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the same degree, but in such a degree as arked the approbation of God, and excited e astonishment of men. But when faith axed feeble, love decreased in proportion; al became cold, and a nominal profession suceded to the life and the power of godliness. onverts came in slowly, and those who did me in were rather proselytes to a new sysm of opinions, than partakers of the grace d the spirit of Jesus. Laws of human enactent superseded the principles, which had ndered such laws unnecessary; but failed to oduce their effects. The outward limits of hristianity extended, while its true dimenons gradually shrunk in. Its glory consisted the rank of its professors, the splendour of its lifices, the pomp of its ceremonies, the unirmity of its ritual and its creed; but its -ayers ceased to be effectual with God, and s labours to be beneficial to men. The cherum took their departure, and Ichabod was ritten on its deserted temples, and its deserated walls."-pp. 136–140.

"The way to the full enjoyment of this blessng then, is the vigorous and enlightened puruit of those measures with which it is connectd in the Divine economy; which are appointd to act as conductors of this celestial energy, nd to bring down upon a withered and perishng world the life, and light, and purity of heaen. It is not to be obtained by standing still nd gazing upwards; it is not to be brought own by the best devised schemes or apparatus f human contrivance; it is not to be secured y the dull and monotonous employment even f God's own institutions; but by dependence n the selectest influences' of the Holy Spirit, ombined with a conscientious, energetic, and nthusiastic employment, of all our sanctified owers, and the use of Christ's prepared instrunents. These God has never failed to acnowledge, and to reward with success. "It does not follow from our combining thus losely the influences of the Spirit with the use of appointed means, that therefore the means nust always precede; and that God limits imself to the course which his people see meet o pursue. This is not at all necessary; nor ndeed is it the sentiment we mean to inculcate. The first impulse to all right conduct, and to ill wise exertion is from God. Sometimes the neasures proposed by us, though good in themselves, may not be in accordance with God's ntention, and they will therefore be prevented, or fail. Paul and his companions would glady have preached the Gospel in Asia, but were forbidden of the Holy Ghost. They attempted to go into Bithynia for this purpose, but the Spirit suffered them not."-pp. 143, 144.

"There is a constant danger of extremes and inconsistency in the operations of men, and in the working of the means which God has called them to employ. Our fathers were men of prayer and of spiritual abstraction,-their children are men of bustle, and activity, and public spirit. The former failed from not doing, as well as praying; the latter may not less fail, by doing without praying. The observance of ap

abandonment of them would not be the cure, but the death of the cause. What we want is, not that men should do these things less, but that they should do other things more; that they should study consistency in all things; that they should pray as well as meet to make or to hear speeches; and consecrate themselves, as well as devote their property to the kingdom of heaven.

"The attention of the church in latter years has been greatly directed to means, and men's ingenuity has actually been put to the rack to devise schemes of benevolence and usefulness. Societies and plans of operation have been multiplied, till neither time nor strength seems equal to their demands, and the mind itself feels incapable of following the details of their progress. To all this we do not object.-Nay, in all this we do rejoice; yea, and will rejoice. It is not from this we augur ill to the world, or to the cause of Christ. Bounding from what may be considered the over-straining of human power, men have proposed as the chief thing of importance, praying for the Spirit, and waiting for the coming of the Lord. We object not to this. It is the prayer of faith that shall save the world; and the men who are waiting for the coming of their Lord, are in the best attitude for doing his work. What we would recommend, is not prayer and spiritual dependence in opposition to effort; but their enlightened and regular combination. That while the eye is directed to God, the hand should be laid upon men; that while Heaven's blessing is fervently implored, personal activity should not be laid aside; that following the example, and obeying the precepts of the Redeemer and his apostles, we should be steadfast in the faith, immoveable in the hope, and always abounding in the work of the Lord; knowing that thus 6 our labour in the Lord shall not be in vain.'" -pp. 145, 146.

The following animated and rousing remarks form the summing up of the last ser

mon.

"Sustained by these considerations, tell us not that we are worms of the dust, that our weapons are wielded by mortal feebleness, and that the array against us is most appaling ;— tell us not of the strength of man's enmity to God, and of the inveteracy of all his habits of ungodliness;-tell us not of the increase of that inveteracy, by the idolatries and abominations of the world;-tell us not of the hold which the prince of the power of darkness has over his unhappy subjects and slaves. All these things we know and feel. But stronger is He that is with us, than all who can be against us. The treasure is indeed in earthen vessels; but it is, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of men. The weapons of our warfare are mighty through God; though they are not carnal weapons: and therefore, in the hands of the Spirit of God they cannot be employed in vain. The influence which encourages to draw the bow, which barbs the arrow and speeds its flight; directs with unerring certainty its aim, and can bring

prayers, to a glorious victory over all the powers of evil and of darkness.

