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IsaU moral obligation limited by, and correspondent with th'' natural ability of the sinner to obey law ? Tiic negative of this question I shall at tempt to prove from scrip urc. 1st, Bv proving the obligation of a perfect conformity to the law of do J. 2 I, From the necessity of regeneration. 1st, then. A right on the part of God to command, necessarily implies the corresponding duty of obedience. lie, however, should n \vr be regarded as absolute and r almighty merely ; but as "a Spirit, infinite, eternal ami unchangeable, in his being, wis. Join, oover. holiness, justice, goodness ami train.Tue mud s ;ou!d be settled in the faith of the p :r,FECTi'ONS of God. Here the soul shoul 1 rest as upon an immovable rock. When a man's j'aiih in the word of God is est a'dished, lie is done with cavils as to " ilo e these things can be.*' He finds n<> ' a ir i sayings;" his most inveterate pre1 it i . r .. j 10?( *>', and nis n.xcu opinions iuij uciorc :: t'-stimon;/ of i!i** Scriptures, like the iilol Dtgo.i bcthr the ark of God; "lie stag* ' o g rs i.ot a: 'lie word of (iol through unbelief." No, hisJhith removes mountains; 44 every valley is exalted, and every mountain and hill is made low, and the crooked tilings are ma le straight, and the rough j plac s piain; fok the mouth of the Lord ha h I spoken itIs.-*. 40: 1,5. " Tuns:: words snould be in your h \irt, and in your soul, j end bound fur a sign upon your hand, and ! as frontlets between your eyes." ])eut. 11 : IS. also Deut. 6 : G?10. Concede the perfections of the Deity, r??.i ,,,,,,1 VntiM-.-il Itiv.n-ion 4 iciios that * much.] tlicn show the precept, ami it must, be rig?t; and obedience cannot bo denied to be a perfect obligation, an absolute duty,1 without aii impious rejection of the justice Oi' God. 44How these things can lie?" is; not revealed. John 3: 12. \Vhat the Lord , t<'aches in his word is to be believed. What, a witness says is to be received on his evi. i pence. The testimony must be believed, or lie credibility of the witness is impeached. ! This is the way the Saviour answered the question,44How can these things be ?" John : 3: 11. What then is the precept, what is the ! law, what does God in fact command I? ' Nothing short of absolute ''holiness; with. ( out which no man can see the Lord," ile'u. 1 12: 14. 44 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is per. j feet," Alatt. 5 : 43. \\ e tnen are, dv tms command, under a mora! obligation to "be perfect" It* this is not our absolute duty, 1 then the law is unjust, and also the lawgiver. 1 There is no escape from this dilemma. Perfection, then, in heart, thought, word j and deed, is the duty of every one; and j ii' we an; no: perfectly holy, we transgress the precept, violate the law, in short become j sinners, and as such subjects of just condemnation. Not for doing this great w ick- J edness or that awful sin, but because when the commandment conies, " be ye perfect," the sinner must die, Uom. 7 : 9. Every one who is not absolutely holy is condemn-1 ed already, and justly liable to the eternal, sanctions of the violated law. Ily the law j every mouth is stopped, and all the world ; is guilty before Clod, Horn. 3: 19.* lie-j mark : the Scrip'ure does not say, utry to ; love," M endeavor to be perfect," " be as holy < as you canBat the command of God is, ! " bo ye holy for I am holy." " Be ye per-j feet, even as your Father iti heaven is per feet." 4 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.' j " Love your enemies." " Let that mind | in you which was also iu Christ Jesus." j Now the law of God, than which nothing , can be more holy and just, does in fact j make it our duty io be perfect. But is any man able to be thus perfect ? Let the Scrip- j tare answer: "By the deeds of the law,! tnen, shall no flesh be justified in his sight." i I: is impossible that any man can by his ow n deeds, according to the law or commandments, be just or perfect in the judg- j meut of God. Rom. 3:19, Acts 13 : 39, | Gui. 2: 10, Epiu 2 : 9, 9, Gal. 3 : 11, Tir. ' 3:5. j Tiie corner-s;one of all Christianity, the j great doctrine of justification by grace thro' faith in Christ Jesus only, and not by works; 1 and the impossibility of legal justification : according .o the Scripture; is utterly incom- : patibie v\ itii this ability heresy. The per j feet nature and demands of the law of God J put to flight this Antinomian idol, this impious no;ion that the unchangeable God relaxes from the full and perfect demands of ins holy law, in favor of sinful imbecility. The life ol this principle proceeds from the very soul of Antinomianism, it is the enmity of the ileart to the/u// demands of the law, j which seeks refuge in a carnal principle that affords a very accommodating and plastic relaxation of Divine exactions. Hence tne cant, God is just, and will only require of man according to his ability. We are poor sinners, and if we do as well as icc can, we shall not be found far out of the way. j God being just, he will not require more iluin we. can do, which is directly in contradiction of what God does lequire in his law. 