wa fi iw, . 
m the time of the apoflles, that there 
is immediately within the divine prefences 
belides the hoits of angels, a fociety, or 
community of patriarchs, prophets, mar- 
tyrs, and other holy perfons *, who, in 
their ftaterof glory, {till fympathize with 
the faithful below, under their manifold 
trials; affifting, and comforting them in 
‘various ways, or preferiting their prayers, 
and interceding for them with the divine 
majeity. 
» The communion of faints, and alfothe 
fature of the intercourfe which fubfitts 
between, the faints of the triumphant, 
heavenly church, and members of the 
fuffering church, or purgatory, and thofe 
of the church militant on earth, is ex- 
plained; and at the fame time enforced as 
an indifpenfable article of belicf, by the 
following deéree af the council of Trent. 
«© The holy dynod commands all bifhops, 
and all others who'have the charge and 
Care of teaching, diligent! y-to inftru& the 
faithful: firft, concerning the intercef- 
‘fion dnd invocation of faints; and con- 
cerning the honouring of reliques ; and 
the lawful ufe of images, according to 
the practice of the catholic and apottolic 
church, received from the primitive ages 
of Chriftianity, and according to the con- 
fent of the holy fathers, and the decrees of 
the holy councils; teaching them that the 
faints now reigning, together with Chrift, 
do offer their prayers to God for men; 
that it is good and profitablé to invoke 
them with humble fupplication, and to 
fly to their prayers, aid, and afliftance, 
for the obtaining the benefits of God, 
through his fon Jefus Chrift, our Lord, 
who is our only Redeemer and Saviour.”” 
' Whoever, therefore, in repeating the 
creed, ferioutiy profefles his taith in the 
»* “© communion of faints,’ muft believe 
not only the above ftatement refpecting it; 
but likewife pledges his belief in the pre- 
ceding article, ‘* the holy éatholic 
church 5”? by which is underftood, in the: 
opinion of good Chriftians, founded on 
the authority of aricierit divines +, ** the 
fociety of the faithful, who are united by 
the profeflion of the fame faith, and by 
a participation in the fame facrarheiits, 
under the authority of legitimate pafters, 
Whofe vifible head is the pépe, bithop of 
—— 

* Revelations, chap. 4. 6, 7. zo, &c. 
Compare, * St Cyprian de Mortalit.”” “* m= 
bros, de Viduis.’ ‘¢ Augufiin de Civitate, lib. 
xx. Cap. 9.” 
$** St. Berard. ep. 113.” © Cyprian. Lid. 
de Unitat. Eccles.” ** Auguftins Lib, de Vera 
Relig. cop. Sand 7.” Sec. Sc. ji 
Monrury Mac. XXIX, , 
Communion of Saints.....The Enquirer, No. XV. 
167 
Rome, fucceffor of St. Peter, vicar of 
Jefus Chrift upon earth.” ; 
Your correfpondent N. in propofing 
his queftion, had probably fome doubts 
‘Yefpecting the confiftency of the Englith 
church, which obliges its members, dur- 
ing divine fervice, folemnly to repeat the 
catholic profeflion of faith, and yet, in 
reality, condemns, or rejects *, the prin- 
cipal articles of it. 
Feb; 22,1798: R. M. 

THE ENQUIRER, No. XV. 
Waar ts Epucarion? 
[YHE other day I paid a vifit to a 
gentleman with whom, though 
greatly my fuperior in fortune, I have 
long been in habits of an eafy intimacy. 
He rofe in the world by honourable in- 
dufiry ; and married, rather late in life, 
a lady to whom he had been long attach- 
ed, and in whom centered tie wealth of 
feveral expiring families. ‘Their earneft 
with for children was not immediately 
sratified. At length they were made 
happy by a fon, who, from the moment 
he was born, engrofied all their care and 
attention. My friend received me in his 
library, where I found him. bufed. in 
turning over beeks of education, of which 
he had colle&ted all that were worthy no- 
tice, from Kenophon to Locke, and from 
Locke to Catharine ¥ vin Gees HE 
knows I have been engaged in the bufi- 
nefs of inftruétion, he did me the honour 
to confult me on the fubjeét of his re- 
fearches, hoping, he faid, that, cut of all 
the fyftems before him, we fhould be able 
to form a plan equally complete and cem- 
prehenfive 5 it being the determination of. 
both himfelf and his lady to chufé the 
beft that could be had, ‘and to {pare nei- 
ther pains nor experice in making their, 
child all that was great and good. I gave 
him my thoughts wi ; 
Macauley. 
Vi OUGust 
with the uitmoft free- 
dom, and after I returtied home, threw. 
upon paper the objervations which had 
occurred te me. 
The firft thing to be confidered, with 
refpeé&t to education, is the object of it. 
This appears to me to have been generaliy 
mifinderftood. Education, in its largett 
fenfe, is a thing of great {cope and extent. 
It inclitdes the whole procels by which a 
human being is formed to be what he is, 
in habits, principles, and cuitivation of 
every kind. But of this a very fmail 
part is ia the power even of the parent 

%* Articles of the Church of England, 22. 
Z himielf ; 
