of heaven and earth; but are reserved to the law of his secret will and grace: wherein GoD worketh still, and resteth not from the work of redemption, as he resteth from the work of creation; but continueth working till the end of the world: what time that work also shall be accomplished; and an eternal sabbath shall ensure. Like wise, that whensoever Gop doth transcend the law of nature by miracles, (which may ever seem as new crea ons) he never cometh to that point or pass, but in regard of the work of redemption, which is the greater, and whereto all God's signs and miracles do refer.

That Go created man in his own image, in a reasonable Soul, in innocency, in free-will, and in Sovereignty: that he gave him a Law and a Com mandment, which was in his power to keep, but he kept it not: that man made a total defection from GoD, presuming to imagine, that the commandments and prohibitions of GOD, were not the rules of good and evil; but that good and evil had their own principles and beginnings, and lusted after the knowledge of those imagined beginnings; to the end, to depend no more upon God's will revealed, but upon himself and his own light, as a GOD; than the which there could not be a sin more opposite to the whole Law of GOD: that yet, nevertheless, this great sin was not originally mov-. ed by the malice of man, but was insinuated by the suggestion and in stigation of the devil, who was the first defected creature, and fell of malice, and not by temptation.

That upon the fall of man, death and vanity entered by the justice of GOD; and the image of GoD in man was defaced; and heaven and earth, which were made for man's use, were subdued to corruption by his fall; but then that instantly, and without intermission of time, after the word of God's Law, became through the fall of man, frustrate as to obedience, there succeeded the greater word of the promise, that the righteousness of GOD might be wrought by faith.

ceremony; a corner stone to remove the separation between Jew and Gentile; an intercessor for the Church; a Lord of mature in his miracles; a conqueror of death and the power of darkness in his resurrection; and that he fulfilled the whole counsel of God; performing all his sacred offices, and anointing on earth; accomplished the whole work of the redemption and restitution of man, 20 a superior to the Angels; (whereas the state of man by creation was inferior) and reconciled and established all things according to the eternal will ofthe Father,

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That there is an universal or Catholic Church of Gon, dispersed over the face of the earth, which is CHRIST'S spouse, and CHRIST's body; being gathered of the fathers of the old world, of the Church of the Jews, of the spirits of the faithful dissolved, and the spirits of the faithful militant, and of the names yet to be born, which are already written in the book of Life.

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I believe that the Souls of such as die in the LORD, are blessed, and rest from their labors, and enjoy the sight of GOD; yet so as they are in expectation of a farther revelation of their glory in the last day. At which time all flesh of man shall arise and be changed, and shall appear and receive from JESUS CHRIST his eternal judgement; and the glory of the saints shall then be full; and the kingdom shall be given up to God the Father; from which time all things sball continue for ever in that being and state which then they shall receive: so there are three times (if times they may be called) or parts of eternity. The first, the time before beginnings, when the Godhead was only, without the being of any creature: the second, the time of the mystery, which continueth from the creation to the dissolution of the world; and the third, the time of the revelation of the sons of GOD; which time is the last, and is everlasting without change. Lord Bacon,

A MOUNTAIN SKIRMISH.-All at once numerous lights gleamed through the dense foliage on the mountain-top with, a fiery redness, (prophetic of the approaching struggle,) which was soon followed by à crash of cannon fearfully reverberating from valley to mountain, from glen to hill. "Urus! Urus!

the Russians! the Russians!" burst

at once from immense multitudes; and in few. minutes several scouts, on their foaming steeds, gal Joped down the dizzy height. The Circa-sians, without waiting to hold a council of war, instantly galloped forth to the assistance of their comrades,— some to the valley of the Zemies, and others to the pass of the Bakan, where it was ascertained that the combat had commenced, leaving, however, a strong body of veterans to guard every ap proach to their villages in case of surprise.

At length the Russian columns were seen advancing, cautiously and stealthily, preceded by their light howitzers transported on the backs of hor ses, while a party of cossacks scoured the sides of the hills, in order to prevent the possibility of the main body of the army being taken by surprise; then, again, owing to the nar Towness of the gorge and its serpentine windings, they were concealed from view, when suddenly on doub. lg a curve they came in front of their hitherto invisible enemy, who had converted every jutting crag, shrub, and tree, into an ambuscade, and were now waiting, in breathless anxiety, to deal a piece-meal destruction on the hosts of their enemy, who could not amount to less than between

five and six thousand. The formida

ble circassian dagger and flight of arrows silently despatched such of the unlucky cossacks as came within grasp of their lurking foes; and before the army were made sensible of the vicinity of so much danger, they were assailed with a shower of bullets and arrows, accompanied with one of the most terrific war whoops ever uttered by an enemy, more resembling the yell of furies than the war cry of mortal men.-Spencer's Travels in Wes

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a quarter pot that boy is! To sea him a settin' down on the door step pretending to drink out of it, and fetching a long breath arteryards, and smoking a bit of firewood and sayin' Now I'm grandfather-- to see him a doin' that at two year old is better than any play as wos ever wrote. Now I'm grandfather!' He wouldn't take a pint pot if you was to make him a present on it, but he gets his quarter and then he saysNow I'm grandfather.'

