Necessary Erudition. "If after our baptism, it chance ns to be overthrown and cast into mortal sin, then there is no remedy but for the recovery of our former estate of justification, which we have lost, to arise by penance, wherein proceeding in sorrow and much lamentation for our sins, with fasting, alms, prayer, and doing all such things, at the least in true purpose and will, as God requireth of us, we must have a sure trust and confidence in the mercy of God, and that for his Son our Saviour Christ's sake he will yet forgive us our sins, and receive us into his favour again." Christ. Observ. p. 41. "They which actually do sin after their baptism, when they convert, and turn again to God unfeignedly, they are likewise washed by this sacrifice from their sins, in such sort, that there remaineth not any spot of sin, that shall be imputed to their damnation. THIS [No parallel in any part of the "Ne- IS THAT JUSTIFICATION, or righteOUScessary Erudition."] "It is necessary for the keeping and holding of this justification, once conferred and given in baptism, or recovered again by penance, through the mercy of our Saviour Christ; and also for increasing of the same justification, and final consummation thereof, to take good heed, and to watch, that we be not deceived by the false suggestion and temptation of our ghostly enemy, the devil, "who, as St. Peter saith, goeth about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.' Christ. Observ. p. 41. NESS, which St. Paul speaketh of, when he saith, No man is justified by the works of the law, but freely by faith in Jesus Christ.' And again he saith, 'We believe in Jesus Christ, that we be justified freely by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, because that no man shall be justified by the works of the law."" Todd, p. 49. "Here you have heard the office of God in our justification, and how we receive it of him freely, by his mercy, without our deserts, through true and lively faith. Now you shall hear the office and duty of a Christian man unto God, what we ought on our part to render unto God again for his great mercy and goodness. Our office is, not to pass the time of this present life unfruitfully and idly, after that we are baptized or justified, not caring how few good works we do to the glory of God, and profit of our neighbours: much less it is our office, after that we be once made Christ's members, to live contrary to the same; making ourselves members of the devil, walking after his enticements, and after the suggestions of the world and the flesh, whereby we know that we do serve the world and the devil, and not God. For that faith which bringeth forth (without repentance) either evil works, or no good works, is not a right, pure, and lively faith, but a dead, devilish, counterfeit Necessary Erudition. See Heb. xi. referred to for the first as well as second acception of faith, by Necessary Erudition. Todd, pp. 14, 15. And now, must we trouble our readers by proceeding to "confront" the Homilies of 1548 with the Necessary Erudition of 1543, on another head-that of Good Works? We had proposed a " long and entire" paragraph or two upon this subject, also for juxta-position. But have we not already given the most ample satisfaction to all who mean to be convinced? If not, and the challenge be continued, we are prepared with the "confronting" sequel; only in the mean while begging our inquirers, to compare for themselves the quotations given from the Necessary Erudition in our aforesaid Number, pp. 41, 42, with the infinitely plain and direct definition of good Homilies, 1748 and feigned faith, as St. Paul and St. James call it." Todd, pp. 62, 63. "This true faith will shew forth itself, and cannot long be idle for as it is written, The just man doth live by his faith.' He neither sleepeth nor is idle, when he should wake and be well occupied. And God by his prophet Jeremy saith, that he is a happy and blessed man which hath faith and confidence in God.' For he is like a tree set by the water side, that spreadeth his roots abroad toward the moisture, and feareth not heat when it cometh; his leaf will be green, and will not cease to bring forth his fruit: even so faithful men, putting away all fear of adversity, will shew forth the fruit of their good works, as occasion is offered to do them," "St. Augustine saith, 'Good living cannot be separated from true faith, which worketh by love.' And St. Chrysostom saith, Faith of itself is full of good works;' as soon as a man doth believe, he shall be garnished with them. How plentiful this faith is of good works, and how it maketh the work of one man