Regeneration and Justification, 530, 580, 668 the Dissolution of the, 577 gins, 328 Superstition, Roman Catholic, 400 Trinity, the, 664 Table of the Lord, 332. Bethlehem, the Wise Men at, 169 Despondency, to One in, 17 Knox's Interview with Mary Queen Paraphrase of the Fighth Psalm, 37 Passion Week, Saturday in, 316 Queen at Sea in the Steam Yacht, on Queen Dowager, on a Pincushion pre- sented to the, 645 Sibthorp's, the Rev. W., Return to Sonnet, 629 in Westminster Abbey, 242 Things of Heaven are sure, the, 500 “ Thy faith bath made thee whole," 176 224 Vendean Maiden's Lament, the, 233 Wales, a Sabbath Evening in, 10 REVIEWS. Agency of Satan as the Author of Evil, on the, 600 Armageddon, 600 Bedell, William, D.D., the Life of, Lord Bishop of Kilmore, 279 Bible, the Child's Guide through the, 604 Biblical Literature, Cyclopædia of, 537 Blind Wife, the, 591 British Society, Thirteen Tracts of the, 481 Calabria and Sicily, a Pedestrian Journey in, 351 Charge to the Clergy of the Archdea- conry of Durham, a, 66 Christ, the Day of, 280 Christian Morals, a Review of Pro- fessor Sewell's, 600 Christian's Liberty, the, 733 Christian's Privilege, the, 484 Christian Theology, 598 Church of England, a Letter to the Bishops of the, 600 Church of England, the Moderation of the, 793 Church of Scotland, Brief Notes on the, 795 Church of Scotland, the History of the, 538 Church of Scotland, the People and the, 732 Church, Two Treatises on the, 483 Confidence in God the only Rest for the Soul, 64 Council of Lateran, the Statutes of the Fourth General, 729 Cross, the Doctrine of the, 606 Daily Worship, Guide to, 541 Duelling, a plea for the Abrogation of, 347 Egypt, a Pastor's Memorial of, 798 Eight Sermons, by the Rev. Robert Montgomery, 674 Friendship's Offering, 208 Germany, Howitt's Rural and Do- mestic Life in, 274 Gideon, Seven Lectures on the His- tory of, 673 Girolamo Savonarola, the Life and Times of, 131 Greek Testament, the, 536 Hebrews xi., Exposition of, 729 Inaugural Lecture at the British and Foreign Institute, 604 Inferno, the, of Dante Alighieri, 476 Intellectual Powers of Man, Essays on the, 128 Ireland, the Real Monster Evil of, 541 697 Jehovab, the Omnipotence and Wis- dom of, 411 Life Assurance, a Short Treatise on, 543 Malta and Sicily, a Ramble in, 130 Married State, Duties of the, 412 Mediterranean, Narrative of a Yacht Modern Controversy, the Key to, 733 Modern Judaism, the Fundamental Nation, the Perils of the, 403, 730 Neff, Felix, Letter and Biography of, 209 Papal and Hierarchical System, the, compared with the Religion of the Poems, Original and Translated, 731 Methods of supporting, 673 Pusey's, Dr., Sermon, an Answer to, 797 Practice of Praying for the Dead, Rome, examined, 281 Relation in which the Moral Precepts stand to each other, an Essay on Religion, Considerations on, 726 Reuchlin, John, the Life and Times Second Coming of Christ, a Few Sermons, by the Rev. E. Manning, 348 Sick Room, a Companion for the, 542 Soul, a Treatise on the State of the, State Services, the Authority of the, Story for Rich or Poor, a Short, 600 Things of God and the Soul, Brief Tractarianism compared with the Wilberforce, William, the Life of, 406. LITERARY NOTICES. Adoration, Aspiration, and Belief, 61 66 Anti-Popery or Popery, 131 Ashley, Lord, M. P., Letter to, on the present Defective State of National Education, 279 Baptism not Regeneration, 209 Berkingholt, the Warden of, 129 Catechizing, a lelp to, 60 Children, Ancient Hymns for, 132 Christian Missions, 207 Christian Unity Stated and Enforced, 278 Church History, Simple Sketches from, 66 Church of England, the, her Excel- lencies and Defects, 129 Church, the Discipline of the, in the Choice of her Ministers, 280 Clergy, on the Dress of the, 65 Devotion, Aids to, 207 England and her Interests, 277 English Wife, the, 65 Faith, the Key of, 66 Glyphography, Palmer's Patent, 282 Grane, Miss, Memoir of, 67 Health of Body and Mind, on the Pre- servation of the, 208 History of the Church, True Stories from the, 130 Holy