these operations were wrought: upon the Twelve (and also the Seventy; and if, as is most probable, they were present) the third also.

III. 1. Regeneration. To those who hold the believers to have been regenerated before the Day of Pentecost, I would briefly reply that regeneration is dying, rising, and ascending with Christ (Rom. vi. 3-11. Eph. i. 19, ii. 6. Col. ii. 12, 13, iii. 1), and, consequently, could not be effected on any, till He had died, risen, and ascended: and that it is wrought by the Spirit of Christ, Who was not given till Jesus had been glorified (John, vii. 39). Their regeneration, therefore, could not have taken place before that time: and it is thus almost with certainty fixed to that time.

2. But Regeneration is not the whole benefit of the Work of Christ. He was "born of the Spirit" from the womb, but He had yet to "receive the Holy Ghost," as He did after His baptism by John. And so of the members of His Body it is testified, "As yet the Holy Ghost had fallen upon none of them only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then laid the Apostles their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost." (Acts, viii. 16, 17.) This gift also (which together with regeneration, makes up the Baptism with the Holy Ghost" prophesied by the Baptist, and promised by the Lord) must have been included in the Pentecostal effusion.

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3. Ordination. This is the bestowal, on one previously called to the ministry, of the gift of the Holy Ghost peculiar to that office, thereby constituting him bishop, presbyter, &c. as the case may be. Now the main reason for believing that the Apostles, at any rate, received this gift in the Pentecostal effusion, is St. Paul's statement in Eph. iv. 8-13, that "when Christ ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.' (This obviously refers to the Pentecostal gift,-the sequent and consequent of His Ascension into heaven.) "And He gave, some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors and Teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come unto the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son. of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Now in

no sense, as it seems to me, can Apostles be said to have been "given" in the Pentecostal effusion, except that therein was bestowed on those already called to that office, that gift of ministry which made them Apostles, not in name only, but in power. The presence of the Seventy,-from á priori considerations highly probable-would afford the material out of which were made the "Prophets, Evangelists, and Pastors and Teachers," said to have been then given together with Apostles.

IV. The result of these considerations, therefore, is to make it highly probable that the gift of the Holy Ghost, received by the Apostles and brethren at Pentecost included Regeneration, afterwards bestowed through Baptism; the Gift of the Holy Ghost, afterwards bestowed by the laying on of the Apostles' hands; and (to those previously called) the gift of Ministry, afterwards bestowed through ordination.

If this be so, does it not strikingly illustrate that passage in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, where the Apostle speaks of the contributions (if I may so speak) of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity to the Church, as being the "gifts" of the Spirit; the "ministries" of the Son; and the "operations" of the Father. (ch. xii. 4-6.) For then all these three were given at Pentecost. The "operations" of the Father are manifestly all those acts of His through His means of grace in the Church, and the expression is especially used for His work of Regeneration (Eph. i. 19, ii. 7. Col. ii. 12.) The "ministries" of the Son are given to the Church by that gift of the Holy Ghost which empowers them for their office: while the "gifts" of every member of the Church are of and by the same Spirit.

And as this instantaneous, indelible, and unrepeatable act included in it these three distinct benefits, so the three channels through which they have since flowed to others,-Baptism, Confirmation, and Ordination-are the three ordinances of the Church ever recognised as having the same instantaneous, indelible, and unrepeatable character.

A word as to the case of Cornelius as illustrating this hypothesis. He received the Holy Ghost immediately, without either Baptism or Imposition of Hands. Those who deny the grace of Baptism make much of this instance, supposing it to be one in which God has been pleased to regene

rate without the "outward and visible sign" of water. Granting it to be so, they must then also admit that the Apostles were regenerated on the Day of Pentecost for St. Peter declares expressly, "the Holy Ghost fell on them, or (us in the very same manner as) on us at the beginning." (Acts, xi. 15.) In the next verse, he states this to have been a fulfilment of the very words of the Lord, spoken to the Apostles concerning their Pentecostal endowment (ch. i. 4,5,): and concludes, "Forasmuch then as God gave them the like equivalent gift (which would exclude the grace of Regeneration), as He did unto us &c. &c." (v. 17) so also ch. xv. 8, 9, "giving them the Holy Ghost even as [or as in like manner as] He did unto us, and put no difference between us and them." Commending these thoughts to the consideration of your readers, I am, Sir,

