weakness of Mr. Sanderson's argument, and
especially as we must yet point out to him
another sad blemish in the fifth rib argument.
It is this "we are," says Mr. S., "we are to
make no difference between them." Now, sir,
what will you say when we say, thou art the
man. We, Strict Baptists, do not make any
difference:
: we have but one way to the table
of the Lord, thus making no difference; while
you have two ways to the table, and so you
make a difference; whereas we do not make a
difference, for as we have only one Lord, and
one faith, so we have only one (ordinance of)
baptism.

Not one argument, as we before said, does Mr. Sanderson, through his address, bring against strict communion, which does not come with equal force against his own position. We will close these remarks with two more instances in his address, of the truth of this

remark.

Again, on page 11, he says, "Never was there a time in all the church's history, when we had more need of union based upon sound principles." Why, good sir, whatever are you talking about? Why this is the very reason you should give up your open communion principle, for it certainly is an unsound, because an unscriptural, principle. Admit in your first page, that strict communion was the order of the Apostles-or, which is the same thing, that all true believers in that age were baptised and now admit human invention, and yet cry aloud for more union based upon sound principles. Really, dear sir, from you ought to be kept paper, pen, and ink, that you may cease to write and learn to think.

he is a god's vicegerent, and that he is an emanation from a god; that he (the Czar) is of and from the god of this world.

Mr. Pinhorn's views of Gog and Magog are perfectly correct to a certain extent; and he has shewn that the characteristics of the Russian government answer well to Ezekiel xxx.; and apply well to the present state of things. That the latter parts of the Book of Ezekiel, from chapter xxxvii., like the latter parts of the Book of Revelation, remain yet to be fulfilled, is agreed by all respectable Christian writers; but the nature, and manner, and time of their fulfilment, is another matter; here great differences exist, and we suppose always will exist, until the time of the end, when God, who is his own Interpreter, will make it clear and plain.

It appears to us that the 37th chapter of Ezekiel, the resurrection of the dry bones, bringing Israel up out of their graves, and bringing them into their own land, had a partial, a very partial, fulfilment in their return from Babylon: and had a still farther and a more spiritual fulfilment on the day of Pentecost; but have yet to receive the more complete fulfilment in the thousand years' reign of Christ.

In page 3, he says, "We are forbidding him (the Pado-baptist) to do what God commanded him to do." Well, sir, but what are you doing in admitting him to the table? You are helping him on against that which God commands to be done. Give us, sir, one example, precept, or command, throughout the New Testament, where God commands an un- We believe the promises to be spiritual, or baptised believer to come to the table of the chiefly so, in their meaning, and that they be Lord. Therefore, in refusing him we are not long to the true new covenant people. of God, forbidding him to do what God hath command-Jew and Gentile, and that these shall be ed him to do. united into one spiritual kingdom, in a way they never yet were; (see the whole of the 11th chapter of Isaiah); and that the temple spoken of by Ezekiel will not be literal, or earthly, but spiritual, and heavenly. Some people, who have different eyes from John the Divine, do see a literal temple yet to come; but John was content that the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, should be the Temple therein, and the Light thereof. Neither do we believe that the services of Ezekiel's temple will be literally ceremonial, but that the worshipper will offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable unto God by Jesus Christ. Nor do we believe that the river is literal, but spiritual; and that the trees that are for food and medicine are the living and flourishing truths of the gospel. Nor do we believe that the literal land of Canaan is to be literally denotes that the saints of the Most High shall divided as described by Ezekiel; but that it have the kingdom of Christ, and possess it in the full length and breadth thereof, according to Divine ordination and settlement; and that not David literally, but David's Lord, shall be King to them all, and that the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God, and his Christ; that the mystic Sarah, the true church, shall cast out the bondwoman and every one of her sons, whether Czar, Sultan, Pope, or any one else, that would persecute those who are born after the Spirit; that the true church shall have her turn of being mistress of the world, and shall govern peacefully; and that kings and queens, instead of being masters and mistresses over the church, shall be nurses; and, like other nurses, if they are unkind to the little ones, or take too much upon themselves, or begin to eat and drink with the drunken, they must be

RUSSIAN ANTICHRIST.

