123. There is a case recorded in which the command of the Jewish law, that "the fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers," was expressly carried out?

124. How does Warburton reconcile the assertion of the law, that God would visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, with the apparently conflicting statement of Jeremiah, "they shall say no more the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge: every one shall die for his own iniquity"?

125. An early tradition identifies Job with an individual mentioned in Genesis ?

126. How may the fact of the mention of the Chaldeans in the introductory chapter of the Book of Job be reconciled with its being written before the time of Moses ?

127. There is one allusion to the worship of the heavenly bodies in the Book of Job?

128. There is a passage in one of the minor Prophets in which two of the constellations spoken of by Job are introduced?

129. A prophecy of Jonah is announced as having been fulfilled in the second Book of Kings?

130. Where did Jonah live?

131. There is only one point of connexion between Elijah and the House of David?

132. What is the chronological difficulty connected with this letter? 133. The name of one of the priests of the Golden Calf at Bethel is mentioned in connexion with one of the minor Prophets?

134. What apparent discrepancy is there between the Books of Kings and Chronicles as to the tribe to which Hiram's mother belonged, and how may they be reconciled?

135. Who was the first and who the last high-priest of the Order of Ithamar?

136. Who is the last of the high-priests mentioned in the Old Testament?

137. A strange corruption has taken place in 1 Chron. vi. 13, where the two sons of Samuel are named ?

138. What was the name of the high-priest who was carried captive to Babylon?

139. Who used the words, "The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him"?

140. What was Esther's old name?

141. On what occasion did Asa pray to God before a battle, when his prayer was answered ?

142. Another king of Judah went into battle singing psalms?

143. One relic of King Asa's fortification at Mizpeh is mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah?

144. Over whom was the great victory gained by King Asa at Ma

reshah ?

145. What remarkable account is given us in the Book of Chronicles of Asa's funeral?

146. In the case of one King of Judah, it is stated that the "burning" was omitted?

147. Why was the Valley of Berachah so called?

NEW TESTAMENT.

[This part of the Examination is unavoidably omitted, in consequence of the absence of the Examiner on the Continent.]

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

REV. DR. GIBBINGS.

The following Questions, amongst others, were proposed vivâ voce to the Candidates:

1. What name was given to the Christians by the Montanists ? and why?

2. In the ancient Service of the Church, what prayers preceded the Communion-Office?

3. What term, which formerly belonged to the Laity, has been transferred by the Church of Rome to some of her Clergy?

4. When did a remarkable change take place in the application of the name "Clerici?" and how far did the alteration extend?

5. How did the Ancients differ from the Schoolmen with regard to the offices of Bishops and Presbyters?

6. When S. Cyprian said, at a Council of Carthage, "No one of us makes himself a Bishop of Bishops," to whom and what did he refer? 7. Who, before S. Cyprian, had used the words "Episcopus Episcoporum?" and in what sense?

8. Is any peculiarity observable in the direction given in the first Apostolic Canon, and in the Apostolic Constitutions, with respect to the Ordination of a Bishop?

9. Why were Primates in Africa commonly called "Senes ?"

10. Other name of the "Copiata ?" and whence this word derived? 11. Why, according to Bingham, were churches styled "Basilica” in the fourth and succeeding ages ?

12. Images of God the Father, and of the Blessed Trinity, not permitted till what time?

13. When did churches first become places of sanctuary and refuge? 14. Dr. Grabe states, that all the Articles of the Apostles' Creed, except three, were professed by Christians, in their Confessions of Faith, from the earliest times. Mention the exceptions which he enumerates.

15. What is especially worthy of notice with respect to the Creed of Aquileia ?

16. Names and dates of two early Latin Councils, in the Acts of which "Filioque" is found added to the Nicene Creed?

17. Why is the fact, that the mystery of the Eucharist was concealed
from Catechumens, quite insufficient to prove that Transubstantiation
was a doctrine held by the primitive Church?

18. What subtle argument has been used by A Schelstrate, and other
Romanists, to account for the absence of any notice of the seven Sacra-
ments, and of the worship of Saints and Images, in the writings of the
early Fathers?

19. How often during Divine Service, in ancient times, were any of
the persons present directed by a Deacon to withdraw?

20. What is the meaning of the expression "Vespertinalis Missa” in
Adamnan's Life of S. Columba ?

21. In deference to whom, is it supposed, that the Declaration in our
Prayer-book, as to kneeling at the Holy Communion, was added in 1552?
and what was the effect of it?

22. When did the Vestment controversy reach its highest point? and
how were the malcontents at that time designated?

23. By whom, and when, was the first Index of Prohibited Books put
forth?

24. By what Pope, and in what year, was the publication of a fuller
Index not long afterwards sanctioned ?

25. The alleged fourfold sense of Scripture how expressed in a media-
val couplet?

26. Date of the first edition of Fox's Acts and Monuments of Christian
Martyrs and to what book was he largely indebted in the compilation
of that work?

