The Sun. — London, England, 1820-11-20 00:00:00

YOUR THE. SUN. HOLY' ORDERS.—No, Vl.] Yi 11 0P OT PITERDPROUGIIZ QUESTION.—CHAP. V. `Only glancing on my way at the few objections . that remain on this heal, as they fall in turn with the next • thapter, I shall go on to consider what is included under the 'clrtsricat title of the" Rewardablenrss- of Good Works ," and argum Wilt turns so much upon the terns Justification, it may he expedient to beKin by a definition. This tern is supposed to be taken , by the Apostles from the * taw of Muses, which was then more particularly in their and to he used by them in, direct opposition to emitters), •nati,iti. By this Law, though in the infirmity of nature we might commit actions not strictlyjustifiable, yet by the force of circumstances we might be so relieved as to be justified or accounted joit. Or it might be taken in the Articles by the Reformers from our own Courts of Law, where we may either plead not guilty to an action,, or justify by the peculiar cir cumstances in which we were at the time. But at that Tribunal where there is no intermediate Judge, at the Tiibunal - uf Infinite Justice, who ean.presume to plead not guilty, or attempt to claim a release from the sentence of. Condemnation on the plea of innocence ? ~., The only in bar to punishment is the all-sufficient merit of JESUS', who " suffered for our sins, and rose again for our Justification." . If we presume to set tip any other pica, out of our. own mouths we shall be condernnedos 'Well 'is by that Judge who is of " purer eyes than to behold , iniquity'." " No man can even con - 1000e Father except the Son draw • - him ;" and when the Scriptusies . or the. Articles declare that we are justified by Faith,they sometimes actually express, and always understand the expression; "for the-merit of ounLord and Saviour, Jesus CrintsT." His merits are the sole cause Faith, including Obedience, only the...leans of Salvation. In this sense the Publican 'went away from his presence justified rather than the Pharisee, because he pleaded guilty in the sight of his Father, and threw himself tipOn his mercy, confessing that he was a sinner, and not presumi4 to justify himself with the other, by a pompous display of his alms, and proud pretensions to superior sanctity, and when the Lawyer, tempting him with the question, " what shall I do to inherit eternal life ?" and, willing to justify himself, asks " who is my neighbour ?" to whom does he send him-but to the good Samaratan, who to the love of God joined the lore of man, and by performing the kindest offices to a fellow-creature in dis ' tresS, complied with that condition which He enjoins of Sal vation, and therefore is proposed as a pattern of imitatio n to all who hope to inherit, through his merits, eternal life.— To prove, indeed, still further the necessity of a compliance with this condition, Our Saviour declares, thy words thou shalt he justified, and by thy words thou shalt be con demned," manifestly Minding, in the future tense, to the Day ofJodgment, and not, as:iftheywere already justified, as this Author would interpret the Scripture, and were actually received as the Children .of God in this jiresent life. This is ever considered as a life of probation, in which we are at every moment, till wc have passed its confines, in danger of " departing (Q. 8,) from grace and falling into sin," .and howeror justified now, ►nay the next moment become the Children of Condemnation. - It is not true that we could " as well have been justified by works rtt first as finally," becanse-before we are admitted into the Christian Covenant we are not in a condition to perform them, all "works done before that period (Article 13,) having the nature of sin ;" but after that period, now that we are ad mitted into the Covenant, they partake of all its blessings and its grace, which advances thew to higher degrees, though never in this world, to that state of perfection, as to be en titled, by themselves alone, by our own deservings, without the merits of enats-r, to. the reward of Eternal Life. In many things we all offend--all have sinned, .and fallen short of that Righteousness which is necessary for Salvation, and all, therefore, are justly eondemned. From this coirdemnation,none can arise by their " own natu , ral strength,", and•nothin but the merits of Christ can re frilSe US . - Till wchelieve : in the . power•of those merits and our own impotence, ,or as the,-very homily -on Justification says, which this Anthor quotes,-and tu . which:the : article . alludes in the 4, Weakness of Mail, And-thegpprivss of God, in the imper fection:of minown works, , and his.imost abundant grace," we are-still under the - sentenceof wrath ; but from the first in stant vve begin to believe in Jesus, we are justified. Such is the virtue of faith in.his atonement, that it will remit all our past offences, and thenigh before insolvent: debtors, doomed to bondage by the rigour ollhe: law, yet calling upon