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tion , — ' When my testimony diverges from what seemB to you righteous , which will you follow , me or your moral sense ? ' And in Abraham ' s case the command was only a trial , to probe the depths of the Patriarch ' s heart , never designed to be executed . The origin of the Atonement is to be sought in . the
even of the Church of England , can walk reconciled to the Creation and to its Divine government .
righteous wrath of God afgainst sin ; for sm strikes a blow at the authority of God , and so at the order of the universe . The more perfect the character , the more doth it abhor anything that is evil . Holiness -would banish sinners for ever from his presence , by an antipathy deeply seated in his nature . A representative of the whole human race is
constituted , upon whom went forth the whole curse of G-od . It was not a sweet savour offering for acceptance , but as a burnt offering for expiation , and the wrath and curse of God visited the sin bearer with a death specifically different from every other death the world has ever witnessed , —more insupportable ; for when the light of God's countenance was withdrawn from Him , all was withdrawn . ** Non noster Me sermo . *
We need scarcely notice the shallow presumptions which crowd our abridged citations . Dr . GbUEBDRN forgets that the instincts which he contemns are given to us by the Divine Author , whose purpose in the creation Dr . Goulbukn undertakes to explain , as if he had been there at the time . He forgets that the child has positive knowledge cf his father's consistency ; and that where Ms knowledge fails , his instincts teach liim loving trust and obedience . Who told- him that it is part of
God s dealings to try us by our moral sense ; who that we must believe and not see , when the millions of things that we see go on , and we ourselves , go on , whether we Relieve or not ? Who taught him that it is , necessary for the All-seeing to try the faith which is in the heart ? Who taught him that antipathy isaDivine attribute or that " abhorrence "—the rising of the hairs upon a skin contracted by cold or fear , —is possible to a Divine nature ? Who that
an or anything else can strike a blow at the authority of God , or disturb the order of the universe ; which , so far as we can see , can understand , believe , or conceive , is never for one instant stricken , arrested , or disturbed ? Dr . Goulburn revels in paradox , works himself up into a dogmatic frenzy , and borrowing the theory of Jewish sacrifice , undertakes to explain the doctrines of the new dispensation in a fierce and sanguinary jargon , as wild as Delphic rhapsodies , but coarser and meaner .
There is indeed one argument into which abhorrence positively forbids our entering ; it is the argument that unless tine subject of this sermon were more than , a martyr in the intolerable agony of the suffering endured , he was something less than a martyr ; for we are told of " shrinking , " " dread , " " anguish of mind" unknown to the martyrs of the Church , to men , to feeble women , or even to Socratks 1 There is the gross suggestion of a contrast here , which is hazarded in the very insolence of dogmatism .
And this is the picture which Oxford paints of The Martyr ; this is the Oxford interpretation of the Atonement ! We will not characterise it . All who can apprehend its hideous meaning , where the red light comes through the dark cloud of mystic nonsense , must be driven to take refuge in the mild and simple light , which Bknjamin Jowett has tin-own upon the subject , and in wlrioh the believer
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l 2 r THIS BBPAKTirENT , i . 8 A . LL OPINIONS , KOWETEE BXX 111 I 1 , ABE 1 I . LOWBB JLBT EXPRESSION , " tHS EDITOB intCBBSABI ^ Y HOLDS HIltSBI / E BESPOlfBIBLK FOB HOKB . ]
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AN HISTORICAL STUDY . { To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , —To realise the future in the instant—to see an event as It passes in the same aspect which it will wear some twenty years hence , is a thing notoriously difficult . Nevertheless , an attempt of this sorfc is generally amusing , and may be instructive . I was present in the HouBe of Lords on the first night of the Wensleydale Peerage debate , and so struck was I with the whole scene , that I have been tempted to set it forth , as an historical study . Some future historian may perhaps write th / os : — - London Gazette
About this time a number of the appeared announcing that her Majesty had conferred upon Sir James Parke , one of the most distinguished judges on the Bench , the dignity of Baron WenBleydale for the term of his natural life . Hitherto the peerage had been hereditary . Forthwith the Press teemed witbi arguments in favour of the innovation of life : peers > and against it . Parliament had . scarcely assembled when the leaders of Opposition denounced the proposed change , and predicted the destruction ' of the Constitution . Afc length notioe of a ijlotibn on the subject was given , and a thousand conjectures as to the result of that motion distracted the town .
