ton; Lord H. Cholmondeley, from the Hampshire Reformatory; Mr Bowyer, from the New-road Reformatory (for 100 inmates); Mr. Wright, from the Institution at Brixton; and Mr. Dunscombe, from the Cork Refuge; Mr. Gent, from the Ragged School Union (numbering 136 schools in London); Mr. Macgregor, from the Shoe-black Societies (employing 130 boys); Mr. Maxwell, from the Girls' Refuge, Lisson-street (for thirty-six girls); Mr. Oliphant, from the Carlisle Reformatory; and Mr. Mountstephen, from the Field-lane Refuge, where accommodation is provided for 150 inmates. ther Petcherine. It was then about eight o'clock at night, and the priest went through some cermony, which he did not understand. No banns were published, he paid no fees, nor was there any ring or witness present. The prisoner, however, said he believed a ring was borrowed from another woman, but he did not see it. He was then told that he was married, and he went his way, and his wife went another. They however, lived together some time afterwards; but he had been compelled to leave her, in consequence of her conduct. The case was then adjourned, and the prisoner was discharged upon his entering into his own recognizance to appear FATHER PETCHERINE is again before again. Mr. Frost, the Registrar of the public in connexion with proceedings Births, Marriages, &c., now attended said to be illegal. A few days since, John Mr. Herring, and said he belonged to Ryan, an Irish labourer, about forty years Clapham, in which the monastery was of ags, surrendered to his own recogni- situated, and declared he was never sances, before Mr. Paynter, at Wands-present at the marriage between the priworth Police-court, to answer the charge soner and the complainant. Mr. Paynof Mr. Herring, the relieving officer of ter said it was clear, after the evidence Clapham, for neglecting to maintain his that had been adduced, that an illegal wife, Ann Ryan, whereby she had be-marriage had been performed and therecome chargeable to that parish. It ap- fore the complainant had no claim whatpeared from the evidence that the accus-ever upon the prisoner. ed was first brought before the worthy magistrate on Saturday week last. Upon A CASE has come before the Committee, being called on for his defence, he made from which there is just cause to apprea long statement, in which he declared hend that the unlawful power claimed by that he had never been legally married the Romish priesthood in Ireland, of forto the complainant. About five years cibly taking away from the Romanist pauago, he was living in Clapham, when one pers any books of which the priests may evening a messenger (the widow Wise) not approve, has been and is sustained came to him, and said he was wanted at by the civil authorities. Any information the monastery in Clapham. He went on this subject, which can be furnished there, and saw a Miss Williams, who by friends in Ireland, will be gratefully told him widow Haines (the complainant) received. was inside, and that he had better go in and marry her. He refused to do so, and she told him that he had brought disgrace upon Mrs. Haines, and that he had better go inside, and let Father Petcherine (who was then the officiating priest of the monastery) marry him to the widow. He protested for some time against marrying her, and at last he went inside into a room, where there were Widow Haines, Widow Wise, and Fa On the Continent Evangelical truth is making rapid way, notwithstanding the persecutions to which, in some countries, its professors are exposed. Various Protestant works are now being printed in the capital of bigoted Spain; while both in Piedmont, France, and Switzerland, the Protestant communities are receiving large accessions.-Protestant Alliance. AN ANECDOTE. DEAR MR. EDITOR,-The annexed affecting incident touched my heart, as I read it in "D'Aubigne's History of the English Reformation." It struck me, the insertion of this extract may be for the teaching of some member of God's tried family, whose carriage under a cross of reeds and rushes, may be very differ ent to that of the dear man whose reason fell under the iron weights an allwise God appointed for him. Pilate may teach some of us a useful lesson, who was made to say of the Christ he condemned, "I find in Him no fault at all." Happy for those who are brought by Divine power into sweet subjection to the will of God, and can say, Not my will, but thine be done." But few of the Lord's family are left long in this sunny spot, and the rebuke of the Holy Ghost suits the most of us, "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die." Death upon our righteousness, death upon the promises, death upon our hopes, death upon our prayers, we had the sentence of death in ourselves." But a resurrection-hour is appointed for the saints, when their dead blessings, that were given over for burial, "shall arise, and stand upon their feet an exceeding great army;" for "He that goeth forth, and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." ment was bread made out of