I shall now only add this friendly hint to the Doctor, that he has a remedy at hand in his own _sermon_, how he may be delivered from thus grossly mistaking the spirit of the gospel, as well as the law of _Moses_. “St. _Paul_ (saith the Doctor) had a quick and lively imagination, and an extensive and intimate acquaintance with those masters in moral painting, the classic writers; (N. B.) all which he proudly sacrificed to the glory of the everlasting gospel.”¹ ¹ Sermon, Volume I. page 229. Now if the Doctor did that (though it was only from _humility_) which he says the apostle did _proudly_, such humility might be as great a good to him, as that pride was to the apostle. And if the everlasting gospel is now as glorious a thing as it was in St. _Paul_’s days; if the highest classic knowledge is fit for nothing but to be _all sacrificed to the glory of the gospel_; how wonderful is it that this should never come into his head, from the beginning to the end of his three long legation-volumes, or that he should come piping hot with fresh and fresh beauties found out by himself in a _Shakespeare_, a _Pope_, &c. to preach from the pulpit, the divine wisdom of a _Paul_, in renouncing all his great classical attainments, as mere loss and dung, that by so doing, he might _win Christ_, and _be found in him_! Let the Doctor figure to himself the gaudy pageantry of a high mass in a _Romish_ cathedral; let him wonder at that flagrant, daring contrariety, that it hath to the first gospel church of Christ. Would he not still be fuller of wonder, if he should hear the pope declaring, that all this Heathenish shew of invented fopperies, was his _projected defence_ of that first church of Christ? But if the Doctor would see a Protestant wonder, full as great, he need only look at his own theatrical parading show of Heathen mysteries, and Heathenish learning, set forth in the highest pomp. To what end? Why to bring forth what he calls, (as the pope above) his _projected defence of Christianity_. I come now to the quotation from the pastoral letter of Mr. _Stinstra_. “A judicious writer, (says the dissertation) observes, that _sound_ understanding, and reason, are _that on_ which, and by which, God _principally_ operates, (N. B.) when he finds it proper to assist (N. B.) our _weakness_ by his Spirit.”¹ ¹ Dissertation, page 73. I cannot more illustrate the sense, or extol the judgment, both of the _author_ and _quoter_ of this striking passage, than by the following words.