Accordingly , on Thursday , the 8 th of Februaryi 1856 j the House of Lords presented a scene as striking as ifc was instructive . The substantial question Was , whether it was legal and constitutional for the Queen to create life-Peers , who should sit and vote in Par ^ liament . The Lords were alarmed ; the public : were interested ; the galleries and the bar of the House were crowded with spectators . ' The occasion was no common occasion , fw it might be the opening of a conflict between prerogative and privilege . To gee the venerable Lyndhurst , four-score and upward—the wreck of one of the handsomest men in his time—led in tottering and half-blind to that seat amongst the hereditary Peers of England which he
had won by Ms transcendant but prostituted abilities , me in his place , and ^ for nearly two hours , without a single memorandum , sustain a learned and elaborate argument in defenoe of his order , with the same delightful voice , the same unfaltering eloquence , and the same persuasive perspicuity with which he had charmed that House some thirty years ago , was a spectacle which those who witnessed it will not easily forget . Nor was this the only memorable incident in thtit debate in which the Lords put forth all their strength to repel this attack made upon a wealthy hereditary order by the intrusion of life-Peerb , however illustrious , Of a truth the champions were strangely marshalled . There stood Edward Sugden
—the precocious child of the Truefitt of his timeouce a barrister ' s clerk , now the Coke of his day , eager in defence of his long-desired , but late-acquired hereditary dignity , side by side with . Edward Geoffrey , fourteenth Earl of Derby , who , in his vehement passion to maintain the purity and the dignity of his order , not only ennobled the blood of the long-neglected Sugden , but adorned the ranks of the Peerage with all the amphibious scions of his house . The * © , on the bonches opposite to his early friend and political associate , Lansdowne — that aged and consistent Whig—stood the fantastic Henry Brougham , his tongue once the denouncer of kings , the trumpet of revolution , the idol of' his countrymen , now mere sounding ; brass and a tinkling cymbal . There stood plain John Campbell , some fifty years ago a stranger in London , the friendless son of a Scotch
Presbyterian'minister , who , by sturdy perseverance and solid ability , at length achieved the descent from the Gallery of the Reporters to the stops of tho Thronerevealing by his every look and gesture tho struggling story of his early life , but yet speaking ou behalf of hereditary nobility with all tho weight of tho Lord Chief Justice of England—Bide by sido with George Douglns Campbell , tho eighth Duke , Marquis and Earl of Argyll , and with Henry Qeorgo Grey , Etxrl Groy , tho representative of an ancient and illustrious houuethe champions of tho now oroabion . To ooe tho noblemen of yesterday clamorous for horodltary honouru , and tho noblemen of auciont Uncage willing to admit into thoir ranks Peers for life , may to somo men aoem utnmgo . But , in truth , tho thing ia admirably natural , Had I the . pen of bUo Preacher I might lament over human vanity ; had I tho pen of
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AMENDED STATUTES . ( To therjtfdttpr of the leader . ) Sib , —^ Oxford is laughing in her sleeve at the public , who think- she is becoming liberal ; Will it be believed that in the amended statutes of Corpus , published last week , it is laid down that the college shall contain " two Acolyte * , or at least such as have the first dericat' tansvtre ? " That besides , every fellow shall not only declare -his conformity to the Church of England , bufc that any tame
after his election he may be tried ' for heresy * by the senior members of the college ,-Who may deprive Mm of bis fellowship . But he " may appeal ,- and to whom , does the reader think ? To the Bishop of Winchester ; , and to no other . That is to say , a High "Church raajojority among the fellows , if seourfe of a High . Church bishop , may glut their personal or religious spite against a Reforming , Low , or Broad Churchman , and deprive him of his income without possibility of redress . , ,
In Exeter's amended statutes we find the following ( Stat . iii . j art . i . ) : —" No one may "be elected , a fellow except members of the Clturch . of England or of some ChurcTi in communion with it" "After all , " the Wesleyan may say , " this is fair enough . " Not so . fast , nay good sir ; you don't belong to any Churtsh . at all ; you have no bishops , no apostolical succession " .-The sons of our " erring sister " of Rome , or of Holy . Russia , these , though , not all we could wish * we would receive and cherish ; but a profane vulgar of middle-class schismatics , to come between the -wind land-our orthodox gentility- ^ -we have not quite come to that yet , .
