necessary or bad article can never be cheap, and that a good article is always worth a fair price. A bargain was ever afterwards associated in her mind with depreciated wages and the misery of the poor; and the charm which it had once possessed in her eyes was entirely dispelled by the recollection of the sorrow and oppression which were so often involved in its production. A RELIC OF MARTIN LUTHER. [We do not give the following as a specimen of what we consider the correct interpretation of the passage referred to, but as a production of the Great Reformer, never before presented to the English reader. It is full of his vigour of thought and expression; and indeed, such is the consummate Antichristianism of the enemy whom he was raised up to overthrow, that every evil described in Scripture may be applied to it. We are indebted for the translation to a clerical friend, who is deeply engaged in rescuing from oblivion some of Luther's extraordinary works.] REVELATION IX. 1, &c. : "And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit."-Angels throughout the Apocalypse mean bishops of the church, as at Ephesus and Smyrna. But let us turn attention to our fifth angel, who is the first amongst the three that usher in tremendous woe into the world. Four had sounded in the preceding chapter. "The star that fell from heaven unto the earth," appeared either in the person of Alexander of Hales, or, as I deeply believe, in the holy St. Thomas, the founders of scholastic theology, and this fifth angel sounding and erecting himself, either was the first to introduce Pagan philosophy into Christendom, or was its great patron, particularly of the Aristotelian system. Observe, "he takes the key of the bottomless pit," and mark how he has opened it too. He exhibits to us the heathen wisdom which had lain long dead, and through the apostles exploded. "And there arose a smoke out of the pit," meaning Aristotle and other sophists, as the smoke of a great furnace." It soon gets the upper hand, far and wide the half-pagan, half-school divinity pervades the Church; in equal repute with the wisdom and word of Christ. Instantly the Sun of Righteousness and the truth of Jesus were smothered. Men forgot by faith to account Him as their righteousness. They set up works for this end instead of truth; they instilled increasing and deeper darkness into the human mind. He adds, "that the air was darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit;" not that darkness obscured the sun, but the air, yet in a measure the bright luminary also. Christ can be obscured together with faith, which latter may be the air or wind, and by the means of the teaching of man. "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth;" i. e. scholastic theologians, and named with propriety Locusts; for, as these animals fly in clouds without a king to guide them, so these schoolmen have no conductor, I mean Christ Jesus. They destroy and eat up every green vegetable where they alight, and these individuals, these masters of the schools of divinity, burn, and devour, and devastate the whole green vernal carpet of the meadow of Christ; that is, they altogether nip the promising fruits of faith. "And unto them was given power, as the scorpions A RELIC OF MARTIN LUTHER. [We do not give the following as a specimen of what we consider the correct interpretation of the passage referred to, but as a production of the Great Reformer, never before presented to the English reader. It is full of his vigour of thought and expression; and indeed, such is the consummate Antichristianism of the enemy whom he was raised up to overthrow, that every evil described in Scripture may be applied to it. We are indebted for the translation to a clerical friend, who is deeply engaged in rescuing from oblivion some of Luther's extraordinary works.] REVELATION IX. 1, &c. “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth : and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit."-Angels throughout the Apocalypse mean bishops of the church, as at Ephesus and Smyrna. But let us turn attention to our fifth angel, who is the first amongst the three that usher in tremendous woe into the world. Four had sounded in the preceding chapter. "The star that fell from heaven unto the earth," appeared either in the person of Alexander of Hales, or, as I deeply believe, in the holy St. Thomas, the founders of scholastic theology, and this fifth angel sounding and erecting himself, either was the first to introduce Pagan philosophy into Christendom, or was its great patron, particularly of the Aristotelian system. Observe, "he takes the key of the bottomless pit," and mark how he has opened it too. He exhibits to us the heathen wisdom which had lain long dead, and through the apostles exploded. "And there arose a smoke out of the pit," meaning Aristotle and other sophists, 66 as the smoke of a great furnace." It soon gets the upper hand, far and wide the half-pagan, half-school divinity pervades the Church; in equal repute with the wisdom and word of Christ. Instantly the Sun of Righteousness and the truth of Jesus were smothered. Men forgot by faith to account Him as their righteousness. They set up works for this end instead of truth; they instilled increasing and deeper darkness into the human mind. He adds, "that the air was darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit;" not that darkness obscured the sun, but the air, yet in a measure the bright luminary also. Christ can be obscured together with faith, which latter may be the air or wind, and by the means of the teaching of man. "And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth;" i. e. scholastic theologians, and named with propriety Locusts; for, as these animals fly in clouds without a king to guide them, so these schoolmen have no conductor, I mean Christ Jesus. They destroy and eat up every green vegetable where they alight, and these individuals, these masters of the schools of divinity, burn, and devour, and devastate the whole green vernal carpet of the meadow of Christ; that is, they altogether nip the promising fruits of faith. "And unto them was given power, as the scorpions |