearance of opposton or resentrnnnl. Also, to avod a sprt of cn- I «t K vy. llom. x. 10; Phlp,. 3; 1 Cor. x. ] y.,to observe the just rule of Solomon, j that s, to leave off eonumton before t - j metldled wth. Prov.xv. 14; xx. 3. j 9. If a member has ollended, to consder how glorous, how godlke t s to forgve, and how mdke a chrstan t s to revenue. Prov. xx. 11; Itlph. v To remember that t s always a u'l and artfce ol the devl, to promote dstance and anmosty among members of chnrehes; and we should therefore watch aransl everythng that furthers hs end. James,. 13 IS. 11. 'I'o consder how much more good we ( an do n the world at larg(?, am n the church n partcular, when w»: are all unted n love, than we should do w hen actng alone and mlulgng a contrary sjrt. 2 Peter, lastly, to consdt;r the e.xpress njmc,- ton of S(rrplure, and the beautful example of Chrst, as to tleso mportant thngs. v. 32; 1 Pet..21; John x T H E B A P T IS T. 31 Kpl. A PoKTLGUKSE \VoM.\N SENTKNGED TO DK.^TII F»)R F.MIIKSCINO THE PllOTESTANT FAITH. On Tuesday last a meetng of the town «'onne:l ol Kdnbnr.'h was held n the Councl-hall, the Lord I'rovost n tn-char. After some routne bnsm:ss had IMM II transacted, Mr. Ma'farla, a eoum*lor, calb-d the attenton of the councl to the case of a woman named Mara Jcapjna. who had been sentence-d to (bjath t) the l.-land of Madera, for denyng tn; worshp of tht; \ rrn and the loctrne»)f tras I'stantaton; and moved that the councl transmt a memoral to Lord Aberdeen, Secretary for Fore;rn Allars, "U he subject. Mr. James Duncan (who had lved for somt.' tme n Madera) seconded the moton, w hch was unanmously agreed to. The councl, at the same tme, drected copes to be s nt to Ia)rd Howard le Wahlen, our ambassador at the port of Portugal, and to Mr. St(»ddart, the lrtsh consul at Funchal, n Madera. The poor vctm n ths ctse, Mara Joaqnna, wfe of IManuel Alves, s the mother of seven chldren, of whch the younge.st was an nfant at the breast when she w as <'ast nto prson. Of the varous counts n her ndctment, all relatng, not to conduct, but to belef, two only have been establshed. It was sw orn aganst her by one wtness that he had heard her say the Host s bread; and t was attested by several other wtnesses that she ha«l sad the Holy St:rptures forbd the worshp of mages. And for the.^e hertses nlenteally the old truths for whch s(» many sufl'ered death n our own comtry durng the mnorty of one Mary, and n the sster kngdom durmg the bloody regn of another ths poor woman was sentenced, ol the second day of the present month, after her long mprsonment n a nosome dungeon, to de on the scatfold. She has been condemned to be hanged for hohln^r that a wafer s not God, but merely a lttle Hour and water, and that mages should not be adored. [London fftness. How TO RUIN A SON. Let h'havc hs own way allow hrn free use of money suffer htn to do what he jjleases, and rovq where he pleases, especally on the Sabbath day gve hm fr(;e access to all sorts of companons call hm to no account for hs eve ngs, or for hs conduct generally furnsh ltm wth no staled employment. Pursue any one of these ways, and you wll experence a most marvellous delverance, f you do not have to mourn over a (b based and runed chld. For The Baps. DEATH OF O. S. CONNELL. ROHEHTSON COUNTY, Ten., July 17, Dear Brn. Howell It has become my duty to communnte the sad ntellgence, that Mr. OLIVER S. CONNELL, of Turnersvlle, s no more. He (b,' )arted ths lfe, at he resdence of.mr. Churchll Laner, n the vcnty of Nashvlle, Ten., the 10th of