'in*:,, nnrcimeirtn rnmnth not from him that A ina ^ijuud>v? ? .... ealleth you, Gal. 5 : 8, but emanates from the Father of Lies, who said of old, "Ye snail not purely die," Gen. 3: 4. In thefsecoud place, the necessity of re. generation demonstrates the falsity of the ability principle. " Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God," John 3:3; "except a man be born of water and oj the Spirit, he-cannot enter into the kingdom of God.?That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is bom of the Spirit is Spirit," John 3 : G. The Sav iour states the necessity of regeneration in terms that will admit of no evasion. Soil it is the duty of every man to be renewed, because this is toe declared will and command of God.? " Repent, and believe the Gospel." " Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind," Eph. 4 : 22. But that no man is able to create himself again, or make himself a new heart, is apparent from Scripture. Tiie Spirit of God is He that begets the children of God : as many as received him. to them gave he power to become sons of God ; even to them thai believe on his ' name, which were horn not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will i of man, but of God," John 1 : 12. From ! this Scripture we learn that those who are lorn in the sense that our Saviour used the ; term, become thereby "sins of God," and ! j also that they who are thus constituted the ! sons of God, are those who believe on the , nunc of Jesus ; and further, that they are j i tlius born, not by the self-determining en- ( : orgy of their own will; not by the efficacy j or power of the natural will of the creature, J j called here the " will of the flcs.h," and lest j ' this expression should be perverted to a , false sense, the Scripture adds, " nor of the j i will of man, but of God " I Tiiosc, therefore, are in a fatal error, j J who, instead of receiving the testimony ot t | Scrip'nre, that man is spiritually dead, and i una We to do an act of I do til! he is "quick- j I i,,- tiu, Spirit.*' Lph. 2: 1,5, Col. 2 : j * t /t?. U f ? |KV j , _ i j 13, John G : G3, 1 Cor. 15 : 45, believe or ' i teach t-irit man is spiritually alive, and pre- | i vented from being a perfect being only by , i a perversion of bis will, and that the incli- j na'ion of this same will of man to a right j ! object, is all that is imported by " being born , j again," the etllci of which delusion is to I maintain that through the natural influence i of motive on the will, by an array of truth,1 j the new bi.tn referred to by the Saviour is j produced ; which is arrogating for natural ' powers and influence, that which is challen- < god in ihe word as tlie peculiar office of the tS{?irit of (lod. '; The two Scripture doctrines, then, ls\ That man is morally bound to a perfect obedience and conformity to the law of (rod, in all its exceeding broadness, Ps. i 119: 90. and that if he offimds in one point I j lie is guilty of al'\ James 2: 10. and 2d, That except a man be born again he : cannot see the kingdom of God, j These two doctrines, so fundamental that ( without them there can be no Christianity,! together with the kindred doctrine of native j, and total depravity, can never belong to,: | nor consist with a system that limits the mo-1, ral obligation of the sinner to precepts which < lie has fall ability to keep and fulfil. j 1 These systems are utterly irreconcilable; j they are antipodes; they are as wide apart < as light and darkness, truth and error. ' | Hence it will be found that ability men j ^ I touch with a partial and forbearing hand j, upon native and total depravity; they gloss \ \ over the agency of the Spirit in regenera. 