The first of the following paragraphs is the title of the book from which the subsequent extracts are taken.

A BOOK

called, LIGHT of those in DARKNESS:

In which are contained Testimonies and Proofs of the Divine Fathers, that only the Baptism given from GOD to the Apostles, cleanses sins; but the filthy and salted sprinkling and pouring satanically devised by the Latins, not only do not cleanse, but even defile the sprinkled, as foreign from the evangelical and apostolical tradition.

Composed by a certain religious Monk, a genuine son of the Eastern Church, for the conversion of the heretical Latins, and the benefit of Orthodox Christians. And now first printed.

1757.

Seeing that also great difference appears between the word of the Gospel and the words of the Latins, for the holy Gospel says, BAPTIZING; these vile magicians must of necessity say, (RHANTIZING) sprinkling and pouring-as they do. Besides, what agreement has baptizing with sprinkling and pouring? None at all surely. ......Moreover, Baptism is a divine fruit, and a tradition of the Apostles, and an ancient practice of the general Church, from that tradition; but sprinkling and pouring is not a divine fruit, but of POPISH origin, and a novel practice, and coNTRARY to the Gospel TERM, and to the declarations of Apostles and Councils.

Page 12. We are buried with Him by Baptism. Thou hearest, O Latin, if thou art not deaf, that we are baptized into his death, and that we are buried with Him by Baptism-not however by sprinkling, as now ye Latins impiously do. Page 17.

I think this testimony of this divine Father (Gregory Nyssen) was sufficient that those who do not make Baptism an imitation of the death of Christ are UNBAP

TIZED.

Page 18.

And again, the word BAPTISM will not express any other thing besides DIPPING.

Page 49. Let us hear also the Evangelist Mark for more abundant conviction that Dipping into the water is called Baptism. "And it came to pass in those days," saith he, "Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John IN Jordan; and straightway coming up," &c.......Then let them be ashamed, as many as contemptuously pervert that Baptism which is like to the Baptism of Christ. The Latin does not go down into the water, how indeed does he try to come up? Page 15, And if they were in truth worshipers of the Holy Trinity, and not as Satan, they would not have dared to take away a single jot from the Sacrament of divine Baptism. Page 97.

Page 56.

And besides, as we have said, the word Baptism means DIPPING, and it being performed according to the injunction of the Church, signifies the death of the Lord, according to Damascenus; "For Baptism manifests the death of the Lord." But what, I pray, does sprinkling signify? ye yourselves do not know! Perhaps, as I suppose, it signifies that fire which consumed Sodom, because likewise will sprinkling consume both them that teach and defend it. Page 29. I think that not one doubt any longer remains that such things, whether they be sprinklings, or pourings around, or pourings upon, are not called Baptism, but impious and unlawful deeds.

Page 35.

"If the Greeks understand the language of their fathers, that which is in the main their own still, we may ask," says the translator, "where is apostolical succession? How many of the clergy have ever been baptized? Why risk unbaptized to appear at God's bar ?"

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CORRESPONDENCE.

REVIEW.

is well printed, in a good, bold type, and is handsomely got up. It was published by subscription. We apprehend, however, that there are many of our readers who are not possessed of a copy, and to them we cordially recommend it as deserving their attention.

such avidity as evinced the profoundest in-
terest, and remarked when he laid it down,
"It was the most capital book he had ever
read."

THE ANIMALCULE. 16mo., square, pp. 32.
Tract Society.

THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN. 16mo., square, microscope! pp, 324. Tract Society.

THIS is a most beautiful, interesting and instructive little volume. While it brings before the youthful mind the chief parts of a ship, and a great variety of sea phrases, and tells many a deeply affecting tale of the dangers of the deep, there is nothing in it whose influence is not of the best kind. The hero is a good old sea captain, who has been on board a coasting vessel, in the merchant service, and on board a king's ship, "He has been in all parts of the world, and knows every thing about ships and shipwrecks. He will talk by the hour about line of battle ships, and frigates, and brigs, and merchantmen, and cutters, and barges, and yawls, and pinnaces, and boats." In conversation with a few well-behaved boys, he communicates a vast deal of instruction of a naval kind. It is embellished with some excellent wood engravings. To test its attractiveness, we put it into the hands of one of our boys, who read it with

How wonderful are the discoveries of the Dr. Chalmer's says of the telescope, "It led me to see a world in every star;" and of the microscope, "It leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand in the high field of immensity; the other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon; the other redeems it from all its insignificance, for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament." This little book, by its cuts and descriptions, sets before the reader many of the important and marvellous disdiscoveries of the microscope. While reading them the mind is led involuntarily to exclaim with the Psalmist, "O Lord, how manifold are thy works, the earth is full of thy riches,"

VARIETIES.

HINTS ON PREACHING.-[The valuable remarks which follow are extracted from Mr. Jay's sermon preached on occasion of the Jubilee of Cheshunt College. They deserve extensive circulation.]

