which is the word that throughout the Old Testament, in the Greek version of the LXX, is used as equivalent to the Hebrew Jehovah. Him whom the apostles and evangelists called Kugo writing in the Greek, they must have called (Jehovah) had they written in the Hebrew language. The orthodox of the present day believe, because they know St John believed it, that Christ Jesus is the JEHOVAH whom the prophet Isaiah saw upon his throne the year that King Uzziah died, whose praises were the theme of the Seraphic Song, whose glory filled the temple.

The disturbed foundations of the church of Ælia are again settled. I could wish to trust them to their own solidity to withstand any future attacks. I could wish to take my final leave of this unpleasing task of hunting an uninformed uncandid adversary through the mazes of his blunders and the subterfuges of his sophistry. But I have found by the experience of this conflict, that a person once engaging in controversy is not entirely at liberty to choose for himself to what length he will carry the dispute, and when he will desist. I perceive that I was guilty of an indiscretion in discovering an early aversion to the continuance of the conMy adversary perhaps would have been less hardy in assertion and more circumspect in

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argument, had I not given him reason to expect that every assertion would pass uncontradicted, and every argument uncanvassed. Unambitious therefore as I still remain of the honour of the last word, be it however understood, that if Dr Priestley should think proper to make any further defence or any new attack, I am not pledged either to reply or to be silent.

APPENDIX.

BISHOP HORSLEY has declared, that in publishing the preceding Tracts, his object was not to bring forward any new argument in support of the divinity of our Blessed Lord, or of the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity; but to destroy the credit of an author by whom these doctrines had been attacked, by showing that as an ecclesiastical historian and Greek scholar he had no claim to such deference as had been generally paid to him in the character of a chemical philosopher. That the Bishop has incidentally added strength to the arguments by which others had defended the Catholic doctrine against the insults of infidelity and the sophistry of Unitarianism, has been gratefully acknowledged indeed by every lover of the truth as it is in Jesus; but his main object was to show, that a man may have made valuable discoveries in phy

sical science, without being entitled to implicit belief when professing to have made discoveries likewise in Christian theology.

To a superficial thinker this may appear an object unworthy of the talents and erudition which the Bishop is universally allowed to have possessed; but he who reflects how large a proportion of mankind are implicit believers, whether in the truth or in error, will view it in a different light. We talk much of the right of private judgment, and we talk well; for every man has an unquestionable right to judge for himself of the truth or falsehood of what is proposed to his belief: But with respect to the questions discussed in this volume, the only judgment which the illiterate multitude can form, is, whose report is best entitled to be implicitly adopted by them as the truth. Their education does not enable them by consulting the records of Christian antiquity to discover for themselves what was the faith of the primitive church. They must rely therefore with unbounded confidence on the testimony of such as having consulted those records make their report of that faith; and they will always place, as they ought to place, the greatest confidence in those who appear to them best entitled to it, by their reputation for learning, integrity, and the love of truth.

Dr Priestley's natural talents were unquestionable; his successful experiments had raised him high in the republic of letters, or rather of philosophy; by those who were attached to him he was extolled for his kindness and benevolence; and he took care on all occasions to boast, that as his theological opinions led neither to honour nor to emolument, he was induced to publish them solely by his love of truth. That the mere name of such a man must have decided the faith of many cannot be doubted. The vulgar know not that the love of novelty, and the ambition of becoming the founder of a sect, which sometimes steals insensibly even into the most vigorous and upright minds, are as apt to pervert the judgment as the love of money or the ambition of rank. Nor is it among the vulgar only that the authority of names supplies too often the place of argument: Philosophers themselves are all more or less partial to their own pursuits and their own theories; and the chemist who is desirous to know what was the faith of the earliest Christians, and who has not leisure to read the voluminous writings of the fathers of the church, having found that Dr Priestley's reports of his own experiments on air are entitled to the fullest credit, even when his inferences from those experiments have been untenable and absurd, not unnaturally concludes