Blount, J. B., Kennington.

Bray, J., of Heather, Leicestershire.

Davies, D. P., Master of the Grammar School, Carmarthen.

Davies, T., B.D., late Senior Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

De Lacy, T., Archdeacon of Meath. Donne, J., D.D., Vicar of Llan-y-Blodwell, Oswestry.

Gardner, A. D., Vicar of Holywell, Flintshire. Gilpin, J., at Sedbury Hall.

Goddard, E., P. C. of Lingwood, Norfolk.

Hall, J. C., B.C.L., Rector of Kirk Andreas and Archdeacon of Sodor and Man.

Hobart, H. C., M.A., Canon Residentiary of
Hereford Cathedral.

Howard, C. B., M.A., Colonial Chaplain, and
Surrogate to the Bishop of Australia.
Jack, T, Rector of Forncett.

Jones, J., Vicar of Mathew, Pembrokeshire.
Jope, J., Vicar of St. Cleer and Rec. of St. Ive.
Kingston, G., Rector of Sydersterne and North
Barningham, Norfolk.

Leathes, E., Rector of Reedham, with Freethorpe, Norfolk.

Lupton, J., Rector of Ovingdean.

Middleton, H., Vicar of Barton Stacey, Hants.
Murray, H., at Gateshead.

Norman, H., M.A., P. C. of Moreton Say.
Onslow, G. W., at Ripley.

Ray, J., at Islington.

Saul, T., M.A., Incumbent of Witton, in Cleveland, Yorkshire.

St. Aubyn, J. M., Vicar of Crowan.
Smith, H., Prebendary of Southwell.
Stevenson, G., M.A., Rector of Redmarshall.
Stevenson, T., Rector of St. Peter's, Cheesehill.
Thompson, W. D., Vic. of Mitford, nr. Morpeth.
Travis, W. J., M.A., Rec. of Lydgate, Suffolk.
Ware, H., Rector of Ladock, Cornwall.
Wilkinson, M., Rector of Redgrave-with-Botes-
dale, and of Nowton, Suffolk.
Woodgate, S., Vicar of Pembury, Kent.
Woollen, W., LL.D., Vicar of Bridgewater cum
Chilton and Rector of Kilton.

THE MONTHLY MEETING of this Society was held at their chambers, in St. Martin's-place, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. There were also present the Bishops of Bangor, Llandaff, Norwich, Hereford, and Lichfield; the Revs. the Dean of Chichester, Dr. Spry, Dr. Shepherd, J. Jennings, H. H. Norris, B. Harrison; Messrs. F. H. Dickinson, M.P., Edward Baddeley, William Davis, Newell Connop, J. S. Salt, William Cotton. The reports of the sub-committees having been read by the Rev. Mr. Bowdler, the secretary, the meeting proceeded to examine the cases referred to their consideration, and finally voted grants of money towards building additional churches or chapels at Mowbray, and Causeway-head, in the parish of Holmecultram, Cumberland; Barnard's-green, in the parish of Great Malvern, Worcestershire; Smallwood, in the parish of Astbury, Cheshire; Cookham-dean, in

the parish of Cookham, Berks; St. Giles's-in-the-fields, London; and Longham, in the parish of Hampreston, Dorset; towards enlarging by rebuilding the church at Bawdeswell, Norfolk; and towards enlarging, or otherwise increasing the accommodation in the churches at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire; Berrow, Somerset; Upton-cum-Chalvey, Bucks; Emmanuel church, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire; Monksilver, Somerset ; St. Mary, Haverfordwest; and Kentishtown, parish of St. Pancras, London. The population of the parishes now assisted is 273,994 souls, and the accommodation provided for them in forty churches and chapels is 40,824 sittings, of which 9,334 are free; by the erection of seven additional churches, the rebuilding of one existing church, and the enlargement, &c. of seven others, it is intended to add 4,333 seats to this insufficient provision of church-room, in

cluding free sittings for 4,195 persons. It is worthy of remark, that in the present places of worship there has been hitherto accommodation for only one-seventh of the population, while the free seats have been in the proportion of one sitting for thirty persons; the latter will now be increased to the rate of one in twenty, Certificates of the completion of new churches, and the enlargement, &c., of existing churches in several parishes, were examined and approved, and orders were issued to the treasurer to pay the amount of the grant awarded in each case; the population of these parishes is 46,595 persons, for whom church accommodation to the extent of 4,684 sit