July, 1844,^ n the forty-fourth year of hs age, leavng a wfe, two chldren, an age<l mother, and a numerous tran of other relatves to mourn hs departure. Brother Connell was brought up n ths neghborhood, where he has lve«l, an honest, ujrghl and useful ctzen. In the sunner of 1839, he became serously concerned on the subject of relgon, and professed fath n Chrst durng a meetng at Harnmny n August of that year. Shortly after ths he joned the Unted Baptst Church at Harmony, n whch he lved a consstent member untl hs death. Bro. Connell has been n bad h»;alth for two years, but hs health seemed to be mprovng durng last wnter. He went to Msssspp last sprng; was unw II whle therej and fpte feeble durng hs journey towards borne; but hs anxety to see hs beloved famly was such as, perhaps, to cause hm to fatgue hmself too much. Hs strength faled at Nashvlle, he was unable to proceed further. Hs famly wen wth hm durng hs last lhesjs, ajd although th<;y are deeply afllcled at the loss of one of the best of hus, bands and fathers, yet they sorrow not as those who have no hope; though sorrowful, they rejoce tha Chratauly, n hs case, exhbted ts efft. jy, extract the stng of death, and to support w: * flesh and heart faled hm. Bro. Howell, who conversed wth hm a lew hours before hs death, wrtes: "Bro. Connell s perleclly sensble, and calm. Ho s n a happy slate of relgous enjoyment. He has to-day told me that Chrst d unspeakably precous, and that he feels no I ml r Fj

9 f T I I K l A P T 1 S T.! 1,1 doubts or msgvngs as to hs acceptance w h God. Ill a word, hs rel^mous t'oo!;^s arc all that a Chrstan could d(3.src them t<» he." May God n mcrcy sanctfy the allcon to the famly and the Church, and n.y wc all feel the mportance of hcn-^ n aly. Yours wth much alvocoj, llobt. WILLIAMS. Anothlr IMssonakv Fallf.n. 'Mc panful nlell-,'cnco of the death of Rev. Grov. r S. Constock, Mssonary of the Ancrcan lj )tst Board, at Ramree, Arracan, has reached the Mssonary Rooms hy the last steamer. He ded of the Asat; Cholcrn.at Akyah, on the 25h of Aprl. Ara-svrJ cf Ar.'Ht. SIXTEEN DAYS KATEU FROM KUHOl-K. The Acada, C;pt. llhrrson arrve! ;t Hosto at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon Aof^ust IStl. brngng London and Mv«r )ool paper-- t>» the 4h m-t. "^Fho most gratfyng accounts have lcen r. revod relave to ho state of t!c wlu at, and oth -r prcpal crops, n alno-t all asrcnlfr. soc'oh ofgreat Hr am. From tho Brtsh N.rtl Ahh '- can ('ol»nos, there has heen recfvt-d a I r^'c (ju utty offlour recently. favorable comldt ol the home crops wll check tpors at le»!-t for t'- present. Tho accounts from tho manufacturng are also of a cheerful nature, bu-nc-s a heahhy aspect, there!r»' n.' r 'Us ordcrj for g and workmen ftd plenty ol"cmmny' t. The people of Lvfrnon' n ec-t-.'.'- w'.h Amercan fee, a ergo ol' whch had jccm!'; ar.ved from noston. Letters from CtMHlatf( )l slat-! tnt tl»; nundaton w'hnh recently occurred at Adua, was even more destrucmve than at (rrt n-jr'sentod. More than 121)0 lves were l.