sion, a mere numerical one. We may discourse after the same manner of our souls. For, as the great diversity of bodies furnisheth us with a nobler idea of God's power than if he had created but one kind, or all of one texture; so if I suppose different species and hierarchies of souls as of angels, I frame, no doubt, a higher conceit of his perfections. Yet notwithstanding all this, you shall not be allowed hence to infer, that there are different species of men: for this denomination, we take from what is most obvious to our senses, that is, from the bodies. This doctrine will raise in our minds a great respect and veneration for men of greater abilities than we know ourselves to be of; for we shall conceive their souls are in a higher order, as indeed they are, and consequently pay to them a due and proportionable homage, as angels do honour and esteem archangels, and archangels likewise powers, thrones, &c."

In his chapter on " the different sorts of wits," he is manifestly inferior to Dr. Charlton in his volume on that subject; a tract most ably written, and which is said to have been used by Locke in his great treatise. We shall, however, not insist at present on any comparison between these two authors, as we intend ere long to bring this piece

of Dr. Charlton's before our readers. In his section on "physiognomy," we have the following plausible observations.

"What I have said of the forehead, may be likewise understood of the whole head; the bulk whereof, generally speaking, if proportionable to the body, is no ill mark. I remember to have seen at Amsterdam, in the house near the temple, wherein the natural fools are kept, to the -number of three or four, whose heads did -not surpass in bulk an ordinary man's fist. I fancy the hinder part of the head is the magazine of the soul, where the species and images of things are conserved. This may be the reason why, being desirous to recover the memory of a forgotten thing, we turn naturally one hand back thither, as if we intended to awaken our memorative spirits. As for the hairs four things may be considered concerning them. 1st. Their lying flat on the head. 2d. Their curling. 3d. Their quantity. 4th. Their colour. The first signifies dulness, if they be not somewhat curled at the ends, because this sheweth a want of heat. The second some greater sharpness, because it supposes some more heat. The third, if very considerable, and accompanied with thickness, is a sign of too many excrementitious

parts, and of a too material substance of

the brains. Of the fourth, I shall distin

guish but three sorts, the black, and the fair colour, as two extremes, and the chesnut colour as a middle between them both. The fair is a surer mark of wit, judgment, and good sense, than the black, because 'tis originally occasioned by the movement of brisker, clearer, and more lively spirits. Whereas the black, I mean the deepest sort, may sometimes impart a melancholy, heavy, and dull temper, as being of an exceeding compact and close texture, yet 'tis often produced by the motion of more active spirits, but which are tempered with terrestrial ones. But the chesnut colour is to be preferred before the other two, as proceeding not from the action of mere terrestrial, or of mere airy corpuscles, but from a just mixture of both. I had almost forgot the ears, whereof the bulk only is considerable in relation to physiognomy, because, if they be respectively too great, or not proportionable to the head, they are reckoned commonly to be a sign of dul

ness.

The reason of the vulgar is, because such people resemble long-eared asses. But it is more rational to say, that this is occasioned by the weakness of an imperfect soul, who made one part proporthough it aimed, indeed, as all things do, tionably larger than the other. Because, by the impulse of nature, at the most perfect, yet it could not reach it, as being none of the highest, as of the first hie

rarchy of souls."

The following extracts are miscellaneous.

"A French Jesuite spent unsuccessfully a part of his life, and a considerable sum of money in the vain attempt to discover a perpetual movement, and coming at length without having found it out, to his last end, and eternal rest, reaped no other thing by the continual and long labours of his life, but this pleasant epitaph after his death. Patri quærenti motum perpetuum requies_eterna.'

"I conceive the French to be more sensible of the truth of this doctrine of the in

feriority of women than most other nations, because by their salick law, women can claim no right among them to the sovereign command. I shall not say, it would perhaps prove to our great advantage to put that same affront upon them by giving place to this law amongst us; but sure I am, that England would be no more a purgatory for men, as it is commonly said to be, and would not cease neither to be a paradise for women, if the salick law were once established in every private house and family of this king

dom."

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

(NINTH ANNIVERSARY.)

ON Thursday, May 12, the managers and friends of the above Society met at the City Hall, Broadway, New York, where his Excellency De Witt Clinton, Governor of the State, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, took the Chair.

