The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

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• ((ESSAYS AND REVIEWS!'
JUDICIAL 0011MirESE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
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[The satetemeo of the followireg jedgteeet sppeued is a
easaidetehle patios of eez yesterday's unpreasiou.)

Their loideiripe amernbled this afternoon •t three
o'clock to deliver jodgme•t in the following appeals from
the Court of AWNS, which have been so long before the
public, end which have excited so much interest. The
noble lords, members of the committee, present were—the
Lend Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Einpdown, Lord
Chelmsford, and the Bishop of Landon. Amoeg those in
attendance I. ►ear the judgments proommord were the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, tie Duke of Argyle, Lord
Houghton, Load Taunt" and Lead Overstock*. There
was also • lsrp atteacianos of the members of the
bar, and the portion of the wart devoted to the public was
crowded to suffocation.

Wu. Luxe (clerk) e. The Beano? of SALIM:MY.
Wilms lobat) 11% PIENDALL (elute).
_ _ _ _

The Loan enemaMU& is read* the judgment of the
mania. mid t—Tbeee yea do not epee to this tribunal
the power, and therefore it is ao put of its duty, to pre-
emies say opinion as the thareater, afi'eck or %sodomy et
the publisseloin &tem by the name of &mar and Me-
eine." Nor sr we it liberty to take into oonaidetalcoe, for
the pupae of the prosecution, the whole of the allay of
Dr. Warts or of the err of My. Within. • • few shoat
extracts only an befine. au aid act **mom moss
by law he raked to the eater which is tiaras canard.
Ii %hurdler the book 'et theater ese sr elated them
se a wham lo of a imiethierane emit haselslaawdesag as.
weakenieg the foundries" al Othellan belief, sad bay to
came maay to offend, they will trait that deraMet,
sad be labb to that cendemnaties, areitherade
ism thls ear juivaint. These peesseticas are a
the nature of criminal protease, sod it is necessary the,
there should be Flask* and dither:Main the sementioa.
The articles of carp mar threnody stets the opiates
which the ark has advisedly maintained, Jed set forth the
raga in which those opinions are stated ; and further,
the articles moat specify the &airs of the thank which
much opinions or Mader of the clerk are alleged be cos
treats, and the particular articles of religion oc porticos
of the formularies *kith retain each dodder.
The arum is, for the purpose of the game,
coated to the peaseges which ace inclacied and set
ovt is the articles as the matter of the socuestien
but it is competent to the read piety to exploit
team the rest el hie walk the ears or arraiall d thyi
purge or word that is &aliened by the secther. With
respect to the testa of dear, ita the church of Eng-
land, by the of whisk we aro to try the monad-
DOM or d the pages libelled, we agree with
the heard judge is the court below that the judgment in
the Gotham ow is ctimeheive :—" This cone as DO juris-
diction or authority to seer madam el hi& r to deter-
mine what ought in say rasa: to be the doctrine
of the church of England. Its duty extends only to
the ocasideration of that which is by law trablialed
to be the doctrine of the church at Englaad, upon the
true and Mel constroctiou of her article' and formularies."
By the rule thus enunciated it is oar duty to abide. Our
province is as the coo hand, to 1110IWUDI the tree coastruo-
&a of these articles of religion and formularies referred to
in ask charge, according to the legal rules for the interpre-
tation of stamen and wrier tharameate ; 1140111 the other
hand, to esesstain the plaice grammatical meaning of the
rags, which are charged as being ormary to or Mom-
sisteat with tbe doctrine of the char* amertained in the
manor we have doesibed. It is obvious that droner be
matters of deaths as which the church hr not given any
delimits rule or ataadard of faith or opinion—there may be
matters of religiose belief as which the requisition
of the church may be leis than tiniptaxe may
man to vernat—there may be airy many mat-
ters of religious trim sod Inquiry on which the
chum* may have rdraiued from proanacing any opium, at
all. Oa mares as which the church has prescribed so
rule, theses so far freedom of opinion that they may be
disowned without penal *marquises& Nor In a proceadise
like the pram; me we at liberty to male to the *Morel
say rale or achiag which we do cot find expressly and
diatiactly stated, or which is not pl.iay lovoalvvedd in or to
be collected hem that which is ware. With teepee to
she oonstruoticia of the purges eattected from the Sways
of the reamed mties, the meaoing to be ascribed
to them
mast bthat w • that words bear. acceding to the cell.
nary grammatied aeraulag of language. That oily is matter
of acconetion which ui advisedly taught or manained by
a clergyman in oppceition to the doctrine of the church. The
writer ether is • proosetlag moat se the peened
be Meld reeponWe fee more time the eracia-
dor whisk are ftectly involved in the reviled he
km media With these garret romells we pro.
rod to ccasider in the fire Nam the charges spirt Dr.
