We fhall infert our Cantabrigian's explication of the Trinity, that our Readers may judge whether he is more successful upon this head than those who have gone before him. As I am firmly perfuaded, that the doctrine of the Trinity is contained in the fcriptures, I am the lefs anxious about reducing it to the level of human comprchenfion. That it is a mystery above our reafon, is true; but I own I could wish to prove, that it is not contrary to it. And I think it may be fhewn, both from reafon and the fcriptures, that the unity of the Godhead is still preferved, though we are taught to acknowledge a plurality of Perfons. The Almighty Author of the univerfe is undoubtedly, in the ftricteft fenfe of the expreffion, ONE. We acknowledge the glory and pre-eminence of the firft caufe which is clearly due to him: he is God not of any other, but himself; nor can any other be God, but of him. But at the fame time we think it no diminution to the Son, to fay that he receives his effence by communication from another; though it were a diminution of the Father to speak fo of him. The Father is not God by reason of the Son; whereas the Son is God by communication from the Father. Neither does this eftablish a plurality of Gods. For we fay, there is but one Perfon, who is from none. If there were more than one, it could not be denied, but that there were more Gods than one. But the Son and Holy Ghost have, for that reason, been believed to be but one God with the Father; because both are from the Father who is but One, and so he is the union of them. In the fcriptures, THREE are certainly spoken of diftincily and feparately from each other; in whofe names we are baptifed, and to each of whom the highest titles and properties of God are attributed. Now the fame fcriptures, as not queftioning the unity of the divine nature, ftill affert that there is but One God. The fcriptures, therefore, do not intend to teach a plurality of Gods in that fenfe, from whence, however, you derive your principal, if not your only objection. It were to be wifhed, that a greater precision was observed in the terms made ufe of in explaining this doctrine. Men do not immediately confider, that unity, applied to fubftance, and unity of numbers, convey different ideas. Thus if I fay, that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, being Three numerically, are One alfo in the fame fenfe, I fhould not blame any one for faying that I fpake unintelligibly. But I apprehend, that I do not fhock the common fenfe of any one when I affert, that the divine effence of the Father, though communicated to the Son and Holy Ghoft, ftill continues in them all One and the fame. Some have thought this might be aptly illuftrated by feveral rays rays proceeding from the fame fountain of light and perhaps from this idea arose that expreffion in the Nicene Creed, "God' of God, and Light of Light." If, however, the unity of the Godhead of the Father and the Son be admitted, we have already fufficient authority for addreffing our prayers to him: he is become a proper object of our adoration, being not inferior to the Father, with whom he is One God." If the preceding explanation were to be examined by an acute logician, we apprehend that fome inferences might be drawn from it, which would be very little conducive to the reputation of the Writer's orthodoxy. It is remarkable that he speaks with great refpect of the petitioning clergy, though the general principles advanced by him are repugnant to the defign of that worthy fociety. We fuppofe that he has been led into this inconfiftency by private. connections and friendships. In point of compofition, our Author fhews himself to be a man of ability and spirit. ART. VIII. Memoirs of Maitre Jacques of Savoy. Vol. I. ASTER Jacques of Savoy is no unentertaining companion. He is the biographer of his own very curious and comical being, and, in a manner that is at once arch and unaffected, fets forth the variety of that whim and caprice wherewith Fortune had vouchfafed to treat him. Let him tell his tale My mother brought me into this bufy world in a poor and foli-" tary cot, built on the margin of a little ftream -Here, on the top of Mount Cenis I firft faw the light of the fun. My mother gave her hand to my father, (for the best reafon in the world) becaufe the liked him.-Their inclinations were mutual, fo were their cares. Our goods and chattles confifted at my birth in a ftraw bed, an half-ftarved cow, and an old mule.-With thefe, however, the fond couple made fhift to live by day, and by love at night. The gabelle was paid without complaining. Our bread was moistened with water, and favoured by the royal bounty: for the gabelle procured us falt to relish our porridge, and to heighten our repaft. The winter's fnows had vanished from the furface of our little plain, and the enamel'd carpet of the fpring was just breaking into a thoufand fragrant odors, at my birth.