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OCT. 4.---I'he Parliament was formally opened
on the Isi inst. bna Spet•ch (ruin the Throne, which, by desire
of the King, was read bs, the Prince Vicar-General, who
also afterwards delivered a short speech in his own name. The
President delivered an address to the King, at the end of
which General I'4p4 tendered his resignation of the command
in chief of tl,e arriV, which the King accepted, at the wale
time assuring the General of his satisfaction with his con-
duct. The whole took place amidst the gi cat est enthusiasm,
and shoots of Lang live the King, • Long live the Prince.
I:a.sNiirotti, OCT. 13 —lmmediately after the arrival of
a Courier, Mr. Lamb, English Minister to the Dirt, set out
for Carlsruhe fur the purpose, as believed, 01 inducing the de-
parture for England ofthe Chamberlain D'Ente, as a witness
in the affair of the Queen."

New York Papers arrived this morning to the
14th ult., and Halifax to the.2lst.
(From the New York Paper of the 12/11 September.)
Buenos Ayres was in a very dreadful state ; no security to
either property or lives, as there are scarcely flee persons of
the same sentiments, and no one can tell who governs,—
There was an Army encamped before Buenos Ayres, said to
be composed of about 900 men ; Gt nem' Loerz, the Gover-
not of Santa FY, has about 6000 men; General I Ales ERAi
has 350 discontented Chi Mans ; ALviAtt„ about 40 or 50 of-
ficers, formerly its Buenos Ayres service. Loeez and CArtae-
-54,55 proclaim their intention to be solely to put. A LVIAR at
the head of the military estatdishment of the province of
Buenos Ayres. On the sods LA MADRID and Roma-
GUES attacked ALvtase and his confederates, and it was re-
ported be gained the victory. All business bas been sus-
pended at Buenos Ayres. •
ST. JOHN'S, N. B. SEM 2.—A number of the unfortunate
persons who left Europe, in Gen. DEvEneux's service, have
been landed at St. 'John's, from Jamaica. They were all in
the most wretched state.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 12.—N0 case of fever these last two
days.

Yesterday the Common Serjeant made a Re-
port to his MAJESTY in Council of the Convicts
in Newgate, of June Session last—when Henry
Marsh,‘James Marsden, and Isaac Smith were
ordered for execution on Tuesday next. The
others were respited during pleasure.

FOR THE SUN.

HOLY ORDERS

MR. Eurroa,-7-Having offered a few remarks
upon the Introduction to a pamphlet, called
Episcopal Innovation, 8z.c.1 now propose to prove
more particularly that there-. is no innovation in
the Bishop of PETERBOROUGH'S Questions ; but
that they arise from a natural anxiety to be in-
formed whether they who offer themselves to
pray and to preach in his Diocese, are likely or
not to adhere to the true sense and genuine spirit
of those Articles, by which he himself and the
Candidates are sworn.
Endless would be the task to enter into all the
minute objections that are scattered through this
close printed pamphlet. The Bishop himself
seems scarcely called upon, as he has not written
in the form of Dogma but of Question merely ;
and therefore is not responsible for any inferences
which Others may draw, or any errors which they
may impute to him, till the Answer to his own
Questions come from his own hand, or till he
condescend to assign his reasons, to which be is
not obliged, for his objection to the Answers of
those Candidates who have hitherto been rejected.

