opportunities of hearing carnal, wicked, worldlings talk about religion; and generally observed, that they _brought_ up, _censured_ and _ridiculed_ eternal election, and represented it as a most dreadful and arbitrary act; adding, that those who held this sentiment, also believed that God had, from eternity, reprobated and consigned over to hell, the greatest part of mankind; yea, infants who had never sinned, which (they argued) made out God to be a very unjust, and tyrannically wicked; being, yea, worse than Molech. All these sentiments and ideas we expect from an ungodly world; they know no better. God declares that they are blind, and enemies; yea, _enmity_ itself. Such we can pity. _But_, _judge my surprize_, when one of Mr. Wesley’s followers put a book into my hand, entitled “Hymns on God’s Everlasting Love:” finding it contained the very language that these profane and wicked worldlings had been constantly using; where then, exclaimed I, is the difference between the author, the admirers of this work, and the bitterest enemies of God: why, alas! in point of truth, or light, or love, _none at all_; they are all upon a footing; for, though they may differ in some things of an external nature, I found they all agreed to ridicule the truth of God’s most holy word. Here the _Heathen_, the _Papist_, the _Quaker_, the _Arminian_ and the most _profane_, as well as the most _precise_ and _moral_ professor, all unite. The above hymns, as they are called, are full of the most deadly poison, and the most awful _misrepresentations_; and though but consisting of little better than eighty pages, contain more than two hundred palpable falsehoods: no Christian, as taught of God, can read them without shuddering at the base, lying, wicked _declarations_, _insinuations_, and wilful _misrepresentations_; and, while the author professes so much seeming meekness and pity for the wicked world, and is ridiculing the awful doctrine of reprobation, he himself has the daring impudence to _reprobate_ all the real ministers of the gospel in the following lines:— “Hear the _old hellish murderers_ roar For you Christ died, and not one more; His _children_ listen to his call, And shout Christ did not die for all.”