The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

Anidindenter aili magas. lest I hers solo Esalianwitt
Imlay the now et esslam, sad ~manins
theslif. he :to sew him et the deka et prisithea Ced
simpi er
ei as debt* law here easavossell
is eiiiis tbe seine see sesseteA le wee ells& he Dr.
ArtioN to remake** wee esmerit illessese so mteloy.
Who masa et " the seutsh.—prisielyise weigh wove In.
fist limes.
The afore of the why is to show that the "ca-
bin pastries" lie at tee very root of the system et
however they may have ban neglected
rtilbliwYpraitiesl widen( of the system, however they
may have ban &arta to wit the views of the
raper of tee however eery may lave been
amide by saw aim to the spa" and,
anally. however thole easy have bees desied
by lea of the Nyasa. For this purpose
hownoble leather roads es with a rapid but correct
. Mbilit st die adeastieal history of Soothed since
the wiematioa. We have depicted for us the grand
eitain of wants which 'papas, that history from the
thae when Jolts Knox, after the martyrdom of Milos,
blew the first blast a the trumpet which
Asa the wells et the hierarchical Jericho, by
=
hie aftilmeme to the " nobility, Estee, and
of tie pelmet sharing them to pat an
ma albs edge alias eel the tyranny of Antichrist
• —.4e the Seel tam* of presbyters. la expressing
sio thweigh emaseiners with many of the della-
. time oldie Whom, awl ear admiration of the manner
is weak he has pedaled his task, it appears to us,
neadhame, that in his treatment of the subject the
veranda principles" to which he alludes resolve them-
selves late one, and that this principle operat_d only
memeeterilathne history of Scotland to set may.
- toy ma Me bet that it ever after left the creature
estab of Bo t to follow its own cower. The
priseipie allided to is, in the words of the anther :
Throats dead welsh presbytery mode from the beoia
deg enema ail mans et priordisee—et say media.
tarsal or lendinsirt pear fa the Christian showy.
If tt hat hers allowed is Dr. Arnold te hare his most
with Ilelilled—it he had beer phrased to tithe
tart wise la lest weeds anyeatiesee alluded tom that
great week a wad of the tree ertninonwsalth of the
ithatella—lasterithl net la this most hors dear saretesathe
Oa llowde refereme dl. H. seal net have dimmed with
arc limp seaveglea of anger tee wiey name a rime
seda see Mu teams she widely sees es the shames
albs anode the dowel her eseasils, mad the sites a her
pals swam TM esevecatima a the lank et filsodeall
' lele mar a esevemdes seta deep ear. It was a great
=tub.: seems
ame a a
neressat tam the stet•—of MO setherme. "TM their
bed d
newel samba of les Anne assessed at Ziliabargh,
wags were messeaseeedeleasets. misisters, esemes, cow
miniseise his test awl sessilless"—eote Is the mousse
epee* of the sagas et seek peemetree
It is this pried* whisk the author endeavours to
dig est item- all the allismenteatish the triumphant
=eliof preetrybuy heaped urn it. We cannot
thriat be is seiminfal. He roue, indeed, that
by it the Scottish rellinied church came into lane
—he porno, sad way eivarly, that this was the dent-
mat ides mow the very flat
_refecuses—that, in
feet. the rellueella is leaned was air Ye-
fanatics in the wiled ease of the went maw—
earl that, in ease le alas the meet iwaseded WO
for their opereatate the gamma doled the agree
in its largest sane. The sheath of Rae. bed ex-
cluded tie Lily fleet their tights in the Chulsilen
antra a their imitators Is the church of England
della
are sow had It was. by convincing the whole
body a the of their rights that Knox and his
astaters that mighty power which enabled
them to sweep every vestige of Romanist from the
land. Resting on this powerful basis the operations of
the heads of the reformed party were complete.