The Russian Anti-Christ: or, the Latter-day
Invasion of Gog and Magog. By Mr.

PINHORN.

THIS pamphlet consists of 41 pages, and is (of the kind) a well-written little work. The object of the writer is to prove that the Russian Empire is the Magog of Scripture. Mr. Pinhorn, therefore, employs his fine attainments as a scholar, as well as his good feeling as a lover of right and freedom, to shew that the threatenings recorded in Ezekiel, chapters xxxviii. and xxxix., belong to the Russian Empire; in which empire the Czar is as much an object of adoration as ever the Pope was in the Popedom; and although the Greek Church disowns nominally any earthly head, yet practically it does own the Czar as God's vicegerent; as an emanation from God; and that he (the Czar) is their god upon earth.

And, for ourselves, we have no doubt but

dismissed, and that not with the best of cha- | a very earnest, well-meaning, well-informed, racters either.

We take the latter part of the Book of Revelation to be both a comment upon, and something of an explanation of the latter parts of the Book of Ezekiel; so that, if the vision of John must be understood spiritually, so must the visions of Ezekiel.

But like other advantages on earth, the thousand years will end; and there will arise a king, or rather kings, that know not Joseph. Satan is again loosed, and soon shews that he is satan still; and men who could not again live a life of tyranny over the saints, until the thousand years are ended, are again stirred up to work for satan and his ways. Here it is we find Ezekiel's Gog and Magog, the number of whom are as the sand of the sea. (Rev. xx. 8). Thus, though they had been from generation to generation, even for a thousand years, restrained, yet they had not been altered; so that they are still prepared for sinning, and sinning prepares them for judgment; so both Ezekiel and John shew that the fiery judg. ments of God shall bring them to their fiery

doom.

Such is our humble opinion, advanced with diffidence, concerning the wonderful events which are to take place before that moment when the sun shall set to rise no more.

No one has written better upon the 20th of the Revelation, than has Mr. John Foreman, of Mount Zion Chapel, Hill Street, Dorset Square. If we were to get it into our sieve, we might perhaps find one or two stubble ends in it; but what would this be among so much that is luminous, instructive, refreshing and establishing? We learn from Genesis x. that Magog was the name of one

eloquent and benevolent sort of man; and if he carry out in every-day practice all he here lays down for himself, as well as for others, he certainly will be as admirable as a good religious education can make him. This sermon is of the yea and nay kind; for while in one part nothing can be done without God, yet in another part you can hardly tell whether or not he means his hearers to understand that the numbers who are to people heaven will depend more or less upon their efforts. This seems to be the meaning; and as to opening up the meaning of the text, or bringing forward those truths of the new covenant which make up a gospel ministry, or describing what that work of God in the soul is essential to make a minister, are all quite out of the question. We ought not, however, to be angry with a man for not preaching what he does not know. Still, he seems an honest, straightforward man in his way, and keeps his low doctrine bannermixed with free-will colours - pretty well hoisted; so that there is not that deception which there is in some who display the banner of doctrinal truth to a certain extent, and then all at once raise another standard, and so preach two or three gospels in one day, and perhaps in one sermon.

Not so with Mr. Newman Hall; for though he preaches a yea and nay gospel, yet the living in Jerusalem will have no difficulty in perceiving that his ministry to them would be as a dry wind of the wilderness; and may do very well for the wilderness offspring of Hagar, but not for Sarah's free-born sons and daughters.

of the sons of Japheth. This, and several Memorials af Departed Saints.

other names, which originally stood merely as individual names, become in process of time kind of mystic names, and set forth any and every power hostile to righteous freedom.

