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. CAPUT demum ad illud Psalm. XXXVI. 11. delaXXXIX. bitur: Mansueti autem hæreditabunt terram. A

rege David regibus et principibus terræ possessoribus hoc dicitur: Donec cognoscant viventes, quoniam dominatur Excelsus in regno hominum, et cuicunque voluerit, dabit illud, et humillimum hominem constituet fuper eum. Hæc funt ipsa Danielis IV. 14. ad regem Nabuchodonosor verba mox throno deiiciendum. Quod et deinceps reges terræ fuperbe ferocientes funt experti, quorum præcipuorum regnorum per ftatuam Nabuchodonosor in fomnio repræsentatorum fata et ruinas idem propheta prosequitur a).

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ratim vero fapiens Eccli. X. 8.: Regnum, inquit, a gente in gentem transfertur propter iniustitias, et iniurias, et contumelias, et di

versos dolos. Propiusque ad rem mox v. 17. legitur: Sedes ducum fuperborum destruxit Deus, et federe fecit mites pro eis. Radices gentium fuperbarum arefecit Deus, et plantavit humiles ex ipsis gentibus. Quid hoc aliud, quam quod Christus ad apostolos fuos, quos ad constituendum fuum regnum in terris præsentis temporis Ecclesiam misit in universum mundum, ait: Reges gentium dominantur eorum etc. vos autem non fic, fed qui maior est inter vos, fiat ficut minor etc. Unde eos a se discere voluit: Quia mitis fum et humilis corde: quos misit ficut oves in medio

a) Dan. II.

at some said he had only 500., and he had no means of contradicting it. The salaries of the secretaries, as many of his brethren knew, and as the Missionary Committee knew very well, are the same as the venerable Mr. Reece received in the City-road circuit, and as he (Mr. Scott) received when he followed him, and those who followed him also for many years: they were adjusted entirely on the scale of what the London circuits allowed their ministers (hear). Some three years ago it was thought desirable to put the items together, and, as in the case of the Theological Institution, a new arrangement was made as to payment. It was thought desirable to put the items of board and of quarterage of ministers together, and pay quarter by quarter in one round sum. That was

ever considered it to be his highest happiness to regard him-
self as in a family (cheers). If it were not so, he should not
have committed himself in the various ways he had to the
course he had pursued. He could not otherwise-and he spoke
it not boastingly-devote his time, his energies, and whatever
he possessed of influence, to the cause, if he did not regard
those with whom he associated as beloved brethren (cheers).
It was true he had not been so much attacked as some
others; but he had been subject, he believed, to insinuations.
He had, however, thought it quite unnecessary to pay any
attention to them, nor would he have done so even if they
had gone much further, because he had always endeavoured
to act according to the dictates of as enlightened a con-
science as he possessed, and, under those circumstances, to

in whom he had the fullest

hic et in æternum XXXIX. e regno Christi in terris in CAPUT

ctorum,
beatitudinem

et exultavit

beatos esse vult æterna beas bus beati in hac vita, dum dantia huius fæculi, volentes r regnum mundanum in pornalium, qui in fuo Messia I. 15. præter exspectationem tiabuntur, cum apparuerit gloria; i filii Abrahæ fecundum proecula. Qui nempe funt iuxta ad patres nostros; Abraham et ctum est, et habitavit in nobis:

nt assecuti, dum apud eos

um promittitur.

in Evangelio Christi, quod
angelii Christi Verbi incar-

octavam, qua ut in prima
as misericordiæ fuæ fecun-
m: fuscepit Israel puerum
et divites dimisit inanes se-
andum quintam esurientes
togenie in progenies timen-
mul ac filia Dei: et miseri-
eius, fecundum feptimam,
ei magna, qui potens est,
Deo falutari fuo, fecundum
Est hæc

gno cœlorum.

E

CAPUT

rum. Quo autem alio, dum mala, luctus, XXXIX. fames, fitis, persecutio, quibus fint in hac ~ vita beati, eis proponuntur, folari se nisi alterius vitæ beatitudine præsertim, ad quos fermone: Beati, ait, vobis, et persecuti vos f malum adversum vos m. gaudete et exultate, que piosa est in cælis: fic en phetas, qui fuerunt ante uno in hac vita folatio buisse dolorum, et qui maxima in veneratione

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the only charge for repairing amounted to 48s. (cheers).
Several inquiries were made as to the number of
gers and crew on board, from the answers to which it
appeared that there were about twenty passengers and
fourteen of the crew.