The pigeons stratum of the Ramish soclemastical
grass wished like a dream. 'Owed es a national
ineumerst, we know 'Babies to compare with the
Scottish reformation. It was eggenSally popular. A
whole satin uttered a mighty volts ; tM words were
those of the Holy &agues, and scarcely a sound
wee heard in oppeatioa. The Scottish nation was at
the time of the reformation the Scottish church. This
we thigh the deb has distinctly proved :
la lea, awe tee " Coaftedoe at Faith" east 0 Filet
Bosh of Felt," were hommod, is hardy did they ideality
the them of tee Cesellso chase awl Maass essameme
yeah as be a who stai sae sad thee.= lay. ody m-
aggot ender Massa mitiny that ea may was the per-
Mast sad email earessse es • bag tamed hr the
dissens
ere bet we ion et wate be diaes liste waseiseasel see way doe-
eris " Ceammtise a dower 0 Os the
aid eisehasee. aide woody essesies It to be the day
of do tidos et the state ti be Wields, WO ahem is the
garde "se that set way ire they appointed he civil policy,
het *oft eirtialmanise of the tree ragisa." And to tea
age someleresse" is added tea proem dash the word
" paagaikm It I. said that te the civil et gear-
lilt "Um priaelyelly" the eneefeation Vlinperiallos at
Id=
the see Incot undoubted
agar*f theprinciple for which
the duke gerager& Bat at the end of so short a
pried as eighteen years the evidence given us by our
Impartial author proves that this perfect fusion of the
church and date bee hien disturbed. Speaking of the
womil Yea a baptise he says:
The wry Arse las, the leel_ a the riser etre, in-
Dodoes. se et semi to the al. • nate" . ffe in
the polity et the saheb is Mesa hem the she polity e'
and the qualm is salved wee se etamelog east. Tee
answer is hold.. earfte, ate a the whelk MUM as doe-
toas lee sena am= ge. hod. slag with resemeee
al sad beast lees impede' the basesaress of the
awash ea eta gear, there emu eatveday serenerecier-
noes mete sad haulier hem of epos& We beer of the
" rem elle kayo" as Netkignishwa hem the '• power of
the steed." We hear of the flaw big a direct eosins-
Ow bun Christ himself to am ease ahe m the spiritual
gertrartsat of the garde by MOW seam, is eseunitted
sad salvia boa of this power beteg held by them as the
trite "wasesorts ads, spates l" Noe an it hoe Mee alto.
other uestemeled with Ms sew carnet of opinion that
th- . &email ask el Dielsake" reverts to the aeronomy is
ealleades.
The principle bad gunk never to be revived. Then
appear tae more traces of it except in the utterance of
sundry enthusiastic bodice, who were as wash no-
tarises with r•rd to presbytery as to eti=e4
The right of judgment was hemmed up as
the sew church as it bad been by the old. the
tynany of the ministry became as congsaidtit
from thei- do :mu as ape:doable. The see
told that they may not venters to take apes
selves " to interpret serigore in mitten el emito.
easy, this power being given of God to the 'paten
and doctors of the church.' " This state of things,
be it remembered, I. not an occasional pileups
meas. but the rhea rale. Scottish map
trey. the moot genuine product of freedom of thought,
soon gave up for ever all allegiame to its us.
doubted parent. This is distinctly visible in the con-
tests frith Mary and with James, in the nature of the
arguments the preebyteriane employed against the
prelatical establishments of the latter, in their oppod.
lion to Charier., in their conduct during the
and, lastly, in their intercoms with the inde
" In their sermons in the city," writes Bai. ier, "the
independents are deviating more and more tomato
old and new errors, *spatially liberty Vasawsiesee P
As a crowning thruway to the total destraidwa et
all liberty of thought aecompliehed by the ele= I
we easy take the following descriptions by a
covenanter, of what he considers the palmy time d
his .hunch. We shall see that its seda-
tion is made to consist in allowing no
cause or question to plead exemption from its power,
in its suffering no error to be named, no scandalous
to live, and, finally, in taking to itself the
rim and Thummim, so as to act as high priest as
well as king over a subject people.
As the beauty of the Scottish chuck was bright, oar
the sr reenter) so her bends were strong. Thou wise no
muse or gentian in t :e meanest fannies in Scolead bet it
rtipht become the object of the deliberation o• the General
Amide,. No ewer was le mush se named No scandalous
errs. could live. There were not a hundred enema in all
Scotland to oppose its deans. The General Assembly
seined to be the pekoe with the thins sad Thessalia.
Weil may oar author remark :
Thus had that erring lady which kitten/Iris, Its lulus, and
its sesetoy repreernated the liberty of the Christian wont',
and the idenity el thaw with the Cbriatian church...hick was
of that people, and from that people, represented their power
end right diell.goorrertost, but no other power whatever—
thus had it become a mere democratic spiritual tyranny, a
thing whisk did net know its own inesnin, the worth or
vales of its own *Witmer, for what end its life had ben
horn lit. tIIS world.
Se ter, then, as the author's main attempt is to
prom that Scottish pros trey really involve a the as-
sertiaa of the most andalded right of thinking
men in a more perfect form than any other
religions 'piton, we think he has failed. The bare
enunciation of a principle at the commencement of
any revolution in the world of thought or action, can
never be considered the dominant idea which pre
sass at the development of that revolution, unless
the fruit bears witness to the nature of the generative
power. Presbyterianism when it became a real
thing. embodied in the institutions of the country,
allowed to exereies administrative and executive
-. showed itself no less narrow-minded, no less
freedom of thought, except in
'n Roman catholicism. Every-
as exhibited in Scottish

wet. showed itseu no to
detneineA to allow no feta
its own mums limits, than I
thing great in pronbyttry
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