"Ere long the half-extinguished spark of ancient heresies burst out into a flame, and the internal corruptions of the Church inspired such men as Wickliffe and Luther and Calvin to form the parricidal idea of setting up a new religion, and making war against their Mother." (P. 47).

The human mind, away from God and under the pressure of Satan, has felt the need of something to lean upon; it has thought upon unseen things and their connection with things seen; and false gods have been the result. But these men, the library of God in their hands, have been a-thinking, and have confounded God's earthly witness in Jerusalem with His Heavenly Witness; flesh and man's standing in the first Adam they have substituted for the Spirit and the standing of the Saint in the last Adam, and a worldly sanctuary in place of a heavenly one. The stupid senselessness which must result when man trifles with the word of God—to mould and interpret it according to his own notions! Piety, without faith. in God's word as the word of God, and without the guidance of the Holy Ghost, has led them into an imaginary world of their own creation, as unreal so far as God's word is the test, as their notions are contrary to the faith of God's elect.

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In Sermon IV. (The Church's Unity; signed H. C.) we have more of rationalistic than of pious error. foundations are introduced. P. 52, "Man must be considered as one whole, each individual being but a part of this whole Mankind feels drawn together, for they are the same flesh and blood. They are necessary to each other's well-being; to separate them is an act of rude violence, since they are all part of one Adam," and p. 56, "For this purpose God sent His Son into the world, that, taking human nature to Himself, He might make it the medium of regeneration for the rest of the human family. He, as man, was to be the head of the renewed human nature, and an inexhaustible fountain of regeneration to all mankind." P. 57, "The Church, then, is the mustard-seed of the gospel." "The Church not only received His (Christ's) mantle, and a double portion of His spirit, but became the extension of

Himself Her life is His life, her wisd wisdom, her love His love." P. 64, "The Church men also a treasury where each may place in en their merits, their prayers, their offerings, their sacr P. 71, "Power, influence, and wealth are poured her (the Church's) hands, because she does not sees things."

In Sermon V. (Unity a Motive of Action and a F of Grace; signed H. N. O.), p. 75, we read of nine-fold choir of the angel hierarchy;" p. 86," has been pleased to accord to His children's prayer power over His own divine will, and made them say, the law of His providence, the measure compassion, the illimitable limit of His love."

Sermon VI. (The Blessing of Unity; signed R. F p. 104, "She (the Church of England) is pledged: quarrel with the East; no impassable gulf divis from the West. Still the Catholic Creeds resc her temples; still the three-fold hierarchy minis her altars, still the one bread is broken, the one Sa presented."

Sermon VII. (Reunion our Need and our Desires: no signature). Sermon VIII. (Visible Reunion a Necessity), p. 131, "We make the Bible, the Word of God, the standard of our whole system: indeed as understood by you or me, this person cre each one for himself, but as interpreted by the recre the early Church, when the remembrance of the Testament writers was, so to speak, fresh in minds, and the traditions they had imparted were fast in their original purity." P. 132," We have one rule given us to walk by, one manual of devotion, and practice, to which we are all alike b to conform our Book of Common Prayer." P. speaking of the blessings possessed by the Chur England," The full Catholic faith, Apostolic an edifying ritual, the heavenly nourishment of Cins body and blood, the ministry of the Holy Ghost firmation, the graces of the lesser Sacraments, the observance of holy times, communion with the saints ar AND DEPARTED."

I will not weary my readers by more citations. My object is not to warn them against the errors of the book. Those for whom I write are not of the night.

I have referred to it as showing another proof of the state in which the so-called Church of England now is. What could it do against the writers of the "Essays and Reviews"? What has it done as to Colenso? What can it do as the mother of such an association (or confederacy) as this? It is constrained to be the harbour of refuge and protection to all of these. Being an integral part of the world itself, it cannot purge itself from the works of the flesh or of the mind. A stronger than man rules in it.

The tenth Sermon, "Shall not the Church of England be heard" (signed N.) is, to do her justice, a most wicked libel upon the establishment as set up and as a subject of history.

P. 329,"N.B.-The names of members will be kept strictly private."

There is in the volume one witness who signs himselfD. His paper (though written under shelter of a false view of prophetic truth,-namely, that a millennium of blessing is to set in for the Church down here, after an eventide of persecution and trouble), has some pointed and true words in it. The zeal may be as that of Jehu, but it has a fervour about it which savours of natural honesty, which is more than can be said of the other productions.

John xii. 31: "Now shall the prince of this world be cast out,' says our Lord. Here is the evil spirit of heathenism ejected from the civilised world. But his rejection is not final. With seven other spirits more wicked than himself,' he ultimately regains possession of his once deserted habitation, and the latter end' of his victim is worse than the first.' Heathenism dies into Christianity, but is revived in a more intensified and blasphemous and diabolical form in anti-christianity"(p. 283). Confusion between 'kingdom' and "Church," and ignorance of the difference between 'house' and 'body' are here apparent. But the words "Heathenism dies into Christianity, but is revived

in a more intensified and blasphemous and diabolice! in ANTI-CHRISTIANITY," are remarkable words. are these "Many seem to think that, if only r intercommunion in Christendom can be re-est on whatever terms, all will be well. The world meekly bow her neck to the yoke of the Cross, at bright millennial period will be peacefully inau Ah! they forget that the evening precedes the m that life only comes through death, the Cross the Crown, the Church suffers with Christ belt reigns with Him" (p. 287). So again," Many ser imagine that visible unity, at any price, is boon. But no! A restored intercommunion b anything, either short of, or more than, the One Faith,' once for all delivered, would be no blessing a curse to the Church, a perpetuation of weakDES deadly enervation and enfeeblement of her real pez (p. 288).

What God may permit, it is not for us to Certainly, a new central Church, such as the A. P.. proposes, would be "the WHORE" in unde simplicity. But that is not my point now; nort many signs of the day which seem to point in the sa direction. What is the hierarchical establishmen what is it about, when such things are props. it, and are being actively sought after by its bers? What is the body corporate which cou deal with the writers of the Essays?-which e..! deal with Colenso?—which cannot deal with t form of evil?

The italics are often mine as Editor.

What have I to do down here? To learn to know God and to serve Him. Entire surrender of all one is is covet, surrender to God and to His work. To be an inits God as a dear child,-Christ Himself my ensample; ** calling. I have divine life; I would walk in it, and f all that I am and all that I have, to God, the Father of the Jesus Christ. He claims me; and to meet His claim #bounden duty and my highest present privilege.

XXVI.

"THE WORLD."

THE term "world" occurs in Matthew's Gospel nine times; in Mark's three; in Luke's three; and in John's seventy-eight times.

In chapter xvii. alone, it occurs nineteen times. This chapter presents us with Jesus Christ, when in principle the world had rejected Him, and was about to crucify Him,-His eyes lifted up to Heaven, and His soul pouring out to His Father His thoughts and feelings in prayer concerning His own whom He was about to leave. He had come unto Jerusalem, to the people who were to be His nation; but they received Him not; but as many as received Him, to them gave he power to become sons of God. Israel was about to crucify Him-these believing sons of God were for heaven and not for earth, and connection with God's eternity was to be their mark even in time. Let me just trace out these three subjects so far as this chapter presents them.

"Jesus lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said:

THE LORD.

Ver. 1. "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee."

The Son of the Father, knowing all the times and counsels of God, asked to be glorified by the Father, that He, the Son, might glorify Him. Serving as "the sent one to Israel," they would not have Him; He was then free to take up another service, and remove from earth to heaven to set forth the glory of the Father.

2. "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given