XIX. THE CAR OF LITERATURE. "LITERATURE as well as science, if it does not go forward, is apt to perish where it stands; or even to lose ground rapidly.* But, let us not imagine, that he, who sits aloft, guiding the car; or that the fiery steeds, which bear it along; are alone entitled to our admiration. How many unseen hands are, at this moment, employed, in shaping the various and complicated parts of that divine machinery! How many, in drawing together the fit materials for its structure; scattered, as they are, over the whole surface of the universe! How many, in exploring distant regions, for those gems and brilliant dyes, which glitter in the sunshine of peace; and captivate, for a time, our roving fancy! How many faithful and diligent pioneers are now clearing thickets, forcing out precipices, and removing the obstructions; with which time, and neglect, and prejudice, and ignorance, have contributed to impede our progress! How many skilful engineers are planning new lines of direction for our road; smoothing ascents, cutting off angles and useless windings, uniting the yawning sides of valleys, round which we formerly toiled in tedious circuit; and providing, across the hitherto-untrodden gulf, a firm and safe passage! How many, of livelier imagination, and more buoyant spirits, are adorning the road-side with flowers; dressing out the country, right and left, in all the fair varieties of nature: opening the landscape to our view; and giving us, at intervals, a prospect of those happy fabled regions; lit up by the gleams of hope and of memory; which please, even at a distance; and charm away the tedium of human life!"-Taken from Reply to the Edinburgh Review:" p. 7-8. "Non progredi est regredi :" "not to proceed, [procede?] is to recede." XX. ANSWERS TO ENQUIRIES. 1. QUERENS, a part of one of whose questions (No. 4, p. 66,) was unconsciously past over, (p. 93,) is informed, that, expense is the reason why "the Acts of Uniformity" are not printed in all our C. Prayer-Books. II. TO JUVENIS, whose questions occur in p. 144, we beg to reply as follows: 1. 66 Filioque," (" and the Son,") occurs in the Nicene Creed, asserting the procession of the Spirit to be equally from the Son, as from the Father: which the Greek Church denies: hence the "Filioque Controversy." 2. "Ovoía" is essence: “¿ñóσтaoic" is substance. Athanasius, Orat. 5. con. Arian. et Epist. ad African. says they are the sume: Basil, Epist. 78, says no;* and that they were not so used in the Council at Nice. 3. "Oμoéolos" is of one and the same nature, together with: "oooos" is of a like or similar nature. 4. "Smectymnuus" is the acrostic name adopted by five anti-episcopalian authors; who replied to Bishop Hall, -a match for five legions of such! they were Stephen Marshall, Edward Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow. 5.& 6. As to "Hocus Pocus," and the "fish on the tombs of Christians," see our Etymologicum Parvum†, p. 175, 7. "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" arose from the bishopric of Westminster, (which Henry VIII. created with five others-i.e. Oxford, Peterborough, Bristol, Chester, and Gloucester-out of the dissolved monasteries,) being soon after incorporated with London, which is dedicated to St. Paul, as Westminster is to St. Peter. Dr. Thirlby was its one and only bishop! * Some of the Latin differed from the Greek Fathers, as to Hypostasis and Persona: they (the Latins) rendered vπóoraoic by substantia, and πρόσωπον by persona. Jerome, however, says, he acknowledges tres personas, not tres hypostases: see his Epist. 71. to Damasus. See Augustine de Trinitate, lib. v. cap. 8. + By means of the Article, so denominated, we purpose, (if we can,) to answer all the enquiries, made of us, not only by Juvenis, [whose 6th questions will be answered in No. II.] but also by all other valued Correspondents. XXI. NOTICES OF CORRESPONDENTS. DISCIPULUS asks, (1.) whether Ovoía (sacrifice) and dwpov (gift) are ever used as synonymous ? (2.) The origin of the term "Nolo episcopari"? (3.) What is a clerical error? (4.) What are "Normal" schools? (5.) The etymology of “ Panorāma” and “ Orrery ?" (6.) The meaning of Keth, used page 68, line 17? (7.) Why we usе к. т.λ. page 52. line 13. and elsewhere? (8.) Whether all Editions of the Bible are faulty in the non-observance of Italics and Romans, complained of by us in our Number for April, page 109, respecting Psalm cxliv. vv. 13-15. (9.) Whether" will” and “shall" are both (or which of them) signs of the future tense of the Indicative Mood, in the New Testament; and whether, if there be a rule, there are any exceptions? (10.) Why we accentuate Oɛòç and Oɛóç, differently? (11.) How "Meridies" can be derived from "medius dies? (12.) The nature of those Jewish books and terms, Cabbala, Gemara, Massora, Mishna, Talmud; Keri, and Cethib. Received and approved: A CATHOLIC, and M. PLAIN READER wishes to see the arguments, for the Eternity [Perpetuity?] of Hell-Torments, stated. MEMENTO TO THE YOUNGER CLERGY. The Junior Clergy are most earnestly and respectfully reminded of the approach of the Twenty-ninth of MAY on which Day our Church has a special "FORM of PRAYER, with THANKSGIVING to Almighty God, for having put an end to the GREAT REBELLION," "in the Year" "of our Lord God," "1660. And, in Memory thereof, that Day; in every Year, is, by Act of Parliament, appointed to be, for ever, kept holy." No. VI., for JUNE, will be published on the last day of MAY. Nos. I. II. III. and IV. have been reprinted. TEXTUARY AND RITUALIST, &c. JUNE, 1835. The Textuary. I. NOAH'S PROPHETIC CURSE OF CANAAN. GENESIS, ch. ix. vv. 20-27: "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: "21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; nd he was uncovered within his tent. "22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. "23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. "24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. "25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan: a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. "26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. "27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." The history of the antediluvian times is very short and concise, and there are only a few prophecies relating to the deluge. As Noah was a preacher of righteousness to the old world, so he was a prophet to the new, and was enabled to predict the future condition of his posterity, which is a subject that, upon many accounts, requires a particular discussion. It is an excellent character that is given of Noah, (Gen. vi. 9.) Noah was a just man, and perfect in his NO. VI. VOL. I. R |