his name, and entreating his mercy, we shall instantly be re deemed fronathis worse than Egyptian bondage. Not that once justified, we shall never again be called to . . , account. The servant Who had received free pardon and re - mission-of his : deh,t,,,and ; seemed to- be in favour with his ' falling-into temptation, fell also from grace, which proved to him only a, reprieve. , Not using the favour as it was kindly intended, he is: doomed to the greater punish ment, for the very offence for which be had before received free pardon..: : . • If we would :be . - finally.littstifted, we - must -not only have Faith now in Jesus, but.:We tuust. go :on., still relying on his merits alone j -arid. if -We'fitlvarice to-.that degree of Faith and Repentance Which-are'aitainible here; and as far as•we can improve the talents committed' to our - oust, still believing thetif tribe . onlY' a true', 'foriwhiCh we die one day to be made accoU'utuble,- ritayjfilftie'Acopte,d, and accounted just not yrt, - however;, basi itglrrivedac: pet feet righteonstiess, but as: having, so far as, onr ,opportunities pormit,availed • oursettes or those moans:that amso ,atnifly -disPensed under the gi.heious..Covertaot . by:Which we! hav sworn, and coin plied with those.:cottilitions;.lwhich we .are bound as parties to it to perforni:- Those cotiditions :are incompatible, &ó. Ndeition' 12 . 4 -•:• • is the Charge upon his Lordship here, of " jug glibg, and of sophist's-rood shuffling," expressions that seem to drop as . freely as if they were - natural to him from this in censed 'pamphleteer, who puts a case, supposed-to be paral "—fet, of a "young asPirant escaping" the .charge of .sinsony, even though a handsome bonus 'procure his ':advancement and tirittlel to what ? To one who accepts the free gift of r G o ju; n conditions named. But the two cases as widely 'd*er"as . Heave.] from earth, as is ether of celestial purity fiiim our gross atmosphere, as the light of Omniscience froM the darkness ot !Inman ignorance. God gives freelY, because all that we receive is his. He has an ttndoubted right tO'ilo what. he will with his own, and in the fullest exercise of tat right, he can never be wrong. But how can the ptlter be said.tO be free in his'gift, when it ie shackled with a bond of personal interest, or a bonus to bimeelf? To Hint it can be no wore free than it is to the aspirant, mho is bound down 6 the Obligation to. - pay that interest, and accepts it under that unjust restriction. We must remember too, that the restriction is unjust, and therefore, both the giverand,receiver are bound to the con_ Crary by a superior 'authority, by the Law of the land, o their own consciences, and of God kiniselt, to wh?u either is, at treryslnstant, awfully responsible, for entering int o engagements not consistent with his will. But to scliom is God responsible—Shall I rinelb what'[' iin with mine own ? Is thine eye evil, because I‘ani good ? He is the only one who can be called free, in the true and full sense of the word, to perform his will. Supreme in all things, and to bestow his gifts, as He alone can know where they ought to be bestowed ; and in the distribution of them, without any infraction upon his own freedom, he can pro pose, and regarding this life a state of trial, it is natural to conceive that he would propose such conditions as he must know we can perform without a sacrifice of principle ; and, indeed, we can only preserVe that principle by performing them ; and if we do not perform them,we deserve to suffer for our wilful neglect and disobedience. A father may give freely to his son a portion of his for tune, on certain conditions, as_ that he will use it well : it is a, free-gift on the pArent's part ;•it could never have been ex torted, but arose perhaps from his -natural benevolence to his offspring, and from the desire that his son should be able to try his strength in the world. - Here is no constraint. He might not even have been entreated to give any part of his substance, the gift, therefore, has all the character of free-. dom ; the giver is-free, but the receiver is not. He is under an obligation to.performthl condition under which he holds, or his fortune is forfeited; nor can fit complain, if abusing the liberty he had in it, to licentiousness, the very means of • using it are taken away. • The Prodigal, 'itideed, may, upon a. proper return to his duty, or rather a just sense of his dereliction, be received again into his Father's favour ; but thil is still a free act, a grace that he has no• right to • demand, which yet may be granted as freely as at first by his benevoleitTParent;and may still be continued to him only on the same - 'Conditions,. which the one is as free to annex as the other is bound to comply with. Free Gift and Conditions, " Grace, and Motives are, in deed, incompatihle" with the system of total corruption as serted by this Author, as we have seen in our Chapter upon Free Will ; then Man is considered as a mass ar—olutely