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Persons sending in advertisements ar r <r:es< ed to specify t lie nnmher of times they are to i> inserted; otherwise they will he continued ti ordered out. and cli trued aceortiinu'yIJ'Tue Postage must ho paiJ on ail connuu nidations sent hy mail. !C( IS A E, lliOAiJJlY. KXi'SUI.^-ZlXMS O: Lilians ;iA.\Liii,s !'.> .<? TATOKS. The following extracts from "DieLin satis Agriculture,'' wiil show t!i:tt in Circa JJritain, particular attention lias been givci to salt as a manure. To show its u iliiv as : manure in a laon; clear point of view, tin following experiments were mn!o bv tu Rev. Mr. Carlwrigiit. A certain portion of soil (ferrugiuou sand brought to a duo texture bv :i libera o covering of pond mud) was laid rut ii beds one yard wide and forty long: of those 'Jo were manured, the first excepted, a; follows: NO. Of j Pi Olj UC Reds. Kind of M-inure applied. J of Pot a 1 Xo uiainiro j lot J Salt, } peek It)' It Lime, one bushel lot 1 Soot, one peck IT f> Wood ashes J peck* 1*1 li ' Saw dust,t> bushels 1.V 7 Malt dust, J pecks 1 " 8 Peat, II bush els lot 1) Decaved leaves, U bud;. !-' 17." 10 Pfcsh 0 l)ii?l:c!s 10: 11 (Miantller's graves, 9 lbs. 22( 12 Sail, lime 10" 10 | Sal*, l:m?, snipuric acid [ 17" 14 | Salt, lime, Peat j IS 1"? j Salt, lime, dung ! 1IX 10 j Salt, lime, gypsum. peat ! 201 17 |Salt.soot j 24t H j Salt, wood a>.7 > | 211 10 Salt, saw dus? j 1S( 20 Salt, malt diiM } ISf 21 Salt, peat j 171 22 Salt, jieat, bone dust I 17v 23 Salt, decayed leaves I ]??1 24 S ilt, peat ashes j Is." 2"? Salt, l.'handlerh? graves j !<)." -Tlr qiKinti y of ingredients the sai:;c as when used singly." I'tl/'i icr <lild Crtu'JcilCi'. From the Tennessee Farmer. s\vi:::t potatoes. I:i the cultivation of every \vshould consi.if.-r of what kin.i it is : r> v. 'rt i iinnto it bclonirs, a: id what kind of so.i ; best adapted to i!s pro iuc ion. i'roni : n -gleet to co:is!(i: r these things. j-i.isiy t;;i successful clmrs have !- -n made to mis -i t it? SWCCt j'('lil!o I ?!C S t ?s ; native of a warm climate. u::i ( !' a iiy.'i' ui<iv soil. \\ eshoul-l le"u, us i.:r;.s pos >;!)Ie, endeavor fo combi.: - ;( ' <c two things' I?v n judicious selection ol u e;- ofgrwmr upon which 1<? raise I- i nisi give ye: the |i!an which 1 have adopted ;:i raishu .Sweet Potatoes, \v!i:eh Ii s i> vn very sue ccssfu!. Perhaps some who hav hereto fore failed. mav be encf ! .- I o succeed be', t r hv alop'ing .Some time in March. w!:cn I think t!i: hare! ircsis are over, i take' n;y potato.-, from the cellar, where t!?;-y have h -en kop through the wltn'-r : I pr p .re a heel in ne garden, !>y levelling t!:e surface of tin ground ; 1 tl.en sja'i.'ad my potatoes over il until they are not more than two or tare; ' -1. . I 11..... I'xni w:t!i tin !ocs iijv up. f>i* u!i I'.,' lis*'V ?:iv v<? s!n;t!! a* J < ! 210* 2.. of ! -iiv/ ! ?v; h \h? !.* <'. ' l??r Ti:ir<!:v,!!ii* :ai.i ' * srvivn : :*. mow it'* tKVO!"-."; \\ :?:*! I. ilMtililV '.it llo'-s o-ow t?p ' p! ? raphl'y. I uoric 11 v { o'aloi s l?: t!'f l?>i!ow inir vv u v : \\ inn fit.- ! i:\vo i for 1! way uouj. hills, ! pass twice l?c-j in.a * twrta ;i: : Iiills, e-.eii way v.iiii a lnf! , wit J)!till*_r*J : tl.is .'.lo'.vr tl.c I iai'ii j t.sa \vii!j ;i !i-..i'. cover. s.":y eji-v.i.wil <>1 i.i" '. .p.;'. 1 wa ?!;" r > * J i 1:: :. icr o.r. b;f yp" s 1 :s lei! < lui Id make I:.'* ii..! wr\" i ?<:>J * a.i v. -1 < \ ::! !': ior >. ' ( jjras> u C * ! v.* i.oi ft? '??(; \ ssi' ? ii*;vc so covered i!i:j lt?::-s siao.iicr- do*. II li'.cia. j t'11-' Two y: r.is 1 o!<! ;ir. 1 j lay }?0!a- J Stat toes uat.l tin* 41i 1 d.w oi J jji". i iio seaso-i was i:n!;ivora!?:o ; yet i maie lit'1- , f' ' crop, ;; 1 itl I;o poia'oes ol t!r~' '??! ' ' ' !:::vo ever svciJ 2ii Tail!'s.vc, i " A S::.\i.r. I\\n?u:t:. 1 's ' I lopewe!:. i \ !>. 1 ()::?. I <) >. ! ps'ii J a:!::i:H axti p rruis. j an ? ' ' . r. .1 . ? 1 . .. r .... ! I Ill mai\iii?: cNcavaions;n i.iniio.o regions t ? * l of Cloor^ia. not !*?r._c sinna buildings ivjju- u;| , larlycr..*_ I Wfiviisrovired <<::<! riheeanh.; ,, Trjc '.s bare nl-o been ns t which prove ! l'c! t!::il 1! 10 inni::^ i n- s.Vis. -it sonic time. :l('t < been f?fiowoc! ii) iho >nr.?district of country,. j[-v' j as \v? !i as in .Vorfi (.\;ro!;a:a?by whom or , h*e< , a! what period. i; is impossible i.o.v to ibs- ; ; co\ . r. i no i;j<-UiiviS o? l!;c \\ pst !:avc I?>!!?^ ' '' s been a subject of i:i* r -s: to ;hc tr.'.velier. j !:oami (m soic:;!aJa?ii ! > lie anlrjaarv ;ami a i !5<l' v.rilu* iVtini Aikaiis is stales some niots still 'i"' more iiitvresting. (hi ;!;c banks of the l'!;1 \\ ii.to Uivor, says he. von ran see tin.