The 103d Psalm was read by the Rev. Dr. Porter, of Catskill; when the acting Vice-President addressed the Meeting in a short, but interesting speech, in which he paid an eloquent tribute to the memory and character of the late General Clarkson, in all the public and private relations of life which he had sustained, and particularly as the presiding officer of the Board of Managers, and the acting Vice-President of the Society. After the reading of letters apologizing for the necessary absence from the Meeting, from John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, and other Vice-Presidents of the Society; -William W. Woolsey, Esq. Treasurer of the Society, read the annual Report of the state of the Society's property and funds, and of the receipts and expenditures for the past year. By this Report it appeared, that the income of the Society for the present year exceeds that of the preceding 4,589 dollars-included in this is a munificent legacy of 2,000 dollars, left the Society by Matthew Van Benschoten, Esq. of Fishkill. The Report of the Managers for the 9th year was then read by the Rev. Dr. M'Auley, one of the Secretaries of the Society for Domestic Correspondence. It stated, that uninterrupted harmony has attended the labours and proceedings of the Managers--that its affairs are prosperous,--but notwithstand ing the excess of receipts into the treasury, the income is still greatly inadequate to the wants of the country; and that there have been printed at the depository during the year, 48,550 Bibles and Testaments, including 2000 Spanish Bibles ;--making a total in the nine years of the Society's existence of 451,902 Bibles and Testaments, and parts of the latter, printed, or otherwise obtained by the Society. Stereotype plates for a Pocket Bible are casting, and are expected to be completed by the ensuing autumn, There have been issued from the depository in the course of the year, 63,851 Bibles and Testaments, and the Gospels in the Mohawk language; making a total since the establishment of

the Society of 372,913 Bibles and Testaments, and parts of the latter, exclusive of the number issued by the Kentucky Bible Society. The Managers have been recently engaged in contributing to the supply of penitentiaries and prisons with the Scriptures; and the troops stationed at remote posts of the United States; the army and navy both being now furnished with Bibles from the same source. The Managers have granted 500 dollars to assist in the translation and publication of the Scriptures in some of the languages of the native tribes of Peru; one of which tribes contains a million of people. Gratuitous donations of the Scriptures for distribution, principally in the new States. and Territories of the Union, have been made during the year, to the value of 10,447 dollars--still, the wants in many places are great and pressing, and the requests for supplies are constant and importunate. The number of new Auxiliaries, recognized during the year, has been 45-making in the whole 452. Many of the Auxiliaries have been actively and zealously engaged during the year, in promoting the objects of the Parent Institution, and in supplying the destitute in their several districts with the Holy Scriptures. Among them, the Society in the county of Monroe, in the State of New York, deserves particular notice. By an unexampled effort of zeal and activity in the members of that Society, measures have been adopted, and in a great degree carried into effect, by which every family in the country will, in a short time, be supplied with at least one copy, of the Bible.

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After the reading of the Report, several resolutions in furtherance of the object were unanimously carried: among which was one expressive of their condolence and respect for their late Vice-President, General Mathew Clarkson. the moving of this resolution, the following extract of a letter from the Hon. Andrew Kirkpatrick, late Chief Justice of the state of New-Jersey, and one of the VicePresidents of the Society, was read, and produced the liveliest emotions.

"I cannot close this note, without presenting to the Society, also, my sincere condolence for the loss they have sustained in the death of that very worthy gentleman who has, for so many years, presided at their meetings as their first Vice-president. But while I feel their loss, and mingle in their sorrows, I learn a lesson from the death of the deceased, which ought to strengthen the hands, encourage the hearts, and inflame the zeal of every one of us, in the holy cause in which he laboured.

"With the Bible in his hands, which directed his way, and which with so much zeal he aided in sending to others, I see him approach the confines of the eternal world. The prospect before him is vast-vast as eternity, and awful as the presence of Him who dwelleth there. Illuminated by his Bible, with a ray of heavenly light, which opens a glimpse of life and immortality beyond the grave, and presents in distant view the rising turrets of the New Jerusalem, the holy city, the abode of the blessed, where sin, and sorrow, and sickness, and death shall never enter-this prospect, though it fills his soul with reverential fear, yet it elevates its hopes, and wraps it in celestial joys. He looks upon his mourning friends around his dying bed, he says I AM HAPPY' - and breathes his last."

