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! the benefits that came by the breaking of his body, and shedding his blood for our sins on the cross.

F. Why, doth not Christ speak these words, Take, eat, this is my body? Require you any plainer words? Doth he not say it is his body?

L. J.-I grant he saith so; and so he saith, I am the vine, I am the door but he is never the more the door nor the vine. Doth not St. Paul say, He calleth things that are not, as though they were? God for bid that I should say that I eat the very natural body and blood of Christ; for then either I should pluck away my redemption, or else there were two bodies, or two Christs. One body was tormented on the cross, and if they did eat another body, then had he two bodies; or if his body were eaten, then was it not broken on the cross; or if it were broken on the cross, it was not eaten of his disciples.

When Feckenham said, on departing, that he was sorry for her; for he was sure they two should never meet: "True it is," said she, "we shall never meet, except God turn your heart; for I am assured unless you repent, and turn to God, you are in an evil case; and I pray God, in the bowels of his mercy, to send you his Holy Spirit."

It has been mentioned before, that Mr Harding was one of Lady Jane's preceptors. It seems that in King Edward's days he was a zealous Protestant,and was not only a preacher of the Reformed Religion, but was very fervent in animating its professors to abide by it in the face of all persecution and danger. But upon the return of Popery in Queen Mary's reign, he renounced his protestantism, and became a papist; and we find him afterwards, in the time of Elizabeth, engaged in an unequal contest with Bishop Jewel, on the points of difference between the Roman and Protestant Churches. VOL. I. No. XII.

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After his apostacy, Lady Jane wrote him a letter of considerable length on his unhappy defection, from which the following are ex

tracts :-

"Wherefore hast thou taken the testament of the Lord into thy mouth? Wherefore hast thou preach. ed the law, and the will of God to others? Wherefore hast thou instructed others to be strong in Christ, when thou thyself dost now so shamefully shrink, and so horribly abuse the testament and the law of the Lord? When thou thyself preachest not to steal, yet most abominably stealest, not from men, but from God, and committest most heinous sacrilege, robbest Christ thy Lord of his right members, thy body and soul, and choosest rather to live miserably with shame to the world, than to die and gloriously with honour reign with Christ, in whom even in death is life. Why doest thou now show thyself most weak, when indeed thou oughtest to be most strong? The strength of a fort is unknown before the assault, but thou yieldest thy hold before any battery be made.

"But thou wilt say, I will not break Unity. What! not the unity of Satan and his members? not the unity of darkness? the agreement of Antichrist and his adherents? Nay, thou deceiveth thyself with the fond imagination of such an unity as is among the enemies of Christ. Were not the false prophets in an unity? Were not Joseph's brethren and Jacob's sons in an unity? Were not the heathen, as the Amalekites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in an unity? Doth not King David testify, convenerunt in unum adversus Dominum?" Yea, thieves, murderers, conspirators have their unity.

"Deceive not thyself with the glittering and glorious name of unity, for Antichrist hath his unity, not yet in deed, but in name. The a

greement of ill men is not an unity, but a conspiracy. Thou hast heard some threatenings, some cursings, and some admonitions out of the Scriptures to those that love themselves above Christ. Thou hast heard also the sharp and biting words to those that deny him for love of life.

"Disdain not to come again with the lost Son, seeing you have so wandered with him. Remember the horrible history of Julian of old, and the lamentable case of Spyra of late, whose case, methinks, should yet be so green in your remembrance, that being a thing of our time, you should fear the like inconvenience, seeing you are fallen into the like offence" Her letter to her father, whose feelings may readily be supposed to have been of the most painful kind, as his ambition had been the principal cause of the untimely death of a creature so lovely and accomplished, was of the most tender and consolatory kind. Some judgment may be formed of the spirit of christian resignation which breathes through it, by the concluding sentence. "And thus, good father, I have opened to you the state in which I presently stand, whose death at hand, although to you perhaps it may seem right woful, to me there is nothing that can be more welcome, than from this vale of misery to aspire to that heavenly throne of all joy and pleasure with Christ our Saviour: in whose stedfast faith, if it may be lawful for the daughter to write to the father, the Lord that hitherto hath strengthened you, so continue you, that at the last we may meet in heaven with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."

The prayer which she drew up for her own use in her time of trouble, is such as would have become the spirit of a martyr, desiring to depart, and be with Christ. Clear and Scriptural views of the justice and goodness of God-humility the

most profound for her own unworthiness-entire reliance on the merits and intercession of Christ for pardon, and supplications for divine aid to support her through her trials, form the leading traits of this excellent prayer. It is, indeed, more in the style of an Apostle, than of a lady of only eighteen years of age.

It may not be displeasing to the reader, to hear the judgment of Bishop Burnet, of this extraordinary woman. "She read the Scriptures much," says he, " and had attained great knowledge in divinity. But with all these advantages of birth and parts, she was so humble, so gentle, and pious, that all people both admired and loved her. She had a mind wonderfully raised above the world; and at the age when others are but imbibing the notions of philosophy, she had attained to the practice of the highest precepts of it. She was neither lifted up with the hope of a crown, nor cast down, when she saw her palace made afterwards her prison, but carried herself with an equal temper of mind in those great inequalities of fortune, that so suddenly exalted and depressed her."

