vol. for 1804,) both for specimens of the abuse, and also of the kind of reply which alone we can condescend to give to it. But, to the accusatious alleged against us-namely, that we have "misquoted Collier, garbled Hooker, misrepresented Barrow, and falsely accused Mr. Todd," in our late Review of Mr. Todd's publication of selections from the Necessary Erudition, &c.—we answer as follows. Amongst our strong and conclusive testimonies from Collier against the Necessary Erudition, there is one fact which we find we have misunderstood; but which, it will be seen, does not affect the main question. The fact is this: we had stated, on Collier's authority, that Bishop Bonner displaced Cranmer's Homilies, immediately on coming into power; and replaced them by others, styled a "Profitable and Nécessary Doctrine," going upon the heads of the Institution and Necessary Erudition, but "differing in manner from the tracts above mentioned, by being more polemical." Now the words, "the tracts above mentioned," we certainly referred to those which had been last mentioned; namely, the Institution and Necessary Erudition. But, on a careful revision of the whole passage, it does seem to us, that our examiner is right, who refers the words, "tracts above mentioned," to some other Homilies mentioned in a preceding paragraph. And the difference made on the whole by our misunderstanding is this; that whereas, on our statement, Bonner differed only in manner from the Necessary Erudition, on the statement of Collier, he may possibly have differed in matter. But was this of such great consequence to our main argument, as to have in fairness warranted the charge of wilfully misquoting Collier? And, more especially does this charge come with any grace from those who, on the principal point at issue, disclaim Collier's authority; talk of the "bare word" and "unsupported assertions" of Collier; and sneer at our reference to his "folio pages in two columns," in a way that proves, if they had even read him before this investigation, that they understood nothing of his merits? As to our garbling Hooker, and misrepresenting Barrow, the accusations, we really thought, were far too ridiculous to need any notice at all; being nothing more or less than a clear petitio principii from beginning to end, and standing or falling just as we are right or not upon our main assertion that the Necessary Erudition has wrongly and semi-popishly stated the doctrine of justification. We maintain, that it has done so; and that it has gone into those views of justification which Hooker and Barrow so ably and conclusively overthrew. We maintain, that it confounds justification with sanctification; and consequently makes justification a divinely infused quality of soul, rather than a mere act of acquittal on the part of God -an acquittal of the sinner for Christ's sake. How is this to be answered by arging Hooker's concessions to the Papists, as to the necessity of works in the justified man; or Barrow's observations on the necessity of faith and obedience in retaining or regaining God's acquittal, and remission of sin after baptism? The question, to which we challenge an answer, is this: Does the Erudition, like the Homilies, simply and uniformly state justification to be the mere act of God-or does it not so state it as to make it rather the act of conversion, or the state of sanctification, that is, a divinely infused quality entertained on the part of man? And then, the further question is, did Hooker, and did Barrow set themselves, or not set themselves to oppose that statement; and to shew that justification was not sanctification, and that those who said otherwise con " travened the tenor of apostolical doctrine, and virtually asserted the notion of human merit ?-The question is answered by the unwilling, but reiterated confession of the "Christian Remembrancer himself, who remarks: "The Erudition, perhaps, may not distinguish between justification and sanctification with the logical precision of Hooker;"-or, he might have added, of our own Homilies. Well, then, our question is answered. The Erudition, so far, falls below Hooker and our Homilies in Protestant precision. "But where," says the Christian Remembrancer, "are we told [in the Erudition] that justification is a Divine spiritual quality, and is infused into the soul by grace?" We answer, just there, where justification is mixed, in illogical confusion, with sanctification, which is a Divine spiritual quality. We surely fight about shadows. To make us garble Hooker, and misrepresent Barrow, in order to get at a conclusion conceded by the Remembrancer himself, looks too much like a love of accusation for its own sake. He has, however, our full permission to retract his own hazardous declaration, that the accusation "is a lasting disgrace, either to him or to us." We are sorry for our readers' sake, rather than for our own, that we must take a future occasion of entering more at large on the question between the Erudition and the Homilies on the subject of good works, including justification. But our excuse must be found in the following paragraph, which we give as a specimen of the temper and language in which we have been attacked, and which a little soreness, perhaps, in our assailant, may lead us charitably to excuse. "He," meaning the Christian Observer, "asks, at the conclusion, whether we have had enough of his confrontings. We answer, No: let him complete his undertaking, and confess, at the end, what his readers will have seen from the begin ning, that the doctrines which he compares" [meaning what we have confronted in our Appendix]" are substantially the same! Having set out with accusing us of feeling