My Lord, this is more astonishing than all the rest! I was expecting all along in reading the preceding pages (and so I suppose, was every thinking reader) when your Lordship would mention, that the person _miraculously inspired_ for that intent, and praying κατὰ Θεὸν either for the support or deliverance of the people, should _have the very petition which he asked of him_. Whereas you intended no such thing! But shut up the whole with that lame and impotent conclusion, “He leaves it to God, whether it be best they should suffer afflictions, or be delivered from them.” Had he then that _miraculous_ gift of God, that he might do what any common Christian might have done without it? Why, any person in the congregation might have prayed thus: nay, could not pray otherwise, if he had the _ordinary_ grace of God: “Leaving it to God, whether he should suffer afflictions still, or be delivered from them.” Was it _only_ in the apostolical age, that “the Spirit instructed Christians _thus_ to pray?” Cannot a man pray _thus_, either for himself or others, unless he has the _miraculous_ gift of prayer!――So, according to your Lordship’s judgment, “To pray in such a manner, as in the event to leave the continuance of our sufferings, or our deliverance from them, with a due submission, to the good pleasure of God,” is one of those “_extraordinary_ operations of the Spirit,” which none now pretend to but “modern _enthusiasts_!” I beseech your Lordship to consider. Can you cooly maintain, that “the praying with a due submission to the will of God,” even in heavy affliction, is a _miraculous gift_? An _extraordinary operation_ of the Holy Ghost? Is _this_ peculiar to the primitive times? Is it what _none_ but _enthusiasts_ now pretend to? If not, then your Lordship’s own account of _praying by the Spirit_ indisputably proves, that this is one of the _ordinary_ privileges of all Christians, to the end of the world. 13. “I go on (your Lordship adds) to another passage of scripture, that has been entirely (page 27.) misapplied by modern _enthusiasts_. 1 Corinthians ii. 4, 5. _And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of |God|._” Page 29. “It is only necessary to evince, that by _the demonstration of the spirit and power_ is meant the demonstration of the truth of Christianity, that arises from the prophesies of the _Old Testament_, and the _miracles_ of _Christ_ and his _apostles_.” Yes, it is necessary farther to evince, that these words have _no other_ meaning. But first, How will you evince, that they bear this? In order thereto, your Lordship argues thus: