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Ihc warm beatings of my heart, while lie opened his j I seize upon metaphors because I have nothin - betown to me in return, lie wo ihl not have susiir-ctori I t.-r t . ; r ;, a i

! me ot buch a nwnamre. It has never belonged to ! meant to nn,. !, ,i , , ..i

From the New-York Observer. TRIAL OF THE REV. DR. BEECHER FOR HERESY.

contjxvei.. my character, either here or any where else, to run-i constitution .....,-;...' i . . i

h,".V wrni?, Jhjc .th. Presbytery -KA u .v clings and mask my sentiments. I nl-j instinctive as the principle whxh teaches a robin met and cned with prayer. Dr. Beecher resu- w '3 f K ,";:m ftf:?t- But brother Wilson seems to ! to build her nest, or a lion to eat fleh rid not

tHHK tlial i go heal first, and sometimes rather reck- j grass. Against this notion of instinctive depravity, 'j,- - leading men of necessity to do nothing but sin," I lut suppose there is on close examination rrv, ! i-r,mn,i it,- t ,ii

j - . wi41Vrf ...v, column ill miiu i utciarc, dISCrCDaticV between mv I, is I. -....1 f.. r-m.. .1. . 1 i r 1 . -. '..

. - 1.1c vunitjMOiki -11 11.11 me oeoraviiv 01 auun man. min :

icsl in

med his defence :

It has been said, tint ability and obligation, when brought together, imply absolute perfection.

Anu so sav the Pei fectionists. Hut Dr. WiUnti i

uoes mmseu great nnnstiee. :t he sns tint there ; " "luri1 ronow mat I see and hide it ? his destitution of rplimon. vnl.mtnrr ii.-.i

is no man but must be pet feet, if he h is the power ! ' ,lilt 1 ,wve .ecret meanings which I keep back from er a holy nor a depraved nature, in resect to aeof being so. Tlr.it proposition Hssuuies. that every : I,lcPUo!iCVlcw? Is there no such thins possible as . tual depravity, is possible; that enmity to (Joel free agent docs all thai he is able to do; so tint if; j1 "'.stake? And if a man thinks he agrees, when ' impenitence and unbelief, constituting ihe depravyou show that lie is able to keep (Josl's command-: "e !eall-v dmers. mnsi he be a hvjKK-nte? Do men i itv of adnk ,:i, arc voluntary, ornate ad inments, it proves that he tW keep them. never ,n-i!e mistakes who are admitted to bo ,on. excuaablcSwickcdness 1 '

i nave pi oven inai man is ai.ic to obev tl.e com- , V ... ' " "ul u,e runSe ot lwssibility. i I ssid so then, and I say so still- and if th:t

tnanumenis ot ii.ut, wiietner in the "ospel or the i l,ml 1 """S wiiicu l noK! to be in the Confession is heresy, the court will say o- or if the ores

"ll"1- " "' ms. -o, men i noii hum , .i n vomers who uiur oviery does not. ttie "eneral ;'-emhly w

man is p it-i,; oec.mse no nee agent nas auiuiv. ' uc.oo. li. vnson can estaiihsli ; tor iiold

and

unless he does all that he is commanded to do. " i iM;s charge, !-' must prove two th

ling these sentiments it shall be needful

imrrs: first, what I ; for me to leave the church, if is i.-.v in ;.i,!,t..

Dr. Wilson said, that Dr. Beecher had admitted j ;aitl; :1'U second iv, that I was not and could not be I whether my duty will be to obey God" or to .obev that so long as a man is both able and willing,! loncst 111 saying it. Has he proved them? Can j man. There is," and there must be, something there can be no sin. Did he mean to refute his 10 Prove them' He has not proved them; but he on account of which the will always acts wronown argument? j Pjiblicly made the charge; and I cannot but con-! something anterior to voluntary action; some reaDr- Beecher replied by asking whether all men ; ldcr ii;.s course in this matter, as unkind, unbrothcr- son why men go right or go wrong; and this we who were able to pay their honest debts, do always j '.v and mvldlo'";S- Ciiristian charity hopeth all things 1 may, without impropriety, call a holy or an unhopay them? and whether if a man did not pay his i a,ld behevcth all things; and it never will admit the Iy "nature. Native depravity is the constution il

debts, it follows that of course he was not able ?

