rood; Him without end,' in the Monogram carved on boss and corbel, in the Holy Lamb, in the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in the Mystical Fish? But on none of these things do we rest; piers-arch be-hind arch-windows-light behind light— arcades -shaft behind shaft-the roof. bay behind bay— the saints around us-the heavenly hierarchy above, with dignity of pre-eminence still increasing eastward: each and all lead on eye, and soul, and thought, to the image of the crucified Saviour as displayed in the great east window. Gazing steadfastly on that," continue these nominally Protestant editors, "we pass up the nave, that is, through the Church Militant, till we reach the Roodscreen, the barrier between it and the Church Triumphant, and therein shadowing forth the death of the faithful. High above it hangs, on his triumphal cross, the image of Him who, by his death, had overcome death; on it are portrayed Saints and Martyrs, his warriors who, fighting under their Lord, have entered into rest... The seven lamps above them typify those graces of the Spirit, by whom alone we can tread in their steps. The screen itself glows with gold and crimson: with gold, for they have on their heads golden crowns: with crimson, for they passed the Red Sea of martyrdom to obtain them,” &c. [P. cxxx.] So speak these Church Restorers of the spiritualities of wood and stone! But, even supposing that all the things here mentioned could express and convey some spiritual truth, in any other way than by the fiction of their own fancy, these are not the worst: Scripture itself is perverted to support their fancies, and doctrines are inculcated by their symbolism which have no foundation in fact. "Martyrs," we are told, 66 are symbolized by birds let loose; for so Tertullian. There is one kind of flesh of fishes, that is, of those

who be regenerated by holy baptism; but another of birds, that is, of martyrs !!!" and these Hierophants further tell us that the octagonal form of the "Font" represents "regeneration," the number "eight" (we know not why) implying "regeneration." Nor is it forms and substances only, but sounds also that are symbolical. "We know," they say, "that each instrument symbolizes some particular colour the trombone, is deep red; the trumpet, scarlet; the clarionet, orange; the oboe, yellow; the bassoon, deep yellow; the flute, sky-blue; the diapason, deep blue; the double diapason, purple; the horn, violet; while the violin is pink; the viola, rose; the violencello, red; and the double-bass, crimson.”

Now how all this can be, except upon the principle that, "as the bell tinks, so the fool thinks," we must confess we cannot understand. But there is one thing we are at no loss to perceive: this "chamber of imagery," all splendid as it is, into which these Romanisers have led us, is evidently the dwelling of that lady, so graphically described in the Book of Revelation, as "arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls ;" and we can clearly trace on the walls, depicted by a hand from heaven, those prophetic words: "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

CHAP. XXIII.

66 CHURCH PRINCIPLES" OR SCRIPTURE PRINCIPLES.

"Helpe and defende, my good brethren all,
Whych love doctrine cathedrall,

And do beleve unwrytten veritie
To be as good as Scripture's sincerite.

Because in the Bible I cannot be founde

The heretikes woulde burye me under the grounde.
I praye you hartily yf it be possible

To get me a place in the great Bible:

Or else as I do understande

I shall be banished out of thys lande,

And shall be compelled with sorrow and payn

To return to Rome to my Father agayne.

DR. TURNER, Dean of Wells, and Physician to
Edward VI.

"A VAST deal of mischief," said Mr. Faithful, resuming his conversation with Mr. Lovetruth," has been wrought through that equivocal and fallacious expression-Church Principles.' People have been caught by the term, and ensnared into receiving as Church principles what are not Scripture principles, and what consequently are not the principles of the Church of England, which grounds all her doctrines upon Scripture. Wishing to be good Churchmen, and assuming that the term, Church principles' included only such as were accordant to the word of God- they have received upon credit many doctrines or practices which would not, if tried, bear the touch of that infallible test of truth."

"But do you really think," interrupted Mr. Lovetruth, "that the original inventors of the term made use of it with the view to deceive?"

Mr. F. "Whether the original inventors of the term intended it or not, there can be no doubt that a great deal of deception has been practised upon unsuspecting people through this conveniently equivocal expression. It seems formed indeed for the very purposes of jesuistry. The double meaning of which it is capable exactly fits it for deceiving the unwary. It may be responded to in one sense by the hearer, and intended in a totally opposite sense by the user. There is nothing in it to mark out what Church is referred to, or to limit it to the English Church; "Church principles" obviously may mean the principles of the Romish Church as well as of the English, for its application must be determined by what he who uses it intends by the Church. This, unless explicitly stated, we cannot be certain of. Here, then, is room for the jesuitical principle of mental re

servation.

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Why those who first adopted the term did not add the distinctive epithet Protestant, is not very clear: at least, it can only be inferred. That men should be deliberately indefinite in their definitions, except to conceal their real purposes, seems unaccountable. The reason of it we must leave to themselves to explain. If it should be said, as we know it may be said, that the terin was adopted at first to distinguish Church principles from Dissenting principles that does not remove its objectionableness-since the dissenter would doubt what was included in the term "Church principles"—whether those alone which we think we can derive from the Scriptures, or those which rest upon the Scriptures and tradition: whether, in short, they were to be Protestant Church principles-or what, by a strange misnomer, but with something more of definiteness, have been designated Anglo-Catholic principles.

"But it is not with dissenters alone that we, if

honest members of the Church of England, have to contend-it is also with the Romanists, who claim to be exclusively the Church. Under the colour of Church principles,' a secret Roman Catholic might fight for his own Church in the ranks of the Church of England. The term serves not, then, the purposes of a watch-word. It does not give a certain sound.' It is invidious, as used in opposition to dissenters, and is no security against Romanizers. The addition of the single epithet, Protestant, to Church principles,' would have made all clear, definite, certain."

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Mr. L.-"But the tract writers, who first brought into use the term Church principles,' object to the epithet Protestant:' they say they reject and anathematize the very name of Protestant."

"But why,"replied Mr. Faithful, "do they object to it?"

“Ah, there is the rub," added Mr. Lovetruth. "The truth is they object to it, or to adopt their own language, they 'abominate' it, because they abominate Protestantism itself; and they abominate Protestantism because it professes to rest upon Scripture alone, and sets aside tradition."

Mr. L.-" They say they object to it because it is applicable alike to Churchmen and to all classes of dissenters, not excepting Socinians and Quakers, and because it is merely negative."

Mr. F.-"That is not the case; for what does the word Protestant' properly mean? It means 'to bear witness;' and when used in a religious sense, it means to bear witness to the truth against all error, and to declare a resolution to suffer for it if necessary-than which nothing can be more positive. It is nearly equivalent, then, to the term

* Johnson explains to protest to mean, “ To give a solemn