1. The awful ungodliness of some of us too plainly proves the truth of this, believe it who will. It is fearful to think of their standing as they are in the sanctuary of the Most HOLY GOD! “To the wicked GOD saith, What hast thou to do, to declare my statutes, and to take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.” {7} 2. But, alas! It is not only the unholy beyond dispute that may fail of the HOLY GHOST. What say the habits of vain conversation in many; their ease and pleasure in worldly occupations and amusements; their constraint under sacred employments, their gladness when such works are done? Must _their_ hearts be the temples of the HOLY GHOST? Will He make the word to be “the power of GOD,” to honour _their_ preaching of it; or the sacraments means of grace, to own _their_ administration? May He not, does He not refuse to do so? Where is the fruit of their labour? 3. But even were we questionable in nothing but points of doctrine and religious practices which we teach, this were enough, not only to raise the question, whether we minister by the HOLY GHOST, but also to determine it. For the SPIRIT cannot testify to _both_ of two systems _differing_ from one another in many fundamental points. Such are the two systems at present in agitation. That of Protestant Evangelical Christianity on the one hand, and that of Anglo-catholicity on the other: the one rejecting Romanism in all its peculiarities; the other sympathizing with it, and avowedly rejecting the principles of the Protestant faith. {8a} The controversy is not new, though it has seldom been so vigorously conducted on either side as now. The same spirits were in active warfare some forty years ago. {8b} But, in fact, it has been fairly said by one of the chief writers on the Anglo-catholic side, that there have ever been these two principal parties in the Church of England, whom he calls the _Apostolical_ and the _Puritan_; introducing a third also, (not now in the controversy,) namely, the Latitudinarian. {9a} In point of _doctrine_, the terms Apostolical, Laudian, Orthodox, and Anglo-catholic, have more or less of connexion with each other; and the terms Evangelical, Puritan, Calvinistic, and Protestant, have a similar affinity.