Did a miser give always according to his ability? or is a liar not able to speak ihenuth? Dr. Beecher said, that he was amazed at the argument of the Perfectionists; and still more, that his brother Wilson should have classed himself with them.

'K!flU-l Al-it. i.i l....l 1 l.

-"-""l-- "ten u Diuuiei, anu especially a sn so odious as that of hyiociisy, till the proof is irresis

tible

I have attempted to

iow that the Confession

ground of the certainty that man will act wroii":

and when I say that there can be neither holy !

ary powers of a Presbytery, in trying those whom they are to ordain, are secured to them by thoWY.rd of(iod,and can neither be taken away nor abandon

ed.' Three of the Presidents of Princeton CVHere. viz: Edwards, Withcrspnon, and Divies, held to the doctrine of tlie new school, on the subii.ct of man's nat

ural ability ; these it is admitted, were some of the

most illustrious men that the church has ever been favored to jMissess; and yet they held that very heresy, for which I am to be turned out of the church. I might add to the number the n inieo! Samuel Stanhope Smith, for he agreed with them in this opinion. B.it I am not now in the possession of the documentary proof necessary to establish the f;c.t. Were these men charged with heresy? outhe con-i trary they are to this day eulogized in the highest strains, by the very mer who are the cbair.pieTis of orthodoxy in the Presbytei n Church. What man ' has more exactly or more fully stated the doctrines I hold, on the subject of natural ability ar.d mora! inability, tlun Dr. Witherspoon? and "vet who has i been more extolled by Dr. Green? " ; But it is said that the General Assembly itself, our highest ecclesi istica! judicatory. has condemned : my sentiments in the case of D. vis's book, cnti'led the Gospel Plan. I deny the fact. !J;,d I ihe ! documents in my h and, I could sl ow that this con-1 dernnation was not based on thes-1 ch -.chines alone

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posed I meant to leach jierfection. But he atlirms that I leach that from which others draw the doctrine of perfection as an inference. Now admitting

the lact that tiiev do draw such an inference, the

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nor unholy action without knowledge, conscience, dislinct charges, out ol which' two only 'refer to enailfl n Will. I ll l:t monn fliil 1 ..,. . .. I . '. . ... -

teaches man's natural aI,ifi,v , I 7 Z ..: . I .., .7. , " Cl. . t.ments at all resembling mine. And I say tl

i- lii " ' - - " gcio,coio umiy in man, nmcii miKCS U certain lie will err. js nethiny to show tl,-, f ii- ,;. ,.. Ins moral inability, as fa en and l...t .,.,. ! R..t I ...... :. .1- .. .. , , noiinng to j.now tint u

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jj;o, s.iiu ji. r., auoiiier argumcni urougiit a- . - --. j , rfli ,n, uieiuuing ieoerai re- j and sin as involuntary and necessary. J do

gainst me is that the heresies I have taught lead to ! l"ttcm;"llMI! l" covenant witn Adam and his pos- j throw back actual sin on that which is ant

the doctrine ot perfection, as their naturr.l result I I1"1: ' ulc inipuiaiiouot sin, the guilt of it, its pun-! to all action. Dr. Wilson has conceded, that he himself never sun- ' ,f'"cnt, and the original bias of our nature and will ' I repeat it, that I am sneakin" in the emv,n of

t have taught nothing against the Confession nf! adult man. I ,vibi U; u-:,l,lto i.;..i. ; ...

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....... tuiuidi. , an inai l nave written and be overcome by regeneration, is voluntary; tin

a,uluu '"l SUO eClS, IS in StllC.I nm,r anr nnPU m lino ,m.Wst:m.ti,

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bosom a;;d ;;!i: slie hold miiiist!

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thi' "round of accus'.tion.

