The Protestant Beacon.

LORD ELDON'S PREDICTIONS IN 1829, ON THE THIRD
READING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

THE following predictions of this vener-
able nobleman were at the time sneered
at as the senile and effete expressions
of a bigotted octogenarian. What a
lesson has he left to those who now
hold the rudder of the state in their
hands-
:-

"I know that, sooner or later, this bill will overturn the aristocracy and the monarchy. What I have stated is my notion of the danger to the Establishment. Have they not Roman Catholic archbishops for every Protestant archbishop: Roman Catholic deans for every Protestant dean? Did not the Roman Catholic ecclesiastics dispute against Henry VIII. in defence of the power of the Pope? and in Mary's time were not the laws affecting the Roman Catholics repealed, not by the authority of Parliament, but through the influence of the Pope's legate? And even though you suppress these Roman Catholics who utter these seditious, treasonable, abominable, and detestable speeches, others will arise who will utter speeches more treasonable, more abominable, and more detestable. No sincere Roman Catholic could or did look for less than a Roman Catholic king and a Roman Catholic parliament. Their lordships might flatter themselves that the dangers he had anticipated were visionary, and God forbid that he should say, that those who voted for the third reading of the bill will not have done so conscientiously, believing that no danger exists, or can be apprehended from it. But in so voting, they had not that knowledge of the danger in which they were placing the great, the paramount interests of this Protestant state; they had not that knowledge of its true interests and situation which they ought to have. Those with whom we are dealing are too wary to apprize you by any indiscreet conduct, of the danger to which you are exposed. When those dangers shall have arrived, I shall have been consigned to the urn, the sepulchre, and mortality; but that

they will arrive, I have no more doubt than that I yet continue to exist. You hear the words of a man who will soon be called to his great account. God forbid, therefore, that I should raise my warning voice, did I not deem this measure a breach of every notion that I have of a civil contract—a breach of every article of the Constitution, and contrary to the spirit of those oaths which I have taken to my King, and to that Constitution. Pardon, my lords, a man far advanced in years, who is willing to give up his existence to avert the dangers with which all he loves, all he reveres, are threatened. I solemnly declare, that I had rather not be living to-morrow morning, than, on awaking, find that I had consented to this measure. Believing it, as I do, after all the consideration which I have given it, to be an abrogation of all those laws which I deem to be necessary to the safety of the Church, a violation of those laws which I hold to be as necessary to the preservation of the Throne as of the Church, and as indispensable to the existence of the Lords and Commons of this realm, as to that of the king and our holy religion-feeling all this, I repeat, that I would rather cease to exist, than upon awaking to-morrow morning, find that I had consented to a measure fraught with evils so imminent and so deadly, and of which, had I not solemnly expressed this my humble but firm conviction, I should have been acting the part of a traitor to my country, my sovereign, and my God."

THE NOVELTIES OF ROMAN

ISM.*

THE country owes an unspeakable debt of gratitude to Mr. COLLETTE for his great and valuable labours in the Popish controversy. With untiring energy, immense learning, and the thoroughly trained mind of a lawyer, Mr. COLLETTE

By Charles Hastings Collette. London: W. H. Collingridge, 117 to 119, Aldersgate Street.

keeps a constant watch on all the wily | immense array of facts and documents, and stealthy movements of our great Mr. COLLETTE proves that the whole spiritual enemy, and unmasks with un-system of Romanism is a novelty, an sparing pen all his impostures and impudent series of additions to the frauds. Already he has published a religion of the Gospel. Dr. Goss will perfect library of rare and valuable take good care as usual not to attemp information, and the work before us is an answer. an important addition to this store. The object of the work is to expose the Popish Bishop Goss of Liverpool, who declared that he came to teach "no new system of religion." By an

The work of Mr. COLLETTE ought to be widely circulated, and should espedially be found in the libraries of all Protestant ministers and students of the Popish controversy.

GLIMPSES OF JESUS.

Where Jesus did thee meet?

And how He got thy heart and hand?
Thy Husband then was sweet.
Dost mind the garden, chamber, bank,

A vale of vision seem'd?