11 tion, so as not to admit the sinner's absolute j dependence on I kvine grace; instead of!, pressing the absolute duty of a perfect con-! ( i'ormity and obedience to the whole law, J j they thrown in salvos for the flesh; qualify j, cations restraining moral obligations within j j the scope of human ability. These men,;. however, are zealous for some things, and ! ( those things concern actions, doings, enterprises, and '* many wonderful works" while . other things are overlooked ; and most that j pertains to faith? to what is to he believed, , is held in cheap estimation, as mere "ab- j stract or metaphysical theology." Praeti. , < ,,1 w.iinrion ic thpip reli<?ion. substantially j | lv,,5,v/i4 *w o ' . ( . adopting the infidel inaxim, that if a " man's ; j conduct be benevolent and estimable, his , raith is of no consequence. j ) RELATION OF THE CONVERTED SINNER TO ! I CHRIST. I i The apostle says in Rom. viii. 0 and i1 4, that " what the law could not do, in that I it was weak through the flesh, God, send- j: ing his own .Son in the likeness of siuful i I flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: I that the righteousness of the law might be > I fulfilled in us." Here he shows us the mi-' J serv of our natural condition ; the mercy I' ol God ; and the end and effect of the em. j j bassy of his Son. In these three particu-! i lars he solves some difficulties to which the ' i preceding versd might have given rise.? j i L' 1 ilvMit flit, nn i i t or sonic migni i;u> c uuuuicu uwm 4.v ccssitv of the liberty into which Jesus Christ i introduces us, or acknowledging it, might i have charged the law with defectiveness and j < impotence, because it was not given to jus- I lily. To meet the first difficulty* the apostle j < | shows us that it was necessary that we i i should be made free by Jesus Christ, be- J < cause the law could not justify us; and with 11 respect to the second he shows that there is j I no delect in the law, but that the fault and ; i defect is in man; the law being found weak,:. no: in itself, but in our flesh; for it can jus- ! i j tify those who fulfil it, as it is said " he that 11 doeth these tilings shall live by them."? , < hut the flesh, i. e. the corruption of human j [ nature, has rendered man incapable of ful- j i fnling it, and so also, but accidentally, inca- i i pable of justifying him. Hut besides, some j i 1 may object that the freedom obtained by the j; ! death of Jesus Christ infringes and violates \ i the law which subjects every sinner to death. The apostle shows that the embassy of Je- j sus Christ and the freedom acquired thro' ' j him by no means violates the law; because j < I it is of such a nature, that the sin, which j 1 the law requires to be punished, has been j ; condemned and punished in Jesus Christ in I such a manner, that so far as the law has ! been violated its righteousness is found ful filled in us by this means. Hence, most I obviously, "there is now no condemnation j to those who arc in Christ Jesus," because : He has condemned and fulfilled in the flesh 1 what ought to be condemned and fulfilled 1 in us. The misery of our natural condi> tion, and the mere) of Cod in the incarnation of his Son, are very useful and delight-j ! ful subjects to the believer. The first shows 1 him to himself, and the second displays the j goodness of Cod ; the tendency of the first j is to discourage and humble him, that of the j second to encourage him. Tor what can ' | be more comfortable thau to see ourselves ! j lost in ourselves, but found by the Lord ?< sold under sin, but redeemed by Jesus Christ? | ; enslaved by Satin, but emancipated by the ' Son of Cod? condemned in ourselves, but j absolved in the Lord our righteousnesss ? dead and exposed to the second death, but quickened and entitled to everlasting life by his death ? to see in the depth of our evils the depth of his grace ? in the abyss of mi- \ sery an abyss of compassion and mercy ? 1 so that Satan endeavors to conceal from us and diminish our misery, that he may les. sen our obligations to the mercy of Cod. | We ought therefore to study it fully, that' ac may magnify the more the goodness of < Uod, and instead of fixing our attention on * 3ur own imaginary righteousness, we ought ( Loconsider attentively our unrighteousness, 1 :hat we may perceive the better our need of the righteousness of the Son of God.? i This is wiiat the apostle furnishes us with ? mi opportunity of doing in what he alleges t concerning tnc impotence of the law. and : its cause. ( i SALVATION .NOT BV T1IB I.AW. j I?y tiie law, he intends tne moral law, viz. the covenant of works, contracted j with our first parents in a state of integ- i rity, and subsequently promulged bv the . ministry of Moses. This law * was to life,' i. e. it was to justify man, if he should con- 1 tinuc in his integrity; hut, through sin we j have found it to be unto death, as St. Paul , says, "the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unio death 1 ?n that the l;iw is not nnlv inrnnnhlo nt'inc. * ? J J J? , titying us, but powerful to condemn, and to augment sin in us. I say incapable of justifying us; lor it only justifies liirn who is righteous 111 himself, hut we are found sin 1 (; tiers in ourselves. Hence the aposile, baring proved that all men arc under sin, 1 says, * therefore we conclude that a man is ustilied by faith without the deeds of the awand " we know, that what tilings soever the law saith, it saitli to them who are c inder the law, that every mouth may be t stopped, and all the world become guilty j: uelore God. Therefore bv the deeds of the a aw shall no flesh bo justified in his sight; f 'or by the law is the knowledge of sin."