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 the letters were making brethren uneasy everywhere. Thus urged, I read the letters. They were an elaborate argument on Mr. Newton’s prophetic views, denouncing all who held the views of the rapture of the Church before the end ; and insisting on the evils of applying any part of the New Testament to any but the Church, or of supposing that there were saints on earth subsequent to the Church’s rapture, who could be spoken of in it prophetically. In these, besides accusing the brethren of rejecting “all the Gospels,” if they held principles contrary to his interpretation of Matt. xxiv., for this was the only and avowed ground, as may be seen in the passage in the note, he declared that if they were listened to, “the foundations of Christianity were gone.” And will the reader believe the reason which so many have swallowed down ? for this is the grand cry at Plymouth still. It is this, “for the foundations of the city are the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” He presses the duty on all, that a categorical reply should be received as to this from all that professed to teach, because ambiguities were to be avoided in the Church. ”With respect to such passages, we have a right to