But what might be too great a condescension
in him, may be a fit subject for one, who cannot
Plead his pre-eminence either in talent or in Ita-
lian. Not to enter, therefore, into any of the
more minute objections, I will begin upon the
first of the great Articles in dispute, which re-
lates to Original Sin.
To ascertain the sense of this, as of any other
Articles, we must ascertain, as far as we can, the
heresy to which it is more directly opposed ; for
all of them were not made at once, but as occa-
sion arose ; and it would be well if in every one
it were as impossible as in this to mistake the
particular heresy to which it is an antidote ; the
poison circulated in the sth. century through se-
veral parts of Christendom by PELAGtUS, who,
like the modern Socinian and Freethink.::r, trust-
ing more to his own reason than to Revelation
for the truth, and prouder of his own imagination
than depending upon the written word, denied
Original Sin, contending that the sin of An.tm
was only personal, and did not affect his poste-
rity, who, if they sin, but follow his example, as
their standard and original.
Hence the declaration of the Article,—" Ori-
ginal Sin standeth not in the following of ADAM,
(as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the
fault and corruption of the nature of every man;"
and that this is not to be construed into an entire
depravity or mass of corruption, the Bishop
very properly subjoins the words which follow
in the Article, " whereby man is very far gone
from original righteousness." From this, or from
the state of innocence of ADAM before the fall,
man may be very far gone, and yet not be im-
mersed in that abyss of corruption in which the
fallen spirits are supposed to be, which this Au-
thor asserts, allotting to man what he allots to
those spirits, only the faculty of reason without
one particle of goodness, or the least inclination
to it ; and yet it should seem, according to Scrip-
ture, that those spirits even believe and tremble.
If, then, they have faith, how can reason be their
only property ?
the fact is, Gon from the first made man in
his own image, which by the fall was sullied and
defaced ; but still there are traces of the Divine
Original to be discerned by any but those who
are so deeply immersed in the darkness of total
corruption, as to form in their turn GOD after
their own dreary image, as they are often so
justly accused. " Man is of his own nature
(continues the Article) inclined, not absolutely
fixed and determined, to evil—the flesh lusting
always contrary to the spirit," &c. describes
with ST. PAUL the nature of man, not for ever
intent upon evil, but in a continual struggle be-
tween the good and evil lusts ; and though the
heart may sometimes preponderate to evil, the
scale is never so completely turned, even with
the most depraved, but that the oscillation still
continues, and a just balance may yet be pre-
served.

All these strong expressions, " that there is no
health in us," that " man is only given to evil
thoughts and deeds," and, therefore, that " he
must he born again," are only metaphorical, never
intended to be taken literally, as the grosser part
of mankind are apt to take them, and as Nrco-
numus did, when he asked, " shall a man enter
again into his mother's womb, and be horn ?" and
for his answer he is referred to the spiritual sense
of the expression, signifying, in the most emphatic
manner, the strong and urgent necessity there was
for the heart of man to be renewed by the Holy
Spirit, arid not that there was to be literally a
new creation ; for as long as man lives, the in-
fection of Nature's (as the Article says) cloth
remain, yea even with the regenerate, which
very infection implies not total corruption, but
only a stain, which, even with the regenerate,
can never be entirely purified, but will be more
and more, every step they advance in grace.
In this life, there will always be maintained
what the Apostle calls the war of the Flesh
against the Spirit, which could never have begun
if man were a mass of corruption only, and can
never cease till the Spirit is disenthralled from
the Flesh, in that other state of incorruption,
when all war and strife shall cease at once.

The last question on this head worth consider-
ing is, whether the doctrine of absolute depravity
produces in general a deep sense of humility, or
tends to destroy that and every other virtue ?
The answer to this is obvious. In the gloomy
prospect of absolute depravity, forlorn and wild,
man looks down into the abyss of desolation,
and turning dizzy at the sight, is reckless of all
consequences, and in his own imagination, im-
pelled by the law of Nature, irresistible, in the
horror of despair, his only resolution, like the
fallen Spirits, now that he can gain no reinforce-
ment from hope, he plunges deeper and deeper
into crime; and, if ever there should break forth
a light upon his soul, thus laid in the lowest pit,
it serves but to dazzle his faculties, and seduce
him into the presumptuous thought, that from
some sudden, instantaneous flash of conviction,
he is become all at once the child of Light, and

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favourite of Heaven, not only rescued from
lowest lowest deep, but raised to such a height of ',ll eri
ration, as now to be inaccessible to the Floo
of darkness, and whatever may be his coaoti
most infallibly assured of everlasting Salvatl°o
.That this is not a mere theory of my °:/102,0
wlll appeal to the experience of many 0' If •
Readers, who must have met the advocates
total corruption at one time, and for final Pehro'it
verance at another—as they delight to go avulj
cobimitting havoc even in the Church—and °„s
be still more triumphant, if its appointed g"ii.
Watts did not occasionally raise the sacred 2e v,e
that shield of Faith, which, I trust, will gelir
fail to preserve it safe from every sacrilegio3sai
trusion, and from all the malignant attacks) till
rect or indirect, in Lhe Church, or out of
A.
Church, of its insidious adversaries.