that he might meet her in heaven. We shook hands with him, saying, 'Good-night, Cook, we shall hope to see you to-morrow in court.'He looked earnestly at us, and said, 'Be sure you come ; mind you do."

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Speaking of how he should feel during his trial, he said to us, 'If I could only look up and see you, I should be so happy,' which immediately inclined us to use every effort to gratify his wish.'

"The next morning at half-past eight, the under-sheriff kindly called, accompanied by a javelin man, who conducted us to the court, where our seats had been previously taken. We waited with extreme interest the moment for the prisoner's appearance, and were thankful to perceive the composure he evinced throughout the kind address of the judge, during which he was either engaged in prayer, or meditating on some portion of a book given him for the occasion, called, Baxter's Dying Thoughts.' He was observed, upon entering the court, to look around as if in search of some one, when his eyes rested on us, and seemed to express these words, 'I am satisfied." Before leaving the court, having heard the awful sentence with his usual composure and resignation, he turned round, bowed, and waving his hand to us, left the court. This was the last time we were permitted to behold him."

Our limits will not allow us to pursue the subject further, nor would our readers wish it. The task is, indeed, not the most agreeable. Suffice it to say that many familiarities of the Leicestershire women with this brutal murderer remain unrecorded. He who would read of presents of handkerchiefs, of wine, of books-of gentle glances and soft speeches lavished by persons claiming the style of modest ladies on a ferocious and brutal ruffian, must consult Mrs. Lachlan. For ourselves, we wish to extract no more than is sufficient for our purpose; and we fear we have already trespassed too far. Yet the completeness of the proof was essential, and we trust our friends will forgive. We have made out a demonstration that an insane and fanatical system is in full operation, whereby Heaven is offered as a premium for crime, and the most atrocious criminals are directed to use a confidence of tone from which a saint would abstain, except in a dying hour. How long this shall be permitted to exist may depend, under an offended Providence, on modern liberalism; still, its existence should be known. We have vindicated the female sex, in which Christianity is wont to wear her purest loveliness, from an example calculated to stain its modest beauty; we have unmasked a plan of operations which forms a guerilla auxiliary to the great scheme of calumny now in full action against the Church, and if we have done so with no sparing hand, we have only to add, in the words of Mrs. Lachlan,

"Come forth, ye BUSY WOMEN, running from house to house, to DEFAME YOUR NEIGHBOUR and to slander the absent, TO RAISE THE FALSE REPORT, to crush by your venomous words, and to kill by the poison of asps under your tongue, the hapless being WHO DOES NOT HAPPEN TO SUIT YOUR FANCY OR TO AGREE WITH YOUR OPINIONS; come forth, ye race of COWARDS, and say, whether you, only, are worthy of mercy!"

After having kissed it, the accounts say. Miss Owston's letter admits that one of the ladies kissed her hand to him!

Falmouth.

THE CLOSING YEAR.

WHEN, thoughtful at the closing year,
We cast a solemn glance behind;
And mark the terrors that appear
To shake the self-accusing mind;
How should we shrink, if God were bent
Strictly to mark our every fault!
The frail resolve; the time mispent ;
The secret sin; the idle thought!

Yet joy is ours; we hail the day
On which the Lord of life was given
To bear our guilt, to mark our way,
And spread for us the gates of Heaven.
Filled with His glory, nature's gloom
Is with celestial splendour bright:
E'en the dark portals of the tomb
Are radiant with immortal light.

Thus, when we reach the fated goal,
And every earthly hope must die-
When Conscience spreads her awful scroll
Before the sinner's glazing eye-
In that dread hour of mortal fear,
When time is fading from our view,
His love, that crowns the dying year,
Will bless the parting spirit too.

E. O.

TIME.

TYME when Death can kill no more
Shall have sandy houres in store,
From my sythe when none are free,
Eternity cannot cutt off mee.

Tyme runs on without returning,
Life is nothing but Death's morning.

The rose is fading when 'tis growing,
Life is ebing when 'tis flowing.

DEATH.

TYME hath a sythe and Death a dart,
Both the world between them part.
Tyme treads upon all mortall things,
But Death upon the harts of kings.

O Life deceitful, and soon dying,
Like a bubble, light and flying.

Every Lilly thus doth crye,
As I wither, you must dye.

THEISE messengers obscure our lives success,
Whether truth light our harts or error blind us;
First Time well spent, brings endles happiness,
Next as Death leaves us, so shall Judgment find us.
Tyme takes our Life, and post to Death doth run,
Death meets with Tyme, and so our Lives are done.

How heedful then ought wee respect our wayes,
Since two such watchmen doe on us attend;
The one to nomber all our nights and days,
The other waiting hourley for our end.
Tymes ill employment Death rewards with paine,
But use Tyme well, and Death returnes thee gaine.

Harleian MSS. 1349—on the end cover.

MURAL MONUMENT IN ST. BOTOLPH'S ALDGATE.

Under this PAVEMENT lieth
Interr'd the Body of
BENJAMIN PRATT, A.M.

For above XXI years Late Curate

of this CHURCH. He affected to End His days

In Celebacy, and departed this Life ye 3rd day of May, A. D. 1715.
RESURGAM.

These few Humble Pious words Above, were all He desired should be here Inscribed. Yet it ought not to be conceal'd that he bequeath'd to the Rt Revd Father in GOD the Ld BP of LONDON for ye Time being (only In Trust,) The perpetual Advowson of ye Rectory of ye Parish, and Parish CHURCH of GREENSTEED, juxta CHIPPIN-ONGAR in ye County of ESSEX, the First Presentation to an Intimate FRIEND, and after HIM to ye Immediate READER or most Inferiour Minister of this HIS NATIVE PARISH CHURCH for ever, and other CHURCHES Alternately which may hereafter be BUILT in this Parish; as May be Seen More at Large in His WILL.

