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means of spreading more effectually his pernicious tenets, which he infused into spiritual canticles, composed for distribution among the people. In a similar way, Valentinus had propagated his Gnostic blasphemies; and the practice has been successfully adopted in more modern times. It does not appear that the works of Arius were voluminous, though he probably wrote a great number of letters in support of his heresy. There still exists an epistle written by him to Eusebius of Nicomedia, and another to Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria; as well as a Confession of Faith, which he presented to the Emperor Constantine. Some fragments, also, of a work entitled Thalia, are found in Athanasius. This work is mentioned by several authors, who describe its style as loose and effeminate; but it is doubted whether it was written in verse or prose; though the extracts in Athanasius are given in prose. It was condemned to be burnt by the council of Nice; so that subsequent writers probably knew no more of it than what they found in that Father. Tillemont supposes that he also wrote a book in defence of Christianity against the Pagans.

THE AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.

Ar a time, when the adversaries of our Established Church are continually cavilling at the Bible in use in our churches, it may be at once interesting and important to lay before the public, the explicit orders delivered to the original compilers, in the time of James I., in which it cannot fail to be observed that every care, which human foresight and ingenuity could devise, was taken, that no error should even by accident creep into a work, on the correctness of which, under God, the salvation of the human race depends.

The Rules to be observed in Translation.

1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly call'd the Bishop's Bible, to be followed, and as little altred as the truth of the originall will permitt.

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2. The names of the Prophetts and holy writers w the other names in the text to be retayned as neere as may be accordinly as the vulgarly used.

3. The old ecclesiasticall wordes to be kept, (viz.) as the word Church not to be translated congregation.

4. When a word hath diverse significations, that to be kept, wch hath bene most commonly used by the most of the ancient ffathers, being agreeable to the propriety of the place and the analogie of faith.

5. The division of chapters to be altred either not at all, or as little as may be if necessity doth require.

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6. No marginall notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of Hebrew or Greeke wordes, w cannot wth out some circumlocution so briefly and fittly be explained in the text.

7. Such quotations of places to be marginally sett downe as shall serve for fitt reference of one scripture to another.

8. Every particular man of each company to take the same chapter

or chapters, and having amended and translated them severally by himself when hee thinkes good, all to meet together, conferr w' they have done, and agree for their part w' shall stand.

9. As one company hath dispatched any one Booke in this manner they shall send it to the rest to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for his Maiesty is very careful in this point.

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19. If any company upon the review of the Booke so sent shall doubt or differ upon any place and withall send their reasons: to w' if they consent not, the difference to be compounded at the generall meeting w ch is to be of the cheife persons of each company at the end of the worke.

11. When any place of especiall obscurity is doubted of, letters to be directed by autority to any man in the land for his judgment on such a plan.

12. Letters to be sent from every Bishop to the rest of his Cleargie admonishing them of the translation in hand, and to move and charge as many as being skilfull in the tongues have taken paines in that kinde, to send his particular observations to the company either at Westminster, Cambridge, or Oxford.

13. The directors in each company to be the Deanes of Westminster and Chester for that place, and King's Professors in the Hebrew and Greeke in each University.

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14. These Translations to be used when they agree COVERDALE'S, better with the Text than the Bishop's Bible.

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Harleian MSS. 750. p. 1.

CHURCH SPOLIATION.

THE Committee appointed by the Corporation of London to inquire into the expediency of removing several Churches in the city of London, "in order to improve the streets, and thereby benefit the trade," were lately called together by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, in order to receive a communication made to his Lordship by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London.

