ther through wine or otherwise. Kype contends for the latter acceptation here. See his proofs and examples.

Eighthly. He must be no striker; not quarrelsome; not ready to strike a person, who may displease him; (he must not thump, kick, and cowskin Toney and Fanny,) no persecutor of those who may differ from him;" not prone, as one wittily said,

"To prove his doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks."

Behold them trample on their flocks,
Supported by each vulpine fox,
Like tyger, hawk, or goaring ox,
With flouts and scouts, and outing knocks,
Then off they soar in air balloons,

As boreas or hot monsoons;

So fare you well, and fare you well,
So fare you well, they are soaring home.

Some roar as Balaam's warning ass,
And switch a Cushite lad and lass;
And gold and influence amass,

Yet still they'll preach, we're naught but grass,
Adoring all the holy rich,

They throw the feeble in the ditch.

So fare you well, &c.

He judges by a sly hearsay;
His vengeance sweeps you in a day ;
Or, like a slow jaw'd beast of prey,
He kills by smile and stab delay;
And by a cunning Gospel trick,
He props a tot'ring bishoprick.
So fare you well, &c.

Fourteenthly-" It is required (saith C.) that he be not a novice, not a young plant, not recently ingrafted; that is, one not newly converted to the faith. It is impossible that one, who is not long and deeply experienced in the ways of God, can guide others in the way of life. But the apostle gives another reason, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. It is natural for man to think himself of more importance than his fellows, when they are entrusted to his government. The apostle's term, puffed up, inflated, is a metaphor taken from a bladder when filled with air or wind. It is a substance, has a certain size, is light, can be the sport of the wind, but has nothing in it but air. Such is the classical coxcomb: a mere puff ball, a disgrace to his function, and despised by every intelligent man. Should we not say to those whom it may concern,

'From such apostles, O ye mitred heads,

Preserve the church! and lay not careless hands
On skulls that cannot teach and will not learn.'

From these words of the apostle, we are led to infer, that pride or self-conceit was the cause of the devil's downfall."

A young excrescent, loud walloon,
Who fights windmills, and bays the moon,
A sacerdotal, proud buffoon,

A high ey'd, lordly, fell dragoon,

In haughty dev'lish union.

Such froggish, doggish, hoggish mopes,
Frame whips and scorp'ons, snares and ropes,

Like Nero's, Herod's, Haman's

popes,

Blighting our church and civil hopes,
By huffing, puffing union.

See slandering puff balls, light as air,
Japan'd all o'er with bishop hair,
Behold them stamp, and roar, and stare,
As Solomon's not very rare,

In bladder, adder union.

Such men often have for their staff of honor, such persons as the following:-Tim. v. 13. And withal they learn to be idle." They do not work, and they will not work. Wandering about from house to house.-Gadding, gossipping; never contented with home, always visiting. And not only idle-If it went no farther, this would be tolerable; but they are tattlers, talebearers, whisperers, light, trifling persons; all noise and no work. Bu sy bodies-Persons who meddle with the concerns of others, who mind every one's business but their own. Speaking things which they ought not Lies, slanders, calumnies, backbiting their neighbours, and every where sowing the seeds of dissention."-Clarke.

A slandering truth is the devil's truth: is a practical lie against God, or, which amounts to the same thing, if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, (saith James iii. 14.) do not glory, and lie against the truth.

"True Christian zeal is only the flame of love. Do not lie against the truth-as if such zeal could consist with heavenly wisdom."-W.

Buy the truth, and sell it not.-Prov. xxiii. 23. What truth? A puff ball truth, a whipping truth, a sly matchbreaking truth, a roaring bull frog truth, that he got drunk, or she raised the wind by

brawling in the kitchen? No, no; but the whole revealed truth, the bloody cross truth, a saving truth, the spirit of truth in your hearts, the love of all flesh, the knowledge and practice of your whole duty and interest.

A LIE,

ACCORDING TO CRUDEN, IS,

1st. A falsity or untruth. Judges, xvi. 10. 2d. False doctrine. 1 John ii. 21, 22.

3d. An image, or idolatrous representation. Rom. i. 25.

First meaning-Judges xvi. 10:

And Delilah said unto Samson, behold thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

The second meaning is, false doctrine-1 John ii. 21, 22.

No lie is of the truth. Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He that believeth not God, hath made him a liar. 1 John v. 10. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John ii. 4.

The third meaning of a lie—

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped, and served the creature more than the creator. Rom. i. 25.

Ye shall know the truth, of peace with God and man, including power over sin, and the truth shall make you free. John viii. 32, from the guilt, power, and inbeing of all sin, from whispers, and all such low, cowardly swindlings, which are current coin with thousands of political and very religious

grunters and roarers, under the lying excuse that they relate nothing but the truth, which, when narrated against the truth of God's word, by slandering a brother, is a lie, though what is said be a fact; it being manifest, that all are liars who set up a system of defamation against Gospel reformation, of unjust, exparte caucus, in opposition to two or three witnesses, and our Lord's seventy times seven, Matt. xviii. 22, and of blasting the fame and uncovering shame, in competition with that charity which covereth a multitude of sins. 1 Peter iv. 8. and covereth all sins. Prov. x. 12.

Every one that is of the truth (as it is in Jesus) heareth my voice. John xviii. 37; which truth and voice is thus iterated: Love your enemies. Matt. v. 44, Luke vi. 27, 23. Whosoever shall say Raca (that is, empty fellow) to his brother, shall be liable to the council. ver. 22. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. chap. vi. 12. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. ver. 15, And reiterated as follows: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matt. vii. 12. Enter ye in at the straight gate of love, forgiveness, and forbearance, and not through the wide valves of the devil's steam engine, slander, propelled by the fire of hell into a world of iniquity.

Mr. Wesley's words upon Every one that is of the truth, shall hear my voice, are" An universal maxim. Every sincere lover of truth will hear him so as to understand and practice what he saith. In truth and love, or faith and love, as St. Paul speaks. Faith and truth are synonymous terms."-J. W. upon 2 John verse 3. I found of thy children, v. 4,