Upon moving the 7th resolution, the Rev. Dr. Milner introduced to the Society, the Rev. Eustace Carey, a member of the Baptist Missionary family, at Serampore, in the East Indies, who made a most impressive and feeling address to the meeting; and at its close, the Rev. Dr. Woodhull introduced the Rev. Mr. Ellis, a Missionary from a Society in London, to the South Sea Islands, from whom the

Society received with much satisfaction a highly interesting statement of facts that had fallen under his own observation, during his residence in those islands.

The present Anniversary furnished the most satisfactory evidence, that the Society is increasing in strength, extending its operations, enlarging its usefulness, and becoming more and more the object of attention, of respect, and of confidence with the public in all parts of the Union, and that it is considered to be in reality, what it professes to be, a truly national institution. As such, we have no doubt, it will continue to be cherished by the friends of Christianity with warmer feelings and more liberal patronage. That it merits such patronage we most sincerely and firmly believe. If any good man doubts it, let him take the pains to examine into the wants of our destitute fellow countrymen in the new states and territories, let him listen to their importunate claims for the Scriptures, and his hesitation will vanish; and a conviction of the importance of the labours of the Society for the best and highest interests of mankind, will force itself irresistibly upon his mind and his conscience.

A STATEMENT OF FACTS; with Correspondence relative to the late Measures of the Managers of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling in Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons. By John Hoppus, M.A. Holdsworth. 1s.-Though this tract is not a fit subject for review, yet the transactions it details afford ample materials for comments, which might prove alike interesting to churches and ministers. The church at Carter Lane, which, it appears, once enjoyed the labours of Sylvester, Calamy, Baxter, and Dr. Wright, has, in more modern times, sunk into a state next to annihilation, and has gained the reputation of being, in its few remaining members, decidedly antitrinitarian. Something more than a year ago, Mr. John Hoppus, who had been educated at Hoxton and the University of Glasgow, was chosen pastor, by a majority of 19 to 5 or 6. It does not appear that Mr. H. concealed or qualified any of his principles, but honestly and fairly avouched himself a believer in those doctrines usually reprobated by Arians and Socinians. Though it was well known that Mr. H.'s views were not accordant with

those of the managers of Carter Lane; yet the choice of the people was recognized by this potential body, the five or six dissentients withdrew, and the ordination accordingly took place. In the course of a little time, the preaching of Mr. H. proved useful and successful, and symptoms of a revival in this longdecayed interest began to appear. For a year things were allowed to proceed without any interruption, further than opposing Mr. H.'s wish to have a Sunday-school and a weekly prayer-meeting. At length, however, Mr. James Gibson, one of the leading, if not the managing manager, steps forward, and, in a letter "of holiday and lady terms," informs Mr. Hoppus that the style of his preaching was displeasing to him, and not

* Quere--There is a Mr. Gibson a trustee of Dr. Williams's, or the Wymondley Academy. Is this the same gentleman that appears so conspicuously at Carter Lane? If so, his name will go down to posterity under minister-dismissing notoriety. If the persons are not the same, we shall be happy to set a mark of distinction between them in our next.

likely to be useful. This was the commencement of the attack. ("The evil spirit returning to his place, found it empty [of his works], swept and garnished. Then he goeth and taketh to himself seven other spirits, worse than the first," &c. &c.) Mr. H. of course replied, that he could not alter his preaching, but should persist to declare the truth as it is in Jesus. The result is all that the public are concerned in. The anti-evangelical and antitrinitarian managers, under the names of Stanger, Chamberlain, Burkitt, Warren, Gibson, Busk, and Bird, resolve to displace Mr. Hoppus; and, by a little management, though themselves were rare attendants at the place-yet being managers, and all things at Carter Lane being done by these potential managers-they contrive to bring forward a number of persons, some of whom had been neuter at Mr. H.'s election, and the greater part of whom never attended at all; by which means they obtained a majority, disapproving of Mr. H.'s strain of preaching, and authorizing a letter which, in effect, tells him he must and shall withdraw. Here, after another letter or two, the business ends. Mr. H. protests against exclusion, as unjust in itself, and illegal; but declines all public contention to gain possession of the place; and, after having had the opportunity of refusing half a year's salary-offered as a sort of hush-money, we suppose→→ ultimately leaves these honourable managers in possession of the closed meetinghouse.