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:,cr own too far. is nc: !,

with the Confession; with the views of ihe standard !

ng, conscience and will.

question is, whether they draw it logically; whether j wnlcrs ln the church, and with the Bible. I have

my premises lead to any such conclusion ? And I j f"0"'1 uai rny views oi regeneration, by the special have proved that they "do not. Will Dr Wilson mfluence of the Spirit, and the instrumentality of

afrirni.thata man holds and teaches whatsoever other men draw as inferences front his language? There were ignorant and unlearned men who perverted even t:e language of Paul. If a man's doctrine is to be tested by the use which heretical persons make

oi n, men nr. .ison himself is most certainly a

truth, are expressed fully by the Larger and Shorter Chatechisms and by the article concerning effectual calling, in the Confession. I do not deny, but admit the direct intnposition of the direct power of God, so far as it respects the bodily and natural

power of man, so (ar as these are calculated to im

heretic. Tor did not the Shakers claim hint? and j PetJc llis emancipation fiom sin. Whatever iinped-

nnciu may arise irom bodily habit, or constitution, maybe, and no doubt is, operated upon directly; and in these resects I never denied or disbelieved that an exertion of God's natural power, so fir hs it respects natural things, is concerned in the work of man's regeneration. This I have always believed, and well I ma v : for no'limu but the direct inWnn-

had been previously taken by such men as Witherspoon, that great apostle of truth, and by President Davis, thai man whose whole soul was in a flame

of lire in Ihe cause and service of J.-s is C

did not the New Lights claim him.' They

insisted that in m tinuiniim their systems, they were only carrying out iho principles which Dr. Wilson had laid down. Such a ground of charge will not do; it is a sword which cuts both ways. Another charge, which I am to answer, is that of

Having slandered the whole church ot God. 1 ratii-

thi.-.k that such slander is no, actionable. Men I s'!'" ot God's almighty power can account for my

are usually prosecu'ed for slandering one another; for speaking falsely of men a!ove ground, not below ground; and the whole Church of God is not a living agent ta be the object of slander. All that I have done is to state historical facts, according to my knowledge of history. And if, in so doing. I have even fallen into error, it is not slander. If I have misread the documents, left to us by the fathers, it is a mistake, but it is not slander. But I have proved the truth of my allegations with respect to the church. I have shown that she holds and has held in all ages, that man is a free agent, but lies in condition of moral imp itencv ; and I say tint this is no slander on the church, but the revetse. It is not to her discredit, but to her honor, that she believes the truth. If I had said that the church held the. doctrine of fatdism. and had tailed to prove it, that would hive been a slander indeed. And now I ask whether Dr. Wilson's charity could not by any ingenuity have found out a more favorable construction to put upon my course? And even admitting that I had fallen into a mistake, in stating what I believe fo be true; could he not have found for mv error a more brotherly name? Dr. Wilson's other charge against me, is that of hypocrisy. The occasion of his preferring this charge w..s the refusal of Presbytery to institute an

inmiity into the si-ntiments I held on the ground of common fame. Being dissatisfied with that decision, he appealed to the Synod, in which court I defended the course the Presbytery had pursued; denied the existence of that common fame, which had been alledged to exist. . and to furnish ground of process apainst me; and openly avowed mv faith in the Confession. It is in this avowal that I am said to have acted hypocritically. The doctrines I held, were as well known then as they are now; and when I spoke of the Confession's containing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, my words are to be interpreted by the subject on which I was speaking, and are not to be taken out of the record and made to apply to something else which I was

not talking about. The entire system of doctrine contained in the Confr-ssion was not the matter in dispute: the discussion had reference only to a few points of doctrine, concerning which I was charged with holding error. It is an irrefragable law of interpretation, that words, spoken are to be understood in reference only to the matter concerning which they were uttered. Now it was in reference to these particular doctrines, that I said, there had been a time when I could not fully accord with the language oftho Confession; but that since I had attended more fully to the subject, and had acquired more knowledge of the meaning of the terms employed as technics at the time the Confession was adopted. terms now obsolete but then well under