Williams All the charges against Dr. Williams were re-
jected by the learned judge is the court below, or given up
at the hearing before us, except the chargesconiathed is the
7th and 15th artkdom The 7th article, so reformed, sets
forth aortal, paesagra extracted from pages 60 and 61, and
from pages 77 and 78, of the volume cootainiog Dr. Wil-
liams's Flay, and charges that is the peoseges so eicansited
Dr. Williams hes advisedly maintained and slimed that
the Bible or Holy Saran is an exprear of devout am-
ea, and the written voice of the co tioa—mot the
Word of God, ear coateinlog any special rivelatioct of Hi
truth ea of Hs dealing@ with mankind, we the rule of our
faith. Dr. Williams has solders in terms aired that
Holy Scripture is or the Weed of God; and the ea
mattes therefore mat mesa that by calliag the
Bible "as expression of devout reason, sod therefore
to be reed with meson ia freedom," sad seating that
It is "the wales voice of the coogreptiow," Dr.
Williams must be ranee to affirm that it a or the Weed
of God. Before we ramie" the meaning of these atm&
sire it is right to Arm what Dr. Warr has mid ea
the subject of Holy Scripture in the seeped of the pacer
lauded in this ohmic De. Williams there refers to the
teaching of the thumb is her Ordinal°. &weir as to the
abiding aka* of " the Elena Spirit," sad them lases
these words, "If such a spirit did. sot dwell is the church
the Bible would set be
ollzired • " ad age*
" The sacred wince eekeow sea
of like redoes with re, and we are
promised iilantioatiou from the spirit that dwelt is
thaw," Dr. W Mains may 004 taismonably rented that
the just result of thee" passages would be thus eves
• The Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit that kes ever
dwelt and still dwells in the church, which dwelt also a the
seared writer el Holy Saiptar, mad which will aid sad
illuminate the Wads of thee who rend Holy
tare tussling to receive the guidance and amiessos
of that spirit." The woe& that the Bible is ma expres-
sion of devout reason aid therefore to be read with roma
in freedom are treated in the charger
or equivalent to *re
wade:—" The Bible is therm work of devout err
pions anonsad nothiag more; t Nook a meanie' ought
mot to be ascribed to the wards of a writer who, a few Lass
fordo r on, has plainly affirmed that the Holy Spirit dwelt
in the moved writers of the Bible. This context enables rs
to as. that the words "an expeadom of devout name,
sad therefore to b reed with man in freedom," eight
or to be takes is the mew rated to them by the eon-
astir. la like maser we deem it anascasery to put
any iaterpretation ore the words " written voice of the coo-
gragefir " Lama& es we are eatided that whatever any
be the maiming of the rages leateded in this settle, they
do sot, taken otheseirik worm* the falazlP whisk kr
been made that Dr. Williams hes amiatethed the Lible not
to be the Word of God, let the rate of faith. We pa
co to the remaining charge spirt Dr. Williams, which is
retaieed in the 15th said' of amp. The wards el Dr.
Williams, which are included la the sheep, are part ef
a soared &fear ei Bares Baer "gala the esoneattia
of re being • Quietism. It voila be • severe thing to
heat language need by an imegmary advocate as advised
speaking or teaching by Dr. Williams. living each a
general charge es that of rot being • Christian, kudos of
defence ray be properly urged, although not in
watrit i with the 400tribleol the dash of Bagimed. But, •es
Dr. Williams be taken to of the arganmets which
he uses for this supposed d eon, it would, we think, be
%rapid to him to take his words ac a full starmset of his
owe belief ay teaclag on the subjeet of justification.
