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however, because I wish it to be so, " for eveii,'?
as a matter of astonishment in creatores so frail
as we are. For this seems to me to agree with
the argument elsewhere used, " If ye being
know bow to give good gifts t•, your elmildreni
how much more your Father," &c. By ams-)cat.,
therefore, seems to me to be merely meant that
the disciples of Jesus, for whom the prayer was
made, were also hi the habit of removing sins
or
rectifying wrongs.
You pressed very hard in that point where
your chief strength seemed to rest. Have you
not been praying to-day, " Forgive us our tn.....
passes as we forgive them that trespass against
us ?" And will it not be the baseness of hypo-
crisy not to forgive others ? Will you not deserv-
edly be cast into outer•darkness, and made to pay
fo time very last farthing ? This arrow fell short.
For when I ask by myself 1 choose the Greek
words, which, as I have said, I think, do not
mean, " forgive us conditionally as we forgive
others ;" but rid us of our sins, for we even rid
otherstof their sins. And I have long felt such
a peculiar antipathy to the condition implied to
those words, " forgive us our trespasses as we for-
give them that trespass against us,"judging of my-
self what was right before] understood as I now do;
and knowing well, that however this conditional
agreement with your Maker may suit yourself,
it will not suit me with mine, who urn too ortho-
dox a Churchman to pray to be rewarded after
my iniquities, that in the public service of to-
day I wholly omitted them. I have as much
right to pray with,a rear yxQ as with an cuc xxii
and have more right'lhao, as our translation has
it, with merely all Czic. ; and if I use the words
cas• too, I mean by them explaining spiritual
things by spiritual xam yae, meaning " for even,"
and not " on the same conditl;os."
I have one more obsersation to make, and for
for the present lam done. God wa • in Christ
reconciling the world to himself ; that is, Ile
did not reconcile himself to the world ; that was
wholly impossible. It is absurd to suppose that
He, who is perfect and immutable, could recoil..
cite himself to such a mass of filth and iniquity.
It is man that must change and be changed, and
not God. On the same ground I shall just venture
to maintain, that when I consider myself nearest
right, and my opponent nearest. wrong, I shall
certainly not think of reconciling myself to him
but if I find that he spontaneously changes to
my approval, or that I can bring about such a
change in him, why then he beaomes changed or
reconciled to me, and not Ito him. It is the
wrong, not the right one, that is to he changed,
and Iknow not whether Christianity requires a
forgiveness or removal of the effects of sin, till
the sin itself be rooted up or repented of.
If your discourse 'was merely by way of decla.
mation, I have to apologize for noticing words
without any intended meaning ; but if you really
meant what you said, possibly you will forgive
my chatter ; and try what of dross or of a better
nature is in it, and correct it if wrong. While,
therefore, I disdain the threats of wc, I will
venture to say alas !• for the Christian that trusts
to so incorrect and flimsy a thread."

PAUL JONES.—A biography Of PAUL JONES is
now in the American Press. Those who are con.
versant with the early history of the American
Revolution, know that this man, whose real name
was John Paul, and who was a native of Se-
kirk, in Scotland, became a pirate, and spread
terror along the coasts of his native country.—
Success, however, obtained for him rank and
dignity. lie was made a Captain in the Ame•
rican navy ; Louis XVI., in pursuance of that
fatal policy which was dictated by a blind hatred
of England, invested him with the Order of
Merit; and Catherine of Russia, from similar mo-
tives, raised him to the station of a Rear-Admiral
in her service. The American writers, assert, that
the proposed work will exhibit his character in
a new light, as an accomplished writer, a states-
man of no common order—a gallant Chevalier-l—
and they add, that be was governed by strict
principle, and a nice sense of honour and pro-
priety ! Two original letters of his, written
in 17884,- to Mr. Jefferson and the Marquis de la
Fayette, are published in the New York National
.Advocate; but to us they prove nothing more
than that Jones was a vain, selfish man, delighted
beyond measure with the distinctions which he
received from absolute Monarchs, and tormented
with the bitterest and most unnatural enmity to-
wards the country which gave him birth, lie
eagerly urges La Fayette to promote a war with
England, and this in 1788, when he does not 'so
much as pretend that we had given France the
slightest provocation. Strange that the spirit of
party should blind the Americans to the odious
character of this man's feelings, and that they
who so much execrate Arnold, should praise Paul
Jones

A recent communication from Paris reports the
following to be subscribers to the Greek Cause :
The Duke of Orleans, 6,000 franca; the Dukes
of Chartres and Nemours (his two sons) 2,000
for each ; the Prince of Isinville, 2,000 francs;
Mademoiselle d'Orleans, 4,000 francs ; the
Duke of Decazes, 3,000 francs (at different
times) ; the Viscount de Chateaubriand, 3,000
francs; the Dukes of Choiseuel and Dalberg.
6,000 francs each ; Mr. James Lafitte and M.
Ternaux the elder, 6,000 francs each ; Mr.. F.
Didot, 3,000 francs, &c.
Travellers can now go all the way from Rot-
terdam to Cologne on the Rhine, by steam
packets. At present only one vessel goes weekly,
but from and after the Ist of August, two will
the conveyance of passengers
apnlyd retheirguiabaggage.