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are no common times, when civil and religious society are convulsed, when all the powers on earth are shaken. Priestly dignity will do little in times like these. To a plain Presbyterian, what is the difference between a bishop and a presbyter? Primitive, Scriptural, ardent piety, holy and heavenly zeal, spending, and being spent for Christ, become one so highly preferred. There must be many more holy and heavenly men in the Church of England than Archbishop Sumner; men who would abominate infidel geology, and not go to a geological dinner with all the commons and nobles of proud England; or else she must be a poor Church, (Rev. iii. 14-22 ) Is Puseyism to be tolerated, or even named, in a Church of Christ? Is the once reformed Church of England, the Church of Edward VI., Lady Jane Grey, and Lord Guilford Dudley, the Church of Cranmer, Hooper, Latimer, Ridley, to vanish like a falling star? Had Edward VI. lived seventy years, and acted like another Hezekiah and Josiah, what might she not have attained? But now, to run with railway speed to the great whore of Babylon, (Rev. xvii., xviii. ;) and our prime ministers, Peels and Russells, and our Chancellors, Lyndhurst, Cottenham; Archbishops Sumner and Musgrave acting as engineers, if they be all geologists, and not resisting to the death the rapid encroachments of Popery, (2 Sam. i. 20.) The Pope and Papists are, no doubt, viewing it askance with extreme delight, as Satan triumphed after he had wrought the ruin of mankind. When Cardinal Pole, in bloody Mary's reign, invited the Parliament of England to reconcile themselves and the kingdom to the Apostolic See, both houses voted an address to Philip and Mary, and prayed their Majesties to intercede with the Holy Father for the absolution and forgiveness of their penitent subjects. The Legate gave them absolution; and Pope Julius III. said it was an unexampled instance of his felicity, to receive thanks from the English, for allowing them to do what he ought to give them thanks for performing. Let any man consider the indifference, the infidelity, the regarding all religions alike; and secure (if Popery could be the least credited) the titles, places, and pensions, and if it could be done, the lives of all, during and after the transition in Church and State, and say, how many would be refractory. Not one of the believers of infidel geology, Churchmen, or Dissenters. Dr. S. himself has challenged Powell's soundness in the faith repeatedly. In his Connection of Natural and Divine Truth, he challenges his deplorable mistake in his notion of Calvinism, and his serious theological errors, (p. 194.) All the subjects on which these men write, are heterogeneous

all blending truth with error-all returning again into Egypt, -into irreligion, infidelity, and Popery. How has the Doctor addressed these gentlemen? Is it not as unbelievers, or infidels? We did not need Mr. Booth's information; but it tallies with his earnest appeal, and Vernon Harcourt's undisguised attack. Every page of the Doctor's confirms it. Gen i. and Exod. xx. 11, are directly opposed to geological science. Every fact in Moses' account of the days, is denied by him; every fact of the flood. And what kind of creation of the world does he admit when man was created ?—a subsidence and elevation—a perfect burlesque upon Scripture. Then take his nebular hypothesis; then, that God originally gave being to the primordial elements, and these made the world. How far does this differ from the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which some person, in to-day's Advertiser, has tried to fasten on Robert Chambers? The writer of the Vestiges is, unquestionably, a materialist; but so are all geologians; only they think, that though they garble and contradict the Bible, when they acknowledge a Supreme Creator in their own way, they are safe. It is a silly, a senseless, a vicious subterfuge. The author of the Vestiges seems more honest and straightfor ,ward. There is not one of them but will land with him. The Bible must be received, and believed, and obeyed, as it is written, independently of all science; and if geology be placed after the flood, no science will ever contradict it. Mr. Miller admits God could do it at the flood. God says he did do it, (Gen. vi. 13; ix. 11;) and certain we are, there never was water to do it at any other time. Their gratuitous assertions, and assumptions, and inferences, and inductions, from the effects of the flood, are not worth contradiction. The day is not distant when God will arise, and His enemies be scattered. And what are they opposing to the Bible-Six or 7000 molluscs, a buccinum, 120 species, one of which is commonly called whelk; a cypræa, or tiger cowry, or an ostrea oyster, 130 species; corallines encrinites, analogues of crab and lobster, (p. 417.) Take all Mr. Miller's six or seven creations, and, excepting the elephant, what do they amount to, that God's Word should, for them, be disputed, doomed, and destroyed! Mr. Lyell, who Mr. Miller, or Dr. P. Smith, calls a Christian, and a member of the Church of England, does not go farther. He has written a pretty good book of travels in America; but as for his geology, Dr. Smith's distinct regions for zoology do not surpass him; for the plants did not need to be congregated either at the creation or the flood. Botany and zoology, at these two epochs, were entirely distinct, and have been so ever

since. How the animals were dispersed and collected, and dispersed again, it is not our business to account for; but we know the Almighty could do it, and on His Word we implicitly rest. We have nearly done with Dr. Smith; and we ask, Is he to be credited, or God's Word? For he has not made them agree; and none after him need attempt it. Mr. Wight and Dr. Alexander, are just an echo of him. There are several passages still to be gleaned up, that we may do him full justice.

