The Federal mirror — Concord, N.H., 1795-06-12 00:00:00, page 4

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q BEAUTIFUL LINES,
■ written by Dr. Doddr&dgb from London
Ito his wife, when on ajourney.
( T EDIOUS waww,,
, Bring Cordelia to my arnu;
rfbfret, all in vain I'm trying
Net to lasgnif;for her charms.
Buj, crowds in wain formand me.
Brightest beauties foine in vain ;
Other pleajnres but cosfound me,
Pleasures but renew my ,rin.
What, though three nubile years are ended.
Since tbe ,rief bat join'd ear bands'
Ever, rolling year bas ended
Only to enter oesr bands.
Let the wanton wits deride it,
Huband is a charming name, l
None con fs, but cube bas try'd it.
How enjoyment feeds the fame.
Wives oar better Angels are,
Angels in their lerolief drejs;
Gentle ftabors of ear case,
Smiling guardians of ear peace.|
Ha„, fate of mortal treasures,
Circling maze of noble Love :
Where the Jenfes higbef yleafures,
But the meanef bbffing prove.
Dear Cerdelia ! bitber fying,
Feld tby bufand in tby arms:
While thus , amuje m,fdf I'm trying,
Mere I languijbfor tby charms.
From an English Paper.
Lines, occasioned by meeting a man loaded
with lacks, and an oak bough in his hat,
on the 29th of May, (Charles the fecond's
restoration) not unapplicable to thepref
ent state of the nation.
T}OOR fellows what bast then to do
3 Witbl&ng —or reforation ?
'Twill mate no difference with yen,
Whoever rules the nation.
Still mef tby neckfyport the load.
Still earn tb, bread with toil;
Still mud thou pace tbefelf-fame read,;
And^reat ones fare tbe foil.
The afirnay carry brooms or men,
fuf at the Maser's will.
But let him change, and change again,
Hint's a burthen fill.;
Still Minifersfball tyrannize.
And courtiers fill be Knaves;
Walpoles on Walpolu feall arift,
Antibee, tb, grand/easfaves. 1'
Still Governments have been the jams,
The fame fall ever be;
£'<# Kings are nothing to a name,
m//o „ Liberty.
Domeflic MiJceUany.
VERITAS contra FREE THINKER.
FOR THE FEDERAL MIRROR.
YOU dote exceedingly in your publica
tions, on the dying words of Christ,
recorded John 19th— A is fni/bed- —-From
this you conclude, if I understand you, that
Christ has so completely finished the work of
fixation, that all men Shall be infallibly fav
el without faith— without works—without
any kind of attention of theirs. If iam
raiftaken in your construction ; and all you
intend by the passage is, that Christ, by his\
obedience, and death did completely finifh a
juftifying righteousness ; so that Sinners have
nothing to do in that refpeft ; and that God
can confidently, upon the footing of that
finished righteousness of Christ, receive all
repenting, and believing sinners, into a state
of favor ; and that all Tuch Shall be infalli
bly saved—ls this be your meaning, I have
/ no contention with you, [fully agree to it—
But in this sense the passage will afford you
no kind of assistance, toward proving Uni
versalism, unless you can prove, that all men
will infallibly repent, and believe the gospel:
this is beyond your power ; it must therefore,
,be in the other sense, you have adopted the
daufe into your scheme, viz.— that all the
concern—the attention—the consideration ;<
the repentance—the faith—the obedience —
and the good works of men aretotatiy need-
q e fs— In order to their salvation, they be
come font of God, and heirs of heaven with
out—Several of your expressions make it ev
ident, that this is your meaning—You fay
„ we become so, and,, of Ged, not
through our belief orobedtence. Again, 1
in another place— Weare foos > not by I
ta%°r%d''t^foXp for uis^meh|
as,to fay, Chriftbas done all, and our faith
/and obedience is totally unnecessary. Again,
in a third place, you fay, “ if telief saves
them, the devils mil be laved. The Apos
tle would remind us, we cannot save our
selves by Relieving, any more than the del,
itocan"—he makes no diftin&ion here, be
tween the faith of devils, and that of real
faints ; if his idea is, that such kind of faiths
as the devils have, is not ot afaving nature,
I agree with him—But it appears the other
is his idea ; that no kind of faith is of any
avail in our salvation. Again, fourthly, you
add—" Now, as the Apostle annexes works,
as requisite for salvation, can he mean the
poor weak efforts of man, or does he mean
the works of the mediatorial man Christ Je
sus ? surely, it must be the works of him,:
that fatisfied jaftice.