"I fear the preacher may seem to be taking freedoms, but he has now been many years in the ministry, and has been placed in a situation and circumstances favourable for comparison and remark. And, my brethren, he confesses while there are many things to please and encourage him, yet there are some with which he is by no means completely satisfied. What he deems want. ing is a mode of preaching more remote from scholasticism; warm and experimental: not highly doctrinal, nor drily practical, but blending the doctrines and practice of Chris. tianity strongly with the affections; abound. ing with point and interest; and which shall come home not only to every man's business, but to every man's bosom-which shall make the hearers weep rather than wonder, and talk more of the subject than the preacher. Whether he grows more fastidious as he grows older he knows not, but he seems to apprehend a considerable

difference between many of our present young men and those of his earlier days. He refers now chiefly to the manner of some of our moderns. For instance, they show no little self confidence by choosing difficult topics, and expressing themselves with dogmatism where others feel difficulty. By their lengthiness, they take for granted their peculiar acceptance; and instead of bespeaking the candour of their audiences by, at least, apparent modesty and diffidence, they challenge their judgment and demand their approbation, by a fearless and daring kind of address. They sometimes show also, by a satisfied aud careless demeanour, that they are above the usual auxiliaries needful to some of their brethren and fathers. He one day heard of a young minister of this calibre, (I know not that he is in this crowd, but if he be it will not much sig. nify,) who being about to preach, was asked whether he did not wish to retire before he went into the pulpit? No,' said he, 'I am charged and primed.' He was primed indeed, but not charged-when he went off it was only a flash in the pan.

"One thing more: true eloquence is not,

as some suppose, to be judged of by excite ment, but rather by impression! Tho preacher is persuaded that no kind of eloquence will ever, much or long, tell in the pulpit, but that which arises from feeling; but feeling is aways eloquent. Little is to be done by fine words, and made-up gestures, and studied action, and start and stare theatric! What did affectation ever do? What made Whitfield? What made Spencer? Grace and nature; not grace without nature; nor nature without grace; but what can withstand the attraction of both?"-Evangelical Magazine.

is the death of God.'-From a French periodical, March 26th, 1842.

PUSEYISM IDENTICAL WITH POPERY.

The following is an extract from a sermon by a clergyman of the Church of England. "They teach that:

"Tradition is a part of divine revelation; and that scripture and tradition, taken together, are the joint rules of faith.' "They deny the doctrine of imputed righteousness, teach justification by an infused and inherent righteousness.'

"They teach, that we are justified by baptism; they teach the sacramental effi. cacy of penance; they put the Church in the place of Christ, making it to usurp his authority and attributes; they advocate prayers for the dead; they recommend the use of images, giving, indeed, the very caution of the Church of Rome-that they are dangerous to the uneducated; they advocate the doctrine of the intercession of the saints; they advocate the revival of monasteries; they lavish constant praises upon the Church of Rome; they reject and anathe. mathize the principle of Protestantism as a heresy; they declare their intention of 'receding farther and farther from the principles of the English Reformation;' they declare that Rome is our mother, through whom we were born to Christ;' they affirm, that the pope has the precedence of all other bishops; they advocate union with the Church of Rome; they declare that the cutting short the life of Edward VI., was a merciful interposition of Providence; they declare that the accession and reign of Queen Mary, were great and positive advantages to the Church of England; they 6 Upon force. speak of the Pretender as the last of England's rightful kings;' they advocate what they call a most dire weapon of the church,

NAPOLEON BOUNAPARTE'S TESTIMONY TO CHRIST.-It may even be said, that Napoleon 'confessed Christ before men.' In a familiar but solemn conversation, he exclaimed, with the expressive accent and emphatic brevity, which had an electric effect, I know men; and I tell you that Jesus was not a man. His religion is a self-existent mystery; and it proceeded from a mind not human. There is in it a deep peculiarity of character [individualité] which has produced a succession of doctrines and maxims till then unknown. Jesus bor. rowed nothing from human knowledge. Only in himself are found completely the example or the imitation of his life. Neither was he a philosopher; for his proofs were miracles, and his disciples from the very first adored him. In fact, science and philosophy are powerless to salvation; and the sole object of Jesus, in coming into the world, was to unveil the mysteries of heaven and the laws of the mind. Alexander, Cæsar, Charlemagne, and I, have founded empires; but on what have we rested the creations of our genius!

