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vi those whom calumny calls heretics. Some concern is likewise had for the credit and integrity of those among ourselves, who may so far lend a helping hand to the guilty as to cultiyate the same ignorance, both in themselves and in others.

We are living in times of strange perversity, or rather of divine and just visitation. Every portion of society seems to be undergoing a decomposition, which has reached Protestantism itself; and in its camp treason of all characters and dimensions has been discovered. Under the impulse of virtual popery, the religion of nature, have issued those, who, not daring to attack what they nominally profess, have disguised and nick-named the best friends of reformed Christianity, and the best measures for advancing it, in order to make both the victims of their unnatural hostility.* Even some, who must be accepted as friends, have yet, by hesitating doubt or disapprobation respecting proceedings, which have exclusively supplied them with all that is elective in their own exposures of papal fraud, given an advantage to the enemy, of which he will not fail to avail himself.† And what shall we say of * See British Critic. In spite of the unworthy imputation of Ultra-Protestantism, there are no individuals, to whome true Protestants are more indebted than Messrs. M'Ghee and O'Sullivan.

† See the generally excellent and unanswerable Strictures on the Letter of Dr. Murray relative to Dens' Theology. By a Lay Protestant.