"Let the church of God then, be faithful to the deposit which has been intrusted to it. To his people he has given charge of his holy oracles, and in charge to proclaim their truths through all the world. He has committed to them the interests of his glory, and of the salvation of men. He has confided to them the honour of being his remembrancers, to put him in mind of his own promises, and of his covenant obligations; and while he has reserved to himself the exercise and application of that healing power, which effectually worketh the counsel of his own will, he has given to his church the key which unlocks the sacred storehouse, by promising to dispense its treasures in answer to faith and prayer.

"The world is all before us,' and the command to go in and possess it, is sounding in our ears. Already the pioneers of the sacred army are at work in every land, and the precursors of the heralds of the cross are operating in every country. The signs of the times are all favourable to our efforts and our wishes. Already God has blessed our endeavours beyond our expectations, and he is waiting 'till our faith shall be increased, that he may enlarge us according to his rule abundantly.' It is for us then to determine whether the work shall go on and extend, or retrograde and diminish; -whether by the contribution of our prayers, our labours, and our property, it shall be carried forward in a manner worthy of the cause, and of the name we profess; or whether, by withholding them, we shall at once deprive ourselves of the reward of turning many to righteousness, and retard the progress of the Redeemer's glory."-pp. 155-157.

The notes and illustrations, which occupy nearly half the volume, contain the more critical and minute part of the author's argument, and serve to relieve the discourses from much matter, which, though highly important and interesting to scholars, would have made the sermons heavy and toilsome to the general reader. There is much useful and instructive matter in these notes. The volume, altogether, is adapted to be extensively useful. The discourses upon the connexion of divine influence with appointed means are worthy of general perusal. They are calculated at once to correct some prevalent mistakes, and to rouse and encourage alike ministers and people. Extracts from them, or even the whole of the three last sermons, might be advantageously read by ministers at their weekly prayer-meetings, or in any social assemblies of Christians. We cordially wish the volume an extensive circulation.

From the Evangelical Magazine.
HYMN.

WHEN Christ in human nature came,
And dwelt on earth a child of wo,
He bade the pure, the holy flame

Of heavenly love around him glow: Where'er he mov'd, the poor, the maim'd, The halt, the blind, compos'd his train;

And none the Saviour's kindness cla Or sought his aid in vain.

He spoke, and lo! the palsied limb, The darken'd eye no more is dim, A new, a youthful vigour feels; His touch the deaf man's ear unse

Incarnate fiends his pow'r confess'd Like harts the lame were taught Hope cheer'd again the mourner's b And grief forgot to weep. Exalted now at God's right hand,

In heav'n the gentle Saviour reig But, by his gracious Spirit fann'd, That holy flame on earth remains And they, who feel its genial pow'r In Jesus' steps delight to tread; And love to wipe, in sorrow's bow`r The tears their brethren shed. But chief, when o'er the mourner's The shades of doubt and anguish That love exerts its sweet control, And guides him to the Saviour's It bids him lift the tearful eye

To Christ-the Word, the Light, And tells how God's own Son could That we might live for aye. O Lord! in this cold heart of mine

Awake that bright, that sacred fir Let heavenly peace, and grace divin My ev'ry word and act inspire! For thus my rising soul shall long

To join the blissful choirs above; Where ev'ry heart, and ev'ry song, And ev'ry thought, is love!

From the Wesleyan Methodist Ma POPERY ON THE CONTIN

(Continued from p. 323.)

MARTIGNY.

BETWEEN Martigny and the ne hamlet of Le Bourg, stood a cruc size and newness of decoration att regards. I rode up, and read the a paper affixed to it. They annot permission of "Monseigneur E Sion," and on the authority of co verend Missionaries of the Society that whosoever should devoutly repe Paters, and so many Ares, at the fo particular cross, would be allowed ani of forty days. Easy as may be the which a share in the spiritual treasu man Catholicism is to be obtained b sant of this country, the Pope's M know full well that he works hard € his scanty portion of temporal a And how, from his little lot of this w things, he contrives to make the offe pay the dues exacted from him, is to stant matter of wonder, as we go see so many handsome churches, and wretched hovels.

CHAMOUNY.

