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LITERARY NOTICES.

The Doctrine of the Trinity proved as a Consequence
from the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. A Lecture,
delivered in Christ Church, Hunter-street, Liver-
pool, by the Rev. David James, Minister of St.
Mary's, Kirkdale. Liverpool: Perris.
This is the seventh of the series of lectures,
preached at Christ Church in this town, on the
" Unitarian Controversy." The proper deity of our
Saviour having been proved, in two preceding lectures,
the author proceeds to show that the admission of this
doctrine necessarily proves the doctrine of the Trinity.
In deducing this corollary the following subjects are
touched upon :—The moral character and unity of
God not discoverable from the works of creation—
Revelation necessarily the only full and satisfactory
source of information respecting the Divine Being—
God in his nature a spirit—One Jehovah, and three
distinct Agents, possessing divine perfections, pre-
sented to our notice throughout the Bible. These
topics are all handled with great ability. A cumulative
mass of evidence is adduced in proof of the truth of
the several propositions laid down. We can most cor-
dially recommend this lecture to the notice of our
readers, as an effectual remedy against the insidious
poison of Socinianism. The preface is particularly
valuable.

The Atonement indispensable to the Necessities of guilty
Man ; and shown to stand or fall with the Deity of
our Lord Jesus Christ. A Lecture delivered in Christ
Church, &c. By the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, M. A.,
F.A.S., Incumbent of St. George's, Everton. Liver-
pool: Perris.
This forms the eighth in the same series of lectures.
In discussing the momentous subject of the Atone-
ment the author has displayed great judgment and a
profound acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures. He
shows that all men have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God—that man, thus pronounced a sinner,
must be regarded in the light of a public offender—
that thus regarded as a public offender, man is utterly
unable to make any worthy satisfaction or restitution to
God, for his crimes against the Majesty of heaven and
earth—and then he proceeds to state the scriptural me-
thod of our recovery and salvation. He proves that
man is justified, as to himself, by the mercy of God—
that the sinner's justification is not immediate, as the
mere remission of a debt; but depends upon a satis-
faction trade to God, by the vicarious propitiation of
Jesus Christ—and he then shows that substitution in
the offender's stead, oblation to God, and expiation of
sin, in virtue of that substitution and oblation, are
needful in an expiatory sacrifice. He concludes by
showing that the doctrine of man's salvation, by vica-
rious atonement, must stand or fall with the proper
Deity and Humanity of Jesus Christ. This sermon is
not (,aly sound in its scriptural statements, but power-
ful and eloquent in its language, and ca'culated to have
a practical effect upon the conduct of professing Chris-
tians.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE GRANT FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The mean and pettifogging device of Lord John
Russell to introduce the Ire.l system of education into
England, in the form of a money grant, without any
previous inquiry into it general nature and tendencies,
without the advice, concurrence, or co-operation of the
heads of the English Church—without affording time
for the demonstration of public opinion—the hop,
skip, and jump" style in which the whole nation were
to he tricked into the sanction of popish versions of the
Scriptures, lured to endanger its existing schools for
the poo;e and offer a national insult on the bishops and
the clergy of the Established Church—all this, we say,
is so much akin to jesuitical fraud, and so utterly fo-
ter'en to the inanly, plain, and straightforward spirit of
legislator, that we may at once denounce it
as the first gift and offering to the people of England
of that junta of papists, infidels, and radicals, which
forms the Irish education hoard, and which now seeks
to extend its domination over our Protestant shores.
The roguish plea of political expediency, however
fe'se and hollow, had some show and semblance of force
it was confined to a country in which the great
majority we-ce papists. The "res Ara et regninovitas"
might furnish some shadow of apology whilst such
schemes related solely to the " emerald isle." But it
required the daring ambition of a priesthood, which
claims the whole of Christendom as their own, to cross
the channel with their missals and versions, " and with
all their trumpery," and to demand that the standard of
popery should again be publicly erected in this king-
dom, by: act of parliament, and by a vote of the Eng-
lish legislature. Such we affirm, and deliberately af-
firm, is the real and virtual scope of that grant for na-
tional education, which Lord John Russell intends to
propose amongst " the supplies" on the 31st instant.
It is no other than proposing to do that by an act of
the government for which James lost his throne—to
set up popish seminaries under government patronage,
and to confer on them the royal privilege and distinc-
tion of reading their own versions. The words are
clear and absolute—" Roman Catholics, if their pa-
rents or guardians require it, to mad their own version
of the Scriptures, either at the time fixed for reading
the Scriptures, or at the hours of special instruction."
The entire history and mystery of this new scheme
of national education bespeaks its popish origin and li-
neage. It was brought forward originally in the form
of an " addreSs to her Majesty," by Mr. Wyse, the
popish member for Waterford, the chairman of the
" Central Society -of Education," with Irish poor law
commissioners resident in England. When the go-
vernment adopted this scheme of Mr. Wyse, they pre-
tended they had her Majesty's commands to form an
education hoard; and accordingly they enrolled them-
selves into an education committee. It was thus that
the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord John Russell af-
fected to write letters to each other on this subject, and
this fictitious correspondence was gravely laid before
the House of Commons. They sketched out various
plans for infant and normal schools, but not a word
was yet hinted about " popish versions." Enough was
let out, however, to awaken suspicion of their designs,
and accordingly Lord Stanley moved for the minute of
privy council. "An extract" of this minute was pro-
duced, and then this popish proviso came to light !
Lord John was then urged to say when he intended to
bring forward his motion. He answered, somewhat
ambiguously, "in about five or six weeks !" Lord
Stanley replied that he should not feel himself pre-
cluded from bringing the subject, in the interval, dis-
tinctly before the house. Then came " the walk out
and the turn in again." The Whitsun holydays ar-
rived, and Lord John suddenly gives notice, at the
moment before the adjournment, that he will propose a
vote of £30,000 for this very object, in the votes for
" supplies," on the 31st of May, and only three days
after the meeting of the house !
Now, let any man of plain common sense put these
circumstances together, and they might have been
much heightened in their effect by a little research and
by many additional coincidences; let such a man
calmly consider these facts, and say whether they do
not bear upon their front the marks of that jesuitical
fraud and deceit which have ever distinguished the
policy of the Church bt- Rome. We say, "if any
man wishes to he deceived, let him be deceived;" but
let him not complain hereafter that this plot and con-
spiracy to introduce popery into England was not
clearly laid before him. It shall not be our fault if the
people of England do not risB up as one man, in all
the early vigour of Protestantism, to protest against