-Thus my poor and homely dawnings were crowned with richer garlands than those of the most luxurious monarch. Every part of nature wore the appearance of a fweet, and envied fatisfaction -The circumfcribed horizon of our domestic plains was one continued garden of flowers, whofe various colours feemed to afpire into rivalled beauties of innumerable tinges. -The narciffus, the daffodil, the fweet william, and the dew-drop, were cotemporaries with my exiftence. The gabelle, in France, is the duty on falt. • Nor Nor prince, nor king, nor emperor, not even the Grand Turk with all his dazzling happiness, could rival me in the dainties of my early infancy. I drank that rich ambrofia from my mother's breaft, which nature had prepared with all her care. The daily occupations of life fwelled the pure ftreams of health to form in my mother's bofom, the natural aliment of my exiftence.-No fpices to provoke, no studied dainties were made ufe of to enrich the fluid, but I drank it as pure, as nature, health, and happinefs could beflow. In return for all these parental cares of my mother, I grew in every juft proportion of nature's model.-Each muscle had its due fwell, and every nerve received its accustomed proportion of natural fenfibility. "At four years of age I first began to enter into the scene of action in the great world.-An almost inexhauftible fund of health, united to an exquifite relish for every fenfation, were the only objects on which my fortune and my happiness were equally interefted. My riches were eafily counted, and I knew not the perplexities which attended them, because I was without money.-All my wealth confifted in the ftrength of my muscles and the dexterity of my limbs.Nature, however, had given me fome fmall recompence for the want of fortune. My countenance befpoke the goodness of my heart, and the vermilion on my cheeks the purity of my blood. With a regular fet of features, a pair of fine expreffive eyes, with flowing hair, and an appearance of health and chearfulness, I prejudiced the generality of perfons in my favour. Thefe qualities often procured me (particularly from the women) a more than com mon attention. During the few first years of my infancy I was intrufted with the care of our little fortune, when the Mount Cenis opened its richest fweets, to fmile in varied colours of the spring. The mule and the cow, our dearest treasures, were fent to browfe upon the plain, under my inspection.-I followed their various fleps, fometimes over rocks of alabaster and of marble, or at other times I forced them amidst the young groves of juniper and the liburnum, to crop the fhooting grafs, or gather their food, amidit every fprouting flower of the fpring. At night I led them to the fold-In innocence and cbfcurity I paffed the greateft part of my youth, nor knew the poignant torture of an illness, or the disturbed numbers of a long and tedious night.' - When Mafter Jacques was grown up to manhood, he left thefe happy scenes and employments to a younger brother, and betook himself to the laborious occupation of carrying travellers over the Alps. Here he had an opportunity of obferv ing many curious characters, and of hearing many fingular converfations, which he defcribes in a very pleasant and agreeable manner. Fortune at length placed the confequential charge of a German Baron on his fhoulders, no lefs than that of the Baron of Grengrengraaphen, into whofe favour he infinuates himfelf fo effectually that he is taken into his fervice, and employed more immediately about his perfon. The Baron, whole cha racter racter is highly drawn, went into Italy to repair a conftitution ruined by debauchery. Of courfe he foon dies, and leaves our hero the bulk of his fortune. Mafter Jacques is now fomebody. He puts himself in the way of attaining every gentlemanlike accomplishment, vifits the principal towns in Italy, falls in love with a fine lady, and, laft of all, finding that he had spent all the Baron's ready money, he returns to the caftle of Grengrengraaphen to recruit. In his way thither, accompanied by his valet, he meets with a variety of adventures, and, among the reft, with the following: The fun was now far elevated in the heavens, and the rays darted on us with fuch violence, that we were glad to feek the fhelter of a neighbouring foreft of fir-trees. But as misfortune would have it, the fituation was unknown to us, the foreft very large, and the pleasure of the fhade was fo agreeable, that neither Jungendorff nor myself had perceived our error, till we were quite got out of any beaten track. To add fill more to our dilemma, we perceived the gathering clouds threatning a fevere form, the rays of the fun were foon obfcured, fo that I was at a lofs to judge of my fituation from its course, and the track I fhould take according to the due points of the compass... Jungendorff, who was much more alarmed than myself, either faw, or thought he faw fomething refembling a fhepherd's hut and neighbouring village, but it was yet at a confiderable diftance.Never was object more welcome to my eyes than this, which, as we approached, we found to be an houfe.