turies, has been the belief and the disgrace of the Apostate Church." Belsham. "To Angels-It is no objection, that he uses the word Angel in a different sense, without giving notice of the change. "This incorrectness of style is not uncommon in the sacred writers; and the author has before availed himself of the ambiguity of the word Angel, chap. i. 7. For the use of yap as a connecting and not an illative particle, see Matt. i. 18.; James i. 7. ; Heb. ii. 8." Note to the Unitarian Version. No. 1. HEBREWS ii. 12.. "In the midst of the church will I sing praise." (JUMPERS.) The origin of Jumpers was as follows: When Wesley went into Wales, he found a few Welsh clergymen who entered into his views with honest ardour, and an extravagance of a new kind grew up in their congregations. After the preaching was over, any one who pleased gave out a verse of a hymn; and this they sang over and over again, with all their might and main, thirty or forty times, till some of them worked themselves into a kind of drunkenness or madness: they were then violently agitated, and leaped up and down, in all manner of postures, frequently for hours together. "At seven in the morning," says Whitefield, "have I seen per haps ten thousand from different parts, in the midst of a sermon, crying Gogunniant bendyitti, ready to leap for joy." See Southey's Life of Wesley. This singular practice of jumping began, it is said, among the Calvinistic Methodists, the followers of Howell, Harris, Rowland, and others in the western part of Wales, about the year 1760. It was soon after defended by Mr. William Williams, (the Welsh poet, as he is sometimes called) in a pamphlet, which was patronised by the abettors of jumping in religious assemblies, but viewed by the sober and grave with disapprobation and contempt. However, the advocates of groaning and loud talking, as well as loud singing, repeating the same line or stanza over and over thirty or forty times, became, in the course of a few years, more numerous, and were found among some of the other denominations in the principality of Wales, and continue to the present day. The jumping tendency, however, never existed, in any degree as far as I can learn, in those parts of South Wales, where the English language is spoken; and it is now said to prevail chiefly in Cardiganshire and North Wales. Several of the more zealous itinerant preachers encouraged the people to cry out " Gogunniant," (the Welsh word for praise or glory,) amen, &c. &c. to put themselves in violent agitations; and, finally, to jump until they were quite exhausted, so as often to be obliged to fall down on the floor, or on the field, where this kind of worship was held. These scenes often continue for an hour, or hours together, and sometimes during half the night, after having pro duced the greatest confusion, and too often turned the solemnities of religion into the most extravagant clamours and gestures. See Adam's Religious World. No. 2. (DANCERS-FRENCH CONVULSIONISTS.) The Jumpers seem to have a near alliance with the sect of Dancers, who sprang up about the year 1373, and spread themselves in Flanders and places about. It was their custom all of a sudden to fall a dancing; and holding each others' hands, to continue thereat, till being suffocated with the extraordinary violence, they fell down breathless together. During these intervals of vehement agitation, they pretended to be favoured with wonderful visions. Like the Whippers, they roved from place to place, begging their victuals, holding their secret assemblies, and treating the priesthood and worship of the church, with the utmost contempt. The scarce less fanatical clergy believed them possessed with the devil; and, by singing of hymns, and application of sacred fumigations of incense; pretended to cast him out. The French Convulsionists, who were remarkable for the vehemence and variety of their agitations, greatly resembled these brethren and sister dancers*. * See Baluzii Pontif. Avenion tom. i. p. 485. Ant. Matthæi Analecta vet. Ævi. HEBREWS ii. 14. "The Devil." (UNITARIANISM.) "The devil, which is sometimes a personification of the principle of evil, is in this passage probably put for the accusing and condemning power, that is, the law; which accuses, convicts, and passes a sentence of condemnation upon all who are subject to its authority, and who break its commands, and might well fill the hearts of all who are amenable to its tribunal with dismay. It is the law, which thus possesses the power of death, and which being abolished by the death of Christ, all who believe in him are released from its condemning sentence, and emancipated from the fear of death." Belsham. HEBREWS ii. 16. (UNITARIANISM.) "For truly he helpeth not Angels, but helpeth a race of Abraham." Wakefield's Translation. "For it layeth not hold of Angels*, but it layeth hold of the posterity of Abraham."-Belsham's Translation. "It layeth not hold of angels. i. e. the fear of death. This interpretation is advanced by the late Rev. John Palmer, of Macclesfield, and ingeniously and learnedly supported by him in the Theological Repository, vol. v. p. 161." Belsham. No. 1. HEBREWS ii. 17. "Like unto his brethren." (CARPOCRATES.) Carpocrates, who lived in the second century, and in many respects adopted the sentiments of the Gnostics, was probably the first person pretending to Christianity, who asserted the simple humanity of Christ. His followers were marked on the ear by way of distinction. No. 2. Euseb. Iran. Epiph. Hær. (PAUL OF SAMOSATA.) Paul of Samosata, who lived in the third century, contended, that the Son and Holy Ghost exist in God, as the faculties of reason and activity in men; that Christ was born a mere man; but the reason of the Father descending into him, caused him to be called the Son of God, and did by him work miracles, and instruct the people. His followers were called Paulians, Paulinists, and Samosatenians. Epiph. Hares, 65. Hillar. de Synod. p. 136. HEBREWS iv. 12. "The word of God." (QUAKERS.) It is one of the peculiarities of the Quakers, never to mention the Scriptures under the title of "the |