discipline of that pure branch of the one Catholic Church which is established in England; which has made the state religious; and which has formed the character and disposition of her people. And we look with fervent hope, and confidence to the signs of the times; for the extraordinary proceedings in the Church of Scotland has already borne fruit in attracting the presbyterian mind to the true doctrine of the Eucharist, as their own doctrines are merely the repetition of the Zuinglian heresy.

In our first address, we said that "ever since the fatal repeal of the Corporation and Test acts, her sworn and banded enemies have had the dominion over her. The fierce papist, the un-christian quaker, the latitudinarian dissenter who calls himself after an earthly founder, and the blaspheming Socinian, "who rejects Christ's satisfaction, and proudly considers his own works available to his salvation," have been her legislators and oppressors. Since that time she has been in a state of persecution; and has neither received comfort nor support from a government that still professes to be of her communion."

If such was indeed the case in the year 1846, have we experienced any improvement in 1858? Truly not any; for to the above mentioned enemies of the cross of Christ, has been added the obstinate and blinded Jew, whose nation imprecated the blood of God on themselves and on their children. This nation has taken all these enemies of God into her bosom; and by so doing, she has become partaker in their sins. Shall she therefore escape the divine vengeance when the seventh vial of His wrath shall be poured out?

In the course of this volume, we have briefly abridged the history of the Episcopal Church of Scotland--it strials and persecutions, its Knoxian episcopacy, its short-lived presbyterian establishment, its orthodox episcopacy, and its overthrow; with the

crimes, the intrigues, and the violence of a small presbyterian faction, which succeeded, by the aid of a powerful aristocracy-who had illegally seized the Church's property-in involving the three kingdoms in rebellion and bloodshed. We have brought the history of that church down to its restoration and re-establishment in 1662.

A very clear, temperate, and brief comparison has been made by a clerical writer, of the creeds and principles of the Churches of England and of Rome; shewing the excellence and scriptural foundation of the first, and the apostatic nature and character of the latter.

As the most scriptural explanation of the doctrine of justification by faith-that is, by the alone merits and cross of Christ-we have given the whole of Archdeacon Waterland's "Summary View," the study of which we strongly recommend to all who have been perplexed by the unintelligible jargon of so-called evangelical teachers and writers, who only darken counsel by words; and thereby lean on the arm of flesh, instead of accepting with thankfulness and humility the faith once delivered by the apostles to the Church, which is the pillar and ground of the truth.

The result of Dr. Waterland's "Summary View" is -that we are justified by God the Father, considered as Principal; by God the Son, as the meritorious Purchaser; by God the Holy Ghost, as the immediate Efficient; by baptism as the ordinary instrument of conveyance; by faith, as the ordinary instrument of reception; and lastly, by faith and holiness as the necessary qualifications and conditions in adults, both for the first receiving and for the perpetual preserving of it.

This periodical has not been the advocate of either the ultra-high church or the ultra-low church parties;

but it has been, to the best of our abilities, the exponent of the via media, the happy moderation of the Church of England; but we regret to say that we have not been supported in our honest endeavours to explain and elucidate her sober and Scriptural doctrines as we flattered ourselves that churchmen would have done; but we shall hope to be favoured with greater encouragement for the thirteenth volume; and we now wish our readers in general, and those kind friends who have patronised the CHURCH WARDER from its commencement in particular, a merry Christmas and a happy new year, and many of them.

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November 30th, 1858.

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