-In our prefent fituation we were determined at all events to beg an hofpitable retreat. • The kind owner anticipated our wishes, and with a generofity which would have done honour to the most civilized nation, afked us to walk in and wait till the form was over. We accepted his invitation, and after putting our mules into their stall, went into his habitation. The good old man, who ftood at the door and gave the invitation, had fomething in his mein and aspect which feemed above the vulgar of mankind, but as I entered the houfe, my eyes were struck with the appearance of two men, whofe figure and dress feemed to declare a load of villany and crimes. At all events I was determined, if poffible, to gain the next village or town fo foon as the ftorm was over.-On enquiry I found there was no place within twelve miles, and the roads were over fuch dreadful precipices, thatc it would be dangerous to undertake the journey without a guide. The ftorm gathered abundantly, and the chill'd atmosphere, the whirlwind, and the defart and lonely fituation of the cottage, added to the natural horror of the prefent fcene. The rain began to defcend in big drops, and the thunder and lightning inflamed the whole horizon, and rended as it were the neighbouring vallies with their ecchoes.-The day's fatigue had tired and made me exceeding hungry, and my fervant Jungendorff, who ufually took the neceffary precautions concerning the provisions, had not furnished my wallet at my friend Colas's *, as there were no A peafant, with whom they had fupped on the preceding evening. victuals victuals left for us to take away. The people within had prepared their evening's repast, and were fitting down to it, and invited me to partake.-The general diet of the inhabitants of these mountains is compofed of curds, milk, and hard cheese, nor do they often tafte either a bit of bread or meat above once in the year, but to-day was a gaudy day, and our table was furnished magnificently on the occafion.-Colas, whofe hard fare appeared even to me, who had been bred in the mountains, to be mean and poor, was yet far fuperior to our present fupper. Our repaft confifted of a bowl of boiled grey pease, seasoned with ftinking oil, and of bread that was fo coarse as to grate like duft between the teeth. Hunger made me furmount all trifling difficulties, and I made a very hearty meal, though not without reflecting that my feemingly unenvied fituation on the Mount Cenis, was luxury and happiness to this. The ftorm rather increased than diminished, the evening approached, and the company diffuaded me from attempting to purfue my journey. It became at last fo dark, that no choice was left for me to make. The man of the house offered me fomething like a bed, which at first I declined accepting, as I intended to have fat up all the night, and to have gone away at the first dawning of the morning. But my journey for the two days paft had fo tired me that I confented at laft to lie down. The place in which I was to fleep was a hole refembling a hay loft, in which there was no window to let in the light, nor could -one get to it by any other means than that of a ladder which was placed there for the purpofe. As foon as I had mounted into this loft, one of the men with 'd me a good night's reft, took away the ladder, and left me no other way of retreating than by jumping down again, at the expence perhaps of a leg or an arm. Had I been a Somnambule, and apt to walk in my fleep, I confefs I should have had some scruples on the occafion, but I was in hopes of a found nap that evening. I undrefs'd and went to fleep; but whether it was owing to the coarseness of the food, to the too great quantity of fupper, or the undigested pease and bread I had devoured with fo good an appetite, I know not, but I was tormented with fuch frightful dreams, that ! awoke about midnight with all the horrors of difturbed fleep.—I had a fevere thirst upon me, and got out of bed in hopes of finding some water to quench it, or to awake one of the men of the house to get fome for me. It was as dark as clouds and midnight could make it, and I heard a voice as I was getting out of bed, which uttered the most dreadful execrations and curfes that my ears had ever been witness to. In one corner of the room I perceived the reflection of a light or candle through the cracks of the floor, and as I applied my eye to the hole, faw one of the men (who look'd so much like a villain) going backwards and forwards with a great knife in his hand, and muttering fome words to himself which I could not understand. A thousand horrid ideas now crowded on my imagination, I recollected the circumftance of taking away the ladder from the loft in which I lay, and made no doubt that I had got into the house of fome of the banditti or fmugglers by whom these mountains are infested. In this fituation I was determined to call for no water, but to |