tings only were provided previously to the execution of the works towards which the Society's grants were voted, and including only 1,374 free sittings; 2,537 seats are now added to that number, 2,157 of which are free. Since the last meeting forms of application for aid from this Society have been issued to eighteen applicants to enable them to submit their cases to the consideration of the board, and five of these applications are for assistance towards building additional churches in populous places. The treasurer reported, that a legacy of 300l., free of duty, has been bequeathed to this Society by the late Mr. James Hurst, of Stamfordbaron, Northamptonshire.

NEW PROTESTANT MANIFESTO.--[We have elsewhere (p. 302) called attention to the following melancholy document, and we have ventured, with all humility, to solicit the attention of our Bishops to it. If any of those who have signed, or may be disposed to sign it, should see these lines, we beg to remind such, that thus openly to avow the sentiments and doctrines contained in this manifesto, is in direct contravention to our formularies, and brings the offender not only under the liability of ecclesiastical and canonical censure, but within the penalties of the Acts of Uniformity, which are provided 1 Eliz. c. 2, against those who "preach or speak, or by other open words declare, anything in derogation of the Book of Common Prayer, or of any thing contained therein.-ED. C. R.]

DECLARATION OF MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND RESPECTING SEVERAL CONTROVERTED

TRUTHS. Having witnessed with grief the endeavours of some persons to unprotestantize our Church, for which end they reject the doctrine of justification by faith alone-deny that ungodly persons, if baptized, need to be regenerated-pervert the meaning of the sacramentschange the ministry of the Gospel into a priesthood-assert that those ministers who have not received episcopal ordination are not true Ministers of Christ, and that their congregations form no part of the Church of Christ-make what they term the Catholic Church the authoritative interpreter of the Word of God, and thus seek to prevent each Christian from fulfilling his indispen

sable duty to weigh and judge for himself the meaning of its language,-We, the undersigned Ministers and Members of the Church of England, feel ourselves obliged, by our fidelity to the Lord Jesus Christ, by our regard to the Word of God, and by our wish to promote the welfare of our Church, publicly to profess our belief of the following truths, which we are resolved, in dependence on the grace of God, to maintain and to disseminate according to our ability; in which defence of the Gospel, always important, and now rendered more urgently necessary by the progress of "Anglo-Catholic" doctrines, we earnestly invite the co-operation of all who value evangelical truth:

I." Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of the faith." (Art. 6.) "It is not lawful for the Church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it expound one place of Scripture so as to be repugnant to another." (Art. 20.) But general Councils and particular Churches, being liable to errors in matters of faith, as well as in the ceremonies which they establish (Arts. 21 and 19), they may be found to profess what cannot be proved by the Word of God, and to ordain what is contrary to it. Every Christian is therefore bound to examine and to ascertain the meaning of the Word of God for himself, in the use of all the aids within his reach, and to receive no doctrine as the doctrine of Scripture unless

he sees it to be declared therein otherwise he may receive error as truth upon a fallible authority, against the plain testimony of the Word of God.

II. Believers are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord -and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for their own works and deservings (Art. 11). They are justified by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, not by any inherent righteousness imparted to them by the Spirit; and they are, from first to last, justified by faith alone without works: but as "good works do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith” (Art.12); the faith which justifies is a faith which "worketh by love." III." As the tree is known by its fruits, so is also the Holy Ghost. The fruits of the Holy Ghost .. .... are these: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance," &c. "The Holy Ghost doth always declare himself by his fruitful and gracious gifts." . . "Wheresoever ye find the spirit of arrogance and pride, the spirit of envy, hatred, contention, &c. ... assure yourselves that there is the spirit of the Devil, and not of God"..."according to which rule, if any man live uprightly, of him it may be safely pronounced that he hath the Holy Ghost within him; if not, then it is a plain token that he doth usurp the name of the Holy Ghost in vain." (Homily for Whitsunday.) Ungodly persons have neither been born again of the Spirit nor justified, although they were baptized in infancy, but remain in an unpardoned state, exposed to the wrath of God; and unless they be born again of the Spirit, and obtain saving faith in Christ, they must perish.