stood 1 had become convinced that instrument did contain the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I had no such thought as applying this language, rigidly, to the whole Confession, and every particular it contained; but I meant the remark in reference (o the dtxtrines concerning which, it was said my soundness was suspected: and they are doctrines of vital importance. With respect to these, I once more repeat the declaration our Confession teaches the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If indeed some of its terms are taken in the me tiling nsu diy attached to them at this day, it speaks en or; but receiving its

own conviction of sin. which was instantaneous as a

flash of lightning. What was it that opened my eyes? What was it lhat directed my natural powers to such thoughts as instantly rilled and absorbed them? How was it, that the whole train of the oppcrations of my mind was, in a moment, turned to that subject, and that alone; and that the whole hemisphere was instantaneously tilled with light? What convinced me in an instant of my sin. and spread before me the terrors of the law of God? How was it. that I saw at a glance, the broad circumference of that law, and my own voluntary, total, and constant violation of it? No doubt there was a direct interposition; no doubt there was in some respects, and to a certain degree, an exertion of God's omnipotent power. But it was his own

language in the sense m which the fr.ituers intended, it speaks the very truth. I'or did I say this fir the sake ofnnking a flourish, and producing opuLr eflVct; and had the intercourse between myself and my brother Wilson been such, as I weep to think it has not been, h id he felt

truth, that wrought upon my heart. God does not

change man as if he were a block; but as a free agent, and by means properly adapted, to a free a-

gpr-.T, according, as it seems good in his own sight

he puts forth his natural power, only so far as to

make that which is moral more sure in its results. There is butjinother ptint'which needs explanation, and on wnich the minds of some of my brethren miy stiil lihor. 1 have already shown that my sermon on the native character of man, was not designed to have any reference to original sin; that

it sp ike only of the present, actual condition of a-

dult mind; and that the question how a man came

into such a state, was not so much as touched; that . . - .1 . .... i i

i was leacmng me existence oi toni uenravitv a-

gainst a wily and practised antagonist, with the

sole view of cutting up his false positions, and prov

ing regeneration necessary ; and that if I did say what h id the appearance of looking back and of doubting or denying the doctrine of original sin,

my 1 uiguage is not to be so understood. B it, it is

said, that though it might not have been my ex

press meaning to sweep away the doctrine of original sin, yet lhat I constructed a scythe which efivc-1 tiially did the wink, and that there can be no such , thing as reconciling the proposition there laid down.

with the liehef of original sin, at all. I presume this is the iliiliculty. Now to explain it will be easy. There were two systems in regard to adult actual depravity. The one holding depravity to be a moral instinct, a created faculty of the soul as much as any oilier faculty which controlled the will according to its moral nature as the helm governs the ship, and upon which the will could no more act, than the ship can act on the helm. The otlu-r a philosophy which discards this instinctive involuntary moral taste and substitutes the direct efficiency of God for the creation of all exercises and acts of choice, good and b id. These philosophical theories were'prevalent lon

before this controversy arose. The question concerning original sin, was not discussed in my congregation; touching thai question, all was quiet as tiie sleep of infancy. The question was r.s to the voluntariness of the depravity of an adult man. Keep this in remeniberincc, and then let me explain the drift of lhat sermon. After proving that

ihe depravity of man is very great, I proceed in the sermon, to say that it is voluntary, and this doctrine I advance in opposition the philosophy which represents the existence of a great black pool, somewhere behind the will; I don't know how big; but winch continually pours out its waters of de lh, killing all the grass and withering all 'he plants, and spreidnig ruin and dcsol.it inn wherever 'hey come; waters which turn the will as if it wer.- a mill-wheel attached to some sort of patent

model, which is continually working out. sin. I do not of course intend to be understood as giving the language in which the doctrine is advanced.

