" For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist ; " '^ and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross,'9 is of the devil ; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the ^rst-bom of Satan.^" Where- fore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from^' the begin- ning ; " watching unto prayer," " and persever- ing in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God " not to lead us into tempta-