We entered the church, which wa as the date on its portal shows, in 1 a goodly edifice, with marble colu

uch ornamental work upon its altar-pieces. looked into some of the Prayer-Books, which e villagers had left on the seats. Pure evanelical and apostolical faith in the Divine Jeis, how art thou exchanged for a vain seducve formulary, which "teaches for doctrines e commandments of men!" Christ's solemn junction, to "worship God in spirit and in uth," finds no support in these Romish comlations; whose object, on the contrary, is, every page, to inculcate the necessity of acing on the efficaciousness of prayers reted, and devotions paid, to the departed spits of weak and fallible beings, that reliance hich Scripture instructs us, unreservedly nd exclusively, to fix upon the mercies of our Creator, through the mediation and all-suffient atonement of a crucified Redeemer!

GENEVA.

"When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,"

besides what it owes to the peculiar nature of its contents, is interesting as an early production of the typographic art. It abounds in abbreviations, and is consequently not a little difficult to read. But through the able assistance of a literary friend, I succeeded in obtaining an exact copy, from beginning to end; with the sole exception of the names of the persons for whose spiritual benefit it was specifically designed. The learned gentleman who aided me in my research was, equally with myself, unable to decipher the appellatives which, in the manuscript, filled up the blanks of this "holy" and "infallible" schedule. Wo could only discover at the end, the word "uxor" written, indicating that the Indulgence was equally available to a man and his wife. As a Besides the Cathedral, there are three other whole, however, it serves to elucidate the laces of worship dedicated to the service of meaning of Leo the Tenth's ten thousand he Protestant religion, happily the still as- years of pardon, granted to reciters of Paters endant and prevailing one in Geneva. A and Aves, at Milan; and, coupled with the proourth church, however, is assigned to the use ceedings of Monday last in this city, seems of that peculiar persuasion, "the sincere memalso well adapted to demonstrate, that, although pers of which," as Mr. Blanco White says and Calvinism, even here at its fountain-head, has roves, " cannot conscientiously be tolerant." lost much of its austerity, and all its intoleAnd this very day, August 1st, 1825, it has rance, the religion of which the warlike and een the scene of a grand ceremonial. I was ambitious Julius was at the head in 1507, is in ot informed of the circumstance in time to be every respect the same under Leo the Twelfth, nabled to witness it; but from a friend, who now at this Jubilee period of 1825. vas a spectator, I learned that the bones of a In this document we see "the Most Holy Popish Saint were displayed with poinp and Lord" (an expression which, if not blaspheparade enough to make those of a Genevese mous, only just falls short of being so, as apReformer rattle in his grave: a pomp and paplied to any human being whatsoever, but most ade of relic-honour to which the descendants flagrantly impious when coupled with the name of Calvin's and Beza's disciples, in this place of of Julius Secundus, Papa) confirming all the heir nativity and theatre of their successful acts, good, bad, and indifferent, of all his preministry, are as yet but little, if at all, accusdecessors, wicked or virtuous; and granting Comed. Some months back, Monsieur Vuarin, to persons who have entered into a certain conthe Cure of the Roman Catholic Church, ac- fraternity, and having paid a small sum of mocompanied by the Abbé de la Mennai, travelled ney towards the reparation of a Hospital, and to the Vatican: on which occasion Leo the for the support of a war against the Turks, a Twelfth, for the edification of "the faithful," prodigious remittance out of his spiritual treamore numerous now than ever in this hereti-sury. For, having confessed to a Priest of cal republic, presented to the Curé some bones of a canonized martyr, or confessor, named Nemesion. These precious fragments, which had been suffered for centuries to rest in peace at Rome, were lately transported to Geneva: and they were this day deposited in a chapel dedicated to the dead man's honour. All the Roman Catholic Priests of the Canton and its neighbourhood assembled at the church betimes in the morning, to the number of between sixty and seventy; and the Bishop of Bellay, accompanied by his two Grand Vicars, came on purpose to officiate on so important an occasion,

and to confer due splendour on so imposing a spectacle.

Through the kind introduction of M. Charles Coindet, a high gratification was afforded ine in the sight of a very interesting part of his father's valuable collection of original letters

their own choosing, they may receive from him,
once in their lives, and at the hour of death, or
as often as they shall be in danger of dying,
not only absolution from all lapses, but also,
plenary remission of all their sins and faults,
however enormous and heinous; their Con-
fessor being empowered to remit to them the
pains of purgatory, which by their sins they
have incurred, and to re-establish them in that
state of purity and innocence in which they were
when baptized; and as far as the keys of the
Church extend. And it is, we know, a funda-
mental article of that Church, that the Pope is
the Vicar of Jesus Christ; and, as St. Peter's
successor, holds the keys of heaven.
might suppose that this was indulgence enough,
in all conscience: but no; they have not yet
got their pennyworth for their penny. A ple-
nary absolution is granted to these hospital sub-

