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LITERARY NOTICE.

SOUTHEY'S BOOK of the CHURCH.
(Continued from Tax Sux of Alm 8.)
There can be no comparison between the danger
of Calvinism which its advocates would extenuate,
and of Socinlanism which they would magnify so
highly as to saturate the friends of the church
so full with alarm, that they may not direct
their attention to any other quarter. The Soci-
nians may be making, as they boast, some pro.
gress among men who are instigated by an affec-
tation of pre-eminent wisdom, and because they
cannot answer the objections which appear on
the surface of revelation, conclude that they are
not to be answered by 'ethers, who can never be
supposed of deeper penetration then themselves ;
and, therefore, they reject and expose even to
scorn and derision some of the more sacred of
our holy mysteries: yet, there is something so
cold and heartless, both In the manner in which
they deliver their doctrines and in the doctrines
themselves, as little superior to the dry and di-
dactic tone of the Heathen Philosophers; some-
thing so little congenial to the true spirit of a
Christian, and to the general idea of the common
people, as to the nature of revelation, and the
comfort and peace to be derived to our some-
what more than reason and repose; and upon the
whole some thing so contradictory, not (fitly to the
letter but to the spirit of texts interspersed every
where in Scripture, and which are got by heart
from infancy, and grow up with our growth, and
the higher they advance, are only the more sen-
sibly felt and better understood ; that however
the Socinians may flatter themselves that they
are a thriving body, there is not soul enough
about them to spread their principles to any
great extent among the people at large, though
some of the half-learned may be ready to fall in
with notions which appear to raise the vanity of
human intellect upon a more exalted basis.
No ; the great danger to be apprehended is
from the opposite quarter, not so much from
those who reject from revelation what is not level
to their understanding, so low do they fall down
before the majesty of reason, but from those who
would persuade the people that religion consists
in the sacrifice of reason at its altar, and in the ex-
travagance of zeal without knowledge, atsil!boast
to believe, by a faith the most romantic, in it pro-
position chiefly because it is impossible ; making
ignorance the mother of devotion, and imagining
that the further they recede from nature, the
nearer they approach to the sanctuary of truth.
These are the men who make the greatest num-
ber of converts, who go about sometimes in the
church, preaching whatever comes uppermost in
their thoughts as divine inspiration, which
they sometimes actually boast to coma from
Heaven ; but when they do not make this boast,
as their thOughts seem to flow so spontaneously,
without any premeditation, in what is called
their extempore preaching, (which after all is
often as much studied beforehand as the sermons
of the regular and considerate clergy), they are
readily set down as effusions of the spirit, which
are not to he canvassed but instantly followed ; and
on they go, the blind led by the blind, into any
ditch or fatal error into a hich it may be the in-
terest or the caprice of their leader to place them.
So long as the preaching appears to them without
impediment, more especially if the doctrine de-
livered is high seasoned, and they themselves are
roughly handled, and all the horrors of damna-
tion are set before them, they seem as it were
rivetted to the spot, like the silly bird, fascinated
at the sight of the serpent which opens her mouth
to receive the affrighted prey, that runs into the
very danger (like the coward) from which he
would gladly escape.
They who have read the marvellous journals
of Whitfield, &c. must be aware of the powerful
effects which such vehement extempore preach-
ing has had upon their weak and credulous con.
gregations,—the tremors, the fits, the sobbings,
and convulsions into which they have been
thrown even at the sight of the preacher, whose
words they could not bear, but the sound of
whose voice and whose gestures conveyed more
sense to their feeling hearts than his very words.
This effect they seem to believe to be one of the
proofs of inspiration both in the preacher and
themselves. Any preacher with a book before
him, and all the words in order, may make any
congregation understand and feel iu proportion
to his own talents and those of his people ; but
to make men understand and feel without the
help of words, by gestures only, and feel too
with such raptures as Pus man's under-
in
Islia)ibr icialters teialeftsri elatttsltuis super-
natural the
standing, must bitsill
preachere'ffeifatnooft
fact
well authenticated, and, I believe, recorded in
one of the Evangelical Annals, that some men
and many womeu (more susceptible of the spirit)
have actually fainted away at the melting
voice from the pulpit, though they were so fur
distant as only to heur,the sweet sounds,and left
to guess the sense, if any there Were ; such was
the power of ompalky, 3entdbitt impulse, and 1
know not what. But after all it might only be
the power of gesticulation upon spectators pre-
possessed in favour of the magical influence, mid
willing before-hand to catch the first impression,
and quite prepared, by the due preparation of
faith, to receive the whole portion unimpaired
of the magnetic effluvia, and be put at once into
a fanatical stew----more especially if the Magician,
or the Magnetic, is profuse of his mysteries,
which tickle the palate of guests in general, and
excite in them as much curiosity as the covered
dish in the midst of the royal banquet upon ss bich