-^f, and the ; r, p-jrty destroyed s valued at ten mllons of p -trc-. Tho legan fovernnenl h.s> tlen s:r(ng rnea surea to pun".i the IVuss n (overtnjn lor havng rased the dut^'s on the Iron of lelgum. Mr. Prtchard, tn; I'.rsl euful at Taht, has arrved home n Iho Vndctve. It -j sad n tho Ro papers, that he had hecn mprsdn-d, hy order of the 'Vench authortes n that sland, for 21 day s, and only oblanod hs ll)er!y on condton of leavng the country. Clueen Pomare had tken refuge, t s further stat d, on hoard I5 <al, k sloop of war, where she remaned when the la^t accounts came away. Some of her ch( fj wore \ted n and sezed; one of them loaded- wth rons They are slll confncd on hoard the fraate Anhusr.J h?. A proclamaton was publshed ten day.s ag». Theae chefs nerel) fled, flreadn^ ho punslnenl hetr frends had receved. The French governor had straned every nervo to put Taht nto a ft stale of defenco; he boasts that f two nonlht more be gven hm, ho would defy any fhp to enter. Tho small sland n front of the harbor s havng an earthen embankment of twelve feel rn=ed on l; pounders are to bo mounted, also barracks bult for thn gunners. Commandng the entrance to the harbor barracks are bult, and a battery beng erected to bo armed wth fonrtqon eght pounders. Othor w o r k s are beng constructed behnd he town on htrse of the hll. Jlltemp'. lo tc Ihc Kurj; of P us^tt. ^ 2f>tb.Inly, 't th. nouun when he Kng of Tu-.-a was about to sol ut on a journey, an nssass, natncd 'I'eheck, burgomaster at a lth^ vu lo;'guls frolu Herlt, lred a p-tol. Tho I,.ll.J,meed ol' th Kng'" br. a-t. vvhont dong ln m-fl''!. Th" Kng co'nued Ih jourr'v- Tbe ;-s-.ss s arrestod. AM lompt h,iii also bet mad.; to as-fa^snate tho (l < I'r.-eeo 'I'M-' (:'l.;brat»r ol llu' anmvt;rsres of tho three, K..-^ (1 \s of.luly n Fracf, ; p) ars ths year III 1).! muu lh:n u-uallv splndd. IKI LAND. The lcpcl Jl::tton..\l th.* wrekly meetng of the repeal assocaton on.mood ly week, a Mr..McNavn desgnated the H.g of F.n^l d "a felon flag." The expresson wa-< aflervv.rds, wthdrawn..mr. (lordon wthdrew hs notce ofoton "ll tho subject of rep.;al ought to be brought unter the notce of I'arhanM't," the repeal eonttlee havng parsed a un nmous vo'.e that t would le ll-ted and nexpedr't. The rontteo were of opo that the regstres were hf plar.-^ where th- rt pcal bttle was to b-! fought. Th" r-at ;,:{0. The opposton to the pa\ii.ent ol bw! r.t»'s ;d oven r'ms was cr'-^mg po orto,bly w l the (ou<l offs rfc'.vd we»-!j\ ; l <'one.: n on llam. The r»ml I.s'- M<m(!>\ vvasxn;(>. Lord ll.ytr^bury w> (^u'v.-t. ll. d as Vceroy of le.and, on Thur.-^.y. und. r -ueh ercunstances as were calculated to make a ple.-.ng tfl'ecl upon bn. Mm,}cr o'' Lord A^u bnnj the Kng's Co. \s-z 's, peter Dolan, a laborer, about 3.') ye;rs of ;L-(. \v - arr llted lor the rdtr of l.ord.\orbury, on!b! 1-t of January. s:l!>. T! e jury rfturnod a vtrd'-t of not trulfy. Do Ian and (ll,(tb' 1 tler elar^- 1(1 wth the cons[r!c) ) w.-rc tl' lscba gfd ; lle clar''«' a^au-t both rf-ng upon the «are testmony. Tbt re w.s a lar! crowd of country peopb^ I tbe s'reft-j, even at tlal adv mr.'d hour, whj hal- «d tn; re-ull wth 'up;)re--.'d cbo. r- ADVKR rskmkn rf>. m Below wll le fuuul Crtrt/" of our frends Fejgram Bryan, New Orleans. Wo are personally!u!(uunted wth tho advertsers, and know fh(mn to he.kttvo, ntellgent, prompt l»usn'-s m-n, of the hghest character, am worthy of all conndece. 'I'hose who entrust ther busness to tlen may rely upon obtanng the hghest prces, and a speedy return of the avals. markut N..r. j' '.M. n.. rv ^ N.. R fer to PBGHAIV: & B R Y A r, 'J't I \<-C.. \ M» ( 11 1'.'UN \( I.llt'-, AM) (KMlllVI. CoMMISStw.N ^ll.rc!m^r^. J^r. I llev. Dr. Howol, ) v.