Moreover , " If any fellow shall cease to be a member of the Church of * Ehglkntf , or of some Chui * eh . in communion wifch it , ife'shall '" be law £ ul : f « r the visitor to j > rt » ceed ' to the dep ; rivatio ) a pf such fellow . " \ Koyr this visitor is the Bishop , of Exeter . Whoever disbelieves in baptismal regeneration is considered by that prelate to be ' no member of the Church of I 5 ngland ; How oarisuch a point this worthy can unite the bullying tone of the . schoolboy with-the pedaairy of the schoolmaster , your readers kno ? w j yet iri th . e Gbrham case an appeal lay against him to the Privy Council . Now , whatever moderation te niay oave thought it prudent to . exhibit will not be neededj'for Oxford proposes to settle her own matters at once an , d secretly , and not to trouble the public with : the wearisome details of a public trial . tc
One more extract , from another college . If it become known , to the rector ( of Lincoln ) and to thai majority of the fellows , that any . fellow has maliciously and contumaciously favoured any heretical opinion in public or private , he shall be removed from our college for ever , unless within six : days he Bub . mitB himself to the rector and humbly undergoes correction . " Sir , odiv / nv theologicum is a plant tiiat needs little cultivation . Yet these " amended statutes " are most
Bkufully preparing , the field and the soil , where it may excel , as it has hitherto excelled , tie rankest and most prolific growths of England . Th . e worst of the Oxford Statutes were rapidly becoming- obsolete . By pruning some of the most harmless ^ , the rest will 1 sprout with renewed and most pernicious strength . The fact is , Oxford has throughout grossly abused the patience of a country tolerant of her follies , because fond of her antiquities- For the last two centurieB she has been the one fatal obstruction to
the enlargement of the Church , and the nationalising of education . When open defiance of Reform would avail no longer , she has seen the policy of bending to the etorm , of spontaneously amending her statutes , and of securing privately a firm footiiig for future ag . gression and annoyance . But if the splendid revenues of Oxford are ever to be national , ana if every earnest and independent thinker is not to b « a proy to tho blind instincts and zealous pedantry of Oxford Common Rooms , let Mr . Heywood call t ~ h& attention of Parliament to the London Gazette of Feb . Dfch , containing the " amended statutes , " the first ! fruits of Oxford Reform . 1 am , Sir , ; Your obedient servant , Oxford , Feb . 22 . Oxonieitsib .
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Anotheh . Eatirancm . —The world counts one EjuV poror more . Rasa , brother-in-law of one of tlxo pettV Icings of Abyssinia ., after dethroning 3 mb relative , hoa assumed the Imperial crown , under the name of Thoodoro I . Acstkama . —Trade , oCoording to £ ho last account ) from Australia , was in a more flourishing conditior th « n it had been ; r « . nd the reports from the gold floldi arc highly satisfactory , the yield being largo , width minors in a , prosperous condition . The new oonstiti tion haB boon proclaimed at Melbourne . Sir Chorle Hotham , iu his speech on the opening of tho Legists tive Council , said he believed tjno colony would I nearly free from debt by tho end of tho yonr .
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Swift , I might anatomise human weakness . To the wise maai my reflections would be tedious , to the dull man iiseless . Therefore , le « the curtain fall . « * *
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M ^ rch 8 ,: 1356 : ] T . H E aiAD « . i 231
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* The Sermon ia published ia London by John Henuy «\ nd Jamiob PAiutmi ; wo oould wish that every one of our roadora uhould proouro it , and study it for himaelf . Wo have greatly abridged the paapagoB quoted ; wo have , however , uaod nono but Dr . Qoulburn ' s words , aua wo believe that we have not -warped Ma moaning .
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There is no learned man but will confess lie liath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and ids judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for Vi-irn to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—Milton .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2131/page/15/
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