town who is not under deep concern. There are two judges and two attornies in the town, who have come forward in the cause; and at the conferrence meetings, which are held there, it is said they plead more powerfully for the cause of Christ, than ever they did at the bar. They have all joined the church, except one of the attornies and his wife, who will join it at the next communion." INSTALLATION*. ON Sunday, the 17th Dec. the Rev. Jacob Brodhead, and the Rev. John Schureman, were installed as pastors of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of this city. A sermon suited to the occasion was preached by the Rev. Dr. Livingston, from Isaiah Ixii. 7, 8; and in the afterternoon of the same day, the Rev. Mr. Brodhead preached his introductory sermon, from 2 Cor. 12th cap. and part of the 14th verse: "For I seek not yours, but you." And on Sunday, the 24th, the Rev. Mr. Schureman preached his introductory sermon, from 2 Cor. 2d cap. and part of the 16th verse: "Who is sufficient for these things?" FOR THE CHRISTIAN's MAGAZINE. } It is not often that poetry of such intrinsic merit as the following, appears in the pages of periodical publications. We insert it with pleasure; and will feel ourselves obliged by any future communications from the same quarter. We should be gratified by an interview with the person who communicated it. WHY swells my full heart, with sad presage o'erflowing, As lonely I muse o'er life and its woes? The storm's bowl without, and the winds loudly blowing, Are calm, to the feelings that break my repose. Ah why, busy Fancy! in haste to transport met O'er the wide peopl'd earth, to find sources of grief?} Why to War's sanguin'd plains thus incessantly court me, When thou, even thou, can'st not picture relief? • We regret that this article has been so long delayed. Communications of this kind shall always be thankfully received; but we hope that hereafter they shall be transmitted to us as soon after the events as is convenient. ED. Why lead me to prisons, to dungeons, to gallies, Or point out the source, of our pains and our woes: In each beating bosom lies hid the dark treasure, Whence spring all the sorrows that break my repose. Sin! Parent of Evil of every description, From thy baneful influence our miseries flow: Though "fools make a mock," and pronounce it a fiction, To thee all our tears and our anguish we owe. In the childhood of Nature, in Eden's fair bowers, Pale Care was a stranger, while thou wast unknown: On Joy's tranquil bosom soft stole the sweet hours, 'Ere Sin was engender'd and Innocence flown. How sad the reverse! ah! how chang'd man's condition! Now evils unnumber'd crowd life's little span ; While, urg'd by fell Malice and wanton Ambition, Man plunges his sword in the bosom of man. Ye children of Folly's enchanting delusions! Do no secret terrors e'er break your repose, While ye harbour the Fiend in your own thoughtless boThe parent and source of Humanity's woes? But oh! shall a soul that has tasted of pardon, [soms, Has wept for the sorrows and sins of mankind, Heart-sickening picture! yet let me review it, Till the veil shall be drawn from my own darken'd souls Till, humbled in dust, sovereign Grace shall renew it, And the Spirit of Jesus enlighten the whole. Oh! hasten, dear Jesus, dear FRIEND OF LOST SINNERS, To purge thine own children, and conquer thy foes: To earth's utmost limits extend thy bright banners, And sign a release to Humanity's woes. Errors and absurdities of the PAPISTS, touching the doctrine of the Law and of the GOSPEL. « 1. THEY erroneously conceive an opinion of "salvation in the law, which only is to be sought in "the faith of Christ, and in no other. "2. They erroneously seek God's favour by "works of the law: not knowing that the law, in "this our corrupt nature, worketh only the anger of "God. Rom. iii. "3. They err also in this, that where the office of "the law is diverse and contrary from the Gospel, they, without any difference, confound the one "with the other, making the Gospel to be a law, and "Christ to be a Moses. "4. They err in dividing the law unskilfully into "three parts, into the law-natural, the law-moral, "and the law-evangelical. "5. They err again in dividing the law-evangeliVol. III.-No. IV. 2 B "cal into precepts and counsels, making the precepts "to serve for all men, the counsels only to serve for "them that be perfect. "6. The chief substance of all their teaching and "preaching resteth upon the works of the law; as appears by their religion, which wholly consisteth "in men's merits, traditions, laws, canons, decrees, "and ceremonies. "7. In the doctrine of salvation, of remission, "and justification, either they admit the law equally "with the Gospel, or else, clean secluding the Gos"pel, they teach and preach the law; so that little "mention is made of the faith of Christ, or none at "all. "8. They err in thinking, that the law of God "requireth nothing in us under pain of damnation ; "but only our obedience in external actions: As "for the inward affections and concupiscence, they "esteem but light matters. "9. They, not knowing the true nature and "strength of the law, do erroneously imagine that it "is in man's power to fulfill it. "10. They err in thinking, that it is in man's power not only to keep the law of God, but also "to perform more perfect works than be in God's "law commanded, and these they call the works of perfection. And hereof rise the works of supere"rogation, of satisfaction, of congruity, and condig"nity, to store up the treasure-house of the Pope's "Church, to be sold out to the people for money. "11. They err in saying, that the state monasti"cal is more perfect for keeping the counsels of the "Gospel, than other states be in keeping the law of "the Gospel. "12. The counsels of the Gospel they call the "vows of their religious men; as profound humility, perfect chastity, and wilful poverty. 13. They err abominably, in equalling their "laws and constitutions with God's law, and in say"ing, that man's law bindeth under pain of damnation, no less than God's law. "14. They err sinfully, in punishing the transgressors of their laws more sharply than the transgressors of the law of God; as appeareth by their inquisitions, and their canon-law, &c. "15. Finally, they err most horribly in this, that "where the free promise of God ascribeth our sal"vation only to our faith in Christ, excluding works; i they, on the contrary, ascribe salvation only, or « principally, to works and merits, excluding faith. Whereupon ariseth the application of the sacrifice "of the mass, ex opere operato, for the quick and "dead, application of the merits of Christ's passion, "in bulls, application of the merits of all religious orders, and other such like trumpery, as above * mentioned. "THREE cautions to be observed and avoided in the true understanding of the Law. "First, that we, through the misunderstanding "of the Scriptures, do not take the law for the Gos"pel, nor the Gospel for the law; but skilfully dis cern and distinguish the voice of the one from the "voice of the other. Many there be, who reading "the book of the New Testament, imagine that whatever they find contained in it, to be only and mere"ly the voice of the Gospel. And on the other hand, "whatever is contained in the Old Testament, that is, "within the law, stories, psalms, and prophets, to be only and merely the word and voice of the law. In "which they are deceived; for the preaching of the "law and of the Gospel are mixed together in both "the Testaments, as well in the Old as in the New. "Neither is the order of these two doctrines to be |