* brick i . (ot::i?!ations i?l !.> ;> ; .1 ' w miles l!iril;crt | 'I'" i S'.\ hundred air 1 joi'ly arias vflanJ arc in-; ';:L' ? closed by a wail. the < c:i iv ? f v.hieh j I'd r there is a eiivuhr buiMin^: there nr.* ?!> '? r,:; > .a the s in; ? ii'.-vlf'v . !i <. ! e; rt?i*a ci v : ' ' and para!!..-! s-reels en.- -'.i-s ? -an < i; r at ) I ? . | ? ? 1 r?g.:t may I>? Jrucoj oY oriciv i ?" !!? j dutions, one tm.e in ici:?nh?die !>r;ck> of, j menem shape. '1'ii whole \\ est is r.cli in - s o| inter.-t to :;!?'! j :-.i:;an ant! !!:<.- r 11 j naturalist. ily nee: nn s of i\Ir. Fiini ; r:u } and o her travel'.as. y th western papers. 0!" ' ' i' appears tnat i .-.' ...s c>i t!:c* leaves ol j 1 thebread lrul: a;; i the have die . Iiv?j i' litsy been F. ialho j a* b and i > fo*?;! o?? ?I !*:!a..at.?i.is. i:i neighborhood ; s'v ) vt the Ohio. lYbblcs of disruption. vast' |\?* -ctsoiis ol i a: .'a an I sniul. s.-?.:e,miens o! '* ' i organ:. ?animal:::.;.; vegetable remains. belonging to a tropica! charito, clear! v indi-! I,|C * ra o soii; - important and e\ < us:ve changes,; ,l?JN * occasioned by lire or waVr, in tin; whole f'd j groat \ ul!v y of tlio M!*ssiss:ppi. Tim the j -s:n; rogniar wails, i!.o Lra*!\'s, t!? medals, tin implements ol iron and copper. baric ! in a I iiro soil which must have be n msdis inbed lbr |va :H;.'s. with the alphabet. ob:'.rectors written ',lt on t! cliffs plainly show that other races j t:,)' . Of men have cx O'h. a::! d awav. j i;<"; ; -\?2'1 a world. > ys Mr. i'lii.t, must j'*1' ; 1 !i::t have beet!, \v!;c*: t!io manurou ;;;:J the ; 011 : sncgalonvx tro-i and monstrous. . .r.!;s, whose !.< :; s ;;r?* r.i'.v r 'scued from 1 the so:!, ami which mu< have burn at least 1 1 ciuh'v ibct long. ru> ! 11:. ir heads fromthe j 5,10 . rivers an J la!: s. i Pi(-' .. i its ,.... . . ...... 1 , i i !*?(.' i.i\ 1 * * I c* *'i t>i(* iirs! i-''? . I ! was copied in o l.i:s peper ins wc? k, ami J i.i > 1 *.i 1 . i P' 1 il.C io.ioWlUg IS t;-C SO?.v.l?.?, mifSt ttloVO III. ! sec " ion sing If all int'-ikgait and evangelical j . .... 1 Chris.inns, and there can be no CIirisfian.; "\\ . in any proper seas:.1 of the won!, who is not u '> evangelical. In Germ.mv a sect of infidels ^Cl . . ... . con lias sprung up, calling themselves rational | ' Christian:*, or Ivation.'.usts, antl professing ' . to derive their tenets f em th." Bible. They I an< - admit the inos' of .he hooks of the Bible to I p,.( ? have been written bv the authors wiiose j . s.1.1 nanus tiiey bear, except sueii portions as p.c th'-y cannot distort to suit their views: these we > the-v allege are ij/'TPelaUo.;:. \:1 t!irt i.e rev - jn in ;!. j Bible they explain away.? , rcv Bv inspiration iliev undcrs'nmi nothing more i 1 . o ihe than t.he common intellectual endowments | I;,.c of thu writers.?By tlio Spirit of God, only ' wit j his power, *S:c. By resolving what they ^'(' 1 consider the %l hold ligutvs' oft!:eScriptures U>1 into what they suppose must have been the m 'ailing of me wri'ers. they make the Bible 1 i s a 1 u?'re coininoii boo.;, d.v. sting i: entirely | u of its evangelical character. There is a j * V party springing up in this country, partial- ""! larlv in New-Kntr hind. (and spreading also | \ i r> i rcTi ^ in il;:i rent churches at the West, and conn- J con .. tenneed in .sonic places at the Sou 1m I!1 ' 1 / "cm it tending to the same result. These; let crs ' do !> shed light upon the historv of ihiit partv.] i From the Southern L'hrixti.ni Herald. "It v. . . .. L iters on the On?tn and Progress of Pc-! "d-v Ltgian \ tries in ]\ew. Fno/dtvL from a |nt distinguish i S\cn' Eng'anl minister of the v the Gospel, to one in lh South. ypt[ irrrKii n. |. l-enrnnry I". INt,. (-j, .d'i im.\k ljrotii:::: i : phi s !>r. Tuvlor's "concio a i clorutit" was i i/*>< s on-ached in tin; Chape! of ^ n!e College on 1 ' ? J . 1 spe 0 the evening o? commencement, Sept. 1 (.), j .' s I; was s<<o:i alter | uhlishcd. This the \v.e-- jfjc commencement el' tin; public eon- j thu e tnovrsv in Now Kngiand. The obp-cf o! 1 1 h? 1 t!i-; sermon \c;;s, 1 exhibit and establish | i' , i i ... of i- tue autuor s views ?>; to.: (loririncoi na.ivc j j>r(, di pru\ i! v: it was appufti! iron) the whole, tio rt ' s r tin ol the sermon, that ih" preacher was j Hai e cons.-ions that the views which ho was ex- j "'.r| l.ibirin"- worn dillerent from these which!01 i i | * . tra >r ; w ro.eeinmonh rcc. v:eu. I lea lenipb <1 to ti0 i demolish what !: culled ' r-/"v common, i on groundless assumptions?;:s-mnip*i<uis ( wi! d which, so long as ?!;ev are admitted and ! so. jj I'X't J >* iCf i IM ^ M K 2 H' ^ i . * I \ t.'