All organized matter, that is, everything that has life, vegetable and animal, is formed upon a plan which renders death necessary, or something equivalent to death. The first step to life in the corculum of a vegetable seed, or the atomic rudiment of the animal body, in both cases, so minute and recondite, as to be inaccessible to human cognizance, commences a course of changes which imply an inevitable termination. The mysterious principle of corporal life, is universally supported by the agency of death. From dead organic matter, the living structure derives its necessary supplies. Some persons have dreamed of sustaining animal life, by exclusively vegetable food; ignorant that, in every leaf, or root, or fruit, which they feed upon, and in every drop of water which they drink, they put to death myriads of living creatures, whose bodies are as curiously and wonderfully made as our own, which were full of animation and agility, and enjoyed their mode and period of existence as really and effectively, under the bountiful care of Him who is good to all, as the stately elephant, the majestic horse, or man, the earthly lord of all, (pp. 94, 518.) Geology unfolds to us similar scenes upon the most magnificent scale, and filling the recesses of an unfathomable antiquity. Few of the formations above the micaceous slate, are destitute of the remains of animals, and in a less degree, which is easily accounted for, of vegetables; but the larger part of those formations is filled with such remains, constituting, in some cases, nearly the entire substance of rocks, which are hundreds and thousands of feet in thickness, and many miles in extent. Some of the Egyptian pyramids are built of Nummulitic limestone, itself entirely composed of chambered shells of very small size, and of exquisite construction, (pp. 95, 518.) In the Oolite and Lias rocks, which come under the chalk, and overlie the New Red Sandstone, rock salt, variegated marles, and magnesian limestone, where they occur, are found the skeletons of formidable creatures, some of gigantic size, formed for swimming in the sea, and crawling near the shore,-the Ichthyosauri, and Plesiosauri,

and others, some of which Ansted exhibited on his Diagrams. The witling Paine called the Bible prophets lying rascals; but the tables are now turned; and it is the philosophic geologians that affirm, assert, conjecture, infer on, without the least foundation, testimony, or evidence; but taking the works of God-the remains of the flood-and ascribing them to nature, secondary causes, and anything rather than the first Great Cause of all. Dr. P. Smith talks, or writes away, about a state of innocence as a state of sinfulness,-creation, through all its ramifications, rational and irrational, before the fall as after,-erring, as the Saviour said in another case, because he did not know, or believe the Scriptures, or the power of God, (Matth. xxii. 29.) We most heartily ask pardon of him and Mr. Miller, and all we may seem to have treated ungentlemanly, uncourteously, unclerically, or unchristianly; but they do provoke by reckless, unfounded assertion. They never quote the Bible in proof of what they say; but to contradict, or dilute, or alter, or qualify it. God has magnified His Word above all His name, (Psal. cxxxviii. 2.) God rested on the seventh day from all His works, (Heb. iv. 4 ;) and when an apostle mentions this, the works of Creation and Providence must be those chiefly mentioned. (The whole works of God, except the crowning one of redemption, are nothing to His Word,-nothing in his estimation, nothing in ours. Earth, air, water, and fire, and all the strata, and all the animals, what are they to us, compared with Eternal Life? Till geologians pare the works of God-till they make them agree with the Word, making the Word the unquestionable standard-and till they exhibit to us testimony, and Divine testimony, as far back as Mr. Miller can go, we reckon all their evidence, or proof, or demonstration, not equal to the chaff that flies before the wind. The dandelion seed, or the gossamer, outweighs it.) Not only the characters of the recent animal creation; but those of races which have occupied the earth through past periods of immeasurable duration, demonstrate it to have been the will of the all-wise Creator, that life and death should minister to each other, throughout the whole extent of the animal tribes: both in the actual condition of nature, and in those states of our world which are past, but have left their monuments inscribed with characters that cannot be mistaken, (pp. 96, 518.) (Man had no authority to eat animal food before the flood, and it was not eaten by Seth's descendants, nor by Cain's, till they intermarried; but we have no evidence that it was eaten at

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They did not require it. The earth was different, and

them also. Soil, climate, surface, animal constitution,—all were different. The grants (Gen. i. 29, 30; ix. 2, 3) are very different from the same Proprietor.) Learned writers have not perceived the absence of any logical connection between the universality of historical tradition, and a geographic universality of the deluge itself. Immense pains have been taken, and very laudably, to collect the traditions of tribes and nations, deposing to the fact of an overwhelming deluge in the days of their remotest ancestors; and it has been hence concluded, since those traditions existed in every quarter of the globe, that the deluge had belonged to every region. (It has left unequivocal marks in drift, boulders, gravel, in Africa, Asia, Australia, Jamaica, America, Europe, Hailes' Quarry, Edinburgh Links, and the Grange Cemetery.)

But it seems to have been forgotten, that each of those traditionary and historical notices referred to one and the same locality-the seat of the family of Noah-the cradle of the human race. (If it was true about Noah, it was true about the universal deluge, and all the animals collected with him in the ark. You cannot be allowed to take the flood to serve you in one case, and reject it in another. We have no objection to all these referring to one locality, and them carrying them with them; but they saw the effects, or thought they saw them, where they went. The animals did the same; but dont you dry up the flood, unless in so far as answers yourself. You are either awfully deceived, or determined, or wicked. You talk about the fear of God. For shame, sir; I will leave your book, not to gentlemen like the venerable and estimable Lord President Boyle, who, after Lords Wood, Cockburn, Medwin, Forbes, Moncrieff, Mackenzie, Justice Clerk Hope. We want only Fullerton, Jeffrey, Cunninghame, Murray, Ivory, Robertson, to comprehend the whole; and they would all have agreed in the aged President's language, in Graham . Moxey, that the words in the Act, in the case of a spiritshop, cellar, vault, or other similar place, were to be read according to their plain, ordinary common sense meaning. I do not leave it to the able advocates, whose names I chiefly took from their boxes in 1843. I will refer your book to a company of competent gipsies, horse-jockies, or thimbleriggers, and ask if you treat Revelation, or even tradition, with respect or reverence, or the fear of God.) The progress of population and dispersion, however rapid we may suppose it, could never have been such as would establish any correct idea of geographical distance from the recollection of space travelled over. The connection of this distinguished event in the history of