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" M3STPEL1EP., JAX. 22, lS2i. edition) who quotes Ken:;;!, a fiuhop, : Sinai, is made, the ejmVocn: con S: 1 have received the copy (p,TO),hat Jarne. 1st" h. curved . doe. of ,he : APos,l ;jo y-ddto which yoa politely . forwarded. Of a jrWaiea observance of the Sunday, the decisive bearing 6f this phenome- chiefly by means of the Puritans, non on important questions in geology, . ground ihroaghout I rely more on vour judgment than the Kingdom, and that the people, ovrn . . ... !, Woro,i0hnrrprf npWiitv. rest before they labour. " The present s a very inquisitive , Wfiu"uu' " 7" '"" 7-- r-- - y Sllbject an example of . .. 1 such snorts and rerreationsis contn-. We see in this suojeci ant w'i'w' age, ana 11s researcnt-s oi laic iwe cause it was the day of the resurrection. Thus the Son is exalted above the F a- j ',..,-., kr Yihp .tewW mis Cor- role: nnd seem .to ntir, s. I . Ian. thnn with the appointment and your correspondent refers a tune: See Tacit, aim. lib 2, buetpn. abhoned opening doors to l iber, c. 30- dui ptriMps iic i3 .00 tjui there is another max r;. acquainted wit! our naturalisation . . - a : , mtowhu 1 has the son .s " i' d " I pay of Chaplains by mnaie of Con- he would probably here bur,, GSreWdr 8--- "I--- ! . f -rtf. i "a w mU3t VMl . ,.,, his subiect.'W nve communicated the ratherthan man.' Mere isiivC .3 day j but these persons, by a s ngula. h ,s sb t, t Mahome--: doctrine'that has ooen J .S ! U JVU V- f - j - UiC HA,. . tans, or as He will liaveit, limom-De- ; inc wnaesi lie eniiousness.' I " uci i-uiuui v.. '-'"o w " 1 . . . .. .r 1 tine rr a tip Will Kive I, ju!1iiii'xj- iiht nurst m fiiuuusness I.' snch sports and recreations. contri-1 We see n th.s fJ?P' ' Perharjs in his he ill in- I doctrine to which evevJ V?'. Ken aclently d reced to .he pritni- be.t both to their health and the.r , tha W'.y form us thai the Dutch are in ,ioSses- j every Reformer' and everv f. : , lr amusement. Festivals which, in other ! theological controvery ns mvuiveu inform Rehe resort fr inst:fino: " 5rom uve cumuoMiion ana sirucmrc 01 uui ... .1 j j- 1 :e and. oeihaos tne sum 01 uuiwhu. . j ....oitu: ,. 1. . " r ' ... .. If-.linrr 1 .V v.. c onrl rtTam art nartlv rIHirn- ' mo; fh.be, .0 far as it ha, been penetra. " ' phUo.ophic enquirer w-uld be disposed ted and to the processes by wh.c .sue- . 'e P PI P I r difficulty by a ceeuing cnanges nave oee.i proouceu. - - r ,. . The discoveries already mide are en courainc, but vast room is left for , and society, were nere loianv appro- 10 tui mc nw . I priated to the offices of religion, and verynatural supposition, that the Sab . i .. .1 .:n i : i .u Leu.. ....cniti rlv was iielectet the industry and sacity of geologists. This issulTriently shewn by the oppo site theories which have been espous ed ; thf one of the n regarding water, the other fire, as the great agent em ployed by nature in her work. "It may well be expected that this hemisphere, wjirh ha been least ex plored, will yield its full proportion of materials towards a satisfactory sys tem. Your zealous efforts to share in the contributions do credit to.your love of truth, devotion to the cause of sci ence, and 1 wish thy may be rewar ded with the success they promise, and Tvith all the present gratifications to which they entitle you. With friend Jv respect, "JAMES MADISON. " Thomas JefTerson returns his thanks to Mr. Schoolcraft for the me moir he has brf.t so kind as to. send liim on the f'osil iree of the river des-Iiimk-s. U is a Vrtlu-ible element towanU the knowledge we wish to ob tain of the ciut of the globe e in habit, , anu its crust alone is immedi ately interesting to us. We are only to gua.d against drawing our conclu sions deeper than we d"i. .Mr. School craft is entitled to the thanks of the luvrrs of science lor the preservation of this fact; he his those of Th J. villi his salutations of esteem and re- M ct. Mmticcllt, Jan. 2(3, 1S2 2. COMMUNICATIONS. served to nourish those sullen and gloomy contemplations, to which the people were, of themselves, so unfor tunately subject. The King imagined It would be easy to infuse cheerfulness into this dark spirit of devotion. He issued a proclamation, to allow and encoutage, after divine service, all kinds of lawful games, and by his au thority he endeavoured to give sanc tion to a practice which his subjects, (the Puritans,) regarded as the utmost instance of profaneness and impiety." Quotes here Franklyn, p. 31. The writer in vour last observes that i.:m Mar Xthnmptans have a fast the pretext under which n . inns mo "' I . - i jj"itan called the Ramadan, which lhey pro- overthrew both Church and ta bablv reartl full