more acceptable to God than of another, St, Paul teacheth at large in the eleventh chapter to the Hebrews, saying, that Faith made the oblation of Abel better than the oblation of Cain. This made Noah to build the ark." Todd, pp. 72, 73. works in our own excellent homily on that subject, Todd, pp. 108— 110; also, with the preceding disclaimer of all works of man's invention, and most especially of all meritoriousness of whatever kind in whatever works, whether prior or subsequent to justification. See Todd, pp. 92 et seq., also pp. 60 et seq., or Homilies, Ox.ed. (1802,)8vo. (not folio, in two columns) pp. 41— 49, and 23, 24. Which of these two strings of quotations, when duly arranged, will be found most nearly to resemble the following extract accidentally taken from the notes in the Douay translation of the Scriptures, made for the use of the Roman Catholics in the English college, A. D. 1609, orig. ed., we shall leave for our readers, or rather our Examiners, to judge. "Only faith doth not justify, nor works without faith; but both together do justify, and are meritorious: so Abraham believed God, &c., but this faith was not sole, (neither sola ne solitaria), for it had hope, love, obedience, and other virtues adjoined; and so his believing was an act of justice," &c. &c. Perhaps our Examiners may find some amusement in "tracing" the above quotation "to its source." We are quite sure that neither ourselves nor our readers would find any, in "tracing to their source" the reasonings, shall we call them? by which the above mass of "confronted" document has been attempted to be shewn us as meeting and conspiring, with "no discordant string," in one harmonious chord; and as proceeding from one great master of the lay! On all such attempts it will ever be our wish to say, when once the facts of the case are sufficiently made manifest, "Valeant quantum valere possunt." 6. A word more, and we have done. It is to the point of Christian charity, said to have been violated by us in "a rude assault upon a respectable clergyman, Mr. Todd, who was much better employed than in defending himself against our calumnies," &c. How far Mr. Todd is obliged to these volunteer defenders of his faith and practice on the present occasion, remains yet to be proved. And how far Mr. Todd actually prefers his present employment-whatever it may be, we know it not-to the task of reconsidering the entire fundamentals of our common Protestant faith involved in his own important publication, we have also yet to learn. He may be better employed in stemming, by some more general and popular publica tion, begun or meditated, the tide of blasphemy, sedition, and licentiousness, now overwhelming our land; or in administering appropriate aids to his lesser circle of uninformed, sick, or otherwise afflicted, poor neighbours. But whatever may be the nature of his employment, we beg to assure him that we have never had otherwise than a very high respect for his character, as a general scholar, a man of deep research, and of high literary and antiquarian attainments. We certainly thought "he weut forth," as Horsley said of Sir Isaac Newton, "into dogmatic theology, a common man;" and as such, we occasionally made free with some, as we deemed them, infelicitous doctrinal remarks. And we considered him not a judicious follower of the eminent, though by no means infallible, Dr. Laurence. If we have seemed to go beyond these bounds in any single expression of disrespect towards Mr. Todd, we ask most heartily his pardon, and request him to set it down, not to the slightest personal disrespect, but to the too common, though most ungracious, habits of modern writers, who are seduced into it by a thousand bad examples around them of the same kind; and literally "follow a multitude to do evil." At the same time, we beg to refer, in our own justification, to the many distinct marks of respect to Mr. Todd, which our candid Examiners might have found amidst pages they have so well ransacked; and we desire again most unfeignedly to express the conviction we have all along felt, that he wrote like a man himself not aware of the departure from sound doctrine which his reasoning seemed to us to patronize; as one sincerely desirous of advocating the cause of good works, and as not seldom dis playing the greatest acuteness in historical and antiquarian argument. MISCELLANEOUS. LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. Those marked (1) were not in the last Parliament. ENGLISH AND WELSH. Alban's St..W. T. Roberts, (1)C. Smith Appleby..(2,3) Rt Hon. G Tierney, J A Dalrymple Barnstaple..F. A. Ommaney, (1)Michael Nolan Bishop's Castle..