! * S;\ I),4 y t \ * ? ,, . V ?jv<-d in tns'ie wide ... !il'U"i JUCliCS I i I. <" iv ; i i.i:i v v/ v i i.i< .... rich surface sod. ju>t so ?!<; *p us I fliiul: n" eessary to prevent their b bur Injured b> I'ght fVo.'ts. In this J>i "ali.ei I let liiCUi re main u..:d id s> uson r piun'ing. Iviriy ia :! e spring i s loot what I sup pose will b a sai able piece of ground. h making this s< -lection. i elms a re whirl lies fair to the sun, is roicrabK rich, am considerable sandy. 1 break it: : jeep, am then let it .'cumin until I .v - . to pi or which is some lime between " middle < Mav and the fust of dm.e. ! lb n ploug! again. ami harrow well, so u> . .11 do- i. a incilow as possible, i then lake a oir horse bar s'*are plough, and i ige up inground bv throwing three .::?* * us togr.h er. This done. I eio-^s : w :i 1 surg'e fur row at the distance of about ih:v e leel. very slight operation v. it11 i'v I: >o after wards prepares i.m\ hil's. ibr Id' not wan them very large nor big1;. I >w go I my bed, and lind my potu'o - ai a!! nice! suroutcd, and tho.s n ar tiro > wldcnr l up, & some of tlieni have!ao o;\i? re leaves b it none. or but few. have y : : c.v roots I car* Ka v remov tii ?.T! 1 > > as not ti break the soiouts from mv p??ta ^?lor 1 ... , 1 *:iev are broken oU, th-.-v arc tlc-aioven. j?nt two or ihree potao-s in a i. . accord ..jIT;:s they an: It rue or small. bnintj cniv ini always to loav* V < mps oi ;':r spron* nut of the ground. or near the sarnie.'. a they may be more or i >< advanced?s tint when I am tone plnmi.iu. mv potato, arc ui). or nearly so. \ on arc now ready to ia?|nire of t;: what 1 have gained ly tins process answer, several tinners. I ;k. my h.ils ar n??\v and mellow. and ready to retv:v and nonrSh t!ic vouiilt roots warn tiny stai ?not baked, or rendered eoatpimt by heavv sari:)!: rains. Secondly, ! hnv* con jdetCiV subdued tan jjrass and v.ve Is. h tkev all bad s ailed !.? eid'.v between i!i time of breaking toy irround and the inn of making the biiis. | haw* then avonk ;.il the trouble and labor < t >Tcpniir eovi I;'< r.oles, aJVr s?:itin;_r :h" ilitiMYi tn> t?r liie doctrine of (I -jnuvi'v, whie supposed in b hold l?v tin; orthodox ciiiir tlint form of it which h?; udoptc lie says, "Tiioso who reject the la.' m of it, anl adop* ?_ ;:!;< ruf i!*o preecb ; forms, will, it is ho ? Javor liitr worl 'i some bet'cr nr^'.ua :;!> on i!ie sub;er ,:i have lather o b vn lurmsiicil." i iii s liirov.i!ij- down tin/ tiatiatliii and cSiai giiJiI ;l controwrsv. ilut I must giv i some account of t!?? sermon. i'ii? tc\' w as Kph. ii.IJ: Au-J :rrrr !>u in r rhil'ircn <;/' wrath cr n anothers. Tli Jiriiae of the !<wr. be stain! to bo. cniiro moral uVpravi y (if man is b are. 'i he s aicmont of this docirin r.v ! jo tlivo prom:so ;! at l.o was ahjii tiu common \iews o?i tin's sub i51!t i:i his explanations 'In* nn ur d 'privity, an ! <>;* t!?' sense in w!i c!?i ?y nature, h was uud a s oo I advanei uemles ntte: !y ir.r.i:is:stent with his mm: posi ion ? principles which lead to :h iclnsioii that there is in man no u a* lira cditary propen-i y to sin. and that liter s no real connexion between the shi c am and that of his posterity. Mori ravity he defines to b; "a man's ow: .consisting in a tree choice ( i" some oil t rather than C loth as i.'schi- i'jjood: or .* pivfavnceof flic world & worldly yooi he will and ydory oft lud." ]?y manhin ug depraved by natnre. he says. { <.!< mean that their natnre is i self sinfn tint their nature is the physical or <_1 ent cause of their sinnine; hut I meai ! iheir nature is the occasion or reaso their sinning: that such is their nature i in all the appropriate oircumstancos o :r i>.-j:jtliov wJ: 1 .sin. am! only s;n. [ ho elsewiior: maintains, that ail luei J:jt??:Iio wo: ! i ui.!i the same na ur ;ind, ;.s that ui.Ii which Adam was ere !. an J whtc'i i!i- C .'ml ?/'' > .7-> possess (' ) : t!i:s tru it i>> certainty dime lilt lose v their nature can !>; in any senseth isc or reason of SlK'irsmnini^orltow llicr i bonny ir reditnry corruption of na'itrc any real < annexion between the sin c am ami that <>!' i:is posterity. Toward elos': of the sermon, in reply Jo the i:i :y v.hy (i;-i rmi.ted man to sin, It s, "Ho yi.:t know tiiat Mod could hav :e better, belter <-i iho wlioto, or i>ottci :o gave him existence at all, even lb individual himself! The error lies i gratuitious assumption, tliat God coui '< adopted ?'i moral system, and prevent all sin, or at least, the present degree c i'his subject lie rc-air.