shape which they could understand. The heretics
look not for salvation by the merits either of Luther or Calvin, for
merits they had none--being merely the instruments which Providence
selected to commence a great work which He has hitherto not thought
proper to perfect. The heretics look for salvation to Christ and hope to
be forgiven by lively faith in Him and by virtue of His blood-shedding.
They trust not in Peter nor in Paul--both men and sinners--in Luther nor
in Calvin--greater sinners still--but in Christ alone. They trust not in
stick nor stone, in picture nor in image, in splinter of cross nor bone
of saint, but in Christ alone--not in His mother or His brother--He
Himself has said: 'those that do the will of my Father that is in heaven,
they are my mother, they are my brethren.'

Quae est mater mea, et qui sunt fratres mei? . . .

Quicumque fecerit voluntatem Patris mei, qui in coelis est, ipse meus
frater et soror et mater est.--Matt. cap. xii. vers. 48-50.

Christ alone is the foundation and cope-stone of the true Church.

GEORGE BORROW.

To the Rev. A. Brandram

(_Endorsed_: recd. Dec. 8, 1837)
28_th_ _Novr._ 1837, MADRID,
No. 16 CALLE ST. IAGO, PISO 3RO.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR,--I have just received your letter [of Nov. 15th], for
which I thank you heartily. I write these lines in a great hurry, as no
time must be lost. The shop opened yesterday, and several Testaments
have been sold, but three parts of the customers departed on finding that
only the New Testament was to be obtained; and I may here state that if
the books which I carried to the provinces had been Bibles, I could have
sold ten times the amount of what I did. I must therefore be furnished
with Bibles instanter. Send me therefore the London edition, bad as it
is, say 500 copies. I believe you have a friend at Cadiz, the consul,
who would have sufficient influence to secure their admission into Spain.
But the most advisable way would be to pack them in two chests, placing
at the top Bibles in English and other languages, for there is a demand,
viz.: 100 English, 100 French, 50 German, 50 Hebrew, 50 Greek, 10 Modern
Greek, 10 Persian, 20 Arabic. _Pray do not fail_.

Direct the books thus:--

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