Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-22
REPLY NO, II.

REPLY NO. II.
A certain Mr.. Jones, an active and
prominent member of city church,
while travelling in the rural districts
stopped over night near a church.
He felt it his duty to attend. The
eader, discovering a stranger in the
audience, called on him for talk. :"
Brother Jones responded IN his most
happy and self-complacent style.
When he had finished the leader
said. ''WilI the brother now ask the
Lord to bless his few and feeble re-
marks?" 1t will now be in order for
Mr.. Duncan to seek some kind of a
benediction upon his "feeble re-
marks" in the LEDGER of April Is
If he had copied his whole commun-
lcation from the confession of faith
he would have had at least one lesson
something like correct in grammar,
rhetoric and theology. / have a
copy of the confession printed in
1647 and chap. 16, sec. z is there,
word for word, as it is in the edition
of 1888. No change in word or let
ter, Mr.. Duncan. So with all Mf. d.
quoted.
Mr.. d. seems greatly outraged
with some of the language of the
confession. Now let him open his
Revised Testament and read little
Look at the prayer of the Apostles,
Acts :27: "For of truth, IN this
city, against thy holy servant Jesus,
whom thou dldst anoint, both Herod
and Pontius PLATE, with the Cen
tiles and the people of Israel.
were gathered together to do what
soever thy hand and thy counse
foreordained to come to pass.
} Here the treachery of Judas, the de
, NAL of Peter, the mock trial ant
murder of Jesus are among th'
things foreordained to pass.
And when Mr.. d. copied from th'
confession lie could not fail to see q
} the foot of the page such scripture
| as these {Rom. 9, IL, 13, 16, 49,
/ "For the children not being yet born
/ neither having done any good or evil
that the purpose of God according
, to election might stand, not of works
/ but of him that calleth. As it i
) written jacob have | loved, but Esa'
: have hated. SO then it is not 0
him that wiileth, nor of him tha
4 runneth, but of God that sh0wet
E mercy. Therefore hath he mere
| on whom he will, and whom he wi
| he hardeneth.' ~
{ Again read little further. Verse
!. %. %, What if God, willing t
/ show his wrath, and to make hi
\ power known, endured with nuc
Y long suffering the vessels of wrat
n fitted for destruction; and that b
might make known the riches of b
4 glory on the vessels of mercy, whic
r be had afore prepared unto glory.
e The Apostle Peter surely had sue
g obiectnrs in his mind when he wroi
e cd Peter, 3:l6), sAs also in oil b
n (Paui's) eplstles, speaking in them
o these things; in which are son
n things hard to be understood, whie
!. they that are unlearned and unstab
;, wrest, as they do also the other scrIl
!" lures, unto their own destruction"
= Look again at I'd Samuel l1:1-
u For the Lord had appointed GO
b dained" d"-Revis. Ver.) TO defeat Il
good counsel of Ahithophel, to 81
e intent that the Lord might brir1 eS
l. upon Absalom." In this place e.'n
u tof the events ordained" were {!
If rebellion and incest of Absaloms q
n vindictiveness of Ahithophel, Il
is trickery of Hushai. Let Mr. Dunei
e rail at the bible if he likes. 1t y
=, not hurt it any more than his railei
20 hurts the confession of faith.
u Next look at Isaiah, l0; ;za6,
20, Assyrian, the rod Of !.
: the staff in whose hand -