Star.
London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterday the coachman of a Lady residing in •
Bedford-row, Bloomsbury, named Francis Barker,
was indicted for an outrageous assault upon a Gentle-
man named Pailthorpe, who holds a situation in the
Exchequer-Bill Office, on the Ist of October last.
It appeared from the statement of 'Mr. Pailthcrp,
and that of other witnesses, that on the day mention-
ed in the indictment, he was driving his gig through
Bedford Mews, where the defendant was washing his
mistress's carriage. His progress, however, was im-
peded by the defendant's vehicle, which stood com-
pletely in the centre of the road, and forbid any at-
tempt to pass in safety. The prosecutor civilly asked
the defendant to make way for him, by drawing the
carriage a little on one side ; this he refused to do
with a good deal of insolence, and when Mr. Pail-
thorpe alighted from his chaise, in order to remove
the impediment himself, he was knocked down in the
attempt, in the most wanton and unprovoked man-
ner, by the defendant, who, not satisfied with the
extent of his outrage, seized the prosecutor's stick,
and struck him twice on the head while down. A
scuffle here ensued, in which Mr. Pailthorpe reco-
vered himself ; and although by no raeans a man of
athletic make, he repaid the defendant with such li-
beral interest for the striking marks of his favour, that
he willingly resigned the contest. Mr. P. however
satisfied he might be personally in the chastisement
inflicted on the defendant, thought there was some-
thing due to the Public in nuking an example of an
individual of a cla.ss of men whose ruffianly incivility
is the subject of general complaint, and therefore laid
this indictment.

The defendant, in answer to this charge called se-
veral of his brother Jthuis, to swear that the prosecu-
tor struck the first blow, and two of them were hardy
enough to depose the statement on oath. The re-
spectable testimony, however, of the prosecutor and
that of his witnesses, had the greatest weight with the
Jury, who found the defendant Guilty, and the Court
sentenced him to two munths imprisonment in the
House of Correction.

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ON TIqyROPHECIES.-NO. XXII. •