-cs in a n?.'o, atn cecds at some length, to show lli.it ih O 7 son wliv Cbvl do 's not prevent ail s;i lie moral universe and make all bis rn rd creatures holy and happy, is. that it i possible fbr him lo do if. I fe say? h"iinessin a moral sys'em bo prclbrab! the whole to sin in its stead, why di a benevolent God. wire it possible 1 i, pi- vent all sin. and secure the pivva co < : universal holiness? Would not nil uu'veiM* of perfv.t holiness, be Inj: r and ' . iter than one comprising sin an niiseri >'? And must not iulinite ha:e\c jo ac.co:uolisli:.]! the good it can? Won! a benevolent God then, hid it hcci sink to i in th: a :lure of thing.s\ liar tired the < \Is enco of universal holines liis moral khigdom?" Again, ho say; ."ho does mo t reverence to God, li 0 supposes that God irou7d have pre red all sin in his moral universe, hi hi not; or lie w \ o u(turns that ho.cou1 *e prevented but irould not?" rhis note gyve great dissatisfaciioi 1 was extensively regarded as a virtu; nial of ilic Omnipotence, and univcrs: evidence of (Jo I. It calico forth, as ill have occasion !o mention hcrenfte letters of J)r. Woods to Dr. Taylor,wide re published in 1-00. This sermon wn lowed by the 11'.v. Dr. Harvey. Til i.'.ver points out wliat !.e conceives to h i peculiar':' s - s nitimont contained i sermon, and attempts to show that t'ne t inconsist ot both with the Ilibie, an h t!i" writings of the Standard ortliodo \v England diviivs. To this review i]y was published in the Christian Spc< jr; ascribed, at first, to the Ilcv. Di rter of Farming'on, but ascertained ai wards to have been written principall r.) Tli."' opinion of Dr. Taylor that ;.ll mo srsset! the nature in which A tin in was vri'j ly created, or the nature which the 4*//ui hi Jisiis'' possessed, departs widely froi cafcd truth. Ii' our race now occupy t! tlition in which Adam was pi iced, wo ui t state of probation, as many affirm, end ?< ndemned already" ;?s the icord of Gol d res. John iii; lNth, ' but lie that bolievcth no 'undenttied ahead i/."1 Hut it may bo rcpliei is jifiinned of adult*, and yet David fay .'hold I wasshapen in iniquity, and in s:it tli motlur conceive inc." it Dr. Taylor pui im!ure of Ll 10 child Jons, on a leml with tl. are of other children, lie rivals Mr. Rimes, i hohhii'st; and impudence of his philosophic* dilations: and indie .ts scarce one remot in Priestly, and other Unitarians who mail , jir. y,ercub!e or sinful nature of Jest ! ,st. The man. v. ho cm dare to weigh in h losnphicil seal <, the :-nff-rings of the Son < J, and t.di the world how much he cannot sit , or how mm*!: he can, is prepared for tin eolation, however hold or dangerous it nia l-'roui such men, may the Lard delict Church. 'I'll* iinno'ator was one anion sc who !c:ir 1 Albert R irn;,?.* defence. hefoi Inst (Iener.il Ass-mldy of the Preshytcria urch, and hewd him t > .?! Dr. .Miller's expo? Presbyterian do-trine, from the tract ' (.) 'sbvleri'inism." and affirm. in tin* presence < d, "These rturi are mii:rf And vet .M rims' writing's and 1:is subsequent speeeh hi 5 the same AsicinhU/. contradicted the who lis statement and admissions. Wi'h such *' trr iritrh Theologian, i cm have nothing 1 And truly, the eourse of Mr. [;. secin> < liie chamclion complexion of his part >/. Tin 1 aiiii it, admit. t.rplaia. ami drat/ em / // thin: as to bring mat!-, rs within the circuiiiferciu tlieir pi"-ci:!iv: ws, and tor t !i?*?r p-rub K \'D Y it ' l)v Professor (*x.!r.v** 1 - It comprzcd i! h j subs'ancc of lii^ lecture to tin; Collet c. Students in of which some notit d was taken i:i my las i<-;ter. j! In tills reply the loliowiiiir principles m !- clearly maintain ti.vr/. That infants posse: ;I no moral character?that they s::s am pr :! ! cjsoIv the same j-.-ia ion to the moral uoven -s meat of (lo.l as i?ra e animals'hut sutierii: 1- j and death art; i;>; mere proof of .? in in the: < than in os?that salvation l?y C'iir! in llicsr d -ne'es di l.veraneo fioei t : future exismn ( ?,fsir. and i s consojuri e | cos, and that r is proper to ha jihei; it j not because :hy need sauc'itieation, b yj 1 'cause they v. ill need it. if tlicy live : o become n o.nl awaits. The fact tisat : i! men l>'come >in;a:s is accounted f,,r i i- tiio I; ?! > a i::il mamr r. -.V child e;: crs t: e world with a var.cty ot ape-lie s and n< i' sh'cs. which are ip-norahv acknowledged ; c 1)<; nci in r sinful nor !io!y. Coniunta d i n : a s'atc oi u t? r !: ..pl-'Ssncss t ?lac assiJuil e ! of par.'n'a! fondness, it commences cxi i, T< !".cv.' ()' j v: ci u;;rr;iN;;:i; tzar;-. v?um;i e feint's.