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in a Third Statement of the Real Danger of the Church of England.—-(Burns.) The identification of these gentlemen with the Puritans of old. (a relationship which, it appears, has been very indignantly disclaimed in certain quarters) by reference to the history of the Savoy Conference, is happily conceived and ably executed. The argument of Mr. Faber that the English Church can not mean to assert that regeneration takes place in Baptism, because in the case of adults it must be dependent on the state of their hearts, proceeding as it does on the false assumption that the Church speaks the same language at the baptism of adults as of infants, is one of those barefaced attempts at imposition which either among commercial men, or men of the world would brand the individual who hazarded it with perpetual ignominy. How is it that a man in repute among a certain class of religionists, like Mr. Faber, is actually applauded while practising such a transparent artifice? We propose this as a problem to the learned; it certainly baffles our comprehension. Perhaps, however, it is equalled by the following quotation from the Record. "The inclination of our mind is to believe that he (Mr. Gresley) is already a member of the Church of Rome, holding a dispensation to remain in the Church so as to work with an effect towards Catholic objects, which it were impossible for him to attain if he had avowedly apostatised." It is impossible to conceive mendacity going further than this. Judging from his writings we should say that there was but one thing on earth to which Mr. Gresley is more opposed than Romanism; and that is, the Puritan deceit, as exemplified in Messrs. Close and Faber.

It is remarkable that in spite of the great activity displayed in the management of the Practical Christian's Library, the two books which may be said to exhibit the deepest acquaintance with theological science should have remained to the present month for publication. Yet so it is: the Holy Living of JEREMY TAYLOR (Oxford: Parker), and BISHOP Cosis's Devotions (Burns), we do not hesitate to assert, are in their respective kinds the very best specimens of strictly Anglican Divinity.

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Adventures by Sea and Land, forming the last volume of Mr. Burns' Select Library, make up an entertaining volume. The writer of the introductory chapter on Life at Sea," however, is not quite a Basil Hall. Sailors, we apprehend, will at once set him down for a LandLubber.

The Transfiguration of Christians. (Parker and Rivingtons) a Sermon preached by Dr. MOBERLEY, before the University of Oxford, on one of those week-day Festivals, when alone, (the appointment then not being with the Heads of Colleges,) a sound Churchman has any chance of gaining the Pulpit of S. Mary's, deserves our best acknowledgments. Our readers will feel sure that it is able and earnest. may add that it is also hopeful and sanguine in its tone.

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A useful Visitation Sermon has also been published by Mr. JACKSON, the new Rector of S. James'. (Rivingtons.) It is entitled Sanctifying Grace and the Grace of the Ministry.

The Champion of the Cross, by the Rev. J. S. TUTE, (Masters) is a poetical allegory, of which the execution appears to us scarcely equal to the conception. Blank Verse would surely have been more appropriate for such a subject than rhyming couplets.

The Churchman in Scotland (Saunders and Otley) in spite of its alarming second title (The Scottish Crusade), is a very mild and innocuous production, recommending the cessation of controversy between parties in the Church of Scotland, and forbearance towards the now mutilated Establishment. There is a good deal of vigour and earnestness in the Essay; and much to be admired in the temper of the writer. The great question however appears to us to be this, Is it possible to kindle enthusiasm, or get up a "crusade" against sin, without putting boldly forward the principles of the Church? In the Missionary work which the Church has to do, she certainly is called upon to become "all things to all men;" but unhappily it is too often persons who call themselves "good Churchmen," who most resent the exhibition of Church principles.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. Walter Blunt is fearful that persons may infer from the notice of his pamphlet in our last Number, that there is some resemblance between his proposal and that of Dr. Hook. The fact is, that though they resemble each other in this, that they both advocate the remodelling of our parochial system, the Vicar of Leeds would call in the aid of the State to do the Church's work; whereas Mr. Blunt desires to see the Church renouncing altogether the little aid which she now receives from the State, and doing her own work in her own way, without any regard to those who are without her fold, or only nominally in it.

Proposals for Christian Union, by a Member of the Church of England (London: Aylott and Jones) will not be altogether pleasing to any party. Nevertheless, we think that they may be read with profit by the unprejudiced of all parties.

The appearance of another volume of Monumenta Ritualia, by Mr. MASKELL (Pickering) reminds us that we are still in arrear with volumes one and two. This new volume contains offices of Coronation, Ordination, and Consecration of Bishops, with Dissertations.

J. MASTERS, PRINTER, ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON,

THE

THEOLOGIAN

AND

ECCLESIASTIC.

VOLUME IV.

JULY TO DECEMBER, MDCCCXLVII.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, PUBLISHER,

ALDERSGATE STREET.

MDCCCXLVII,

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS,

ALDERSGATE STREET.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Reception

Acland's Manners and Customs of India

Confirmation, on the Mode of Administering, and the proper Age for its

Ecclesiastical Intelligence

Argyll and the Isles, Bishopric of

. 378

236

. 400

264

Church of Scotland, Diocese of S. Andrew's

329

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and Education of Nurses and Visitors of the Sick and Poor 259

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Hengstenberg's Christology.

18

History of Impropriations and the Tithe Redemption Trust

Instrumenta Ecclesiastica

Hickes and Laud on the Relation of the Church to the State

Justification, English and Roman Churches on

Lays for the Minor Festivals of the English Church-July

193

139

165

. 249

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Liturgy of the Church in Past and Present Times, No. III.

Madeira, British Chaplaincy in

Merton College, Statutes of

Neale's History of the Holy Eastern Church

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