Land, a Voice from the, 283 Humiliation, an Act of, 674 Interment and Disinterment, 280 Judah's Lion, 209 Kingdoms, the Two, 734 Letters, Selected, 64 Millennium, the, 61 Miiles, the Rev. Isaac, the Life of, 67 Mind, the Human, 65 National Holy-duys, a Plea for, 279 Norwood Schools, the, 279 Pianoforte, Six Melodies for the, 61 Popery, Lectures on, 281 Portraits of Messrs. Williams and Moffatt, the Missionaries, 543 Prayer, Communion in, 284 Prophecy, Lectures on Subjects con- nected with, 797 Reeds Shaken by the Wind, 284 Ruth, 280 Teacher's Companion, the, 61 Tracts for the People, 131 Where is all this to End ? 281 Visitation of the Sick, the Priest's Companion in the, 283 York, the Churches of, 797. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. Bangor and St. Asaph, the Bishoprics Bath and Wells, the Bishop of, 735 cellors' Charges, 606 Cambridge, St. Sepulchre's Church, 71 Charge of the Bishop of Down, Con- nor, and Dromore, 609 and Leighlin, 613 and of the Bishop of Lincoln, 488 Chester, the Bishop of, and the Church Affairs, Dissenting Views of, Church Extension and Clergy En- dowment Bill, 421, 487, 544 Church of Scotland Scbism, the, 423 Church, the Prospects of the, 210 Colonial Bishoprics, the, 67, 137, 284 Co-operative Society for Building London and Westminster Church Missionary Society, 211 London Clergy, Practices of the, 144 London, the Lord Bishop of, and bis Clergy, 487 Overbury, the Vicar of, 67:) Oxford, New Professorship at, 71 Peel, Sir Robert, and Church Exten- sion, 738 Pews in Churches, 213, 286 Pusey, Dr., the Suspension of, 488 Chancellor of Oxford, 614 Suffragan Bishops, 359 Syria, Christian Education in, 360 Temple Church, the, 71 gyman, 142 Changes in the, 286, 413, 486 Ecclesiastical Report, 67, 132, 210, 28+, 353, 413, 484, 544, 606, 675 Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 143 Incorporated Society for Enlarging and Building Churches, &c., 71 Lichfield, Death of the Bishop of, 736 Lincoln, the Bishop of, and the Not- tingham National Schools, 734 MISCELLANEA. Accouchement of Her Majesty, 358 Advertisements, Style of, 138 “ British Critic," the, 739 America, 288 Etiquette, 215 Dissent, Charges for, 141 Dissent, Decrease of, 144, 212 Dissenters, Animus of, 286 Drummond, Death of Mr., 144 Factory Education Bill, 285, 422, 484 Ireland, Pauperism in, 741 National School Society, the, 677 Nonconforming Decorum, 139 Popish Arrogance, 287 Stoddart and Conolly Fund, the, 737 Sussex, Death of the Duke of, 353 The Editor to the Reader, 802. THE CHURCHMAN, A MAGAZINE IN SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. (NEW AND ENLARGED SERIES.] JANUARY, 1843. SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NONCONFORMITY. DR. WARDLAW'S SOPHISTRIES. The fourth lecture, which is an outrageously prosy one, opens upon this wise : “In the discussion of the question committed to me, it is not required that I should enter into peculiarities of different establishments, except in as far as occasional reference may serve the purpose of illustrating those general principles that are essential to them all, or to throw light on their common operations and results.” It may be all very well for Dr. Wardlaw thus to throw dust into people's eyes, that the web of his sophistries may not be seen through ; but, dust and all into the bargain, we really do not believe that people are so blind or stupid as these Nonconformists seem to suppose them to be. The leaders in Dissenting affairs have a strange propensity and talent for taking men's ignorance for granted, and conceiving it to be much greater than it is, or they would not attempt to address them as they do. What a depth of low cunning is manifested in the generalship of such journals as the Patriot, Nonconformist, and Dispatch! Does not every editorial line of writing in them betray a profound contempt for the person to, and for whom, the weekly tissue of inflammatory stuff is served up? Does not each paragraph palpably set forth the impression of the scribe, that he is