dead to all moral purposes, and by Grace he is made alive. There is no co-operating act of his own—he is neither in understand ing or in will efficient. .1t is all absorbed in divine energy, which acts upon him not only in supreme majesty, but in per fect solitude. But such is notthe argument of the Bishop—he believes not that Man is such a mere Atitomaton, propelled to will and to do after Gon's good pleasure, without using the least effort or inclination of his own. He believes him to be, from the first, inclined to evil, but not so irresistibly as not to be moved by divine grace to take a part for himself in the kind assistance thus offered him in this state of Probation. On the for4er hypothesis, the very idea of. Probation would be a ChiMera for all, whether power or inclination, whether to will or to do is of Goo, and so entirely of Him that not an iota can be traced to our own exertions. We are, surely, therefore, altogether : Unfit either fur reward or punishment— we are not responsible Agents, but impelled by an Almighty Hand, which it must be impossible to resist. : But hoW different is the language of Scripture, so closely conforinatile to common sense and experience. Every page is full of the idtia that we are in a state of trial, and that much of our success under the auspices of the great Captain of our Salvation depends upon ourselves. We must put our own shoulders to the wheel, or we shall nut be extricated front our difficulties ; according to the old maxim, " God helps not then► that will not try to help themselves." Though we look to Him with confidence to complete our work, to pros• per it from the beginning to the end, and even to impart strength at every instant of our progress, yet He expects us to do all we can to" work out our own Salvation," weak and imperfect as all our eudeafours must be. He promises to make His strength perfect in our weakness, constantly to supply when " our inirmity lackethi" and through the me rits of His Son, not our own, but imputed to us, instead of Perfection, to accept sincerity of Obedience. A. M. I WEEK LY RETROSPECT. We had hoped that our. last Retrospect might be considered - as winding - up all facts and all observations in regard to that unhappy process which has so long disturbed social life, and s public tranquillity—that even Aldermauir folly would -cease to insult common sense and common de cency with his .clamorous prosing about, Triumph and Ac; quittal! For we did 'conceive, that the sapientl Magistrate might as well imagine that he had got a decree in Chancery for all the copper minesin.Cornwall, or that he was PnoTEc- TOR of England, as that his Prutcgre had obtained a verdict ! But silence would not suit the views of those who have so lung availed themselves of the passions of the mob to Wind them 'selves into notoriety. Theyeare.not fur the feelings of Heft for whom they profess Such respect ; nor for the moral con sequences to HER; nor for the immoral consequences to the NATION; so that every friend to ortler - ;itf the public weal, is forced again into the arena of diScord,'Atid thus unwilling ly to continue to wound the fMings of HER -whom all must pity, even Where , they.do nut respect! hut 11:4 ilei , jiitnds whom that Great P;rsourtge must thank for those COusequences. They care not. fOrfher Palace, unless they themselves are to be welcomed thereto. They care not for her impute, unless they can apply part of that income to seditious purposes'. They terrify her with fears and - threats, lest she,lhould throw herself UpOn the liberality and candour Of the SovEttmox, of the tiliPisters, a.0,0f the Nation . : 'Tie for this, and this only, that the sane actors, the self slime speakers, have been retailing the ten times iold'atory at Public Meetings during the past week—that the Radical Press has been occupied in exciting public clamour for HminccOm =dation, and, in impelling HER to attempt that public pro fanation of the Lotto's pay, and of his TEMPLE, which shall again congregate the impious crow's of—Atheists, the:dis loyal herd of Coalheavers, et hoe genus omue,--hunest men only rendered disloyal by the virulence and violence of pamphlets and,placards—and the prowling hands of pick pockets, whose bars-eats must fail as processions diminish. — But then, we.; may have a riot in St. Paul's ! Some Fel.