(2)- Holmes, (1)- Rogers Bucks..Earl of Temple, (2) Hon. Robert Smith Callington..Sir C. Robinson bt, Hon. E. P. Lygon Cambridge..Hon. F. W. Trench, (1)E. M. Cheere Cardigan..Pryse Pryse Carlisle..Sir J. Graham bart, (3)J. C. Curwen Carmarthenshire..(1)Hou. George Rice Carmarthen.. Hon. J. F. Campbell Carnarvonshire..Sir Robert Williams bart Castle Rising..Earl Rocksavage, Hon. F. Gre- Cheshire..D. Davenport, W. Egerton Chippenham..(2)W A Maddocks,(1,3)J H Grossett Christchurch.. Right Hon. W. S. Bourne, Right Cirencester..Lord Apsley, J. Cripps Clitheroe..Hon, R. Curzon, Hon. W. Cust Cricklade..Joseph Pitt, Robert Gordon Cumberland..John Lowther, (3)J. C. Curwen Dartmouth..John Bastard, C. M. Ricketts Derbyshire.. Ld G. H. Cavendish, E. M. Munday Dunwich..Michael Barne, (1) Geo. Henry Cherry East Loo..(2)G. Watson Taylor, T. Macqueen Fowey..Lord Valletort, (1) George Lucy Gloucestershire..Lord R. E. H. Somerset, Sir Gloucester..Colonel E. Webb, R. B. Cooper Great Godmin.. Right Hon. Sir J. Nicholl, J. S. Great Yarmouth..Hn. G. Anson, C. E. Rumbold Haslemere..Right Hon. C. Long, R. Ward Helstone..Lord James Townshend, H. Hudson Heytesbury..(1)E.H.A'Court, (1)C. Ashe A'Court High Wycombe..Sir T. Dashwood King, Sir Tho Hindon..Hon. F. G. Calthorpe, (1)John Plumer Lancashire.. Lord Stanley, J. Blackburne Lewes..Sir J. Shelly, Sir G. Shiffner Lichfield..General Sir G. Anson, G. G. V. Vernon Lincolnshire..C. Chaplin, Hon. C. A. Pelham Lancoln..C- W. Sibthorp, (1)R. Smith Liskeard..Hon. W. Elliot, Sir W. Pringle Liverpool..Rt Hon. G. Canning, Gen. Gascoyne London..M. Wood, T. Wilson, (3)Sir W. Curtis bart, (1)George Bridges (Lord Mayor) Lostwithiel..Sir R Wigram bart, A C Grant Ludlow..Viscount Clive, Hon. R Clive Luggershall..Sandford Graham, Earl of Carhampton Lyme..Major TT Fane, Vere Fane Lymington..Sir II B Neale bart, (1)G Finch Milbourn Port..Lord Graves, Hon. B Paget Monmouth..Marquis of Worcester Montgomeryshire..C W Wynne Montgomery..Henry Clive Morpeth..W Ord, Hon W Howard Newport, Town..William Northey, J Raine Newport, Isle Wight..Sir L T Holmes, C Dun. combe New Romney..R E D Grosvenor, (1)G HD Tenant New Sarum..Visct Folkeston, W Wyndham Newton, Lancash..T P Legh, T Claughton Newtown, Isle Wight..D North, H Gurney Norfolk..T W Coke, Edmund Wodehouse Northallerton..HPeirse, (1) W Sebright Lascelles Northamptonshire..Viscount Althorpe, W R Cartwright Northampton..(1)Sir GRobinson, W L Maberley Northumberland..(1)J Brandling, T W Beau. mont Norwich..R H Gurney, W Smith Nottinghamshire..Ld W Bentinck, F Sotheron Nottingham..J Birch, T Deuman Oakhampton..Albany Saville, Lord Dunalley Oxford..(1)H B Seymour, John Douglas Orfordshire..J Fane, W H Ashhurst Oxford City..(1)J. I. Lockhart, (1)C Wetherell Oxford Univ...Right Hon. Sir W Scott, Right Pembrokeshire..Sir John Owen, bart Penryn..(2)P Grenfell, H Swann Peterborough..(1)Sir R Heron, James Scarlett Petersfield..H Jolliffe, (3) Lord Hotham Portsmouth..Sir J Carter, (1)John Merkham Queenborough..(1) Hon. J C Villiers, (2) G P Radnorshire.. Walter Wilkins Reading..(1)J B Monck, C Fysshe Palmer Richmond..Hon. T Dundas, (1)S M Barret t St German's..Right Hon. C Arbuthnot, Hon. ST Bathurst St Ive's..(1)J Graham, (1)L Evelyn St Mawe's..Sir S B Morland, Dr Phillimore Salop..J K Powell, John Cotes Saltash..M Russell, (1)M G Pendergast Sandwich..J Marryat, Sir G Warrender bart Sarum Old..J Alexander, A G Crawford Scarborough..Right Hon. C. M. Sutton, Lord Normanby Scaford..C Prose Ellis, (2) Hon. G A Ellis Shaftesbury..(1)Hon. W Harbord, (1)Abm Moore Shoreham..Sir C M Burrell, J M Lloyd Shrewsbury..Hon. HG Bennet, (1) Panton Corbett Somersetshire..W. Dickenson, (1)Sir T. B. Lethbridge bart Southampton..Sir W. De Crespigney, Wm Cham berlayne Southwark..C. Calvert, Sir R Wilson Staffordshire..(1)Sir J F Boughey bart, E J Lit tleton Stafford..(1)G Chetwynd, B Benyon Stamford.. Lord T Cecil, Hon. W H Percy Steyning..Lord H. H. Molineux Howard, G. R. Phillips Stockbridge..(1) Joseph F Barham, John F Barham Sudbury..Wm Heygate, (1) Charles Aug. Tulsk Tamworth..(1) Lord C Townshend, W Yates Peel Tavistock..J P Grant, (2)J N Fazakerly Tewkesbury..J E Dowdeswell, John Martin Thetford..Lord Chas Fitzroy, N W R Colborn Thirsk..Robert Frankland, R R Greenhill Tiverton..Right Hon. R Ryder, Viscount Sandon Totness..TP Courtenay, (2)J Bent Tregony..Lord Barnard, J O'Callaghan Truro..(1)Sir H Vivian, (1)J. R Grosset Wallingford..W Lewis Hughes, (1)G J Roberts Warcham..J Calcraft, (1)J H Calcraft Warwickshire..Sir C. Mordaunt bart, D. S. Dug dale Warwick..Sir C Greville, C Mills Wendover..(2)Samuel Smith, George Smith |