The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

[The Public • Ledger,]

An article from Vienna, of 'tiie sth instant, an
notinces the appointment of Baron-. Von ,Koller:
as Commissary General of the. Army in Italy.
and states, that the Count de Bombelle iioultic
proceed on The Gth to Naples, by order of the.
Austrian Emperor. The States of Darmstadt.
had been adjourned from the 2d to the Still of
January. Great ckissatisfaction had been ex-'
pressed against that part of the kw which:places
the
,Representation of the Catholic Bishop above
the Protestant Prelates in the Chamber, as the
Catholics of Darmstadt do not form sixth part
of the population. -It appears by an article from
Dusseldorf, that the Rhine near that city was
frozen harder than has been for many years.

-A-111 ERIC A.

BANK OF THE UNITED STATFS.

The Nationta Intelligencer of the 11 Ui ult. con-
tains the following statement respecting the af-
fairs of the_ United States' Bank i

" 4 A document was on Saturday transmitted to,
the House of Representatives, in obedience to
a Resolution of that House, which will he of par-
ticular interest to many of our Readers, and is
so far of general interest, as the Country is in-.
terested in the stability of the Bank of the United
States; and as it has been, and will be, a source
of revenue to the United States, though a-very un-
profitable concern, so far, for those who thought
themselves fortunate in subscribing for the stock
at its par value. It is the return made to the
Treasury Department of the general statement of
the Bank of the United States and its branches,l
for November lasts being the latest 'received.
tending to publish the whole statement as soon
as we can obtain a copy of it, its leading fea-
tures only will be the subject of the present no-
tice. The total amount of bills and notes dis-
-counted at tbe Bank and its Offices is 26,9421,389
dollars.—The bills of exchange, foreign and do-
mestic, are stated at 1,135,757 dollars. The
amount of the funded debt of the United States
(various) belonging to the Bank, is 9,157,601
dollars, besides 278,000 dollars of Louisiana, 54
per. cent. There is due from the State Banks,
2,625,996 dollars, and there is due to them
1,175,905 dollars. The deposits of the Trea-
surer of the United States are 847,706; those on
account of public officers, 1,507,813 ; on ac-
count of individuals, 3,794,267—making a total
of 6,140,787 dollars. The -item of ' discount,
!exchange, and interest,' is stated at 645,723 dol-
lars,'and that of profit and loss, and contingent
interest,' is stated at 2,668,244 dollars. On
the opposite side we find the debt front certain
individuals in Baltimore stated at 1,510000 dol-
lars ; .the real estate, permanent expence and
bonus,' at 1,393,247 dollars; deficieneles,'• at
310,445 dollars, and some smaller items.—
' The amount of specie on hand is very large, being
6,051,499 dollars, besides 671,000 dollars in a
course of remittance or transmission. The amount
:of bank and branch notes is stated at 11.,621,380
dollars, the amount thereof on hand at 6.295,992
dollars, leaving for the amount of notes in circu-
lation the difference between these , two sums.
-The above, it will be observed, are particulars
igathered. from the statements, a- general view of
!the whole of which only can afford an accurate
!idea of the business and state of the Bank."

The RCV4'IIIIC cutter, Alert, arrived, at Nesi
York on the 10th December; with upwards
of 400,(X)0 dollars in specie, from the 'British
46-gun frigate Spartan, which vessel is arrived Off
Sandy Hook; she sailed -from Port Royal, Ja-
main, 26th Oci., and from Havannah 19th No-
vember; she. proceeds hence to England.
One of the largest vessels (500 tons) ever-bailt
at Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, ,was launched
last week, and named.the Royal Geo*, in ho-
nourprhis MAJESTY,

_
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-Yesicrilay morning, a
Foreign Gentleman, residing in Paddington-
street, Mary-le,7bone, was fotnid in a horrid con--
claim+, after having matle,a deSperge effort to
deprive himself of his existence. 4 t appears, that
he had lately been in a very low condition, pro-
ceeding ,from Rill:now:1 Cause.. He. on
Thursday night retired to his chamber, and in