that we are in error, and wishing to be out of it; and having found, in the course of his comparisons, that the charge recoils upon himself, let him abstain from further cavilling, and apologize for his misconduct." We are sorry on every account, that this discussion should have taken, avowedly on the part of the Christian Remembrancer, a personal turn. Instead of calmly discussing what he now confesses to be "a fair subject of controversy;" namely, "the authors and the authority of the Necessary Erudition;" he seems to avow the whole object of his five long articles to have been that of exposing our " unfair handling" of the question. Calvinism, as a make-weight, is the general standing charge brought against us; as formerly it used to be the "rankest Antinomianism grafted on the impious tenets of Calvin;" and at all times alike our churchmanship has been reviled and repudiated by certain controversialists, who have seen fit to identify the Church with themselves and their own peculiar opinions. When such 66 charges" were brought against us seventeen years ago, (see our vol. and pages before referred to), we in vain challenged proof from our then accusers. We still challenge proof, either of our Calvinism or of our bad churchmanship; and, in the mean time, and till that proof is brought, we desire to say, though without any particular intention of harshness towards our modern Remembrancers, Contempsimus istos gladios, non pertimescemus tuos." The Christian Remembranceror rather the present writer, for we really hope better things of the work itself--ought to feel nothing but gratitude to us for not noticing, as they deserve, other charges he has been pleased to reiterate against us. The way in which he notices our "amende honorable" to Mr. Todd, as it is still allowed to be, is honorable neither to the taste, the manners, nor the feeling of the noticer. From Mr. Todd himself we should have expected a very different retort; and we beg, to assure him, if these few lines should ever meet his eye, that we never gave, nor intended the slightest hint, that his unknown defender, whom we had convicted of not having read to the ninth page of bis Introduction, was, or could by any possibility have been, himself. We have thought it right thus briefly to reply to the accusations of the Christian Remembrancer respecting our alleged "garbling, misrepresentation," and "false ac cusation," because the charge is contained in two or three successive Numbers, and a specific answer is demanded at our hands. We can, however, assure our readers that it is not our intention often to intrude upon them with controversies of this nature; and we trust, therefore, they will do us the justice to conclude that it is not from inability to answer the charges which may in future be urged against us in the above mentioned work, if we do not on every occasion trouble either them or ourselves with replying to a writer or writers who appear to be so little scrupulous in hazarding assertions to our disparagement. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for publication:-Memoirs of Bishop Walton, Editor of the Poly. glott Bible; by the Rev. H. J. Todd;The Old Testament arranged in historical and chronological Order, on Lightfoot's System; by the Rev. G. Townsend;-Sermons, by the late Rev. J. Pickering;-Martyn's Controversy with the Learned in Persia; by Professor Lee. In the press:-Public Men of all Countries in 1821;-Church of England Theology, by the Rev. R. Warner ;The Articles of the Church of England illustrated by Quotations from the Homilies, Nowel, Jewell, &c.; by the Rev. W. Wilson;-Sermons by the Rev. Thomas Boys;-Correlative Claims and Duties; or, an Essay on "The Necessity of a Church Establishment, and the Means of exciting among its Members a Spirit of Devotion;" (to which "The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the Diocese of St. David's" adjudged a Premium of 50. in Dec. 1820;) by the Rev. S. C. Wilks. Cambridge. Three new Craven Scholarships of 501. a year have been lately instituted, in consequence of a deCHRIST, OBSERV. No. 231. cree of the High Court of Chancery, from the estates bequeathed by Lord Craven for the reward of classical learning in the University, subject to the same regulations as the two former Craven Scholarships. They have been adjudged to G. Long, T. B. Macaulay, and H. Malden, all of Trinity College; whose names are mentioned in their alphabetical order, it being the opinion of the examiners that their merits were equal. A proposal has been issued, under the sanction of the Dukes of York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge, and several of the female branches of the royal family, with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Tuam, and many of the nobility, for a public monument to commemorate his late Majesty. It is to consist of his statue in bronze, in a car drawn by four horses, accompanied by figures of Fame and Victory. The bas reliefs on the pediment are to represent his late Majesty encouraging the Fine Arts, Agriculture, Religion, and Commerce. The monument is to be erected in a conspicuous part of the metropolis. In consequence of a recent investigation of the numerous records of Exeter, upwards of 100 manuscripts have 2 D been discovered; many of them beautifully written on fine vellum, and some of them presenting much curious, if not valuable, information. The earliest found is of the time of William Rufus, 1090. It has been recommended to preserve corn by first drying it in a kiln, and 'then storing it in cases of earthen ware, glazed on the out-side, and filled as full as possible, to be covered by a piece of the same ware made to fit closely, and rendered air-tight by means of waxed cloth. A cheap vessel of this kind might be made to hold several bushels. A small cavern would contain a considerable number of such vessels, especially if they were made cubical instead of round. The plan has been strongly recommended for preserving corn both against damp and vermin, especially in tropical climates. Northern Expedition.