by whofe caprice and obftinacy his hopes have often been disappointed. Even before he arrives at the place of his deftination, what facrifices must he make! To thofe who, tired of manual labour, amufe themselves with the profpect of ease and freedom; to thofe who, for the most part, confined in their own country to the neceffaries of life, expect to repose in the lap of plenty, in fome delicious tropical region; a miffion may feem to promife an advantageous exchange: but from this flattering dream, experience will foon awake thein. A Miffionary muft, like Abraham, leave his country, his kindred, and his father's houfe, and be prepared to go to a place to which Providence may call him. He must forfake all thofe to whom his heart is united by the ties of nature and friendship, and enter in among a people of strange speech, and perhaps of ferocious manners. He must renounce the manifold comforts of civilized life, and be content, in their ftead, with the precarious fubfiftence, the disgusting habits, the filth, and the innumerable inconveniences of rude and uncultivated fociety. He muft part with that fecurity which fweetens all our enjoyments, and which we owe to the protection of the laws, and fubmit to live at the mercy of men who are the fport of the paffions, and, on the flightcft occafions, violate the dictates of juftice and humanity. I may now appeal to every hearer, whether a fervent and operative love be not an indispensable qualification of a Miffionary? What could prevail upon any man to make facrifices fo difagreeable to flesh and blood, fo contrary to the natural inclination of the heart, but a generous hope that the glory of his Saviour fhall be advanced, and fome finners fhall be delivered from vice and mifery, and restored to purity and happiness ? In the abfence of love, it is not easy to conceive that fuch facrifices could be made at all; it is certain that they would at length tire out any other principle. Zeal, kindled by some cause, would be gradually cooled, and finally extinguished by the difficulties which it muft encounter; feltith confiderations would recur with the greater force, for the temporary fufpenfion of their influence; the attention of the Miffionary would be engroffed by his temporal concerns; and he would ultimately abandon a Itation which afforded nothing to gratify his ambition, his avarice, and his love of eafe." In regard to the question about ordination and lay-preaching, we do not deem it our duty at all to intermeddle. Good men, whose capacities we refpect, and whofe candour ought not to be impeached, have, in their honeft inquiries after truth, formed different conclufions While we revere the rights of confcience, we perceive alfo the importance of a spirit of forbearance and gentleness among the minifters of the different names into which the great family of Jefus is, in this imperfect state, divided. The Perfection of God the Fountain of Good. Button. Two Sermons delivered at 1777. By NATHANIEL 12mo, pp. 59, Price 6d. PLAINNESS of language, depth of thought, and aptnefs of metapho. rical illuftration, characterize thefe difcourfes. From Pfalm xlvi. 10, the command to be still, and the reafon of it, that the Governor of the world is God indeed, are explained and enforced in the first fermon. In the fecond, various inferences are deduced from the fubject; as that God has never done, nor permitted any thing without fome defign; that his defign has never been evil, nor mistaken; that it is defirable he thould conduct every thing, that he is equally fit to fere-ordain every thing, &c. We We can cordially recommend thefe difcourfes to a general perufal; at the fame time, that we think a clofe imitation of them by our younger friends in the miniftry, is by no means advifeable. They have the fame excellencies and the fame deficiencies with many of those which have come from our pious and ingenious brethren on the western fide of the Atlantic ocean. Built upon evangelical truths, and forcibly inculcating important leffons, the arguments made ufe of are, notwithstanding, rather philofophic than fcriptural; and very little appears, either of the language of Revelation, or of its grand subject, the cross of Chrift. This intimation feems to us to be loudly called for; and we have fuggefted it from motives of genuine affection. Sermon, preached at the Parish Church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, and St. Anne, Blackfriars, on May 26, 1801, before the Society for Millions to Africa and the East; inftituted by Members of the Established Church being their Firft Anniversary. By the Rev, THOMAS SCOTT, Chaplain of the Lock Hofpital. Also the Report of the Committee to the Annual Meeting, held on the fame Day; and a Lift of Subscribers and Benefactors. To which is prefixed, an Account of the Society. THE above difcourfe, and the object of it, were curforily noticed in our Magazine for June laft, (p. 258) on occafion of its being preached; and we are happy to find its effect in the clofet fully correfponding with the feelings excited in the pulpit. The apoftic's defcription of the Heathen world (Eph. ii. 12.) as "without Chrift, aliens from the commonwealth of Ifrael, and firangers from the covenant of promife, having no hope, and without God in the world," is here confidered and improved in the following manner: after a few introductory remarks, the preacher fhews, 66 The judgment of the apoftle concerning the ftate of the Heathen, as it may be gathered from the text, with illuftrations of the fubje&t, and remarks upon it: 2. To confider the duties incumbent on us in this refpect, and to enquire how far we have criminally neglected them: 3. To fuggeft fome hints refpecting the performance of these duties and 4. To conclude with a few particulars refpecting this Society," 1. The whole of this difcourfe abounds with ftrong reasoning, in mafterly language, and accompanied with beautiful illuftrations: the following paffage is felected, not as fuperior to others in compofition, but as giving a forcible view, in few words, of the importance