-, nun eoncess.on lu thus r around : if j I isilt-r .sue! 1 circumstances it is, that i! tl | natural are lirst doveh<ji -J, an n j c ic!i advancing mouth brings them lie ; objects of The obvious co: a1 sequent.:. is. that .s'.-ifTnhilgcuee Ivjconr I, j the* mas er principle in the soul of evei d ; child, long !: fort: it can understand lit; o , tin's st.if-mdui net: wilt in'erfcre with :! 1, j rights. or intrench on the happiness of o! 1 - j ers. Tims by n-peti ion is the loree < n cons i u ionai propensities aeeumula'ing I ? !i I bias towards :ho self, gratilicnf ion, whit. ' b comes incredibly s'rung, before a knov a'; ledge of da'v or asn.se of right ami wron: " j eau possible have i olure.I t!*cs maul. Tlu n | moment?i;o commencement id moral a: e ency at length arrives. Tims the universal sinfulness of mm ; kind is accounted 1 s?r. not from any co | rnptioii of nature derived from Adam, hi e ' from the circumstances in which mankin e j are placed i:i early infancy. An ??b u I answer to this ar.ic.'e was published, snj , | posed to have been written by Dr. llarvi if j to w hich Dr. Taylor made a short reph .s I The controversy tints far, was confun. i- i principal.}* to t!:c uoc'rine of nat;vo d c pravi y, although the no4e in Dr. Taylor e salmon respect in tr (?oil's ability to prevel , ; sin, was not passed over without due aniu r j ai version. n | You will he interested to know wh d ; wore tini views of your friend, Mr. Xetil | ton, at this s a^e of the controversy. Tl d : fo lowing extract of a letter written hy hi 1 to Dr. lleeciier at this period, will ^ivo y< J ; some information. Tiie let er is dated a ' MnllehT (Mass.y fiepl. I Slit, D'Jf). ii ! ? While at Amherst, 1 read through I) - ! John Taylor of Norwich, and much < si Edwards in reply. And 1 mus'say, th S >o (aras I understand the subject, the sci e timents of our New Haven hretluvn, ai d ! more in accordance willi the fumicr, ihu o wit!) the lid er. And so fir as the interpn I- ration of t!;a Ikblo is concerned, broiln a Taylors studen's, some of them, at lens > | (whether ih'.'y ; re conscious of it or lie I | 1 cannot say.) m every nnporan! par.icwu ?-1 art.* fully wi.-ii IV. Taylor of Norwich, ai ! at war with K ! wards. The II -viewer < ii Taylor and Harvey dor s r.w! give us l! c meaning of the texs which seem to cro is ids pat!:; but ha has adopted principle s. which arc at war with all that Ed war is h: e writ en on original sin, and tiic nature < ?- regeneration. If the sentiments cou'.uik tf in that Ueview be con* c', then Ed wan d ! was wrong in h s inti rprotation of cvei [ *e\t i-j !;js piece 0:1 original sin. Brotix b i Taylor has no* come to the most im[ orta :! i part of Ins work?to give us the mor.nii d ' of .he Bible. After abandoning impututic I i & what lie calls physical depravi y, we s!i; r,! he compelled to adopt the sentiments of D h ' Tavlor of Norwich, viz. actual sin fro is I the comm -ncement of the soul, or dei it- j that miants nceu rcuempwon ny unra,<u >e regeneration In* the ilolv Spirit; or if tV n | do need redemption, it must bo a rcdempth y i from something which is no: sinful in d | sense. and it' they do need regonc-ra ion, x ' mus* Ik? a '-hange of some hing which i> ; a I sinful in am sens '. !i" l.he soui ho inm I cent.(r) it can ho redeemed from r.othin i*. j and can never join the song of the rcdeci f- | ed, "unto him iliat loved us, and wash< y us from our sins in la's own blood." li'tl soul !>.? innocen'. it cannot be regenerate " only for the worse. Then, if you doid r,* | as some are beginning'io do, whether I1 r. ! soul commences at lerlli, would i no- 1 i2 idle to reason about the- nature of that whh has no- existence. To admit tin* nccessi of redemp ion by the blood of Christ. ai t> of regeneration by the supernatural influe j, ccs of the Moly Spirit, of something of wi o nature v.*e know nothing, and of whoso r is'enec we doub', is bad philosophy as wi * as bad th< ulogy. 1 say these things to s! o 10 I * 4 ? . tliat brother Taylor ranito' s and where I jI ' is. His students, some of litem at h a: "e : do no: take the ground assumed in his prii u J ed sermon, that infants need redemptir i ' an 1 n genera ion. When in'errogated I jfj ectdesias ieal bodies, " Have infants souls f. ila* answer sometimes is. " 1 do no! kt.ow 'V i * i Jo tiiev need rolcmption ?