the eyes of all were instantly fixed, neglecting
the dainties with which the table was loaded.
The general rule is to follow the preacher who
talks loudly and declaims vehemently, especially
if his declamations run upon such doctrines as
are palatable to the common people, or to any
who would rather indulge their passions than
consult their reason, and who, instead of appeal-
\ing to the life and conduct as the proof of the
spirit, appeal chiefly to faith alone, without
its fruits, as sufficient evidence; and if they
do not altogether decry their fruits or good
works, yet they cast them so far into the
back-ground, that their unenlightened congre-
gations care not, or will not take the trou-
ble to go so far, but are much more ready to
close in with the fair offer (as a full compensa•
tion for every moral virtue) of faith alone, which
is the great frontispiece of all their sublime and
beautiful compositions, making that the grand
absolntion from all their sins, past, present, and
to come, and being as great a relief to their
wounded spirit, as confession to the sound Ca.
tholic, 44 who cannot be easy till he confesses
his sins to his priest, and when once confessed,
never thinks more about them," and seems to go
on with spirit refreshed for new indulgencies.
( To be continued.)

HOGARTH.—A few months before HOGARTit
was seized with the malady which deprived so-
ciety of one of its brightest ornaments, he pro-
posed to his matchless pencil the work. he has en-
titled the Tail Piece. The first idea of this pic-
ture is said to have been sketched in company,
while the convivial glass was circulating round his
own table. " My next undertaking (said 110-
garth) shall be the End of all Things." c. If
that is the case (replied one of his friends), your
business will be finished, for there will be an end
to the painter. " There will be so," answered
Hogarth, sighing heavily ; " and therefore the
sooner my work is doue the better." Accordingly
ho began the next day, and continued his design
with a diligence that seemed to indicate an appre-
hension he should not live to complete it. This,
howeser, he did, and in the most ingenious
manner, by grouping every thing that could de-
note the end of all things—a broken bottle, an
old broom worn to the stump, the butt-end of an
old musket, a cracked bell, a bow unstrung, a
crown tumbled in pieces,. towers In ruins, the
sign-post of a tavern, called the " World's End,"
falling, the moon in her wane, the map of the
globe burning, a gibbet falling, the body gone,
and the chains w Mai held it drooping, PIIOIIIU3
and his horses lying dead in the clouds, a vessel
wrecked, Time with his hour-glass and scythe, a
tobacco-pipe with the last whiff of smoke going
out, a play-book opened with exeunt (mutes stamp.
ed on the corner, an empty purse, and a statute
of bankruptcy taken out against Nature.—" So
far so good," said Hogarth, on reviewing his per-
.formance, 44 nothing remains but this," taking
his pencil, and sketching the resemblance of a
painter's pallet broken—" Finis," he then ex-
claimed, " the deed is done, all Is over." It is
a very remarkable fact, not generally known,
that Hogarth never
again took the pullet in his
hand, and that he died in about a month after he
had finished this Tail Piece.

FALSE ImmtsoNattENT.-:in occurence of a most
extraordinary character took place in this city'
during the last week. Early in the morning of
the first file day, a man of the name of Bird, of
Dunham Massey, In this county, on walking
through the fair, fired upon a horse which was
h many others by David Jones of
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and
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insisted that it had
Jean at olen
from hint on the preceding Friday. So positive
was he as to the identity of the animal, that he
made immediate application to the superinten.
dant of our police, who seized the horse, and took
Jones into custody, whom he lodged in the house
of correction, until he could be examined by the
county magistrates. On a hearing before them,
Bird positively swore to the facts above noted ;
and notwithstanding that several most respect-
table individuals attended on behalf of Jones,
who knew him as an individual of irreproachable
character, and who would have given bail for
him to any'
.amount, he was fully' committed to
QUr county gaol for trial. Conscious of his. in-
nocence, Jones immediately dispatched messen-
gers to the place and neighbourhood of his resi-
dence ; and intimation being given to the Ma-
gistrates, that he was prepared satisfactorily to
.prove the falseness of the charge, they assembled
again-at. the Clerk of the Peace's office on Satur-
day, when, such a body of evidence was pro-
(Weed against the facts deposed to by Bird, as
to induce the Magistrates to annul the commit-
ment, and set the innocently accused at large.—
Upon this occasion -- Caldecott, Esq. late
High Sheriff of Carnarvonshire, attended, and
swore to his having sold the disputed horse to
Jones; it was,also proved, that on the preceding
week the hors 3 had been shod at-Pwillteli ; and
in the most satisfactory manner it was likewise
shewn that Jones, at the time of the alleged
theft, was in a different part of the country.—
Indeed so complete was the chain of evidence
tits fit- veer of his, entire innocence, that an univer-
sal sympathy, was expressed for the injury he had
sustained in this 'mysterious business. Whether
:my, or what ulterior proceedings may be de-
cided upon we know not, but certainly Mr.
Jones returns to his -respectable sphere of so-
ciety without the shadow of imputation upon his
character.—( Chester Courant, July 13.)

Dr. NArtrtt, a medical practitioner at Bervie
North Britain, lately deprived himself of exts.
tence, by, opening veins in six places, nud conse
quently bleeding to death.