I shall use the farther liberty of subjoining some of the considerations which lead me to hope that there will be no need of suffering after this life, in order to the conversion of those who died in unbelief. We find that among the early Christians, there were many persons who had been guilty of the grossest vices.. Necessitarians admit that if those persons who are now distinguished for vice, had been placed under favourable circumstances in early life, they might have been rendered wise and estimable members of society, Our Lord declared that his murderers knew not what they did; and the Apostle Peter has said, that, if they had known the true character of Jesus, they would not have crucified him. We have many well-authenticated instances in modern times of the efficacy of a change of circumstances in bringing old sinners to repentance, The character is often altered by a forcible or voluntary removal of the individual from one country to another, and from a change of condition even in the same country. For proof, I would refer to the beautiful experiment of Count Rumford upon the dissolute characters who infested the capital of Bavaria. The dissolution of the body is, probably, a much greater change than any which can be experienced in life; and it may, therefore, be the means of changing the views and reforming the habits of individuals inuch more effectually than the preaching of the apostles proved in their days. It must, however, be granted, that the nature of the change effected by death, depends upon the nature of the society into which the parties shall be admitted. If this be vicious, we can have slender hopes of refor ples of Materialism, it cannot be shewn that the germ which constitutes individuality, (and which must be inconceivably minute,) may not have been gradually expanding and assimilating to itself what St. Paul denominates a spiritual body: and thus the resurrection may be constantly going on. This hypothesis is not invali dated by the invisibility of these renewed bodies. Many substances are invisible, and to a blind man all substances are so. If the universe is a plenum, the most subtle fluids are as capable of solidity, as the most solid substances are capable of being resolved into gas. Let us bear in mind how large a portion of the human race die in infancy, and we may surely indulge a hope that these have been placed in a better school than this world would have afforded. These thoughts it must be con fessed, are thrown out with little regard to logical precision. To return to the question of evil, It does appear to me that even if imperfection be eternally inseparable from individuality, it by no means follows that individuals should be subject to positive pain: for a greater degree of happiness in prospect, tends rather to quicken than to alloy present enjoyment. Upon the Necessitarian Scheme, there is but one will in the universe; and what less can be indicated by the saying that God shall be all in all, than that the will of each individual shall be ostensibly rendered identical with that of the Deity? If so, each will so cordially approve of every thing which takes place, as to create the same feeling as if every thing was effected by the will of each individual, and thus the Deity may be said to multiply himself to infinity. It is said of each believer that he shall be heir of all things: but how can this be true of the whole, unless all shall contribute their respective produce (every one producing some peculiar good) to a common stock, the abundance of which shall suffice to satisfy the most capacious desire of each? I wish to my heart I could see a greater disposition among Christians to try the effect of this principle of co-operation. Who knows but if a beginning were once made in right earnest, it would proceed until by means of human energy and virtue, (guided by infinite power, wisdom and goodness,) the very state of things spoken of by the Sacred Writers should be realized; and earth be con verted into heaven? As none of your correspondents have noticed my former communication, (XVIII. 450-457,) I begin to fear that these notions about co-operation have been prematurely stated. Perhaps we must wait another century before they will meet with attention. PHILADELPHUS. P.S. I beg Mr. Luckcock's pardon for overlooking his Postscript (XVIII. 525). He appears to think that no suggestion of mine should be attended to, unless I give my real name and place of abode. My name is a very common one, and if I were to give it, few of your readers would be a whit the wiser; I am but an obscure individual. When I require credence to any assertion on the strength of my own experience merely, I shall feel it proper to sign my real name; but so long as you allow others to communicate their speculations under assumed signatures, I trust your respectable correspondent, Mr. Luckcock, will not object to the same measure of indulgence being extended to me. ready and acute wit, much beloved by his congregation, and well fitted for the enterprise alluded to by Dr. Evans. He belonged to the Presbyterian denomination of Dissenters. He died at an advanced age in 1759, having been the pastor of the congregation here upwards of sixty years. The extract from Rae's History, given by Dr. Evans, appears to be an accurate statement of the services performed by Mr. Woods and his congrega. tion on that occasion; but, the reward therein said to have been bestowed on him by the government, I think is not. The sum always reported to me, when the circumstance has been mentioned, has been only 1007. And this, probably, was not given until some years after, because it has always been stated, that, although given to Mr. Woods for his personal services, at the time alluded to, it was intended to assist in the erection of the present chapel, (in 1722,) and by him so applied. Another circumstance, equally creditable to Mr. Woods and his congregation as the former, took place soon after, which deserves to be recorded and made known. The place in which the Dissenters met for worship, previous to the erection of the present one, was in a private chapel belonging to the Lord of the Manor. This was lent to the Dissenters for their use. About the year 1720, two rival candidates started to supply a vacancy in the representation of the county, or at a general election, one in the interest of the reigning family, the other in that of the exiled one. Lord I of supporting the latter, of two Dissenting Ministers of Lancashire, which appeared in the last Number of your Repository, (XVIII. 