- !AWES may insist upon amendments to the Liturgy—oi some Chaplain' may insist, is -moguls verbis, to preach a Spital Sermon—hut if !that )Personage, in repentant grati toile, must exhibit her devotion in the Metropolitan. Chltich, it is Understood that no other facilities will be. af , 'bilk than' the'usuall. one of sixpence to the Verger for a convenient seat, with the customary notice, that a female in THE SUN. • SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT? LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER '2O, 1820. It has been observed, that by enabling THE QUEEN to hold a Court in this Country, " it is only in the way of promoting a legitimate Oppo sition that her personal influence can be con templated as likely to be operative." This re mark,which is intended to support her MAJESTY'S claims to the rank becoming her station, on the contrary shews the danger that would attend such a measure at all times, but particularly un der her present circumstances, when she is ob viously the instrument of Party, to use the mild est term, as it implies that she is likely to inter fere in tile Government of the State, to which she has no reasonable pretensions. Such inter ference would be in the highest degree improper, even if she stood in a situation of untainted repu tation and unsuspected purity. Nothing could result from such interference but the conflicts of Faction and the disturbance of the Country, particularly if she were to follow the advice of those who framed her ANSWERS to the ADDRES SES, which we will charitably suppose that she did not understand, as they were treasonable in their substance, and calculated to excite Rebel lion. Whatever may be her allotment, we hope that her MAJESTY on reflection, be con vinced that there is a vast difference between the Populace and the People, and that she can only excite the esteem and approbation of the latter, by exercising those virtues which adorn every rank in society, and by holding forth an example of dignified resignation and retirement. We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not arrived. Two Flan ders Mails, with Brussels Papers to Friday last, and Madrid Journals to the Gth inst. also reach ed town yesterday. The Paris Papers state, that the KING on Wednesday held a Council of Ministers. Thetaccounts respecting the conferences of the Sovereigns and their Ministers at .Troppau are of • • vanous. Import, nor is it easy to glean from them any thing that can lead to a decisive opinion-as . _ to what is intended to be atteMpted. - They are, however, not of so late a date as those which have, been brought by the Flanders Mails, and which, it wilt be seen,'are of a complexion decidedly war like with reference to Naples; and containing much other matter of very considerable importance. That something of great moment was under discu I sion at Troppau appears to be agreed upon in all the accounts; and according to a private letter from Berlin of the 6th instant, given in The Constitu tionnel of Thursday, the discussions at Troppau were of such high' importance, that the King of PRUSSIA., although scarcely recovered from his in dispositiOn, or, according to other accounts, although much indisposed to go, had, in con sequence of a courier extraordinary, dispatched by the Prince de HAADENBERG; actually set out to meet the two Emperors, at the place of .4o p. ference. It was currently reported at Bern/ that commtinications had been made on the P si : of Austria and Russia, of such a nature, Oil neither the Prince Royal of PRUSSIA, Loy the \ ff Prince de HARDENBERG, nor iNf \lle BEAsTon- ' .I . 4o4i i gh invested witli N fuAowe c rs, thoughk il ekpetlient ik titei, e' upon them ? and `the Pr e ' t*.k h sence of the KA- t us became indispeniibly -0 ! cessary. The conferences at Troppau were, I is said, to continue till the middle of the pr eselit month, if not later. The intelligence from Naples of the 31s 01.1t ; presents little novelty. The expedition destine° for Palermo had been obliged to return, owillg i° oe contrary winds. There is not yet any account/ t at least nothing has been suffered to transpire, 0 ( the effect produced at Palermo by the newl 0 the annulment of the Convention concluded bi General FLORESTAN PEPE. Messina, Catta 4 and Syracuse, it is stated, continued to 01 proofs of their attachment to the new order 0 things, and of their determination to make e o°3l mon cause with the Constitutional Governor eP ts It is said that several of the Sovereigns of It sif had sent Plenipotentiaries to Florence, to c° lll suit as to the measures to be adopted in the P ry sent political situation of that country. . FIVE PER CENTS. Wednesday 77 f. 15 c. DEFERRED STOCK► Of the 22d March, 1817 224 Sept., 1820 f. 75 c. SANTIAGO lIE CHILI, AUG. 7.—The A0..0-100‘ 100‘ ships of war, and 14 transports, with 5600 We on board, will be ready for sea by the 15th i° at latest, and proceed for the liberation of Pei' olli gg ins, 50 guns, 360 men, Admiral Lord CoclarfWe' Captain Crosby. San Martin, 61 - 400 - Captain Wilkinson- Lautara,_ 36 - 254 - Captain Guise. Independencia, 32 - 210 - Captain Foster. Galvarino, 18 -- 116 - Araticana, 16 - 96 -- Pueyrredon, 10 72 --- Montezuma, 10 - 60 - Captain Young. 436 guns, 38 1b men Of which,. I-8d are English 5 01173 1-3 d Chilian Ditto, 1-3 d - Marine'. It is supposed that Arica, or one of the int er' mediate Ports, will be the place of attack. THE FuNns.