sent me, that every one who seeth the Son and believeth on him, may have everlasting life." Promises thus conditional, made to those who believe and repent, unfold the connection which God has established between faith and salvation; and make known that those hearers only of the gospel shall be saved who believe and repent. They, however, no more shew that Christ died for all the hearers of the gospel, than that they shall all believe and obtain pardon of sin. From the remission which they obtain who believe and repent, it is proved that Christ died for them; and it would also be true, if others believed and repented, that Christ had died for them. But he who reasons that Christ has died for all, if they will only believe, reasons falsely; from hypothetical premises, he draws an absolute conclusion, contrary to all good rules of reasoning.

APPENDIX.

THERE are two societies of professed Christians, which have not been noticed in the Historical Sketch, as they at present exist, in the United States-the Swedenburghians and the Roman Catholics. The former of these, have three or four ministers in this country, all of whom are, in a great measure, illiterate. It is believed, that none of them has any pretensions, even to a smattering of classical literature, or physical science. There has been for several years, a society of the disciples of Swedenburgh, organised in the city of Baltimore; and they have lately organised a small one in Philadelphia, and erected a New Jerusalem Temple, as it is pompously announced in the newspapers. There is one preacher in the western part of New-York State, and one in Ohio. There are, besides, several small societies in other parts of the union.

The exertions made by these people, to diffuse their principles, are prodigious, considering their numbers. They have published magazines, pamphlets and books, all of which are stuffed with selections from the works of the founder of the sect. Many of them are distributed gratuitously, among the poorer and middling classes of society. It is said, that several thousand dollars, have been expended in the city of Philadelphia alone, in this way. They have even presented to one of the rival chiefs of Hayti, a considerable number of their books, and contemplate a similar offering to the other. Will the friends of truth awake?

Since the Historical Sketch went to press, the author has been informed, that while Clowes, and many other Swedenburghians of England, remain in the Episcopal church, there is also a separate society formed, consisting of several congregations.

Many people attend at their temple on Sabbath, who do not yet embrace their notions. Most of these visitants are of the episcopal church; indeed, by far the greater part of their converts, both in England and America, are from that body. As in Britain, so in America, few of the poor join their society. They wish to be rich in heaven, though they are poor in this world. Those who have a taste for luxurious living, and the means of gratifying it, are enamoured with the "nectarious wines," and splendid festivals of Sweden. burgh's heaven. This will probably account for their making so many proselytes in the episcopal church, in which there are so much gaiety, and fashion, and worldly spirit.

They have published, in Philadelphia, a manual for the direction of their public worship, of which the forms are, in a great measure, copied from the prayer book of the protestant episcopal church, resembling in form that instrument as much as the child generally resembles the parent. It also em braces an account of their creed. In their enumeration of the "Complete Holy Scriptures," they leave out of the Old Testament, the two books of Chronicles, the books of Ruth, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and the Song of Solomon; and out of the New, the Acts of the Apostles, and all the Epistles. For this omission, they do not pretend to have any other authority than that of Swedenburgh, who tells them that the exploded books, were not written according to "the science of correspondences." Why the Baron proscribed so much of the Old Testament, is not very manifest; but the reason is plain, for the act of exile passed against Paul and the other apostles; the doctrines of the atonement, and divine decrees, are so clearly asserted by them, that the most commodious way of answering all arguments drawn from their Epistles, is to deny that they are a part of the divine word. Priestley rejected those parts of the Bible which did not suit his purpose. To give all this the most gentle name, it is semi-infidelity. They deny the doctrine of the resurrection of the body.

The doctrine of the atonement, is not in the Swedenburghian confession of faith. The object of Christ's incar

nation, according to this confession, was to subdue hell. And the object of his sufferings, they say was, "to unite his divinity with his divine humanity." They maintain, that all men have an influx from heaven, and that by using it well, they may save themselves. This influx is the "internal light" of the Quaker, the moral power of the Arminian, and the natural ability of the Hopkinsian.

The Roman Catholics make very great efforts to increase the number of avowed devotees to the see of Rome, and their success is very considerable. They have three colleges, one in Georgetown, one in Baltimore, and one at Emmetsburgh, in the interior of Maryland. The most conspicuous and influential of these institutions, is St. Mary's of Baltimore, under the care of the society of St. Sulpicius. This college was powerfully supported for many years. Its directors had a connection with the Catholics of Louisiana, and with those of Canada. But the illiberal means which they employed to make all their pupils Catholics, and the reputation of an opposition college, under the care of the Rev. Dr. Knox, have very much crippled this American "Man of Sin." Yet the number of chapels which are erected or erecting, in every section of the union, evince, that both their numbers and their wealth are very great, and that they are on the increase. Scarcely any opposition is made to them. Indeed, it seems to be a prevailing opinion, that it is a matter of perfect indifference, what religion a man embraces, or what doctrines he believes, provided his heart is good, and his morals decent. Few pray the prayer of David: "Let my heart be sound in thy statutes." The connection between theory and practice, is not well understood; nor is a regard for the honour of God, as displayed in a firm attachment to all known truth, a very prominent feature of modern professors. The cry of all is union.

The feelings and opinions of the day, have been embodied in Dr. Mason's Catholic Communion, mentioned in our Historical Sketch. The difficulties in which this subject is involved, appear in the most striking light, from this volume. We are astonished that, in the hands of such a writer, it is