IV. "The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper only after a heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith." (Art. 28.) "For the sacramental bread and wine remain still in their very natural substances... and the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here; it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time in more places than one." (Declaration appended to the Communion Service.) "The curate shall instruct him, [the sick man,] that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he NO. XXXIX.-N. S.

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hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he doth eat and drink the body and blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the sacrament with his mouth." (Rubric to the Communion for the Sick.) There is no scriptural authority for affirming that our Lord is present with his people at the Lord's Supper in any other manner than that in which he is present with them whenever they meet together in his name (Mat. xviii. 20); and his body and blood are verily and indeed taken and received by them at that ordinance by faith, just as they are verily and indeed taken and received by them whenever they exercise faith in his atoning sacrifice, so that the imagination of any bodily presence or of any other presence effected by the consecration of the elements is unscriptural and erroneous.

V."Christ commended to his Church a Sacrament of his body and blood: they [the Church of Rome] have changed it into a sacrifice for the quick and dead." (Hom. for Whitsunday.) "Our loving Saviour hath ordained and established the remembrance of his great mercy expressed in his passion in the institution of his heavenly Supper.".... "We must then take heed lest of the memory it be made a sacrifice." (Hom.of the Sacrament.) The ministers of Christ are termed in Scripture, Presbyters, Bishops, Shepherds, Stewards, &c. but are never distinctly termed Priest (iepeis), and the notion of any sacrifice offered in the Lord's Supper by the Minister as a Priest, distinct from the sacrifice of praise and of devotedness offered by every true worshipper, is unscriptural and erroneous.

VI. "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments are duly administered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same." (Art. 19.) "Those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent [into the ministry] which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard." (Art.23.) There is no scriptural authority for asserting that those only are rightly ordained, or are to be esteemed true ministers of Christ, who have received episcopal ordination.

VII. "The Bishops of Rome and their adherents are not the true Church

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George Abbot, B. A.

*Edward Henry Abney, B.A. John Acaster, M. A. *John Adeney, M. A. *Samuel Alford, M.A. *Walter Alford, M. A. *William Allan, M.A. *George Allan, M.A. *Hugh Allan, M.A.

*William Annesley, M A. *Edward B. Bagshawe, M.A. *Augustus A. Bagshawe, B.A. G. Baker, Lieut-Colonel. *J. R. Barber, M A. *Stephen Barbut, M.A. *Henry Barfoot, M.A. *S. W. Barnett, M.A. *John Bartlett, M.A. Josiah Bartlett, M.A. *John Baylie, M.A. Frederick Baynes.

*Henry Ham Beamish, M.A. *Joseph Fawcett Beddy, M.A. Samuel Bell.

*S. E. Bernard, M.A.

David Barclay Bevan, M.A. R. C. L. Bevan.

Richard Bevan.

J. R. Bevy.

*Edward Birch, B.A. *Joseph Birch, M. A.

*T. W. Birch. M.A.

John Birkett, M.A.

*William W. Blanford, M.A. Thomas W. Blomefield, Bart. Thomas Borrow. Augustus Bosanquet. *H. J. Bowden, M.A. *Charles Bradley, M.A. *Wm. S. H. Braham, M.A. *R. L. Bridge, M.A. John Bridges. *John Bromilow, M.A. *Alexander Frowne, M.A. *George Browne, M. A. *Reginald Bryan, M. A. *William Buckler, M.A. Edward Bull, M.A. *Arthur Buller, M.A. *Gilbert Beresford, M. A. *James W. Burrough, M.A.

*William Bury, M.A. *Sparkes Byers, B.A.

*Henry Caddell, M. A,

*Joshua Cautley, M.A.

*Charles R. Carroll, M.A.

*George Grey Cashman, B. A. *John Casson, M.A. *E. W. Caufield, M.A. William Challice.

John Charlesworth, M.A. *William Chave, M.A. *Andrew Cheap, LL.B. Robert Hochley Chenies.

*John M. Cholmeley, M.A. *W. Churchill, M.A. Matthew Clark.

*Thomas Clarke, M.A.

R. Clayton, M.A.

*Alexander Clements, M.A.

*J. B. Clifford, M.A.

