but I am seriously of opinion that it approaches very near to it. To nullify what is plainly taught in the word of God-to falsify the language of inspiration, to hear Christ say, "I will raise him up at the last day:" and then, tacitly, to give Christ the lie, must be a crime of no common description. I tremble for those who have the desperate courage to abandon the plain letter of the unerring word of God, and stake their immortal souls, and embark their everlasting all, in a system compounded of some truths, (all false religions have some truths) many falsehoods, mental vagaries, strange mysticisms, whimsical labyrinths, and fanciful correspondences! I hope I shall never have courage enough to be a Swedenborgian.

I will now, reader, conclude this article by giving thee a quotation from good old John Bunyan.

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Then I saw in my dream, that in the morning the shepherds called up Christian and Hopeful to walk with them upon the mountains; so they went forth with them, and walked awhile, having a pleasant prospect on every side. Then said the shepherds one to another, shall we shew these pilgrims some wonders? So when they had concluded to do it, they had them first to the top of an hill, called Error, which was very steep on the

further side, and bid them look down to the bottom. So Christian and Hopeful looked down, and saw at the bottom several men dashed all to pieces by a fall that they had from the top. Then said Christian, What meaneth this? The Shepherds answered, Have you not heard of them that were made to err, by hearkening to Hymeneus and Philetus, as concerning the faith of the Resurrection of the Body? (II. Tim. ii. 17, 18.) They answered, Yes. Then, said the shepherds, those that you see dashed in pieces at the bottom of this mountain are they: and they have continued to this day unburied as you see, for an example for others to take heed how they clamber too high, or how they come too near the brink of this high mountain." Pilgrim's Progress, Book I.

ON THE LAST JUDGMENT.

The doctrine of the last judgment is of high import, and is most clearly revealed in the word of God. Nor has there ever been much controversy in the christian world, on this subject; which is a clear proof, if more than scripture proof were wanting, that the doctrine has met with the acquiescence of all men throughout the christian world, with the exception, now of late, of the

Swedenborgians, who, I suppose, wish to be called christians. The Mahometans believe in a general judgment, as I shall shew by and by.

This doctrine, I think, may be reckoned among the essentials of the christian's creed; and is so awfully important that many thousands, I believe, have been awakened and subsequently converted, since the beginning of the christian era, only by dreaming of it! I must now state the Swedenborgian creed on this subject, which is "That the day of judgment took place in the year 1757, in the invisible world; and that there will be no more events of the same kind. The Baron says, "Redemption consisteth of these three things, I can declare with the utmost as surance, inasmuch as the Lord also at this day is accomplishing a redemption, which was begun in the year 1757, together with the last Judgment, executed at the same time, &c." I might add more quotations to the same purpose, but I deem them needless. Brevity I intend to be one of the attributes of this publication.

The seventh article of the Mahometan's creed, copied from the book mentioned above:

"Of the Day of Judgment.-We must believe from our hearts, and hold for certain, that there shall be a day of judgment, whereon God shall

ordain all nations to appear in a place appointed for this great trial, of sufficient vastness, that his Majesty may be evident there in splendour. It is in this magnificent and spacious station, that the universal assembly of all creatures shall be made, about the middle of the day, and in the brightness of noon and then it is, that, accompanied by his prophet (Mahomet), and in the presence of all mankind, God shall, with justice and equity, judge all the nations of the Earth in general, and every person in particular. To this effect, every one of us shall have a book, or catalogue of our actions, delivered to us; that of the good, in suchwise that it shall be received and held in the right hand; and that of the wicked, so, that it shall be received and held in the left hand. As to the duration of that day, it shall be as long as the continuance of the present age. This shall be a day of sighs and grief, a day of tribulation and anguish, when the cup of sorrow and misery must be drank up, even the very dregs thereof. But this is what shall be particularly experienced by the ungodly and the perverse; every thing shall present to them ideas of sorrow and affliction. To them every thing shall become aloes and bitterness. They shall not obtain one moment of repose. They shall behold nothing that is agreeable

nor hear one voice that shall delight them: their eyes shall see nothing but the torments of hell. Their ears shall hear nothing but the cries and howlings of devils; and their terrified imaginations shall represent unto them nothing but spectres and tortures!"

Nor is it unworthy of notice, that many of the wiser heathens believed in a general judgment in some form, though their form might differ from that recorded in the scripture, yet the thing they believed. For, they could in nowise reconcile themselves to the prosperity of the vicious, and the adversity of the virtuous, which was every day before their eyes, but on the supposition of a future reckoning day, and an hereafter of rewards and punishments. Besides, it is well apprehended both by many philosophers and all good divines, that there is in the breasts of all men a secret (some would call it an innate) foreboding of a day of judgment, or something like it, when cognizance will be taken of the hearts and actions of all mankind. This principle, they say, is perpetually exemplified in the hopes of the good and the fears of the bad. These secret hopes and fears, it may be, are among the books that shall be opened at the last day. (Rev. xx. 11.)

But I must not wrong the Swedenborgians, for