where the "former things" which now have power to vex and disturb us "shall be passed away for ever." As every day brings me nearer to the term of my probation, so, by the blessing of God, and the guidance of His Spirit, may I be prepared more and more for that awful hour!

25, Seventeenth Sun. after Trinity.—Performed some devotions at home; and then sat down to Davison on Primitive Sacrifice. Davison has this disadvantage with me, that I am so prepossessed against the notion of the human origin of sacrifice, that his arguments must be very powerful to persuade me to adopt his opinion. I pray that I may read with candour; and with the same disposition which, I have no doubt, guided him in this discussion, an earnest desire to discover the truth. Kennicot argues, that (in the case of our first parents' clothing) Adam would not have dared to kill any of God's creatures without His command; and to this, I think, it might be added, that for a Eucharistic Sacrifice, and Davison contends that the sacrifices of Cain and Abel were no other, and no more,man would have been very little likely to kill an animal, but rather to present it before the altar, as Cain presented his fruits, adorned with garlands and tokens of thanksgiving. In Gen. vii., the word rendered "clean" is on—in Lev. xi. 5., the word rendered "unclean,” is ; this is of importance.

In what manner it pleased God to signify His "respect unto Abel and his offering," we are not distinctly told; that whatever the token were, it was at once understood, is evident from the history. In the xx. Psalm, the words "accept thy burnt sacrifice," are Tnb and are often referred to on this subject. In the case of Gideon's sacrifice, Judges vi. 21., and Elijah's, 1 Kings xviii. 38. this divine acceptance was testified by miraculous fire to destroy the sacrifice; and this is evidently alluded to in the passage quoted from the xx. Psalm, for the word "in cineres redegit," see Simonis Dict. Heb.-Chald. subjoined to the first volume of his edition of the Hebrew Bible.

signifies רשן

The second lesson of the afternoon on this day, is 1 Cor. x. In the 9th verse are these words, "Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents." On referring to the history, Numbers xxi. 5. we read that the offence was committed against Jehovah. Is it possible for any thing but Socinian blindness and perverseness, to avoid the necessary inference? In the 7th verse of this chapter, the Tail was evidently a sacred dance performed after the fashion of idolatry, learnt in Egypt, around the altar of the false divinity, and succeeding to a "feast upon the sacrifice." "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play," Tailsw.

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September 29.-Before I was up the Bishop of L—ff called very kindly, and left his speech on the Catholic Question,-the best, in my opinion, which was delivered in the House of Lords, and very greatly superior to any thing pronounced in the House of Commons.

October 1.-Mens mea multis angoribus vexata nequit tranquillari. Tibi O Deus-Tibi O Pater Domini nostri ac Redemtoris Iesu Christi me meaque omnia qualiacunque submisse dico. Pacem da. Κύριε ἐλέησον.

2.-Whitby renders p', Rom. v. 12, "in whom," and his support of this interpretation seems to me to be very well reasoned. "For that all have sinned," appears to furnish no illustration of the sentence, that "sin entered into the world, and death by sin," in consequence of the offence of "one man." I do not see how

this difficulty is to be got over, if you abide by the common version in our bibles. our bibles. In the margin, indeed, the phrase is rendered as Whitby renders it, ip, in whom, and all is consequential and clear.

On the 11th verse, 2 Cor. i. Whitby well observes, "In all his Epistles we have not one petition of the like nature directed to any saint departed; whereas, had he thought them capable of hearing him, and their addresses more effectual for the same ends, we may reasonably think his zeal would have prompted him to put

up his requests to them, and leave us some example of this nature."

The prohibition of blood to Noah appears to me as implying, at that time, the doctrine clearly stated in Leviticus xvii, "For the life of the flesh is the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." How far this accords with the notion of the human origin of bloody sacrifice, is to be considered by those who hold this notion.

5, Wednesday. - I am much more seriously reduced than I had any notion of. Perhaps the voyage may do me some service. In judiciis Tuæ misericordiæ sis memor oro, O Deus! Converte me, et convertar.

6. My health appears fast breaking. May He who alone can dispose the heart, fit me for the world whither I believe myself to be approaching. I feel myself very weak to-day. They tell me that such protracted debility has, in most cases, attended the epidemic with which I have been afflicted. Perhaps this may be so with me. But, perhaps, likewise, it is rather a token of approaching death. I would, with all the devotion of my heart and soul, resign myself to the will of God. I know that were I to be judged as I deserve, my destiny would be miserable indeed. But give me grace, O Lord,

to cast myself on thy mercy in Christ Jesus; give me faith in him, and in his meritorious and ever blessed atonement; strengthen my faith, my hope, my charity; and prepare me, by that power wherewith thou alone disposest and rulest the heart and spirit of man, to rejoice in my deliverance from the sin and sorrow of the world; and make me meet for admission into thy everlasting kingdom, for thy mercies' sake in thy blessed Son, our Lord and Saviour.

7th.—I retire to my chamber this night, much better in health than I have been since this disorder first seized me. How are my thanks and praises due to the ever gracious mercy of God! Keep me, oh keep me mindful of thy goodness, O Lord, and of the uncertainty of life; and as thy goodness restores me to my ordinary health, so may thy grace enable me to employ the respite rightly, and to "set my house in order," that I may be ready to depart when it is thy blessed will. Amen.

October 8th.-What a different meaning has the word "recovery" at twenty-five, and at sixty. This complaint has shaken me to a degree which I shall, perhaps, never recover.

9th. The second lesson of this morning is Mark xii. In the 11th verse the pronoun aürŋ has puzzled some good Greek scholars; according to Greek construction it should be rOUTO. It is, in fact, a Hebraism; it is the Hebrew fem. pronoun taken, without change, from Ps.