The drift of this, and of all your publica
tions is, that Christ has finXhed or done all
in every sense; and neither faith nor works,
nor any thing else, moral or religious, is in
cumbent on men. in order to be laved—they
may fair at large, as the wild beasts of the
sorest—give fall swing to their unhallowed
lofts and Corruptions—swear and fight, and
get drunk, and lie, and steal, and rob, and ,
murder, and a& as devils incarnate, and all
shall be well at last— Christ has finished all ;
he has done all ; he requires none of the
poor weak efforts of man. What a wretch
ed licentions scheme is this I opening a door
to encourage men to pradife every kind of
vice and villany, with a promise of impuni
ty at last. Is this the true scheme of the
gospel, Did God fend his son into the worldl
to be such a minister of fin, in such a sense„
to do all, as to render frith and holiness un
necessary, and set men at liberty, from any
kind of obligation to good works, in order:
to be saved ? No—Mr. F. T. this licentious
scheme, is not the offspring of a holy God,
but the spawn of hell —a locust riling out of
the bottomless pis, to deceive and hurt men,
and it may be a means of deftroyingmany 1
who have not the seal of God in their fore
heads.—l therefore, as a friend, advise you
to abandon this ruinous scheme ; took into
your bible, with an impartial eye and heart,
and confider, whether there be any other
way for men to be intrufted in the blessings
of the gospel, than Faith and Repentance—-—
whether these are not constantly insisted up
on, by Christ and his Apostles, as absolutely
necessary to salvation ; and without which,
men must perish. Did not the fame glorious
person, that cried on Calvari's top, with his
dying breath, it is finifhed ; equally cry to
the children of men,—except ye repent, ye
shall all likewise perish—except ye believe
the gospel, ye shall die in your fins.—Why
will you not hear him jn the one case, as well
as in the other ?—Why will you strain his dy
ing words to such an unreasonable length,
while you rejea his living words ?— Are they
not all of a piece, in his great scheme I——
A finifhed atonement is one thing—an eter
nal interest in it, another— The way to at
tain that interest, a third. This way the
blessed Saviour has plainly laid down, and
told us it is absolutely necessary for men to
walk in it, in order to be saved —You fay it is
unnecessary —they may, and shall all be fav-,
ed, whether they walk in it or not— You are
consequently at war with the Saviour himfelf;
and you must answer it at his tribunal—But
did Christ understand his words upon the
cross, in such a sense as you represent ? Did
he not immediately after his representation,„
commission his Apostles in words following:'
All power is given to me in heaven, and up.
on the earth, as if he had said, in consequence
of having finifhed the atonement, I have re-:
ceived all authority in heaven and earth-
Go up therefore, and preach the gospel to
every creature ; he that believeth shall be
saved—but he that believeth not shall be
damned Notwithstanding the finifhed a
tonement, is not belief of the gospel here laid
down by Christ himfelf, as absolutely neces
sary, in order to salvation ; yea, so necessary
that withoutit men must be infallibly damn
ed.——Hew dare you then, Mr. R. T. so
boldly assert, that we do not become the sons:
of God, by ohr belief and reception of the
Saviour—Does not the scripture expressly
fay, thatte as many as received him, to them
gave he power, and them only, to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe:
on his name ; and those that did not believe,>
the wrath of God abode upon them—How
dare you then presume to assert, in the man
ner you do, that all the human race have re
ceived fonfhip ; when it is evident, beyond a'
doubt, that the greater part do not believe,
in his name, in the sense of the Apostle,
which implies bring born not of blood, nor
of the will of the delh, nor erf the will of
man, but of God and many ; instead of re
ceiving Christ, rejea him with abhorrence—
I repeat it, how can you have the effrontery,
to assert that men cannot be saved, by their
belief of the gospel, any more than the devil
can—Have the devils ever had the gospel
preached to them ? Have they ever been call
ed upon to believe it ? If not, how is it pof
[|sle forfbem to be saved? Has not the gos
pel come to men? have they not been called
upon to believe it ? and if they do believe
shall they not be saved ? and if they do not,
I shall they not be damned ? Christ fays poll
lively they ffiall . ;but you lay the contrary,
|— none can be saved by believing, nor any
damned without— Do you not Ihudder at
such horrid opposition, to the plain words of
him who is Shortly to be your judge ? surely
you would, if you were not feared as with a
hot iron. You lay if Veritas chooses dam
nation, let him have it- Such a word as
.damnation never ought to drop from your
te tonguu, or pen ; feeing according to your
principles no man can ever have it, let him
choose it, or do what he will. You add, " but
Idare fay Veritas means to be one of those
who are raved, by their belief & obedience;"
you have said right—l have no expectation
of being saved in any other way, than by be
lieving in Christ and obeying his command
ments—but you, it seems, have found out
another way of being saved wholly by Christ,
without either faith or obedience, for there
is no medium, you must either be saved one
way or the other ; and in as much as you ex
pressly reject the way of being saved by faith
and obedience, as the scriptures constantly
point out ; you are consequently one of those
who expea to be saved wholly without—l
must confefs this is a very broad way, and
upon this plan you will find no great diffi.