—The natural curiosities from the Polar Sea have been deposited in the British Museum, and are arranging for the inspection of the public. The Parliamentary Grant of 50001, has been distributed as follows:Captain Parry, 10001.; Lieut. Liddon of the Griper, 5001.; Lieuts. Beachy and Hoppner, Capt. Sabine, and the two Masters, 2001.; superior Midshipmen, 551.; other ditto, 301.; Seamen, 201. each. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THEOLOGY. Tracts on the Divinity of Christ, and the Repeal of the Statute on Blasphemy; by the Bishop of St. David's. 8vo. 12s. A Course of Sermons for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England; by Archdeacon Pott. 8vo. 12s. Christian Morality indispensable. A course of twenty successive Sunday Evening Lectures; by the Rev. Thos. Scott, B.D. 8vo. 7s. 6d. A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship. 12mo. 3s. or extra bds. in red. 3s. 6d. 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"It is a most painful fact, that there are in Hindoostan thirty millions of females committed to the care of Great Britain, who are totally destitute of education, and of every vestige of mental cultivation. “The writings which have hitherto formed the basis of legislation in that country have prohibited to them the knowledge of the Vedu, and doomed them to a state of mental subjection. The calamity the most dreaded there, widowhood, is, by the jealousy of the other sex, suspended as a judgment of Providence over the female who shall dare to acquire a knowledge of the alphabet. Múnoo, one of the Hindoo legislators, says (see Sir W. Jones's translation),- Women have no business with the Vedu; thus is the law fully settled having therefore no knowledge of expiating texts, sinful women (meaning all women) must be as foul as falsehood itself; and this is a fixed rule.'Here the legislator first binds them fast in the chains of ignorance, and then reproaches and punishes them for the result of his own law. A "The dreadful consequences of such laws and such a state of feeling are most strikingly exhibited in the present state of Female Society in India. In the whole Indian Empire, comprising so many millions of females, a single school for girls has not existed for thousands of years: the females have never seen a book, except in the hands of men, and have no knowledge of any one of the mental employments of females in a civilized country. Their fingers have never touched a needle, a pair of scissars, a book, or a pen. woman is not allowed by law to go out of the house without the consent of her husband; to talk with a stranger, uor to laugh without a veil on her face, nor to stand at the door, nor look out at the window.' (See Ward on the Hindoos, Vol. I. p. 312.) What can be expected, but that in such a state of ignorance the female character will be awfully debased? Hence among the Rajpoot mothers the murder of female infants is universally practised; not one survives. Mothers, among other casts, in fulfilment of a vow are often seen sacrificing their first child in the Brúm hú pootrú and other sacred rivers. Many females drown themselves. Captain saw one morning, while sitting at his own window at Allahabad, sixteen females, under the - influence of superstition, drown themselves at the junction of the Jumna and the Ganges. And there are now in London copies of official documents, which prove, that in the year 1817, un. der the presidency of Bengal, not less than 705 females, British subjects voluntarily immolated themselves, by being burnt or buried alive with the dead bodies of their husbands." What a claim is presented by such facts upon the exertions of British Females, zealously to assist the various benevolent efforts which are being em ployed for diffusing the light of edu cation and Christianity among their fellow-subjects in that extensive pagan empire! WEST-INDIA MISSIONARY SO CIETIES. At a meeting held in the town of Basseterre, the 14th of last July, for the purpose of establishing an Auxiliary Missionary Society in the island of St. Christopher, the Commander-in-chief, having taken the chair, opened the business of the day in an appropriate speech, setting forth the object for which the meeting had been convened, and urging its claims upon public attention. It was afterwards resolved, "That a Society be now formed, to be desig nated, The Christian Auxiliary Missionary Society for the Island of St. Christopher, to aid the Missionary Societies in the kingdom of Great Britain in spreading the light of Christianity to the ends of the earth." A similar Society has since been established in Nevis, and is designated "The Auxiliary Missionary Society for the Island of Nevis, with a view to aid, in an equal degree, the Church and Wesleyan Missionary Societies in the kingdom of Great Britain, in spreading the light of Christianity to the ends of the earth." MORAVIAN MISSIONS. We shall extract a few passages from the diary of the Moravian Missionaries in South Africa, which shew the state of the Mission, and the manner in which it is conducted. January 18, 1819.-"The classes of the communicants were held to-day. In one of them, the conversation turned on brotherly love; and it was observed, that those who went to the Lord's Supper should give a good example to the rest of the congregation in this truly |