JOSEPH WALTON._A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H.

PORSTMOUTH, Nov. 19, 1810.

P. S. The within, enclosed, my friend, I can assure you was not

written to you in this manner, as God is my judge, from an envious and

bitter spirit, for I love and esteem your person, as a friend, who

has, from my first acquaintance with you, treated me with great

respect. I see, on the Lord's days, great numbers of precious souls

going and returning from your meeting; and, as far as I know my own

heart, I do not envy you for that; but have often prayed that the

gifts and natural abilities you have might be sanctified and turned

into right improvements, which is the glory of God and the saving

benefit of your hearers. May it please God to make you an able and

faithful minister of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the

spirit, for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. From your

friend and humble servant, JOSEPH WALTON, _Pastor,

Of the Independent Congregational Church in Portsmouth_.

TO MR. HOSEA BALLOU, PASTOR OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND

SOCIETY IN PORTSMOUTH.

_Sir_,--You may observe by the date, the letter has been written some

time; but by several avocations I have not had time to correct and

copy it until the present date, December 7, 1810.

A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. · 第 50 / 70 题