Objections answered. 281 ON Creeds and Confessions of Faith. A Tract. - 292 CONCLUSION. References to Books - - 302 Address 1. To those who have left the Church. 310 2. To those who are hesitating 333 3. To those who profess to be at- 328, 13 from the bottom, dele it. 8, for suitably read entirely. 3, 14, 11, 4, 11, 12, 6, 7, John xx. John xv. has such has set such. (') various Matt. iv. Minister employed is (1) serious Matt. ix. Ministers. implied. are 3 from the bottom, for due afterwards, read afterwards due. EXTRACTS OF LETTERS. March 5, 1834. MY DEAR SISTER IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to the Saints. And this I pray, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgement: that you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." Amen. B I was much interested to hear from yourself in what a wonderful and gracious way the Lord had led you to Himself. At such a time as this, it is peculiarly sweet to hear of His blessing on our truly excellent and evangelical Liturgy. And I do hope and trust that, notwithstanding many and great difficulties which you feel at present, you will not forsake your dear mother, the Church, (as our excellent Reformers used to speak) at a time when she so much needs the love and prayers of all her children. How happy should I be, if I could suggest anything that might, under God's blessing, be the mean of relieving you from your difficulties and perplexities! but as I have not yet received the Treatise on the Lord's Supper,' to which you refer, it would perhaps be premature to write on that subject at present. But I may say that, for myself, I am a very high churchman; and much opportunity of observing the state and system of other churches has made me so. I do indeed greatly lament the want of discipline, and enter fully into the views and feelings of our Reformers, as expressed in the introduc 6 tion to the Commination Service. But here the fault rests entirely with the ministers and people of the present day; who (as is manifest from an examination of the rubrics) have carelessly and indolently fallen into utter neglect of that discipline, which is a part of the constitution of the Church. And most needlessly for I know an excellent minister who, in his own parish, strictly enforces the discipline of the Church,-in a very mild and judicious, but in a very effectual manner;→→ insomuch that among from one hundred and fifty to two hundred communicants, he has not so much as one coming to the table of the Lord, whom he would not wish to see there. Then, my dear sister, if others neglect their duty (which we cannot possibly help) let us not therefore neglect ours. Our gracious Lord hath said, "Do this in remembrance of me;" and by this precious commandment he has made our privilege to be our duty. Let not the enemy of souls so far prevail against you as to make the sins of others, in presumptuously taking that to which they have no title, an argument to prevent you from |