*' "1 do it vi ir j >d I the snids of i:IL iiifauts. by nature g | ! i oiii. f'hurf-i iii.icrijittr,) why is il said in I.til v ! i: I.?tli versa coiic-ming John t!i" Baptist, *.?] a i he si;..li he tilled w'ih tiie /Ad// Chnxt, even f'-i e Jtf.i i.uj/tri'.i ir/mih W:;s tlier : nothing in i n not me which necd-nt the norr Tliajj hill'tenees it ' the Iloiv Spirit .1 sits Chi 1st uxxumril hour r. uoliiic, i mean human natrre, as it original i'- came from 1}i> forming ham! or its gro^t C.-eat/ lc and thrrelore it is said in l.uka i. entli v *r? a "Tlt T- fore also, ifmt holy thivj which shall h> born of thee, shali he called the Son of (tor to llmiift;! notnre, tho* corrupt and d< [-raved. a v , li ds!e to go aistrav. nui'i /?? soifi i}i-:d from f - i!i?t!:n'< ir on/j. What an im'iieeinoiit here *? to j-ioiiM moth' rs. to drdirate th'-;r infant o ?r ; s;?ntig to < ?o I, t >hear the::t on t!? ir !; ?: !> t'c.? t?i t'ir?".e of (io."." !. V ?X le know.*' "Uejjcnorath li'*' "1 do not know.'" I . jc "is it proper lo pray lor them ?*' "1 do : :c not know.'' * What is tlic meaning of such < and such tex's ?*' "I do not know.''?j 4 iv .Now I do no' wn'iili'i' t!i;it ministers arc 1 | j ^ ^ ' ss i ?*?!.?rni: ?! at the New-Haven Theology.? I f if i* n- Inlcrroitntor: > !.k<; thos nhove \\*ii aiwavs ^ u- j!)" |nr ! ? his students, when examined l?y t ?r i'{ i ec. l.-sias ;c:d ho I i s. And since the alarm i t in j o easion-d l?y the recent speculations, I'i > ' auti.' ipa'o that ministers wili he I>eiior pre- ^ io (> more critical an ! sensitive than ever * i . . . j. j oil tlivse points. Ami if Dr. Tavlorj ? i:. ; < ani.?>: luinish Ids pupils w;t!i plain answers, i a- 'and at as wcrs, too, that shall comport with > :??; ins printed sermon, I think they wili he in a t .11 j wurs predicament than ever. j J a j I have just receive J the last number of j t i Christian Spec'at' r. and liarv y's and i li \ panipls!'is iss : . ! on commence. I !o in n: day. I have read them through, hut ? in | h ivj not ;:i:i or room to give my thoughts ; " [y 1 .>ii pap* r. I farv- y lias adopted nearly my ; !' s. vr-.v.s, and Taylor in some places admi.s,; j< ......I i!w... .....i.i. tl.i.m \/i\i' |.ii ml. ' (I I- | I l.H II (I^iIiII n j'.i i; III' .!: .1vi. .... ....- . - I. | m:!s lint " infants are sinners liom their. C le J b:r h," (p. A!iij tills is in perh'ct ac- i 1 d | cordnnco with ids admissua that they have h w souly? " need redemption by Christ"?"re-ii i- geri-Ta'ion by tlie I lu!y spirit." An.! now J s why hosiia'e ?? admit t!:at clealli in* (heir f it y J ease is ' by sin.'' I5ut ties he will not ad-, 'J nt { mil, but tries !o evade it. and fa prove their; s :e innocence refers :o Dent. i. DO: " More- tl i- over your lifle ones, which ye said sliouid ! n ef j i)" a prey, and your children, which in that I f a j day had no knowledge Ictwccn good and ' 0 !i I rv/f. tliey shall go in thither." These "lit- J A v- I i!e ones and children" were all from twenty ; <? g, years old and under. See Num. xxxii. 11. I u TIu v wore not summoned to the field of " j- battle, to go up and fake poss ss:o:i ofCa- i; naan, and hence it is said i.Vy "had no j s i- knowledge between good and ovd,"'quoad j J r- !ioc. It* that proves any tiling to brotherj c at Taylor's purpose, it proves that all mankind 0 id under twenty years of ag", are not mora! j 1 lo i agents, and are of course innocen4. He s :> quotes also, and so does Prof. Stuart, Jonah j y, iv. 11. 1 have formerly heard these same! *' v. tex's quoted fortlie same purpose, and 1 feci, a d disposed to. give the old answer. 1. It v an's c e- proof that they were infants. 2. "Cannot | "s ! discern between tlioir right liana a nil t:ie;r' J| r.t lc.T is a proverbial expression, denoting j '' l- great ignorance in aduhs, and is nowhere | I applied to infants. 3. Il is incredible that '' at Nineveh should contain 1*20,000 infants.? ! J l*. 4. It would better accord with the hook of ^ ie Jonah, and with our Lord's account of their j s 11 ignorance, to admit that the 120,000 cm-! 1 )u lanced t he entire population who re per. ted at at the preaching of Jonah, and that the city was spared on account of I heir rcprji'awe. ' :*. and not for the sake of irilan's, thus m:ik- N of | ing void their repon'mice." w . ' at I We have now arrived to a pcr o i in the l- history of the N. Haven speculations, when (: re the dissatisfuciion became quite extensive.! n in Several events occurred in the course of this L e- year, which if will he important to no ice, j J r and of which I will give von some account (I - .I--? ? ' !,1 i , MI m> ui>i io" u.i. , ?, r, Yours, very afiectionatelv, j r r, 5 ' /. r>f j From the S. C. Herald. I I 10 A! I:. Kditoi: : j i s> j li' I ho doctrine of impn'.i'ion wre ' ex- j ( s punned" from the Chris'ian system, nsjt ls an ' absurdity/' how coiilJ any sinner! v ?