flating them with vanity, ambition, and "all uncharitableness;" carrying Ministers of the Gospel forward, in a wild career, to disturb the peace and ruin the families of their conscientious brethren by arts and exertions that would dishonor the followers of Mahomet; and sometimes he over-runs the country in the form of irreligious Tracts, or Pamphlets, filled with groundless calumnies, or Preachers of discord, calling themselves Ministers of Peace! We have seen him in all these forms, and many others: we have traced him, in his odious progress, from district to distrist: we have entered the once happy homes which he has changed into abodes of sorrow: we have beheld enlightened, virtuous, venerable Ministers withering under his malignant grasp : we have witnessed the severing of long-tried friendships, and the disjointing of the whole frame of society-we have looked upon all these, and entertained a doubt whether Persecution, in his ancient robes of flame and blood, was really more hateful, or destructive, than in his modern garb of saintly and hollow profession! Tell us not that in these there is no persecution, because the body is not bound to the stake, nor stretched upon the rack. He takes my life who taketh that which doth support life ;' and those who unjustly deprive a faithful minister of the affections of his people, by misrepresentations, take away what he values above life itself! There is a torture of the mind not less awful than that of the body.'

UNITARIAN DEDICATION, ORDINATIONS, &c.

April 28. The new Unitarian Church in Keene, N. H., dedicated. Introductory prayer and reading of the scriptures, by Mr Barrett of Boston; Dedicatory prayer, by Dr Bancroft of Worcester; Sermon, by Mr Sullivan of Keene, from John viii, 32, And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free;' Concluding prayer, by Mr Abbot of Peterborough.

May 19. Mr William Newell, of the Theological School at Cambridge, ordained as Pastor of the first Congregational Church and Society in Cambridge. Introductory prayer, by Mr Francis of Watertown; Reading of the Scriptures, by Mr Stetson of Medford ; Sermon, from 1 Cor. xvi, 14, Let all your things be done with charity,' by Mr Greenwood of Boston; Ordaining prayer, by Mr Parkman of Boston; Charge, by Dr Flint of Salem; Right hand of Fellowship, by Mr Barlow of Lynn; Address to the Society, by Mr Young of Boston; Concluding prayer, by Mr Walker of Charles

town.

May 19. Mr John Fessenden, late a Tutor in Harvard University, ordained as Minister of the First Congregational Church and Society in Deerfield. Introductory prayer, and reading of the Scriptures, by Mr Bailey of Greenfield; Sermon, by Dr Lowell of Boston, from Rom. xiv, 22, 'Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God;' Ordaining prayer, by Mr Rogers

of Bernardston; Charge, by Dr Willard, formerly of Deerfield, now of Hingham; Right hand of Fellowship, by Mr Noyes of Brookfield; Address to the Society, by Mr Lamson of Dedham ; Concluding prayer, by Mr

Barrett of Boston.

May 20. Mr Amos Clarke ordained as associate Pastor with Mr Townsend, of the First Congregational Church and Society in Sherburne. Introductory prayer, by Mr Ripley of Waltham ; Reading of the Scriptures, by Mr Thompson of Natick; Sermon, by Dr Kendall of Plymouth, from Acts iii, 26, Unto you first, God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities;' Ordaining prayer, by Mr Ritchie of Needham; Charge, by Dr Pierce of Brookline; Right Hand of Fellowship, by Mr Sanger of Dover; Concluding prayer, by Mr White of Dedham.

May 23. Mr Beede, late Pastor of the First Congregational Church and Society in Wilton, N. H., commenced his labors as Minister of the flourishing Unitarian Society in Eastport, Me.

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INDEX.

Ecclesiastical polity, no mode of
it prescribed by the Saviour, 50
Episcopius, expelled the Synod
of Dort, and banished, 171
Excitement in religion too exclu-
sively sought by many, 227, 228
Exhibition of a school of young la-
dies, lines on, 122, 123
'Everlasting Father,' how the
phrase is applied to Christ, 79,
80

F.

Fathers, early, not accurate critics,
8-their opinions entitled to lit-
tle reverence, ib.-their trinity
essentially different from the
modern doctrine, ib.-admitted
the strict inferiority of the Son,
9-regarded him as distinct from
the Father, ib.-what they meant
by the assertion that he was of
the same substance with the
Father, ib.-never affirmed the
Father and Son to be one nu-
merically, ib.-supposed the
Son voluntarily begotten or
made, ib.-eternal only as attri-
bute of the Father, ib.-cor-

rupted the simple doctrines of
the gospel by an infusion of Pla-
tonism, 10-strictly and proper-
ly Unitarians, ib.-in what sense
they applied the term God to
the Son, 112, note.
Faith, profession of it necessary
to constitute a Christian, 210, et
seqq.-test adopted by the ex-
clusive sect arbitrary and falla-
cious, 211-faith required by Je-
sus and his apostles, 211-213-
by the primitive church, 213-
214-decisions of the catholic
church, 215-opinions of Protes-
tant Trinitarians, 216-220-Uni-
tarians receive all necessary ar-
ticles, 221-an enlightened and
pure, how acquired, 20
France, religious state and pros-

pects of, 143, 144-moral effect
of the revolution in, 145
Fundamental doctrines, no cata-
logue of them can ever be made
out, 52-55

G.

Garden of Gethsemane, our Sa-
viour's distress in, 113-122.
God, importance of just ideas of,
271-erroneous views of his
agency, 271, et seqq-the proper
object of christian worship 28-
30-love to, not precluded by
his invisibility. 276-means of
cultivating it, 35, et seqq.

God, how the term was used in an-
cient times, 77-sometimes
equivalent to hero, or poten-
tate, 78-in what sense applied
to the Saviour by the early Fa-
thers, 112, note
Grace, means of, 241-249
Great minds candid and charita-
ble, 168

Grotius commends the liberality
of the ancient church, 217, 218
-cordemned to perpetual im-
prisonment, 171

H.
Hales, John, 169
Hare, Bp. his character of William
Whiston, 23-25
He that is not against us is on
our part,' 38, et seqq.