catering for a set of numskulls; that whatever he may pen down, be it true or false, abusive or respectful, profane or serious, vile or commendable, it will every atom of it be digested with avidity ; that his patrons are wretched noodles ; and that all he has to do, from week to week, is to play the fool before them? The quantity of garbled history, miserably inconclusive reasoning, and defective representation, with which these papers are crammed is truly amazing; and it can only be accounted for upon the supposition that the conductors of them take the ignorance of their readers for granted (not without sufficient data, we venture to say), and secretly laugh at the same. And, to do the author of these lectures justice, he presumes largely on people's mental darkness. B In his own opinion, he was not required, in these lectures, to enter into “the peculiarities of different establishments ;" that is, if we understand the expression, the peculiarities of the different things established, or that had been, or that are now, established. A very easy method of lessening his own labour, certainly, not to use harsher terms ; but certainly not the method of conciliating or satisfying the public mind. “ Not required to enter into the peculiarities of different establishments !” Why, in our humble estimation, nothing was more imperatively required of him than this; nay, we might, in one sense, cast the whole of the controversy upon this enquiry into peculiarities. The Doctor admits that peculiarities exist in various things that are established-we, as in duty bound, admit the same; but then, if, instead of dismissing these peculiarities without entering into them, we do enter into them, we may find, that while the peculiarities of one thing may be so many cogent arguments why that thing ought not to be established, the peculiarities of another thing may, with any reasonable man (we do not say any reasonable Dissenter; for, as at all times, so particularly at this, Dissenters, though men, are very unreasonable), be as many cogent arguments why that thing ought to be established. The Doctor might have spared some of his sweeping denunciations, had he condescended to enter into peculiarities. As it is, however, the diffusion of error demands, above all things, that he who diffuses it should study the art of making proper distinctions as little as possible; indeed, the secret of the success of error depends upon a thorough confounding of distinctions. The lecturer set out with confounding the most manifest distinctions, and he resolutely adheres to his precedent; and we are bound to say it, and we say it deliberately, that the sentence at the opening of this lecture betrays one of these three things-though each of them is equally discreditable to the author: it betrays either great notional confusedness, deplorable misinformation, or supercilious contempt. The former two it would be tantamount to impugning our own credit to impute to the Doctor ; the last, therefore, is what we must look to: and we ask any sensible person, whether it does not wear the aspect of supercilious contempt, when we see Dr. Wardlaw, more than once, twice, or thrice, in these lectures, expressing no better an opinion of our national Church than to place it upon a level with any and every system of religion, true or false, which may have been set up in the world ? If this be not supercilious contempt, what is it? The Doctor goes on to ridicule the argument which has been drawn from the analogy of the relation which a king bears to his subjects, and the relation which a parent bears to his children ; and here it is that the clever sophist's ill-disguised disesteem, not only of the Church, but of the monarchy, peeps out. It used to be a favourite notion, with men quite as wise as this speechifier, that the king is the father of the people, and that it was his duty to act as a father to them in every respect ; but they never supposed, that in acting as a father to the people, the king was to cast off every ves |