Mr. Weller was so overpowered by this picture that he straightway fell into a most alarming fit of coughing, which must certainly have been attended with some fatal result but for the dexterity and promptitude of Sam, who taking a firm grasp of the shawl just under his father's chin shook him to and fro with great violence, at the same time administering some smart blows between his shoulders. By this curious mode of treatment Mr. Weller was finally recovered but with a very crimson face and in a state of great exhaustion.

"He'll do now Sam," said Mr. Pickwick who had been in some alarm

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reproachfully at his parent," Yes, he "He'll do sir!" cried Sam looking will do one o' these days-be'll do

for his-self and then he'll wish he

hadnt. Did any body ever see sich a inconsiderate old file,-laughing into convulsions afore company, and stamp. ing on the floor as if he'd brought his own carpet with him and Wos under a wager to punch the pattern out in a given time? He'll begin again in a mintite. There-he's a goin' off-I said he would!..

In fact, Mr. Weller, whose mind was still running upon his precocious grandson, was seen to shake his head from side to side, while a laugh, working like an earthquake, below the surface, produced various extraordinary appearances in his face, chest, and shoulders, the more alarming because unaccom

emotions, however, gradually subsided and after three or four relapses he wiped his eyes with the cuff of his coat, and looked about him with tolerable composure.-Master Humphrey's Clock,

MR. WELLER'S OPINION OF RAILWAYS." I consider" said Mr. Weller," that the rail is unconstitutional and an inwader o' priwileges, and I

should wery much like to know what that ere old Carter as once stood up for our liberties, and wun'em too-I should like to know wot he would say if he wos alive now, to Englishmen being locked up with widders, or with anybody, again their wills. Wot a old Carter would have said, a old Coachman may say, and I assert that in that pint o' view alone, the rail is an inwader. As to the comfort, vere's the comfort o' sittin' in a harm cheer an lookin' at Brick walls or heaps o' mud, never comin' to a public house, never seein' a glass o' ale. never goin' throuh a pike; never meetin' a change o' no kind (horses or othervice), but always comin' to a place, ven you come to one at all, the wery picture of the last, with the same p'leesemen staud. ing about, the same blessed old bell a ringin', the same unfort'nate people standing behind the bars, a waitin' to be let in; and everythin' the same except the name, vich is wrote up in the same sized letters as the last name and with the same colors. As to the

honour and dignity o' travellin', verg can that be without a coachman : and wot's the rail to sich coachman and guards as is sometimes forced to go by it, but a outrage and a insult? As to the pace, wot sort o' pace do you think I, Tony Veller, could have kept a coach goin' at for five hundred thousand pound a mile, paid in ad; wance afore the couch was on the road? And as to the ingein-a nasty wheezin', creaking, rasping, puffin, bus, tin,' monster, alvays out o' breath, with a shiney green and gold back like a unpleasant beetle in that ere gas magnifier-as to the ingein as is always a pourin' out red hot coals at eight, and black smoke in the day, the sensiblest thing it does in my opinion is, vea there's somethin' in the way and it sets up that ere frightful scream rich seems to say "Now here's two hundred and forty passengers in the wery greatest extremity o' danger, and here's their two hundred and forty screams in vun! ""-Ibid

In the fifteenth century (the era of the invention of the art) the brief, men or writers who lived by their manuscripts, seeing that their occupa tion was about to be superseded, boldly attributed the invention to the devil, and, building on this foundation, men were warned from using diabolical books written by victims devoted to bell,' The monks in particular were its inveterate opposers; and the Vicar of Croydon, as if he had foreseen the Reformation which it subsequently effected, truly enough exclaimed in a serinon preached by him at St. Paul's Cross. We must root out printing, or printing will root us out! Nevertheless, the men of the old school were soon compelled to adopt the novelty thus hate. ful: in fact, many of the present names of our type have been derived from their having been first employed in the printing of Romish prayers: for instance, Pica,' from the service of the Mass. termed Pica or Pie, from the glaring contrast between the black and white on its page' Primer,' from Primarius,

the book of Prayers to the Virgin— 'Brevier,' from Breviary,—‘Canon,' from the Canons of the Church- St. Augus tin,' from that Father's writings having been first printed in that sized type, &c. &c,

How reluctantly, however, the old prejudice was parted with, even by the classes most interested in the advancement of the new device, may be inferred from Shakspeare's transcript of the chronicle in which Jack Cade, the Radical spouter of his day, is made to exclaim against Lord Say, Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a papermill!

Before the invention of printing al most the whole herd of mankind were in a state of moral degradation, nearly equal to that which we have thus described; for, although various manuscripts existed, yet the expense

number of Bibles, which so miraculously resembled each other in every particular that they were deemed to surpass human skill, was accused of witchcraft, and tried in the year 1460.-Quarterly Review.

