The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

liaons and ceremonies
t to the Word of God,

I by comma

uthol it y, ought
to do the like,)

,olesome restraint upon the manifold and end

private jug

'cut, nothing

can justify dissent from its common uBe. An individual in
the exercise of his pij...s.a.te judgment may deem a ceremony
of the church frivol6us, or vexatious, or even ridiculous ; but
unless he can shew it to be anti-scriptural, the command to
submit himself to the ruler, obliges him to comply with it,
not only for conven.ence, but for conscience sake.

le illustrations,
rendering his subject plain and popular, vindicating the re-
formation on the ground that the ceremonies of the Church
of Rome are repugnant to the word of God, which he shew•ed
very forcibly in the instance of the second commandment ; and

,n introduced

condemning dissent on the ground that the ceremonies of the
Church of England are not repugnant to the word of God.
Granted they were not prescribed by scripture, but being pre-
scribed b j authority of the church, and not opposed to scrip-
ture, they became invested with a legitimately scriptural obli-
gation. Suppose them to contain a few expressions of doubt-
ful interpretation, yet these cannot be undeniably andplainly
proved, as iu the case of Rome, to be repugnant to scripture,
and nothing short of such procf pressing intolerably on a
man's conscience, should induce him to take the solemn and
responsible step of separation. No personsl preferences
among things in themselves indifferent, can justify a violation
of the " common order of the church."
" It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in
all places one, and utterly like ; for at all times they have
been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities
of countries, times,.and men's manners, so that nothing be
ordained against God's Word."
On the other side, remember universal unity is not to be had
under this dispensation. It is not designed. If it had been

r it would not have been left t
have been laid d
r for all tl

lan to pre-
d of God.

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the word—thatthey ALL might be one, that the world might
believe that God had senthim, has reference to that period when
lie shall have accomplished the number of his elect, when
they shall all be manifested together in their resurrection, and
when the beauty of the bride, the Lamb's wife, without spot
or blemish, or any such thing, shall at last convince the
world that God sent Jesus Christ. It cannot apply to any
period during this dispensation, before all who shall believe
in him are born. flow can they all be manifestly one, while
some of them are out of the body, and some in the body, and
some not yet in being at all? It cannot apply to any period in
this dispensation, because during the whole period the world
remains unbelieving, the devil is the god of this age, the whole
creation groans, being burdened, waiting for the manifesta-
tion of the sons of God, in one glorious body. It is for the
accomplishment of this great design that our Lord prays.

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Here the rev. gentleman strongly warned the minister and
people who heard him against reaction : reminding them that
in the moral as in the physical world, action and reaction are
equal and contrary, and reminding them of instances of ex-
laists swinging back into excessive ritualists, till
ht of the distinction between lawful and unlaw-
nd eventually repudi-

they lost s

ful in matters of church authc
ated the protestant reformation

Lvv e regret that we cannot give this part of the discourse,
which was a valuable protest against the " non-protestant "
party in the church, as well as a wise warning to Mr. Aikin
and his congregation.]

The royal mail steamer Acadia, Lieut. Miller, R.N.. sailed
on Friday evening, for Halifax and Boston. She carried out
70 passengers and heavy mails.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. Elton's engagement closed on
Saturday, and though few have been to see him, he has im-
pressed those who attended the theatre with a warm estima-
tion of his talents. He is a chaste and talented actor, free
from all the vulgarisms and applause-catching tricks of the
day, and we may place him safely in the foremost ranks of
Shakspearian actors.—Mr. Wallack commenced an engage-
ment last night, opening with St. Pierre, in Knowles's ex-
quisite play of `• The Wife." Wallack's St. Pierre comes
the nearest to the poet's conception on the stage.
Mass STOTT'S CONCERT.—The announcement of Miss

Stott's concert will be perceived in another part of the STAN-
DARD this day. All the available talent in Liverpool appear
to be engaged, and we hope so deserving and accomplished a
singer may be honoured with a good attendance.

MR. FOGG'S BENEFIT.—One of the civilest boxkeepers is
Fogg. He is ready and willing at all times to oblige, and
never appears to think any trouble too great. The members
of the press, and those who have the entree, ought to use all
their efforts for him, as, like mercy, " his civility is not
strained," but " falls on all alike." His bill is very attrac-
tive, and we expect he will have a bumper. He has been
nine years in the establishment, and though not an amusing
member, a most necessary one.

ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM A FEMALE.—A rough-look-
ing young man without a coat, was yesterday placed at the
bar of the Police-court, on a charge of attempting to rob a
respectable female. Eliza Evans, a good-looking young
female, said, that on Sunday evening she was walking with
two children near the large gate in Dutton-street, when the
prisoner came near her, put his hand into her pocket, and
then made off. She immediately thought he had got some
money which was, loose in her pocket, pursued him, got hold

of him, and held him for some moments. At the moment he
was making off he called out " nicks" to some others near
him. Two men followed him, and he took to the canal and
swam across it. Some persons were on the other side ready
to stop him, and he swam back again and was eventually

secured. The complainant afterwards found that her money
was left in her pocket; but as the attempted robbery was
clearly established by the evidence and the prisoner's conduct,
)fllorrection for three months.
ATTEMPTED FELONY IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—Yester-

he was committed to the Hous

with gettic

day, a young man of the name of Peter Ryan was charged
into a house in Arthur's-court, Denison-street,
felony. Mary Clarke said she was

with intent to commit

a widtw, and lived at the hmise in question. About eight
o'clock on Sunday night she went out, without leaving any
one in charge of the premises. A Mrs. Lewis was up stairs
at the time, in bed. She left the candle lighted on the table
in the house part, and closed the door by the snap-latch,
taking the key with her. She returned home in about ten
minutes, and found the candle removed and a light up stairs.

As soon as she entered the candle was pit out, and the pri-
soner came down stairs. She seized him by the collar, and
locked the door. She sent for assistance, and constable
Samuel White came in, and took the prisoner into custody.
On examining the house, they found that the chest of a

sailor who lodged with her had been opened, and a shirt, a
pair of trousers, &c., taken out, and laid on the floor close
to it. They were the property of Joseph Farrar, who went
to sea on the following (Monday) morning. The prisoner,
who was an old offender, was committed for trial at the

sessions
A POLICE-OFFICER REBUKED FOR STRIKING A FEMALE
—At the Police-court, yestefday, a female was placed at the
bar on a charge preferred by police-officer John Morley,
No. 202,. who stated that she was standing in the street with'
and, apprehending a disturbance, he ordered
he refused to go, and he took her into custody.
The prisoner said she was merely talking to a person whom
she knew, and was doing no harm whatever; and that the
policeman came up-to her and struck her several times vio •
lently on the back with his stick, although she requested
him to take her to .
bridewell, if he would, without assaulting
her. The policeman admitted that be had used his stick
,on

her home

her refusal to go away. Mr. Rushton severely reprimanded
the officer, who, he said, had no right to use his stick against
a female. If she had done wrong, he ought to have taken
her to bridewell, and procured assistance if it were required
by her resistance. He discharged the prisoner, and inti-
mated that the officer should be suspended.

LAW RELATING TO APPRENTICES AND THEIR MASTERS.
—At the police-court, on Thursday, a person applied to Mr.
Rushton to get a warrant out against his apprentice for some
kind of misconduct. Mr. Rushton said " Did you receive a
premium with your apprentice ? " No," was the reply.
Then," answered Mr. R., " I cannot interfere. The
judges have lately decided, that as the law specifies that a
magistrate may interfere when a sum not exceeding £2O has
been paid as a premium, except a premium be paid he has no
right to interfere. It would be necessary, therefore, for those
parties who wished the magistrates to have jurisdiction over
their apprentices, to take a premium of half-a-crown or
_five
shillings for the future."

ROCK ITARMONICON.—This Alaition doses this week.
Those who have not yet heard it must take time by. the fore-
lock. We perceive that there will be a dance to its enlivening
sounds on Thursday evening. This will be a novelty indeed.'
LIVERPOOL GAS BILL.T—The bill to legalize the creation

of new capital by the Old Gas Company, passed the comu
tee of the House of Commons on Friday: but in shal
modified to meet the views of the deputatic ers
and to place this company upon a par, as t, is powers, witk

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the new company. T 1
public have gained, through t
men deputed to watch the m,

n of consumers

aterial clauses which the

se which rest