Hear how I was wedded,

And miscarried then;
Was afterwards widowed,
And married again.

"My first husband Sin,
Though of a fair face,

Was ugly within,

Deceitful and base.

"Alarm'd at my state,
But lost what to do,

A divorce to get,

To Moses I flew.

My case when he knew it,
He said with a curse,
The Law could not do it,

It must have its course."

The Old Man is crucified, the Prince woos and wins. her,

“Then married we were
Without more delay,
Friend Moses was there,
And gave me away."

This is bad enough:- the more loathsome parts I leave in their own dunghill.

An interesting account of James Hutton, who published the Moravian hymns, and is more than once mentioned in this volume, may be seen in the great collection of Literary Anecdotes by Mr. Nichols. (Vol. iii. p. 435.)

NOTE XXI. Page 205.

Certain whimsical Opinions which might entitle Count Zinzendorf to a conspicuous Place in the History of Heresy.

THESE opinions are expressed in one of their hymns from the German.

"Here I on matters come indeed:

O God assist me to proceed
My noble architect!

The holy marriage state to sing,
Among the chiefest points a thing

Which thou thyself didst e'er project.

"Oh yes! ye dear souls mark it well
Who now within your bodies' cell

The name of husbands bear.

Till we in worlds that ever last,

Of Lamb's brides and of Lamb's wives chaste
Alone the song and speech shall hear.

"The Saviour by eternal choice

Is of the souls ere sex did rise,

The Lord and husband known;
They for this end were surely made,
To sleep in his arms undismay'd;
Strictly the souls are his alone.

"And in the Spirit's realm and land
As all lies in one master's hand,

One husband too's confest;

The souls be there as Queene doth see,

And they as sisters mutually,

Far as of spirits can be traced.

"Indeed the sovereign good and love
Could not such solitude approve

For his weak bride, that she
Alone till her high nuptial day
Should tire and pine herself away,
And but in faith betrothed be.

"So he divided her in two,

The weaker forth detached must go ;
While the superior mind

And also greater strength and might
For tastes of God's vicegerent fit

On the one side remain'd behind.

"Yet even the weaker part was seen
A Princess in her air and mien;
And that she like might be,
She was permitted to possess,
As her peculiar gift of grace,
Love and resign'd fidelity."

Hymn 283.

Thus much may be quoted without offence to decency.

NOTE XXII. Page 254.

Assurance.

BAXTER had none of this assurance.

Good man as he

was, he knew himself far from perfection, and had his doubts and his fears. But "it much increased his peace," says Calamy, "to find others in the like condition. He found his case had nothing singular, being called by the providence of God to the comforting of others who had the same complaints. While he answered their doubts, he answered his own, and the charity he was constrained to exercise towards them redounded to himself, and insensibly

abated his disturbance. And yet after all he was glad of probability instead of undoubted certainty."

The Franciscans have produced one of their revelations against this notion of assurance: it occurs in the life of the Beata Margarita de Cortona, written with Franciscan fidelity by her confessor F. Juncta de Bevagna. The passage is part of a dialogue. "Et Dominus ad eam; Tu credis firmiter, et fateris, quod unus Deus in substantia sit, Pater et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus? Et Margarita respondit; Sicut ego credo te unum in essentiá et trinum in personis, ita donares mihi de promissis plenam securitatem. Et Dominus ad eam: Filia tu non es habitura dum vixeris, illam plenam, quam requiris cum lacrymis, securitatem, quousque locavero te in gloriâ regni mei. Et Margarita respondit; Tenuistisne, Domine, sanctos viros in his dubiis, in quibus tenetis me? Et Dominus ad eam; Sanctis meis in tormentis dedi fortitudinem, securitatem vero plenam non habuerunt, nisi in patriá.” — Acta Sanctorum. 22d Feb. p. 321.

NOTE XXIII. Page 258.

Thomas Haliburton.

MR. WESLEY was perhaps induced to pronounce so high and extravagant an eulogium upon the memoirs of this excellent man by a description of his "deliverance from temptation," which accorded perfectly with one of the leading doctrines of Methodism. "After describing a state of extreme mental anguish, Mr. Haliburton says, "I was quite overcome, neither able to fight nor flee, when the Lord passed by me, and made this time a time of love. I was, as I remember, at secret prayer when He discovered Himself to me; when He let me see that there are "forgivenesses with him, and mercy, and plenteous redemption.”—Before this I knew the letter only, but now the words were spirit and life: a burning light by them shone into my mind, and gave me not merely some notional knowledge, but an experimental knowledge of the glory of

And vastly different

God in the face of Jesus Christ. this was from all the notions I had before had of the same truths. It shone from heaven: it was not a spark kindled by my own endeavours, but it shone suddenly about me: it came by a heavenly means, the Word: it opened heaven and discovered heavenly things; and its whole tendency was heaven-ward. It was a true light, giving true manifestations of the one God, the one Mediator between God and man, and a true view of my state with respect to God, not according to my foolish imaginations. It was a distinct and clear light, not only representing spiritual things, but manifesting them in their glory, and in their comely order. It set all things in their due line of subordination to God, and gave distinct views of their genuine tendency. It was a satisfying light: the soul absolutely rested upon the discoveries it made: it was assured of them; it could not doubt if it saw, or if the things were so as it represented them. It was a quickening, refreshing, healing light: it arose with healing in its wings. It was a powerful light: it dissipated that thick darkness which overspread my mind, and made all those frightful temptations that before tormented me, instantly flee before it. Lastly, it was a composing light: it did not, like a flash of lightning, fill the soul with fear and amazement, but it quieted my mind, and gave me the full and free use of all my faculties. I need not give a larger account of this light, for no words can give a notion of light to the blind: and he that has eyes (at least while he sees it) will need no words to describe it."

This is a high mystic strain. But in the account of his death there are passages of the truest and finest feeling. When a long illness had well nigh done its work, he said, "I could not believe that I could have borne, and borne cheerfully, this rod so long. This is a miracle, pain without pain! Blessed be God that ever I was born. I have a father, a mother, and ten brothers and sisters in Heaven, and I shall be the eleventh! O blessed be the day that ever I was born!"-A few hours before he