inviolate!--We nevertheless see not unfrequently a Scholar of King's among the successful competitors for those prizes, which are open to the whole University" and we verily believe that there are not wanting some, even among the few members of that princely establishment, who would gladly have exchanged the antiquated right of ease, for the honourable race of distinction, had their lot not been cast for them among "The distant spires and antique towers Where grateful science still adores Her Henry's holy shade;" but who have never had the resolution to forego the rich table and stately masion of "Kings," for the narrow staircase and cold dinner of a Sizar at Trinity, which their poverty might have made the only ladder to distinction in the mathematical and classical tripos; though by that ascent they might soon have climbed to a fellowship in the noblest literary society in the world. For there science bows to literature, whilst discipline leads them both hand in hand, in silken bands to the altar of religion. And the true value of science and literature, as well as of the honours which they bring, is found when they are consecrated to God and his glory:when they increase men's usefulness as ministers and members of society, either by the influence they give, or the help they render. The Clergy, especially, having free intercourse with all ranks and classes, from the palace to the cottage, can never want respect, if they are not wanting to themselves and it is a very well-known fact, that men are in general very much the sort of persons they were when they left the University. Their standing in the scale of mind is there determined; and the busy avocations of active life afford them little opportunity to enter on new departments of study, or extend their attainments in old ones: for the small additions that are made by professional men to their stock of knowledge in after life, scarcely supply the decays of memory, or keep pace with the changes of things. It is only therefore upon the stores of a well-spent youth, made practical by experience, that men can draw in the actual conflict of life; and which they must wage chiefly with vigour derived from the gymnasia of their preparatory course. And not the least advantage of a scientific course is thus admirably specified by a philosophic Layman :* "An extensive acquaintance with Nature and science combined with Christian principle, would also induce profound humility. The man who has made excursions through the most diversified regions of thought is deeply sensible of the little progress that he has attained: and of the vast and unbounded field of Divine Science which remains still to be explored.-When he considers the immense variety of sublime objects which the volume of inspiration exhibits, and of which he has obtained but a very faint and imperfect glimpse the comprehensive extent, and the intricate windings of the operations of Providence, and the infinite number of beings over which it presides, and how small a portion of it is open to his minute inspection-he is humbled in the dust at the view of his own insignificance; he sees himself to be a very babe in knowledge, and as it were just emerging from the gloom of ignorance into the first dawnings of light and intelligence." *The Christian Philosopher, by Thos. Dick, LL.D. C. A. H. THE PASS OF THE SCHOOLS.* "Post tot naufragia tutus." Thou mountain pass, whose heights sublime All altitudes excel ! Whose defiles, ravages of time Make more impassable. Hail to the traveller, who has found Who from "B. A.'s" exalted ground O let him say, with heartfelt glee, See where Mount Classic dauntless stands, And Mathematic's chain expands To give the passage fame. What traveller can descry Thy cloud-capt summit, nor be floor'd In vain to coach, in vain to cram, That cut a passage through the schools. * Allusion was made in the foregoing paper to the anxious period when undergraduate members of the University undergo the examination for the degree of B. A. The following jeu d'esprit may amuse some of our readers, who have passed that formidable ordeal, or who are anticipating it on behalf of themselves or their friends. These verses of good-humoured playfulness have now a melancholy interest to ourselves and many friends. They were penned when one now removed from earth had just closed his academic career. Then first we knew him, and were associated with him in the Ministry of a populous district. With great diligence, ability, and promise, he entered on the labours of his Diaconate. Ere long, unsuspected but mortal disease first interrupted, and then suspended, his ministry; and after a long period of affliction from a mysterious internal disease, he was removed from "serving God faithfully in this life," to enter the joy of his Lord. His post, among 3,000 of his fellow-sinners was vacated, to whom, as well as to a large