as holy as Lent or England and in Scotland. KnovV' Kpfnrmpr nmfprf with cr: , r "i'jriru3ic Sundav. Tiie difficulty of compre kention he complains of in this part of his communication, is not perhaps very James attempted to introduce sports; of a new Sabbath would have been on Sunday; but it appears from this . useless or inconvenient or nnpractica thar thevhail existed before, had been ble. LThev already had a Sabbath unltuefully interrupted by the Puritans ! which as citizens and subjects oi that and that it was the purpose of James ' ceco.jomv, they were obliged io keej bath of the seventh day was neglected out of opposition to the Jews, and auo- CiS jt is denied that Paley has said surprising in h.m i the first Christians did not observe.the Hp observes that Chr.Mians are pre Wesl,allsee.,Nor commarfdecj to fltlZt did Christ or his Apostles deliver, that nance oW and jetip. . . . r ...n,,,,.,,,) f.i thPir ihave nt done it Aor Luther nor we Know oi , cmy v. - ..... i.k-rt. I think mirsiied vaiviii, iiui . ........ -- that maxim, when they commenced leserve which none their reliUi)us. opposition to powers that liad oruameu a umncm umumi. Poperv was overthrown in Scotland, and the Presbyterian form of worship and di.sdpline'established on its ruins, bv a Parlinmpiit which assembled and acted without the consent of the Queen df Scots, and this too after they had disciules for a discontinuance upon thatdav of the common offices of their professions : a will see reason to wonder at, or to blame as a Wefvct in the institution, who consider that io the primitive con dition of christi uiiiv, the observance to restore them. I may here remark, that the appel- I and did keen. It was n.U therefore probable that Christ wouhi enjoin ano- lation cf Sabbath, as given to Suftday, ther day of rest in conjunction with seems arbitrary and an affectation of this. 7 When the new religion came Puritanism. " The House of Com- forth; into the gentile world, converts mons (under Charles lst,and which to it were, for the -most; part, m.jde i 7-: - i;v..v ?irts t , a pride in insulting from thb phu and in the grossest manner, J, ir'-y mistress," the beauteous and 'j'?? Queen of Scots, and showed iinv that bigotry can as effectually fre the sentiments of chivalry as'thosf charity. e He professes ignorance of thow f who think through unbelievers' b' T lies their directest path to heavtn' And yet he must be aware that sorT such principle las been acted on Christians. What prompted the wars of the reformatio! neai y all over K rope ? Upon what principle have lit retics been put to death ? L f.N IT rtn forcibly made themselves masters of written,' saith Baifour of Burley f3 the Kinndom. Mary, who was then j 4 that( thou shalt be zealous eveVfo in France,! denied the validity of" a i slaying The tree, it is settled mm Parliament thus assembled, and; re fused her sanction to those statutes. (jut the Protestants gave themselves little concern about their Queen's re fusal Hume Hist. 2, 5SG. : The same fault is not perhaps to befound To the Editors of the Ccntincl. Gentlemen, It seems to be the fate of writers who nttack a upeitition or expose an er ror, to be pelted with the filth and a'use of every scribbler whose preju dices they encounter Such appears to have been the treatment of Atticns In vour paper of the 13th ins. l y the correspondent who ajyicars first in your columns. He is, I conceive, an illustration of the remark that religious prejudices are more resentful than Others, and dogmatical in proportion to their absurdity. Of-him it niay.be justly remarked, as of the Covenanters of former times, that the zeal of tiod's house hath eaten up bjth his eood tense and good breeding, if indeed he ever possessed any share of either. In his commencement, he displays ei.her his own weakness, or that of his Caue, by an invidious and contempti ble resort to the " argum"iitum ad hommem," the argument that secta rians have so often ued, and which they have enforced by religious wars and peisecutiuc rlfiics. Atticusmay thank. his far that such things are at rrrsnit unknown in our country. l.iur correspondent is concerned lest .Amicus should have as great an effect c . other weak minds as he appears to h h"iJ upon that ot your cou-espon-i!t ti ; but Atticus hopes if the re are others equally weak with vour corres po ident. tiu re are few that are equal ly in ilijrnant. The charge of outhfulness or juve niiny is anion the first he makes against Atticus. I o this 1 shall reply u:h Pitt, that u I will not undertake to determine whether youth can be justly imputed to any man as a re proach, but affirm that the wretch who after h-ivim "ten the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blun c. r, and whoe ase has only added obiti.iccy to stupidity may justly. be come the object oi contempt ; and de serves not that any function should shield him from insult. Vojr correspondent fancies that he lias sufficiently established his portion and h; learniriv!, together with the ig norance of Atljcus, hen 'e reaturts t' say titere is scarcely a writer of any eminence among the clergy of the es labfihed church who does not differ from iIr. Paley in regard to the obli gation of the Sabbath. I would here remark, that whatever may be the opinions of later writers, the obligation of the Jewish Sabbath upon Christians i : . .n. -.is. ..