We have perused Mr. Gibson's reply to Mr. Hoppus's statement; but it does not even attempt to justify or extenuate any part of the transaction. It merely touches upon a few expressions, which seemed to reflect on Mr. G.; but leaves the main question as Mr. Hoppus represents it.

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Now, a few points will sum up this infamous transaction. Mr. H. was, bona fide, of the same sentiments when he was dismissed as at his election. He did not alter his opinions or his preaching; but the Unitarian nagers and their supporters repented that they had remained neuter, and, rallying all their strength, come forward, and assert a right to dismiss the minister. But surely no such right is acknowledged among any Society of Protestant Dissenters; and these gentlemen had no more right, considering the matter either equitably or legally, to

dismiss Mr. H. than to dismiss the Lord Chancellor. If the Unitarian party, belonging but not attending, suffered an election to take place, sub silentio, and an ordination, and a year's possession of the pulpit, all to proceed, with what face of justice can they afterwards come forward and assert a legal or a scriptural right to remove Mr. H.? But yet the words "grand Gospel law of justice" is in their mouths! We only regret, that Mr. H. and the party who enjoyed his services, and who chose him as pastor, under sanction of the managers or trustees, had not power to bring the case before the Court of Chancery. We are persuaded a very different result would have followed. We should indeed rejoice to see this, with other property, to a vast amount, perverted by Unita rian or Arian managers, once more restored to the purposes contemplated by the original donors. Certainly Dr. Samuel Wright, the founder of the Carter Lane Society, would cry shame upon these managers for the exclusion of Mr. Hoppus from his pulpit. And now, it may be asked what doctrine is likely to be heard in this place, built and endowed by Trinitarians? Such as was heard in it before Mr. Hoppus was chosen pastor, and such as is heard in any other Socinian or Arian chapel-sentiments which these managers must know would have excited the horror of Wright, Sylvester, Calamy, and Baxter; and which, instead of sanctioning in the place they once occupied, they would have used all legitimate means to annihilate in every place.

But from this shameful affair some general reflections arise. Socinians, and Arians, and other opposers of the Trinity are constantly found in trusts of property belonging to the orthodox, left by the orthodox, and to promote what is denominated the orthodox faith. CAN such parties conscientiously discharge such trusts? How came they into them? Would they have been chosen by the original donors? Do they not pervert such funds from the original intentions of the parties? Can they conscientiously believe that, in proscribing Calvinism and promoting Unitarianism, they are fulfilling the will of the original founders, as they would wish their own testamentary directions to be fulfilled? Would they complain, if funds left by Socinians had fallen into the administration of Trinitarians, and were by them wholly

devoted to the service of the orthodox faith? But we shall have occasion to enter a little more at large into these questions hereafter. We therefore proceed to observe again, What sort of a church is that at Carter Lane? Surely, neither Independent nor Presbyterian; for these bodies know nothing of MANAGERS, as a power separate from the pastor and church, or the Church Sessionthat is, pastor and elders; but at Carter Lane they have MANAGERS, who meet and act as a Church Court, without the pastor, and in defiance of him. And now we are upon this point, we may as well say a word or two upon the modern office of managers in general: Whence do they come? Where are their credentials? Neither Old nor New Testament owns them; and they seem to be alike repugnant to the genius both of the Mosaic and the Christian institute. Ministers will, we hope, learn from the case of Mr. Hoppus to inquire, before they engage with any church, what sort of system they are going to connect themselves with; otherwise they may expose their own back to many stripes. The system of managers,jas officers distinct from Deacons, ought to be utterly exploded by all Protestant Dissenters. If we contend for a system of church government exclusively founded on the New Testament, let us away with this modern innovation, recognized neither by our nonconformist ancestors, nor by the infinitely more important authority of the New Testament. Let ministers, old and young, set their face resolutely against that system which annihilates the scriptural and wholesome power of the church, and tends to establish an independent aristocracy, distinguished only by its arbitrary and oppressive measures, against the will, and often against the interest, of the christian society.

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