Mr. Pinhorn, therefore, in the pamphlet before us, needed not to transfer the name from the Sultan to the Czar, seeing the name evidently belongs to both, as well as to Popery and its hierarchy; and indeed to every power adverse to the gospel of the Son of God. It is not likely that the present generation will live to see even the beginning of these wonders; but we see Jesus, and if we look unto him, and run with patience the race that is set before us, we shall do well. We have our race to run, and others after us will have their race to but all must look unto Jesus.

run,

The Responsibilities of the Christian Mi-
nistry-A Sermon, delivered on Sunday
Morning, July 2, 1854. By NEWMAN HALL,
B.A., on Commencing his Ministry, at Surrey
Chapel, Blackfriars Road. London: J.
Paul.

THIS sermon was sent to us for review; and
in which sermon the author ranges, after the
manner of the Low Calvinist section of
Christendom, over the duties of their (so-
called) Christian ministry. And we think it
a well-arranged, well-preached sermon of the
kind; and does very great credit to the new
minister of Surrey Chapel. He appears to be

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF
MRS. ZIPPORAH GOFFIN,

OF GT. YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.

"THE memory of the just is blessed." This lan guage is indicative of mortality-the universal lot of mankind; for the Head of the righteous died teous must pass the same change, to reach the corporeally. He died to destroy death. The righ full blaze of everlasting love in the bright world above; and what evidentially so cheering to pilgrims, as the relation of God's grace manifested in bound souls-as the out-working of Divine grace the life and death of heaven-born, and heavenin the conviction, faith and hope of living souls? one of which has departed to be with Christ, whose name stands at the head of this paper.

Mrs. Goffin was convinced of her state as a fourteen years of age; which was chiefly produced poor, lost sinner very early in life, when about by God's Holy Spirit making use of the conversation of her godly parents, especially her dear father, who endeavored to use the means to impress the mind with eternal matters. And here into eternal things, God can and does bless the let me observe, though parents cannot give light faithful discharge of this privilege when attended to in the fear of God; and though I have often heard my dear mother speak of the awful systems of parent-made Christians, I never remember her intimating that such was the course adopted by nal matters, and leaving to God to work in and her father; but a faithful laying before her eterwork out.

favored with much intercourse and peace with
God, through the finished work of a precious
Christ, by the holy anointings of God the Holy
Ghost.

She was truly a praying Christian, much favored
with the spirit of grace and supplication, spent
much time in private with her God in prayer and
meditation, and was thus armed to be very decided
for God, his truth, and cause, and was enabled from
personal enjoyment of eternal election and pre-
destinating favour, redeeming love, and calling
grace to go forward in gospel Žion. So that though
she had many difficulties to encounter, all must
give way for the honour and glory of God. Truly
she was esteemed a "Mother in Israel."
write not to the praise of the creature, but of God,
in his grace and work in her, and by her.

We

Also another circumstance was overruled for good to the departed, who used to attend at that time the Baptist Chapel, Halesworth, Suffolk, where Mr. Gowring then broke the bread of life, whose ministry was useful to her, but to what extent we are not favoured to know. The circumstance to which we refer, is, her intensity of desire for spiritual knowledge led her to walk behind some of the old members, whose "conversation was in heaven" about spiritual things, was much blessed to her, and of which she often spoke in after days. How encouraging to those who, like the saints in Malachi's days, speak often one to another," (Mal. iii. 16), doubtless about eternal realities, or the Lord would not have hearkened and heard it with approbation. Thus Christians may get good and do good; we little know the amount of good we may be the honored instruments of doing. Say not, Christian, you cannot do anything for God; only try, by God's blessed grace, to have your conversation seasoned with salt," and good shall be the result. The dear departed was, in the order of Divine providence, removed to Yarmouth, where she became the mother of a large family, most of whom remain to revere the exhortations of a godly parent; and, settled under the ministry of Mr. Graymer; and under the ministrations of the Word, her soul was much benefited, legal fetters broken off, and light experimental, of harmonious truth, entered into, delighted in by her heaven-ed to live and rest on high; but her complaint was thirsting soul.