Mr. OSBORN said it was vain and silly to attempt to
convince the parties who wrote the statements concerning
it. If they had put but one gallon of brandy in the ship,
they had done as wrong in the eyes of those people as if
they had put a hundred. The question of quantity was
They trusted the committee to
wholly beyond the mark.
Explanations on
do according to their approval and discretion, and there he
hoped the matter would always rest.
these matters were wholly vain.

JAS. HEALD, Esq., while expressing is a

to the Missionary Society, and his conviction that unabated confidence in its officers was essential to its well-being, felt called upon to mourn over the spirit which had been excited in their midst. He felt assured that that meeting reposed entire confidence in the committee, and proposed, therefore, a resolution to the effect, that after hearing the minutes read and the explanations offered, they desired to express their entire and grateful satisfaction at the manner in which the affairs of the society had been conducted, and their conviction that the insinuations thrown out to the contrary were totally groundless. The Rev. Dr. HANNAH briefly seconded the motion. The committee

had

been

sustained by the testimony of a good

Consideratione piarur videbitur comparantium Mariæ Magnificat cum evangelicis, has fcilicet ordine, in Cantico illo co per eas ipsa hic et in æte tur cum pauperibus fpirit mam beatitudinem, dum eius Dominum, quando gine Christo abscissus est la ́manibus, et percussit ftatuam diximus, Deus fecit potentia -dispersit fuperbos mente cordis tentes de fede, et exaltavit hun quit, respexit humilitatem ancil

ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes

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num a constitutione mundi a); æternum illic CAPUT in cœlis, ubi: Beati mundo corde: quoniam XXXIX. ipsi Deum videbunt. Beati pacifici: quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur. Beati, qui persécutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam nempe ad quos mox V. 44. 45. Ego autem, inquit, dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, et benefacite his, qui oderunt vos orate pro persequentibus et calumiantibus vos ut fitis filii Patris vestri, qui in cælis est. Hæc complexus S. Cyprianus in conclusione libri de zelo et livore, ad paral lela Evangelii loca respiciens: „, Accipientur, ait, facrificia tua, cum pacificus ad Deum veneris. Sensus atque actus tui divinitus dirigentur, quando ea, quæ divina et iusta funt, cogitaveris, ficut fcriptum est: Cor viri cogitat iusta, ut à Domino dirigantur gressus eius. Habes autem multa, quæ cogites. Paradisum cogita, quo Cain non redit, qui zelo fratrem peremit. Cogita cœleste regnum, ad quod non nisi concordes, atque unanimes Dominus admittit. Cogita, quod filii Dei hi foli possint vocari, qui fint pacifici, qui nativitate cœlesti, et lege divina, ad fimilitudinem Dei Patris et Christi respondeant adunati etc." Octava beatitudine ut iam meminimus, fimiliter ac in prima regnum cœlorum promitti tur: Beati, qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam: quoniam ipsorum est regnum cælo6) Matth. XXV. 34.

CAPUT rum. Quo autem alio, dum mala, luctus,
XXXIX. fames, fitis, persecutio, quibus fint in hac

vita beati, eis proponuntur, folari se nisi
alterius vitæ beatitudine poterant, apostoli
præsertim, ad quos fingulariter converso
fermone: Beati, ait, estis, cum maledixerint
vobis, et persecuti vos fuerint, et dixerint omne
malum adversum vos mentientes, propter me :
gaudete et exultate, quoniam merces vestra co-
piosa est in cælis: fic enim persecuti funt pro-
Iterum hoc
phetas, qui fuerunt ante vos.
uno in hac vita folatio, focios ante se ha-
buisse dolorum, et quidem prophetas, qui
maxima in veneratione erant apud Judæos.

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Consideratione piarum mentium dignum videbitur comparantium Caricum B. V. Mariæ Magnificat cum istis beatitudinibus evangelicis, has fcilicet disperso quidem ordine, in Cantico illo contineri, quatenus per eas ipsa hic et in æternum beata dicitur cum pauperibus fpiritu fecundum primam beatitudinem, dum magnificat anima eius Dominum, quando nato ex ea virgine Christo abscissus est lapis de monte fine "manibus, et percussit ftatuam, modo -diximus, Deus fecit potentiam

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tentes de fede, et exaltavit humiles. Quia, in-
quit, respexit humilitatem ancilla fua, ecce enim
ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes, in

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