/ escape from the %i wrath to conn; ;v for it | < ;u will be admitted, I hope, that some do es-1 1 's cape? Did the Apostle of the (icntilcs ( v j reason and write absurdly, when he said, t l;r j ' 1 eount all things but loss that I may win t j Christ and be found in him, not having mi/ s ?? j own righteousness, which is of the fair, but c >" i tiuit which is through the faith of Christ, the j I, dl j righteousness which is of God hi/ faith."? j ?*i r* A sinner, to be saved, must be found right-' J 1,1 eotis before (loci, and the righteousness in ! i iv which he appears in ll;c presence of his | i id Judge, must he either his own or another's, j I V j ft is not, therefore, a mere question of cu-; I )n riosi'v, to inquire how we rati s and at the i I }.v j tribunal of infinite and intl -xible justice, and J i ' ! not be condemned ; btu one of solemn, vi. i .r | ; (.], p.rra.n ::nt importance, involving uo.u- t i > | ing less than our unchangeable condition ' ( gi J in a future sta'e of retribution. Now, I np- l 11 ti ,l.n llin ivlinlii frill!) i I 4 { piCiicniij ukii n iv* 11u'i>9 iiiv. iniviw i, v,n,? i , 'l' j and no Ising but {be truth," is fairly, and i t 1!' I fully, and inJclligibly sta'eJ by the Apostle J l'? in flic preceding citation, and hi' could not c >b t-ip have known f lie way of salvation, for lie c ? I? i the ' mind of Christ,*' "the spirit of the ( Lord." To deny this would he to denv ? ''' th inspiration of the Scriptures, and lie < >b. -s: bN' viotisly teaches ih?i eomfirtable doctrine 4 : ' of the implied righteousness of Jesus.? c 1 Paul seems, in the above passage, solicitous i sc tor a personal interest in the Redeemer; t x* his heart * pants alter Cod," and, casting) \ ''' away bis own righteousness as * filthy rags,' \ ,u' lie runs and hides himself "in Christ," ex- t I pec i:ig salvation by 44 the righteousness > 5b whicii is of Cod by laitli." What soil of a i righteousness musi that be which is no* the . < )n sinner's own, but which, notwithstanding, j I \v saves him ? A culprit, who has deserved j 4 9'* ' ( death, is acquitted at the bar of a holy Cod ! t j?liow ? What ph;a can the trembling t oJ j wretch prefer why the sentence of the law i I [ should not be speedily excelled.' The i kc | Scrip itres etui alone solve this ipiestiou, and > n<! i they uniibnnlv repi*esent tlie privilege of ex- t cmptloii from coiidemna'iou as i?clonging ,,s. | to those only who arc 4*in Christ Jesus," s f/; J and who are righteous by HIS righteous- I jiv ' ness. Let us examine the subject a little, I t ?!*,! and endeavor to ascertain the foundation j <. :f"- ; of the sinner's title to life. " There is," says j \ Li! (!;< Apostle, "no i'ontlemnaion to them j t whicii are in ('iirist Jesus." When Adam I c !? had eaten of the forbidden fruit, wo are told . < > he attempted to conceal hansel! from Cod j I auiomrst the trees of the garden, and cover ; I '*f> * i \ himself with !i:;-l? aves : but Ju re we learn < ' ft tak" retVj" !*' !?1 t *' Mj-vv-ft f.i' (g..} Jesus Christ, the "tret; of life of paradise:" md to cover our nakedness with the rolw; jf his righteousness. Jesus is the sinners hiding-place," and it is he of whom the >roj>hct speaks when ho says, " A man shall )0 a hiding-place from the wind, and a Co. ert from the tempos'; as rivers of water in i dry place, and as the shadow of a great ock in a weary land/' Truly, "the Lord s our refuse?of what shali we be afraid ?" i\'c are told, tiiat the Jewish high pries', vho was a type of Christ, wore upon Iris ucasNplate twelve stones, on which the lames of the twelve tribes were engraved; o that when ho appeared before (jod, all lit; people of Israel appeared with him.? flu's was evidently designed to show us, that ho "High Priest of our profession" has icliovers in his heart, through the love he 7 O . . on.) il.'it In. mill tuiliovorc nrr? '"?il lUt'lll j turn m?u n\> mi*< i/viivftviw v%?v illy on?! beforo Mod: and tliat be nppearug them, all believers have appeared with lim. Hence the Aposde says, " We thus udge, that if one died for all, then were all leadand that the church is the body of Christ, fur says lie, "(.Iod gave him to Ik: lead over all tilings to the church, which is lis body, fha fatness of him that fillcth all :i all " The connection subsisting between esus Christ and his people, is represented 1 the Oracles of Tru'h by nmny terms, and y various sitnili'iidcs. First. ii is reprectiled by being in bim.?" I am in my Fn. Iter, and you in me, and I in you.