What do you mean by _their own_ schemes? Their _own_ notions? _Their_ doctrines? Are they not _yours_ too? Are they not the schemes, the notions, the doctrines of Jesus Christ? The great, fundamental truths of his gospel? Can you deny one of them, without denying the bible?――It is hard for you to kick against the pricks! “They persuade (you say) multitudes of people, that they cannot be true Christians, but by adhering to their doctrines.” Why, who says they can? Whosoever he be, I will prove him to be an infidel. Do _you_ say, that any man can be a true Christian, without loving God and his neighbour? Surely you have not so learned Christ! It is _your_ doctrine, as well as _mine_, and St. _Paul_’s, _Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels, though I have all knowledge, and all faith; though I give all my goods to feed the poor, yea, my body to be burned, and have not love, I am nothing_. Whatever public worship, therefore, people may have attended, or whatever ministry they have lived under from their infancy, they must, at all hazards, be convinced of this, or they perish for ever: yea, though that conviction at first _unhinge_ them ever so much; though it should in a manner, _distract_ them for a season. For it is better they should be _perplexed_ and _terrified_ now, than that they should sleep on and awake in hell. 9. In the 10, 12, and 13th _queries_ I am not concerned. But you include me also, when you say in the 11th, “They absolutely deny, that recreations of any kind, considered as such, are, or can be innocent.” I cannot find any such assertion of mine, either in the place you refer to, or any other. But what kinds of recreation are innocent, it is easy to determine by that plain rule, _Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God_. I am now to take my leave of you for the present. But first I would earnestly intreat you, to acquaint yourself what our doctrines are, before you make any farther _observations_ upon them. Surely, touching the _nature_ of salvation we agree, That _pure religion and undefiled is this, to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction_, to do all possible good, from a principle of love to God and man: _and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world_, inwardly and outwardly to abstain from all evil. *10. With regard to the _condition_ of salvation, it may be remembered, that I allow, not only faith, but likewise holiness or universal obedience, to be the ordinary condition of _final_ salvation: and that when I say, faith alone is the condition of _present_ salvation, what I would assert is this; 1. That without faith no man can be saved from his sins, can be either inwardly or outwardly holy. And 2. That at what time soever faith is given, holiness commences in the soul. For that instant, _the love of God_, (which is the source of holiness) _is shed abroad in the heart_.