-! litre Vtrn thm H jceii i If-in-l V U'llil li;iV'f IVaSII-CIHIIf UUIlldUlWII cavirv. .c. ...... ...v v.-v. . . -----:j - - PI, ftnrw for the strict observance of Sunday, not their lime and labour nt their , in tue l.hSi.. .c.kj j w.iich the Puritans afecttd to call own disposal, and it was 'scarcely h, for most of them seem devout y the Sabbath, and which they sane- j to be expected that unbelieving mas- to have submitted and assented to lifted bv the most melancholy in-te,s and magistrates would permit all the changes of . faith and form dolence" Hume 111,401. " It'is to J their lab Hirers to rest from their work : which he desired or ordained - con i ,u. ,i:n- . i .i-n- .Mimri Hv (.rfii't rivi! oo- vocation of the Clergy in his reign ur renidr ncu iiiai mc umcitui cj- i v . , - ...... pellations of this festival were, at that time, known symbols of the dif ferent parties." Ibid. " Another expedient which the King (Charles 1st) tried in order to infuse cheerfulness into the national devotion, w is not much more successful. renewed his fathers edict for allowing sports and recreations on Sunday, to such as attended public worship; and ' he ordered his proclamation for that purpose to be publicly read by the Hergv, after divine service. 'Those who were puritanically ajfectcd refu sed obedience, and were punished," j. .iw... i. ' s uy its iruits I must, before 1 leave him,' do jus. tice to his critical or pedagogical ta. lents. He shows such skill in lT.,J giaphy and syntax, that I should sup. pose him destined for the office of schoolmaster, and would advise hinito aspire thereto. He would probably be quite exact in dotting the children's i's and crossing" ' their t's ; with the aid of a book, he might teach them to spell the nafnes of the Fathers and of veroinent indeed would have submit- formed articles of faith of which it ha , the Heretics ; and perhaps he can sing ted to the loss oi a seventh part ot tne " ,rmain,-u l"v-" ; " 1 " " " J u xuwuua public industry." P. 6)-,0. I re.jret ; were of as motley a kind as the assem thai f ha v? been compelled to make so hly itself, or rather as the King's sys- loi.C an extract the reader rw.y finish ! tern of theology, by which they were it in the original. ,ow:'as this writer ; resolved entirely to square their pnn opens wiih the assertion that this inti- ciples." and "that they weresubscri tution has t ver been lu-hK reverenced hed by every member of the assembly, as a Sabbath amon Christians, and while perhaps neithei there, nor regarded as of divine appointment ; throughout the whole Kingdom, toul.d and as il is the unequivocal opinion ' ne man be found except Henryihim ol Mr Palev that it was riot at first so self, who had adopted precisely the k, i rr- ..ncWLr,,;! u...,Kt; di)cti"iiies thev contained. I rns con- j . " . . i- . . .. ",ri"" ui JKJ u-.ic.micj, .ur imuiii, , r l I- M 'r venieus est naiuian aequiiau qoam may decide winch -opinion should pre- j uuci o. me cn.s.. v,iw,.cW.ui.ig , uriumnuodque dissolvi eo ligamine quo Crane himself. , In the end he aiTects to smilethere are lome very tristful smiles, and re thinks I do not envy him his on this occasion. Read this and then 'To supper with what appetite you may , NOTES. (1) There Is somewhere a maximof the followinglmport : Aihil tam coh- ponderate. It is a little singular that to your correspondent, was very chris- p. 457. If then the church has the critical accuracy of yvur corres ' ,ifln hut few will think it very respect his varied her creed, or her mem-i pondent should permit him to name a able. . . ! . ligatum est." Ac in tlit hers their iVith, what must we think of writer of the second centuiy among the Upon the whole, I think, that this her and of them ? Is she like other ' first Christians, or should intimate a command which Christians do not hu -an things that change with the that 4 sabbatizmg spiritual! y was doing appear more remarkable for observing ; ijg1(s Qf Connecticut. times? Such a suspicion is indeed so bodily. j man mat wnjcn maKes cnarny nie nisi but too much confirmed by the history j Your correspondent hath also dis ! of virtues. Compare them with the of the faith, its mutations and trans- ! played an uncommon erudition in our Chinese and the Turks. The Jultan migrations from the Ebionites and ! laws, by discovering that there is really ! and his Celestial Majesty hav e inoie Arians, to the ruritans and Miakers a rehSKiii enjoying the preference, and MJonusive sjiojecis tuaii any rrince y0ui second coi respondent comes of our days. lut what must we thinK entitle;! to the patronage. ol the gene- ; v. iiusienuoiu. wompaie ineui wun forlu witn an air of a revelata n concerning even the ral tievernmeut. It is in this wav. 1 : the Hindoos. 