2d. I as much believe now as I ever did that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. I have as clear evidences now as I ever had that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ. These things being facts, the conclusion is that I have not _fallen_ from the true christian faith. 3d. The above faith I preach, believing and testifying that God sent his Son to be the _Saviour_ of the _world_; and I have reason to bless God that such feeble means are at all prospered, and that as you observe, "Great numbers of precious souls" adhere to the word, which I conceive is no evidence that the faith I preach is not of God, or that it is consistent with the lusts of the world. We are informed in the word of God, that the _common people heard Christ gladly_. Who did not hear him gladly? Answer, the Scribes and Pharisees. Do you think, sir, that the common people's hearing Christ gladly was a justifiable evidence to the Pharisees that he was not the true Messiah? When many thousands of men, women, and children flocked from their cities into desert places to hear the gracious words which proceeded from the lips of him who spake as never man spake, was it a justifiable evidence that he and his doctrine were not of God? To bring this matter, if possible, nearer home, should you find your meeting house crowded with hearers who expressed in their countenances an approbation of the doctrine which you preach, would it be sufficient evidence to convince you that your doctrine was not of God? That the testimony that God sent his Son to be the Saviour of the _world_ is not consistent with the _lusts_ of the _world_, is shown by St. Paul to Titus; "For the grace of God which bringeth salvation to _all men_, hath appeared, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and _worldly lusts_, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world." I have not the least doubt in my mind, that if you and I preached more like our blessed master than we do, people in general, would be more engaged to hear us, and our meeting houses would be more thronged than they are now. Should you hear a shepherd complaining that the increase of his flock was small, or that it rather diminished, you would think _that_ evidence made against _him_. I suppose the particular idea which you had in view, which constitutes, in your mind, an _Apostasy_, is, that Jesus Christ, who was manifested in the flesh, will, pursuant to power given to him of his father, save all men from their sins, and reconcile all things unto himself. This idea, I acknowledge, I did not see clearly in, when I first made a profession of a belief in Christ; but now am fully persuaded in it. However, I cannot see why the adopting of this particular idea should be called an _Apostasy_.