? v hisiead then of justifying, it is only power- a ul to condemn, according to what the apos- c :le says in Rom. iv. and v. that it worketh c ivruth, and in 2 Cor. iii. 7, he calls it the c ninistration of death, and in verse 9, of con- \ Jenination. 1 have also said that the law a ,vas powerful to increase sin in us; for tiie v commands and prohibitions of the law, irri- c ate the lust of man to sin so much the nore, as the apostle says, Rom. vii. 8, tiiat . 'sin, taking occasion by the commandment, vrought in me all manner of concupiscence. e ror without the law sin was dead. For I vas alive without the law once; but when j he commandment came sin revived."? j( lence some have condemned the law, as icious and bad, not considering that it was j. he ticiousness of man which ought to have tj )een condemned. For as to the fact that ^ nstead of justifying, it accuses and convicts f is of sin, this is no defect of the law, but j, )f man, whose wickedness is discovered bv t. Tne law is like a mirror, which does jot make the frightful visage, but only shows ts deformity, and makes it visible to the jossessor ; and like a touchstone does not j, lebase the metal, but exhibits its qualities. Ynd as to the law making sin exceedingly ;inful, we can no more at nbute to the law a he fault, tnan to the sun the increase of fc- ? or generated by his rays falling on an offensive mass of matter. Hence tiie apostle j( ;ays, " We know that the law is spiritual, u . i 1 .j ] i JJ i ,u? )ui i am carnai, soiu uuucrsui, uuu m mo p )<issage under consideration he throws the j tause of the Jaw's impotence on man, say- p ng tliat it is weak through the flesh, i. e. he nature of man corrupted bv sin. This s the representation of liuinan nature in the Scriptures, and they are the words of liim vho cannot lie. They say that man before j lis regeneration is dead in trespasses and . ins. In them, to show that man is des;iute of all ability to fulfil the law of the Loi d le is called the servant of sin. As regards t( lis understanding, instead of the light which c ic had before lie lell, he has been filleJ p villi darkness and become vain in his imagination ; and in Eph. iv. 17 and 18, we , ire told that " the Gentiles walk in the vality of their mind, having their understand. 0 ng darkened, being alienated from the life ^ )f God thro' the ignorance that is in them, 1 because of the blindness of their heart? uid John, in the first chapter of his Gospel, * talis men darkness, speakiug of them as n laving only natural light. But if the eye ? "^ 1 ? .1! '1 !?#. 11Kn romi _ ^ ji me uuucrsuiuuiug unu ua u^m .<^1.- . cd as darkness, what will be the condition j] )f the man? If thine eye be evil, says Je- . >us, thy whole body shall be full of dark- 11 less. If therefore 'the light that is in thee ie darkness, how great is that darkness ? f \s regards the will, instead of the rectitude ind holiness it possessed at its creation, it s found biassed and obstinately inclined to ivil, and therefore God calls our hearts 'hearts of stone."?lie says that "every * magination of the thoughts of man's heart 1' s only evil continuallyand what can be nore express than the affirmation of the ipostle, that "the carnal mind is enmity 11 igainst God ; for it is not subject to hip law d lekher indeed can be" ? or than what God s jays, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, Dr the leopard his spots ? then may ye also 11 Jo good that are accustomed to do evil." v Besides, the aposde, speaking of the natural corruption of man, says, " There is none a -ighteous, no, not oue : there is none that ^ jnderstandeth, there is none tliat seeketli c after God : they are all gone out of the way, e Knpnmn itnrvi*/-\fifn hip * - - P ,?V7 "IV- ?www ulTlulll . here is none that doeth good, no, not one. u [lence the truth of what the apostle says is 1: lbundantly evident, that the law was weak ^ :hrough the flesh, or, as the original term 11 nay be rendered, without strength. The r mistake, therefore, of those who aflirm that s tlie natural man can fulfil the law of God is c surprising, considering the many plain and s express declarations of the Scriptures to the r contrary. It is also erroneous to maintain v that, independently of grace, a man can for a limited period keep tlie whole law and ful- 1 fil all its