saw-dust. His poor wife who was pregnant, went down to Fulham to see her husband; but the bishop's porter had orders to admit no one, and the brute gave her so violent a kick as to kill her unborn infant, and cause the mother's death. Not long after, the unhappy FREESE was removed to Lollard's tower, where he was put into chains, his hands only being left free. With these he took a piece of coal, and wrote some pious sentences on the wall: upon this he was manacled; but his wrists were so severely pinched, that his flesh grew up higher than the irons. His intellect became disturbed : his hair in wild disorder soon covered his face, through which his eyes glared fierce and haggard. The want of proper food, bad treatment, his wife's death, and his lengthened imprisonment, entirely undermined his reason when brought to St. Paul's, he was kept three days without meat; and when he appeared before the Consistory, the poor prisoner, silent, and scarce able to stand, looked around, and gazed upon the spectators like a wild man, the examination was begun, but to every question put to him, FREESE made the same answer, "A painter named EDWARD FREESE, My Lord is a good Man.' They could a young man of ready wit, having been get nothing from him but this affecting engaged to paint some hangings in a reply. Alas! the light shone no more house, wrote on the borders certain sen- upon his understanding, but the love of tences of the Scripture; for this he was Jesus was still in his heart. He was seized, and taken to the Bishop of sent back to Bearsy Abbey, where he did London's palace at Fulham, and there not long remain but he never entirely was imprisoned, where his chief nourish-recovered his reason.' Yours in the one Gospel, L. GOD'S PEOPLE A PROTECTED AND PRESERVED PEOPLE. Upon all the glory shall be a defence."―ISAIAH IV. 5. THE Psalmist says, "The heavens declare life, and the gods that have not made the the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth heavens, and the earth, shall perish; for there his handy work?" (Psal. xix. 1). The great is no defence, but human wisdom, human apostle tells the Corinthians, "there is one power, and carnal device; and the prophet glory of the sun, and another glory of the cried-" All flesh is grass, and the goodliness moon," &c. (1 Cor. xv. 41), but all this glory thereof, as the flower of the field. The grass is not that which is spoken of in the text, for withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of that glory is the glory of creation, and with our God endureth for ever." The pomp of the all the splendour of light and beauty, the great shall cease the learning of the prudent heavens and their furniture present to the shall not continue. The brand of desolation is gaze of men, they shall pass away on fire, lighted, and can not be extinguished in all with a great noise (2 Pet. iii. 10). The things under the suu; but that alone which is glory of the temple of Solomon was great, in my text, and which, by the blessed Spirit's but it passed away; and all that carnal men set assistat ce, I shall endeavour to unfold in the their affections upon shall perish, whether, following order. First, show this glory in gold, silver, authority, honour. The lust of the its design. Secondly, in its execution; flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of and thirdly, glimpse at its consummation. Fourthly and lastly show its security or defence. First, then, I am to show the design which takes in its nature. The glory of God's image in Adam was the brightest feature in the whole created world, at which the angels sang, for all other objects were created out of no thing, but God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul, and thus Adam received from God his own image, as it is written, "so God created man in his own image" (Gen. i. 27). The apostle Paul gives this as a reason why men in worshipping God ought to uncover their heads, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God" (1 Cor. xi. 7). But the image of God in Adam was lost, because it had no defence but his free-will, and therefore Satan broke through that by means of Eve, and made him prisoner to sin, as sin had previously broken through the free-will of Satan and his confederates in rebellion, and imprisoned them in endless despair. This glory of creation was pleasant to look upon, for God beheld every thing that he had made, and pronounced them very gool. Sin marred all this beauty and goodness, and brought into the world death, lust, murder, and rebellion, and the ground was cursed for man's sin. That which God had pronounced very good, became so odious to his blessed Majesty, that God put a curse upon the man, the woman, the serpent, and the earth; therefore this glory of created holiness and goodness passed away. Jehovah had designed a revenue of glorious praises to be brought unto him greater than any creature, abstractedly considered, could give to him, and therefore the apostle, in unfolding a part of this hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, tells the Ephesians, that the whole of their predestination and adoption was-" to the praise of the glory of his grace." God designed this glory to his grace before He created the world; and this may clearly be seen in God's setting up his own Son as Mediator from everlasting (Prov. viii. 3; Micah v. 2; Heb. xiii. 8; John xvii. 5). And Paul says, "We are saved, and called with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to (God's) purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began " (2 Tim. i. 2). Thus the ever-blessed Three-in-One God, held a council when man was first created (Gen. i. 26); and on the salvation of his elect, he held a council also, as we read in Zech. vi. 13; and also in Coloss. ii, 2. The ever-blessed Trinity kept all this glorious covenant, into which they had entered for the extension of his glory; hid from ages and generations, except to a few, to whom the Holy Ghost dimly imparted it by the sacrifices of beasts and fowls, &c.; yet all of it was well ordered, and made surc; and so David declares (2 Sam. xxiii. 5). The guilt of the church was provided for, in the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (1 Pet. i. 20). The sin being against the Lawgiver, Jesus was provided as the Fulfiller, and the Reconciler, to bring with him, all the blessings which the Father had stored up in him for his elect (Ephes. i. 3). The Father delighted in this transfer of sin, as the prophet Isaiah says" yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him" (Isa. liii. 10). And Jesus says, therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life." Jesus also delighted in this design "I delight to do thy will, O God, thy law is within my heart." The Holy Ghost delighted in this also, and therefore he filled Jesus with all gifts and grace for the accom plishment of it; and when the Father spoke from heaven, "this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased," the Spirit descended like a dove, and abode upon him. But the Holy Ghost testified his delight in this design-not only in supporting Jesus, but iu quickening him after he died (1 Pet. iii. 18); and also in quickening, teaching, and emboldening the apostles and others to preach the Gospel, and naking it effectual to the glorifying of God in his Trinity of Persons (Acts ii). Secondly. Its execution. In the work of creation there could be no other hand engaged but God's own hand, and in the upholding of it; but in the work of glorifying his grace, there are many employed, beth angels and men; yet in such a way as while they are employed in very important parts of it, yet the whole glory shall redound unto God. Angels, ministers to the heirs of Salvation (Heb. i. 14). Ministers of the Gospel carry the sound, as ambassadors, under-shepherds, teachers, &c. (1 Cor. xii,), Devils sift the wheat, the good seed of the kingdom, (Luke xxii. 31, 32). Dogs and wolves bite, and worry the sheep, and make them flee to their own folds (Phil. iii. 2). Yet by all those agents God carries out his own councils, according to the good pleasure of his will (Ephes. i. 11). "Now the Father worketh hitherto," saith our Lord," and I work;" therefore when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a womau, made under the law, to redeem us from the curse of the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal. iv. 4, 5). The glory which the prophet speaks of was in reality in the temple, when God communed with Israel through their High-Priest from above the mercy-seat; but the Law had, or was, a shadow of good things to come; and a shadow is not the substance, but when Christ was in reality come, He took the shadows away; for he is the Substance; and when Jesus prayed in the 17th of John, He says, the "glory which thou hast given me, I have given them." Wherefore, we conclude that the Father's favour and love which was given to Christ, the Head, by the Spirit, is communicated to every elect vessel of mercy afore prepared unto glory. Not only so, but as the Father hath given life unto the Son, and he hath life in himself, so he giveth life or quickeneth whom he will. The wreck which sin made, and is making, and will make in the Church of God, is provided for in a glorious Gospel, and gives us sweeter and more glorious security than ever Adam had in his innocence. The Father is God of glory (Acts vii. 2). "Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory" (Heb. i. 3). The Holy Ghost is the glorions Lord (Isa. xxxiii. 21). And these glorious executors, receive all the glory, because he saith, "I will bring my sons from afar, and my danghters from the ends of the earth, even every one that is called by my name; for 1 have created them for my glory" (Isa. xliii. 