of Reason and Faith; Bishop Taylor, Duct. Dub. b. i. ch. 2, R. 3; Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, 4, 19, 18; Laud with Fisher, 74-80; Bacon's Advancement, 6, 9; Watts's Logic, Introduction; Tatham's Bampton Lectures; Dr. Randolph's Sermon on 2 Cor. vii. 5." Add to these, Boyle, Felton, Hurd, Balguy, &c. &c. I conclude with his Lordship's own summary of the dispositions requisite to receive in faith the doctrine of Revelation, as contained in his Sermon, in the second Volume, on Hebrews iii. 12. "We must come, therefore, to the consideration of it, with a deep sense of its importance; with an earnest desire to know and to do the will of God; with an awful regard to the infinite disparity between Divine and human knowledge; and with a firm determination to accept and abide by whatever is revealed to us, if we find it accompanied with sufficient testimonies of its being the work of God. 'As the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so must our eyes wait upon the Lord our God:' receiving his word with reverence, reposing an entire confidence in his justice and goodness, and desiring no other assurance of the wisdom of his dispensations, than that they really proceed from him." Page 15. Whether they deem also the OBJECTS of knowledge to be a matter of indifference. "If, then, such be the capacity and receipt of the mind of man, it is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, how large soever, lest it should make it swell, or out-compass itself: no, but it is merely the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and some effects of relieved by the cold-blooded consent and approbation of Cicero, the mildest of all Pagan philosophers and orators. His frequent allusions, by way of figure, to that brutal sport, are well known. In his pleadings for Milo he confesses it as a matter of course, that the attitude of a poor wretch, infimi generis, supplicating for his life on the bloody arena, only the more exasperated the feelings of the spectator against him, and secured his destruction*. A due assemblage of his sayings on this subject, the disgrace of humanity, will be found in Jortin's interesting" Discourses concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion." The subject has stirred the indignation even of the calm and philosophical Hume::-"The inhuman sports exhibited at Rome may justly be considered, too, as an effect of the people's contempt for slaves, and was also a great cause of the general inhumanity of their princes and rulers. Who can read the accounts of the amphitheatrical entertainments without horror? or who is surprised that the emperors should treat that people in the same way the people treated their inferiors? One's humanity is apt to renew the barbarous wish of Caligula, that the people had but one neck. A man could almost be pleased, by a single blow, to put an end to such a race of monsters." (Note U. to Essay “On Populousness of Ancient Nations,” vol. i.)—In the same Essay he speaks with becoming indignation on the treatment of slaves by the very best of that inhuman nation, Cato, Seneca, &c.: * "Etenim si, in gladiatoriis pugnis, et in infimi generis hominum conditione atque fortunâ timidos et supplices et ut vivere liceat obsecrantes etiam odisse solanus; fortes et animosos, et se acriter ipsos morti offerentes, servare cupennus, eorumque nos magis miseret, qui nostram misericordiam, non requirunt, quam qui illam efflagitant: quanto hoc magis in fortissimis civibus facere dobemus." (Cic. Or. pro Milone. Peroratio). Could a North-American Indian have held language more barbarian? and something we find nearly approaching to that policy which prefers, in point of economy, the bought slave to the home-bred one. "The comparison," as he observes, "is shocking, between the management of human creatures and that of cattle!" (p. 405.) Is this the moral code which our modern infidels, semi-sceptics, or indifferents, propose to substitute for its only secure preventive, the mild sway of the religion of Christ, and that religion exhibited in its full breadth and due proportions? Page 18. His iron sceptre of judgment and condemnation. -for he, be sure, In height or depth still first and last will reign Sole King, and of his kingdom lose no part His empire, and with iron sceptre rule Us here, as with his golden those in heaven. MILTON. Par. Lost. book ii. Page 19. " Believing all that he is to teach to others, and teaching all that he does believe." "Since, therefore, as the Apostle says, there is but one faith, and that one faith has evidently prevailed; let us believe what we are to teach, and teach what we are to believe." (Letter of St. Xystus to the Bishop of Antioch, quoted by Vincentius Licinensis. Reeves's Transl. 1717).-A valuable recommendation from the same author to preachers, is given by Dupin, "Cum dicas novè, non dicas nova." Page 22. A late edict from the See of Rome. The following edict, under the sanction of the See of Rome, has been copied this year from the French papers into our own. and villages under our jurisdiction, to publish the present Edict, and to read it to their respective congregations in as loud a voice as possible, upon the first festival after its arrival, and the moment when the church should be most crowded, and afterwards to publish it three times a-year, and send us a certificate of their having performed that duty. We also remind religious superiors, that they are bound to read to those under them the Bull relative to the Holy Office, according to the constitutions of Alexander VII. of blessed memory, which commences with these words, Licet alias, &c. And, in fine, we wish that a copy of this Edict should be placed on the sacristy door, in order that its contents be observed. "In confirmation of what we have said, directed, and commanded by the present Edict, which we have signed and sealed with the great seal of the Holy Office. "Given at Forli, in the Chancery of the Holy Inquisition, this 14th of May, 1829. "Ita est Angelus Dominicus Ancarani Inquisitor qui supra manu. "FR. DOMINIQUE ASTRABALI, "One of the Notaries to the Holy Office at Forli." Ibid. With one exception in Christian Europe. In allusion to the important struggle of Christian Russia with the Ottoman Empire; now apparently terminated (Oct. 27) in the entire subjugation of the latter power, and its extinction, by the terms of the treaty with its conquerors, as an independent member of the European Commonwealth. Ellerton and Henderson, Printers, FINIS. MEMBERS OF THE CHOICE OF TWELLET I THE PARISH OF WESTE VIS RISTIANS CRISIS. readeth it."-Hab. IL L "Believe in the Lord your God, simi je te aratatuat mel prophets, so shall ye prospec- Car I "There is scarce a prophecy in the Out Zename coming an which doth not, in something or wine, accuse comery Sir Isaac Newton PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET 21, BERNERS STREET, LONDON: SOLD ALSO BY MR. E. PITMAN, WESTDIEL. 1829. Y 15th, 1829. S, M. A. EQUEST. CCADILLY. |