the builders refufed is become the chief corner ftone. This is the Lord's doing; and it ismarvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Bleffed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; God is the Lord who has fhewn us light.

Mojes. David is, and ever was, revered and honoured by Ifrael, as the darling of his God," and father of their Meffiah. And the Almighty pronounced thefe bleffings, but the law was given to Mofes, for the rule a guide of Ifrael; therefore, unless I am convicted by the five books, wrote by our legiflator, of error, I am bound to remain a member of the original covenant, known to be by the exprefs command of the Almighty, and pofitively enjoined.

Boy. As your defire in this meeting is to fearch out the will of the Almighty God, and his divine Truths, it will be proper to divest yourself of all prejudice and partiality, and with an heroic refolution to embrace what your reafon affents to without contradiction; but in this great matter your whole confidence muft be immoveably fixed on your God. In the latt conference there were fome texts quoted which were not difcuffed in Genefis, which we will, if you please, examine. Genefis 1ft chapter. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth: and the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. I beg your explanation, who is this Spirit of God, marked out diftinct and clear?

Mofes.

Mofes. God is a Spirit and cannot fuffer parts.

Boy. God created, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. It is most positive and abfolute, by this fcripture, that God, and the Spirit, are distinct persons ; but God, producing the Spirit, is one substance, confequently one God.

Mafes. As I obferved in our laft, there is no diving into the depth of the Divinity.

Boy. The Godhead is infinite, and our conceptions weak and limitted to a very infignificancy; yet, when his Majefty is pleafed to communicate his fecrets and reveal his truths, it is the duty of his creature to embrace them, and fubmit with joy and perfect obedience; the reverfe proceeds from what Almighty God repeatedly charged Ifrael with, an obdurate and flinty heart.

Mofes. I confefs, to the confufion of Ifrael, what you advance; but these repeated admonitions were, when Ifrael fell from their allegiance and went aside from the law and -commandments.

Boy. The law was binding and obligatory, until the Meffiah.

Mofes. Mofes, whom God Almighty appointed our law-giver, gave Ifrael charge to obey the Meffiah. And the Lord your God fhall raise you up a prophet from the midst of thofe of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him fhall you hearken, according to 'all thou defiredft of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the affembly, faying, "let me not hear

again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me fee this great fire any more, that I die not." And the Lord faid unto me, They have ell Spoken, I will raise them a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I fhall command him, and it fhall come to pass, that whofever will not hearken to my words, which he shall speak in My Name, I will requir it of him. Deut. 18th chapter.

Boy. Pray what do you infer from this prophecy.

Mofes. A pofitive injunction, enjoined by the great legiflator, and exprefs order of the Almighty God, therefore of equal weight and authority with the other commandiments.

Boy. It will be the moft eligible method for to difcufs each article before we proceed to another; we will return to our firft. The Divinity, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Mofes. Here O Ifrael, the Lord your God is. one God; I cannot therefore admit the plural; but mult, as Ifrael ever have done, confefs the fingular number in God. The Spirit of God diftinctly expreffed, favours chriftianity, but a fingle verfe inuft favour fome other meaning, and give the precedency to the commandment.

Boy. This revelation of the most tranfcending myftery, the knowledge of which will remove the partition wall or rock of offence, that feparates Ifrael from chriftianity, must not he paffed over; you will therefore give your ex

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planation on this matter of infinite importance, the Spirit of God moved upon the deep.

Mofes. The mystery of the Divinity is infinite, therefore cannot be brought within the fuperficial knowledge of the creature; it would therefore be proper to difcufs fome other article, which may explain by degrees, and remove feeming irreconcileable texts.

Boy. The divinity is the ground and basis of the two covenants; until this fundamental and prime article is reconciled, the two covenants never will be brought to agreement.

Mofes. My defire is truth; but, touching this tremenduous myftery, my nature recoils, and fhrinks into my bafe nothingness; my foul as an outcaft is filled with horror; I dread the thought.

Boy. It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; this is fcripture, and it is to avoid this dreadful catastrophe that we meet this day, and it is with confidence I embrace this conference purely, as I have no other will but to be directed by the divine mercy, and that his truth may appear; I will therefore proceed with the ft chapter of Genefis. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep; and God faid, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Mofes. Almighty God fpeaks in this chapter, both in the fingular and plural number; it will be proper to proceed in order, to affilt ourselves with proper lights, by proceeding next to the article of the Meffiah.

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Boy. The 3d. chapter of Genefis. The Almighty promises redemption to man after his fall, by the Meffiah: it fhall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruife his heel.

Mofes. Satan with his affociation, after their fall, perceiving the creation of man was to replace and fill their vacant feats, plotted their fall, and bring them upon a level with themfelves; to obtain their purpose, Satan affumes, or enters into a ferpent, by which stratagem decoyed Eve to a breach of her duty, and abufe of free will. Adam falling into the fame act of difobedience, entailed an everlasting curfe on their pofterity; for the offence was not against the creature, which would have been in their power to have made reftitution: but it was in open violation to the immediate commandment of the Creator, which rendered it needful to have a Meffiah to reconcile them; and this reconcilement is promised to the whole ftock of Adam that will accept this grace, and join Ifrael under the banner of their king.

Boy. We will confine ourselves without variation in the fearch of your Meffiah; you grant his appearing neceffary for the reconcilement of man to his Creator; you also grant the pro

mife is to the whole ftock of Adam.

Mofes. All what you affert, I agree to, but with this fingular privilege to Ifrael, that he will be flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, and that he will be born of the ftock of David, and inherit his throne; and that Ifrael will poffefs every bleffing under him according to the prophecies.

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