1 he rnests ol brefma (2)" I also find some edification and mote amusement in the history 'of Puritans from Knox, Kettledrum, Poundtext and Piynne, to the Ulue-i (3) Perhaps my critical friend may here discover that, Peter Pattiesoa is not a 4 Historian existence of which two uch men as suppose, that we are gradually to be Paley and Clarke, equally zealous in led and argued into submission to an the cause of truth, differ in opinion ? established priesthood. Surely this uncommon! rous, and 1 regret that his claims to ride a more; tame and yielding popu- knIohliinnfi srlmiid I,3Vp heen diminish. lace than do the Priests of Italy or ed by the ungalla.it charges he makes Spain. And how much less firm is the on hisadversarv. He is. nevertheless, We have seen in the history of the person hath before been practiced i i i hold, how much less steady the seat of !' -p.r,Lmnnv Anmnai-HH with his col- Jews the inconvenient and absurd con- the art of deducing the highest claims those who command the protestant eaue and deserves from me ptwor- sequences to which a holy Sabbath from the slenderest ! pretensions, and flocks, needs not to be told. Judged tionate'respect. If I used the weSons leads. In the Maccabean wars, they perhaps he may be nearl . connected y this rule then I should not hesitate Gf anotjier uuj not Ccill them line, suffered a thousand of their number to with that order of whom we spoke in to sa that the Turks, the Chinese tind and i think it aDoarent that heisiiitliis be slain, rather tlian do any thing in in our last as being more remarka their own defence on the Sabbath day; ble lor the extension of their own and in the final siege of Jerusalem, they claims than for the observance of those the Hindoos are the best Christians on ,.u .,;o ;th mvselft . , , J and somewhat more unfortunate, tor f laving aireaay seen theetiect upon ! if mv vvearjons were few, they were refusetl any operation on that day by of the civil power Cy the way, this , nations of that rule' of conduct laid atso"wieldy while towards his' 'latter which they might have interrupted the is one of the 4 weak' parts of Atticus' down by your correspondent of .sub- en(j ? j,e reminds me of that untartu enemy in filling up the trench." communication 'which it seems to have 1 milting to every ordinance of man for ( nale' ornan virgin who was over- I ur "int. j niJiiiiuii uj vr ib. vuuJt uv.tu iiiuulil IIUI dUVIJUUIC III tlUiiCri Ur i -" u o auric. I 10 rin ill Willie I Ul' ther to observe its efi'ects upon indivi duals. These are happily set forth in a short dialogue, furnished us by a wit ty French writer., ' he scene is laid in the island of Samos. which sornp- or. of the prevalent division among na- to denounce. lis avaient raison. I3ut t ions, of time into weeks, is an instance will he be so good as to Inform us cf the absurdity into which bias often what sect of some hundreds is the fa leads the mind. The revolution ofthe voured one ? moon in days or 4 weeks, and the , He displays again his usual learning difJerent phases she presents during , upon the subject of Lent, Laster, ojc times . changed masters between the that time, her quarters, coinciding with I assure him that though I might not Creeks, the Venetians and the Turks, our weeks, hlTord the most obvious and . be ignorant o" some of his sage dis- and where of course the subject had probable reasons for the division of ; tinctions, ye, that I pride myself less fnll occasion for this meekest of rules. upon a knowledge of such jargon "e characters are a 1 urkish (Maho than on some other subjects of human medan) 13ashaw, 'and a Greek gar learning. The rsfory, not the le- dentr. f , gends, of Saints, Marty rs, Relics and Bashaio Tiictan. 4 You sell your Heretics I think somewhat more in- fruit, friend Karpos, very dear ; h ob structive and even more pleasant than ever, it is pretty gopd pray what re tire observance of Lent or the ceremo- ligion do you profess now ?' ny of Ash-Wednesday. (2) j Karpos. 