The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REC;ISTE OCT. 3. ebe puiptt. No 9. Virtue indeed nret•s many a pro‘ing friend, All , l many a compliment politely penn'd, But Itl attit'd in that becoming vest NelLion weaves for her, and half undres‘'d, Stands iu the drsart, 1 / 4 1thering and forlorn, A unary figure, like. II V.lthct'd thorn! l ... i p COWPFR. REV. IV. FAULKNER, SIORNING PREACHER AT ST. JAMEG'S CLERKENWELL. ✓ r. 4. Em.nent parentsgt pees in some instances undesirable. Instehd of Leine ; l'im , ted, the son is frequently seen as it we e yressed by the reputation of :be father, between wit m d es lay when he moves in the same dated on, come x icons are naturally made by observers. Huncheds sti:l recollect, for instance, the preaching of the reverend WsPiam elisha Faulkner, formerly Minister of Elv • Chapel, and Lecturer of St. Giles's in the Fields ; and, calling up the resnemlerance of his talents, will not he on anxious to asctrain what ate the abilities by which his son, also a preaches, is now distinguish d ? Concerning those of the parent, indeed, the ores. est w. iter has already recorded his opinion, from which, he I.as season to thinkohe chris thin public we not genetall% d sp,sed tc, dissent. The REV W . FA U t Kt: ER, now X% ednesd.iy Evening Lec turer of St. A rthelio's,Wat. ing-street, and for some weeks past, owity to the creasing infirmities of the rector, Mos nine* , Preaches at St. James's, C.terieowell, is but recently from Canshside, though lie is assiduously erdeavouring to make no ordinary impression on the prs•fessing worshippers of his 'lay. lie was erly deprived of that father in whose steps be has ventured to tie.d, midsr circum o stances that were sufficiently painful ; since his mother, A% ho still lives. found herself obliged to resort to the expediQnt of publishing a Volume of sermons by subscription, immediately on the dca h of her Husband, and returned her thanks for the a• very liberal enconragement" she had experienced, as well as •.‘ the Christian sympathy so genet ally expressed us.der her heavy affliction." Persons who remember the father of this preacher, and many such survive him, seem inclined to suspect that our young divine is yet in leading-strings; that, in other words, be is trading upon the old stock ; or, to speak out, that he prudently limits his pulpit labours to the reading of his fa ther's sermons. This contrivance is, however, no uncom mon one. Archer Thompson, when he was highly popular in the church, resorted to the same fountain, whence he liberally drew his professional supplies Where " the gospel is preached with popularity," •as .it appears now the fashion to style it, congregations ate some times the farthest from truth. It is an abuse of ter ens, to say the least of it, to talk, as thousands do, of the popula rity of religioneand its present diffusion in our land. Gospel truth never was popular. Could we pry into the real cha racters of the great majority of those who are supposed to have embraced the truth, and are ostensibly attached to it, we should then discover how few religionists there were with any thing beyond a name to live by, white they were actually dead in the most serious sense of the word. Tares are every where growing up with the wheat. Clerkenwell has so long been favoured with what is es teemed to he gospel preaching, •• preached with populario," that the evangelical part of its parishioners might be pre sumed by this time qualified to distinguish • sound doc trine, and prepared at once to reject that which was stir . , _ - • reptitiout. Yet this seems not their ease. (MIN - wise what . would they think of that minister veil , slur over the leading principle.of their religion. and even counsel them to beware of " shutting - themselves out x)f Heaven '" 11 by are preachers so feat ful of 'asset tit. the tint!) ? They know it is their duty to • dec'are; not in putt, the whole counsel of Cod !' Codlieess alone can effe , t h oliue~s. Noah vi.s distinguished as api eacher ri*Jteousness but it was the that eruel-ts by f.c.h else be never would babe constructed the ark, enteied .t with his d the deluge, and been transmitted down as an example to believers in all I:,.rert:ir Mr. Faulkner has sometl,i:)g vet re•th!, in his ap, pearance, though below tun h:s deli very is perspicuous and unemb it assed. He labours to read his sermons well. romeosity is too predominant in his prcre ITe not only labours with too much a. t, wheu ;ek is iot , e, he is evidently well dis: used to t‘e > defied v..! I;er forrnance. Having done his hes:, I c ,rAti.t...F. hi , sew with sufficient cornplarerev, al'(t aepears tic. if 1 w«. .h,11:111 of the approba:ion of hi- audience He adopts :he ens!: mars p , o , efs the church, bef , re. and after his sermon ; trod, accoidirg to app. ar,,uces, he. well a' NV isely in alAing by iheni Mediocrity shon:d not seek t Had tint this pie cher heet pested in ?hr e c,y t.t ~t t"Se; hein4; at once! ta , i- - -t.ed in ol.e o f O w queotr. , d !.nr , , th e kingdom, I c would not have r .tr. a cte.:. le cause he (ri ld not have dial:en -et!, the remat ks here threw:. ..to. 1;1.1101101 be ; never will, proverb; s , caking. s! !he Thuir.e.. i on fire," vet, perceiving thCIC i- a el, st,. Il to fie ce him • .'tine kit.d of notoriety, it may be advar !o consider wit& his abilities ;oe, '•N het!lcr as !1., res.pt...cts preacher or hearer. Ile c:.nnot re-eth• ffoin the eath of life in which he apirears to dove cltoen ;o wall; hay lug lint his hand to the ploneh, it , e•t not look iev•k ; but h e may filture it some s , ution mo• e 0 his ers, and therefore mote conduct% e to his " t . .100( 1 . rotate." Unas suming usefulness is preferable to ostentatious nothiegres.;.. TO THE EDITOR 01."111E NATIONAL -`,EGIiTER. ST ft erving in von' rarer of the 1 , 2. h of Se;,tember, theta : ..erson„ mho signs himself A I,A :d A :•4, has yod some etqlai.t.tiou nt a f oilier letter, w:.leit, 1 think, wanted both e% vat:Aim) a d cone, ti-n, lam in:uced to trouble vou with a fev obselvas-on, o the letter in question, for, unless : am mi taken, thAt ie ter c-ntains several er or-, and some of them sf) pa!i:oble, that veil 1 tad detect them. In the first place. the said writer infers that the ministers .of the estaill:sl.o• ent ;lie to I,e weft.; red to those called Evange!ical, Irmo the el-cunts'atice of 'heir a their d'scourses to the under-tandim.!. while •he 1 0-ter mi,itess theirs to the pa• riot s of th-ir atul:6l ; for tilt- roason, should judge that the di-colirses ot the i vaiie f it tve to be ineferred, for wh% is t 11. go,ri to ..dchess •1) , t y:t•s Oh, says tie Layman, I.ecouse the tas , ions are al.‘ays at wai - with revson. This, I 111114. is au a , seit,on that can : ,, t reasonably be maintained. 2.Mtit:ide t • lid, !he -Ok of a Redeemer, is the bore of fn tt t e His', the fea: f future torment, at war with iea•ot , ; vet graW title, e Itti e, d feat, are passions ; at.d, if the I. a' n:an's :s totioded on fact, the 'nail that ac ts unde: their it,tihenee a, ts from tin easonable tnc , t ves. I all •w that the inlj,.rity of ouiti kind are not in - -f Hcl: ft - thenwtive and-that Jte baLit of jud;irig fui anu mat - 635 / . .