In the conversation which took place some time ago between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, and the deputation from the Committee of the Corporation, the two Prelates expressed a wish to write to the chief magistrate, after due deliberation, their view of the subject. The following is the communication laid before the Committee :

"Lambeth Palace, Jan. 7.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London beg leave to inform the Lord Mayor that, having maturely considered the proposal on which they had the honour of conferring with his Lordship and the Deputation from the Committee of the Corporation of London, at Lambeth, and having looked at the subject in every point of view, they cannot feel themselves justified in consenting to a plan which would entrust individuals, however respectable, with the power

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of taking down an indefinite number of churches. They entertain strong objections to the demolition of buildings which have been dedicated to the service of God; and from representations which they have received, (and in particular from the parish of Allhallows the Great,) they are led to believe that they share this feeling in common with many highly respectable inhabitants of the city of London. At the same time they assure his Lordship that, should any plan be brought forward for widening and beautifying the streets of the city, with reasonable expectation of its being carried into immediate effect, they would not refuse to consider proposals in respect to any particular church which might stand in the way of any great or necessary improvements, and which might be removed without inconvenience to the parishioners, and with their consent."

As the project is still, however, by no means abandoned by the Destructives, we have collected a few memoranda of the churches enumerated in our last publication, and shall possibly, in some successive numbers, give similar notices of all the London churches. For who can tell, under the present aspect of affairs, how long a period may elapse, ere measures of even a more sweeping nature are proposed. The Dissenters have already commenced an attack upon our institutions ; and some of their prominent leaders have not hesitated to express a wish, that the churches, instead of being destroyed, should be transferred to them. For our own part, we should prefer their destruction to their desecration-we would rather, with David, fall into the hands of God, than of men. But we congratulate our readers on the new spirit that appears to be awakened in the Church. Concession and expediency are superseded by firmness and honesty of purpose. And the doctrine of" doing evil that good may arise," having by experience been proved unsound, (witness the Popish and Reform Bills,) Englishmen are becoming more sober in their judgment-more sensible of the good they actually enjoy-more doubtful of the blessings predicted by the Prophets of Expediency and Reform.

ALLHALLOWS, BREAD-STREET.

This church is situated at the corner of Bread-street and Watlingstreet, and is dedicated to all the Saints, and its situation is near to the ancient Bread-market of the city. It was originally a rectory of very ancient foundation, under the patronage of the Prior and Canons of Christ Church, Canterbury; but, since the Reformation, it was conveyed to the Archbishops of Canterbury, of which See it is one of the thirteen peculiars within the city. The old church was destroyed by the great fire in 1666, and the present edifice was erected from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, as a church for the united parishes of St. Allhallows, Bread-street, and St. John the Evangelist, the old church of which stood at the north-east corner of Friday-street and Watlingstreet. The body of the church is plain, with dressings of the Tuscan order. It is 72 feet in length, 35 in breadth, and 30 in height. It is an excellent specimen of the talents of Sir Christopher Wren in substantial and useful church building. Its present Rector is the Rev. G. T. Andrews, one of the six preachers at Canterbury, who was instituted in 1819.

ALLHALLOWS THE GREAT.

This church is situated at the north-east corner of Allhallows-lane, on the south-side of Upper Thames-street, nearly opposite the lower end of Bush-lane, Cannon-street. It derives its name from its dedication to all the saints or hallows, and its epithet, to distinguish it from an adjoining church of the same name, which is called the Less. It is also in ancient books called the More, or the greater, and ad Fonum, in the ropery, from its vicinity to some rope walks. This church was founded by the ancestors of the Despencer family, from whom it passed to the Crown, till, in 1546, Henry the Eighth gave it to Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose successors it has remained to the present day. It is a rectory, and one of the thirteen peculiars in London, belonging to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury. After the fire of London, the parish of Allhallows the Less, originally called Allhallows super cellarium, from being built on arched vaults or cellars, was united to Allhallows the Great, and the present church, built from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, erected for the use of both parishes. Its present Rector is the Rev. Wm. St. Andrew Vincent, a prebendary of Chichester, who was instituted in 1788. The interior of this church is of the Tuscan order, is 87 feet long, 60 feet broad, and 33 feet high, built of brick and stone in a strong and solid manner. The tower is plain, square, and divided into five stories, and, having neither spire, turret, nor pinnacles, has the appearance of being unfinished, which is very likely to be the case, as Sir Christopher Wren was too good a master of his art to erect such a foundation to carry nothing. Among the funeral monuments that were in the ancient church of Allhallows the Great, and that were destroyed by the great fire, was one of too interesting a nature to be omitted. It was one erected by the parish to the memory of our illustrious Queen Elizabeth, to whom may very properly be applied the epitaph of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

"Sexuo fœmina, ingenio vir."

