25.--"who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification." v. 8. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." In the above testimony the apostle says, that Christ gave himself a ransom for _all men_, that he, by the _grace_ of _God_, tasted death for _every man_, that he was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification, that his death for sinners is a commendation of God's love to them. Now I am willing to acknowledge to you, sir, and to all the world, that I can make no sense of the above testimony without applying it to all mankind. In the apostle's observations in the close of the 8th of Rom. of nothing being able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, there is a perfect analogy with the foregoing testimony. The love of God which is in Christ Jesus, was commended to a sinful world in that Christ tasted death, by the grace of God, for every man. If one of all those for whom Christ died can be separated from that love by which Christ died for him, I know not why the whole may not be, by the same argument. 2d. Of the passage in 1st Cor. 3d, &c. This passage, you say, you _presume_ I _know_ ought not to be applied to any _but real christians_! See the text. "Therefore let _no man_, glory in men; for all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's." Are you willing, sir, to _presume_ that I _know_ that the apostle Paul did not mean to dissuade any but _real christians_ from trusting in men? This you must _presume_ in order to _presume_ that I _know_ the text ought to be applied to none but real Christians. Is not the sense of "_no man_" as universal in the negative, as the sense of "_all men_" is in the positive? Why did you not attempt to give some reason for such a _presumption_? I hope dear sir, you will not allow yourself to think, even for one moment, that I am so uncharitable as to suppose you _presumed_ thus, contrary to impressions of your own mind, though you cannot think any worse of me than is implied in the presumption. I tell you, sir, that I seriously believe that the above text ought to be applied to all men; I believe it is wrong for any man to put his trust in man, according to that scripture; and I believe it to be perfectly right to exhort _all men_ to put their trust in God who has given his son to die for us all, and who will with him freely give us all things richly to enjoy.