tremendous denouncements in reference to the erection of the calf being the most deadly of sins! No lecturing, however refined it may be, on our system of Baal, the sun, in the present day, can alter the nature of that transgression; for it is the very counterpart in principle to that misdemeanour in the wilderness !

BAGSTER'S allusion to the Saviour as being the bright star, "the true light that must lighten every man," &c. may be fairly placed in juxtaposition with Wirgman's query. He inquires, when eulogizing the immortal Newton for his grand achievement in his theory of colours,"Is not this wise sage a light to lighten the Gentiles ?" This sentence, I humbly think, ought never to be uttered, written, or even thought of, but with the solemn association ever to be connected with it; namely, the devout Simeon's ejaculation on beholding the infant Christ in the Temple : Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all

people; A LIGHT TO LIGHTEN THE GENTILES, and the glory of thy people Israel.”

Under what different impressions is the mind placed when reading the accounts given by those two men, Bagster and Wirgman-both on the self-same subject-that of the records of the two Testaments. The former, extolling and praising those records in all their pristine beauties-even striking at abstruse philosophy as the enemy to which the Inspired Writings are alone exposed; and the latter, taking the crown of enlightener from off the head of Jesus Christ, to place it on the head of Isaac Newton! Wirgman, it is true, puts it as a query; and it may be thus answered :-The dogmas of Newton's hypothesis rob of their integrity Moses, the Psalmist, the Prophets, the Apostles, St. John the DIVINE, and JESUS CHRIST himself—of every main assertion that is written in the two Testaments in reference to the system of creationthe touchstone of our faith. Moral duties, of course, must be observed.

I will here give a sample of Wirgman's style,

His BODY is in TIME his SOUL is in ETERNITY.

ag you to bear in mind the cuphatic ard au mele in which Bagster treats his subject.

entire Preface breathes a similar spirit,

as though he stood in are while touching be heavenly truths.

I now that the gentleman whom I ass posesses a copy of M. Wirgman's Diagram, fough not his Bock on the "Dicarication of to Net Lesensent; yet, as this pistle mey best and read by others, and a rekre to y be necessary in the perusal of the fol

... quotation, it is introduced here.

We light in which the author views the efs of the Historical parts of Scripture has bec ready mentioned; but, as some of his pini as n ay require those imagined defects to be riveted on, I deem it necessary to recur to the The dil reuce between 'HISTORY' DOCTRINE,' with regard to its proofs, is ;fectly distinct. The former never can reach

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her than possibility and probability; while the 1er affords a cantic ion, whose contrary is impossible.”

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