ESSAYS, THEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL. RIGHT OF PRIVATE JUDGMENT.* THE metempsychosis of error is a curious phenomenon. Though not immortal, it transmigrates through many modes of being before it is finally destroyed. Apparently dead, buried, rotten consigned to dust and darkness so long ago, that the very volumes in which it lies entombed are worm-eaten, and the controversies in which it seemingly perished no longer read, it often breathes and lives again after the lapse of centuries, and 'revisits the glimpses of the moon ;'-not usually, it is true, in the very form in which it disappearedin that it would not be lightly tolerated again in a shape adapted to new times and circumstances; but 1. Mémoire en Faveur de la Liberté des Cultes. Par ALEXANDRE VINET. 8vo. à Paris: 1828. 2. The Articles treated on in Tract 90 reconsidered, and their Interpretation vindicated; in a Letter to the Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D., Canon of Christ Church. By the Rev. E. B. PUSEY, D.D. 8vo. Oxford: 1841. |