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their bodies, in spite of all broken vows, except the vow of a journey to Palestine. Each day of their lives, and on the grand ecclesiastical festivals, years and quarantines of appointed penance are excused; and, to make things more comfortable in this world, by preparations for rendering them easy in the next, these indulgences are expressly stated to amount yearly, in the whole, to the sum of fourteen hundred and thirty-four thousand and thirty years! But O the inexhaustible bounty of the Papal Exchequer! Because more than a million of years' exemptions from a chimæra of its own creation might not be sufficient to requite the stockholders in Rome's consolidated fund of meritorious works, they are, moreover, made partakers of a hecatomb of sacrifices; and in case they wish, which of course they do, to relieve their dead relatives and friends, being in purgatory, they have only, with penitence and confession, to pay, at a fixed price per soul, and, Hoc Presto! the same soul is liberated from that place of fiery punishment, and placed in the way to paradise! Than such indulgences, openly sold and eagerly bought at the commencement of the sixteenth century, on pretended" Apostolical Authority," what need is there of better proof that the doctrine of Purgatory, dove-tailed into that of the mass, and strengthened by creature-worship in the person of the Virgin Mary, is a fiction of priests, invented, among other schemes, to aggrandize their own power, and to increase the wealth of their communities? With tenets like these to maintain and propagate, it is no wonder that the Roman Church enjoins it as a duty on her ministers, that, "whatever they can achieve by power, provide by counsel, or effect by authority, they should daily execute, in order to remedy and abolish the Pestilence" of circulating any versions of the Holy Scriptures, except such as she, who arrogates to herself the exclusive right of interpreting them, shall authorize. Her visible head has declared him

self "truly shocked" at the establishment of BIBLE SOCIETIES, which he calls, "a defilement of the faith, most imminently dangerous to souls;" and further describes it as "a crafty device by which the very foundations of religion are undermined:" as if it were possible to point out a greater defilement of Christianity, or a more crafty device to undermine true religion, than the system of which Papal Indulgences form a part. But,

"Hear the just law, the judgment of the skies: He that hates truth, shall be the dupe of lies; And he that will be cheated to the last, Delusions strong as hell shall bind him fast."

FRIBOURG.

At three o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at Fribourg, entering the principal square just as the peasantry of both sexes were proceeding in throngs to "our Lady of the Rosary." The church appeared to be in a crowded state; but that circumstance proved no impediment to such service as the good folks of this Canton are taught to pay. Keeping up a line of com

clusters: the sound of the bell that a the elevation of the Host, was the sign versal kneeling. It was instantly obe congregation within the sacred fane, up with mechanical precision and rapi open air by the assembled multitud well drilled under the ingenious b sytem of Paters and Ares. But, alas instructed must they be in the tru written Word which cautions us aga "vain repetitions, as the Heathen d

We entered the chapel belongin Convent of the Nuns of the Visitat Virgin Mary; a handsome little bu corated with some choice pieces of in black and white marble. It was of service, and the sisterhood were in an oratory adjoining the chapel; an the evening-hymn to the Virgin. 1 a glazed arch, rendered still more d the sight to penetrate by the cross-b placed before it, we saw, or fancie saw, the black-hooded heads of th One of them sang the Litany, wh joined in fine chorus; and the tones

vocalist were so musical, and at the plaintive burden of the vesper son so melancholy, that I could not tra Maria ora pro nobis !) into any thin plain English of a captive's lament can't get out; I can't get out.” In buke of this conceit, I shall be told verend professors of Papal obedienc these incarcerated females take th their own free will and unbiassed ch that none of them ever experienced of regret at their total and perpetual: tion from the world. To this, with to the sworn believers in Pope Pius th creed, be it replied, that nature though superstition rave. Our con formed us, that this community is su the strictest regulations. He had b employed as a workman in the gard Convent; but, on such occasions, as makes his appearance at the grate, t elder sisters ring a bell, as a sign junior Nuns, to conceal themselves wi

recesses; where,

"Veiling from the eye of day, Penance dreams her life away We visited the Monastery of the C entering its little chapel whilst the F at their devotions: if, indeed, it be i version of the term, when we apply mere routine of crossings, and bow genuflexions; to the tiresome reiter monotonous chant; or to the gabbling breviary, placed on high before the the turning over of its leaves with a a string. Their monkish habits brown cloth, the extraordinary fort hood; their tonsured scalps, long bus bare legs, and sandals, were all in st nance with rites so whimsically called On our minds, who had just quitted ing Canton of the same political con