DEAR FRIEND IN JESUS,-I send you | Dost mind the place, the spot of land, a few lines, pencilled with my left hand, for the Magazine, if you can make them out. I was glad to read Mr. LINCOLN'S Sermon; his views (held by many) are so clear, whereas the other view, of the world improving, makes sad confusion. Thank you for inserting my little pieces. Do not think I am weary if I seldom write, as I am a poor, disabled, suffering servant of the Church, needing the prayers of God's people (Psal. xl. 15). Yours in our dear Master, who afflicts in love,

Ir is just this one idea I want to grasp, sublime indeed in greatness, and exquisite in delight, pregnant with ineffable joy,"We shall meet the Lord." Oh, but a glimpse of Him by faith is so entrancing, it can disentangle the soul from earth, and makes it exclaim, "Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee" (Psal. lxxiii. 25); "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm for love is as strong as death." It can convert a prison into a palace; burnish the rude walls of a hovel with glory, and irradiate the darkest heart. A smile from Jesus can create a heaven anywhere; and He does from time to time infuse in the soul a satisfaction and comfort none else can bestow.

The joy was full, thy heart was frank,
Thy Husband much esteem'd.
Let thy experience sweet declare,

A

If able to remind;

Bochim here, a Bethel there,
Thy Husband made thee find.
Was such a corner, such a place,
A paradise to thee;

A Peniel where, face to face,

Thy Husband fair didst see?
Perhaps a sudden gale thee blest,
Or on a journey, ere thou wist,
While walking in thy road;

Thy Husband look'd thee broad.
Of heav'nly gales don't meanly think,
For, though thy soul complains,
They're but a short and passing blink,
Thy Husband's love remains.
And if these glances be so precious,
what must such a sight of Him be as
Stephen had, and Paul, and John?
"When I saw Him, I fell at His feet
as dead." Oh, none can convey an
adequate idea to the soul of what it is
to get a full sight of Jesus. Sometimes
in taking down the house of clay, glory
has been let in through the chinks, and
then we get such a death-bed as PAY-
Son's and JANEWAY'S; but what is this
to the transforming sight of Him in the
glory? (1 John iii. 3, 4.) Who then
can fully grasp the thought, We shall
meet the Lord?

creature fades, can rejoice in the unsearchable, the unalienable, and the inexhaustible riches of Christ.-Anon.

Notes of the Month.

THE NEW BISHOP OF

CARLISLE.

they stand in need of Divine direction and support.

imperceptibly gain an influence over him, and so warp his own better judgWe have watched with peculiar interest ment and more solid experience, as for the announcement of the Consecra- considerably to mar his usefulness. tion of the Hon. Canon WALDEGRAVE When it is borne in mind that bishops, to the See of Carlisle ; and we rejoice as instruments, are to choose and to to find that it took place during the send forth into the vineyard-labourers, present month, in York Minster, and placing them here and there as seems that his lordship was subsequently good to their free and unprejudiced presented to her Majesty. He holds minds-and when it is recollected that those labourers will have to do with the his first ordination, if we mistake not, at Christmas. It has never fallen to training and instruction of immortal our lot, editorially, to publish an souls we cannot but say how momentappointment with more thorough satis-ous is their position, and how greatly faction. Most marked has the hand of the Lord been throughout; and, we doubt not, that many a heart will be uplifted in sincere aspirations for a blessing. Never did godly bishops stand more in need of the prayers of the Lord's people than now. If they dare to be singular, and pursue a course, as they conceive, in consistency with the word of God, and the Articles of their own Church, they find their elevated position, so far from placing them above censure, only makes them a more prominent mark for every species of reproach which the natural enmity of the human heart against the hun bling

doctrines of God's word can invent. Our poor prayers-and we are sure the prayers also of a large body of our readers-will follow Bishop WALDEGRAVE, that the Lord may specially stand by him, giving him all that wisdom, grace, and decision, which so responsible an office entails. His lordship will now find that the antagonism which, as a parochial minister, he has long had to contend with, will only fortify and prepare him for what in his new and important sphere he will have to encounter. If, as public journalists, we may offer his lordship a suggestion, it is the necessity of being sensibly alive to the contending interests with which he will come in contact. However spiritually-minded a bishop, however single his eye to the glory of his Lord and Master, if once he admits to his confidence favourites, upon merely human or natural grounds, they will

That Bishop WALDEGRAVE may have this, in an eminent degree, is our sincere prayer.

