Whereas, talk to thefe People of Soberness and Watching, and refifting the Devil through Faith, they anfwer with a Sneer, they are not to be caught with fuch Cobwebs; that they are beneath them; they may do with the Precifians, but they have enough in the dear Wounds. Are they urg'd concerning the divine Nature, and the Virtues after which the Faithful are to prefs, this they account an Infult, and whoever takes upon him to deal fo freely with them, will be thanked with Outrages and Mockery: Of this I myself, and likewife the aforementioned Christian Winnocke have often experienced; they ufually called fuch Difcourfe the pietiftical Hobgoblin.

I obferved of the Count, that at any Thing which he difliked, he would ftorm and rage beyond Measure; and when any Brother or Sister had pleafed him, he was as much in Extremes the other Way, but upon a Disgust no Words were bad enough for them; 'twas well if Excommunication was not fulminated against them; In the whole Tenour of his Behaviour there appeared little Godliness; I never heard that in the Congregation he ever took any Care to put the People in Mind that whatfoever they do, they fhould do it with all Humility and Devotion, as in the awful Prefence and to the Honour of the holy and bleffed Trinity; fo far from it, that if either the Voices or the Mufic happened to fall into any little Diffonancy, he would thunder out that they did not mind his Orders, and indeed, it behoved these poor People to attend all his Motions as they valued their Souls, to walk ftrictly up to his Directions in every Refpect; he also taught them that, in Order to be faved, they must not meddle with doing and forbearing, meditating

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and examining, but only get into the Sides in Or der to be faved; it was apparent from all his Ufages and Teachings, that fenfual Gratifications have a much larger Share of his Heart than divine Truths.

But all enlightened Souls, on the contrary, hold it neceffary to abide by these Words of St. Peter: We have a fure Word of Prophecy, to which ye do well that ye take Heed as unto a Light which fbinetb in a dark Place till the Day breaks, and the morning Star rifeth in your Hearts. 2 Peter i. which agrees with what St. John fays, 1 Ep. 1. If we walk in the Light, as he is in the Light, we have Communion with each other, and the Blood of Jefus his Son cleanfeth us from all our Sins; fo that all real Followers of Chrift whom he hath called and begotten with a holy Calling, walking in his Light, conformably to the Gofpel, must be very fenfible that to ftrive to enter by the narrow Way (alas! found by fo very few) is another Thing than a negligent eafy fenfual natural Life; the Saviour himfelf faying, Many fhall ftrive to enter by that Way, and shall not be able; therefore fay I unto unto you, ftrive that - ye may enter in at the ftraightGate. For as it coft our Leader, the Captain of our Salvation, no less than his Blood to make a Paffage through the fierce Wrath of God and the Kingdom of the Devil, fo is Satan with all his Agents permitted to oppofe every Soul in the Prefervation of their Faith, the Proofs of their Fidelity, and the Attainment of the Virtues of the divine Nature, by a firm Refiftance of that Enemy who Day and Night goes about to destroy.

Therefore is it that in fo many Places we are exhorted to watch and pray, that we may not be robbed of what we have received through Grace.

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It is not in vain that the Spirit in the Revelation fays to the Angels of the Churches: He who overcometh as I have overcome, fhall inherit all Things but when these precious Words of the faithful Saviour are infifted on to these Sectarians, would it be imagined they would offer to jeft them away, faying: If I inherit all Things how will others fare, and what will become of my Children?

Since then all true Champions and Followers of Christ cannot but experience, that to fight ftoutly against all the Powers of Darkness, and against Flesh and Blood, and the spiritual Wickedness of Men who affect an ufurped Power over Souls and Bodies, and who stick not at an infernal Magic, 'to bring under those who have Virtue and Senfe enough to difdain a Subjection to them.. Such Souls who by the Strength of the Blood and Merit of Chrift, by watching, praying and ftriving, have made their Way through the Craft and Violence of Man and Fiend, these know by Experience what Tribulation is. Whilft these People make a Mock of them, and call it a visionary Hobgoblin and Reverie to talk of fighting the good Fight of Faith; it is manifeft herein that they are a barren baftardly Breed, which derive not their Life from the true Regeneration, elfe they could not one and all, but love and cherish thofe Souls which are come out of great Tribulation, and have washed their Robes white in the Blood of the Lamb.

But what can be faid. These People call them. felves of the new Period; for according to them, the Saviour has now fhewn his People a new, eafier, and fhorter Way than heretofore; and this it is that the godly Folks, as they fay, with their Brains stuffed with the good Things of the Bible, carp at

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But when I take the Manners and Procedures: of this People into Confideration, and compare. them with Scripture, I find their new Period, their eafier shorter Way, to be juft that of the Children' of God in the new World, who would not be controlled by the Spirit of God; the World was full of Violence and Tyranny and Men of Renown for thefe People have their Tyrants and Men of Renown, and violent to fuch a degree of Impiety, that they are for destroying all Difcipline and God linefs, all Obedience to the Gofpel and following the Footsteps of Chrift; and to this End take upon them to require of Souls which through Grace are awakened, convinced, called, and fruc tified, to reject all this as filthy Rags, and as it were naked and destitute, throw themselves at the Feet of the Community to receive a Bleffing from them; then they might be made serviceable. to the Community, to whom otherwife they are accounted but a Burden.

He who is fo far gone in Perverfeness, and can take weak Man's Word for Bleffings preferably to the Word and Grace of God; in fuch a Soul the Light of the new Life is extinguished, and every divine Plant rooted up by these spiritual Robbers, Spoilers, and Murderers; and inftead of God's Favour they are complicated in Magic, and by a righteous Judgment fmitten with Frenzy, Deut. xxviii. 28. Thus thefe Disciples, are initiated in the School of Satan, and confirmed in execrable Errors, having poured Contempt on the Invitations of Grace, finned against the Word of Truth, and have paid more Regard to the Voice of Men, than the Teftimonies of the Father, Son, and Spirit,

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Here in Penfilvania, the Count was heard to fay, that St. Paul complains that he had not any one like-minded with him befides Timothy, but he could glory in having twenty-four Brethren who were in every thing of a Conformity with him; and who can tell their Number now? and in this he extolls his Community. above the primitive Chriftians. I heard one of his Labourers fay, the Papa is fuch a Man that I question whether the World ever faw his Equal.* Were St. Paul himfelf to come among the Community, he would look upon it with Amazement in Comparison of the Communities in his Time.

I was once talking of David's heroic, Faith to a Man of confiderable Learning, by Name Lieberkubn, who with a Laugh anfwered, David was indeed a legal good Man, and had many fine Things in bis Head, but with an empty Heart. Your David was nothing in Comparison of a common Brother, who joins with the Lord's People at his Table, and every abfolute Brother will fay the fame Thing; fo, that it is easily conceived that their impious Intoxication will make no Difficulty of advancing their Inventions above the Bible; and as their Doings appeared to me to wear the Livery of Profaneness, and Frenzy, no Wonder that they looked upon me as a brain-fick Creature. I knew a Brother who at the beginning was under a glorious Awakening, and for a while walked closely to the Intimations of Grace, but afterwards ventured on fome Duplicity in his Words and Works, at which he inwardly felt the Accufations of Grace. The

*We are of the fame Opinion; we firmly believe that Count Zinzendorf was never equalled in Effrontery and Depravity, by any Seducer which ever appeared in the World. He has a fpice of Herefies and Errors of all Kinds.,

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