The 11th article of religion, which Dr. Wdllems is amused
of wetness*, states, " We are accorded rigb Coos before
God only for the merits of our Lord *ad Saviour Janus
Christ, by faith aid not lee our owe worth or demerilar."
The article is wholly girt as to the arils el leans Chat
being braaderred to us. It rate oily that wear *stilled
foe the merits of our Saviour by faith, and by faith "Coe.
We carrot my therefore that it is peed in a clergyman to
speak at merit by treader as • Settee, however ersemly
that word any be whoa used la coaremoe with such • sub-
Cat. It is fair, however, to Dr. Williams to observe that
in the apart at the bar he repudiated the interprendica
i whir& bad been pot cm them weeds, that "the doca die of
i rent by amid* is a firelea," ad be expireed Souse r
intended by him to demi& the phantasy in the mad of ea
' %divided that he hes reissued or enjoyed merit by
treader. Upon the whole we muniot rose the in-
torpretatkei charged by the promoter r the tree
meamiag of 11w peewee taideded in this 15th erten,
of sharp, sew sea we maids, those prommes as
we:satin the owed& Aerie, while, is sent, o asDr.
Williams smarts that oation by faith means the
pros of fir sewn of divine approval obidi of
trust is a righteous God. Tido is sot the sasortiee el Dr.
Williams. We are tharekire of opinion that the ysiemrl
*pima Dr. Williams mem Its renseed. W pro-
coed to °voider the Ames against Mr. Wil-
ms. These have hoes reduced to the Sth sad 14th
articles of charge. The Ohm es etas of dine were Aber
fejlikai by the sesollosiser, wr have ism aboadesed at No
Nearing before this toliewsld 1s the Sth artiste dl
a, sztosst of ewe lemilk is mote from Nr. Wilma's lbw,
and the seemistioe is, that la the perms minded Kr.
Wilma has deobeed tad sienna hi Week that the Seri}
twee d she Ohl saliva, Testemest were set Tabs 'Aar

[TWOPENCE

the of the Holy Spirit, and r
that they ware not
at akar metelnly the Word of God ;
U aria
r reform h rade to the sad 9:51 artier al
religiose, to part of the Nicene Ord, sod toe prep in
the Ordinance of Prior is the Book of Common Prayer.
Thin thaw therefor wolves the proposire " That it is
a ocetradietian of the raking laid dome ia thi6th and 210th
articles of rellgioe, is the Nicer Creed, sad In the
Ordinates Service of Priests, to salmi that say
part of the canonical books of the Old or New Tee-
tamest, apes any subject whatever, however unooa-
nested with religious faith or moral duty, was
not writer under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."
The ositoa or sumertion that every perk
of the flariplere wee written under the inspira-
tion of the Holy Spirit is not to be fogad
either in the articles or in any of the tot mularies of the
ehirtb. But in the 6th article it is rid that Holy Sap.
tun cootairth sUthiap etosetat7 to salvation, aid the
books of the Old and New tired are then& War
canonical in the 20th article, the theipteres as referred
tees " God's Word irntre ;" In the Ordination Serie,
roe the Bible is given by the bishop to the In",
it is put into his rads with them words. Tire
then authority to preach the Word of Ged ," and is the
Nicene Creed are the words, "the Holy Ghost who spake
by the prophets." We are order by the article of charge
to the exideratiou of these seater& and the question is,
whether is than the church has dinned that every pert of
every book of Scripture was written under the in-
pastime al the Holy Spirit, and ill the Word
of God. Certainly this doctrine is not involved
is the statement of the 6th article, that Holy
Scsipter• tiowteinetli all things neoceary to alvatiee. But
imananch as it doth o ham the revelations of the Holy
Spirit. the Bible may well in denominated " Holy," sod
said to be "the Word .God," " God's Word written," or
ply Writ ;" terms which cannot be affirmed to be clearly
Ward of every dormer and representation retard
every part of the Old and New Tatameet. The
framers of the articles have not used the word
" inspiration " as applied to the Holy Scriptures,
oar have they laid down 'eyries as to the nature,
extent, or Ihrts of that operation of the Holy Spirit.