Only Jesus has founded an empire on love; and, at this moment, millions of men would die for him. It was not a day, nor a battle, that won the victory over the world for the Christian religion. No; it was a long war, a fight of three centuries; begun by the apostles, and continued by their successors, and the flow of the Christian generations that followed. In that war all the kings and powers of the earth were one side; on the other side, I see no army, but a mys. terious force, and a few men scattered here and there through all parts of the world, and who had no rallying point but their faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon! What an abyss between my deep wretchedness, and Christ's eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreading through the world! Was that dying? Was it not rather to live? The death of Christ

excommunication; whereby,' they continue, she cuts off the offender from the fountains of life in this world, and makes him over from her own judgment to that of heaven, in the world to come. Surely it is a duty of Christian states, to deprive such an excommunicate person of every social right and privilege; to lay on him such pains and penalties, as may seem good to the wisdom of the law; or even, if they so judge, to sweep him from the earth; in other words, to put him to death.' And the revival of all these, and other similar doctrines, they describe as the resurrection of the pious opinions of the Church.'

"And now, my brethren, having considered some of the evils of this system, I need not say that it is essentially Popery, and that it bears upon it the mark of the beast."- -Evangelical Magazine.

INTELLIGENCE.

ister, and received Mr. Stanion's confession of faith. The designatory prayer was offered by Mr. Ingham, of Belper, and Mr. Stevenson, of Leicester, Mr. Stanion's former pastor, delivered an affectionate charge, from Acts xx. 24, "But none of these things move me," &c., and Mr. Staples, of Meas. ham, offered the closing prayer. In the evening prayer was offered by Mr. Close, Independent minister, of Melbourne, and Mr. Ingham addressed the Church, the deacons, the Sabbath-school teachers, and the occasional preachers, in a very judicious discourse, founded on 2 Thess. iii. 4, 5, "And we have confidence in the Lord touching you," &c. Mr. Amos Smith, of Derby, and Mr. Richardson, of Wirksworth, gave out the hymns. The day was one of deep and solemn interest. May the blessing of heaven rest on both pastor and people.

BAPTISM AT MANSFIELD.-On Lord's

day, Aug. 21, in the afternoon, after a sermon

OPENING OF THE GENERAL BAPTIST Owen, of Castle Donington, proposed the CHAPEL, EYRE STREET, SHEFFIELD.-On usual questions to the Church and the minWednesday, Sep. 7th, 1842, the General Baptist chapel, Eyre street, was opened for divine worship. At the prayer meeting in the morning, at six o'clock, many of the friends were deeply affected while they gratefully acknowledged the goodness of God, and invoked the divine blessing. The services of the day were commenced with reading and prayer by Mr. Hudson. The Rev. J. Ackworth, M. A., preached in the morning from Mark xiii. 32; and in the evening from Eph. iv. 30. In the afternoon the Rev. W. Illingworth (Wesleyan,) preached from Psalm cxix. 60. The Revs. Messrs. Walden and Peacock gave out the hymns. Mr. Pulsford concluded the morn. ing service, and the Rev. B. Landells (Independent minister,) closed the services of the day with prayer. On Lord's day morning the friends assembled again for prayer at six o'clock. The Rev. J. G. Pike preached at half-past ten from John i. 14; and in the evening from John ix. 27. In the afternoon the Rev. T. Smith, M. A., preached from 2 Cor. v. 18-20. The hymns were given out during the day by Mr. Hudson. On Monday, at five o'clock, a social tea meeting was held, which was very interesting. The public meeting was addressed by the Revs. Messrs. Muir, Hawley, Shaw, Walden and Hudson; and Messrs. W. & J. Sissons, W. Robinson, and R. L. Watts. The sermons and speeches were very appropriate, and produced a favourable impression. All seemed pleased with the situation and neatness of the chapel. Sheffield being at a great distance from many of our own Churches, we could not expect many distant friends to visit us. We had a few from Nottingham, and the neighbourhood of Retford, whom we were glad to see. Many rejoiced to see this little hill of Zion, and doubtless prayed for its peace and prosperity. The collections amounted to about £32. May the interest long continue, and be made a blessing to thousands of souls.

thians hearing, believed and were baptized," from Acts xviii. 8, " And many of the Corinfour candidates, two males and two females, were baptized in the General Baptist chapel in this place by Mr. C. Wood, the minister. In the evening, after another discourse from 2 Cor. viii. 5, "But first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God," Mr. W., in the name of the Church, received them into communion by giving them the right hand of fellowship. The congregations on both occasions were and great feeling and interest apparently very numerous, and exceedingly attentive, excited. It is worthy of remark for the encouragement of Sabbath-school teachers, that three of the candidates were teachers, and the other a scholar in the school connected with that place of worship.

BAPTISM AT BEESTON.-On Lord's-day, Aug. 21, the ordinance of believers' baptism was administered to seven persons at the General Baptist chapel, Beeston, four males and three females, five of them young persons, three teachers, and one a scholar in the Sabbath-school, and one female, a Wesleyan Methodist, who still remains in society with them. Mr. Ball, of Loughborough, preached on the occasion, from Acts xviii. 8, "And many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized." In the evening the newly-baptized were received into Church fellowship. The services were interesting and well attended. Many handbills were distributed on the occasion, and we hope great good was done. The Lord