** uft n v man be in Christ, he is a i:'av uro." liirist is said to "dwell in us;"' to du?!' " in ur hearts by faith." "lie that eat A. mv lesh and drinkelh my blood dwelled: i.. m-.-, nd I in him." "As many as have ! en np iz'-tl into Chris, have put on Chris-. Wc are partakers of Christ." " lie I * > joined !o the Lord is one Spur," & . ' comily, it is represented by marriage, and esus Christ is called the spouse of th hureh, and as the husband and wile an* ?nlv one, "one flesh," as Adam called Z\v, flesh of his fl'-sli and bone ofliis hone, o the Apos'lo enj| Joys similar expressions ( epoetin^ Jesus CI iris' and his Church." The husband is the head of the wife, men s Christ is the head of his Church." "Men night to love their wives as their own bo I: he that lovuth his wife loveth himself, br no man ever yet hated his own flesh, nit nourished! and cherisheth it even as the jord the Church, Cor we are members of lis bo !y, and of iiisllesb, and ofliis boucs. This is a grenf mystc rv, but I speak of "irist and his C inch." It is also rcprc entcU by tiie connection oxis nig ociwceu lio stones of an edifice and llio foundation. Ve are built iij>on the foundation of the \pos l<-s and the prophets, Jl-sus Christ ^ limself being tSio chief corner stone, in vhom all the buildings, fitly framed together. rroweth unto a holy i- mp!o In the Loid." > wh.mi coming as umo a living s'oue, lisallowed indeed of men but chosen ofGod tnd precious, yc also, as lively stomrs, are milt into an hoiy temple in tlic Lord." ^gn in, \vc are said to cat the ficsh and (rink the hiood of Jesus Clirtsf. **I am lie hrcad of life, he that Cometh to me shall tevor hunger, and he that believedi on me ball never thirsv' "Except yo eat the lesh of the Son of man and drink of his jlood, ye have no life in yon." Digestion > to he bo Iy what fui.h is to the soul. Tim >ne is the means hy which food is united 0 our bodies, and tiie other that by which ve an? united to Jesus Christ. To be benTided by him he must dwell in our hears >y iiii-ii. Once more, "yo an- the body of Jhrist and members in particular," i. c. as he members of our bodies by iluirconncc. ion with the head derive Irfe, so we obtain piritimi life from Jesus Christ through the ronnection which we have with him. "Finaly? we are represented as grafted into him, ind as being planted toge'her with him. csus is the tree of life, and except we an: n him we cannot pa. take of his liic, share n the blessings of his salvation, nor escape icing con h-mned with the world of ungmlv; and we excape only because we are in lim as branches in the vine, ;is grafts in 1 stock,as s ours as a building; because we. T.Mi-d .Tfsiis. mrmlicrs of IP" ."I |M|| "I Hi< M*' ... lis body, purls ui i- s fu.incss, rr filling no to ji/rroma,) and not because we "walk iot after the llesli but after life Spirit," nor >ecause we turned of ourselves from4tvaniics to serve the living and tnio OoJ.f' lesus Christ "gives repentance;" not he. muse we took one step, or were able to take >ne in our own strength toward the kingdom >f heaven, for wo are "led bv the Spirit;" ior indulged a sincere wish, nor uttered a tingle liearv prayer for salvation; hut the Spirit ofgiaceand supination was poured >ut upon us." No?this turning and walk, ng; this wishing and praying are cousejucuces of ihe fellowship which we have vit!i the Media'or of the new Covenan4, in vliom is our "fruit fouml." We inay soy hat those persons arc a'ive who wo possessed of vc lu'i'aty 11jo on. hut it would in? V- tnie o say dial moth u is the cause i lilt.-; it is only a consequence and an eficf;so with reference to ihost? to whom 'there is no condemnation,' we would sav hat44.hey have vet nothing but Christ in hem," and that they "walk after the Spirit ind not after the flesh," but it would be irtitional,absurd, Mr. Editor, should wc as. ;ert that their walking aftelr the Spirit u;ui lie cause of their deliverance. No?no? *In the Lord have they righteousness and iirength.'^44'|',hc life which they live is by la* fui;Ji of f?&Soii of Cod." If the Apos. le's Meaning bo that he is saved in any illicit fray than by imputed righteousness, votild net Ije involve hiinsclfio a plain conradio: ion; for he says in Horn, vii: that his v.vn righteousness cano: absolve him before #od, and that his imperfections rendered iiin "guilty of death." 4,l see" says lie, "a aw in niv meinhers warring against ;l?e law ?f niv mind, and bringing me into captivity i> ';<> !nw <*f jKj'n m !voh w it lev mm: her* ?