American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-09-02

FOR THE WA7icHMAN--Jf0. 9.
"When vice prevails and mpious men bear sway
The post Of honor is private station "-Cato.
Mn. WILSON, sad in my last number, that Mr. Porters
to form satisfactory opinion of my object,
in my four Pieces, which he refused to publish, did not lie
in his understanding, weak it is, but somewhere else.
And where could this lie, but in his dispositions He
disposed as said 10 reap two harvests from the conro
versy and if he could have secured the Copy Right of
the Book, it would have been Annuity in Reverson,
for him and his for many years And, Notwithstanding
the wohlessness of the Book, his procedure would still
have been in the line of mercantile truckgiyng little
nothing and getting much.
But there another thing that disposed Mr. Porter
to publish my Pieces as much as the former aud that
was that upon his consulting Paul. his Apostolic Prophet
notwithstanding all PauFs boasng, in his second number,
which is the seventh number of the Christian Repository
he discovered that Paul not able to reconcile the
tradlcons, stated by me, which appear III the
English translation, between David and Peters and there
fore to nave published my pieces without answer par
tcuary to that question, would have exposed Paul and
the whole Presbytery of New Castle ndeible re-
proach, and would doubtless have brought disgrace
Porter himself and his craft. And therefore savo
the " Subscriber, and to many might be acquainted
with him and his pieces or they knew nothing of yet,
but a subscriber) Jesutca fasehood invented.
(Which easily done by such creaures) &C that they could
not form satisfactory opinion of the object of the writer
And this blown the world through Porers trumpet.
But when l published my pieces, in your paper, to
speak for themselves, with my affixed them, then
the whole posse took the alarm. Hah " says Porter and
Paul and the rest sis that the man I'VE thought he was
in public it will be bad for us, and the whole Presbytery
of Newcastle" We think it best that he remain where
he has been, for many years. an eTed oJsc,ity Yes,
Mr.. Wilson, the Presbytery of Newcastle, and all their
TOOLS wish me remain obscurity Yes sir, their
SCIENCE far they have any, the conscience of evil
doors towards no murderer wished the murder
ed rise again from the dead fhe spirit of true Chris
tany were in them, they would rejoice, if once
had been lost that am found again-But, no. they
say down with him, and keep him down-for if lie was
up, he will go telling the truth, he used do,
hat hRa ig he
like of the New Castle Presbytery for they
degenerate fallen body-hey have as proved in my last
number broken their VOWS both God and man they are
a Presbyterian body, that are no Presbyterians.
But you will say, did you not tell us, in your last
number that you would devote this exclusively, to
the charge of 'mered obscury" And am not
doing so? Am not directly proving to you, that if
am in 's obscurity' do not s'mert but that all
the obscurity amin or have been in, is owing to com
bnaton of corrupt men, who have as far only regards
popularity, prevailed against both me and the truth
And about shew you in what kind of obscu-
rty have lived, the trial had with the Presbytery
of New Castle, in which they accommodated themselves
from Presbyteransn, and where they remain has been
proved above, in my former number, to this day.
My house, since had one, has always been a
Church of Christ Court of Justice, and Seminary of
Learning. To this and TO the management of my own
other affairs have chiefly confined myself To say no.
thing of what did Rector of the Academy in Newark
which is well known my private select school has been
well known and has been patronzed by of the most
learned and respectable in the state and it is also
we'll known, that in it have made of the best Cas
sic Scholars that made in the State of Delaware
have preached and still do preach, is well known,
every Lords day, in my SchooRoom, to my own ia
my including my School, and to many of any and every
please to and join in the of
Him who has said Where three even two, gather
ed together in my name, there the midst of them
Mat. 18, 20.
This is the way live {" in obscurty and this is the way
that genuine Christian societies first established nI
the world Let take for example the famous church OIL
the Philippians in Macedonia, in Greece Paul we are
told being there the Sabbath of the city,
by river side where prayer wont to be made andI
sat down and spake the which resored thther
And certain woman named LYDIA seller of purple of
the city of Thyatra who worhpped God heard us whose
heart the Lord opened that she attended TO the hings
that spoken by Paul. And when she baptized
and her household she besough us, saying, fye have
Judged be faithful TO the Lord, into my house
and abide there, and she constrained us" See Acts xvi
49, IA, Is Here then is church Of Christ complete in
all its partsfor Lydia had her household to meet
with her in the name of the LordAnd the Lord accord
ing to his gracious faithful promise, in the midst of
what need had they for what, in days, is
called Clergyman at all, unless he gody
man. and then he would humbly Join them ' in the name
of the Lord" and do them good. But fhe ungody
man fear many fhe Clergy at this day. he would
meet with them in his own name. Or what is all one, in the
name of the evil one, and do them much harm II
The Church in the house of the gaoler, in the same
city, was established the principle. And doubt
these two little Churches would find out each other and
unite in their meeting &c in the name OF Christi alternate
ly at each others houses BY and bye another little church