circle of relations and friends, his memory is blessed. He and they naturally were looking forward to a long career of usefulness and Christian intercourse, when his sun declined, and went down, ere it was yet noon. How should the amiable, the esteemed, the healthy, and the active, even in youth and early manhood remember, that the night may be at hand in which no man_can work! Thermopyla was famed of old For deeds of prowess wrought; Compared with those, whose lifted hands Then bring a wreath of laurels now, Has fought a passage through the Schools. The passage of the Alps is climb'd By many a daring wight, And books are writ, and prints design'd, To shew its steeps aright. And those, who have to Snowdon been, But mountain passes, Welsh or Swiss, OXONIAN. DUGDALE'S REVIEW OF THE GREAT REBELLION, IN HIS FORTYTHIRD CHAPTER*. HAVING now finished this narrative, with as much brevity as I well could do, whereby it hath been fully made evident, by what artifices this seeming godly generation did at first get power into their cruel hands; that is to say, their many specious declarations and solemn promises for the defence *This work of the great antiquarian, Sir William Dugdale, Knt., has the following title: "A short view of the late troubles in England, briefly setting forth their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion. As also some parallel thereof with the Barons' wars in the time of King Henry III. But chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reigns of Henry III. and Henry IV. late Kings of that realm. Oxford, Folio, 1681." Dugdale was born in Warwickshire, 1605, educated at St. John's Oxford, made pursuivant at arms, accompanied Charles I. in several engagements, and became M. A. 1642. On the ruin of the royal cause he compounded for his estate, settled in London, and completed his Monasticon Anglicarum in 3 vols. folio. At the Restoration he was made Norroy, and afterwards Garter, King at arms, and was knighted, and died 1686. He wrote histories of Warwickshire, and St. Paul's Cathedral; History of Embanking and Draining; Origines juridicales, or memoirs of the English laws; the Baronage of England, the ancient usage of bearing arms, &c. The work from which the above extract is made is little known, but may be read with profitable warning in these days. We are obliged to our correspondent R.A.H. for drawing our attention to it, and shall hope and believe that these extracts will be acceptable. Presbyterianism and Puritanism have been, and from present appearances will endeavour again to be, as actively hostile to the Church as Popery has been, is, and will be.-ED. of the Protestant religion; the laws of the land; the liberties of the subject, and privileges of Parliament, I shall now crave leave to make some short observations thereon, and give most ample instances of their contrary actings in every of these; even in those very times in which their Dagon of Presbytery was visibly triumphant; and first, as to the Protestant religion. Their actings against the Protestant Religion.-After they had, under pretence of great danger, by a Jesuitical party, of destroying the Protestant religion, framed a protestation (1641, May 3) for preserving the same, as it was expressed in the doctrine of the Church of England; which protestation, the farther to satisfy the people of their own integrity, was solemnly taken by all the members, and ordered (May 4) to be printed, and sent down into the several counties; within four days after, they made an explanation thereof, May 12; viz., that by the true reformed Protestant religion was meant so far as it was opposite to Popery, and that the said words were not to be extended to the maintenance of any form, discipline, or government, nor of any rules or ceremonies of the said Church of England; and having given themselves such latitude, by that their afterexplanation, viz. not to defend the Protestant religion, as it stood established by law, and was expressed in the XXXIX. Articles; but as it was repugnant to Popery, and taught perhaps by all Brownists, Anabaptists, Familists, and other sectaries, which made way for all that brood to join with them. They then ordered (May 21) that no minister should take any oath at institution, but what should be warranted by scripture; and soon after fell into debate for the extirpation of episcopacy. Then ordered that no service should be read, nor psalm sung in going procession. Next they voted (June 11) that the government of the Church of England by archbishops, bishops, &c., had been found, by a long experience, to be a great impediment to the perfect reformation and growth of religion, and was very prejudicial to the civil government of this kingdom; as also, July 15, that the archiepiscopal and episcopal jurisdiction should be exercised by themselves; and brought in a bill for abolishing the cross in baptism, the