^.,,;,!. j Matlcw Watson, n<=q. ^ ^nsl.vlllo. R'v. II. F. Henuno, ClBrkHvlle, 'Vn An' '.:l, IS I I. Or I run. TIIJB «A 1» TI S T Wll he pullnlel Weekly, on a Inrjo superroyal»lcc» n fnvo (orn,ut 92 per anun, n advancr. R. B. C. HOWELL >,,,ous. W. CAREY CHANE. ^ \'..l.. I. n., r;.,, v.,. p, I H 3v;:,.: J. H. ll^su Com mltcs. NASlVlJ.:, SKPTKMlKU 7, I M L w. F. BANG <&C0.,! t; n LI s n E R s. No. -L of the Redeemer. Brother s armed aganst ClllMSrAN cnrv. H utl.er, an.l that e n e r g y s foolshly expende.l Ch.lon unty s the n lual st.t.' (.1 all,n uxl.ss md runous domestc conflcts ll.ose whn lovo out Lord Jr..u> Chrst. It s wh. h God gave us for confue..l over tho nrcdu-atrd upon the attracton uhch every com.no, enemy. At ths pont all )ur sprt^ chrstan fds to the moral charadcr, as nllrtntes thckly cluster, and produce wron.htl.n Iho spr.tof (od, of ev. ry other lamentaton, mornng and wo. "O, Israel, chn^lan. Its hond s h-cnmplacenry aluas- produced n our mlml hy (d.servn-, not hou h 'lcstroved thyself!" T) prevent the dsunon of the people of tlk> mental character, anured knouled^^ro, God, or to counteract ts nfluence, was ever p...mlar temporal crcum.stances, but rn-p. ctve of these, tho mage of God, cn- a favorte des-n of both Prophets anl Aposles, anl hev h vo bequrathe.l to us the same stampul l.y dvnr -.ace, upon ho.so.l of, ost solemn' and pleasng dute.«^. One of,ur MCth. r. It stmm-eslron- a.l p^-rl.ct m l. ghtst g-ms n the caskct of sacred jkoporton as we chersh the mmd ol Chn^t. poctrv s n prase of chrstan unty. "Bethe nmtable Davd-^'BehoId, (;.,d s one; hs rel-on s one; an.l Ins pcolcareone. We are all partakers of the l.ou -ood; and how pleasant t s, for brethren t" lw- 11 together n unty? U s lke the same sprt-, are -uded l.y the same.nncples-, have n vlew the same,great ol-j- c ; aul ' pp c>u- ontment upon the hoa.l, that van are hers of th- same mmortal nlu rtamce. Moun upon th. beanl, even Aaron's beard, T'h." spnmal alvmtes here tlrvelop.-.l are,h.u.\ent down to the skrts of hs garment. ro.m.tless. The law of gravt.aon tt tnnatural unverse dues not more certanly at- As he d.'w of llermon, as the dew that descended upon the mountans of zon! For tract to ts centre the objects whch come, ' there the L o r d commanded the blessng, cvcn uthn the ra-e of ts acton, than does the lfv foever more." Hear also the exhortand.'on of Chrst l.rng nto unty all those ^ 1 l nof an Apostle-"Nuw I beseech you, who po.ssess t. Chrstan unty, therefore, s ^ essental to chrstan character. j!.ehrrn, bv the namo o( our Lortl Jesu.s Chrst, that ye all speak tho same thng, and III vew of these ndsputalde facts nothng', that there be no dvsons among you-, but s more stran^'c and nconsstent han the per- that ye be perfectly joned together n the petually recurrnt^ schsms and dvsons wth.ame mn.l, and n the same judgment." ul.eh the Church has been allucted n all III the developemcnt of the prncples ot a-e- Thallhese have not rc^nl:e l Irom rel^rou s v. v evdent, hut from the want.d chrstan un'y,the llustrat.n of ts necess- IV and the enforcement of the dutes t en;,ns, s occupe.l a large space n the teach- n^'ron,.s. l^me.ss, prde, amhon, anl vaoh. r f.rms of ho sprt of the world, ngs of our Savour. It was thought by htm to whch relgous lu-ofe.ssors h.vc been accustomed t.) yeld. They arc tho dseases of^sulvcent consequence to havo a place n that memorable last prayer, offered on the whch havo fastened then.selvcs upon the nght of hs betrayal, for hs mnster., us Church, whch havo desloycl her hualh, people, and for the convetson of the world. embttered her sprt, and preyed upon tho For hs mnsters he prayea-"holy Father, lfe blood of her unty. As a natural consequence the decpcrt tnd most lastng njures thou hubt gven me, that they may be on^ as keep, through thne own name, those whom have been sulternd hy the causc nnd people I > Sft'