But I do not say, that there is nothing before the. will which is derived from Adam's sin; but I call it a depraved nature in a different sense from actual transgression I insist that all his unbelief and sin are voluntary, and that if you takeaway understanding, conscience, and the freedom of the will, all accountability is gone. The being is no longer a man ; he is a stone, an oyster. One more topic remains to which I must solicit the attention of the presbytery. Supposing that,

in the explanations I have made, I shall not have

succeeihu in convincing ail mv hrelhren of my en

tire agreement with the Confession and the Bible, as they understand both; siiil the discrepancy is no? such as is inconsistent with the ends of church fel

lowship and an honest subscription to the Confes

sion.

1. Similar ditVerene.es have existed from the be

ginning. My position is tins, that a hair - L.-o-.li. coincidence in each p ariicularpoint. never was. made or understood or intended to be made, a pre-requis-

ite condition of adopting the Confession. Nor has it ever been so in practice. The court has only to decide on one thing: whether my dilVerenc.es, f I do differ, are such as to vacate the system; to put a sword into its vitals. If they are, then I ought

to be put out of the church forthwith. But if they leave the system heart-whole, with all its great organ iz.at ion complete'and untouched, and there is only a philosophical difference with resiect to some of its parts; then, I say, such differences have ever existed in ihe church, and subset ipf ion to tire Confession has never been-understood as bunking the contrary. 'J. The differences have been so great, thai they did, at onetime, produce a temporary separation between the Synods of New York and Pinlatlelphi i . The Synods were divided on what were then called new measures and : rw divinity: and in the heat

of strife, they rctnained ap art for nine years yet 3. Without any change of opinion or any relinquishment of their respective peculiarities, thev came together again, wept over all their divisions and alienations, and unkind and unbrotherly feelings towards each other; and adopted the Confession of Faith, with a declaration, that a subscription to itjmplied no more than this, the subscriber believed it to contain the system of truth taught in the Word of God. I ask, did these Synods come together online ground that the Confession contained tho truth of God, in ihe sense in which each other understood it? oras themselves understood it. They

knew better than fo adopt it in any other way. Did they mean by mutual subscription to imply, that there was an exact agreement, as to their views in all things? Far from it. They came together with better religious views and feelings; they had found

by sad cxcrience lhat where contention is, there is

every evil work; and they mutually agreed to bury the hatchet and waik together tinder lhat compromise which alone had first made our church, and under which she had grown up in the enjoyment of unparalleled prosperity and the brightest smiles of Heaven. And at this day the question is, whether a controversy, which sundered the church for nine years, and all whose fruits were wormwood and gall, shall be renewed, by making exact agreement in all things essential to the adoption of the common symbol; and whether those volcanic fires, which have once rent the bosom of ihe church, shall now break forth anew and burn with redoubled fury, desolating in all directions all that is good and fair? That there have always existed diversities of sentiment which, if pressed and insisted on, might have ft.rnished ground of separation, 1 can show from various sources.

In a note appended to Wilson's Essay on the Probation of Fallen Alan, page 101, is an express re

solution by tuese Synods which excludes all idea of entire and strict uniformity. It is as follows: When the Westminister Confession and Cate

chisms were received by the Presbyterian church

in America, and adopted by a Synodical act, in 17iU

it was with this Proviso. 'Ami in case any minister of Ihe Synod or can didate for the ministry, shall have any scruple will

respect to any article or articles of said Confession,

ho shall in tune of making said declaration, declare his scruples to the Synod or Presbytery; who shall, not withstanding, admit him to ihe exercise of 1 1 it ministry within our bounds, and to ministerial coin munion, if the Synod or Presbytery shall judge hb

scruples not essential, or necessary in docliine wor

ship or government. The act of Synod, in 112'.).

was ihe basis of Union in 15S; but the discretion

i ue man inigm eiy well have l:een condemned on such an array of "different errors, when he had taught only the doctrine of natural ability he m;ht have remained undisturbed in possession of his nim-

Mir, lai sunning, i know very well that mmv at

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an has !. i ;t is teat by i-.o!

