Dec. 6. 1851.] 



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holy sacrament, when the petitioner cast herself 

 at their feet, and held forth her document. Baron 

 G. was notorious for his unflinching obduracy ; 

 but her devotion and energy were irresistible. 

 He received her petition ; and her brother's sen- 

 tence was eventually commuted to transportation 

 for life. But his story is not yet finished. The 

 forger was placed in the hulks prior to ti-ans- 

 portation ; and, before this took place, he had 

 forged a pass or order from the Home Secretary's 

 office for his own liberation, which procured his 

 release, and he was never afterwards heard of. 



This " Jeanie Deans," who was the means of 

 saving the life of her iinworthy relative, was 

 described to me as a person of extraordinary force 

 of character. Indeed it could not have been 

 otherwise. She prevailed with the solicitor, who 

 before had been a stranger both to her and her 

 brother ; with the main body of the prosecutors ; 

 with the petitioners in Scotland ; and ultimately 

 with the judge himself. My friend, who lived in 

 his father's house during the several weeks she 

 stayed there, told me, that, night and morning 

 when he passed her door, she was always in au- 

 dible prayer ; and he was convinced that her 

 success was attributable to her prayers having 

 been extraordinarily answered. Her subsequent 

 fate, even in this world, was a happy one. She 

 became a wife and a mother, and possibly is so 

 still. Alfred Gatty. 



PASSAGE IN JEREMY TAYLOB. 



It may not be useless or uninteresting to the 

 readers of Bishop Jeremy Taylor to bring under 

 their notice a point in which the editor of the 

 last edition seems to have fallen into an error. 

 In Part II. of the Sermon " On the Invalidity 

 of a Death-bed Repentance" (p. 395.), the Bishop 

 says : 



" Only be pleased to observe this one tiling: that 

 this place of Ezekiel [i. e. xviii. 21.] is it which is so 

 often mistaken for that common saying, ' At what time 

 soever a sinner repents him of his sins from the bottom 

 of his heart, I will put all his wickedness out of my 

 remembrance, saith the Lord : ' yet there are no such 

 words in the whole Bible, nor any nearer to the sense 

 of them, than the words I have now read to you out of 

 the propliet Ezekiel." 



Now the editor, as a reference for this " common 

 saying," says in a note — 



"* See Jer. xviii. 7, 8. :" 



whence I suppose that he thinks that te.xt to be 

 the nearest quotation to it tiiat can be found. But 

 he has altogether overlooked the fact that this 

 " common saying " is, as the Bishop has here (juoted 

 It, the exact iijriii in wiiich th<; lirst of the sentences 

 at tiie bu'.'inning of Morning I'rayer occurs in the 

 Second Book oi' Edward, and down to the time of 



the last review, with the exception of the Scotch 

 book. As it did not agree with the translation of 

 the Bible then in use. Bishop Taylor seems to have 

 considered it as a paraphrase. This also is the 

 view which Chillingworth took of it, who makes 

 this reflection on it, in a sermon preached before 

 Charles I. : 



" I would to God (says he) the composers of our 

 Liturcry, out of a care of avoiding mistakes, and to take 

 away occasion of cavilling our Liturgy, and out of (ear 

 of encouragina; carnal men to security in sinning, had 

 been so provident as to set down in terms the first sen- 

 tence, taken out of the 18th of Ezekiel, and not have 

 put in the place of it an ambiguous, and (though not 

 in itself, but accidentally, by reason of the mistake to 

 which it is subject) I fear very often a pernicious para- 

 phrase : for whereas they make it, ^ At what time soever 

 .... saith tlie Lord; ' the plain truth, if you will hear 

 it, is, the Lord doth not say so ; these are not the very 

 words of God, but the paraphrase of men." 



Thus, I think, it is evident that this "sentence" 

 has nothing to do with the passage of Jeremiah 

 to which the editor refers us ; and its being read 

 continually in the church explains the application 

 of the word "common" to it in this place. 



While on this subject I would go on to mention 

 that both Chillingworth and Taylor seemed to 

 have erred in calling it a paraphrase, and saying 

 that it does not occur in the Bible ; for according 

 to L'Estrange (c. iii. n. F.) the sentence is taken 

 from the Great Bible, or Coverdale's translation. 

 It is, however, remarkable that this fact should 

 not have been known to these divines. F. A. 



PARALLEL PASSAGES. 



I send you two parallels on the subject of 

 Death and Sleep, Nature the art of God, &c. 



" How wonderful is death — 

 Deathand his brother sleep 1 — Shelley, Queen Mab. 



" Since the IJrother of Death daily haunts us with 

 dying mementoes.' — Sir T. Browne, Uydriotaphia. 



" Oh ! what a wonder seems the fear of death, 

 Seeing how pjladly we all sink to sleep, 

 Babes, children, youths, and men, 

 Night following night, for threescore years and ten!" 

 Coleridge, Monody on Chatterton. 



" A sleep without dreams, after a rough day 

 Of toil, is what we covet most; and yet 

 How clay slinks back from more (juiescent clay!" 

 Byron (reference lost). 



" In brief all things arc artificial; for Nature is the 

 art of God." — Sir T. Browne, lidiyio Medici, p. 32. 

 (St. John's edit.) 



'• The course of Nature is the art of God." 



Young, Niyht Tlwuyhts, ix. 