His soul was Adorn'd with Great Steadfastness to ye most
Orthodox Principles. He was a Person of great PIETY,
LENITY & CHARITY. And in all His ACTIONS Constantly
Signalized Himself, a Zealous, Indefatigable, and most
Industrious Labourer, in ye Several Offices of His SACRED
MINISTRY. He continually endeavour'd to Illustrate his
Veneration & Esteem for the Most Glorious & Adorable
TRINITY, & His high Calling of GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.
And so He proceeded till He was Just Arriv'd

At the Prime of His Age, & then was taken from
His Labours to Receive an Exceeding Great REWARD.
THUS does He still Speak, & yet propose an EMINENT
& Illustrious Example to all His Succeeding BREthren.
NUNQUAMQ. OBLIVIONI TRaderentur.

NEW JERUSALEM LOGICIANS.

THE Swedenborgians, or luminaries of "the New Church," seem especially desirous of shining in our pages. We can, however, only afford them a glimmer. To oblige a correspondent, we admitted, a short time since, a series of objections into our miscellany, to which we gave a detailed refutation. To those whom that answer did not satisfy we despair of saying anything satisfactory. It is not therefore for the purpose of rejoinder that we notice an acrimonious critique on our observations in the journal of the New Jerusalem community, which the editor of that publication has done us the honour to send us. Our object is simply to show the kind of argumentation in vogue among the disciples of the New Jerusalem, and thence to leave our readers to infer how unlikely it is that conversions should ever be made from their ranks by the only legitimate instruments-reason and Scripture.

We had said,

"If any true Church can be a new one, Christ must have founded a false Church."

Our adversary parallels this with the following proposition :

"If any true testament can be a new testament, Moses and the prophets must have written a false testament."

That is,

If a predicate be true when applied to one subject, it must also be true when applied to every other.

Or thus:

Because,

If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than the interior and opposite :

Therefore,

If one side of a parallelogram be produced, the exterior angle is greater than the interior and opposite.

To convince such a reasoner we cannot hope; let us see whether we can explain our meaning to him.

Our proposition was an enthymeme; that is, an argument in which some propositions are suppressed, as too evident to require specification. The New Testament was given by Christ, and the Apostles acting by his authority. Of its truth therefore there could be no doubt. As little doubt could there be of the credentials of Moses and the prophets. But who was the founder of "the New Church?" Emmanuel Swedenborg, we believe; but our opponent seems to disrelish even him. However, it was certainly some person of no higher pretensions. What now becomes of the parallel? Where is the evidence that will place Swedenborg or any similar enthusiast in the authority of founder of a new Church, the superseder of Christ and his apostles?

Or, if our opponent will let us put it thus:

Moses and the prophets repeatedly declared that a New Testa

ment would come. (Deut. xviii. 18. The prophets, passim, as the Swedenborgians will acknowledge.)

Therefore, if there had been no new testament, Moses and the prophets would have written a false testament.

Christ and his apostles repeatedly declared that there should be one Church only. (John x. 16. Gal. i. 8, 9.)

Therefore, if any new Church could be true, Christ and his apostles must have founded a false Church.

One more Swedenborgian argument shall be exhibited, and we have done.

The disciples of this school explain blood in the Scriptures to mean divine doctrine. Our present opponent proves this proposition by the following parallels :

Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.

Again:

Is not the blood the life?

The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are

The light which the New Jerusalem lantern throws upon Biblical criticism and physical truth is perfectly dazzling. Manifold and wondrous are the facts, hitherto wrapt in profoundest obscurity, which start into visibility before its penetrating and disclosing blaze: as for instance:

The seven good kine are seven years. (Gen. xli. 26.)

The seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them
are seven years. (Ibid. 27.)

Therefore, seven good kine are seven thin and ill favoured kine.
I am the door. (John x. 9.)

I am the good shepherd. (Ibid. 14.)
Therefore, a door is a good shepherd.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord.
(Prov. xv. 8.)

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. (Ib.9.)
Therefore, a sacrifice is a way.

Our opponent could not see that, because there might be a sense in which blood could cleanse, and another in which doctrine could cleanse; because there might be a sense in which blood might be called life, and another in which doctrine might be called life; it did not therefore follow that blood and doctrine meant the same thing.

Were our readers desirous, as we are certain they are not, that we should enter into an elaborate refutation of all that is written against us and against Scripture in a superficial, conceited, and pragmatical age, we think these specimens of "intellectual" achievement would absolve us from any further gratification of their wishes.

LAST WORDS OF THE DYING.

GEORGE VILLIERS the younger, Duke of Buckingham, was the richest man, and one of the greatest wits in the court of Charles II.; and yet such were his vices and extravagances, that, before he died, he was reduced to poverty and general contempt. In this situation, however, he seems to have been brought to a sense of his folly, and the danger of his condition, from the letter which he wrote to Dr. Barlow, of whom he had a high opinion, on his death-bed; and which is well worth the attention of every man of pleasure and dissipation.

"Dear Doctor-I always looked upon you as a man of true virtue; I know you to be a person of sound judgment. For, however I may act in opposition to the principles of religion, or the dictates of reason, I can honestly assure you I had always the highest veneration for both. The world and I may shake hands, for I dare affirm we are heartily weary of each other. O, Doctor, what a prodigal have I been of the most valuable of all possessions-Time! I have squandered it away