and Gilding, befides fix young Horses, fit for fuch a fine Vehicle; two Sets of Horfes were brought from Holftein, the first, not being to her Ladyship's Tafte, fhe turn'd off; and all this Parade is from the Alms and Labour of the Poor. Is not this Sporting, is not this deceiving *? The Count has his particular Coach, in which Anne Nitschmannin is his conftant Companion; the Children also must have their separate Coaches, and feveral rich People among them have theirs; fo that, upon a Journey, one would have taken it to be nothing less than the Train of fome Commander in Chief fetting out for the Army, Now the Queftion is, how muft fuch a Life appear in the Sight of God? What Affinity has it with the poor Life of Chrift and his Apostles? Is the crucified precious Saviour, who had not fo much as where to lay his Head, honoured by it? Or is it not rather an Infult. and: Mockery upon him? What can one think when thofe who would be thought the peculiar People of Chrift, are feen riding poft with fuch an Equipage of Coaches and Horfes? And the Attendance must be anfwerable: Now thefe Things cannot be done without exceffive Charges, and all comes out of the Alms-Money; this is the Oftentation, the Riot, against which the Apostle inveighs, and gives no fofter Appellation to those that live so, than of accurfed Children. Now for * The Author does not in the least amplify in his Account of the Coaches and Horses; the whole is a known Truth. The Brothers who are of the fecret Bands, and close with the Zinzendorfian Plan, alfo cut a Figure, and revel with the Saviour's Cheft-Money, and the Subftance of other People. They who were lately Dyers, Carpenters, and Weavers, now are feen to fwagger in Velvet, and the finest English Cloth, with curious English Watches, and Snuff-boxes, without following any Trade or doing any Work whatever; a Gang of idle Cormorants. remind 4 reminding them of their Danger by the Words of an Apostle, the Cry is, that I curfed them; how forced the Inference let any one judge. The falfe Apostles are further taxed "with allur"ing, through fwelling Words of Vanity, to the "Lufts of the Flesh, and much Wantonnefs;" this is likewife manifeft in the Society: It is not only once that I have heard at a Conference, and in the Prefence of a great Number of Men and Women, both unmarried Brothers and Sifters, hold forth very fluently in Praife of the Lufts of the Flesh, as a reviving Balfam to the Heart +. The Apostle further fays," they promife others "Liberty, and they themselves are the Servants of "Corruption; and this is fully verified in them." I having heard too many of them fay, when a Brother has experienced any Grace in his Heart, and believes in the Wounds, though afterwards he may do fuch Things as in the Eye of the World are Sin, yet the Saviour accounts them no Sin fo as to be offended; befides, it is not all that a Man makes to be Sin, which is Sin. This was the Grounds on which I advanced, that I held them to be no better than the falfe regenerate in Oly; hence the refentful Complaint against me in Jofeph Muller's Letter to his Wife's Relations. The Spirit of the Evites daily gains Ground among them; fome Traces of it had been perceived, but it is now notorious, though their Doctrine does not expreíly declare for the Communitas Corporum. This alone must convince all Chriftians of the Corruption of this Sect, and what Kind of a Saviour they have figured to themselves. In the plain Opinion of the World, every Tranfgreffion of the Law of God is Sin; but with thefe People it is otherwife. I must not entirely omit the Agreement and Similarity there is betwixt the Herrnhuters and the Seventh-Day-Men, as they are called, tho' they called that Obfervance an Invention of the Devil. Joseph Muller and I once went to fee Conrard Beiffel in Ephrata; he received us very kindly: Amidft our Conversation Conrard faid to me, I will tell you my Thoughts of you. I look upon you to be a Man of much experimental heartfelt Grace, which had frequently given him a great deal of Joy; but that as for feeling of Grace, he accounted it no more than as a Bloffom upon a Tree, which indeed is fomething pretty to look at, but it must fall off and be deftroyed before any Fruit can be expected: Further, a young Woman in perfect Health and of a good Conftitution, is not in a way of becoming fruitful, till fhe gives up herself and all fhe has to the Will of a Husband; and that it was fo with me, if I did not diveft myJelf of all my pretty Things, and fubmit to the Church as to a Husband, whom the Lord has provided and bas owned for true and blessed, I could not bring forth any Fruit in the Houshold of God. Such Expoftulations, and these seasoned with bitter Complaints, was I, and others in my way of thinking, obliged to hear; they often saying, that antient and long enlightned Perfons held it to be next to an Impoffibility to part with thofe fine Things to which one had been fo long habituated to, and placed fuch a high Value on; and yet unless they threw away every filthy Rag, and proftrated themselves naked at the Feet of the Lamb's People, they were uncapa ble of the real Bleffings of the Community, nor could be by the Community employed to any good Purpose; and till fuch People could bring themfelves to this, they were but a dead Weight to the Commu Community. Now I having often heard fuch Speeches, there is no room for any juft Offence if I account them to be an execrable Set of People; and for my Part, never will I give up thofe Things which I have received from Grace, for any Exchange offered me by these People, the Unrighteousness of whofe Ways are known to me of old; but I have caused them much Trouble, several Brethren having urged me that I fhould bow myself before the Community; allow me to fay, that the bowing they require, I hold would be bowing myself towards Hell. They are harder put to it with me it seems, than with Spangenberg when he left the Community; and the Count himself told me how Spangenberg was managed: He made fome Objections against the Community in Things to which he could not conform; and upon perceiving his Penfylvanian Fanaticism, they fignified to him it was not the Community's Practice to give their Attention to chimerical brain-fick Men, but leave them to run on till they break their Heads, and fo become fober and tractable. Thus was the good Spangenberg for that Time difmiffed. Unquestionably he had fuffered not a little from their Power of Delufion to which he was a Stranger, till he grew tired with the ill Treatment he received from the Labourers; at last he gave fair Words and kept in with the Community, and begged their Prayers to the Saviour that he might be enlightned and confirmed in what he was to believe. This I had from the Count's own Mouth; and now we fee poor Spangenberg again brought under, and against his former Declaration, finging the Catches of the Community, yet he was not in the least trusted by. them; them; and to rivet his Subjection, they further matched him with a fly old Woman, || to draw him off entirely from his Holiness and Pietism, as they call it, to the Life of Nature, that he might be qualified to bear an Office, and with foothing Words bring over to their Servitude, Soul and Body, Subftance and all, fuch as had felt the Calls and Motions of Grace to Holinefs and Salvation. My former Neighbour H. A.* likewife having laid his Head in their Lap, has been honoured with the Dignity of a Beadle over this enthralled People, and is fo active in his Office, that by Appearance, he is more a Child of Hell than ever; for now he must lye after Liars, diffemble after Diffemblers, and fpeak after Deceivers; and to crown all, he must fpare no Pains to wreft the Truth into Falfhood. Behold the Ordination of thefe People! Christ fays, I am the Door through which the Sheep enter; whoever enters not by this Door, but climbeth up another Way, is a Thief and a Murderer. The Apostles had no human Ordination, nor fought to shelter themselves under it, following only that Spirit which was able and willing to lead them into all Truth, but thefe People, with a thievish Intention, ordain themselves. I am aware that most People upon reading this Account will be apt to say this must be Prejudice, they can never be fo bad as they are here fet out to be; and very far I am from being offended at the Charge, for I myself before I had got my Her Name is Immigin, from Drefden, where fhe had been married, and her Daughter eloped from her Husband, and turned common Prostitute. * Henry Antes of Penfilvania, dear |