a pamphlet in book's clothing.

A most extraordinary performance it certainly is, dealing with the
arrangements entered into by the three persons of the Trinity, in as bald
and matter-of-fact language and as commercial a spirit as if the author
had been handling the adjustment of a limited partnership between three
retail tradesmen. But, lest a layman's judgment might be considered
insufficient, the treatise was submitted by the writer to one of the most
learned of our theological experts,--the same who once informed a church
dignitary, who had been attempting to define his theological position,
that he was a Eutychian,--a fact which he seems to have been no more
aware of than M. Jourdain was conscious that he had been speaking prose
all his life. The treatise appeared to this professor anti-trinitarian,
not in the direction of Unitarianism, however, but of Tritheism. Its
anthropomorphism affected him like blasphemy, and the paper produced in
him the sense of "great disgust," which its whole character might well
excite in the unlearned reader.

All this is, however, of little importance, for this is not the work of
Edwards referred to by the present writer in his previous essay. The
tract recently printed as a volume may be the one referred to by Dr.
Bushnell, in 1851, but of this reference by him the writer never heard
until after his own essay was already printed. The manuscript of the
"Observations" was received by Professor Smyth, as he tells us in his
introduction, about fifteen years ago, from the late Reverend William T.
Dwight, D. D., to whom it was bequeathed by his brother, the Reverend Dr.
Sereno E. Dwight.

But the reference of the present writer was to another production of the
great logician, thus spoken of in a quotation from "the accomplished
editor of the Hartford 'Courant,'" to be found in Professor Smyth's
introduction:

"It has long been a matter of private information that Professor Edwards
A. Park, of Andover, had in his possession an published manuscript of
Edwards of considerable extent, perhaps two thirds as long as his
treatise on the will. As few have ever seen the manuscript, its contents
are only known by vague reports.... It is said that it contains a
departure from his published views on the Trinity and a modification of
the view of original sin. One account of it says that the manuscript
leans toward Sabellianism, and that it even approaches Pelagianism."

It was to this "supp