What incalculable good, or what
irremediable harm, has the single stroke
of a bishop's pen done to many a
parish. Multitudes of immortal beings
will have, through eternity, either to
rejoice in or to rue the day that certain
under-shepherds were sent into it. The
immortal soul is a thing of no ordinary
value; and our God has appointed cer-
tain means to certain definite ends.
DR. VAUGHAN ON THE ARTI-

CLES OF THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.

DR. VAUGHAN, late head master at
Harrow School, who was recently ap-
pointed to the Vicarage of Doncaster
by his Grace the Archbishop of York,
read himself in at the parish Church,
Doncaster, on Sunday; and in reference
to the Thirty-nine Articles of the
Church of England, made the following
remarks:-It is now not far from half a
century since these Articles have been
read aloud in the parish Church; and I
can well believe that many of you may
never have had your attention called to
them-perhaps you may never have read
them carefully in the whole course of
your lives. I would call upon you, then,
to listen to them, and to follow them
with all your care as I read them to you
to-day. It is not my intention to slur
them over. On the contrary, I would

lightly of doctrines, whether in their substance or in their expression, for which living men, men of talent, and learning, and piety, and occupying places of power and emolument in the forefront of the Church, loved not their lives unto the death. Observe, too, as you listen, how carefully the phraseology of these Articles is kept within the actual words of Holy Scripture. Some of those which might perhaps provoke doubts or differences of opinion

give full force and emphasis to them; | lish Church they are rightly calledbelieving them, as I do, to be carefully speak to us in these Articles from a drawn from Holy Scripture, and to con- martyr's grave. Let us not think tain a body of Divine truth always seasonable, and sometimes too much disregarded. I do not look upon this as a wearisome form-nor, indeed, as a form at all. In the appointment of your minister you have had no voice. It is not the usual practice of our Church to look to the congregation either for the nomination or for the approval of the nomination of their parochial minister. All the more necessary is it that every precaution should be taken for your being satisfied of the correctness of his I will instance the 17th-are, if you doctrine. You have a right to be examine them, little more than verses of assured, and you can only be so from Scripture lightly strung together by a his own lips, that he is in heart as well few clauses of human connexions; and, as in profession a minister of your own whatever may be the meaning of the beloved Church. That is one reason passages of Scripture from which they why I am required to-day to perform are taken, such, and no other-not more the whole of the service myself, and to different, not more ambiguous—will be add to that performance of the service their meaning here in the Article which the reading of the Articles of the embodies them. Remember also, in Church, with an express and solemn hearing them, that almost every one, if declaration of my assent and consent to not literally every one, of these Articles, them. Dry and formal statements of even if it is not so now, was once the abstract truth are not the usual, nor are negation of some existing error; not a they the proper staple of sermons. mere imagination of what it might be Dogmatic teaching, as it is called-the necessary to counteract, but founded enumeration of Christian doctrine in upon an actual experience of that necesthe form of positive and detailed state- sity; a protest against something which ment-is not much in fashion among might be advanced on the side of heteus-perhaps almost too little so, since rodoxy and false religion, even because out of it must grow all Christian prac- it already had been so advanced, and tice; and no part of it can be omitted had wrought some serious breach in the systematically in our teaching without unity and in the completeness of the injury, in some respect more or less faith once delivered to the saints. And important, to the Christian life of our if in any respect the doctrines here hearers. Therefore I would bid you to stated do not suit the feeling or the accept with thankfulness the necessity taste of the age in which our lot is cast which to-day is laid upon you of hearing if there be any obsolete expressions, the doctrines of Christianity drawn out with something of precision into something of detail. Let me remind you that they who, though dead, yet speak in these formularies of our Church, were men-though the authorship of particular parts may be doubtful-who, living in troublous times, knew the importance better than we do of correct or incorrect expression in the things of God; and proved their sincerity, in many well-known and memorable instances, by sealing their testimony with their blood. Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, with many others-fathers of the Eng