surplice, bowing at the name of Jesus, standing up at the gospel, &c.; nevertheless, to set up lectures. Likewise (July 30), that whosoever should refuse to take the protestation should be held unfit to bear office in the church or state, conceiving it to be a true testimony--for that was their expression to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. And within four days after, August 3, voted thirteen bishops delinquents, with desire that they might be impeached, as authors of sedition, for having a hand in the late canons. Lecturers were forced upon the loyal parochial Clergy, and supported by a voluntary contribution, "to poison the people with anti-monarchical principles, under a seeming devout and holy purpose to advance and promote the preaching of the gospel after the pattern of Geneva," Dugdale. Those men did an infinite deal of mischiefthey set the people against their own ministers, promoted dissatisfaction and ill-will, and led to the multiplication of excitement; which ended in heresy and schism, and the production of all the mischiefs which afterwards befel the Church, the Monarchy, and the Constitution. A large account of the factious lecturers may be seen in Dr. Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part I. p. 16--20. Some of the sayings and doings are recorded by Dugdale in this 43 chap. R. A. H. "At an What private conferences they had about this time, in order to the extirpation of episcopacy-whereby, for want of government in the church, they might the sooner bring all to confusion-take their own testimony: assembly of about a hundred, at Mr. Calamy's,* a London priest, about a petition against the bishops; it being insisted on, that heresies would farther spread if bishops were put down, the priests thereupon sent for Mr. Green and Mr. Spenser-one of whom was a felt-maker-of the separate congregations, to desire them, for a time, they would suspend their open meetings, and be more private in their practice, in regard that their public meeting was an obstacle to the suppression of the bishops; but afterwards they might have free liberty of their practice." The words were uttered by Mr. Calamy, who was afterwards so violent against their toleration.† : To hasten universal confusion, the commons appointed-Sep. 8,1641--the pulling down of rails about communion tables, and the removing of such tables giving liberty by a special order to the inhabitants anywhere, throughout the kingdom, to erect lectures, whereby mechanicks and illiterate men were set up to the infinite scandal of religion, and increase of schism. And, when the house of Lords, discerning these licentious and irreverent courses, made a public order-Sep. 9th-enjoining the due observation of the Book of Common Prayer in all Churches, without alteration, the House of Commons, by means of the prevalent party therein, in opposition thereto, and extenuation thereof, declared, that but eleven of the Lords assented to that order; and that nine refused, ordering-Sep. 28th-that their declarations therein should be dispersed and read, throughout all the Churchs in England. It can hardly be imagined what strange effects these their practices in the House of Commons did in a short time produce; one of their own party then acknowledging in print: "That all government, and discipline of the Church was laid in her grave; and all the putridinous vermin of bold schismaticks and frantic sectaries glory in her ashes; making the fall thereof their own rising, to mount the pulpits," &c.‡ And another of them crying out, in these words : Alas! your poor Church is oppressed, and who layeth hand to help? the plague of heresy is amongst you, and you have no power to keep the sick from the whole. The wolves that were wont to lie in the woods, are come into your sheep-fold, and roar in the holy congregation. O thou Shepherd of Israel, why hast thou broken down the hedge of this thy vine-yard, which thy right hand hath planted? the boar of the wood, and the wild beast of the forest do devour||. Thereupon many good people beginning to whisper their fears of that which shortly after happened, these subtile foxes, to drive their great work with the less suspicion, in their grand remonstrance of the 15th of Dec., 66 * This Mr. Calamy, a Puritan Clergyman-who is chronicled amongst the Bartholo mew sufferers of 1662,-was a very violent demagogue. In his apology against Burton, published in the year 1646, Calamy writes, my house was a receptacle for godly ministers in the worst of times, here was the remonstrance framed against the prelates; here were all meetings," &c. R. A. H. Sacred Synodical Decretal, &c. for the apprehension of Young Martin Mar Priest, p. 12. Martin's Echo, p. 8, where the Presbyterian is set orth complaining against the Independent, in a Sermon of Dr. Burgess, Nov. 5th, 1641. p. 6C. || Ephraim Paget, Heresy, p. 41. |