4 Why, faith, my Lord He desires that I should inform him . Bashaw, I can't very ..well- tell you who are our Turkish citizens. Is he i When oar liitle island belonged to the ignorant that there may be such ? and j Greeks, I remember I was ordered to say that stgioujmeuma proceeded only lime into months and weeks. Such is the opinion given by Cava In II, 32 note. rhilhps. in his astronomy, p. 145, observes, 44 the earlier inhabitants of the eartii reckoned their time bv the apparent motions of the moon, and followed the lunar, not the solar year." Surl. an account of the matter, I think, appears rather more rational and phi losophical than his hypothesis, that the Sabbath was instituted among men at the creation ; though perhaps for that very reason it is not so doctrinal. Philo declares, 4 The seventh day is a festival to every nation and Tasso declares 4 That witchery delights in numbers odd But your correspondent contends, that while the command to the Jews concerning the Sabbath is binding on us, the day has been changed by the fact ofthe Apostles having met on that dav for religious worship. Thus the can hardly Uc a tenet or fixed article day on which God himself rested, ol the church's creed, or how should j which he sanctified, and which he Air. Paley retain his place among them ' marked out to the Jews in the wilder- after the publication ol" his philosophy? j ncss by; the falling of the manna, and I founded by such writers as Tacitus . 1 ! I-,. . I if 9 mrt fit 1 tltr 4rPPlt ' V. n rf u-lllfW oltartvqrle f I - . I' 1 . possessed of equal privileges with him self, with the exception, of 'not being allowed to hold a particular office, to which I presume one need aspire as much as the other. I hope that our Con gress, even if they possessed the right to make distinctions among faiths, and give preference or establishment to ei ther, will never show itself less liberal than ancient Rome, who i bestowed the freedom of the city on all the Gods in the universe,' and allowed J'or a time even the Egyptian and the Jew, the ttf o most despised, and where superstitions were sometimes con- And if it be now a part of their creed the observance of whicH lie afterwards or doctrines, i must, it would seem, ! confirmed in thunders from Mount have become so since the times of j James 1st and Charles 1st. We are I By these the author means other and Saetonious, to live and woiship within their walls. They were how ever both banished together, by Tibe rious," and the confounding the Jew toIdbyMr. IJuuic,(vol J, 37, Albany christian nations, and die same nation with the Egyptian seems to have been from ton patron. I was told t'o! orav to God standing bolt upright, with my arms across, and was prohibited eating miik in Lent. Yrhen the Venetians came, our new Italian curate ordered me to say that Asiou pneuma proceed ed both from tou patrou and tou uiou, permitting me to,eat milk, and making me pray on my knees. On the return of the Greeks and their expelling the Venetians, I was obliged to renounce tou uiou and milk porridge. You have at length expelled the Greeks, and-1 hear you cry out as loud as you can, Allah ilia Allah ! For my part I no longer know what I am : but I love God with ail my heart, and sell my fruit very reasonably.' Poor Kar pos and the Clergy of Henry 8th, were excellent Christians upon this writers j whelmed and suffocated by the armour of her friends. The Knight is much mistaken m supposing that 1 regard 3ir. Paley or any othei divine, as an oracle. As tliey contradict each other most, the fairest inerence seems to be that they are tne most misguided cf mortals, tiitt seine 1 of course think more rational tnaft others. -Among these is Mr- we: .. but he, we are inWmed, 4 has been weighed in the balances ana .' I do not find however, that wan tin?. such is1 related to have been Ins fortune, in the notice that is give" him by Lempriere, who als'op. his own name with a V. v. 1 , pp serves of Paley, " that his ora ii:- 1 .k schools. for disquisition in the Universities: vet itjdid 1191 ff' 1 , its reputation without, being . j to the ce.isures of contempora" But even if Mr. P. be whoh) demned, the eircurr.stance caniip cite surprise with those whoye&sX0. somejatteiition to Ecclesiastical 1 - much too u'jei of a. w rle is the reverence t. .s I 44 When a controversy m m r. started, some people pretem J J f taintv to foretelthe issue. '" .rtf j . ontra-ry - -1 . ,o rrnSt opinion, say iney, is to plain' sense, is sure to preva' , where the general interests oi i tern require riot that decision- the reproach of heresy may , ! time, be bandied about oro disputants, it always rests at the side of' reason. Any one, in other aes.
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