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Rh midst of so much Laughter. Indeed honest Daniel, what can you do? But put them all into the Cave of Trophonius, and then you will spoil their Mirth, and reduce them to the Seceding Standard of Gravity. Seeing Mr Frazer is so much grieved at Mr Murray, for laughing at Mr Boston's Works, I will shew him a few Passages from one of his Books, which if they do not make him laugh they will certainly make him stare. In Mr Boston's Treatise on the Covenant of Grace there is this memorable Passage, "Christ in his last Will and Testament did actually bequeath regenerating Grace, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, and eternal Life to every Sinner of Adam's Race; and he adds, that Christ is Executor of his own Will, and by Office obliged to make out all the Legacies to all the Legatees, that are pleased to put in their Claims, and make their Demands, Faith consists in believing all is mine, and in claiming and taking Possession of all as mine own, Page, 114 199, 214." This Faith arises from no higher Principle than Self-preservation, Page 262, 263.

The Apostle, who certainly deserves as much Credit as Mr Boston, speaks in this Manner—If Children then Heirs, Rom. viii. 17. Gal. iii. 29. but according to Mr Boston, it should read—If Sinners then Heirs. This will be Good News to proud haughty Sinners; that they need not approach God as destitute Beggars, and objects of Mercy, but as privileged Persons who have de-