commandmente. Now, as the j Scriptures assert that man is dead in tres- 1 passes, if this proposition be true, then there ' are intervals during which, before he is * quickened to newness of life, he has com- c plete spiritual life, which is manifestly absurd; for the Scriptures say that a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit; and Jesus \ Christ says, " as the branch cannot bear I fruit in itself except it abide in the vine; no t more can ye except ye abide in me. 1 am i the vine, ye are the branches. lie that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bring- cth forth much fruit; for without ine ye can ; 1 Jo nothing." It is one of the stratagems ' < >f Satan to diminish our corruption and malady, that lie may diminish the glory of Jhrist in our cure; for it is obvious that the ess virulent our disease is, the less is the jlory of the Physician ; but that if we are Jead in trespasses and sins, God has more dorv in our resurrection than if we were jut slightly sick, or wounded, or bound, as >omc say. It is one of his wiles, also, to conceal lroin man his corruption, that lie nav gaze with complacency 011 his own ighteousncss, and be deprived of Jesus Jurist's, and like the Jews go about to esablish their own righteousness, instead of submitting to the righteousness of God.? IJiose who come to Jesus are those who abor, are weary, and heavy-laden with a sense of their wretchedness and corruption. Vow, will those persons feel weary and icavy-laden who think that the means of reicf are within their own power independent )f the grace of Jesus Christ ? It would seem that these persons are ashamed to ibasc themselves before God, and afraid >f humbling themselves too much, for fear >f exalting too highly His grace, ot making oo great concessions respecting their mis . .1 i u * - - i .Li: i :ry, lest tney snouiu uu too inucn oougeu o His mercy. love of christ. In order to form some faint conceptions >f the iovo of (Jurist, suppose, my Chrisian friends, that ail your toils and suffern^s were ended, and you were safely O 7 * v trrived in heaven, the rest which remains or die people of God; suppose that you vorc there crowned with glory, and honor, I ind immortality, listening with unutterable testacies to tiie songs of the redeemed, :ontenplating the ineffable, unveiled glories >f Jehovah, drinking full draughts from hose rivers of pleasure which flow forever it his right hand and tasting those joys vhich the heart of man hath not conceivd.? What would tempt you to revisit this ale of tears, commence anew this weariome and troublesome journey of life, and ncounter all the toils, the temptations, the ufferings, and sorrows which attend it? dust it not be love stronger than death; Dve, such as you cannot conceive of, which rould induce you to do this? I low infinite, low inconceivable, then, must have been hat love which brought down the Son of iod from the celestial world, to redeem our uined race! which led him to exchange tiie >osom of his Father lor a veil of flesh; the .dorations ol angels for the scoffs and inults of sinners; and the enjoyment of ternal life for an accursed painful, and smominious death! No hing but love could lave done this. Not all tne powers of icavcn, earth, and hell, combined, could lave dragged liini from his celestial throne, .nd wrested the scepirc ot the universe rom his hands. No, it was love alone, divine, omnipotent Dve, which drew him down: it was in the lands of love that he was led a willing capive through all the toils and sufferings of a aborious life; and it was these bands which iound him at the bar of Pilot, which fetsred his arm of everlasting strength and irevented his blasting his murderers. Unless we could ascend into heaven, nd see the glory and happiness which our ledeemer left; unless we could descend lto the grave, and ieurn the depths of /rc.chcdness to which he sunk; unless we ould weigh, as in a balance, all the trials, Dils, and sufferings of his life, never, never an we know the immeasurable extent of lis love. But these things we cannot do. None tit the omniscient Clod knows what he felt r what he suffered; none but the omnisient God, therefore, knows the extenhof is love. To think of the love of Christ, is like rying to conceive of existence which has I o beginning, and power which can make omcthingout of nothing. Tongue cannot | escribe it, linite minds cannot conceiveof | ; angels faint under it; and those who now most of it can only say, with inspiraion, that it passeth knowledge.?Payson. AINF.?TEMPER OF INFIDELITY From the Boston Investigator. centennial celebration at providence, (r. i.) The Centennial Anniversary of the Birthlay of that great apostle of mental and civil