divine miffion, and compare them with those of Mofes and your other prophets. And here the question is not which miracles were the more fplendid, or which we may imagine to have been more proper, and, as Mr. Levi fays, more rational, but only which are the best attefted. Of the other we cannot pretend to be competent judges. Every miracle, or real change in the established course of nature, is equally a proof of the interposition of the author of nature, and may serve as an evidence of a divine miffion; the changing of a rod into a ferpent, as much as the paffage of your fathers through the Red Sea, or the wonderful appearances at Mount Sinai. I, therefore, earnestly intreat, that this, and this only (or at least chiefly) may be the subject of our discuffion. Το my endeavours by writing, I shall not fail to add my most earnest prayers to your God and my God, that great Being in whofe hands are the hearts of all men, and who, by means ordinary or extraordinary, as feems best beft to his infinite wisdom, turns them (Prov. xxi. 1.) as the rivers of water which way foever he pleafes, to remove your prejudices, and every obftacle that for the prefent prevents your reception of a truth in which you are moft nearly interested, and according to his faithful promifes, restore you to his favour, never to lofe it any more. I once more fubfcribe myself, with the greatest refpect and affection, Your brother in the fole worship Of the one only true God, JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, PRINTED FOR J. FLETCHER IN THE TURLE, MDCCLXXXV1I. A LETTER, &c. SIR, OUR Letters have been read by those YOUR to whom they are addreffed, and I am defired to communicate to you their reply, which is in the following terms. We hope it will not offend you if we fay, the requifition contained in your Letters to us, cannot be complied with, for the reasons which fhall be fubjoined. The requifition is, that we acknowledge your Jefus to be our Meffiah, and that we become Chriftians, and adopt the Christian Faith according to your mode. A The |