On the scaffold she addressed the spectators in the following speech:

"My Lords, and you good Christian people which come to see me die-I am under a law, and by that law, as a never-erring judge, I am condemned to die, not for any thing I have offended the Queen's majesty, for I will wash my hands guiltless thereof, and deliver to my God a soul as pure from such trespass, as innocence from injustice, but only for that I consented to the thing 1 was forced unto, constraint making the law believe I did that which I never understood. Notwithstanding, I have offended Almighty God in that I have followed over-much the lusts of my own flesh, and the pleasures of this wretched world;

reither have I lived according to the knowledge that God hath given me, for which cause God hath appointed me to this kind of death, and that most worthily according to my deserts: howbeit I thank him heartily that he hath given me time to repent of my sins here in this world, and to reconcile myself to my Redeemer, whom my former vanities had in a great measure displeased. Wherefore, my lords, and all you good Christian people, I most earnestly desire you all to pray with me, and for me, while I am yet alive, that God of his infinite goodness and mercy will forgive my sins, how numberless and how grievous soever, against him; and I beseech you all to bear me witness that I here die a true Christian woman, professing and avouching from my soul that I trust to be saved by the blood, passion, and merits of Jesus Christ, casting far behind me all the works and merits of mine own actions, as things so short of the true duty I owe, that I quake to think how much they may stand up against me."

Having delivered this speech, she kneeled down, and repeated the fifty-first psalm in a most devout manner from beginning to end; after which she arose, and gave her gloves and her handkerchief to her woman, and her prayer-book to Sir John Bridges, the lieutenant of the tower, who had treated her with much kindness during her confinement. The executioner kneeling down, requested her forgiveness, which she most willingly gave him. Upon this he desired her to stand upon the straw, which bringing her in sight of the block, she said, "I pray dispatch me quickly." Then kneeling down, she asked, "Will you take it off before I lay me down?" To which the executioner replied, "No, madam.?? She then tied her handker

chief about her eyes, and feeling for the block, said, "What shall I do? where is it?" When one of the standers-by guided her to it, she laid her head down upon the block, and said, "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit," and immediately the executioner at one stroke severed her head from her body.

Thus fell this most accomplished lady in the morning of life, by the decree of one, in whose reign blood was poured out like water. "A true christian faith," as one observes, "having uniformly produced a christian life, with what triumph did it trample on the sting of death, and spread a glory round the Lady Janc, that eclipsed the faint lustre of the superstitious and cruel Queen Mary on her throne?" None of either sex ever exhibited perhaps at so early an age, talents so various, and acquirements so profound; in none have the graces of pure religion ever shore with a milder lustre.

Religion

Although few of her sex can hope to rival her in the display of intellectual powers, yet that which constituted the chief glory of her character, is attainable by all is so far from being the peculiar province of those in elevated rank, that "not many wise, not many noble are called." Happily for mankind, great intellectual endowments are not required to constitute the approved Christian: too often indeed they are associated with a proud and selfconfident spirit, which too hastily ranks the religion of Jesus in the number of vulgar errors. What a lesson is afforded to characters so constituted, by the example of LADY JANE GREY!

I am unwilling to close these remarks without first inserting the following verses, written by her in the place of her confinement, and it is said with a pin :

Non aliena putes homini quæ obtingere possunt : Sors hodierna mihi cras erat illa tibi.

In English.

Think not, O mortal! vainly gay,
That thou from human woes art free ;
The bitter cup I drink to-day,
To-morrow may be drunk by thee.

Deo juvante nil nocet livor malus,
Et non juvante, nil juvat labor gravis.
Post tenebras spero lucem.

Harmless all malice, if our God is nigh;
Fruitless all pains, if he his help deny.
Patient I pass these gloomy hours away,
And wait the morning of eternal day.

Bishop's College, Calculla.

It is now we believe about four or five years, since the English Authorities decided on giving a Bishop to their vast possessions in India. The Rev T. F. Middleton was designated to that responsible office; and since his arrival in Calcutta, has shown by his unwearied activity in projecting and maturing plans of literary and religious improvement, that he is not insensible of the great responsibility attached to his station. He had not been long instuted in office before he discerned the benefits which would redound to the cause of Christianity in the East, by the establishment of a college at Calcutta for the education of young men, both Natives, and of English descent. In the projected establishment, he had principally in view, the supply of the English possessions in India with Christian Missionaries for the conversion of the heathen; and so well have his efforts been seconded both in India and in England. that he was enabled, on the 15th of December, 1820, to lay the foundation of the Calcutta Mission College.

His Lordship commenced with a prayer for a blessing on the work then to be taken in hand; and after a series of appropriate services, the first stone was laid by the Bishop, pronouncing; "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, one God blessed forever, I lay this the foundation-stone of the Episcopal Mission College of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to be commonly called and known as Bishop's College, near Calcutta." His Lordship then proceeded, "0 Father Almighty, through whose aid we have now commenced this work of charity, we bless thee that we have lived to this day. O prosper the work to its conclusion: and grant that so many of of us as thy providence may preserve to witness its solemn dedication, may join together in heart and in spirit in praising thy name, and in adoring thy mercy, and in supplicating thy favour to this house evermore; through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen."

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Within the last three years, the society for building and enlarging Churches, by the expenditure of £40,082, has provided seats, by building new Chapels and enlarging Churches, for the accommodation of 49,838 members of the Church of England, who were before excluded from attending her worship by the want of room. Of this increased accommodation, 36.632 sittings are free and unappropriated.

"The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance "

A monument has been lately erected in St. George's Church, New York, to the memory of the late Rev, James W. Eastburn, whose

Mr. Thomas Warner was admitted to the Order of Deacons in Trinity Church, New-Haven, on Friday the 16th November, and to that of Priests on Sunday the 18th of the same month.

(We understand Mr. Warner has been invited to assume the Rectorship of a church in the island of St. Croix, and that he has already sailed for the place of his destination.)

CONSECRATION.

On the 4th of October, the new Church in Hamden was consecrated to the service of God by the Right Rev. Bishop Brownell. Morning Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Croswell-the Sermon by the Bish

Several of the neighbouring op. clergy were present and assisting.

The edifice is a chaste and commodious building, highly creditable to the zeal and liberality of the parish. It received the name of Grace Church.

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