*C. T. Fynes Clinton, M.A. John Francis Cobb, M.A. *J. W. Cobb, M.A. Benjamin Cooper. Charles Cowan, M.D. *William Cowlard, M.A. *Edward Cox, M.A. *George Crabbe, M.A. *Henry Robert Crew, M.A. *B. Lucas Cubitt, M.A. *J. Cumberlege, M.A. *S. F. Cumberlege, M.A. Francis Cunningham, M.A. *Thomas Curme, M.A. Christopher Cutts. *James Edward Dalton, B.D. Thomas Davies, M.A. *E. H. Dawson, M.A. *Robert Denny, M.A. *J. W. Devlin, B.A. *William Dewe, B.A. *Thomas F. Dibdin, D.D. *James W. K. Disney, B.A. *William Dodge, B.A. James Dorman. *T. R. Drake, B.A. *Thos. O. Drawbridge, M.A. *D. K. T. Drummond, M.A. *W. M. Du Pre, M. A. *Henry Du Puy, B.A. John East, M.A. *John Edmonds, M.A. Samuel Edwards. *Samuel V. Edwards, B.A. *Henry T. Estridge, M.A. *Charles Evans, M.A. *Daniel W. Evans, B.A. *Frederick Evans, M.A. *Patrick Fenn, M.A. Joseph Fincher. *Edward W. Foley, M.A. Joseph French. *Samuel Garratt, B.A. John Garwood, M.A. *Henry Gibson, M.A. *Thomas Glascott, B. A. *Carr John Glyn, M.A. George Golding. *Edward Goodwin, M.A. Samuel Goody. Alexander Gordon. Joseph Goss.

Thomas Graham.

Thomas Greenall.

*R. G. Greene, M. A.

*John Phillips Gurney, M.A. *Peter Hall, M.A. W. L. Hance.

E. Hance.

*Augustus Handley, M.A.

F. Vernon Harcourt.

*G. G. Harvey, B.A.

Edward Hollis.

*J. T. Holloway, D.D.
*James Hopkins, M.A.
*H. D. C. S. Horlock, D.D.
*George Hume, M.A.
*Henry Hutton, M.A.
*Josiah James, M.A.
*P. B. Jeckell, B.A.
*A. Jenour, M.A.
*David Jones, M.A.
*John Jones, M.A.
*J. J. Jones, M.A.
*J. Jordan, M.A.
*Edward Jowett, B.A.
*Thomas King, M.A.
Henry Kingscote.
Arthur F. Kinnaird.
John Labouchere.
*John Lakes, M.A.

*Richard T. Lancaster, M.A.
*Thomas J. Lingwood, M.A.
John Linton.

E. J. Longley.
"Henry Lowe, M.A.
B. Lumley, M.A.
*H. Lumsden, M.A.
James Macfarlane.

*Henry W. M'Grath, M.A.
*W. Bell Mackenzie, M.A.
*R. A. M. Macklin, M.A.
*George Maclean, M.A.
*Hugh M'Neil, M.A.
*Samuel Maddock, M.A.
*C. D. Maitland, M.A.
*Henry Malpas, M.A.
*Orlando Manley, M.A.
*Joseph Mann, M.A.
Richards Marks, M.A.
*W. Marsh, D.D.
Marcus Martin.
John Martin.

W. Lewis Mason.
William Maxwell.

C. Maxtone, Major, Madras retired List.

*Forster Maynard, M.A.
*David Mead, M.A.

*Joseph C. Mendham, M.A.
*Thomas Methuen, M.A.
*Capel Molyneux, B.A.
*William Money, M.A.
Wigram Money.

*Bernard Moore, M.A.

*Thomas Mortimer, B.D.

*Henry Moule, M.A.

*William Mudge, M.A.

*Edward Nicholson, M.A.

*Leland Noel, M.A.

*Baptist W. Noel, M.A.

Edward Scott Norton.

Blue.

*John Herbert, M.A. *Augustus Hewitt, M.A. *William Henry Hill, M.A. *Charles Hodgson, M.A. *George Hodgson, M.A.

Wm. Edward Parry, Bart. John Dean Paul. *James Pears, B.C.L. *James R. Pears, M.A. *John Pearson, M.A. Thomas Pearsons