THIRD TRUHPET.--PAST It. •
§ 111. Of Schism it id Rimy. '
As sehirm and here& avert justly held to be erhtteo
cif the deepest dye among the first Christians, wheieree
dared to the Bishops, in any of their &via:
tions from the primitive order, were sure to be char-
ged with theist: The flocks, fearful of failing in the
duty they owed to those wlio were set over tis,
were gradually led to receive the opinion which the
Bishops favoured, as the mind and will of GOD.
This would often be the case with the great majority, .
especially where the Bishop was a man of imposing
piety (Mark xiii. 22.) If the Bishop's opponents
continued to maintain,their opinion, there was then a.
Aires in the body;--if they. separated, to observe the
ordinances as enjoined by their only Master, they
were heretics. The meaning of these words was ex-
tended to embrace ideas with which they had no cOn-
mxion originally, and at length was entirely changed
—as has been the case with all those terms which, in
the technical language of Churchmen, are now called
erelesiattical. •
&him [Txtertix] as appligd to the church, in the
New testament, had a very different signification in
the days of the Apostles, from that which has slice
been imposed upon it. Schism might then exist "IN
a congtton, and could exist in-no other manner :
—in iii en dines it does not exist ia, but OUT OF
THE CHURCH. He Who quit the communion of
any chuich, ho*ever corrupt and polluted that church
may be, commits the sin of schism—a doCtrine as
rational, accordlnito Paul's method of reasoning, as
It would le te 'ullintaift that a man is lime because,
his neighbbnr harlOrt a leg. The word, as applied,
to men, signifies &moray, division, diprente of opinion.
Thus, when the Jews could not agree whether JEsus
was THE NIESSfAii or not, we ;re informed by the
Evangelist Jatim (vii. 43. z. 19.), that there was a
dit'iriva [o,cirgsa, a schism] among them. So also
when the Pharisees were not agreed respecting him,
after he had cured the blind man on the Sabbath, the
same Evangelist (ix. 16.) says (4/here war a :mud
among them." This word is applied to the chilich
only in Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians. 46 I
&such you," says he, " brethren, by the name ef our
LORD Jews CHRISTI that ye all speak the "lame thing, 11
and that there be no DI rtstnecs [rx.erilaree] among you"
(1. 10.). Now here it is plain that schism consists in
she members of the tame congregation speaking different
thinv initead of the came thing, holding jarring opinions
*stead of being 66 perfectly joined together in the tame
mind and in thessame judgment ; ' and the Apostle, by
what he immediately adds, shews that he affixed no
ollier meaning to the word schism. " For," says he,
46 it hash been reported to me that TIME ARE CON-
VINTIQNS ',YONG rots." He does not say that any
Were separating from them--on the contrary he
charges the church itself, to whom he writes, with
being schismatical ; a thing impossible, in the modern
acceptatinn of the term. The Apostle not only
charges them with schism, but specifies the very act
in which this was manifested—they were glorying in
Dun, one saying " lam of Paul ; another " lof Apol-
lo; ;" whsreas lie says believers should "glory in the
Lost)." ,In ths 11th chapter also, where he speaks of
schism (v. 17, 18.) he does not make it consist in
feitaratiOlft but in " cowing together, not for the better,
but for the worse."—" When ye some together," says he,
a in the coagrqation, I hear that there be Dtrtszotss
[axicsµara] among you, and I partly believe it."—He
had, in the preceding part of the chapter, enumerated
some of the points respecting which there were con.
tentions among them—some, as it would appear,
.Maintaining that a man might pray or teach with his
head covered, and women appear unveiled in the pub-
1k assemblies—a custom which neither he nor the congre- '
galions of GOD permitted (v. 16) ; and in the succeed-
mg part of the chapter, he points out the disorderly
way in which they eat the Loan's supper, as tending
also to prOduce divisions. In the following chapter,
he illustrates the doctrine of concord and harmony
which he inculcates respecting 66 the body of Christ,"
by the agreeing harmony of all the parts of the human
body, every member being given to perform its own
function without dissention (as if the eye should de-
sire to perform the office of the ear) such a :Aim
being impossible in the natural body, in which all the
members mutually care for each other (xii. 25.)......
These are all the passages, except two, in -which the
word schism occurs in the New Testamentt, and in
none of them is it spoken of as a crime out of the
church, nor does it appear possible to conceive how it
can be so ; since it consists in members of the same
congregation having dissensions, or being at variance
with each other, in their opinions. But when a man
( a schismatic if you wail takes himself away, or is
put away from the body, there is then an end of the
schism, it the members that remain all speah the same
thing, being perfectly of one mind—if otherwise—they
are still schismatics, though they continue to have
fill°74101) tf'gFit•
it 4 °broils wain flat bas just been stated, that
ackios, its the scripture iente of the word, might pro-
duce 14estm.iie ; N 1.4: }tided the latter could not take
place 41 agy enimrefratinii without being preceded by
the former. - But as the meaning of the word heresy
raierisi has miderrait as great a change as that
of tl4O -*Ord schisms, rand te change was effected under
the same inAuenei W 4 fur the same object, it may be
ilirtE'iti onstotlit 1-3 ercei,,.. foriti.it
ililte , infprmation
itofmsuchs
lity; 44/ or pg. roe, that it never has 344. other sig-
oation throng out the New Testament ; and that
t 't hoc such meu as the learned And ingenuous Bishop New..
come should ire —c4inaeosl the retelling-of snots terms in a refor-
med versiun of the- aeriteures. taunt he *daunted tor, but froth
the force of inisagrate lib*.; Med furnishes what), one of the
jgrativat aromiegst4 that gesilpg v fee rejecting them entirely.
Sec 4:,.‘11"4 11.i4u 41.1111 Af4ie.4 .. ... ' Tra.kfsiam p. stn.
uirmad
t -ksse oiler two patwes are 'tart. ix. 16. and Mark ii. 21.
sahii„, being an" Veleslisticalvierd,” our Translators, agreeably
inike third= rule enjoined to theta by King ;arrive (see Fuller's
Church tint. Bonk t. p. 46) ought to have retained it throughout
og &411$ ; but hal they pi* their translation speak of new
ninth put into an old garment, making the rehires worse, they
3.2 i flat haveled a commen r6ndcr to understand the real meaning
-the icara." T. have omitted this Greek weird entirely in their
vers;on, considering hose impost* it.is! would have betrafed
oast imatter4/114 tktX 119Feartfore. cPatriNe4 te introdttcre it
yet ,Nir... is I:qz- 4,4!.*f_ 4 there put •vent happlf!.
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aibilie ils. e. -'ilissitireteros (lib. L e. i 9.) speWts office
Lri rog.;;seistraf bits spiturrans, sad LUCIAN . (iD libilDOiiin.
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