ed in particular, as any evil design in general, the dictate of a wicked, depraved, and malignant heart; and it may be either express or implied in law. Express malice is when one with a sedate, deliberate mind and formed design doth kill another, which formed design is evidenced by external circumstances discovering that inward intention, as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm. Also, if even upon a sudden provocation, one beats another in a cruel and unusual manner, so that he dies, though he did not intend his death, yet he is guilty of murder by express malice; that is, by an express, evil design, the genuine sense of malitia." 4th Blackstone, 198, 199.

Consequently, by the application of these two principles of express and implied malice to the slandering murderer; he is equally an assassin. He intends, he designs, he compasses the death, he lies in wait to slay with the tongue; he or she, and both poison the public mind and the minds of the members of the church; he or she by their tongues, form ambushes, make, load, and sharpen guns, poinards, bayonets, knives, and razors ; shoot, stab, wound, and kill by creating reports and jealousies, publicly and privately, by accusing strangers of treasons, felonies, insurrections, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. He that hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

"And it is no excuse at the bar of conscience" to say I only said this or thus, upon a sudden provocation, for this is (saith Blackstone) "murder by express malice, that is, by an express evil design, the genuine sense of malitia." Horse stealing is virtue and honesty compared with it.

Why then do not legislatures imprison and hang the slandering murderer as well as other assassins, it being the same principle? as it is immaterial to poor, feeble strangers, whether they are killed by the slow jaw'd maligner or the sharp shooter, only that the former is most malignant and destructive !

Indictment for passing forged Gospel notes. Pennsylvania, to wit:

The jurors for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon their oath, present-That Bill Bribeall, and Sacerdotal Being bribed, late of the parish of religious swindling, in the county of Gospel gossipping, church brokers, unlawfully and unjustly contriving and intending one poor, moneyless, slighted orphan to aggrieve and impoverish in character, on the 30th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1815, and with force and arms of a bought group of plattermongering whisperers, conveniently brought over by meats, drinks, clothes, compliments, honors, favors, &c. at the parish of religious swindling and county of Gospel gossipping aforesaid, of the wicked mind, intention, and imagination of them the said church brokers, one certain forged and counterfeit Gospel receipt, partly printed, partly written on paper, partly signified by signs, such as tossing up the head, assenting by a wild duck nod, a shrug of reserved abhorrence, a toss of the nose, a frown of the eyebrows, a grimmace, a groan, a high look of justice, all purporting to be true receipts, subscribed by patriarchs and prophets, Jesus Christ and the apostles, to wit: C. & J. they, the said T. C. and J. J. being inspectors of church government (as inspectors of tobacco are upon James' river) in the house of God, anciently on the river of Gospel discipline, all the time of

their merciful and just ministry, that is to say, the said church notes of the first fruits of the spirit having the following marks, to wit: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Lev. xix. 18. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them. Matt. vii. 12. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour. Rom. xiii. 10. If thy brother trespass, tell him of his fault between thee and him alone. Matt. xviii. 15. If thy brother trespass seven times a day, and repent, thou shalt forgive him. Luke xvii. 4. If any be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thoù also be tempted. Gal. vi. 1. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prefering one (or without prejudice, margin) before another, do nothing by partiality. 1 Tim. v. 21. And also having the following numbers, to wit: Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, (or is not rash, margin) is not puffed up, is not provoked; seeketh not her own; thinketh no evil; beareth all things; hopeth all things, where faith in a brother fails; endureth all things, even the faults of a Peter. And also having the following weights: Charity covereth a multitude of sins. 1 Peter iv. 8. Love covereth all sins. Prov. x. 12. He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Rom. xiii. 8. And being of the species of religion scripturally called fervent charity, (as we say, sweet scented leaf.) And the said forged and counterfeited receipts also purporting that the said management of church government was to be delivered by them, the said prophets, Jesus, and apostles, to the said jolt headed juggler, lord over God's heritage, and Q

blating broker, for exportation from one slandering conclave to another when demanded, feloniously did pass in payment to the sleepy, barking, greedy, partial, slandering shepherd, the sly lord over God's heritage, the said devil's pedler, on the said 13th day of July, in the year aforesaid, at the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, and especially at the times and places of so passing the said counterfeit receipts of hearsay evidence, by sly letters, whispers, shrugs, groans, hypocritical tears, adding aggravated and envious motives, emulations, &c. in payment of Gospel discipline to the said organized church of God, knowing the same to have been forged and counterfeited, from their own sensibility of not being willing to have the like villainies practised upon themselves, to the evil example of all others in like cases, offending against the law of love and form of sound doctrine, as contained in the Old and New Testaments, in such case made and provided, against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Israel, and these United States.

When ministers of the sanctuary have been brought up honestly and politely in their father's houses, before their induction into the priestly office, what a blessing is it to the congregations among whom they labor! And when superadded thereunto they have had a religious education, like Timothy, whose grandmother Lois, and whose mother Eunice had, and no doubt taught him, unfeigned faith, 2 Tim. i. 5, the oufit is doubly blessed. And we ought not to forget, that to be brought up and nursed in the lap, and to inhale the sincere milk of equal liberty, is to have another and very shining qualification for the pulpit. Subjoined to these, a general knowledge of history would be very necessary to enlighten his understanding with

biography, chronology, geography, and heraldry; his mind thus enlarged, would indignantly look down upon little church whispering as an eagle upon a grasshopper, or poisonous creeping reptile. But on the contrary, if a man has been born of low-bred, cunning parentage, that is, a covetous, malicious, envious, revengeful, double minded, partial, slandering breed; O house of God, death is in the pot for what he sees he circulates; if he goes into a house he gazes, listens, and reports; when he beholds a poor brother or sister overtaken in a fault, instead of restoring such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering himself lest he also be thus tempted and overcome, Gal. vi. 1, he either thunders and lightens upon them, and to justify his austerity, quotes some raspish scripture, with a snap, a stamp, and a frown, answerable to his haughty, lordly mind, or informs, witnesses, tries, overrules, condemns, reviles, and expels, as one of his compeers once did, who said "Go out and take the sound of damnation with you;" and strutting triumphantly off he boasts, "I'll be bound that I, pronoun I, myself, will exercise church disciple;" or he frequents the table of corrupters, whose every hospitality has for its object an unlawful usurpation in the church, an undue influence over its teachers, overseers, rulers, &c. Mark him upon almost all occasions, either openly or slyly, (however he may profess to the contrary) sitting, talking, counselling, walking with, caressing, or receiving bribes and unlawful influences from some point of Satan's partial compass, to wit, from letters, sweet meats, fine clothes, elegant lodgings, where the furniture has more antinomianism ensigned upon it than ten thousand gold rings upon nice, affected fingers, or four or five ruffles or tuck