Our parent was baptised by Mr. G., and remained an honorable member of the old Baptist cause, till Mr. G.'s decease, when a dispute arose in the selection of his successor; and finding that half-and-half things were in the ascendant, and the power of sovereign-grace truths was for the most part departed; she was compelled to leave, and for years had no settled rest, though attending the Independent Chapel, where she often had to say and feel, "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where to find him" in the preached word, which caused her very frequently to groan and cry, that the Lord would send a true servant of Christ into those parts; and after waiting for three or four years, the Lord directed, in a very mysterious way, Mr. W. Weldon, who went down to Yarmouth, through illness, for the benefit of his health, who was found out by our dear parent, and others, who were longing for the bread of life, and induced him to preach, though he had felt he could never again open his mouth in the proclamation of a free-grace gospel, from age and infirmity. But, "The council of the Lord shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure." It is written, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing." Prov. xxv. 2.

Our departed brother's affliction was to be the means, in the hand of God, for his going to Yarmouth, and from that of pure gospel truth once again to be published in that benighted town.

Mr. W. began to preach; numbers flocked to hear; the down-cast saints lifted up their heads, and their souls were blessed and cheered; amongst whom the departed was willing to be a doorkeeper, suffer anything, through grace, for the sake of glorious gospel truth.

Our brother Weldon labored for two years or so, and after many trials for truth, departed this life in 1845, leaving behind a blessed testimony that he was gone to be with Jesus, but not without ample proof that God was with, and blessed the word; for under the preaching of Mr. W., in a great measure, Mr. Tann was brought to know himself as a poor lost sinner; was raised up into gospel hope and liberty, and to preach the word of salvation; so that when he departed, the mantle fell upon Elisha, who has occupied with usefulness the ministerial office to the lovers of a free-grace gospel in that town; and the departed was much blessed under the ministry of brother Tann, who is led much into the liberty and privileges of true believers, as well as the conflicts of the ransomed. For the most part of late years, Mrs. G. was

On the last Lord's-day but one, the departed said on parting with a friend, "I am going into the country." "What you, Mrs. G.? you never go from home, I cannot make it out." Mrs. G. replied, with a heavenly smile, "It is a long distance and a beautiful place, but you will soon know about it." The cause of death, was by an alarmi n the night, which produced partial stagnation, from which she never fully rallied, and was succeeded by fever, from which relieved, but was followed by other diseases. Her sufferings were very great for nine or ten weeks: by grace communicated, her patience was great, her soul favoursuch she could not speak but very little in her last affliction. To her family she said, "I have not any thing to say; I have endeavoured to do that, in health, by word and example, through God's grace;" and added, "Look to your steps, that they are ordered according to the gospel of Christ." To Mr. Tann, her son-in-law, who visiting her on one occassion, near the close said, (seeing her inability and suffering,)." Dear mother, what a blessing it is there is nothing to do in salvation matters-with you what hard work it would be." She replied, with an evident feeling of joy, "Why we have nothing to do with half-done things."

On the Sunday before she died, her dear daughters thought her asleep, when she burst out with gracious feeling, "Sweet! sweet! Oh, how blessed! Joys! Joys unspeakable"Haste, my Beloved, and fetch my soul home.””

And thus, almost from the first of her affliction, her dying-bed was embellished with heavenly utterances, indicating her communion with Jesus and happiness of soul.

aged 66 years, she fell asleep in the Lord without On Wednesday morning, November 1st, 1855, a sigh or groan, to inherit the kingdon of glory, and sing for ever

"Deathless principal arise,

Soar thou native of the skies;
Pearl of price, by Jesus bought,
To his glorious likeness wrought!
Go to shine before his throne,
Deck his mediatorial crown,

Made for God, to God return."

The deceased was intered in the burial ground of St. Nicholas Church on the following Tuesday, attended by a large concourse of weeping, yet rejoicing, followers, who had known her, and traveled for years in the gospel of Christ together. On the following Sunday, the funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Tann, at Salem Chapel, from the following words "As Moses lifted up the Serpant in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up," John iii. 14. This was the text from which Mr. Graymer preached when her soul was set at liberty many years before. The discourse was found to be saving to the souls of the friends at Salem, and trust time and eternity will prove it was much owned and blessed of God most high. I shall (D. v.) forward some letters of the late Mrs. G.'s, which will exhibit it is hoped the work of graces in her soul to the praise of a Triune Jehovah. JOSEPH FLORY.

