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London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

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Tan lINPURLISHRD WORKS Of Routkictr.—Some
hitherto =published writinp of J. J. Rousseau's are about
to be given to the world. It is well known that Rousseau
left numerous manuscripts in the bands of his friend the
protestant clergyman, Moulton, whose name occurs more
than once in the " Confemiona." It is from these =mu-
acripts, now in the possrision of the grandson of the gentle-
man just named, that the selection about to be published
has been made. It includes a correspondence of Rousseau
with M. Moulton and the Genevese Coradet ; a Project of a
Coantitution for COMICS ; IsSists on Virtue and Happiness ;
• Treatise on the Sphere; • Fragment on Revelation ; •
Fragment on Laeguazea ; two novels; a portrait of Rous-
seau, by himself ; and • collection of aphorisms—a sum-
meetly varied and inviting list of contents-
CSTWr•I. Raker.. —FRIDAY, AUGUST
does on panned, 2,608 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,1;42 ;
total, 5,2d0.

THE BISHOP OP SALISBURY r. DR. ROWLAND
WILLIAMS.

The proceedings against Dr. Rowland Williams,
to which the Bishop of Salisbury adverted in his charge.
published in our columes yesterday, have so far progressed
that the case will be ready for hearing early next term.
The articles have been filed. In the preamble it is stated
that Dr. Williams is charged with having within the last
two years written, printed, published, dispersed, and set
forth in a book, entitled " Essays and Reviews," a certain
article, or assay, or review, with divers notes thereto,
entitled " Bunsen's Biblical Researches," and by having
in such article, or essay, or review, and in the notes thereto,
advisedly assumed and maintained certain erroneous,
strange, and heretical doctrines, positions, and opinions,
contrary sod repugnant to the doctrine and teaching of the
said United Church of England and Ireland. The following
is a summary of the articles upon which Dr. Rowland Wil-
liams will be put on his defences :
Article 1 declares that all ecclesiastical persons who have
been admitted into holy order* ought to adhere to sad main.
tain with constancy and sincerity the doctrine and teaching
of the church, and that for impugning those doctrines they
ought to be punished and corrected, according to the gravity
of the offence and the exigency of the law.
Article 2 declares that Dr. Rowland Williams is a person
in holy orders, and vicar of Broad Chalk, in the diocese of
Salisbury.
Articles 3,4, t, and 6 declare the publication of the book,
and Dr. Williams' share in its authorship.
Article 7 is as follows:—" And we further article and
.Mesale the said Rev. Rowland Williams, that to Mid
may, or review, are contained the following pas-
sages, that ie to say :---' As in his Egypt our author sifts the
historical date of the Bible, so in his Gott ender Gescheclite
he expounds its directly religious element. Lamenting,
like Pascal, the wretchedness of our feverish being when
estranged from its external stay, he traces, as a countryman
of Hegel, the divine thought bringing order out of confu- '
stem. Unlike the despairing school who forbid us trust in
God or in conscience unless we kill our souls with literalism,
he finds salvation for men and states only in becoming sc.
quaioted with the Author of our life, by wham names the
world stands fast, whose stamp we bear is our forethought,
and whose voice our conscience echoes in the Bible,
as an expression of devout reason, and therefore
to be read with reasou or freedom, ho finds record of the'
spiritual greats whose experience generated the religions'
atmosphere we breathe.' At pages 82 and 83: If we
would estimate the truth of such views, the full import of
which hardly lies on the surface, we find two lines of inquiry
present themselves as criteria, and each of these divides
itself into two branches. First, as regards the subject
:natter, both spiritual affection and metaphysical reasoning
forbid us to confine revelations like those of Christ to the
first half century of our era, but show at least affinities of
our faith existing in men's minds anterior to Christianity,
and renewed with deep echo from loving hearts in many
generation. Again, on the side of external criti-
cyan, we find the evidence of our canonical books,
and of the patriotic author. neared to them,
are auffidient to prove illustratien in outward act
of principles perpetually true, but not adequate to guarantee
narratives inherently iocredible, or precept* evidently
wrong. Hence we are obliged to assume in ourselves a
verifying faculty not unlike the discretion which a mathe-
matician would use in weighing a treatise on geometry, or
the liberty which a musician would reserve in reporting a
law of harmony. Thus, as we are expressly told, we are
to have the witness in ourselves. It is not our part to die-
tate to Almighty God that he ought to have spared us this
strain upon our consciences • nor, in giving us through His
Soo a deeper revelation of die own presence, was He bound
to accompany His gift by a special form of record. Hence
there is no antecedent necessity that the least rational
view of the gospel should be the truest, or
that our faith - should hare no human element,
and its records be exempt from historical law.
Rather we may argue, the more divine the germ the more
human must be the development.' (Other passages are
quoted from pages 77 and 78, and it is contended that these
opinions are antagonistic to the 6th, 7th, and 20th of the
Articles of Religion—that portion of the Nicene Creed which
declares in substance that the Holy Ghost spoke by the
prophets, and that portion of Scripture appointed in the
Book of Common Prayer to be read as the epistle for Christ-
mas-day (Hebrews 1).
Article 8 is of extreme length, and cites a large portion of
the essay having reference to the moral and predictive ele-
ments of prophecy. "We article and object to you," it
say, " that in the passages hereinbefore recited,
Lr7anirpt to
rtions of the said article, essay, or review, you did
Webs.* maintain or affirm that in the books of the Old
Testament there is, with the possible exception of one,
two, or three doubtful passages, no element of divinely
inspired prediction or prognostication of future persons or
events, or that you did therein advisedly maintain or affirm
such a doctrine, position, or opinion, and that the same
is contrary to and inconsistent with the 6th and 7th of the
articles of religion and that portion of the Nines creed
which declares in substance that the Holy Ghost spoke by
the prophets and contrary to rod inconsistent with the
teaching of the said church as contained in that portion of
the Holy Scripture appointed io the Book of Common
Prayer to be read as the Gospel for the Monday in Easter
week (St. Luke xxix.-13)."
Article 9 sets out certain passages contained on pages 76
and 77, and proceeds, " We article and object to you,
that in the passages hereinbefore recited you did advi-
sedly maintain a affirm that the prophet Jonah was
not a real historical person, and that the canonical book
written by him and incorporated in the Old Testament was
not really written by him, and Ina not any authority bid-
ing upon the church, and that the book of Daniel was not
the work of the prophet Daniel but of some other person,
and is not an authority binding on the church, or that sou
did therein advisedly maintain or affirm a doctrine, position,
or opinion, contrary to or inconsistent with the 6th of the
articles of religion, and contrary to or inconsistent with the
teaching of the church as contained in the form and manner
of making &woos, in the following question and answer, op
wit :—The Bishop—Do you confessedly believe all the
CaDonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament?
Answer—l do believe them."

