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dependence on God's electing love in Christ to depend on their own endeavours, to be in a state of grace to-day or damnation to-morrow, as Arminian doctrine teaches, is as impossible as it was for the devil to deceive Christ, when he wanted him to cast himself down from a pinnacle of the temple, in confidence of angels' support. Whoever may receive and depend on your damnable doctrine, must be vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, as in Rom. ix. 22, for it is not the elect, chosen to salvation, can receive it. And though I have very little expectation that any thing I have wrote unto you will do any thing to break the snare of your delusion, and bring yon out from that erroneous connection with which you are joined, yet, as I consider it my duty to give you this warning, so it is in the discharge thereof that I send this unto you, whatever be the effect; and though Popish and Methodist Priests do not think it worth their while to answer my Letters, yet there are others who think they should be answered, and would be answered, if you, as evil doers, did not find quietness the best substitute for hiding nefarious deeds which cannot bear the light. And, to such, I mean to give your Letters to read, in order to be up with your pulpit eloquence, that those who hear you may hear me also; and if you have any thing to say for yourself before they go to the press, I shall be glad to hear it, and it will much oblige, &c."
Copy of a Letter to a respectable Professor, in consequence of his attending, and exhorting to attend, Mr. Mc.
"Greenock, 16th Feb. 1818.
"Sir—Though your acquirements and respectability make it appear to some too presuming in me either to write unto you or expect an answer from