The caution d the framers of ear articles forbids our treac-
le( their language r rattily man than is reread ; nor
are we warred ia arras to them concloars expreesedl
in new forms of wants involving minute sad subtle matters
of controversy. After an anxious consideration of the sub-
ject we find ouneares usable to say that the psrnager ex-
traded from Hr. Wilson's Eery, end which form the sub-
ject of this article of rare, are contradicted by or plainly
roonsistent with the articles or formularies to which the
sharp refer., and which aloes we are at liberty to consider.
We proceed to the mar* charge agaaast Mr. Wien,
namely, that ocetaised in the 14th article. The charge is
Sat in the portion el his Bey which is set out in this
artide, Mr. Wilson has advisedly declared and affirmed, in
offal, that after this life, sad at the end of the existing
order of Map on this earth, there will be no judgment
of God, awarding to the,. men whom He shall then
approve everlasting life or eternal happiness, sad to those
mon wren He shall then coremn everlasting death or
erred misery, air this ponition is dinned to be aintrary
to the throe creeds, the Absolution, the Catechism, and the
Burial and Ormanalion leerier In the art plea we
And nothing in the passages extracted which in any respect
quatices or denies that at the sad of the world theme will
be a judgeseet of Cad awarding to thou. Ma whoa
he shall approve orrahring life or eternal happier, j
but with raped to a judgment of eternal misery, a
hope is eseouraged by Mr. Wilson that this may not be the
purpose of Gad. We think that it is not competent to a
clergyman of the church of England to teach or suggest that
a hope may be entietained of a state of things contrary to
what the church exit lag leeches or declares will be the
sass : bat the chary, is tW Mr. Wilmot advisedly declares
that dr this life Wee will be no judgment of God award-
ing either eternal happiness or eternal miner—as ear
astir which la set warranted by the pimp nide&
Mr. Wilson expresses a hope that at the day of judgment
those men who are ad admitted to happoneerz ionrsil bse
ge.
dealt with 'se that " the perverted may be " aid
all, " both small end peat, may dreary florl a In
the bosom of the Unreal Parr." The hope that the
primat of the wicked may not endure to all eternity is
artery not at varies with 'myth* that is ford in the
Apostles' Creed, or the Nicer Creed, or in the Aro-
herr which forma part of the Morning and Evening
Pryer, er ethe Burial Service. lo the Chasers
the end is taught that la rapier( the Lord'.
Prayer he pre is sato God " that he will keep us
from all eel and wickeder, and from our ghostly many,
and from 'verities deer r bet this exposition of the
Lord's Player menet he taken r nereerily declaring any.
=oohing the eternity of migrated after the reser-
There reside the Comminstiou Service and the
Miami Greed. nee marl pe rage in the Ormine-
MOM Sent* is in these words ' 0 terrible yore
of most just judges& whir dull be promised
ore than, when it shall be said unto them.
Go, ye cared, into the Ire everlasting which is
prepared tor the devil and hie earls." I. hie macaw the
Altamaha Creed drams that they that have dose evil
shall go late evarling tae. Of the maniac of tree
wads' everhating Are so interpretation is pre in the
formularies which are refereed to le the charge. Mr,Wllonp
be. !media hi deism Sat th• wind "orielaiethig is thi
English trandatice of iiteNmelbeleasent, sad of the Creed al
Sa Athanasius, moat be subject to therm limited interprets-
, don which err leered re have gives tore original weeds
which are Wired by the Eraiii ward "everlastag." aid
he hes aho appealed to the libertyof opens whir hae always
existed without reetraint asowg veverryy emieset /Sepia
divinesspot this 'abject. It is to Ammo UM
in the Artier el Kin Edward Vi., rid in MR the
43rd satiate was fa the following words : " ' All re shall
not bee saved at the length.' Thu also are word& of sow
desolates who iminvere at this Mee Mt reeler the air
promo oplare, that al rase, he the never so unposilie.