:th.:morninfr he made the rash attempt with a
razor, whichwas found by his side when the.
Servant discoV-ered him on going into .his apart-
ment. Medical assistance was procured, and the
'wound was dressed, but the unfortunate Gentle-
rnan.still remains without hope of recovery; he
•
assigns 'twee-use for the act. '
ANIFTU INSTANCE OFSUDDEN DEATH.-4 nurs-
-day evening last, Georg& Smith, 'a .S,!:oemaler,
of . Barlow-street, Mary-le-bon-e, who had
been in good health and spirits up.to:the time he
'went to bed, and had been__ at work, the whole
of the day ; after he ate his. supper, he re-,
tired to rest, and not rising in the morning at his
usual hour, on being'called no answer was receiv-
ed, and on ex4rnin'ation he was found to be quite
dead.—A Coroner's Inquest vas herd' on the
'body before T. STIRLING, F. q. and a verdict was,
returned—" Died of Apoplexy."
On Wednesday morning--the -body of a 'fine
looking young woman was found in a -Muddy
-ditch, near' Ilookharn's-field, Pentnaville. The
body was owned in the. course of the day: Her
• riarne'was.Marv- Day aged-17, and lived as ser-
.vanCwittr Mr. Pritchard, a COoper-inTeni.-lurch.-
,"street. She obtained leave the preceding_day. to
go to see her friends, and it is supposed she fell
in by accident.

FOlt THE SVN.

HOLY ORD kR.S.— [No..X.]

111 G Nrlt ATI VI T.

The.great difference on this head between. the,
Bishop of Peterborough and his adversary, ist
chiefly upon.the Title, which the one c,ontens to;
take place at Baptism, and the other at any period!
of our lives, or with some at no period, or perhapsi
even so late as their death-bed.
Now aegeneration is nothing more than a li
tern]. Latin translation of a G.reek word, signify-
ing the new birth which begins at Baptism as spi-!
ritually, as the Other With does naturally, from'
the moment we are born.

It is an expression but once used in Scripturp.
Whene'ver it is used, it is always in the Bishop':,
sense, as well in Scripture as in the Articles and
offices of our Church, except when it can' have!
no concern With our arg,tunent, and ,that is.in the,
celebrated passage, where St. Paul says, that God.
has saved us by the. Layer of Regeneration, which
evidently must be another wordjor Baptism, for
there 'is nothing beside Baptism. to hich this'
term washing can possibly apply.

Even Austin, wimis the. great model and standH
and of our Adversary's opinion, by •his own ad-
mission was obli,ged ,to confess, that ,Baptism was
the '.saute. as Regeneration. cc He made a dis-,
tinction between the Regenerate in -general, and
the elect regenerate,7.Perfectly coinciding.in.sen
timent with our Churoh, that the Regenerate
might fall from grace, but tlit,there were others,
who having :been regenerated by Baptism, carried
on that first element of the Christian Grace into
life; and continued to the end,
.allowing for the
.variations of human infirmity, in the: right way ;
never openly rebelling against the principles of.
'iruth and Light, :they forfeited not their title

to Redemption, and may thus far hope to enter
into the joys of the elder SOTI, WhO Was always
with the Father, and all that be bad was -His.

