The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

THE C'OUR7

The Queen gave a state bail (the second this season)on
Wednesday evening at BuckingbanasPalace, to a party of
1,900.

On Thursday Queen Victoria completes her thirtieth
year. Her Majesty's birthday was kept.on Saturday.
The Queen held a Privy Council
.yesterday afternoon,
at three ci',clock,.at Buckingham Palace.

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The Work of God, with Thoughts on its Decline and
Revival, in reference io the Prayer of Habakkuk,
chap. in. 2. By the Rev. James W. K. Disney, 8.A.,
Incumbent of Christ's Church, Newark. London :
B. Wertheim.

This little volume is evidently the production of a mind
under the deepest conviction of Heavenly truth, regarding
it as the great object in which man should ever seek ; the
pearl of great price, and for the possession and enjoyment
of which he should be ready to part with all else that is
attainable in this short and uncertain and chequered life.
We earnestly recommend this little work o the attention
of our Christian friends ; the perusal will repay the reader,
and, if mixed with prayer, may be the source of alarming,
awakening, or correcting, as the case may require. One
or two extracts from this interesting work may not be
amiss :

" Am I in my calling working for God ? Am I not only
working out my own salvation (remembering that it is God that
worketh in me to will to do) but seeking to promote the salva-
tion of others ?' And again, ' Oh, what words can express,
what heart can conceive, the misery of a soul that is lost for
ever ! Be persuaded, (to the reader,) without delay, to secure
your interest in the work of God.' "
Again :

" flow extensively Christian England has fallen from that
noble subjection to, and that fearless assertion of, the authority
of Divine truth, is, alas, too manifest to need proof; nor is it re-
quisite to refer to public acts of the state, whereby the right
hand of fellowship has been held out to falsehood, and parti-
cularly to that system which our Sovereign, by the coronation
oath, declares to be superstitious and idolatrous.' But it is
with individuals that we would deal ; and let it be remembered,
that in a country like ours, in which public opinion has such a
preponderating influence, the public acts of the state are little
more than the echo of the private opinions of the individuals of
whom the state is composed. Oh, that our readers may deeply
feel and act upon the conviction, that those who believe not the
Gospel must perish, and that to countenance any form of reli-
gion contrary to the Gospel, is to aid and abet the murder of
immortal souls ! Traitorous and insane is the kindness which
would seek to please Romanists, or the votaries of any other
unscriptural mode of faith, by glossing over their errors, or
aiding in the propagation of their creeds. Every system which
hides Christ from sinners, every species of idolatry, as well
Christian as Pagan, must be conscientiously regarded as an
abomination ; and thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it ; for it is a cursed thing."

And a furthe'r motive may be fitly added, that should the
sale be attended with profit, whatever is realised will he
devoted to God's service by its benevolent and anxiously
devoted author.

The Rock of Rome; or, the Arch-Heresy. By J.
Sheridan Knowles. London : Newby.
This is a work that deserves to be in the hands of every
Protestant. The writer is already well known as the
author of the Hunchback, Virginius, &c. ; and, though
on this occasion he has employed his pen in a very diffe-
rent field, he uses it with more effect in demolishing the
fundamental traditional dogma of the Church of Rome—
the headship of Peter. Mr. Knowles has evidently
studied his subject deeply; and by arguments, as lucidly
stated as they are irrefragably strong, he proves that the
Papacy has been palming on this subject the most
egregious falsehood on her adherents. The statements of
Romish writers are contrasted with the Scriptures and
with matter of fact, and proved to have no basis whatever,
although they practice on the credulity of so many. The
following extract, which forms the conclusion of the
work, affords a good specimen of Mr. Knowles's vigorous
and pointed style

" 1 find the Church of Christ in Scripture ; but I can-
not find the Roman Catholic Church there except in pro-
phetic, denunciatory anticipation. Here, indeed, I find
her. There is not a single peculiar dogma of that Church
which Christ and his apostles have not foreseen, and for
which they have not prepared a disclaimer and a rebuke.
Not one ! She has been the chief custodian of the Book
of Life. She has; and to a strange account has she per-
verted the trust with which, along with other Churches,
she was invested. It was committed to her to be diffused.
She has endeavoured to keep it to herself. She has sealed
it—locked it up. To other hands than hers are we in-
debted for its multiplying and its spread—jealous of
which, as hostile to her schemes of overleaping ambition,
she has prohibited it ; she has burned it ; she has branded
it with a lie, denying its all-sufficiency—the all-sufficiency
of Omniscience and Omnipotence. Ponder the condition
of mankind, wheresoever you can trace the footsteps of
her sway. The earth is parched and rotten with arid
ignorance, through lack of the living waters, which the
Deity has amply provided, but which man has withheld
or diverted. She languishes, though she knows not for
what. Knowledge, worldly knowledge, now approaches
her meridian fast ! Before the half of the nineteenth cen-
tury is well complete, human art and science have achieved
things which smile at the exploits of a thousand preceding
years. Distance is almost annihilated, wind and current
are defied, lightning, at the will of man, plays in all the
g adations of its power—becomes his messenger with wing
of fire, while the sun enacts his limner and draughtsman;