1. Meade's Bible and the Classics.-2. Sprague's Annals of the Amer- ican Pulpit.-3. Sigourney's Gleanings.-4. Chamber's Encyclopedia. -5. New American Cyclopedia.-6. Macaulay's History of Eng- land.-7. Lord Bacon's Works.-8. Wharton's Wits and Beaux of Society.-9. Presbyterian Hand-Book.-10. Gurdon Huntington's Poems.-11. Silas Marner.-12. Harper's Greek and Latin Classics. -13. Sewell's Free Labor in the West Indies.-14. Wainwright's Family Prayers.-15. Muhlenberg's Sermon.-16. Randall's Sermon. -17. G. W. Curtis' Novel.-18. Weston's Catechism.-19. Church- man's Calendar.-20. Report of Printing House for the Blind.- ART. I. The Ante-Nicene Doctrine of the Trinity, The Church of the First Three Centuries: or, Notices of the Lives and Opinions of some of the Early Fathers, with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity; illustrating its late origin and gradual forma- tion. By Alvan Lamson, D. D. Boston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1860. 2. Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism, from Holy Scripture, the Councils Ecumenical and Provincial, the Fathers, the Schoolmen, and the Rubrics of the whole Church, East and West, in Illustration and Vindication of the Rubrics of the Church of England since the Reformation, and those of the American Church. By Rev. James Chrystal, A. M., a Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ART. VIII.-The Two Regenerations, 1. Miss Catherine E. Beecher's Common-Sense, applied to Religion. 2. Rev. Dr. Park's Sermon on "the Theology of the Intellect and the 1. Oliver's Translation of the Syriac Version of the Psalms.-2. Bur- gon's Sermons.-3. Staunton's Ecclesiastical Dictionary.-4. Davis' Carthage and Remains.-5. Anderson's Okavango River.-6. New American Cyclopedia.-7. Trow's New York Directory.-8. Chaillu's Explorations in Africa.-9. Cooper's Novels.-10. Roving Printer's Adventures.-11. Pfeiffer's Last Travels.-12. House on the Moor. -13. Lamont's Season with the Sea Horses.-14. Witherspoon's Register for the Clergy.-15. Calkin's Object Lessons.-16. Guide to Illuminating and Missal Painting.-17. Dall's Woman's Rights.- 18. Faraday's Six Lectures.-19. Swett's Forms of Prayer for Fam- ilies.-20 Bishop Whitehouse's Tenth Annual Address.-21. Lewis on Adult Baptism.-22. Clerical Journal and Literary Churchman.- 23. Brownson's Review.-24. Torrey's War for the Union.-25. Streaks of Light.-26. Clark's Scripture History of our Lord.-27. Books, ART. I.-Philosophic History: Milman, The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. By the Rev. H. H. Milman, &c. History of Latin Christianity, including that of the Popes, to the Pontificate of Nicolas V. By Henry Hart Milman, D. D., Dean of ART. VI.-Baptism and Regeneration, 1. Goode on Baptism. New York, 1852. 2. Archdeacon Wilberforce on Baptism. Philadelphia, 1850. 3. McIlvaine on Spiritual Regeneration. New York, 1851. 4. Sacrament of Responsibility. London and New York, 1852. 5. Faber on Regeneration. London, 1816; Philadelphia, 1853. 6. Praelectiones Theologicae, Quas in Collegio Romano, S. J. Habebat 1. Hagenbach's History of Doctrines.-2. Stevens' History of Methodism.- 3. Methodist Quarterly Review.-4. American Cyclopedia.-5. Kurtz's Church History.-6. Bacon's Works.-7. Rice's Quotations from the Poets.- 8. Ralph Hoyt's Poems.-9. Holmes' Songs in Many Keys.-10. Browning's Poems.-11. Ellicott's Hulsean Lectures.-12. Maclay's Life among the Chinese.-13. Pilgrims of Fashion.-14. The Christian Maiden.-15. Ab- bott's Practical Christianity.-16. Westcott's Study of the Gospels.-17. Mill on Representative Government.-18. Bayne's Testimony to Christianity,- 19. Comfort for the Afflicted.-20. Burton's City of the Saints.-21. Chil- ARTICLE I. THE SEE BISHOPRICK. (No. 2.) HOW SHALL WE GET IT? In this Review, in the month of October, 1857, there appeared an Article on the See Bishoprick, entitled "The Apostolic Church in the Apostolic position."* It showed, that, the Episcopate or Order of Bishops being Apostolical, the Bishop of each Diocese had also a proper position in which, by the same Apostolic prescription, he ought to be. That the 'city,' from the earliest time and by the earliest law and usage of the Church, was the seat (See or ka@edpa) of the Bishop. That every city, finally, should have a Bishop, and every Bishop, from the earliest times, had a 'city' as his 'See.' This was shown to be the universal law of Christianity in all time, from St. John at Ephesus, St. James at Jerusalem, * When our first Article was published, the ideas in it struck the minds of many in the Church with great force, and among others a distinguished Clergyman of the South, now deceased. He wrote upon the same subject for the Review, and by some mistake the same title was given to his Article as to ours. It was taken therefore to be a second paper by the same writer. The writer of the first deems it but just to himself to say, that he intended to complete the subject himself, as he himself had started it, and this Article is the second of that series. And while the writer of the Article in January, 1858, manifestly never intended that any mistake should occur, still, as from the similarity of title the mistake has occurred in many cases, to the Author's personal knowledge, he thinks it but just to himself to advertise the readers of the Review of the fact. St. Polycarp at Smyrna, St. Clement at Rome, down to the present Bishops of London, of Edinburgh, of Paris, of Moscow, of Athens, of Quebec. It was proved to be the universal usage of the Christian Church over all the space and extent of the Christian world, so far as the Catholic and Apostolic Churches, pure or corrupt, have spread, East and West, North and South, Greek and Latin, Chaldean, Syrian, Armenian, Egyptian and Abyssinian, everywhere, save with us who are and ought to be the American Catholic Church, the Church, whose doctrine, descent and discipline, fit us, alone of all competitors that are in this great Missionary field, to be the universal, all-embracing, all-containing Church of this great nation. And with us, that we should have taken the territorial title, that from States, instead of that from Cities, against this universal prescription of time for eighteen centuries, and of place over the whole world, happened, we suppose, partly through the thoughtlessness of the persons who received and settled the Episcopate, having no clear perceptions of the relations which the City, as such, bears to Society in general, and also to the organic powers of the Church, as concerns progress, unity and discipline. Partly it happened, we suppose, through a timorousness, connecting itself, however unreasonably, with the new Constitution of the country. The English cities, as it is well known, gave to the Bishops of the establishment of England, I who are at the same time members of the House of Peers and Bishops of Apostolic descent, the title of Baron. Thus the Bishop of London is "My Lord of London." From these reasons, we suppose, our Bishopricks, instead of being entitled in the true way, obtained their titles from States, at least by in *The Bishops in the Eleventh of Henry II., in a dispute concerning Becket, stated, that they did not sit merely as Bishops, but as Barons; and told the House of Peers, "Nos Barones, vos Barones, Pares hic sumus." In the very year before, in the Tenth of Henry II., it was declared by the Constitutions of Clarendon, that Bishops and all other persons who hold of the King in capite have their possessions of him "sicut baroniam" and "sicut ceteri barones debeant interesse judiciis curiæ Regis."-Hook's Church Dictionary, 7th Ed.. pp. 116. In fact, any one who knows anything of the Feudal system can see, that it must have been so, both from the historic fact and the nature of the tenure of power and property under that system. |