Regeneration, in this sense, every one must
confeSs fo be a blessing. ' but it is c Ja, that in.
the' former instance, when cG men 'are certainly

to fall, it is rather a Curse, and therefore incon-
sistent with the Covenaiq of ppce."
But the same objection will apply to the light
of the Gospel itself; which is, sent forth to shine
in' the world, but to those that will not receive it,
is only the greater darkness.--Surely it is a bless-
ing to behold that light, to those who will enjoy
it, and to those- that will not, the fault is theirs,
-as theirs, will be the condemnation. It is a hap-
piness to know the Master7s to those wtib
have the heart and mind -to perform it, notwith-
standing those Who have it not are beaten, and
deservedly beaten- with many stripes.
So strona; indeed, is St. Austin, on the coinci
dence of 'ae.geneiatlon with ' Baptisni; _ that he
scruples not to assert,-" from the infant even to
the decrepid old pan, as no one is to be pro-
hibited from Baptism, so there is no one who
does not die unto sin in Baptism, but infants die
only to original sin, adults to all their sins." • •

And •indeed the same coincidence is as clearly
marked in all The writings of-the early Fathers,
and in the Articles and offices of our C:hurch, in
proof of which it would be an insult to the me-
mory of any who had read them, even in the
slightest manner,•to multiply quotations.
Our very Catechism, if we knew nothing. else,
would inform as, that Baptism is a death unto
sin, and a new. birth unto righteousness."

At this ceremony, as in the first age, we are
born of Water awl of the Spirit; the one the sign
as most appropriate of purification, the other the
purification itself and the thing'signitied, which
from that moment begins to operate within u. 4,
and if not restrained in its operation •by the dis-
order of our evil lusts, will purify ,us for the
Kingdom of God; so, that thou,gh we were by
nature born in sin and the children of wrath, and
therefore at certain less_ propitious seasons " the
infection of that nature yet remains even ,with the
regenerate," we shall, by the influence of this
divine principle, be " made, the Children of
Grace." • .

. .
On this account, the Bishop proposes the 2d
and following, question in this cap.,, at which our
adversary is more than usually indignant, calling
the 2d," a Popish crucible which vOlatilizes,~ aril
the vital spirit of the Church doctrines, dissipateS
their preciousingredients, and leaves ,nothing but
death—a caplet. nt ()Mawr behind iind• the Bth
question actually makes him fear and tremble,
as if, at its sound, the Church were shaking tol
her very foundations; and rather than subscribe
to this, he advises the pious:Candidate •" to cat',
off his right hand and enter maimed into life."— !
And, after all this violence of inVeCtive; What is
.there in these questions that is not completely
•agreeable to the doctrines of our Church; and
directly opposed .to that Church to which his
Lordship has ever been a. most determined
adversary, both in the Senate and: the, Rress3
which abound with his Sentim. etas expressed,in
as strong languageagainsthersuperstitioustenets
as against those Of the-particular sect which af-
fects to be so indignant at the very thought of
• Popery, bitt yet in many of its modes of:6oop*
if not in opinion itself, bears no little' resemblance,
as has been often. shewn,.more particularly in
Bishop Lavington's Comparison, which I Would
recomrnen(l to all who wish to study_their Oa,
racters,• and ..to confirm the • observation of .exile=
.rience, that all superstitions, whatever different
forms they may assume, betray, if knot in every
feature, at least •in the general air and counte-
nance, a very strong family likeneSs..

. _
" Facies r4on rimnibus tura,
" Nec diver sa tainco, (paten] decet esse sororurn."• .
To return from this digres.sloh, ikl.w i h I l.c.. I ne-
ver shoul=l have indulged, if the extreme violence
of our adversary.,had not called it forth. Inan-
sw er to his invective. 1 'will introduce no less an
authority than the Bishop himself,
,whom. I am
happy to have recourse to; not because I think
the danger so. great, as to seek refuge under the
shield of Ajax,; or the objection so 'insupe.:
rahle, even - by.. my own power, as to be a
4 dignus vindice nodes ;"•but • because I am
glad of the opportunity of referring to thoe lec-
tures_wbich were.listenedto with so: much rap-
ture in the most crowded asiembly at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, and are, now that they are