shall at kaglia bee saved, when Qui have suffered pulses
for their ern a air ties worded balOwet
jureica" This eerie wee eared from the
eine Ardis d Religion of the pear 1562, aid dialat
be mid that the offset of the judge:air
of the coed here cm this Asp weer be to rester the
article so withdraws. We are set required, or at
ee=
totees any apisies spas the mysterious questioebtfist
et deal penhilunen4 le rr then to ety that we do
sot And I. the feemulasise to whisk this article seders,
any Bach distinct der-lanai/It of our church epos the sub-
ject as to requite us to oosdans u peed the exprenios of
rpe by a elergyanne, that even the shirts pare of Ur
wicked, who are —sand A. the day of judgment"
staalte oreeleteat with the will of Almighty
We rite to aped that the ripe and
disjointed edits whia knee her allowed to mai
in the reformed articles are alone the subject of
our jedgment On the aad penal termer the
book ear " Essays and Eirriews," sad as the sleet or
aim of the whale Essay of Dr. William, or the whole Easy
of Mr.Wilannore rarer can we do titmouse. any opinion.
On the shed ethris Wen es, ter pulpier is that the
are WA pent Thar lareas, therefor% will
teals; ',commasa to her Marty that the sentimeme be
reversed, end the ratevised sodden rejected Is lfles raw
as the lest of theadgral arida were reared in the mart
below, early, wither ern ; bet itaticueb as the appel-
lants here bine obliged herr to this court, their lordships
think N girt that they sheer have the ors of this appeal.
I am dewed by the Arelibilhos of Canterbury and the
Archbishop of York Is sate that they do not concur is
tree of
of MN psalmist which relate to the 'mirth
✓ide of elm age spina Da Warr and the eighth article
of charge spinet Mr. Warr
Murmurs of applause followed the conclusion of the
Juddrwwil-

Mental. Fox &ex OMILDZIN.—The 12th annual
manage( the Meads sad eopperbere ef Ibis institutes woe
beld y+ 2s, is the board roost of the hospital, (Met
Ormonderest, Blooroabary, the Han. Major Vernier in
the chair. The wicastery read en report, which sown
tented the saboribin on the steadily improving isositioa
of the charity, and the highly elleisot state of the hospital,
eneediag that et any fanner pined of its endings 11se
somber both of Is and eat patens has iscreased ; the in
patens is 1863 being 571 whet 543 in 1862, sod the me.
nesse 11.670 yen* 9,6131. The subscription at tbe
laM anneal festival asiousted to 1,1511., and during the
past year two dominoes Inn unknown friends of 2501.
nob bad bees received, sad a nesniceery bequest of 1,0601.
has been left by the late Dr. Otis. The report tbeo refers
to the interest takea is the hospital by her Majesty, as
evidenced by her mond present at Christmas of a liege
quantity of toys for the annagegat of Vie immateu said else
to the serves rendered by espy esarast members of the
toned prefeselon. The aim My had suffered a great lees
diming the year by Mr death et the tressiarer, Mr. Jena
Lakeshore, when place bad base supplied by Mr. W. 3.
Thornton. The report also oingratulates the friends of
the charity apes the fad that the annual anbecriptions for
2863 Obeli an immense of upwards of 400/. over those of 1282.
The gross mei* for the year bad ban 4,8804 12a. 82., and
lbe expenditure, hicluding ropayntest of a loan of 3001: and
11601. pined to deposit arrant, bed bees 4,802 f. 12a &Le
len* a balsam of 278 i. The amount d inverted slosh
was now 2,5684 The report wee adopted, and the caw
nines and Wier ogees for tie anaing year were elected.
Votes of Mean hung beet gins to the modes! ceases
and to the eheiresae the pressedisp terminated.
pldwortissenet.}-80n.owtv's 01.27M2142 AND
Wa..--ecretela Yeageleies—Kr. Thermo; Roe. dniegleg, at
Vni4S thee to Proems, ilailoway
'Addeo, ace of s p residing to this tow., had s
scrofulous son es kb test be Ivins/deeper, * tear., which discharge much
matter, and was accilinalb poring rage and deeper. Altman
=r ies bed been aomccee applied with the hope of
the slier, ono the yin& was brought tome, and 1 re-
goinssendod a Ltd of yews Oteinerit sad Mu which healed up
the aigrettes, sod weentlegif elfeetsd a perfect cure. TM
father and ems are ready sod to se this ststessant:
The beatable riles of floilewsys remedies arrest the fetal
pewees of same QYww "Ida have hitherto been deemed in-
enrshis.

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