of the Miffionary Caufe. "When we think of nearly a thoufand millions of our fpecies at once inhabiting this globe, all finners, all having immortal fouls, all to stand before God in judgment, all foon to die, yet to live for ever in another world, either in happiness or mifery; and few (alas, how very few in compariton!) having any ground to hope for happinefs in that eternal ftate when we reflect that another thousand inillions will in a few years have fucceeded the prefent generation, all born in fin, and the children of wrath and difobedience, to be foon fwept away into eternity, and this is the cafe from age to age; and when we remember that "God fo loved the world as to give his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him should not perith, but have everlafting life;" that in infinite mercy he has fent us the Gospel, and led us to embrace it; that we poffefs a good hope through grace, and that the fame Golpel is fuitable, free, and fufficient for all throughout the world, if all heard and believed it; furely the mind that was in Chrift, love to him and his caufe, a deûre to innate his example, and genuine philanthropy, will combinė to 1 to excite us to use all our influence in every way which may tend, either directly or more remotely, to promote the great ends of Emmanuel's incarnation and death upon the crofs. Our life is fhort-a large proportion of it is already fpent; we have lived too much, and too long to ourfelves; and there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wifdom, in the grave, whither we are going. Let us then not merely enquire what we are bound to do, but what we can do; and how any of our labours, efforts, or contributions, according to our several talents, may produce fome effect in fpreading our holy religion; and how we, feeble and infignificant individuals, by combining our influence, and exciting others to join us, may extend its bleffings to the remoteft nations, and to thofe who shall exift in future ages. Surely, this is the grand end for which we ought to value life, after we have known the grace of God in truth; and all that refpects our temporal interefts fhould be entirely fubordinated to the defire of glorifying God and doing good to mankind, above all, in their eternal concerns."- -In the appendix are given Profeffor Carlife's Propofals for re-printing the Scriptures in Arabic; and confiderable extracts from Mr. Moseley's Memoir, on printing the Scriptures in Chinese. A Practical Improvement of the Divine Counfel and Conduct, attempted in a Sermon, occafioned by the Deceafe of W. Cowper, Efq. Preached at Olney, by S. GREATHEED. Second Edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. pp. 56. 15. Williams. WHEN we noticed the former edition of this Sermon (fee Evangelical Magazine for 1800, p. 457) we confined ourselves to the extraordinary experience of Mr. C. which was narrated at confiderable length. In the prefent edition, the improvements and enlargements are so confiderable, as to merit particular notice, not only in the ftyle, which is remarkably correct and neat, but in fome parts of the narrative, and especially the improvement, which is drawn from the fubject with fo much care and judgment, that we fhould be glad to give fome extracts, if room permitted. The very extenfive circulation of this excellent Sermon, how ever, renders it lefs defirable; but as the following paffage corrects a para graph formerly quoted (p. 462) it would be improper to withhold it. Although our beloved friend never was reconciled to his removal from this vicinity, nor ever recovered that freedom in conversation which he enjoyed before his relapfe, yet his health was apparently much improved within two years after he left us; and his mind was at least as Brongly as ever interested in his literary employments. 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ANOTHER inftance of the dark and infcrutable conduct of an allwife and unerring Providence, has recently taken place in the death of the Rey, Mofes Taylor, Minifter of the Gofpel, at Wednesbury, in Staffordfhire. He had regularly preached to the Independent Society in that place for the beft part of twelve months, during which time the congre gation increased to double its former numbers; the affection of the people were ardently attached to him, and confiderable good was done to the fouls of men. He had removed, with his family, from Bonningham, to fettle amongst them only five weeks, when, in confequence of a cold, caught by going into the air after preaching, he was feized with a violent inflammation of the lungs, which, in a few days, terminated his mortal existence. His death was that of a good man. A friend afked him what he thought of dying? to which he replied, "I fhall hazard nothing, for God is my God and Father; but God help my poor wife and children!" A fhort time before he expired, when the cold hand of death was heavily upon him, a friend asked him how he felt? to which he answered " I know whom I have believed." Being again asked if Christ was prefent? he anfwered, "Yes, he is precious, and my Redeemer " With the laft words he fell asleep, and, doubtlefs, awaked with God. His death is a melancholy event to the Chriftian fociety there, as the union appeared peculiarly cordial; and there was a profpect of much good being done. The affection of the poor people, as manifefted in their great grief for the deceafed, and their kind attention to his family, does them much credit. But the providence is eminently afflictive, as it refpects his family. A wife, and three young children, together with a niece, to whom he was a father, are left totally deftitute. He was a young man, in the 28th year of his age, and has left nothing behind hím but a good name. The friends at Carr's lane, Birmingham, are interefting themselves in the behalf of the widow and fatherless; and if any compaffionate mind should be difpofed to lend afliftance, it may be tranf mitted to the Rev. J. Brewer, Birmingham. Very different from the above was the death of a wicked wretch in the fame 3 C 2 |