CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHY.

William Chillingworth, A. M. Chancellor of Salisbury, and Prebend of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.

William Chillingworth was born 1602, at Oxford, having for his godfather Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. Edacated at a private grammarschool in his native city, be was admitted of Trinity College, where he distinguished himself by an application to Mathematics and Theology. But he was soon converted to Popery by the noted Jobn Fisher, and went to Douay; but in 1631, returned to England. From his intercourse with Laud he came back to Protestantism, wrote several defences of it, but above all,his greatwork entitled, The Religion of Protestants, or safe Way to Salvation. Preferment now poured in upon him; but he for a time refused promotion, objecting to the Articles and the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed. He at length, however, accepted of the chancellorship of Salisbury, withthe prebend of Brixworth, in Nor. thamptonshire. In the civil wars he attached himself to the Royal party; took a leading part in the siege of Gloucester, whence he retired to Arundel

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Castle, which was taken by the Parliamentary forces. Here he fell ill through exertion, and was removed to Chichester, where be died, 1644. He is said to have been a man of little stature, but of great soul. Cheynell, a fanatic clergyman,molested him in his last moments, and at bis interment insulted his memory. He threw a copy of his famous. book into his grave, as full of carnal reason and damnable heresy. Tillotson and Locke, however, were sensible of his incomparable merits, and will send his enlogium down to posterity.-Evans's Sequel to the Sketch,

ESSAYS, EXTRACTS. &c.

Truth and Unity.

The presumptuous imposing of the senses of men upon the general words of God, and laying them upon men's consciences together; this vain conceit, that we can speak of the things of God better than in the words of God; this deifying our own interpretations, and enforcing them upon others; this restraining of the word of God from that latitude and generali ty, and the understandings of men from that liberty wherein Christ and his Apostles left them, is, and hath been, the only

fountain of all the schisms of the church, and that which makes them immortal. Tako away these walls of separation, and all will quickly be one. Require of Christians only to believe in Christ, and to call no man master but him only: let those leave claiming infallibility that have no title to it; and let them, that in their words diselaim,it,(as Protestants do) disclaim it likewise in their actions. In a word, restore Christians to their just and fall liberty of captivating their understanding to Scripture only; and then, as rivers when they have a free passage run all to the ocean, so it may well be hoped, by God's blessing, that universal liberty, thus moderated, may quickly reduce Christendom to TRUTH and UNITY.-Chillingworth.

which an answer has been rea ceived, promising future more ample communications. To this answer, which contains much pleasing information, we hope to give insertion next month: and in the mean time présent our readers with a translation of part of the original tract which exhibits at once a clear. and concise view of the doctrines of Unitarianism, and of the evidence, both from Scripture and Reason, by which they are supported. The translation is taken from the Christian Register, an American publication.-ED.

The great and

venerable

men who gave to the Reformátion its peculiar features, ears nestly laboured to bring to light and establish these two princi ples; that the holy scriptnres are the only guide of cur faith, and rule of practice; and that every man possesses the sacred and unalienable right of interpreting them for himself. Proceeding upon these principles, they expunged many errors and corruptions, by which the simplicity and beauty of Christiani ty had been deformed,

The sect of which we treat, in forming for themselves their particular system of faith and discipline, have kept in view the principles, and followed the example of these reformers. They have not, however, been such scrupulous imitators as toshrink from farther advances in any case where these men, either through fear of too much in.