690,) he wished for some information respecting them. Of the Mr. Walker therein mentioned, I cannot give him any information, never having heard of him before. But the charactor and fame of Mr. Woods are still cherished and kept alive among the descendants of those who marched with him to battle. Mr. Woods was the grandson of the Mr. Woods who was ejected from his living at Ashton, in Lancashire, in 1662. (See Palmer's Non. Con. Mem. Vol. II. p. 83.) He was a firm friend to the religious and civil liberties of his country, and a man of insisted on his tenants, who, being almost all Dissenters, and whose leases constituted them free-holders of the county, voting for the same; but they, being strongly and zealously attached to the House of Hanover, unanimously voted for the other. This so displeased the Lord of the Manor, that he instantly deprived them of their usual place of worship, and had it re-consecrated. But this circumstance, instead of proving an injury to their cause, only strengthened it, and led to the erection of their present one. B. R. DAVIS. TH Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished MSS. (From Collet's "Relics of Literature," 8vo. 1823, pp. 190-194. *) HE Earl of Portsmouth, at his seat in Hampshire, has a vast bulk of unpublished papers of Sir Isaac Newton. After Sir Isaac's death, they were examined by a committee of the Royal Society, and being found to consist for the most part of illustrations of the prophecies, and the book of Revelations (Revelation), the productions of his old age, it was determined, in tenderness to his memory, not to allow any of them to be published. The following is a catalogue of them, as annexed to a bond given by Mr. Conduit to the administrators of Sir Isaac, by which he obliges himself to account for any profit he shall make by any of the papers. Dr. Pellet, by agreement of the executors, entered into acts of the Prerogative Court, being appointed to peruse all papers, and decide which was proper for the press. No. 1. Viaticum Nautarium (Nautarum ?); by Robert Wright. 2. Miscellanea; not in Sir Isaac's hand-writing. 3. Miscellanea; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 4. Trigonometria; about five sheets. 5. Definitions. 6. Miscellanea; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 7. Forty sheets in 4to., relating to Church History. 8. 126 sheets written on one side, being foul draughts of the Prophetic Style. 9. Eighty-eight sheets relating to Church History. 10. About seventy loose sheets in small 4to., of Chemical Papers; some of which are not in Sir Isaac's hand. 11. About sixty-two ditto, in folio. 12. About fifteen large sheets, doubled, in 4to., Chemical. 13. About eight sheets ditto, written on one side. 14. About five sheets of foul papers relating to Chemistry, 15. Twelve half sheets of ditto. 16. 104 half sheets in 4to., ditto. 17. About twenty-two sheets in 4to., ditto. 18. Twenty-four sheets in 4to. 19. Twenty-nine half sheets, being an Answer to Mr. Hooke on Sir Isaac's Theory of Colours. 20. Eighty-seven half sheets, relating to the Optics; some of which are not in Sir Isaac's hand. "From No. 1 to 20, examined on the 20th May, 1727, and judged not fit to be printed. "T. PELLET." No. 21. 328 half sheets in folio, and sixty-three in small 4to., being loose and foul papers, relating to the Revelations (Revelation) and Prophecies. 22. Eight half sheets in small 4to., relating to Church Matters. 23. Twenty-four half sheets in small 4to., being a discourse relating to the 2nd (book of) Kings. 24. 353 half sheets in folio, and fifty-seven in small 4to., being foul and loose papers relating to Figures and Mathematics. 25. 201 half sheets in folio, and twenty-one in small 4to., loose and foul papers relating to the Commercium Epistolicum. 26. Ninety-one half sheets in small 4to., in Latin, on the Temple of Solomon. 27. Thirty-seven half sheets in folio, being of the Host of Heaven, the Sanctuary and other Church Matters. 28. Forty-four half sheets in folio, on ditto. The List is printed very incorrectly in Collet: a few obvious corrections are suggested. ED. No. 29. Twenty-five half sheets in folio, being a further Account of the Host of Heaven. 30. Fifty-one half sheets in folio, being an Historical Account of two notable Corruptions of Scripture. 31. Eighty-one half sheets in small 4to., being Extracts from Church History. 32. 116 half sheets in folio, being Paradoxical Questions concerning Athanasius, of which several leaves in the beginning are very much damaged. 33. Fifty-six half sheets in folio.-De Motio (Motione?) Corporum ; the greatest part not in Sir Isaac's hand. 34. Sixty-one half sheets in small 4to., being various Sections in the Apocalypse. 35. Twenty-five half sheets in folio, of the Working of the Mystery of Iniquity. 36. Twenty half sheets in folio, on the Theology of the Heathens. 