He for Isról with God did intercede, And for us Poschim did for 5 Chesed plead. Out of the 13 Golus and from sin set free. In transcribing this mingle-mangle of English and He brew, I perceive the roots of two English words, sorrow it zoros, gaol in golus. The first we derive from the Saxo and Gothic; the second, in common with the French and Spaniards, from a Keltic origin: but both appear to hav their roots in the Hebrew. One of the strangest of these strange pieces is a kind of Litany. (No. 398. pp. 749-756.) by a Yet even the Moravian Hymns are equalled poem of Manchester manufacture, in the Gospel Magazine for August 1808, entitled the "Believer's Marriage to Christ." The Old Man is crucified, the Prince woos and wins her, "Then married we were Without more delay, Friend Moses was there, And gave me away." This is bad enough:- the more loathsome parts I leave in their own dunghill. An interesting account of James Hutton, who published the Moravian hymns, and is more than once mentioned in this volume, may be seen in the great collection of Literary Anecdotes by Mr. Nichols. (Vol. iii. p. 435.) NOTE XXI. Page 205. Certain whimsical Opinions which might entitle Count Zinzendorf to a conspicuous Place in the History of Heresy. THESE opinions are expressed in one of their hymns from the German. "Here I on matters come indeed: The holy marriage state to sing, Among the chiefest points a thing "Oh yes! ye dear souls mark it well The name of husbands bear. Of Lamb's brides and of Lamb's wives chaste "The Saviour by eternal choice The Lord and husband known; "And in the Spirit's realm and land One husband too's confest; The souls be there as Queene doth see, And they as sisters mutually, Far as of spirits can be traced. "Indeed the sovereign good and love For his weak bride, that she "So he divided her in two, The weaker forth detached must go; And also greater strength and might "Yet even the weaker part was seen Hymn 283. Thus much may be quoted without offence to decency. NOTE XXII. Page 254. Assurance. BAXTER had none of this assurance. Good man as he was, he knew himself far from perfection, and had his doubts and his fears. But "it much increased his peace," says Calamy, "to find others in the like condition. He found his case had nothing singular, being called by the providence of God to the comforting of others who had the same complaints. While he answered their doubts, he and the charity he was constrained to exercise towards them redounded to himself, and insensibly answered his own, abated his disturbance. And yet after all he was glad of probability instead of undoubted certainty." The Franciscans have produced one of their revelations against this notion of assurance: it occurs in the life of the Beata Margarita de Cortona, written with Franciscan fidelity by her confessor F. Juncta de Bevagna. The passage is part of a dialogue. "Et Dominus ad eam; Tu credis firmiter, et fateris, quod unus Deus in substantia sit, Pater et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus? Et Margarita respondit; Sicut ege credo te unum in essentiá et trinum in personis, ita donares mihi de promissis plenam securitatem. Et Dominus Filia tu non es habitura dum vixeris, illam plenam, quam requiris cum lacrymis, securitatem, quousque locavero te in gloriá regni mei. Et Margarita respondit; Tenuistisne, Domine, sanctos viros in his dubiis, in quibus tenetis me? Et Dominus ad eam; Sanctis meis in tormentis dedi fortitudinem, securitatem vero plenam non habuerunt, nisi in patria." Acta Sanctorum. 22d Feb. p. 321. ad eam : NOTE XXIII. Page 258. Thomas Haliburton. MR. WESLEY was perhaps induced to pronounce so high and extravagant an eulogium upon the memoirs of this excellent man by a description of his "deliverance from temptation," which accorded perfectly with one of the leading doctrines of Methodism. "After describing a state of extreme mental anguish, Mr. Haliburton says, "I was quite overcome, neither able to fight nor flee, when the Lord passed by me, and made this time a time of love. I was, as I remember, at secret prayer when He discovered Himself to me; when He let me see that there are "forgivenesses with him, and mercy, and plenteous redemption."-Before this I knew the letter only, but now the words were spirit and life: a burning light by them shone into my mind, and gave me not merely some notional knowledge, but an experimental knowledge of the glory of |