—The rapid advance that WO few days since anticipated has met with an lir expected check from the rumours that 0 1 been industriously circulated on 'Change. ? fit o report of his MAJESTY'S intended visit to II Hanoverian Dominions—a Change of Ac stration—and the precarious state of the Fre'' e King's health, have all militated against th rise. Another circumstance has materially Ile sisted to check them : the Bulls, who had P ri chased immense sums, from 674- upwards, been satisfied with the present profit, and thef t ; fore have realised, and many have also tul le their accounts ; but the monied men still elite(' tam the same opinion, that if no circums tao(e occurs to affect the tranquillity of the CouPt ri (foreign or domestic), a considerable adval ic f must inevitably take place in the value ° f Stock. On Saturday Consols left off at 691 °I t the Account ; this morning they commence s 694. Several failures took place last week, atl , many more, some to large amounts, are expe cted of THE EARL OF SHEFFIELD. - 11l CORSe(lll€ 4lv- ,A the illiberal attack in The Morning Chro gici° on this amiable, venerable, and patriotic Noble, c' man, who, we repeat, we have not the honour t knowing, we have learned from au intellige°l Correspondent, well acquainted with the politi c° works of the last reign, that the Earl never 01111 lished any thing while he was Colonel HoLgel nor any work on the Commercial Treaty I/4 , France. Some years before the period in que st tion, he published a Tract on the Commerce ° the American. States, &c. of which, in the cot' of one year, we. are assured that six editi ° o4 ° were sold, amounting to at least five thole s e copies. We have observed, that since that titlig his Lordship, within our own knowledge/ published works on almost every branch of tical Economy, particularly on the Navigati° and Colonial System, the Corn and Poor 1,3::), ' &c. which have been generally approv ed. Sure such an enlightened. and public-spirited N ° ' - , to man, who holds forth so excellent an exameP e men of leisure talents, and opulence, sho ulP • exempt from party spleen upon a subject sv- e essen tially concerns the honour of the Thr°l3 and the character of the Country. of YeSterday his MAJESTY, accompanied by d p i, SEymoun, the Equerry in Waiting, attende 0. vine - Service at the Chapel Royal, St. Ja m As the KING' passed ti:i - ough the Park t° 00 5 Chapel a number of genteelly -.dressed Persrse lined the side of the Mall adjoining the 11° re . road, which was . very much increased as he en)' turned, and the whole of them presen ted t" selves to him in the - most dutiful m annel --- 0/1 .1 . V-,entlemen taking Off their hats and bovviriP the Ladies curtsying.- - • ej Yeteiv Yeste r fOrtna cessar propri .!194r to col were near 14 (lie; Seem tip t Jeadi 4 Privz abou Aiaje on a t he( of th, Pla.c( stati, fol iza'a Kal th( li e great sAlietion, and.. eared froin a great danger, desires the pralyerm,of that Congregation, and to return thanks to Heal yen ! HER MAJESTY 'is not aware of what she is losing by those public displaysiand by this reiteration of public clamour. She is not aware of what she might gain, if she is to remain in England, by a life of retirement, but of active virtue, by a deportment•which, at last, might almost conquer the VO l ice 'of N. ',- Truth itselfaerd , raise HElNi'oa height . i,n i kublic esteem that \Aid oilirWate al% plift‘:follies="—li,',• \ wlld 1:1(0 ftn more, and raise her in her own esteem, instead of being de graded more deeply by her present associations ! 'Tis not by giving pain to her ROYAL HusaANn's heart, that she must expect to give ease to her own ! "f is not in the indulgence of bad passions, to gratify a mob, that internal peace of mind is to be found ! Oh ! that our ill-fated QUEEN could but for one half hour, during the three days of public madness, have seen who and what those were who, and who alone, rendered themselves conspicuous by their public demonstrations of attachMent ! TO have seen scarcely au individual but the very dregs of so ciety displaying her favours! To have seen Butchers' boys, Printers' Devils, and the unwashed tattcrdenzallions of lanes and allies, sporting white rose knots on their sweet persons, and bellowing forth their " sweet voices" in her praise ! To have seen the gin-shops crowded with theimpure in person, dress, mind, and body, hicupping out their loyalty and admi7 ration, and putting in a justification upon the record • ONE HALF HOUR OF THIS, we can venture to prophesy, would have done more for public tranquillity than the decrees of Parliament, or the advice of the moralist. HER MAJESTY would have seen that her whole defence, in-doors and out, was in bad taste, and her return to propriety of sentiment would have been hailed as a NATION'S BOON ! ! ! 1. G.- N • ' PRICE OF STOCKS TUTS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . S per Cent, Red, 6s6ii Bank Long Ann. I? 11-16ths 9 pc' Cent. Cons 1691 69-1 India Bonds Ws. pr. Si per Cent. 77i Ex. Bills, ed... _43. 35. 4s. pr. -4 per Cents Sfii+ Cons. for Account ..691 6911 5 per Ct. Navy Ann..... 10511 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 47 minutes after 2. 1 Evening, 8 minutes after 3