6, 7). Now Jude saith, we are sanctified, by God the Father, preserved in Christ Jesus, and called." Then here is a glorious Triune God-a glorious Gospel, and glorious things are spoken in that Gospel of the king's daughter, who is all glorious within. Not by nature, but by grace alone; not by human wisdom, nor by human power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, or by the Lord the Spirit. The church lost all love to God, and contracted enmity, and for ever according to the law of works; but the Gospel brings a new heart, a heart of flesh-a circumcised heart, to love the Lord our Triune God. The church lost her spiritual existence, and was under the ban of eternal death; but the ministration of the Spirit is the ministration of life. The eyes of the understanding were blinded, but Christ is the light of life, and the Sun of righteousness. The Father comes down in the Son, and the Holy Ghost creates a dwelling for them, for the saints are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Then the God of glory sets up a glorious feast in the poor previously perishing sinner's soul, of pardoning mercy, redeeming love, sovereign favour, and gracious adoption -the sweet Spirit, bearing his infallible witness to this son or daughter of the Lord God Almighty; and when Christ is embraced, he ravishes the soul with His love, the Father rejoices in the banquet, and glorious doings go on. Marvellous works." Who can describe it? An heir of glory sought after, and brought to the knowledge of his high and lofty inheritance by promise, and sealed for ever therein by the eternal God. John Bunyan gives an account of three shining ones meeting Christian, and oue set a mark upon his forehead-the other clad him in changed raiment, and the other put a roll into his hand; all which things, observes John, Ignorance lacked. The first was God the Father, the mark he set upon his forehead was the law, which he sent into his conscience, and made him tremble by the fiery mountain.— "Blessed is the man whom thou chasteneth, and teachest out of thy law." This mark makes a man visible to the world, for it separates him from his ungodly companions, and makes him pray; and this is a glorious work begun. The law strips him of his fancied righteousness, and kills him to all hope of life from it; and then, helpless and naked, he is brought to Christ for righteousness; and when he receives that, the blessed Spirit puts faith into him to grasp Christ, and all he is and sets him to suck of the sweets of Gospel promises and ordinanees, and by faith and hope to drink in salvation to his heart's content; and thus is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit glorified each in their separate offices, and the God of Israel seen, and behold, we live. This is glorious indeed, and the most glorious sight that angels look upon on earth. This glorions work changes a man's countenance. I remember when God did this to my soul, twenty-one years ago, people used to tell me that my countenance was changed; and when I was under the law, I carried condemnation within, and had a dreadful downcast countenance; but when the God of glory set up his glorious throne of grace in my soul, then I had the favour of the Father, the love of the Son, and the sweet testimony to my justification of the Holy Ghost, and the King's favour made my countenance to shine; and this gave both Moses, and Stephen, and Peter, and John, their glorious countenances also. The Queen of Sheba declared the one half of Solomon's glory had not been told her; but when a poor lawcondemned, sin-polluted, wrath-charged sinner is brought to see a glorious Christ, and the love he is possessed of towards him, in suffering hunger, temptation, scorn, reproach, scourging, and death, this sight kills him to self and sin, and inflames his soul with holy indiguation against both, for the cause of Jesu's cruel sufferings; and God the Father's love being shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, puts the poor soul into such ecstasies, that carnal professors told me I was going out of my mind; when, if they had judged righteous judgment, they would have said I had just (vitally) got into it. This glory is visible to a man's self, to the devil, to the world, and to the church, and is a restoration of the image of God to man. "As we have borne the image of the earthy, so must all God's elect bear the image of the heavenly." Thirdly, let us glimpse at its consummation, now concerning this work, the recipient is much exposed to enemies; and as he is now visible to them all, he becomes the subject of envy to devils, to the old man (I should have put him first, for he is worse than ten legions of devils,) and every carnal professor, and an ungodly world, whereas he himself, like a raw recruit, thinks no Spirit gives a faint remembrance of the precious banquet, and sometimes thaws a little the frozen heart, and then again helps with a little help; yet "on all the glory, there is a defence." thing about war, or little dreams that the enemy is going round the city of his soul, not as a friend, but as a roaring lion, seeking to devour those joys and comforts he can never possess, and which he thoroughly envies. God the Spirit keeps the conscience Which leads me to the defence, or co: tender, the sweet fear of the