TABLE OF CONTENTS. FAREWELL LETTER OF JONAS KING TO HIS FRIENDS IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA, SEPTEMBER 5th, 1825. WRITTEN IN ARABIC, AND FORTY COPIES OF IT SENT IN MANUSCRIPT. DEAR FRIENDS: As I have often been asked in this country, “Have the English any religion? Do they believe in the Divinity of Christ? Do they hold to the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper?" I have thought proper, before my departure from you, to give you, in few words, some of the leading Articles of my own faith, and then exhibit to you some rea sons why I cannot be a Roman Catholic. 1. I believe, and do firmly maintain, that there is but one God, the Creator and Preserver of all things, and that he mysteriously exists in three persons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, to whom be glory and honor and power for ever and ever. Amen. 2. I believe, that God created man perfect, and for his own glory, and that the glory of God ought to be the aim of every intelligent creature. 3. I believe, that perfect moral rectitude in man consists in loving God with all the heart, and his neighbor as himself. 4. I believe, that man, by eating of the forbidden fruit, fell from his state of rectitude, and that now all men are, by nature, corrupt, depraved, under the bondage of sin, and that there is no deliverance from it, except by the death and sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all, who truly believe in him, are justified, freely, through his blood, by the grace of God. 5. I believe, that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as received by the primitive Christians, are the only guide and the only rule of our faith and practice. 6. I believe, that Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, according to the flesh, died for our offences, and rose again for our justification, and that faith in him is requisite to salvation, and that good works are the inseparable fruits and the evidences of a true saving faith. 7. I believe, that no man ever does possess true faith, or perform works that are good in the sight of God, till he be regenerated by the influences and by the power of the Holy Spirit, born again, not of the flesh, but of the Spirit, and that this renewal by the Holy Spirit is signified by the washing of water in Baptism. 8. I believe, that it is necessary, as a sign and seal of our faith, to be bap tized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 9. I believe, that all true Christians ought to partake of bread and wine in remembrance of the death of their Lord, and that as oft as they eat that bread and drink that cup, they do |