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agents, for the benefit of the Monarch, in the farce of legislation? Where is the sect that furnishes inhabitants to the Jails, to the Hulks, or to the Penal Colonies? Where would Penal Colonies, Hulks, or Jails, find inhabitants, but for the Church of England?

When to each of these several questions an answer has been given,-go then, ye hypocrites, take trumpet in hand, sound forth the guilt of schism, and command all men to' fall prostrate before your Golden Image, and its unrivalled "excellence."

Before this paper is brought to a close, one thing yet remains to be presented to the consideration of those whom it may concern.

By this Bishop of London, the Clergy of his diocese are, in this his address to them, spoken of as so many persons whose "instructions" ought with "humble docility," and "prostration of the understanding and will," to be received as the oracles of God: and this without condition or limitation annext, such as that of their being conformable to the holy scriptures.

But this same Right Reverend person,-not only in this his address, exhibits himself as one having authority, in matters of doctrine and discipline, over these same spiritual persons and every of them,-and prepared (p. 4) for "asserting the rights of that authority against factious 66 opposition or contumacious negligence,”—but, in point of law, as well as in fact, is actually so, beyond dispute or doubt, and knows himself so to be.

Hereupon comes a question or two, the title of which to consideration will not, it is believed, be found altogether easy to dispute.

1. Whether a Church-of-England Bishop,-who thus publicly and deliberately gives himself out as superior to

those whose instructions are the Oracles of God, and to whom he thereby,—in the language noted by Jesus (John, x. 34) for its extravagance, when applied to men,-says, "Ye are Gods," ought to be suffered, on any terms, or at any rate without public recantation, to retain either that purely ecclesiastical situation, the authority of which he has thus abused, or his temporal seat on the Bishop's Bench in the Upper House of the Legislature?

2. Whether, from such a quarter, such discourse be altogether consistent with mental sanity? whether the imputation of insanity be not the most lenient interpretation that can be put upon it? and, let sanity or insanity be the state of mind ascribed to him, whether by the text-" his "Bishoprick let another take”—a course proper to be pursued be not pointed out?

In what light-especially now that the matter has in this public manner been held up to notice-if those, to whom belongs the power of correcting such enormities, should leave them uncorrected, and thus, by connivance, render themselves participators in those same enormities, -in what light will they merit to be regarded by the other members of the Church of England? and,—if by the whole body of the members of that Church such connivance should be left unremonstrated against and uncomplained of,-in what light will they merit, and in what light will they be likely, to be regarded, by all other Christian Churches-established and non-established?

Daniel Isaac Eaton was imprisoned and set in the pillory t'other day,-for no other offence, than the publication of a book, in which the title of Jesus to the character of God, and that of the Holy Scriptures to the title of true histories, was denied and argued against. But, neither did Daniel Isaac Eaton, nor the writer whose work he was thus punished for publishing, ever give himself out as

superior to the Oracles of God: nor was either of them furnished with a seat in the Upper House of the legislature, with a 10,000l. a year salary, or any salary at all, in reward for, and in condition, and in consideration of his undertaking to do his utmost to cause the Holy Scriptures, and them alone, to be received as the Oracles of God. By Daniel Isaac Eaton no breach of trust was committed: his sin, whatever else it was, was the sin of ignorance.

The ribaldry of Daniel Isaac Eaton passed but for what it was worth: for, in his situation there was not any thing that could enable it, or tend to cause it, to pass for any thing more. Daniel Isaac Eaton was not of the number of those, who hold themselves as successors, and sole legitimate successors, to the distinguished few, of whom Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." Daniel Isaac Eaton was not, at that time, like them, "set upon a hill,”—or at any time after, upon any typical hill, other than the hill of always intended disgrace, but not unfrequently eventual honour, the pillory.

Meantime, were it only that the Court and its "pros"trate" Ministry may be known for what they are, this their new-raised favourite cannot be too perfectly or extensively known for what he is.

It is no secret, in how high a degree, any impression produced by those arbitrarily designative characters of which spoken and written discourse is composed, is capable of being strengthened and deepened by those naturally imitative and representative ones, which it is the work of the pencil or the graver to delineate.

In a moderate compass, and without breach of unity, in one picture might be exhibited a view of the two opposite religions-the religion of Jesus, and the religion of the Church of England, as delineated by this its Bishop.

In the back ground, on one hand might stand Jesus, washing the feet of his disciples, as related in John, xiii.

1 to 17. In the fore ground, on the right hand, one group in Charity-School Uniform, in the prescribed attitude of prostration, his Lordship, in his palace, seated on his throne, showering down, with dignified negligence, upon these little ones, his benedictions:-on the left hand, in costumes and postures indicative of various occupations,— but most of them with Bibles in their hands, or under their arms, and all of them with serious and reflecting countenances, another group, his said Lordship spitting down upon them, through the magnificently Gothic palace window, labels inscribed with the words "contempt and "horror."

Thus much,—it being,—with the exception of the Scriptural, and surely not unappropriate, part of the subject,— nothing more than his Lordship's own discourse, expressed by the pencil instead of the pen, has in it nothing more than what might be painted by the grave pencil of Mr. West-and, for the window of some Cathedral, eternized in glass by Mr. Pearson.

An addition and exposition, to any such effect as the following,-Hogarth being, alas! no more-could scarcely be added from any other than the Holland School: and would require the graver, for giving expression to it.

At his Lordship's elbow, the Spirit,-who is so much better known to his Lordship than to the writer of these pages,-busy in supplying the Episcopal writing-table with "laws of interpretation." On the remaining side of the back ground, Dives,—in that costume of his which has been taken for an uniform by the Episcopal Bench-viz, his purple and his fine linen, his eyes directed to his Lordship,-the finger of one hand pointing to his own parched tongue, on which the demand for water remains still unsatisfied,—his other hand pointing to a cushion of asbestus velvet, left vacant for the Right Reverend sitting-part, by his side.

APPENDIX, No. II.

LORD's SUPPER-NOT DESIGNED BY JESUS FOR

GENERAL IMITATION-ITS UTTER UNFITNESS FOR THAT PURPOSE.

In the body of this work, the ceremony commonly called The Lord's Supper came necessarily under review. On that occasion its unfitness to be employed in that character was touched upon. Incidental and cursory was the consideration then given to it, and the mention accordingly then made of it. After a more thorough consideration on the one hand, so convincing appeared the proof of its being completely destitute of all warrant from Scripture,—on the other hand, so deplorably mischievous in respect of the application made of it,—so great consequently the benefit, if at length the religion of Jesus could be cleared of so morbid an excrescence,—that in this volume a few more pages could not be refused-to the hope, however faint, of contributing something towards the rendering to the interests of religion, morality, and general happiness, so salutary a service.

On this occasion,—that nothing may be wanting, either to the solidity or to the clearness of the ground on which the opinion of the sincere reader is called for,-all that relates to that other scene, viz. the feet-washing scene, having for illustration been already brought under his eye

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