* * * * * PASSAGE IN WHISTON. (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 397.) The book for which J.T. inquires is: "The Important Doctrines of Original Sin, Justification by Faith and Regeneration, clearly stated from Scripture and Reason, and vindicated from the Doctrines of the Methodists; with Remarks on Mr. Law's late Tract on New Birth. By _Thomas_ Whiston, A.B. Printed for John Whiston, at the Boyle's Head, Fleet Street. Pp. 70." I do not know who the author was. Perhaps a son of the celebrated _William_ Whiston, six of whose works are advertised on the back of the title-page; and whose _Memoirs_, Lond. 1749, are "sold by Mr. Whiston in Fleet Street." If the passage cited by J. T. is all that Taylor says of Thomas Whiston, it conveys an erroneous notion of his pamphlet, which from pp. 49. to 70. is occupied by the question of regeneration. I think his doctrine may be shortly stated thus: Regeneration accompanies the baptism of adults, and follows that of infants. In the latter case, the time is uncertain; but the fact is ascertainable by the recipients becoming spiritually minded. Afterwards he says: "I cannot dismiss this subject without observing _another sense of regeneration_ in the Gospel. However, _this makes no alteration in the doctrine I have before established_; because, with us, regeneration and new birth are terms that bear the same exact meaning. What I before delivered of the spiritual new birth or regeneration is strictly true, though the word regeneration _is sometimes used in another sense_. It is not to be there understood of a spiritual or figurative birth, but of a literal and actual revival of the body from corruption. But _this is not that new birth we have before inquired after_, but only the assured and certain consequence of our preserving ourselves to the end in that spiritual state or birth we have entered into in this world. That I do not represent the sense of the word regeneration unfairly, may be gathered from Matt. xix. 28., rightly pointed and distinguished: