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will presume to wing my daring flight 
above this sublunary sphere; and 
ascendifig from man to the heavenly in- 
telligences, contemplate order beyond 
order, progréssively rising in perfection, 
ill T reach at length that stupendous, that 
ali-glorious link in the jen chain of 
beings, which unites thé God-head with 
all his creatures: this, I cry, is indeed 
the Son or Gon! It must. be so; for 
that wonderful being which unites the 
great Supreme with all the inferior 
spiritual orders, must intimately parti- 
‘cipate the essence pf the Deity, or the 
created and uncreated substances could 
not be united.” In what creed will this 
be admitted as orthodox doctrine? Pur- 
suing this analogy we might argue, that 
there will ‘not only be three, but four, 
five, or a greater number of beings in the 
descertding chain, differing from each 
other almost insensibly in nature and 
‘attributes. 
Indeed, we are of opmion, that Mrs. 
Marriott incumbers herself much with 
het metaphysics, and that she had 
better have altogether disclaimed their 
aid. We will give one other instance 
.of the unfortunate application of her 
favourite principle. 
Then in the scale of reas’ning life, ‘tis plain 
There must be somewhere such a rank as 
man, 
says the poet. Hence our author vindi- 
€ates the plan of Providence, in the for- 
-Wiation of such a rank as that of man, 
apparently full of contradiction and 
-‘¢onfusion, a mixed nature, a link ne- 
tessary to connect the chain, mortal and 
immiortal, sensual and intellectual, a 
chaos of wisdom and folly, of vice and 
virtue. But in other parts of her work 
sne ascribes many of these consequences 
tothe fall. The fall then, as the instru- 
ynent of making man what it was neces- 
sary in the plans of Providence that he 
should be made, must have been an 
event ordained and accomplished by 
that Providence which has appointed 
this order of things. But this is incon- 
sistent with the supposition of that free- 
agency, which our author uniformly at- 
tributes to Adam as well as to his de- 
scendants. 
In describing the origin of the human 
soul, Mrs. Marriott wanders into the 
regions of Stoicism. 
We transcribe one other extract from 
the conclusion of the work, which ap- 
pears to us to merit severe reprehension. 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
Z « We noah on ae dear _ frorn the — 
rst promulgation of the to the early. 
enbnos Cy Ra oe sects aor 
among the Christians, some rational, some 
erroneous and fantastic, according to the 
temper and ideas of the founder; butall ori- 
ginating in a deep sense of religion, the ne= 
cessity of rightly understanding the S¢rip- 
tures, and an ardent desire of securing them» 
selves salvation; and we are constrained to 
reverence the source from whence this va- 
riety of modes of faith and practice springs, 
though we find the current as it flows debas- 
ed by admixtures of enthusiasm, fanaticism, 
and other human érrors, derived from a weak 
head, and ardent temper, directing an honest 
and pious heart. ee ; 
*« But in our approach to moderr times, 
we find other sects that cannot boast this me= 
ritorious origin, for on the contrary, they 
submit themselves to the detestable purpose 
of becoming agents to that being, w 
unremitting industry is employed to overturn 
the Christian religion, the influence of whieh 
over the minds of mankind he dreads, as 
subversive of his own. 
‘* This class begins with the Socinian, or 
Unitarian, whose precepts debase the Saviour 
of mankind to mere manhood, and reduce 
the Holy Ghost to 2 name only. They pro- 
fess to believe that all our knowledge of di- 
vine things is derived from the Scriptures, 
and that it is not lawful to doubt their au- 
thenticity, or the truth of the historical — 
facts they record; and also that the precepts 
of the gospel must be adhered to, for the re~ 
gulation of life and action; but that the par- 
ticular doctrines they contain, are to be un- 
derstood in such a manner, as to render them 
conformable to the dictates of reason.” 
Had we not apprehended that it would 
exceed the proper limits of this article, 
we should have extended this quotation, 
to the picture which Mrs. Marriott, in 
the warmth of her imagination, draws 
of the deist, the modern philosopher, and 
the grand conspiracy which, in common 
with some other worthy persons, she 
supposes to have been planned in Ger- 
many, for the eradication of the Chris- 
tian religion. In reference to the pas- 
sage which we have extracted, we beg 
permission of asking one question: who 
has empowered Mrs. Marriott to pass 
these inquisitorial censures on the mo- 
tives of men, whose hearts she cannot 
search ? They profess sincerity: to their 
own master they stand or fall. We will 
furnish her with two quotations from the 
writings of dignitaries of the English 
church, who rank among its brightest 
ornaments. One may teach her to ex- 
press herself more candidly ; the other, 
we hope, to think more justly. The 
first is from Abp. Tillotson. Referring 
