The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY,

JANLT.

A Scriptural Reply to the Unv,riptural " Scriciures" LECTURF
';verpool Layman. By an Evangelical Layman.
Seeley!.
. Dr. M'Neile's
Baptism doth Save," and seems The seventh lecture of the cons

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BY THE BEI

of the positions o

I letter on the subject

to be written not

ly in a good spirit, but with a familiar

Church

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of the subject. The writer appears to be an
an, and well read in his Bible ; and it is not a little

citifying to see that the laity are able to break a srH

with Itomanists or Infidels. At the same time,
ye notice the appropriateness of a reply by a lay-
a layman, we do not think it a good plan in gene-
- non-nrofessional men to enter upon professional
s. Admitting the kind intentions of the writer.

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AY 13, 1852.

~ THE LIFE AND TIMES OF raised more than ours; but we have lived to see them not fathom the depths of his own; the heart of man, as
KING EDWARD VI. pass away, while the British Constitution has stood for we are told by the prophet Jeremiah, being deceitful
sizes, and will ever remain the• pride of freemen, and an above ail thingge6 Hence He who knows e hearts o all
.W. POLLOCK, M.A. example of the truth of God. Another of the injunctions must be better and wiser than ourselves. th
Jesus was the
---4 s----- of King Edward it was necessary to refer to, becauseoffspring of David, and therefore man • but at the same
7e commenced by the tnenstrated the conscientiousness with which all things time he was the root of Jesse, and therefore God. Hay-
_et England Institution was delivered in the Con- were done. It was a proclamation respecting transub- ing been a man, He can never cease to hold human rela-
stantiation, in which the king said that he wished his tions with God ; and, as a God, He was, and is, the Sa-
cert Hall, Lord: Nelson-street, on Friday evening last,
people tot to think he did not know what was requisite 'lour of mankind. His cruciion and death were con-
by the Rev. W. Pollock, A.M., on the " Life and Times to be done, but to believe that all would be done in doe aistent with His being as a man; and His resurrection
of King Edward the Sixth." There was a very large I time. That was the language of a man feeling the diffi- and ascension with Divine power. As a creature, He was
attendance on the occasion, and the utmost attention was eulties with which he was surrounded, and anxious to obedient to. and offered up His own worship to, the Fe
paid to the lecture throughout.
clear away the rubbish, but not to destroy the noble edi- ther ; as a God, he is the object of worship to many
floe of the Church ; to bring out the money-changers, [The lecturer concluded his eloquent address, of
Mr. J. W. Pilcher having been called to the chair, the and
purify the temple without injuring it. He thee have given but a faint outline, with summing up ihe at-
proceedings were opened with prayer. quoted from " A Treatise on the Pretensions of the tributes of our Saviour, and the scriptural authorities by
The CHAIRMAN then observed, that before the busi-
wasPa Papacy," written by the young king, and showing that
.he which His Divinity was vouched, adding ; "If we will be
ness commenced he might be allowed to explain the
personally one of the most ardent promoters of the consistent, let us bike the Bible and believe it, or car
,Reformation, and that be well understood the nature of it altogether aside.")
objects of the institution. It was well known that there the Pope's usurpation of the title of Christ's vicar, King The meeting was then closed with prayer.
were a large number of young persons in Liverpool, en- 01 kings, Prince of princes, Deputy of St. Peter, and the gaged in commercial and mercantile pursuits, who required infallible Head of the Church ! The language used by
some place where they could spend a few hours in the the writer of that treatise might sound harsh in these
evening profitably to themselves. In order to meet that days ; but it was addressed to the master spirits of the
want, the Church of England Institution had been este- sixteenth century—a time when there were giants in the MESSRS. A. AND G. HOLME have received the contract
blished ; and he must congratulate them on the results of land, who were accustomed to call things by their proper for building the new goal for females at Knutsford.
the last year, which had given them 400 members. That, names, and to w:iom we owe all our civil liberties and
' sufficient to satisfy him. They must our religious freedom. It was no spurious liberality "
would bo but a small crushed the despotism of the Church of Rome , _
sad been drawn from ing gently of our erring sister's fall, that won the it•
I, by the rious Reformation. He would not, however, plead for
-..gt: connecting Tranmere with Birkenhead
__.— .. eeverpool. The institution had a the spirit of persecution ; but Edward was no persecutor. Ferry is rapidly progressing, and will shortly be completed,
isiderable arid excellent library ; a reading-room sup. Although he was urged to sign the death-warrant of Joan when all the passengers will cross by Birkenhead Ferry, the
'aily and weekly newspapers and periodicals; of Kent, who had been found guilty of denying the incite- Tranmere.slip being reserved for luggage.
.nembera had the privilege of attending those nation of our Saviour, it was only after the earnest en. The general quarter sessions of the peace for Cheshire,
. The subscription was 10s. per annum only ; treaties of Cramer that he could be induced to do so, commenced at the Shire-hall, Chester Castle, on Monday
before Mr. Trafford Trafford, chairman, and a fe"
and he hoped, therefore, that they would soon have a and after long delay and bitter grief. Edward, even in
large accession of members. __.-- that. in these that matter, was in advance of the spirit of his age. of magistrates. There were thirty --
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