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They maintain the doctrine of personal and individual sanctification, contrary to what has been charged on them, as will particularly appear by Mr. Snow's "Reply" to Mr. Simons, (sold at Ogle's) together with his "Sermons on the Death of the Princess Charlotte," and by a sermon of Mr. Evans's,

The seceders believe in the doctrine of election, but do not make it a very prominent subject in their discourses, and appear to the high Calvinists to contradict themselves on this subject, by the general invitations which they make to all men!

It must be here added that Mr. Snow of Cheltenham, once an actor, has confessed his errors, and returned to the church of England; whilst Mr. Evans of Gray's-innlane, has, though still a dissenter, reverted back to the belief of the trinity. He has published a "Series of Letters" on the subject, bitterly lamenting his temporary heteredoxy; and by way of reparation, endeavouring to set right the various erring classes of the religious world.

SAUDS.

A newly-discovered Indian Sect, resembling the

Quakers.

“In March, 1816, (says the reporter of the Calcutta committee of the Church Missionary Society) I went with two gentlemen from Futtehgurh, on the invitation of the Principal persons of the Saud sect, to witness an assemblage of them for the purpose of religious worship, in the city of Farrukhabad, the general meeting of the sect being that year in that city. The assembly took place in the court-yard of a large house: the number of men, women, and children were considerable. We were received with great attention, and chairs were placed for us in the front of the hall. After some time, when the place was quite full of people, the worship commenced. It consisted solely in the chaunting of a hymn, this being

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the only mode of public worship used by the Sauds! At subsequent periods I made particular inquiries relative to the religious opinions and practices of this sect, and was frequently visited by Bhuwanee Dos, the principal person of the sect in the city of Furrukhabad. The following is the substance of the account given by Bhuwanee Dos, of the origin of this sect :

"About the Sumbat year 1600, or 177 years ago, a person named Beerbhan, an inhabitant of Beejbasur near Narraul, in the province of Delhi, received a miraculous communication from Ooda Dos, teaching him the particulars of the religion now professed by the Sauds. Ooda Dos at the same time gave to Beerbhan marks by which he might know him on his re-appearance. 1. That whatever he foretold should happen: 2. That no shadow should be cast from his figure: 3. That he would tell him his thoughts: 4. That he would be suspended between heaven and earth : 5. That he would bring the dead to life! Bhuwanee Dos presented me with a copy of the Pot-hee, or religious books of the Sauds, written in a kind of verse, in the tenth Hindee dialect; and he fully explained to me the leading points of their religion. The Sauds utterly reject and abhor all kinds of idolatry, and the Ganges is considered by them with no greater veneration than by Christians, although the converts are made chiefly, if not entirely, from among the Hindoos, whom they resemble in outward appearance. name for God is Stutgur; and Saud, the appellation of the sect, means Servant of God! They are pure deists, and their form of worship is most simple, as I have already stated. They resemble the Quakers in their customs in a remarkable degree. Ornaments and gay apparel of every kind are strictly prohibited. Their dress is always white. They never make any obeisance or salam. They will not take an oath, and they are exempted in a court of justice: their asseveration, as that of the Quakers, being considered equivalent. The Sauds profess to abstain from all luxuries, such as tobacco, paun, opium, and wine. They never have nauches or dancing! All attack on man or beast is forbidden, but in self-de

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fence resistance is allowable. Industry is strongly enjoined. The Sauds, like the Quakers, take great care of their poor and infirm people. To receive assistance out of the Puntar Tribe would be reckoned disgracful, and render the offender liable to excommunication! All parade of worship is forbidden; secret prayer is recommended; alms should be unostentatious; they are not to be done that they should be seen of men. The due regulation of the tongue is a principal duty. The chief seats of the Saud sect are Delhi, Agra, Jypoor, and Furrukhabad; but there are several of the sect scattered over the country. An annual meeting takes place at one or other of the cities above-mentioned, at which the concerns of the sect are settled.