they had ever shown themselves to be ;--when we look at the perfect despotism of their internal government, and at the system of espionage practised over the novices by the superiors, and by their General over them all:--when attention is paid to their characteristic attachment to their Order, and to the spirit of active intrigue, and of unrestrained ambition, which animated its members, among whom were to be found the most strenuous advocates of ecclesiastical encroachment upon civil government, the most zealous supporters of Papal usurpation and presumption, the most decided foes to liberty of conscience, and freedom of worship;

ur Redeemer's injunction, and the practice of is Apostles, the impression made by such hummery and corruption was strangely powrful. Roman Catholic Fribourg is distant rom Protestant Yverdun but a short day's ourney at the end of which, however, in o far as Christianity is concerned, we seemd to have travelled a thousand miles; or, nore properly speaking, time itself appeared o have retrograded with us five centuries at east. A civil, good-tempered member of the rder, whose beard was silvered with age, howed us their garden, their dormitory, and heir refectory, on the table of which he was imself occupied in setting the brethren's sup--when, moreover, we pay regard to their seer and, in justice to their professed austeriy, I have to state, that their meal was as simple as their garments were coarse.

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dulous propagation of doctrines, not less dangerous in their political tendency, than pernicious in their consequences to religion and morality; and advert to the recorded fact, that a society thus selected, constituted, actuated, and directed, was the one to claim and obtain,

In the principal gallery of the College of Jesuits are numerous portraitures of Popes, and of eminent Members of the Order, from Ignatius de Loyola, Francis Xavier, Laynez, Aqua-in less than a century after its foundation, the viva, to Canisius, and so on, downwards, including Campian, Garnet, and some other British and Irish born subjects of Elizabeth and James;-men whom the Latin inscriptions, at the bottom of their respective pictureframes, designate as Martyrs to their religion." Yes: but then it was a religion which taught them to be traitors to their Sovereign, and conspirators with the foreign enemy of their country; a religion under which they were bound by a vow of absolute obedience to that Pontiff who adjured his spiritual subjects, at the peril of their salvation, not to deny his power of deposing such Princes as he chose to brand with the appellation of heretics; a religion which instructed them to equivocate and dissemble, to say that black was white, and white was black, for the benefit of their Church; and to contend for the lawfulness of putting to death a King whom the Pope had deposed.*

Since the establishment of the Jesuits in 1555, by the constitutions of Paul the Third, no event perhaps has occurred of more importance to the interests of the See of Rome, than their restoration, by the late Pope, in 1814. In the circumstances attendant, as well on the creation as on the revival of this Order, there are some striking points of coincidence: yet in few things has the state of the Protestant mind offered a stronger contrast to that of Roman Catholic feeling, than in the indifference with which the sudden resuscitation of an extinguished community, canonically suppressed for its alleged offences against God and man, was viewed by those of the Reformed Faith, as compared with the exulting anticipation of advantages to their Church, with which it was hailed by the Romanists. When, indeed, we refer to the evidences of History, and observe at what a critical juncture, and for what special purposes, that peculiar body of men, calling themselves "the Company of Jesus," first received the necessary sanction and confirma

tion for their institute and proceedinøs :—

almost exclusive instruction of youth in Roman Catholic countries; becoming within the same space of time the Confessors of Kings, spiritual rulers, and temporal sovereigns; to say nothing of their successful enterprises as mercantile speculators;-when we reflect on the wealth they accumulated, the power they acquired, the influence they exercised, the objects they aimed at, the career they pursued up to the very moment when so many potentates of their own persuasion drove them from their dominions, on charges which were recognised as just by the Bull for their suppression; when we think on these things, it surely may well prompt us, if not to dread, at least to watch, the operations of that bold, persevering, shrewd, and artful policy, which, in the face of a preceding judgment, unscrupulous about the pretext to be assigned for so palpable a breach in the Roman Catholic unity of proceedings, induced Pius the Seventh, just liberated from captivity in France, to abrogate the Brief of Ganganelli, and restore to the Jesuits, as pledged warriors of the triple crown, not only "a local habitation and a name," but the full possession of all their former rights, privileges, and employments, with the liberty of extending the sphere of their activity wherever they should be allowed to set foot, and whenever they should regain the means of permanently establishing themselves.

LUCERNE.

The Cathedral Church at Lucerne is a building finely situated, but of no great size. The portal is in bad taste, both as to sculpture and architecture. The interior is modern; fitted up with the pomp of decoration which appertains to the Romish worship, and with the tawdriness and trumpery which it equally encou rages and authorizes. In the chapel of the Virgin we see that favourite object of Roman Catholic worship attired in grand costume, including a hooped petticoat of pink and gold embroidery, and a lace-lining to her robe, an im

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