*Wonder not then, if the _inquisition_ has its pious defenders, for _inquisition cruelty_, nay, every barbarity that must have an end, is mere mercy, if compared with this doctrines.――And to be in love with it, to draw sweet comfort from it, and wish it God-speed, is a love that absolutely forbids the loving our neighbour as ourselves, and makes the wish, that all men might be saved, no less than rebellion against God.――It is a _love_, with which, the _cursed hater_ of all men, would willingly unite and take comfort; for could he know from St. _Paul_, that millions, and millions of mankind, are created and doomed to be his eternal slaves, he might be as content with this doctrine, as some good preachers are, and cease _going about, as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour_; as knowing, that his kingdom, was so sufficiently provided for, without any labours of his own. *Oh, the sweetness of _God’s election_, crys out the ravished preacher! Oh, the sweetness of _God’s reprobation_! might the hellish Satan well say, could he believe that God had made him a _free gift_ of such myriads, and myriads of men, of all nations, tongues and languages, from the beginning to the end of the world, and reserved so small a number for himself. *What a complaint, and condemnation is there made in scripture, of those who sacrificed their sons and daughters unto devils? And yet this reprobation doctrine, represents God as sacrificing myriads of his own creatures, made in his own image, to an everlasting hell. *There is not an absurdity of heathenish faith and religion, but what is less shocking than this doctrine. And yet so blindly are some zealous doctors of the gospel bigotted to it, as to set it forth, as the glorious manifestation of the supreme sovereignty of God! _Little children_, saith St. _John_, _let no man deceive you_; [N. B.] _He that doth righteousness, is righteous_, [N. B.] _even as he is righteous_. Therefore to expect, or trust to be made righteous, merely by the righteousness of another, outwardly imputed to us, is, according to the apostle, _deceiving ourselves_. So sure therefore, as the _mediation_ of Christ, is by himself declared to be for this end, _that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect ♦in one_; so sure is it, that an _outwardly_ imputed Christ, is as absurd in itself, and as contrary to scripture, as an _outwardly imputed_ God. ♦ duplicate word “in” removed _Farewell._ * * * * * LETTER IV. To ――――