Lord acts as vering," as the margin expresses it. The desentinel against sin, and Christ calls to feast-fence consists in the everlasting love, wisdom, ing, and says, Eat, O friends, drink abundantly, Oh beloved; and blessed is the man who is found in the banquet, but the full soul loatheth the honey-comb. The time comes when the Bridegroom shall be taken away, and then comes the fast. Now comes the time of trial, and the old vile lusts begin to work and ferment, and the deceitful law in the members, puts forth its power, and the soul often falls into temptations, and condemnation immediately follows. Now, says Satan, where is all your joy? Where is all your boasted comfort? You are deceived, sin shall not have dominion over God's people; but you know it has over you. God's people are a holy people, but you are as vile and base as Satan. Now are you a stony-ground hearer, a whited sepulchre, and nothing remains for you, but the fearful looking for of fiery indignation. You have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, for yours was a presumptuous sin, and you have trampled under foot the blood of the Son of God, and the hottest place in hell will be yours. Thus does the enemy come in like a flood, and I know in me he darkened my past experience, until I as completely forgot it as if it never had been, and the terror, and dread that entered my soul, I cannot express. Now one would think that some one would be found, who understood these matters, to show the defence of God's image in the soul; but ah, I found none and so it was with David, "No man cared for my soul." And Hart says, for Tis decreed that we must pass These darkest paths alone. Now the Bible becomes a sealed book, and with the tears running down my cheeks, have I looked at those promises that formerly had given out milk in abundance, but now they were clean dried up. Prayer is neglected, communion ceases, and the soul is like a dove without heart, and, the old man calls to carnal enjoyment, until the soul is satiated; but singing-men, pools of water, and all the flesh can give, leaves the soul like a sparrow upon the house-top, or an owl of the desert. Christ is called after, but he gives no answer; nay, God seems to have turned an enemy, and power, truth, and faithfulness of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and is manifested in the blood of Jesus, in the promulgation of the Gospel, in the experience of the saiuts, in the testimony of the Spirit, of the testimony of the redeemed in heaven, and the regenerated upon earth, in the oath and promises of God. "My defence is of God, who saveth the upright in heart," Psal. vii. 10. The very necessity for a defence arises from the inability of the parties to defend themselves. The defence is for a poor and afflicted people, Zeph. iii. 12; for an ignorant erring people; and for a lost and sensibly ruined people. Now to what class do we belong? Is it to thre back-sliding class? "I will heal their backslidings, and love them freely," Hosea. xiv. 4. Is it to the murmuring erring class? "They that murmured shall learn doctrine, and they that err in spirit, shall come to understanding," Isa. xxix, 24. Is it to the hardhearted class? "I will take away the stony heart, and give you a heart of flesh," Ezek. xxxvi. 26. Is it to the fainting class, that have no strength ?" He giveth power to the faint, and to those that have no might, he increaseth strength," Isa. xl. 29. Is it to the doubting and fearing class? "Fear not little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Lake. xii. 32. " My God shall supply all your need accord · ing to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Phil. iv. 19. The Father has declared, "I have loved thee, (poor sin-convinced, law-condemned, poor self-condemning, and Satan-accused sin ner,) with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Jesus says, "My sheep shall never perish." "This is the will of Him that sent me, that of all He hath given me, I should lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day." Of the Spirit Jesus said, "He shall abide with you for ever." And again," My Spirit which is in thy mouth, shall never depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, from henceforth, even for ever." The defence against sin is, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son clean against His blessed Complaints are made seth us from all sin." Against the curse of majesty. "Is his mercy clean gone for ever ?" Hath the Lord for gotten to be gracious, and will He be favour able no more? But frowns from God, bitter accusations from conscience and Satan, and a desperate deceitful treacherous heart, gives the soul no comfort; nor can any of the former glory be thought of until the blessed the law, He was made a curse for us." Against Satan, 'Ye shall not be tempted above that which ye are able to bear." Against the world, "Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith." Against indwelling sin, "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the |