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ERRATA.

Page 18. For "no services," read "few services."

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Page 57.

Page 61.

Page 65.

"Choir," passim, "for "quoir."

For "Gillies," read " Gilly."

For "Pusy," read "Pusey." I have been mistaken in what I have related of this learned gentleman, as the anecdote applies to his equally learned predecessor, Dr. Nichols.

For "hæri," read "hærant."

Dele "protesting against the principles of unprincipled spoliation."
"Suited to it," dele “it.”

COMPARISON OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTCH CHURCHES, AS TO

EMINENT CHARACTERS.

Examination of a late ARTICLE in the EDINBURGH REVIEW on Lord Henley's Plan of Church Reform.

I HAVE chiefly confined myself to those passages of Lord Henley's pamphlet which appear to me to have been conceived more in the spirit of a kind of Puritanical partizanship, than in that of a large and fair view of the general effects and advantages of our cathedral establishments.

Respecting Lord Henley's motives, though these obviously less liberal views may have, unwarily, shown themselves, yet the general calmness and the fairness of his statements and arguments-bis anxiety to preserve, and not destroy-every heart must feel; and we liberally concede this full admission to the writer of the article in the Edinburgh Review, "On Lord Henley's Church Reform."

But the same writer, remarking on that most able and unanswerable tract, written, I believe, by Mr. Rose, entitled,

"The FARMERS and the CLERGY," makes some remarks, as a "Scotchman," which, as "an Englishman," I shall endeavour to answer; I shall, therefore, carefully set down the exact sentence in the Edinburgh Review respecting the different Churches, when the determination of the question is so important as to the high ground on which the English Cathedral Clergy are defended.

The writer to whom I have alluded, (Letters to Farmers) speaking of the Scotch Church, had observed

"I believe very many of its ministers to be excellent and exemplary "men, but it has had very few writers of any celebrity; and they "have almost all been persons called away from their livings to pub"lic stations in the Universities." "WE DENY THIS ENTIRELY," quoth the great Edinburgh Polemic and Critic! "In the course of the last

half of the eighteenth century," he observes," that church numbered among her ministers, Robertson, Reid, Campbell, Blair, Watson, "Fergusson, Small, Gerrard, Blair (the poet), Playfair-and THE 66 LIST MIGHT BE EXTENDED!!"

The question most important is, whether the Scotch Clergy bear any comparison with ours as to eminent writers.

Now in the face of all these great names of Presbyterian piety and learning, I fearlessly take up the gauntlet on the part of the Episcopal Church of England, and dare the Reviewer, if he will honour me with a meeting, to "the utterance." But I would request the reader to remark, in the foregoing passage, first, that the period is restricted to the "last "half of the last century," by which restriction at once an immense army of English scholars and theologians, who, from their citadels of Episcopal Chapters, had advanced, with the banners of their own translation of the bible in front, and left such imperishable records of their sufferings, and their virtues, and their learning, and their piety. These were all Cathedral

Clergy; and among these, to say nothing of the Bishops, let us take, as translators of the Bible and compilers of our Liturgy, six Deans, the very name of whom is to be abolished by Lord Henley !

Dean of St. Paul's,

Dean of Westminster,
Dean of Christ Church,

Dean of Winchester,
Dean of Worcester,

Dean of Windsor.

Perhaps his Lordship's advisers may be partial, among Deans, to him of Durham, who so pathetically traversed, in the metrical psalms, "by the waters of Babylon," the W. W. in alliance with Sternhold and Co.; but others might have more regard and respect for those who were employed in compiling our calm but most impressive ritual. These were all Bishops and Deans, and some burnt at the stake.

Cranmer,
Ridley,
Latimer,

Goodrich, Bishop of Ely,
Holbech, Bishop of Worcester,
Day, Bishop of Chichester,
Skip, Bishop of Hereford,
Thirlby, Dean of Westminster,
May, Dean of St. Paul's,

Haynes, Dean of Exeter,
Redman, Dean of Westminster,

Cox, Dean of Christ Church.

Before we proceed further, let us contrast the learning and piety of those men, who, at Frankford, assisted by the great John Knox of Scotland, contributed their own far

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famed "breeches Bible!

History does not inform us of the circumstance, but it is not unlikely that the translation, "made themselves BREECHES," was a translation by the illustrious father of the Kirk himself, for reasons which might be specified, but which I shall not stoop to "suggest."

Knox having, perhaps, furnished this expressive translation, was employed, after his return, "not only dinging the pulpit "in brads," but assisting his pious disciples in devastating the beautiful and majestic cathedrals, those "foul nests of super"stition."+

However I will take the period prescribed, and I will say, that if the Scotch Presbyterian Church can be proved to possess, in proportion, illustrious men bearing any comparison with the host of eminent scholars and divines of the Church of England, I will exchange-in the language of poor Scot "my square" for "a prentice-cap!"

If I prove the contrary, we will set all our cathedral bells ringing, notwithstanding the dogma of John Knox's school of divinity, that, to ring more bells than one be, in the language of the " League and Covenant" men, as great a sin as to COMMIT MURDER! or even play cribbage!! according to the Puritans.

What are the preliminary terms of the contest?

The Scotch Reviewer thus lays them down:—

"Taking the proportional numbers of clergymen in the two coun"tries, more than a hundred English divines must be produced by the

* A well-known edition, in which the word " aprons," in the common Bibles, is translated" breeches!"

+ One only cathedral was preserved by these fanatic democrats— that of Glasgow ! In the Orkneys, Kirkwall cathedral remains as a parish church; but, as far as the sacred sounds of choirs are concerned, it may be said to "listen" only

"To its own wild winds."

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