For  you  accuse  them  of  laying  •'  as  much  stress  upon  their
external  order,  as  if  the  key  which  opens  the  door  of  their
communion  opened,  at  the  same  moment,  the  doors  of  Para-
dise ;  although,"  you  continue  to  remark,  ''  upon  that  sup-
position, it  is  evident  that  the  '■  gate'  and  '  way'  which  '  lead
unto  life'  are  no  longer  straight  and  narrow."  Tremendous
denunciation  !  for  if  the  "  gate"  and  "  way"  of  high  Church-
men be  not  that  "  straight  gate  and  narrow  way"  which
"lead  unto  life,"  they  must  be  the  "  wide  gate  and  broad
way"  which  "  lead  to  destruction  !"  Low  Churchmen  next
sink  beneath  your  ire. Because  they  "  account  the  external
order  of  the  house  of  God  a  matter  of  no  importance,"  you
charge  them  with  "  countenancing,  at  least  indirectly,  viola-
tion of  their  Lord's  commandment,  invasion  of  his  preroga-
tive, and  assault  upon  his  truth."  "  And  as  although  all  this
were  not  enough,"  as  if  the  triumphs  gained  over  these  pros-
trate sects  could  not  satisfy  you,  you  scorn  not  to  erect  an-


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other  trophy  on  the  neck  of  the  humble  Methodist  and
harmless  Quaker. 