culty in taking the whole human race along
with you. The most abandoned wretch will
not otijea against going to heaven, without
either faith, repentance, or obedience
But will this do, Mr. F. T.*f —Are you wil
ling to silk your foul for eternity, in this
• broad way, for the fake of going with the
multitude .'—Have you not Sufficient realon
to think, that this is the very fame broad way
described by our Saviour, in the 7th Mat.—
Wide is the gate, and bread is the way, that
leadetb to defruaieu, and many there be which
^ in tbsreat—Take heed then, left while you
imagine that this broad way, which includes
all wicked men, is leading you & them to hea
ven ; youfind the wordsfo our Saviour true,
that it leads to deftruaion—And have you
not, on the other hand, fufficient reason to
think, that a life of repentance, faith and o
bedience, is the narrow way described by
him, in the following verse, Because fruit is
the gate, and narrow is the way which hadeth
unto life^ and few there be that find it —l sub
mit tnefe things to your, and the public's
serious and impartial consideration.
VERITAS.
The Humorist.
AS a Gafcon was walking in the depth of
winter, upon the Pointneuf at Paris,
with only a white linen waistcoat on. a pair
of thin Blockings, a small camblet cloak, and
a sword by his fide ; the king happened to
pass that way, and the singularity of his
drels at such a time of the year, attracting
his attention, he flopped, and calling the
man to him, asked him if he did not expe
rience great inconvenience from the cold-
No, Sir, replied the Gafcon—How is that
possible, rejoined the king, when !, who am
eloathed so much better than yourfelf, am
ready to freeze ?—Ah, said the man—if your
Majesty would but do as I do, you'd never
complain of the cold—How to I—Why, I
put on all the clothes I have—Now, if your
Majesty would do the fame, I warrant, you'd
be warm enough.—The king, pleased with
the secret, gave orders to supply the Gafcon
with a good winter suit.
CObrcORDBRiDGE.
THE proprietors of said bridge, at
their meeting held the Ift inst. voted
a fourth assessment of forty dollars on each
share, ten to be paid the 15th inftaat—ten
the Brit day of July, and twenty the firft day
of August next—and it is the request of the
Direftors particularly that the proprietors be
pundual in their payments, as the situation
of the business absolutely requires it.
SAMUEL GREEN, Treasurer.
Jude 4, 1795. 7
Runaway Apprentice.
WHEREAS Alpheui Buck, an
VV apprentice indented to me the fob-,
scriber, has absented himfelf from me con
trary to my orders, this is to forbid all per
sons harboring, trusting or employing him
on the penalty of the law. Whoever wihre
turn said apprentice to me, shall have note
ward and no charges paid by me,
CALEB MILLS.
Dunbarton, May 3©, 1795. ,7
ft fOR SALE,
A GOOD FARM, of 150 acres, 1
~ Well situated for a TAVERN,
ON the read from Dartmouth Col
lege to Onion River, about 8 miles
from the College— —also,'
f 250 acres of Wild Land, lying
on the fame road. Enquire of the fubfcrib
%r liritfeon thepre m & ¥ \ff^.
STEPHEN PERCIVAL.
Norwich. (Vermont) May 9, 1795. 6
r New Fulling Mitt ,
DAVID" LUND,
CLOTHIER,
BEGS leave most refpe&fully
to give information to his friends and
the PUBLIC in general, that he has lately
been at the expenie of ere&ing a
Fulling Mill
in Gilmantown, between Mr. Burns's and
Mr. Pickering's store, near where the
Academy is ereding, where he has deter
mined to carry on the CLOTHIER's BUS
INESS, in all its various branches, and in
the most elegant manner.
He will dye Scarlet, Deep
Blue, or any other colour, which his em
ployers may dire&, on as low and reasona
ble terms as can be afforded.
He is now ready to receive
cloth, and commence his business—He foiled
its the patronage and employ of the Public,
particularly of the inhabitants of Gilman
town, and the adjacent towns, to enable to
prosecute his undertaking to the benefit of
this part of the country, and to the attain
ment of a livlihood for himfelf by his honest
industry.
Those who may pleafeto em
ploy him, may depend on their work being
executed with fidelity and difoatch.
I^Gilmantown, June 1, 1795. ,< 7
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FROM 14 to 17 years of age, to serve at
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MACKEY, of Hopkinton, near the meet
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THE
YOUNG MILLWRIGHT,
AND
MILLER'S GUIDE,
By Oliver Evans, assisted by Thomas Elli,
cott, an able and experienced millwright,
IS published, ready to be delivered to sub
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a. Rules for calculating their power and
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and size of canals for conveying the water,
to suit the fall and power of any feat, from 1
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one half.
§. The art of manufiauring flour ex
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8; Many curious experiments concerning
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thrashing and cleaning grain, hulling and
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ing rooms, curing fmoaky chimnies, preserv
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