1829.] 
fer. The volume before us, though it dis- 
claims the being written for the purpose of 
exposing and shewing up their failings, does 
undoubtedly, with a good deal of justice 
and success, do so, though not at all ill- 
naturedly, nor satirically, or at least: very 
slighily so; and only so far as it is subser- 
vient to the final object of inculeating cal- 
“vinistic doctrines of the more exalted cast— 
those of Newton, Beveridge, and Romaine. 
Those, who desire to know what these 
doctrines really are, will, in this little book, 
find them more in detail, more explicitly 
and more advantageously enforced than in 
any volume we could immediately lay our 
hand upon. We notice it more as a matter of 
literary curiosity than of doctrinal import- 
ance ; we do not ourselves adopt these dec- 
trines, nor, on the other hand, are we dis- 
posed to ridicule those who do. The per- 
Sons who can fully enter into them and 
Share them, must be pre-eminently happy ; 
but we have no notion of the permanence of 
them. They are of an intoxicating kind, 
and must have their re-action. The pro- 
fessors are nevertheless the only consistent 
_ class of Christians. They do not profess 
one thing, and exhort to another. Others 
profess a total reliance upon the Saviour—in- 
sist upon the operations of the spirit—and 
affirm all are vicious, and all are unprofitable ; 
but in the teeth of all this they talk of duties 
and exertions, and perseverance. Whereas the 
Calvinists (we scarcely know how to desig- 
nate them) not only throw themselves in full 
dependence upon the Saviour, but do not 
talk of duties and doings. They are 
miserable sinners—but the gospel is gospel 
—is good news, and what has good news to 
do with duties? This unconditional re- 
liance is productive, we doubt not, of hap- 
piness, because it is accompanied with 
assurance of divine guidance—the soul is 
absorbed in contemplating the effects. of 
personal favour, and so long as these im: 
pressions are vivid and absorbing, they 
must operate upon the conduct. Negligence 
it cannot produce—supineness is incom- 
patible—for that is the fruit of forgetful- 
ness; and the feelings of, we may almost 
‘term it, union with the Deity, cannot consist 
‘with profligacy or obliquity. The difficulty 
is to conceive the permanence of this, which 
is surely a state of exaltation and enthu- 
siasm; and the evil is—the liability to 
misapprehension, which is almost sure to be 
the case with uncultivated persons—and 
chence the danger of an indiscriminate pub- 
lication of such ambiguous doctrines. The 
yotaries of these opinions believe them of 
divine authority, and of course do not hold 
themselves responsible for the consequences 
of what is—of God; and thus, of course, 
also, are inaccessible to the force of any 
logic which depends mainly or solely upon 
human experience. Absit invidia. 
We extract a specimen of a “yisit” to a 
religious meeting, which, we have no doubt, 
occurred to the letter. : 
M.M. New Scries.—V ov. VU. No, 41. 
Domestic and F oreign. 
545 
There was a large assemblage of persons, the 
proportion of ladies nine to one gentleman, and the 
former mostly ranged together; they entered the 
room with a slow silent step,each bearing a work- 
bag, or a box containing implements of industry, 
and papers accounting for the distribution of 
money laid ont in charity: when they accosted 
each other, it was in a low voice or whisper; the 
gentleman rather less timid, though all evidently 
under some restraint, addressed one another in a 
subdued tone, one oceasionally rising to approach 
within safe distance of the friend he wished to 
address, and standing before him in an attitude 
of constraint. 
The ladies whispered to cach other theif ex- 
ertions amoug the poor ; books were inspected by 
the treasurer, and new powers conferred ; fresh 
plans laid for enforcing economy in the domestic 
arrangements of the poor, whose want of manage- 
ment and frugality were strongly reprobated ; 
some asserting that they could maintain five 
families on the same weekly income which their 
thriftless neighbours squandered on one. One 
lady madera heavy complaint against a labourer’s 
wife, who suffered her two elder girls to go to 
school barefooted and without frocks, while it was 
proved that her husband earned nine shillings a 
week, which was surely enough to buy bread, 
and clothe themselves, and their seven children. 
Another lady taking a more lenient view, thought 
it might be difficult to find shoes and frocks for so 
many upon that sum. She was answered that 
the mother might take in washing or needle-work. 
To which she replied, that she conceived the 
seven children would require all her time and 
attention. The other lady instanced a poor family 
who had only seven shillings for ten of them, and 
contrived to make it suffice. Her friend said, that 
they of her own society might equally make their 
income answer double its present purposes by de- 
priving themselves of a meal or two daily. It was 
at last agreed by the committee, that the shoeless 
and frockless girls should for once be allowed to 
remain in the school, provided they made the 
shoes and frocks, which the generosity of the 
above-mentioned lady engaged to provide, last for 
the entire year. 
Peace Campaigns of a Cornet, 3 vols., 
12mo. ; 1629.—Every body has some cu- 
riosity about what he cannot personally get 
at; and therefore he is obliged to any one 
who profters a communication, whateyer be 
the style or taste in which it is made, whe- 
ther with humour or without—gaily or 
gravely ; nor should he be too nice in exact- 
ing—let him not look a gift horse in the 
mouth. The details of professional advyen- 
ture are inaccessible, for the most part, to all 
who are without the pale of the profession— 
a number, which we fervently hope—even 
against hope—will grow less and less, as a 
sense of the iniquity of war spreads more 
and more. The life of a soldier or a sailor 
can be known in its peculiarities and fami- 
liarities by none but soldiers and sailors, and 
none, of course, but soldiers and sailors can 
make the communication. The peace cam- 
paigns of a young soldier are perhaps of no 
great promise, but the condition has_ its 
peculiarities—it is one of the scenes of 
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