or (which is more important) any details which may seem to favour a tone of opinion with which some of us have little sympathy, because we have witnessed more than the Reformers knew of its possible abuse-let us not forget that we are now within two years of completing the third century-the full tale of 300 years-since this compendium of doctrine was finally ratifiedmuch more than that time since it was drawn up; let us approach it with the reverence as well as the indulgence due to great antiquity, and only pray to God to make us one half as wise, one

half as holy, or one half as self-denying | may be thankful to live and to die; and self-devoted as were those illus- listen to it as that faith in which it will trious men to whose studies, prayers, be the constant endeavour of him who and toils we owe this bulwark of a is now set over you in the Lord to inChristian faith and a Protestant Church. struct you week by week, and to live Listen to it as the faith in which you and to die himself.

TRUST.

is a great sin-I believe it is called our easily besetting sin (Heb. xii. 1). We are not under the law when once delivered from it, we can never come under it again, and are exhorted to "stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.' I know very well

"We'll praise Him for all that is past,

MY DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST,-I have been reading in the Magazine for this month, the remarks of your correspondent L-, upon the book written by the Rev. B. P. Power, the contents of which I know nothing, only by L-'s quotations, but I cannot altogether agree with him. His first quotation is, In we cannot do this without the Holy this Book of Psalms we find determina- Ghost, but the blessed Comforter is tions to trust God, in each development given us for this very end; and, as a of Himself." Upon which he remarks, brother once said, "The Holy Ghost "Here we see the wide-spread doctrine would not tell us to do what He would of the day-creature ability and mental not give us power to do." faith;" this conclusion I cannot think In the next article, entitled "A Visit correct, for to trust God at all times is to Broad Hembury, &c.," you very a New Testament principle as well as scripturally set forth the doctrine of asold, "Trust in Him at all times, &c."surance: after quoting two sweet verses The next quotation is, "Why is it that of Hart's, which endmany of the Lord's dear people do not realize the great comfort which, from the very fact of God's being their fortress, ought assuredly to be theirs ?" and then, L-goes on to infer, the privilege of every child of God enjoying their assurance is the "Old Arminian heresy." This I cannot see; but if it is, I will be an Arminian, for it is a New Testament doctrine: "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God;" and John says of the little children, "That their sins are forgiven, and they know the Father" (1 John, ii. 12, 13). Christ Himself says, "My sheep hear my voice," he does not say only some of them; and all the epistles are written on the supposition that it was one of the first principles in religion that we know we are the children of God, and knowing that, we are to go on to know what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of the love of Christ (Eph. iii. 18; see also, Rom. v. 1, 2). I know many of the dear children of God, stop short of this blessedness (Rom. iv. 6-9), but I believe it is in a great measure the fault of their teachers, who nurse them up in their doubts and fears, and do not tell them that unbelief

And trust Him for all that's to come." You say, "Ah, had he trusted in vain?' thought we; no never. Nor did any poor sinner ever trust Him in vain," &c., &c.; and in page 521, reviewing Dell's excellent discourse on Gal. ii. 19, 21., you make some very nice remarks in the same strain, which, I think, quite contradict L-'s theory. L-seems to think the present low state of the Church is owing to the non-recognition of the doctrine of eternal union. I love the doctrine from my very heart, that the Church was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, and therefore before the fall of Adam; but I also love the doctrine of vital union, for I can have no enjoyment of my interest in Christ, only as He lives in me, reconciled by his death, sared by His life" (Rom. v. 10). That is, as I understand it, the indwelling of the Holy Ghost (John xiv. 17).

I attribute a great deal of the present low state of the Church to believers not knowing that we live under the dispen sation of the Spirit, called the ministration of the Spirit (2 Cor. iii. 9), which