Instead of stopping at that verse of Ezekiel, and at the first part of tlie Chapter, where they have maliciously been searching, wherewithal to sting their Minister, and wherein

M: turns his own Accuser, they had better have

read on what follows from the 16th & 17th verses, to tlie 22d. inclusive, and to take good heed to what God saith by his Prophet, now no longer to had Shepherds, but to. had Sheep, to Sheep that rebel, that will not bear Teaching, and that are stubborn and headstrong, tliat are fat and strong, &.C. v. 16. confer

FEEKCH PROTESTANT CHURCH, NEW-YORK. 11C9

Amos 4. V. 1. Which Characters are so well described by the Prophet, that one would tliink that lie had carried his Views as far as to our Times and Circumstances.

While they cite tliese passages, they talk of the Corruption of Manners which had crept into that set of Mankind devoted to the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Eut not to speak of the Clergy, I say, that this general Complaint of the Corruption of Manners, cannot be better applyed than to tlie liorrible Scandals wliich we have seen all along break out in this Cliurch, and to the Disorders, Divisions, and other sins, against which I have so often cryed aloud, Esa. 58. 1. and which have, no doubt, drawn upon her the displeasure of God Ahnighty, through which she is now threatened with an entire Ruin and Dissipation, or at least with an unhappy Schism and Rent.