27. Name of the first disciple of Ignatius Loyola ?

28. Earliest record of the mission of Palladius ?

29. What ambiguity is there in the words of Prosper, relative to the
episcopal office of Palladius ?

30. By whom, where, and when, was the Confession of S. Patrick first
published?

31. Which of the Lives of S. Patrick is pronounced by Dr. Lanigan to
be the worst?

32. Which is the most ancient Life of S. Patrick? and how many
Lives were set forth by Colgan ?

33. On what, and whether a valid, foundation does the assertion rest,
that S. Patrick taught the doctrine of Papal Supremacy?

34. The British and Irish Churches having agreed, as to Easter, with
the Romans, up to the time of the first Nicene Council, whence arose the
difference that afterwards existed between them?

35. In what year, and by whom, were most of the Irish persuaded to
abandon their own method of calculating Easter?

36. That learning was cultivated in Ireland, in the latter part of the
eleventh century, appears from a celebrated work then composed ?
37. Probable date, and author, of The Donation of Constantine?
38. When did Laurence O'Toole become Archbishop of Dublin?

39. Mosheim, in a special Dissertation, treats of the composition of forgeries by the early Christians?

40. To what period do the Acta Pilati seem to belong? and by what ancient writers are they particularly referred to?

41. Other, but less accurate, name of the Descensus ad Inferos? and the date of this document ?

42. How does it appear that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the B. Virgin Mary sprang from an Apocryphal root?

43. What remarkable event took place at Rome, in the year in which the first Epistle of S. Peter was written?

44. When did the ancient Hegesippus live? and for what is he particularly worthy of remembrance?

45. To which of the Fathers has the work which bears the name of Hegesippus been ascribed, (by Gallandius, for instance ;) ?—and what ground is there for supposing, that this Father had some connexion with the composition in question?

46. Why was it most unfair, that the name "Quartodecimans" should have been given to the Irish?

47. How are we to understand those famous words of S. Irenæus, according to the Latin version of them, that with the Church of Rome every Church must needs agree, "propter potentiorem principalitatem?" 48. What part of a Liturgy is the Anaphora?

49. By what means can the interpolations in S. James's Liturgy be separated from the parts which are truly ancient ?

50. Earliest instance of the use of the word "Catacombs ?" and its derivation?

THE PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY.

ARTICLES.

1. What precedents does Laud cite for the determination of points of doctrine by provincial synods?

2. The derivation of the forty-two Articles from the Augsburgh Confession was probably not direct?

3. Mention some of the reasons that make it likely that the Book of thirteen Articles served as intermediate.

4. Where do the ten Articles of Henry VIII. place the fundamentals of religion?

5. On what grounds has it been asserted that the forty-two Articles did not receive the sanction of Convocation?

6. What positive evidence can be adduced on the other side?

7. Several of the alterations in Edward's Articles made in 1562 were derived from a Lutheran source?

8. Can you name any?

9. What was the Reformatio Legum?

10. Before the Convocation of 1562 what test of doctrine was used in Elizabeth's reign?

11. How does Bishop Pearson defend our Articles against the charge of being defective?

12. Who first endeavoured to reconcile the thirty-nine Articles to the Tridentine definitions?

13. Do you remember any variations between the English and the Latin versions of the Articles?

14. When was the word Trinity first used in Greek and in Latin? 15. When did it receive synodical authority?

15. An African Canon has been cited as opposed to offering prayers to Christ?

17. How does Tertullian illustrate the relation between the persons of the Trinity?

18. Who was the founder of the Patripassians?

19. How does Tertullian answer the argument of Praxeas founded on the text, "I and my Father are one"?

20. Did Tertullian read the text of the Three Heavenly Witnesses ? 21. Tertullian gives a proof from the Psalms that the Son is distinct from the Father?

22. How did the views of Arius differ from those of preceding deniers of our Lord's Divinity?

23. In what sense were the Arians willing to call the Son μovoyevǹs? 24. How did Elizabeth's second Article differ from Edward's?

25. What explanation was given in the Irish Articles as to the generation of the Son?

26. Why is it said in the second Article that Christ died not only for original but for actual sins?

27. What are the subjects of those Articles of Edward's which do not appear in Elizabeth's ?

28. What change was made in the third Article by the Elizabethan revisers, and what probably was the reason of the change?

29. How does Tertullian argue that the resurrection of the body was part of the subject of St. Paul's preaching?

30. How does Tertullian explain the passage about being baptized for the dead?

31. Tertullian even exaggerates the authority of Scripture ?

32. Why, then, in the treatise on Prescription does he refuse to dispute with heretics out of the Scripture ?

33. The argument from the unity of different Churches had much greater force in the time of Tertullian?

34. What are the cases in which Tertullian lays stress on the authority of Tradition?

35. A phrase in Tertullian has been alleged to prove that the apostolic autographs were then in existence ?