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means of bringing heaven into tlie soul ; that is, of at- 

 taining to the paradisical birth of the soul's life. The ac- 

 cordance of these doctrines with the Scripture. One only 

 death and one only life throughout all nature. Vindica- 

 tion of the 'Appeal.' [This discourse, which involves an 

 elucidation of the writings of Bohme, deferred to another 

 occasion ; when Theophilus proposes to describe the true 

 nature and end of those wi-itings, and the right use and 

 manner of reading them. The concluding Fifth and Sixth 

 Dialogues of this Book will accordingly be found to be 

 devoted to that object.] 



" Dialogue II. — The philosophy of the gospel doctrine 

 of redemption and salvation continued. How Adam stood 

 in his state of perfection, or creation. The gradual fall or 

 declension of his Will, through earthly imagining. The 

 division of Adam (the spirituo-corporitied idea, or Virgin 

 Image of God, Nature and All Things, eternal and tem- 

 poral,) into a male and female, (like the created earthly 

 animals. Gen. i. 25 — 27.). The fall consummated, whereby 

 the inward eternal nature of man became diabolic, and the 

 outward astral, ferine, gross, and bestial. The means of 

 human recovery, by the promised redeemer, or pregnated 



covenant of the ' seed of the woman.' The argument 



for the renunciation of self and the world resumed, (from the 

 first dialogue), on the rational ground of this philosophy. 

 In what consists the great apostacy, ' the sin of all sins, 

 and heresy of all heresies.' Hours' and forms of prayer 

 considered. 



"Dialogue III. — The difficulty attending the total con- 

 version of the heart to God. The whole life of the fallen 

 nature to be parted with, and j'et no possibility in man of 

 doing it. The omnipotence of the love of God, and how 

 it overcomes all evil and opposition, when the heart turns 

 to God, in a right understanding and faith. How this 

 love has followed and inspired man from the beginning, 

 as the ' Immanuel ' or seed of Jesus- God, treasured in the 

 ground of every soul. The beginning of salvation, by the 

 awakening and contest of this holy virgin seed. The 

 new creature formed, or the spirit of divine love born and 

 •working in man. How this spirit is procured and known, 

 so as to avoid delusion. The prayer or respiration of this 

 spirit, the only genuine devotion. No other spirit in man 

 [therefore no speculation or reasoning, however transcen- 

 dental,] works to salvation. The consistency of this doc- 

 trine with free will. Prayer the continual and habitual 

 state of the Will, according as it works with the Spirit of 

 God, or the spirit of the world and its own selfish nature, 

 fallen from God. All the soul's goodness, or growth in 

 holiness, dependent on the continuity and earnestness of the 

 will-state, faith or desire (as given up to God). The out- 

 ward expression of prayer justly discriminated. How far 

 manuals of devotion, or set forms of prayer, are profitable. 

 The degrees of prayer, or steps of the spiritual life, (to its 

 attainable perfection, the state of Jesus glorified, Philip. 

 iii. 12 — 15.). Why the ' drawing ' or magnetism of the Holy 

 Spirit (^John, xii. 32.) is the source of everj' aspiration to 

 unite with the goodness and holiness of God. How this 

 Spirit (or life of the one eternal element, the universal 

 heavenly body oi Jesus- God), is known by the pure, free, 

 unbounded goodness, patience, meekness and love, which 

 it inspires. These tempers in man, as the aim of his life, 

 the certain effects of the Holy Spirit's presence and in- 

 fluence ; and an evidence to him of his being in the pro- 

 cess of regeneration or way to eternal beatitude. 



(Zo he continued,) Anon. 



ETYMOLOGIES. 



Quarry. — This term of the chase, which seems 

 to have perplexed our lexicographers, is in reality 



nothing more than the simple Anglifactlon (if I 

 may coin the term) of the French curee, wliich 

 signifies the portion of the hunted and slain deer 

 or other game which was given to the dogs, the 

 whole carcass, if, as in the case of a hare, it was 

 abandoned to them. Now Bulloker, in his En- 

 glish Expositor (8vo., 1616), as quoted by Malone 

 and others on Shakspeare, says: "A quari-y 

 among hunters signifieth the reward given to 

 hounds after they have hunted, or the venison 

 which is taken by hunting." We may see th:it 

 the meaning is somewhat extended hei e ; and it 

 is extended still further by some of our Shak- 

 spearian critics, who make it " a heap of dead 

 game," resting chiefly, I suppose, on — 



" . . . . To make a quarry. 

 With thousands of these quartered slaves, as high 

 As I could pike my lance." 



Coriolanus, Act I. Sc. 1. 



But here quarry is used in its original sense, the 

 meaning being, he would make one huge curee of 

 them ; the Homeric avTovs Se eXdpia revxe Kvuea-ffi. 

 It seems to be used in BuUoker's second sense in — 



" Were on the quarry of these murdered deer 

 To add the death of you." 



Mach., Act IV. Sc. 3. ; 

 while in — 



" And Fortime on his damned quarry smiling, 

 Showed like a rebel's Avhore." 



3Iacb., Act I. Sc. 2. 



I am absolutely certain that quarry is not the 

 poet's word, and it is pitiable to see the efforts of 

 critics to make any sense of it. Why not here, 

 and elsewhere, honestly confess that the text is 

 corrupt, sometimes hopelessly so, and not out of 

 a superstitious reverence for the blunders of the 

 old printers make Shakspeare write as no man 

 in his senses ever wrote. Forsooth he calls Mac- 

 donwald's living soldiers a quarry., because they 

 were destined to become a prey to his enemies, 

 i. e. a heap of dead game. I do not think, more- 

 over, that the word for which quarry now stands 

 referred to the rebel's men ; it was rather to some- 

 thing belonging to himself, such as projects, trea- 

 son, banners, colours, Sj-c, none of which could be 

 asserted to be the right word, any more than 

 quarrel, which Johnson proposed. If I were an 

 editor, I would of course leave quarry, but give 

 my opinion that the case was nearly hopeless. 

 Indeed, the copy of this scene seems to have come 

 to the printer in a very imperfect state ; for though 

 quarry may be the only word in it that is not the 

 poet's, yet several lines seem to have been illegi- 

 ble. Thus, in the place we are noticing, who on 

 earth can make sense or grannnar of — 



" Till he faced the slave ; 

 Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him 

 Till he unseamed him," &c. ? 



For this is the reading of the folios. Surely 

 there must be at least a line and a half lost after 



