phrase of several Passages in Holy Writ, which treat of the birth, sufferings, resurrection, ascension, and glorification of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," was printed at Bath, "for the Author," in 1799. It appears from the preface and the poem to have been written by one of the early members of the New Church. Is the name of the writer, a lady, known? The preface is :-"The following sheets being chiefly a Paraphrase of some of the most beautiful and poetic passages of Holy Writ, the writer hopes it will not be thought she has destroyed any of the beauty or elegant simplicity of the original. She does not presume to view herself in the light of an author, but, as an editor, is ready to cast in her mite towards stemming the mighty torrent of infidelity which at this day threatens to overwhelm and swallow up all Divine truth and heavenly excellence. This humble attempt was primarily written without the most distant intention of ever introducing it to the public; but should its contents lead any soul to seek after the knowledge of its God and Saviour, may all the glory redound to Him, whose high and holy name is above every name in heaven and in earth. Amen."

The following "Song of Praise," one of the poetic pieces appended to the poem, is worthy of preservation. I have ventured to omit two couplets and to alter another, which seemed to me to disfigure the poem. The rest of the book, as poetry, is worthless.

BATH.

ISAAC PITMAN.

Yes, I quite agree with you that "Outlines" is the book for the clergy, and I am taking measures to reprint it, and post it, and make the clergy pay for it! You will ask, How? I have a promise of £40 to start with. This will set, stereo., and print 4000. I shall send out seven copies, Speirs' edition, to as many clergymen with whom I am somewhat intimately acquainted, and ask their opinion of my scheme, and, if they approve of it, to favour me with a subscription. I shall then set to work (whether the reply be favourable or not), using their names if permitted and favourable, and send out thousand after thousand as fast as the funds come in, asking the receivers, who approve of the book, to assist me in sending it to the rest of the clergy.

If you think the poetry accompanying this will profitably fill a page or two of the Repository, I shall be glad to see it there.

2 SAMUEL, ch. xxii., and PSALM XCVII.

"O THOU, to whom angelic strains belong,
Deign to inspire, and then accept my song.
My shield, my sword, my God, my only trust;
Thou good, Thou great, Thou holy, true, and just;
My steadfast rock, my hope, my firm defence;
All-good, all-great, all-wise Omnipotence!
O Thou, who didst the Psalmist's soul inspire
With flame celestial and seraphic fire,
Vouchsafe, O heavenly Father, to display
Like radiant beams, and like diffusive ray.

Vouchsafe to teach my heart, my hand, my tongue,
To pay the tribute of this humble song.

Single to Thee, my heart, my hand, my eye,
Accepted, then shall 'Abba, Father,' cry.
When to the vengeance of the foe betrayed,
To Thee, my Father and my God, I prayed,
Heaven heard my cry, and calmed my every fear,
Assuaged my grief, and stopped the trembling tear.
Lo! God appears, He hushed my every grief;
His arm extended sends the kind relief.
Oh, where shall I begin to sing His praise,
Who thus has saved and thus enlarged my ways?
Praise Him, ye hills, re-echo every shore,
Till nations listen, and till worlds adore.
Trees of the wood, your hollow voices raise,
And sound aloud the great Redeemer's praise.
In solemn harmony let oceans roar,

And stately waves rebound from shore to shore.
Praise, praise the Lord, who, from the realms above,
Showers down salvation and redeeming love.
Him will I praise, and Him my soul shall bless,
My Lord, my all, my horn of righteousness.'
To clear my way, lo! God Himself appears,
And my desponding, drooping spirit cheers.
When death and hell and sorrow did surround,
His aid I sought, His sovereign aid I found.
Legions retire at His tremendous name,
Whose brightness kindles a consuming flame.
His voice resounds, His awful thunders roll,
And shake the earth from centre to the pole.
Lo! by His word ten thousand foes are slain,
And, vanquished, lie on the surrounding plain.
Scattered, they fly as though by whirlwind driven,
For who can combat with the King of heaven?
They sought to wound me, and they sought to slay;
Heaven was my refuge, and the Lord my stay;
Screened by the shade of His almighty wings,
And safely guarded by the King of kings,
Though called to combat with the raging flood,
Secure I stood, surrounded by my God.
The foaming billows at His great command,
In solemn turrets rise on either hand;
Back they retire when Jesus gives the word,
And fly the presence of their mighty Lord:
Nor rocks nor mountains shall retard His sway
Whom rocks and mountains and proud waves obey;
If He, omnipotent, vouchsafe the sign,

The ponderous mountains smoke with love Divine;
Fountains of water from the rock shall flow,
And hearts of flint with love obedient glow,-
His lightnings play-darkness in haste retires;
His arrows fly-and death itself expires.
Darkness and light obey His awful word,
And thunders hail Him UNIVERSAL LORD.
New light, new day, Jesus Jehovah brings;
Oh, shout His name, and hail Him King of kings!
Our Jesus comes-in glory now appears;
Rejoice, ye saints, and wipe away your tears;

With sacred rapture at His footstool fall,
Adore our God, and hail Him Lord of all!
Lo! truth breaks forth to our astonished sight,
In the full lustre of celestial light.