and yet after that declaration, Dr. Spring has s nt by the voice of ihe General Assembly as

that day, as at this, held natural abih

error. But I deny that any man had since, been put out of the church f..r in this doctrine or .any of the others, o now sought to destroy ine. And the ; men known, not only by their pica, i their writings, to hold these sentinn n

only been tolerated, but have stood high in honor and influence throughout the church. -Thev we.e held by Dr. Wilson of Philadelphia why was he not tried? The Assembly met 'in Philadelphia every year; his sentiments were not secret, but it was more than Dr. Green dared to do. The breath of s! i rider had never tain ed his fair character, his well ........ J w.ill Illustrious u:iiiuuiu.i, c..ii tit: i; .3 eOliC

to heaven with as unspoiled a fame in the Presbyterian church, as any redeemed spirit whom ungels have conducted to glory, When Air. Barnes was tried, Dr. Spring declared that he wis ready to sink or swim with him;

been

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public and honored representative to the churches 1 in F.urope. What then is the mailer, which makes; that so had in one man, that he most be excommunicated; while it is so innocent in another that he i may go all over the world, representing the Presby- j terian church of (he United Stales? All that I: hold is the old approved New F.nglaml divinity; it is that and nothing else. And all the attempts which J

have oeen made to identity me with the .New Haven school, as that is represented, are slander. There is nothing new in my creed. I learned it under Dwight; and mv preaching is as sound as was

the preaching oi lhat illustrious man. it there is any thing new in the school which has been named after Dr. Taylor, it h is not originated or changrd the faith 1 hold. If Dr. Taylor is a heretic, he stands on his own bottom, and he alone must answer it. I stand for myself, and for the Confession of Faith, and for the Bible; and all attempts to get a fog around another man, and then say that I believe the same as he does, are slanders. I protest against this representative heresy, this plan of dressing somebody else with bear skins until you have made him an object of fear and horror, and then to cry out Dr. Beecher believes as he does. Oh!

but Dr. Taylor is my friend and th it confirms it. Alas! is every man a heretic, bee. '.use his friend is unhappily falsely accused of heresy? I confess without hesitation that I don't believe Dr. Taylor is worthy of ecclesiastical disfranchisement. He would be, I admit, if lie believed as some under

stand anu represent him toheheve; i.ut thai is quite

i different case. 1 have always refused 1o permit

Dr. Taylor's opinions or those of any other man.

have as u-

niformly declared my disbelief of his unsoundness in the faith, and have refused to join thecry of heresy and denunciation. 1 hold th peculiar doctrines of the New England divinity. :,s thev were

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Green said that he had no objection to them; that

he could get along with them very well. Nor ! was ibis the opinion of Dr. Green alon Th'- !

General Assembly mist have been of the same

mind, for they laid down a pi in of union and lel-

lowship between the l resbvtei i in church and the

churches of New England : and for a long time their

delegates voted in each others courts; and to ties very hour you give these men the tight lnnd ;1 fellowship. Will it besaid thattheir doctrines were not know n ?

Their doctrines were published to the whole weild. j .and

tilt :i ;

But if she

that d iy described b who have been i i.iac stand at a distance, out, al.:?! alas! thai i:i come to desol ii:.;:!. p: caniion. a little ! :

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anu were as wen Known then, as they are now; a it was with a full knowledge of th: so docirines.il

those churches were admitted tocotrospoudoeco. Can there be a stronger proof lhat the sentiments of the New England divines were not con-i.lerod heretical? I stand shell ered, therefore, bv d liber .'. and rcileratcd decisions of the whole I'.i -'..-1 : ..i

church. I very well remember the comme;

of that .arrangement. The young Edw.-nK prcident of Union Collcco, was at the head of die com mitt ec who reported a plan to the General A ast ua ly

icconling to which ruling elders and -oiiiiui'.tee- . men were allowed to sit side by side in the Goner- j al Assembly itself. The obj'-ct of the arrangement j was the accommodation and comfort of that flood j of emigrant oietr which came pouring from New ;

liifland, and settling down in thy miiUt of Piesl - on

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of grace and ll.e evil hour let the and then bung ;! o-ui . Us men. l.t

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