berty, Thomas Paine, was celebrated at he City Hall in Providence on Monday, an. 30th, in a style that evinced the patrioism and liberality of our citizens, and their evotion to the interests of the cause ofreaon and truth ; and at the same time, they I jrnished tangible evidence of their support a the cause of injured merit. An Address ras delivered in the Hall in the afternoon, o a very numerous and highly respectable udience, composed of both sexes, by Dr. /harles Knowlton of Ashville, (U ass.,) J if which, it is sufficient to say, it was an j mincnt specimen of the superior mind that J iroudced it. It was delivered with energy I nd effect, and was well received by those I resent. After the Address, the assembly lispersed and convened again in the even- i ng, to the number of seventy-eight gentlenen and twenty ladies, when an elegant upper was served up by Mr. Osdorn, the :nterprising and Philanthropic keeper of that plcndid establishment. After the cloth was emoved, the following Regular Sentiments J_1 1 _?? Imn mncif> vere UeiiVereU, UUUnucu null ujuo.v . The venerable President of these United Stales.?He has no n/a/but (lie voice of the Y-ople ; no creed but the Constitution ; no ntercst but the Nation's good. May he be >lessed with long life and health to enjoy hose liberties which he has so nobly defenled. The pious Clergy of these United States. ?Their memorials, signed hv lunatics, old vomen, and children, cat) never induce a ree and enlightened People to subvert the lijertv of their institutions to the haughty nisrule of ecclesiastical dominion. Bible, Missionary, and Tract Societies. ?A fertile expedient of clerical knaves and lypocrites to frighten weak minds with ideas >f miru'des and fa?e< of wonder. the more easily to subvert them to their own control.! Scientific research, reason, common sense, and every day's experience, expose their absurdity Thomas Paint.?The Patriot's friend, j and the Christian's devil. Too wise foraf saint, too honest for a priest, too patriotic to 1 succumb to the combined power of kings,! priets and tyrants. The self styled Ambassodors of Christ.? May they receive their outfit and salary, ! with their credentials and thus obviate the ! necessity of living on the people to whom j they are sent. Superstition and Ignorance.?The proli- j 1 fie parents of religion. jJ ' Fear made her devil, and weak men j J her gods, Iler hell was built on spite, Her heaven on pride." ! < Our Female Guests.?Their presence in j j | this scene of hilarity adds a social charm ; ^ : i:i._ .1 I _ | unknown to us on lormcr occasions jiku me i i ! present; and may our future festivals be en. 1 livened with a continual increase of their J emancipated sex, until Rhode Island's en. t lightened daughters shall hail with joy that a eventful period which gave birth to America s and man's great benefactor. a By James Phillips.?Strayed or stolen, J the Church of Christ.?By these signs ye 0 shall know those that believe in him : In [his name tliey shall cast out devils, they u i shall raise the dead, they shall lay their hands I on the sick, and they shall recover, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt r them. A liberal reward will be paid for a t sight at one of its members, by Infidels. By Daniel Wood.?Religion.?A do- {I mestic article, manufactured at Protracted ! Meetings, from the raw mateiials, ignorance and superstition, with the stram power of hell.fire and brims'one.?A fashionable f cloak for knaves and hypocrites. By Alfred Hymcs.?The Christian ^ Church.?A fatherless child ; she has de- t rronnrotud frr\ rv-i h?-r Knictwl mirnplpvi fn v ^VUV^iUiWU 11 Vlli UUUsllVv* MV.WW ?v > pious falsehood, holy slander and blasphemy J laws : salt won't save her. ? By Abraham Chace.?The Christian's J God.?May he continue to furnish the Chris- r ians with their principal stock in trade,?by- c pocrisv, fraud and forgery, as long as there s is a Christian to be found in the land which J is inhabited by animals. j v By Benjamin Laicrcncc.?The pious ! s Clergy of the United States.?When they j a can fix on some definite point in their theolo- (v gy on which they can all agree, we will then j'' give them a hearing. i s By George S. Westcotl.?Thomas Paine j c and his followers.?May they triumph over | n their enemies, like the proud eagle over his j J I>rey. | p By Horner. F. Briggs.?Prayer.?A t quack medicine, recommended by religious ;a jugglers and i's pcdlersto cure every thing, but it helps nothing. j j After the sentiments were delivered, and 11 the company had part.iken of the repast' t to satisfaction, they adjourned to the hah, !8 " Where joyous youth to music's mellow j ? strain, " IJ Twine in a dance with nymphs forever fair." ^ Some to