WE have always thought it strange, that while the history of the Spanish empire in America is familiarly known to all the nations of Europe, the great

The distinction between the chrysalis and the tutterfly but feebly illus. trates the alteration which has taken plare, since by the art of printing, science has been enabled to wing its rapid and unerring course the

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remotest regions of the globe. Every man's information is now received and deposited in a common hive, containing a celi or receptacle for every thing that can be deem ed worth preserving. The same faci lity attends the distribution of information which characterises its collec. tion. The power of a man's voice is longer the measured range which he can project his ideas; for even the very opinion we have just uttered, the very sentence we are now writing-faulty as they may both be -printed by steam, and transported by steam, will be no sooner published than they will be wafted to every region of the habitable globe,- -to In dia, to America, to Chiaa, to every country in Europe, to every colony We possess, to our friends, and to our foes, wherever they may be.

Although four centuries have not slapsed since the invention of the noble art, yet the origin of this transcendent light, veiled in darkness, is still, a subject of dispute! No certain record has been handed down fixing the precise time when-the person by whom-and the place

whence this art derived its birth. The latent reason of this mystery is not very creditable to mankind; for printing having been as much the counterfeit as the substitute of writing, from sheer avarice it was kept so completely a secret, that we are told an artist, upon offering for sale

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should, even among ourselves, excite little interest. Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atabalipa. But we doubt whether one in ten, even among English gentlemen of highly cultivated minds, can tell who won the battle of Buzar, who perpetrated the massacre of Patna, whether Surajah Dowlah red in Oude or in Travancore, or whether Holkar was a Hindoo or a Mussulman. Yet the victories of Cortes were gained over savages who id no letters, who were ignorant of the use of metals, who had not bro-s ken in a single animal to labour, who wielded no better weapons than those which could be made out of sticks, flints, and fish bones, who regarded a horse-soldier as a monster half man and half beast, who took a harquebusier for a sorceror, able to scatter the thender and lightning of the skies. The people of India, when we subdued them, were ten times as numerous as the vanquished Americans, and were at the saine time quite as highly civilized as the victorious Spaniards. They had reared cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo, and buildings more beautiful and costly than the cathedral of Seville. They could show bankers richer than the richest firms of Barcelona or Cadiz, viceroys whose splendour far surpassed that of Ferdinand the Catholic, myriads of cavalry and long trains of artillery which would have astonished the Great Captain. It might have been expected, that every Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be rious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home, by an immense ocean, subjugated, in the course of a few years, one of the greatest empires in the world. Yet, unless we greatly err, this subject is, to most readers, not only insipid, but positively distasteful.-Edinburgh Review

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BALLOON.

Mr. C. Green has published the following statement of the grounds upon which he founds his assertion of the possibility of making a journey in a balloon from New York, across the Atlantic, to Europe. He states, that balloons inflated with carburetted hydrogen, or common coal gas, will retain this fluid unimpaired in its buoyancy, and very slightly diminished in quantity, for a great length of time; whilst, on the contrary, the pure hydrogen is so subtile a gas, and capable of so great a degree of ternity, as to escape through the imperceptible pores of the silk, whether prepared in the ordinary manher, or by means of disolved India rubber. These facts are the result of observations made during 275 ascents; on many of these occasions a smaller balloon has been filled by a neighbour. ing gas works, and has been brought a distance of five or six miles to fill that in which he intended to ascend, containing, in many instances, its contents nearly the same in quantity and quality for nearly a week. The aeronaut has travelled 2,900 miles with the same supply of gas, and could have continu éd its use for three months, if necessary. As to making a voyage from America to Europe, Mr. Green dates its possibility from the following facts; On all occasions in which the balloons in which he and other aeronauts have gained an altitude beyond the lower cur rent of air, or land breezes, they found one uniform current of air coming from the Atlantic, and blowing west, north west, or west by north, whilst the under winds, from different causes, were blowing from points completely at variance with the above; the ascent of the machine into these upper currents is perfectly easy, and the same altitude may be kept for an indefinite time with equal

proposition at Paris to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, when he received a letter from Admiral Sir Sydney Smith, confiring his observations as to the direc tions of upper currents, and in which that gallant officer states his conviction of the safety of the proposed undertaking, and his readiness to accompany the aeronaut from New York to Europe in his balloon. It must be kept in mind that a balloon is not borne along as is a ship, by the force of the wind, having to overcome the impediment interposed by passing through a denser element like the water, but is a body, lighter than the air itself in which it floats, and is wafted at the same speed as the air itself travels, as if it were part of the moving body. The wide expanse of sea offers no impediment to the undertaking, and a machine as large as the Nassau balloon could easily be fitted up for the reception of three persons, and, victualled for three or four months if necessary. The machine could be lowered to the. earth and ascend as often as it pleased the voyagers, by the adoption of the same plans as those used in the voyage to Germany. Mr Green, having established the facts of a current of air continually passing round the earth in the direction of west-north-west, the capability of his machine to retain the carburetted hydrogen gas for an un limitted time, and of its power of sustaining itself in the air for weeksunder these circumstances, and trusting to the faith he has always endeavoured to keep with the public, as to claim' their confidence on this occasion. offers to take upon himself to traverse the Atlantic from New York to England in a balloon to be constructed for that purpose, and that he will make the experiment without any reward for his exertions.-Mechanics' Magazine.