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I must insist on Mr. Hill’s answering this question : If not, silence gives consent. 10. Mr. H. farther affirms: “The only cement of Christian union is the love of God. And the foundation of that love must be laid, in believing the truths of God;” (that is, you must believe particular redemption, or it is impossible you should love God;) for, to use “the words of Dr. Owen, in his - 4.18 REMARKs on MR. HILL’s ‘Display of Arminianism,’” (see what truths Mr. H. means,) “‘an agreement without truth is no peace, but a covenant with death, and a conspiracy against the kingdom of Christ.’” (Page 39.) Here again I beg an explicit answer. Will Mr. H. affirm this in cool blood P If he will, there needs no more to account for his enmity both to me and the Minutes. “Nay, but the foundation is struck at by those wretched Minutes.” (Page 52.) True, the foundation of Calvinism. So I observed before. I know it well. If the Minutes stand, Calvinism falls. But Mr. Hill says, “The doctrines of election and perseverance are very little, indeed scarcely at all, dwelt on in the ‘Review.’” Now, I think they are very much dwelt on therein, and desire any that have eyes to judge. 11. We come now to the main question: Is the “Farrago” true or false? I aver it to be totally false; except in one single article, out of an hundred and one. I mean, Mr. H. has not proved that I contradict myself, except in that single instance. To come to particulars:-- “1. There was an ever- “There never was such a lasting covenant between the covenant.” Father and Son, concerning man’s redemption.” The former proposition is taken from the “Christian Library;” on which Mr. H. says again, “Mr. W. affirms that the Christian Library is “all true, all agreeable to the word of God.’” I answered before, “I do not. My words are: ‘I have endeavoured to extract such a collection of English divinity, as I believe is all true, all agreeable to the oracles of God.” (Christian Library, preface, p. 4.) I did believe, and do believe, every tract therein to be true and agreeable to the oracles of God. But I do not roundly affirm this of every sentence contained in the fifty volumes.