mingle in the festivities of the c dance, and others to view the hilarity of the t! scene, as their inclinations prompted them. '} And it was truly gratifying to the friends j1 cf the freedom of mind to see, in this priestabounding city, after so much had been t] done by the clergy and their dupes to bin- d der the j>eople from attending this festival, 11 K.. nmmicn, nnrt ahrtllf uy men [Jiuiincw ?nu ..... j one hundred and twenty ladies, comprising ! c the beauty and intelligence of the city, and j ti about the same number of gentlemen, here j p assembled in spite of the bigotry of the place,! and almost within a stone's throw of a Pro-1 e tractcd Meeting, to commemorate the Birth- 1 f Day of a man whom the pious clergy of our i i country have dignified with the title of re-!c probate Infidel. 1 N. C. RHODES, 1 Sec. of Com. of Arrangements, j i _ I r t ~~ ' - ; 1 Land For Sale. p THE Subscriber offers for Sale, his planta- J tion in .Marlborough District, containing 710 acres prime Cotton and Corn land, having c about 2.")0 acres under cultivation. It is situated three miles from the Court House and lias a comfortable dwelling house and necessary out buildings upon it. Persons desiring to purchase it, can ascertain the terms by applying to C. W. Dudley at Marlborough C. House, or to the Sub- J soribcr himself on the premises. . JOHN R. DONALDSON, c May 23 d, 29 tf. " ; | Land for Sale. THE Subscriber offers for Sale his Land at Sneedsborough, the improvements are a comfortable two storv Dwelling House, with | every necessary out buildings, and saw and Oris* Mill, about five hundred acres cleared and under c?nn the Pedee River, eleven iiuni.?i viiv ii?w ... miles above Chcraw. The tract contains between 2 eleven hundred and twelve hundred acres, well 1 I watered, lies well and is healthy. The subscri- 4 bcr is well aware of the depressed price of land j and will sell at a very low price and reasonable indulgence, Apply to the subscriber on the premises. . WILLIAM JOHNSON. ' j October 5th, 1836, 48 tf. j We are authorized to annouuee Col. \V. J. i J Hanna of the 29th Regiment S. C. Militia, as f j a Candidate for Brigadier General of the 7th ( I Brigade S. C. Militia, at the ensuing election, i March 20, New Goods. TIIE subscriber is now receiving direct from New York, a general assortment of Goods, ! amongst which are super Whitney, duffil, rose, and striped Blankets, Negro Cloth, Sattinet, Mei rinos, and domestics, Shoes, Hardware, &c. Also, best St. Croix Sugar, old Java Coffee, No. 1 Mackerel in half bbls., Buckwheat flour, Goshen butter a choic* article, beef tongues smoked, beef, crackers, cheese in boxes, also N. C. old bacon with a choice selection of Wines and other spirits. Being desirous to set apart the year of 1837 to j close up his books and view the ground upon ! which he stands, he is compelled to say to his j customers that many of his accounts will be dis- I continued after the first of Jiinuary, and lie earnestly calls upon those indebted by note or 1 account to make arrangements to settle without delay. His stock of goods will be offered at reduced prices for cash or country produce. Cotton received and shipped as heretofore, i ! ill* d advances made if required. j I BROWN BRYAN. TV-. 26. 1*36. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints. ARE universally acknowledged to have total. V eclipsed the pretensions of every other remedy; ind superceded the necessity of every other mode if treatment,, wherever the above diseasas are hund to exist, as well as in enlargement of tho Spleen und in Jaundice. Among the symptoms of Dyspepsia and Liver Complaints, are flatulency, sourness or burning n the stomach, melancholy, irritability, disagreeable taste in the mouth ; great irregularity of ippotite, which is sometimes voracious, and at >ther times greatly deficient, thirst, fetid breath, lausea weakness of the stomach, acid eructations, mlpitation, drowsiness, irregularity ot the bowls, pressure on the stomach after meals, pain in lie head, dizziness or vertigo ; confusion of mind, ttended with loss of memory, a gnawing in the ' tomach when empty, chillness, affection of sight nd hearing, pain and weakness in the back, lan;uor, disturbed sleep, cold feet and hands, tremor, mcasiness in tho throat, cough, pain in the side r breast, Sec. These medicines arc becoming known and ral led. Ivirli box is accompanied with numerous Cor ificatcs from the highest sources of respectability The unrivaled success of the medicines, in cuing the above maladies has given them a repuation which time only can destroy. )r peters vegitable anti billious PILLS Tliese Pills need but a trial to recommend hem. They are purely vegetable and well calculated or the removal of all Billious complaints. They act specially upon the Liver, when in a orpid condition, carrying off a large quantity of iilc, through the influence of the excernent funcion, which, if suffered to remain in the system, vould produce either Jaundice, Liver Complaint, Jillious Fever, Fever and Ague, or some other grievous bodily affliction. In all cases of torpor >f the bowels, they act, like a charm. In recent :ascs of Dyspepsia, they are a certain cure. Afaiv persons who were subject to violent attacks .A*?l #.! ?