ALLHALLOWS, LONDON-WALL.

This church stands a little westward of Broad-street, in London-wall, whence it derives its second name. It is a rectory, the patronage of which was anciently in the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity, near Aldgate, who, in 1335, presented it to Thomas Richer de Sanston. At the dissolution of religious houses, in the reign of Henry VIII., this church, with the priory to which it belonged, was surrendered to the Crown, in whose gift the advowson still remains. Its present Rector is the Rev. Robert Ñares, a Canon Residentiary of Lichfield, Archdeacon of Stafford, and a Prebendary of St. Paul's. He was instituted in 1817. It escaped the fire in 1666, but became latterly so ruinous, that in 1765 the parishioners obtained an Act of Parliament to pull it down and rebuild it; which they did from the designs of the elder Mr. Dance, the (then) city architect, who also built the churches of Shoreditch and Bishopsgate. It is a plain substantial church, of brick and stone, with a well-proportioned stone tower and cupola.

ST. ANTHOLIN'S, SISE LANE, AND ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.

St. Antholin is merely a corruption of St. Anthony, to whom this church is dedicated. This Saint was a famous hermit, and abbot of the monks in Egypt, in the time of the Emperor Constantine. He died at Thebais, in Egypt, A. D. 358, aged 105 years. His feast is observed in the Romish church on the 17th of January. The date of the foundation of this church is very ancient; Ralph de Diceto speaks of it as in a flourishing condition in his time. It was re-edified by Sir T. Knowles, Mayor, 1399, and by his son; and thoroughly repaired in 1616. This Church suffered in common with the others in the great fire, and was rebuilt by Sir C. Wren, when it was made the parish church of this and the adjoining parish of St. John the Baptist. It is a Rectory, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, who present, alternately with the Crown, to the united parishes. The tower is ornamented with a very curious spire of free-stone.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. The patronage of this Rectory was originally in the church of St. Paul, from whom it was transferred to the prioress and convent of St. Helen's, London; but by the suppression of the religious houses, in the time of Henry VIII., it lapsed to the Crown, and is still in the patronage of the King. The present Incumbent is the Rev. J. Gordon.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW, BY THE EXCHANGE.

This church is situated at the south-east corner of Bartholomew-lane and Threadneedle-street, near the north-east angle of the Bank of England. It was destroyed by the fire in 1666, all but the tower, which was cased and newly topped at the time of rebuilding the body of the church. This church is of very ancient foundation, for in the year 1331 John de Tyrerne was presented to it, on the death of John de Aldeburgh, the Rector, and it was then so entirely decayed that it was necessary to rebuild it. The living being, at the time of the Reformation, in the gift of the Abbey of St. Mary-de-Grace, it fell, on the dissolution of the religious houses, into the hands of the Crown, in whom the advowson, which is a rectory, has continued to the present time. The present Rector is the Rev. George Shepherd, D. D., preacher of Gray's-inn, who was instituted by the Lord Chancellor in 1807.

ST. BENE'T, OR BENEDICT FINK.

This church is situated on the south side of Threadneedle-street, and derives its name and addition from having been dedicated to St. Benedict, an Italian saint, who was founder of the order of Benedictine monks, and from having been rebuilt by one Robert Fink, or Finch, whose name is also borne by a neighbouring lane. It is of ancient origin, and though at present only a curacy, was formerly a rectory, John de Brakentree being Rector thereof before the year 1333. old church having been destroyed by the great fire in 1666, the present edifice was erected by Sir Christopher Wren in its stead. The church is a fine specimen of its author's genius. It is built of stone, in an elliptical form, 63 feet in length, and 48 in width. It is covered by an elliptical cupola, surmounted by a glazed lantern light, and sup

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