The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

THE BLESSING.

We cud our service-‘,74h -a
---blessing, which is to be
pronounced by the Bishop if he be present.—( See the Ru-
bric before the blessing in the Communion Service.)
" Then the priest or bishop, if he: be present, •hall let
them depart with his blessing." This is ordered for the
honour of the b'shop's authority.—Hebrews, vii. 7. With-
out contradiction the less is blessed of the greater.
Therefore, blessing being an act of authority, the bidhup
ought not to be blessed by the priest, but the priest by
the bishop.
This blessing of the bishop or priest was so highly es-
teemed in the primitive times, that none durst go out of
Church till they had received it, according to the Councils
of Agatha, Can. 31, in the year 472, and Orleans the
Third, Can. 22.

THE COMMUNIIN SERTIC'E.
The consecration consists, chiefly in rehearsing the
words of cur Saviour's institution—" This is my body, and
this is my blood," when the bread and wine is present upon
the Communion Table. Can. Anglic. 21. St. Chrys.,
Ser. 2. in 2 ad Tim.
The Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which the
priest now makes, is the same that Christ gave to his
Apostles. This is nothing less than that. For this is not
sanctified by men, but; by Him that sanctified that—for
as the words which God our Saviour spako are the
same which the priest now uses, so is the sacrament the
same. Again, Scr. de Jude, lat. liel. tom. 3.,
Christ is present at the Sacrament Row, that
first instituted it. He consecrates this also—lt is
not man that makes the body and blood of Christ by
consecrating the holy elements, but Christ that was cru-
cified for us. The \'‘ ords are pronounced by the mouth of
the priest, but the elements arc consecrated by the power
and grace of God. This is, saith he, my body. By this
word the bread end wine arc consecrated.
Before these! words (" This is my body") the bread
and wine arc common food, fit only to nourish the body ;
but since our Lord bath said " Do this, as oft as you do it
in remembrance of me, This is my body, this is iny blood ;"
as often as by these words and in this faith they arc con-
secrated, the holy bread and blessed cup are profitable to
the salvation of the whole man —Cyprian de Ccena Dom.
The same says St. Anil:). 1. 4, de Sacram. c. 4 and 5;
St. Aug• 28, dc Verb. Dei, and others.

TRANSLATION OF THE SCRIP

TURFS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUiV. d
Sta,—ln your Paper of last night is a letter, signe
" A Constant Reader, M.A.," in which the writer de
fends the present version of the Scriptures. It is a pity
that such persons do not examine the Scriptures before
thus venturing to give an opinion. The present version
which he asserts is a translation made by men learned
in the Hebrew, &c., is not a translation at all ; it was
merely, as these clever and learned men themselves ac-
knowledge, a revision of previous translations ; it con-
tains the chief errors of the translations from which it
was made. In fact, I have no hesitation in asserting
that the mistranslations of the Scriptures, and the want
of consistency between the :preaching and the ;acting
of thosa men who assume to themselves the title of
clergy, arc two main props of infidelity. To support
the common version is to support infidelity—to support
a translation from the original, such as is John Bel-
larny's, will be a powerful agent in the destruction of
infidelity.
Few persons know the beauties of the Scriptures ;
the dignity they possess, when properly translated, it
truly divine. And here we have had, for generations,
a body of men, clothed in black uniforms, and fed as
the public expcnce, at about six millions a year, for the
purpose of making known the will of God, and what
have they done in the matter most important to the
knowledge of that will, namely, a correct translation ?
Nothing.
In fact, a correct translation of the Scriptures would
send the clergy adrift, and would teach them, by ne-
cessity, to get their living by active industry.
Your Constant Reader,
London, Dec. 26, 1840. J. E.

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GouvitunsT.— WEALD Or KENT HOP
DUTY. —" flop duty day" has passed, and as far as this
district is concerned, the Queen, " God bless her," bas
got the duty in full; the Lords of the
.Treasury would
not wait, and between begging and borrowing, mortgaging
silver spoons, and pawning old coins, by selling cows,..an
pigs, and fowls, the money has been raised, and the dreaded
day has passed, not, however, without a few being sum-
and some addition made to the charges in the
shape of costs. It has, however, gone off better than was
expected, and it remains to be seen how the planter can
"o on without money, the collector having taken it all. At
present we have a great many labourers unemployed, the
uni,,n-houses are filling fast, and poor-rates are inercas-
in.!. in amount. If the farmers are not light in heart
this Christmas, we are sure they are so in pocket, arid they
must hope for batter f,rnes. Hop duty day is over as fur
as they arc concerned ; not so with tne tradesmen ; the
cash for Christmas bills will ha missing, his till on a S itur-
day will not be replenished, fur one very good riot-
son—the labourer will have no money to spend. A most
distressing ease occur, d et Horsmonden. A small
philter owed Ebout for duty, and could not raise it in
time ; be started for London to sell what few apples he
had in order to pay it, but before he return( d borne an
execution was put on the premises, and the expenses and
duty amounted to considerably more than he received fur
the fruit. Thanks to a few kind friends (but none to the
Lords of the Treasury), the money was raised.—Sussex
Express.
SKATING ON TIIE THANIES.—SO intense has
been the frost during the past week that that part of the
Tharneseall d Reach, closet° thi!,- town (13...tiding')
, hArti ...o pori:9ossitAlity.;
oil it Thursday last,
j glad to learn, the occurrence of any accident,_Berbs
I Chronicle.