> /tli/t Iioi*a luinti mil/ill 1 w*nofit rwl on/1 fi dlUIV HUUU atllU) IUH t uvcu muvu I^U^IIUVU) auu everal ]*orfectly cured in a few weeks by tneir ise. They are highly recommended as a preven. ive and cure of JJillious complaints. Persons rho are subject to that distressing complaint, ea sickness, by taking a portion or two of them , few days previous to embarking on board the essel, will be almost certain to escape it. Feitules can use them at any period, without inurring any risk. Persons going to sea, or to a outhern climate, should by all means take some f these Pills with them.?Their virtues will re. riain unimpaired for years in any climate. No amity should be without these Pills; a portion of hem, taken occasionally would be the means of ireventing much suffering from sickness. It is rom negket of keeping up a regular perisialtic ction oft to stomach and bowels, thus suffering o be absorb'd and mingled with the blood, unas. imilntofi fluid*. that most diseases are nroduaid. )r. P. f-els confident that 110 person who gives hcse Pills a fair trial, will ever after feel willing 0 be without them. The testimony of thouands speaking in tiie highest trnns of their effi. acv, might be added, but the very high reputa. ion Dr. P. has acquired as the inventor of tho Patent Vegetable Medicince Stomochicce et Heuticce," for the cure of Dyspepsia and Liver omplaints, is thought a sufficient guarantee to hose wishing to make a trial of their virtues, rhey contain not a particle of ..Vercury, or any ngredicnt that docs not act in harmony with tealtli and oppose disease. Dr. P. wishes it distinctly understood, that hese Pills possess beneficial qualities indepen. cnt of their purgative eflects; they are both ton: and dcobstruent, acting upon the secreting and xhalcnt functions ; thus strengthening the pa? ient, while they remove obstructions?Mediums which possess no other, excepting catharic qualities, debilitate the patient, and their re. eated use lays tho foundation of a long cata. sgue ot Chronic Diseases. Dr. P. having been educated under the most ?. 4 : j r\?? 1 nunciii ivriierican unu ijuiupcau iucuiv^u p?v bssors, and practised his profession many yoars n the South, where diseases of the most obstinate haracter prevail, considers himself well qualified o judge on the nature of diseases incident to varm climates. Prepared by JosEru Priestly Peters, m. d. t. t. c. p. m. at his Institution for tho cure of obstiiatc diseases, by means of vegetable remedies, No ,29 Liberty street, New York, inventor and sole iroprictor. Each box contains forty Pills. Price iO Cents. A fresh supply of the above Medicines, just revived and for sale by JOHN I. WESTERVELT, Drvgrist. Cheraw, May 3,1836, 25 6m. Notice. [HAVE this day declined the Mercantile Bo. siness in this place, in favor of Messrs. W. c T. BAILEY & CO., whom I recommend to ay old customers and friends, as worthy of their onfidencc and support. AUG. P. LaCOSTS. Jan. 2d, 1837. 9:tf Copartnership Formed. rHE subscribers have this day formed a copartnership in business, under the firm of W. & T. BAILEY & CO. md have taken the Store lately occupied by Mr. V. P. LaCOSTE, one door north of Kershaw itrcct. W. J. BAILEY, T. B. BAILEY, JOHN W. McRAE. Jan. 2d, 1637. 9:tf rllE subscribers have purchased of Mr. A. P. LaCoste his stock of Goods, and now >ffer them to their friends and the public, on as ow terms as articles of the same description and [uality can be bought in this town. The stock consists in part of the following articles: 20 Hhds. Porto Rico and St. Croix Sugar. 50 Bags Cuba and Rio Coffee. 23 Pieces Hemp Bagging. 25 Coils Rope. 13 Casks Cheese. 25 Bbls. White Wheat Canal Flour. 40 Kegs White Lead. 8 Bbls. Linseed Oil. 3 Bbls. Tanner's LJ1 do. Sperm Oil. * 1 do. Spirits Turpentine. 8 Tons Iron, assorted. 50 Plough Moulds. 3 Firkins Butter. 25 Grind Stones. 6 Mill Cranks. 20 Bbls. No. 2 Mackerel. 20 Half do. No. 1 do. 400 Lbs. Cotton Yarn, from No. 5 to 12. Together with an assortment of Dry Goods, Hardware, Shoes, Hats, Saddlery, Northern Wooden Ware, Jugs, Jars, &c. &c. W. & T. BAILEY & CO. Jan. 10th. 9:tf Ruled Paper, f^OR drawing ofT accounts, for s^Ie at the Bocksto:e.