ever with them to punish them, nor from the Almighty power of God, which will be ever in them to support them under their torments, but from JEHOVAH THE GLORY,, which never after their condemnation shall be exhibited to them.

Perhaps some of the arguments, as well as the expressions, which I have used, may be thought either uncertain or obscure; as indeed on such subjects, it is not easy, nay it is almost impossible, to find words in our language properly expressive of such mysterious ideas. All that I wish (as it is all at which I have aimed) is, that nothing that I have said may be found contradictory in itself, or contrary to sound doctrine,' that is, to the doctrine of Holy Scriptures explained by themselves, and received in the church. It will be a work of charity done me, to correct any point wherein I shall have erred; and, if the matter which I have collected, shall on perusal meet with the approbation of competent judges, men of candour and ability, I shall hope, that the little which I have brought forward, may be an introduction to further enlargements on such useful topics, especially at a time, when from certain appearances, it will be. owned to be the duty of all christians to lay aside their persecutions against one another, and so unite against its common and combined enemies, the Jews, and infidels of modern times.

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THE Editor thinks it proper to observe, that, from some notes which were found among Mr Skinner's papers, it would appear that his manuscript on the SHECHINAH had been transmitted to a friend in London, who had shewn it to two very competent judges of its merit, accompanied with a request, that they would favour him with their remarks on it. One of these gentlemen, at that time but a young divine',' was the afterwards highly distinguished Dr George Horne, Bishop of Norwich, and the other was the Rev. Benjamin Holloway, Rector of Middle Stoney, Oxfordshire,

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In the year 1756, a pamphlet was published under the title of A 'Word to the Hutchinsonians, or Remarks on three extraordinary Ser'mons lately preached before the University of Oxford, by the Rev. 'Dr Patten, the Rev. Mr Wetherall, and the Rev. Mr Horne-By a 'Member of the University.' The design of this pamphlet was to censure, and to hold up to ridicule, the behaviour of these, and other Hutchinsonian divines, which, the writer says, had become matter of general complaint-the general complaint of men truly respectable aș 'scholars and as christians.' After bitterly-inveighing against the discourses of Dr Patten and Mr Wetherall, (the latter of whom was afterwards for many years Master of University College, and Dean of Hereford), this angry critic falls foul of Mr Horne's sermon, and affects to point out the preacher to particular scorn, under the character of6 this divine.' An able refutation of all this calumny was soon young announced to the public, in a pamphlet entitled "An apology for certain Gentlemen in the University of Oxford, &c. by George Horne, Fellow of Magdalen College."-When the apologist came to take notice of the objection made to his youth, the only remark he offered, with his usual good humour, was," that is a fault which will mend every day."

author of Originals Physical and Theological, &c. who transcribed Mr Horne's remarks on the same sheet with his own, calling them the Strictures of Mr Horne, a prime Hutchinsonian.' In reference to Mr Holloway's remarks, the following note was found subjoined to Mr Skinner's manuscript; A ⚫ learned divine of the church of England has intimated his opinion as different from mine, respecting the Shechinah or glory being still in the church, under the symbols of bread and wine. This he seems to think is not the case, because ⚫ the Shechinah implies a really outward and visible glory, to which, he says, symbolic and invisible is 'a contradiction. This in so far is very true; 'but what I advance is, that the eucharistic sym'bols of bread and wine stand to us instead of the Shechinah of the Jewish œconomy; and that, as by this Shechinah, (which was only a likeness or appearance, and no substantial exhibition), the redeeming person in Jehovah was present in the Jewish temple, so by the consecrated symbols in 'the eucharist he continues to be present in the * christian church. The objections, therefore, which have been made to this part of my hypothesis, seem to have arisen from not taking my expressions in the same sense in which I wished them to be understood, and from distinguishing too nicely between symbols, exhibitions, and representations, ⚫ all which I am inclined to view in the same light, as exciters to faith, in opposition to bodily organic 'sight; and I do still think, that all I have said

'is so far from being repugnant to scripture, or ⚫ from affording the least pretence for adopting the popish absurdity, that it erects a no less powerful bulwark against Romish transubstantiation, • on the one hand, than against Calvinistic memo⚫rialism on the other.' Notwithstanding this small shade of difference in opinion, Mr Holloway concludes his strictures in these words, addressed to the friend who had put the manuscript into his hands: • Thus I have given you the hints, which I had struck out in my kind of running short hand, and which I hope will be taken in good part, as on the whole I commend the work, and with the 'proper corrections, think it will be demonstrative of the author's great parts, piety, and might in the scriptures, and will do good service to the 'church.'

Such commendation from Mr Holloway will have some weight with those, who look back with due veneration to the character of the late honourable and learned Duncan Forbes, Lord President of the Court of Session, who, in a letter published as a preface to Mr Holloway's Originals, among other testimonies of high approbation, gives the following: Though I cannot take upon me to pronounce, that Mr Holloway's system will answer the expectation he has conceived of it, yet I must confess, I wish he may meet with due encouragement 'to go on with his design, that the world may see, 'what industry and ingenuity, such as his seems to R 2 • be,

be, guided and promoted by a zeal for truth and religion, may produce.' After mentioning some of the difficulties, which he knew Mr Holloway's system would have to encounter, particularly what would be found to arise from the vanity and the obstinacy of men, who have grown old in pursuing the hitherto beaten path, who have given up their understanding to the fanciful conceits of the Jewish Rabbins, and of several ingenious christians, who have even refined on the Jewish grammar, the learned President then adds: These gentlemen 'will be very unwilling to part with the learning 'they pride themselves in, and some part whereof 'I believe may be useful. And from them, I fear, he 'will meet with discouragement. But I should 'nevertheless hope, that the generality of the curious, who are not bigotted to any particular set of notions, will be glad to see how far Mr Hol'loway can carry his principles; which, if they ' are to be maintained, will open a new and agreeable scene for meditation.'

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