Somersham.

THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS;

truth."

THE PRESENT EUROPEAN CRISIS;

66

ETC., ETC.

After a few necessary preliminaries, we are now packed in a corner of a Great Western, on a journey to Frome, Trowbridge, Chippenham, and Bath, having engaged to preach in each of those towns, if our good Master will permit.

PERHAPS but few are situated like ourselves. | the two should be the supreme divinity upon Our work is never done. This is Saturday earth, the key of a crypt in Palestine conmorning;-all the week has been spent in veniently presents itself, as a test of this labour, up to a late hour last evening, when mighty problem. The laws of a living Rewe had a glorious time in preaching from deemer, little understood, and less regarded Paul's words to the Ephesians, Stand, by both imposters, they show their fanatical therefore, having your loins girt about with zeal by a desperate struggle for the honour of guarding an empty sepulchre. It is the story of the Crusades in modern guise and under a whilst the religious wars which began at the new name, with this significant difference, that close of the eleventh, and continued to the close of the thirteenth century, were fought between Christians and Mohamedans, the religious war which disturbs the world in the middle of the nineteenth century is between Mohamedans leagued with Papal and Protestant nations on the one side, and the master of the Greek church on the other. As in the lies at the centre of conflict. The true church days of Peter the Hermit, the Holy Sepulchre ever realises a living and glorified Lord as her centre-spurious churches fight about graves. The former exulting says, 'He is not here, he such is the title of the first volume we briefly alternately trading in superstition and drunk is at the right hand of the Father.' The latter, notice. It is not a work of any value to a with the blood of the saints, sanctify their folspiritual mind, except it be to shew the con- lies and crimes by ceremonial reverence for an trast between those nations where the gospel empty tomb. God, ever true to his threatenhardly dares to enter, and our own highly-ings, as well as to his promises, has made favored, and greatly distinguished country. We may just observe that John Reynell Morell's book on "The Court the Government, and the People of Russia," is useful in the light it throws on that dark, and widespreading portion of the habitable globe.

Having received a quantity of works bearing upon the recent European movements, we feel we dare not altogether to pass them by. As we journey onward we shall look into a few of them, and what may be found calculated to be of real benefit to our readers, we shall here insert.

"RUSSIA AS IT IS:"

For general baseness of character, severity of climate, danger of situation, and deadly superstition, Russia is a painful contrast indeed.

The next is entitled, "A Sermon suggested by the Death of Nicholas," &c., &c. The text is Isaiah xiv. 16-" They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, saying: Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?" In the midst of this discourse, there is a question started, and answered, which discerning British Christians will have many thoughts upon. thisIt is

Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; all that burden themselves with it,' said his prophet Zechariah, 'shall be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth be gathered together against it.' That witness lied not. And I commit myself to this-that though it will fully arrest the attention of the nations the Jewish question has not been mooted yet, before this conflict receives a final settlement. Palestine may be 'trodden down of the Gentiles' a few years longer, but neither Rome, St. Petersburg, nor Constantinople shall ever possess it. That land cannot be sold. The God of Abraham keeps it for those to whom he has promised it; and the storms that are now smiting the earth will shortly clear the way for a second exodus for the scattered tribes of Israel and Judah. The armies of the quarrel and its causes and issues have Europe are fighting in the dark, although been predicted for more than two thousand

years.

On the somewhat eventful and rather

"WHAT LED TO THE EASTERN CONFLICT? Corrupted forms of Christianity. Stripped sudden of all its political and diplomatic labels, the ugly kernel of the thing is just this-Sacer

DEATH OF NICHOLAS,

dotal rivalry between the two great branches the same preacher speaks in the following of the apostacy, fomented by the far-seeing terms: cunning of Bonapartism. The Latin and Greek popes, having determined finally to settle the long litigated question-which of Vol. XI.-No. 123.-April, 1855.

"Nicholas came forth to the battle; he exposed not himself to the fiendish fires of the

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