THE EVIDENCE OF THE REGULAR SUCCESSIONS OF BISHOPS IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH.-If any man be so dull, or so affectedly ignorant as not to see the reason of the case, and the dangerous consequences of rejecting this ancient form of discipline (Episcopacy); if any be so overweeningly presumptuous, as to question the faith of all history, or to disavow those monuments, and that tradition, upon the testimony whereof even the truth and certainty of our religion and all its sacred oracles do rely; if any be so perversely contentious as oppose the custom and current practice of the churches throughout all ages down to the last age; so self-conceitedly arrogant as to condemn or slight the judgment and practice of all the Fathers, together also with the opinion of the most grave Divines; so peevishly refractory as to thwart the settled order of the church; upon such a person we may look as one utterly invincible and untractable; so weak a judgment, and so strong a will, who can hope by reason to convert? I shall say no more to that point.-Dr. Isaac Barrow.

The contemporary friends of any body of men, must know the sentiments of those men more accurately and perfectly, than even the most sagacious inquirers, who flourish many ages posterior to them.-Faber's Divine Authority conferred by Episcopacy, necessary to a legitimate Discharge of the Christian Ministry.

PASSAGES FROM THE EARLY MANHOOD
OF REGINALD MOORE.

CHAPTER II.

(Continued from page 337, Vol. XI.)

"I AM not tired, Oriel," said Reginald, presently; "but I do want to tell you, how sorry I am for having treated you so abominably."

"Pray do not say any more about that, my dear Moore, I scarcely remember your having done so,” replied Oriel.

"And will you tell Archer and all those men," said Reginald, "that when they see me again I shall be very altered, that is—that is," and his voice faltered, "if God will give me strength to walk in His ways. Oh! Oriel, you little know what I felt when I was not able to speak; all the sins, that I had ever committed seemed to rise up before me-the broken resolutions-the wasted opportunities, neglect of my mother; all my conduct since I have been up here especially; do you think that there can be forgiveness for one who so wilfully has gone astray, as I have done?"

My dear Reginald," answered St. John Oriel, much moved, you know what He sayeth, He who cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out; besides, have you not a promise, a seal in your baptism?

"Ah! there it is," said Reginald; "I have fallen away, fallen away," and as he said so, his face wore a look of despair.

"But He will receive you again, He is ready and willing to welcome the penitent, His blood is sufficient for all sins," said St. John eagerly; "do not doubt His power, Who is mighty and able to save unto the uttermost, all those who call upon Him."

"Ah! Oriel, how happy you are, you have never left the right way,” replied Reginald; "pray for me, that I might be received and pardoned."

And St. John prayed long and earnestly for the wanderer, that he might be taken into Christ's fold again, and that he might be strengthened with the living waters, and pass safely through things temporal, until finally he reached the life

eternal.

From that day the two young men dated a friendship that was never broken. Reginald recovered slowly, but surely; when he was able to sit up, he told St. John all about his pecuniary difficulties, and they together, went through all his bills and debts, and found that the amount of them (including the sum which St. John had already paid) was nearly three thousand pounds; where he was to raise this money he did not know. The evening on which they finished this disagreeable but necessary investigation, St. John told Reginald that business would call him up to town the next day; he missed him sadly, and was delighted to see him when he came back late at night, his face glowing with pleasure and unwonted excitement, and his hands full of papers which he placed before Moore, who found, to his intense surprise, that they were his own bills receipted.

"Why, what on earth have you been doing?" he exclaimed, turning to his friend.

"Oh! it was only some money of mine that was lying idle in the funds, you can pay me when you like, or never; you must take it Reginald," he said, as he saw him attempting to speak, and not waiting for farther explanation, went quickly out of the room, saying as he left, "Good night, good night,

God bless you!"

The next morning the post brought a letter from Reginald's mother, it was in answer to the first he had written to her since his illness, it was full of thankfulness and affection; there were several messages to St. John, and she told her son, how he had written to her daily when the fever was at the highest; he looked eagerly through it, for some mention of Alice, at first he could not see anything about her, till turning it over, these words arrested his attention; "Alice Scott has been, and still is staying with one of her married sisters, in the south of France, she knows that you have been dangerously ill, and that you are better now; her absence makes a great blank to me; but I am glad that she is having this change, as I am afraid that she exerts herself beyond her strength. Dr. and Mrs. Scott have been extremely kind, and come in to see me almost every day. Mr. Sterne also, reads to me very often; but he too misses Alice, for he told me the other day that they all wanted her back again; and that the village schools did not go on half