In that part of my answer, which is addressed to the younger clergy, I said, “Lay this down for an infallible principle; that an entire, absolute renunciation of all worldly interest, is the only possible foundation of that exalted virtue, which your station requires; without this, all attempts after an exemplary piety are vain: (_and then, by way of limitation and explication of this, it thus immediately follows_:) If you want any thing from the world by way of _figure_ and _exaltation_, you shut the power of your Redeemer out of your own souls, and instead of converting, you corrupt the hearts of those that are about you. Detest therefore, with the _utmost abhorrence_, all desires of making your fortunes, either by _preferments_, or _rich marriages_, and let it be your only ambition, to stand at the top of every virtue, as visible guides and patterns to all that aspire after the perfection of holiness,” _p._ 61. Now, one would imagine there was no part of the Christian world, however corrupted, where this doctrine would not be admitted at least in theory; or, that the gospel of Christ should be thought to be reproached, where such advice as this was given to young divines: and yet it is of this very advice, that Dr. _♦Trapp_ says, “he _hopes they_ will have more _grace_ and sense _than to follow it_: that it is _false doctrine, tending to the reproach and scandal of the Christian religion_,” p. 87. ♦ “Trap” replaced with “Trapp” Is it then come to this, that unless young divines chuse to serve mammon as well as God, their profession is a renouncing of grace and sense, and a reproach to religion? And must they that pretend to act in Christ’s name, as successors in his office, take care that they renounce not the politics of the kingdom of this world? For my part, I thought it as consistent with the honour of the gospel, to give this advice, to suppress all worldly views, as to resist the temptations of the devil. Had _Martin Luther_, when he gave his reasons for withdrawing from the _Pope_, been able to have added this; that the advice here given, had been formally condemned by the _Pope_ in a great council, the defenders of that church would have found it as hard to have made such a decree consistent with the gospel, as the selling of ♦indulgences: and it may well be supposed, that no Protestant writer, when setting forth the marks of antichrist, in that church, would have forgot to have made this condemnation to be one of them. ♦ “indulgencies” replaced with “indulgences” for consistency