You being a Gentleman that have had the Advantage of a _liberal Education_, and being generally esteemed a Man of _Letters_, I believe it will be needless for me to explain to you the Nature of _Repentance_ and _Faith_ in Christ, they being so fully and so often mentioned in the Scriptures, that you cannot but know them. And therefore, perhaps, for that Reason it might be thought by some improper for me to have said so much to you, as I have already upon this Occasion; neither should I have done it, but that considering the Course of your Life and Actions, I have just Reason to fear, that the Principles of Religion that had been instilled into you by your _Education_, have been at least corrupted, if not entirely defaced, by the _Scepticism_ and _Infidelity_ of this wicked Age; and that what Time you allowed for Study, was rather applied to the _Polite Literature_, and the vain _Philosophy_ of the Times, than a serious Search after the _Law_ and _Will_ of God, as revealed unto us in the Holy _Scriptures_: For _had your Delight been in the Law of the Lord, and that you had meditated therein Day and Night_, Psal. 1. 2. you would then have found that God's _Word was a Lamp unto your Feet, and a Light to your Path_, Psal. 119. 105. and that you would account all other Knowledge but _Loss_, in Comparison of _the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus_, Phil. 3. 8. _who to them that are called is the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God_, 1 Cor. 1. 24. _even the hidden Wisdom which God ordained before the World_, Chap. 2. 7. You would then have esteemed the _Scriptures_ as the _Great Charter_ of Heaven, and which delivered to us not only the most perfect _Laws_ and _Rules_ of Life, but also discovered to us the Acts of _Pardon_ from God, wherein they have offended those righteous Laws: For in them only is to be found the great _Mystery_ of fallen Man's _Redemption, which the Angels desire to look into_, 1 Pet. 1. 12. And they would have taught you that _Sin_ is the debasing of _Human Nature_, as being a _Derivation_ from that _Purity, Rectitude_, and _Holiness_, in which God created us, and that _Virtue_ and _Religion_, and walking by the Laws of God, were altogether preferable to the Ways of _Sin_ and _Satan_; for that the _Ways_ of Virtue are _Ways of Pleasantness, and all their Paths are Peace_, Prov. 3. 17.