Church of England, reduced nearer to the primitive Standard, which I published 35 Years ago, and have ever fince made ufe of upon all fuch Occafions; and Part of which I conftantly use twice a Day, either with a Congregation or alone. And may God Almighty blefs mine and all other good Christian's Endeavours, for the fetting up fuch truly primitive Congregations, and may fuch Congregations, when they are once fet up, increase more and more unto a perfect Day, and partake of the largest Portions of divine Grace here, and of the highest Degrees of heavenly Glory hereafter! Amen, Amen.

But then, that I may not be in the least suspected of Hypocrify, in having fo long, for the main, joined with the Affemblies of the Church of England, I fhall here honestly declare in what Particulars I did not, I could not join with them.

(1.) In the Te Deum, I chose to fay, Thou art the Only begotten, instead of Everlasting Son of the Father.

(2.) In the common Creed, I faid Chrift defcended into Hades, inftead of into Hell.

(3.) In the Litany, I directed all the Prayers to the Father; and entirely omitted the third and fourth Petitions to the Holy Ghost, and to the Trinity.

(4.) In the Prayer for the Parliament, I omitted the Epithets to the King, Moft Religious and Gracious.

(5.) In the Collect for the fixth Sunday after the

Epiphany, and elsewhere, I omitted the Words Holy Ghoft, and One God.

(6.) I intirely omitted the Collect for Trinity Sunday.

(7.) In the Nicene Creed, I omitted the Words, Light of Light; very God of very God; begotten not made; being of one Substance with the Father. Of the Holy Ghost, I faid, proceedeth from the Father by the Son; who after the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified.

(8.) In the Communion Service, I faid, St. Paul exhorteth the Corinthians. And I entirely omitted the proper Preface for Trinity Sunday; and wifhed that Water were mixed with the Wine in this -Office.

(9.) I never joined in the Baptism of uncate chifed Infants; nor in any Baptifm by sprinkling; nor in the Anfwers of the Church Catechifm which belong to God-fathers and God-mothers, &c.

(10.) In the Form of Burial, I would not use the Words, As our Hope is this, our Brother or Sifter doth: When by the Gospel there is little or ne Hopes of Salvation: And finally,

(11.) I heartily wished, that all our State Holydays were abolished.

I now proceed to another remarkable Thing that happened to me at Tunbridge, while I was A. D. 1746 about my Lectures there, on the Models of the Tabernacle of Mofes, and of Solomon's, Zorobabel's,Herod's,and Ezekiel's Temples: Which Lectures I had also read at the fame Place, as well as at Bristol and Bath, twenty Years before. Now

when

when I had finished my Lectures, and that, I think, to the Satisfaction of my pretty numerous Audience, I gave them Bishop Sherlock's moft excellent Sermon upon the late Rebellion; with a Memento almost peculiar to that Place: Which to prevent Mistakes, and falfe Reports, I read out of a Paper. It was as follows:

"To conclude the whole, I must say, That "tho' I have now been here a Fortnight, and have "feen several of this Company, both Ladies and "Gentlemen, at Prayers on the Week-Days; and "a great Number of them at publick Worship "on the Lord's-Days, yet have I not myself feen

any one of them at a Gaming-Table all this while. "And I cannot but wish, heartily wifh, that no "Body else had feen any one of them at fuch a "Place neither. However, I venture to add this, " which I defire you all to take special Notice "of, that if I be right in my Calculation, as to "our Bleffed Saviour's coming to restore the "Jews, and begin the Millenium twenty Years ❝ hence, I cannot but conclude, that after thofe

twenty Years are over, there will be no more "an Infidel in Christendom; and there will be no "more a Gaming-Table at Tunbridge,

Sept. 6, 1746.

W. W.

But now before the End of September, in the fame Year 1746,there came to us at Lyndon no contemptible Piece, in the modern Way of Controverfy, from the Quakers; against Swearing, and Fighting; against Tithes; against Water Baptifm,and the Eucha

rift; with a Vindication of Women's preaching publickly, which latter Piece was written by Mr. Jofiah Martin, one already mentioned as the most learned of those of that Perfuafion that I had ever known, and once no unuseful Member of our old Society for promoting Primitive Chriftianity. Yet is ic moft evident, from all the original Records of Chriftianity now extant, which are very numerous, even in the two firft Centuries; that Payment of Tythes for the Use of the Poor; Baptifm by trine Immerfion into Water, and the Eucharift, with Bread, Wine, and Water, were Apoftolical Inftitutions, or to speak more properly, Inftitutions of our bleffed Saviour himself by his Apostles. And that after the extraordinary Gifts in one or two Churches of the first Century were over, and the Settlements by our Saviour took Place Universally, no Women were ever allowed to preach or fpeak in the publick Affemblies of Chriftians. All which notorious Truths, will not I fuppose be denied by the Authors of this Pamphlet: To be fure all those Writers are fo weak like almoft all the reft of the prefent Chriftians, as to acknowledge no more facred Books of the New Teftament than thofe 27, which the Church of Rome have alone given us: Whereas their original Number even still preserved to us, by a moft happy Providence, is no fewer than 56. As they are all enumerated at the End of my primitive New Teftament and the 27 known ones there published from the oldest Manufcripts. As to Swearing and Fighting, Oaths and Wars, I esteem fo few of them to be lawful, that I care not to quarrel with the Quakers about

them;

them; tho' I believe the moft Primitive Chriftians did not think either of them abfolutely unlawful. As for the Tythes, they were given under Christianity to the inferior Orders of the Clergy, and to the poor, as were the first Fruits and voluntary Oblations to the fuperior Orders of the Clergy; of all which already: Which Diftribution of the Church's Goods under our Saviour's Kingdom, which I firmly believe to be now approaching, will I fuppofe be fet right again. Tho' till that can be put in Practice, I think these Quakers far from being in the right, when they fcruple paying their Tythes to the present Clergy; tho' certainly fuch Clergy had much better be fo diligent in their Function, peaceable in their Behaviour, and friendly to all that differ from them; as thereby to gain those Tythes rather with the good Will of those that are to pay them, than to fly presently to the Law to demand them.

In the Year 1741, and 1742, Mr. John Renfbaw my Agent, went round the Coast of England, and furveyed it Trigonometrically, from the North Foreland in Kent, to the Land's End in Cornwall, and the Scilly Islands; partly by private - Benefactions, but principally by publick Money affigned for that Purpose, by the Commiffioners of the Longitude, but could not then be conveyed to Cape Clear, on the South-West of Ireland; which could only be determined by the Eclipfes of Jupiter's Planets, This was done accordingly at my Expence, by Mr. Renfbaw, in May 1744. The Chart itself, which is large, includes alfo the French Coast, which Dr. Halley had published before, as determin'd by the

French