r father or founder. God is also their
Father, having espoused the Judaical church. The Gentiles are only adopted
children, as being Pre-Adamites. Men (or Gentiles) are said to be made by
the word of God. (Gen. 1:26, 27.) Adam, the founder of the Jewish nation,
whose history alone Moses wrote, is introduced in the second chapter, as
the workmanship of God's own hands, and as created apart from other men.

They argue thus:--Cain, having killed his brother Abel, was afraid of being
killed himself. By whom? He married--yet Adam had then no daughter. What
wife could he get? He built a town--what architects, masons, carpenters,
and workmen, did he employ? The answer to all these questions is in one
word--Pre-Adamites.

This reasoning is opposed by sundry texts of Scripture, (See Gen. 1:26;
2:7; 3:20. Mark 10:6. I Cor. 15:45, 47.)

PREDESTINARIANS.

Are those who believe that God, for his own glory, hath foreordained
whatsoever comes to pass. (See Matt. 25:34. Rom. 8:29, 30. Eph. 1:3, 6,
11. 2 Tim. 1:9. 2 Thess. 11:13. 1 Pet. 1:1, 2. John 6:37; 17:2-24. Rev.
13:8; 17:8. Dan. 4:35. 1 Thess. 5:19. Matt. 11:26. Exod. 4:21. Prov. 16:4.
Acts 13:48.)

ORTHODOX CREEDS.

Orthodoxy literally signifies _correct opinions_. The word is generally
used to denote those who are attached to the Trinitarian scheme of
Christian doctrine.

The following article is found in the "Spirit of the Pilgrims," vol. v.
No. 1, and is supposed to have been written by the late Rev. BENJAMIN B.
WISNER, D. D., pastor of the Old South church, Boston.

The following summary contains the more material parts of the Orthodox
faith. Those who embrace this system believe,--

"That, since the fall of Adam, men are, in their natural state,
altogether destitute of true holiness, and entirely depraved.

"That men, though thus depraved, are justly required to love God
with all the heart, and justly punishable for disobedience; or, in
other words, they are complete moral agents, proper subjects of
moral government, and truly accountable to God for their actions.

"That in the unspeakable wisdom and love of God was disclosed a
plan of redemption for sinful men.

"That, in the development of this plan, God saw fit to reveal so
much concerning the nature and the mode of the divine existence,
as that he is manifested to his creatures as the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost; and that these t