Article 10 charges Dr. Williams with maintaining that
the portion of H Scripture usually called the Revelation
of St. John the Olds, the Epistle usually called the
Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Epistle usually called the
Epistle of St. Peter, are not respectively parts of Hply
Scripture, whose authority is binding on the church.
Article 11 charges him with affirming that the statements
of Holy Scripture as to historical facts may be read and
understood in a wholly figurative and non-natural seine,
being inconsistent with the teaching of the church as cos.
Mined in that portion of Holy Scripture appointed by the
Book of Common Prayer as the proper lesion for the even-
ing service for the first Sunday in Lent, 22nd chapter of
Genesis; and to the second proper lesson for the morning
service on All Saints-day, from verse 33 of the 11th chapter
of the Hebrews to the 7th verse of the 12th chapter.
Article 12 charges Dr. Williams with affirming that
Christ did not suffer, nor was crucified, dead, and buried
to reconcile His Father to us, nor to be • sacrifice for the
original guilt as well as for the actual sins of men ; that the
offering of Christ is nut the perfect redemption, propitia-
tion, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, 'both
original or actual, and that such doctrine is contrary to and
inconsistent with the 2nd and 31st of the articles of religion,
and with the
i teaching of the church, as contained in the
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Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.
Article 13 mete out the following passage as affirming
that the element of water is not a divinely ordained means
whereby we receive the spiritual grace in the sacrament of
baptism, and as denying the doctrine of original sin. " The
first Christians held that the heart was purified by faith ;
tbs accompanying symbol, water, became by degrees the
instrument of purification. Holy baptism was at first pre-
ceded by a vow, in which the young soldier expressed his
consciousness of spiritual truth, but when it became twisted
into a false analogy with circumcision, the rite degenerated
into a magical form, sod the Augustinian notion of a curse
inherited by infants was developed in connection with it."
Article 14 charges Dr. Williams with affirming that the
incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ was purely spiritual,
and that the Son of God did not take man'. nature in the
womb of the blessed Virgin, contrary to and inconsistent
with the second of the articles of religion.
Article 13 charges him with affirming that justification by
faith means only the peace of mind or sense of divine ap-
proal which coulee of trust in • righteenia God, aced that
v ficatioa is a verdict of forgiveness upon our mantas"
1 and of acceptance upon the offering of our hearts, contrary
Ibe the 11th article of religion.
Article 16 identifies Dr. Williams with the views of Bun-
! ma, upon whose works he commented.
Article 17 is as follows--" And we further article sad ob-
ject to you, the said Rev. Rowland Williams, that the mans-
tendency, scope, object, and design of the whole
I essay, is to inculcate • disbelief in the divine in-
spirstiem and authority of the Holy Scriptures contained in
the Old and New Testament, to reduce the said Holy Scrip-
tures to the level of a mere human composition, such as the
writings of Luther sad of Milton ; to deny that the Old Tee-
. tamest contains prophecies or predictionsof Our Saviour and
other perinea and events; to deny that the prophets speak-
ing under the special inspiration of the Holy Spirit foretold
human events; to deny altogether, or greatly disindit, the
truth and genuineness of the historical portions of the Old
Tenement and the truth and genuineness of certain parte of
the New Tenement, and the truth and reslityof the miracles
recorded as facts in the Old and New Testament ; to deny
. or interpret by a meaning at variance with that of the
church the doctrines of original sin, of infant baptism, of
: justification by faith, atonement and propritiation by the
death of Our Saviour, awl of the incarnation of Our Sa-
viour."
i The remaining articles, five in number, are of the mini
foemsi sad tothadaal character.