12411410, the theme
.ot admiration-to all the
real judges of ,theologicat learning. •
The following quotation from them, I am
happy•to.give, as it provos •the perfect harmony
of his Lordship in
.these questions with himself
on forrrur occas,tons;,and as it is the very best of
all.possil?le answers to •the present objection to
the doctrine of the Bishop, , :as.a Popish doctrine,
that.regenertation,takes -place at baptism, and at
no other
.peripd, I shall not,scruple to give his
ocA n words,. at full lqngth,aschis argument so en-
tirely cuts the Gordian li,not, as not• to leave
one thread Of union, .the 'whole of this.impe-
tuous chapter of adversary at once falls in
pieu s,to the grOlind.
His Lordship tis refuting the pretence Of those
who accuse Ivith this opponent—" of imi-
tating tine Church of ,Ronn,‘, in believing that
Grace is conferKA at Baptism merely ex opere
°pc/Ty°. The Grace of. God accompanies the
outward act ; but the outward act is not the effi-
cient cause of it. The 27th Article compares,
indeed, Baptism with an instrument, by which
the promises of God to forgive our sins are visi-
bly 'signed and sealed ; but not to mention that
in every legal -instrument the signing and the
sealing. is accompanied with the declaration of

its being our own act and deed, and that this
mental assort •is •the thing which gives force to
the 'signature and the seal, the comparison ict
question is limited by the very :words of the Ar-.
`Cele to those who " receive. Baptism rightly
and Baptism, according to the general rules of
our Church, is not received rightly, unless either
by ourselves or our sureties we make professions
of repentance and faith (and which he goes ou
from the Formularies of our Church to prove)";
that repentance an faith, so expressed, are the
causes which operate in prolucing that spiritual
grace which is eb nfer re d at Baptism (and from
the 25th and 29th Article he proves most satis-
factorily), that though each of our Sacra-
ments has its own external token. yet in both of
them are the acts of, the mind acnowledgments
of repentance and faith: Unless, therefore, it is
superstition to believe that the, Grace of God
accompanies repentance and faith, there is no
superstition in believing that the Grace -of God
accompanies one Sacrament as well as the other ;
and since that peculiar Grace, which is railed
Regeneration, is a Grace which is conferred only
once in our lives, the Sacrament, which we re-
ceive only once in our. lives, and which then
admits us to the Christian Covenant, would ap-
pear to be the appointed means of conferring that
Grace, even if St. Paul had not declared it."
But that St. Paul has declar(l it -cannotadmit,*
doubt, from what we before quoted of his Lord-
ship on this head.
It is strangf., therefore, that such efrorts
should now be- made to detach Rec;enera6ou
from Baptism, though we must acknowiedee

that, in the estimation of those who make suck.,
efforts, the separation is highly useful. For as
soon as'Regefieration is detached from 13apti.,tri,
it may Ile employed on other occasions; it may"
be made. the instrument of conversion at a later
age, and thus the pangs of the new birth Intl
become tokens of admission to that holy state,
which the converts are taught to el;pect iti -iiil
frOrr. a Sacrament depriv.ecl..£ its spiiittir
6' But strange as this doctrine may appear. it
is yet mote strange that men should detach Re-
generation from and still pretend to be
Chueclttnen. There is no possible ATtitice
di high the If ords of our Baptismal Ser% ice caa
be distorted. from their real meaning.l
In the words of our 'public Baptism of Itift;ntst

.he Priest says, immediately after_ the haptiva

is completed, " seeing now, that this child is laf
baptistif' regenerate;" and in the tbanLsgivinX
which immediately. follows; 44 we yield thee
hearty thanks most merciful father, that it bath
pleased thee to regenerate this infant ‘l,i-th thy
Holy Spirit." Unless, therefore, the expres''
sion " if bath pleased" is synommous with
shall please God to regenerate,---" unless the
past is-the same with the future, it is impossible,
to deny that they Who wilfully and deliberately
detach Regeneration from Baptism impugn esseit-•
tially the doctrine of our Established Church,
inasmuch as they impugn it in one of our Holy
Sacraments."

A. SJ..

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