37. Twenty-four half sheets in folio, being an Account of the Conquest (Contest?) between the Host of Heaven and the Transgressors of the Covenant. 38. Thirty-one half-sheets in folio, being Paradoxical Questions concerning Athanasius. 39. 107 quarter sheets, in small 4to., on the Revelations (Revelation). 40. Seventy-four half sheets in folio, being loose papers relating to Church History. "May 22, 1727, examined from No. 21 to 40 exclusive (inclusive), and judged them not fit to be printed, only No. 33 and 38 should be reconsidered. "T. PELLET." No. 41. 167 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers, relating to the Commercium Epistolicum. 42. Twenty-one half sheets in folio, being the Third Letter on Texts of Scripture; very much damaged. 43. Thirty-one half sheets in folio, being foul papers relating to Church Matters. 44. 495 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers relating to Calculations and Mathematics. 45. 335 half sheets in folio, being loose and foul papers relating to Chronology. 46. 112 sheets in small 4to., relating to the Revelations (Revelation) and other Church Matters. 47. 126 half sheets in folio, being loose papers relating to the Chronology; part in English and part in Latin. 48. 400 half sheets in folio, being loose Mathematical papers. 49. 109 sheets in 4to., relating to the Prophecies and Church Matters. 50. 127 half sheets in folio, relating to the University; great part not in Sir Isaac's hand. 51. Eleven sheets in 4to., being Chemical Papers. 52. 255 quarter sheets, ditto. 53. An Account of the Corruptions of Scripture; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 54. Thirty-one quarter sheets, being Flammell's Explication of Hieroglyphical Figures. 55. About 350 half sheets, being Miscellaneous papers. 56. Six half sheets, being an Account of the Empires, &c., represented by St. John. 57. Nine half sheets, folio, and seventy-one quarter sheets, 4to., being Mathematical papers. 58. 140 half sheets, in nine chapters, and two pieces in folio: titled"Concerning the Language of the Prophets." 59. 606 half sheets, folio, relating to the Chronology. 60. 182 half sheets, folic, being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies. No. 61. 144 quarter sheets, and ninety-five half sheets, folio; being loose Mathematical papers. 62. 137 half sheets, folio, being loose papers relating to the Disputes with Leibnitz. 63. A folio Common-Place Book; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 64. A bundle of English letters to Sir Isaac, relating to Mathematics. 65. Fifty-four half sheets, being loose papers found in the Principia. 66. A bundle of loose Mathematical papers; not Sir Isaac's. 67. A bundle of French and Latin letters to Sir Isaac. 68. 136 sheets, folio, relating to Optics. 69. Twenty-two half sheets, folio, De Rationibus Mortuum (Motuum?), &c.; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 70. Seventy half sheets, folio, being loose Mathematical papers. 71. Thirty-eight half sheets, folio, being loose papers relating to Optics. 72. Forty-seven sheets, folio, being loose papers relating to the Chronology and Prophecies. 73. Forty half sheets, folio, Procestus (Processus?) Mysterii Magni Philosophicus, by W. Yworth; not in Sir Isaac's hand. 74. Five half sheets, being a letter from Rizetto to Martine; in Sir Isaac's hand. 75. Forty-one half sheets, being loose papers of several kinds; part in Sir Isaac's hand. 76. Forty half sheets, being loose papers, foul and dirty, relating to Calculations. 77. Ninety half sheets, folio, being loose Mathematical papers. 78. 176 half sheets, folio, being loose papers relating to Chronology. 79. 176 ditto, being loose papers relating to the Prophecies. 80. Twelve half sheets, folio, an Abstract of Chronology. ** Ninety-two half sheets, folio, the Chronology. 81. Forty half sheets, folio, the History of the Prophecies, in ten chapters, and part of eleventh unfinished. 82. Five small bound books in 12mo., the greater part not in Sir Isaac's hand, being rough calculations. "May 26, 1727, examined from No. 41 to 82 inclusive, and judged not fit to be printed, except No. 80, which is agreed to be printed; and part of Nos. 61 and 81, which are to be reconsidered. "T. PELLET.” "It is astonishing," says Dr. Charles Hutton, in his Mathematical Dictionary, what care and industry Sir Isaac had employed on the papers relating to Chronology, Church History, &c., as on examining the papers themselves, which are in the possession of the family of the Earl of Portsmouth, it appears that many of them are copies over and over again, often with little or no variation, the whole number being upwards of four thousand sheets, in folio, or eight reams of folio paper, besides the bound books, &c., in this catalogue, of which the number of sheets is not mentioned." THE Jan. 1, 1824. THE books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the rest of the Old Testament Prophets, consist of separate prophecies, delivered at different times, and relating to events which have no necessary connexion with each other. The division into chapters is a work of comparatively recent date, and is of no authority whatever. Had this division been judiciously made, we should have been able in most cases, without any great difficulty, to see the scope and design of each separate prophecy; but, as it is, it serves only to perplex and confound the reader. Yet, in spite of this and of the still more provoking negligence of the Jews, who, when they collected the writings of the prophets into separate books, called after the names of their respective authors, did it apparently without any regard to distinction of subject or accuracy of arrangement; we are enabled, in many cases, by internal evidence, to |