The magistrate of Furrukhabad informed me that he found the Sauds an orderly and well-conducted people. They are chiefly engaged in trade. Bhuwanee Dos was anxious to become acquainted with the Christian religion, and I gave him some copies of the New Testament in Persian and Hindoostanee, which he said he had read and shown to his people, and much approved. I had no copy of the Old Testament in any language which he understood well; but as he expressed a strong desire to know the account of the creation, as given in it, I explained it to him from an Arabic version, of which he knew a little. I promised to procure him a Persian or Hindoostanee Old Testament, if possible. I am of opinion that the Sauds are a very interesting people, and that an intelligent and zealous missionary would find great facility in communicating with them!"

This is indeed a Heathen sect, but its members so surpass some Christians in the mildness of their tempers and in the purity of their lives, that a place could not be refused it in this work.

JERKERS AND BARKERS.

The following account is taken from an interesting American work, in two large octavo volumes, entitled "A

General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and other parts of the World," by David Benedict, A. M., Pastor of the Baptist Church in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The author is a minister of the Particular Baptist persuasion, respected for his talents, learning, and piety. He indeed records these religious excesses for the admonition of weaker brethren, who are intent on severing reason from religion, a sure mode of augmenting the triumphs of infidelity! The subsequent narratiye may appear strange and incredible, but the utmost reliance may be placed upon the author's integrity. Equally does it become us to shun the extremes of enthusiasm and superstition, thus rendering homage to the rational and unostentatious genius of our common Christianity. To promote a spirit of wisdom and a sound mind" in the important affairs of religion, is the sole reason for inserting an account of the Jerkers and Barkers in this work. The Jumpers were not much inferior to them in absurdity, as well as some other sects prevalent in the nineteenth century, and dispersed throughout our own enlightened and civilized country. Religion ceases to be respectable in the eyes of men, when it cherishes visionary notions, and by its tumultuary practices destroys the repose of the community.

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"From 1799 to 1803, there were, in most parts of the United States, remarkable out-pourings of the divine Spirit, among different denominations; multitudes became the subjects of religious concern, and were made to rejoice in the salvation of God. The revival among the Baptists in the southern and western States, has already been frequently referred to, and accounts of the astonishing additions to their churches have been given. great revival in Kentucky began in Boone county on the Ohio river, and in its progress extended up the Ohio, Licking, and Kentucky rivers, branching out into the settlements adjoining them. It spread fast in different directions, and in a short time almost every part of the state was affected by its influence. It was computed that about ten thousand were baptized and added to the Bap

tist churches in the course of two or three years. This great work progressed among the Baptists in a much more regular manner than people abroad have generally supposed. They were indeed zealously affected and much engaged. Many of their ministers baptize in a number of neighbouring churches, from two to four hundred each. And two of them baptized about five hundred a-piece in the course of the work. But throughout the whole, they preserved a good degree of decorum and order. Those camp-meetings, those great parades, and sacramental seasons, those extraordinary exercises of falling down, rolling shouting, jerking, dancing, barking, &c., were but little known among the Baptists in Kentucky, nor encouraged by them. They, it is true, prevailed among some of them in the Green River country; but, generally speaking, they were among the Presbyterians and Methodists, and in the end by a seceding party from them both, which denominated themselves Christians, but which were generally distinguished by their opposers by the name of New-Lights and Schismatics! These strange expressions of zeal, which have made so much noise abroad, came in at the close of the revival, and were, in the judgment of many, the chaff of the work. There was a precious ingathering of souls among the Presbyterians and Methodists, at which they rejoiced; but when the work arose to an enthusiastic height, many different opinions were expressed respecting it. The Methodists had no scruples of its being genuine; but among the Presbyterians, some doubted-some opposed-but a considerable number overleaped all the bounds of formality, fanned the flame as fire from heaven, bid up camp-meetings, and sacramental seasons, and finally run religious frenzy into its wildest shapes. Soon a number of these ministers separated from the rest, formed a new Presbytery, called the Springfield, upon New-Light principles, soon dissolved that, and five or six of them in a few years became Shaking Quakers."

I shall close the list of Denominations with an account of that discriminating article of belief which refers to the

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