Our Sun appears, and, with prolific ray,
Will shine triumphant to the perfect day.
Lo! Jesu's name resounds from shore to shore;
Bow, every knee, and every heart, adore.
His name confessed in each obedient soul,
Jesus our God shall reign from pole to pole.
Zion, be glad, and Judah's daughters, sing
A song of boundless praise to Judah's King;
Let Israel's sons with joy exalt their voice,
Extend His praise, and in our God rejoice;
Let all who hear His name unite to bless
Jesus our God, our Sun of Righteousness.
Shout, shout, O earth, thy humble, hallowed lays;
Immortals join, and heaven resounds with praise.
Lo! earth and air and sea and skies combine;
All, all unite to raise the song Divine:
Extol the name of Israel's God and King,
And in eternal notes His glory sing.
High above all the Triune God adore,
And praise His holy name for evermore.

O Thou, to whom seraphic lays belong,
Accept the tribute of this humble song.
All nature joins to celebrate Thy name,
Omnipotent, Eternal, Great I AM!
Permit my soul to join creation's voice,
And in the Universal God rejoice."

DR. ADAM CLARKE'S CREED.

"WHEN I came forth among my fellows as apostolic minister, I felt the importance of not making any man my model, and not making any particular creed the standard of my faith. As I was to explain and enforce Scripture on my own responsibility, I resolved that all should be the result of my own examination. The Scriptures I read through repeatedly in their primitive languages, with all the collateral helps of ancient tongues which I could command. I analyzed, compared, sifted, and arranged; I stretched my intellect to its widest grasp of comprehension to understand the nature and attributes of God, together with the reasons and demands of His Word. But there was a necessity that all this should be reduced to some kind of creed,— that it should not be a scattered host of unconnected thoughts, but a combined and irrefragably deduced series of incontrovertible doctrine, agreeing with truth and fitted for use. This so impelled me to arrange my particulars under generals, to concentrate my forces, and

call in my stragglers; nor did I ever cease to condense my creed until I had reduced its several parts under two grand heads, LOVE TO GOD, and LOVE TO MAN. Here I found that I had a rule to which I could refer all my conceptions of the great and holy God, and all my endeavours for the welfare of mankind; it was a creed of practice and not of theory, capable of being drawn into use at a moment's notice."

IN MEMORIAM.

JOHN CRAWFORD BELL, NORWICH,

OBIIT July 10, 1877.

MEMORY, thou magic record of the past,

Best tablet to THE GOOD when they depart,
Recalling moments dear unto the heart,
Of joy, and even of grief! the die is cast
That gives another friend-they follow fast!—
To thine archives; a man devoid of art,
Trustful, devout, that nobly wrought his part
In earth's great work. His colours to the mast
He nailed, unflinching, in the conflict dire
Of truth and error, cultivating still
A world-wide charity that knew no sect;
And in his daily walk did all inspire

To deeds of duty, sympathy, goodwill;
In whom not even a foe could wrong detect.
ROBERT ABBOTT.

JESMOND LODGE, MALTON,

23rd July 1877.

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Reviews.

REV. JOSEPH COOK'S MONDAY LECTURES. London: Dickenson,
Farringdon Street.

AMONG the subjects of Mr. Cook's lectures are the Trinity, the Atonement, Immortality, Sin, Righteousness. He maintains the doctrine of the absolute and personal unity of God. "For one, I had rather go back to the Bosphorus, where I stood a few months ago, and worship with the Emperor who lately slit his veins and went home by suicide, than to be in name only an orthodox believer, or in theory to hold there is but one God, but in imagination to worship three Gods. Mohammedan paganism contains one great truth-the Divine unity. And I never touch this majestic theme of the Divine triunity without remembering what that single truth, as I heard it uttered on the Bosphorus, did for me, when I knelt there once in a mosque, with the Emperor and with the peasants, with the highest officers of State and with the artizans, and saw them all bow down and bring their foreheads to the mats of the temple, and heard them call out, from the highest to the lowest, as they prostrated themselves, Allah el akbar'—' God is one, and God is great." So prostrating themselves, they three times called out, 'Allah el Akbar,' and then remained silent, until I felt that this one truth had in it a transfiguration.

"At what should we arrive, however, if we should adopt the bare idea of the Divine unity without taking also that of the trinity? Should we thus be faithful to the scientific method? Should we thus be looking at all the facts? Should we obtain by this method the richest conception of God, or should we see from such a point of view only a fragment of that portion of His nature which man may apprehend?"

After stating several scientific axioms, as he would call them, he comes to this conclusion: "A personal Triunity, of which Creator, Redeemer, and Saintifier are but the other names, is therefore scientifically known to exist. This is the Trinity which Christianity calls Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of all parts of whose undivided glory it inculcates adoration in the name of what God is, and of what He has done, and of what man needs." What is the nature of this Trinity? and how does he represent it by illustration?

Adopting Whateley's statement that in God there is one substance and three subsistences, and that each has some peculiar and incommunicable properties, he says: "Take the mysterious palpitating radiance which at this instant streams through the solar windows of this temple, and may we not say, for the sake of illustration, that it is one substance? Can you not affirm, however, that there are in it three subsistences? It would be possible for me by a prism to produce the colours sown on a screen. I should have colour there, and heat there, and there would be luminousness everywhere. But in colour is a property incommunicable to mere luminousness or to heat; in luminousness is a property incommunicable to mere heat or to colour. In heat is a property incommunicable to mere colour or to luminousThese three-luminousness, colour, heat-are, however, one solar radiance. Heat subsists in the solar radiance, and colour subsists in the solar radiance, and light subsists in the solar radiance. The three are one; but they are not one in the same sense that they are three."

ness.

This is an approximation to a correct illustration of the Trinity, but we do not find any of the analysis that men ought to find in man, who was created in God's image, as of will, understanding, and action; soul, body,