The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-03 00:00:00

THE NA' AL co pulpit. No. XXXIV. •••••••••• 44 Willing as we are to bow to superior judgment and saga city, it is a persuasion entwined about our intellectual fibres, that no certain cure f,pr this disorder (Separation from its Com munion) now reniairft but eulted. Piety—christian Union—and fervid zeal, among the sineefe friends to the Establishment. At any rate, insulting arrogance and provoking contempt are never likely to conciliate or recover a largebody of people asso ciated in any cause. It will always be deemed persecution. We are all fond of quoting the judicious Hooker : and is not he, who says--' `fhere will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed re ward, than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit,' There are loads of this irritating trash now afloat; and we have observed their unhappy operation ! It creates no love—no veneration—no deference—no esteem. — ( Sec the Notes to the ational Jubilee, celebratiue of the Fiftieth e tinni:ersctry of the Reign of George the lc. ,S:c.) REV. HENRY BUDD, B. A. CHAPLAIN OF BRIDEWELL PRECINCT. " Is it not the peculiar distinction of Christianity," demands the orthodox and intelligent writer from whom the above quota tion it tOten, " that it is a Religion of Grace? or a religion in which the GRACE or GOD is the very line of life—its vital prin ciple ! Is it not by the secret influence and efficacious operation of this Grace, that we are regenerated ? Are we not taught to look to the Grace of God, for the forgiveness of our innume rable offences ? Is it not certain, that we are justified by Grace —and sanctified by Grace—and saved' by Grace ? I know not with what eyes we can have read the Bible, if we have not dis covered that all this is written therein as with a sun-beam. — Say I these things as a man ? or, sail's not The Scripture the same also?" Let us bear these truths in mind, Whenever the sermons of the rising preacher whose talents I am about to appreciate shall come before the tribunal of thea4o - criticism, it will not be alleged against him that he had omitted to enlarge upon the Grace of God,—that, concerning 4 4 the God we worship," he did not know " one of his discrimi native titles" to be" The God of all grace ;" nor will his ser mons, therefore, be classed with the " many volumes of modern elaitaitic in sethich this distinguishing feature of our inspired religion . •not even notified—instead of bein," affirtrs the writer just quoted," what I .humbly conceive it ought to be, in all sacred theses, the prominent feature: * The Reverend KENRI( Bvnp, B. A. now..Chapl. - ..in of Bride well-Precinct, .Where hopreachea every Sunday Nlorning, is also one of the Committee of the Socjety for promoting Missions to Africa and the Eiist. At a teriad such as the one in avhich we li ve, wh en, amidst the shaking dilations, there is at least as much laxity of religious . faith as of tsoli*al truth,—at this awful crisis °Ceilings, when an English Bishop, contrary to the historic proofs of‘tlie Calvinism of the Church o England predesced by Toislady, i that Man of God !—At this tirneivzhen'oneof the dig itali,et_tsf, the establishment is, under the notion of reputing the doctrines of Calvin, really sapping the foundations of the Church of Engli c a ; at suds a time as this, it is mo a t gratifying to ob serve,ln Mr, Budd, a pious and grounded attachment to the high characteristics of Christianity, and to find in him an able and, Conscientious assertor of The faith originally delivered to the . saints !--Oh, for more of those, who, in their own times, fight the good fight and keep the good faith ! Already do such know; and fee/, their lasf best recompence:. , Admirably is the dini i nity.of Mesit's ;attainments calculated for the nutlet) , of tneti'a Capacities. Those who would refuse to listen to tospel axioms, inculcated extentporaniously, can yet imbibe theta &Qin 'the lips of the present preacher, because written aid'preacked in a manner more suited to their taste. — Hit sermons are: firialiy studied, elearti argued, elegantly corn pciteds occasion:3ly eloquently, and intcrest:r4,!y d , Yliverzd. )ivr ;Cri STE does this form his chief praise, if one may call it his praise.— Philosophical yet entirely at the same time scriptural, philosophy is with him the helpmate of scriptarality. Hence, however, the copiousness of his illustrations, and the intellectual efficacy of his conclusion*. His deportment, serious atfd - earnest, announces him. lie is unquestionably bent on the salvation of the souls committed to: him. Mild, yet firm, still— • Meek as the chosen children of the Just, Who o'er the earth with Heaven's glad tidings ram Mildly he bears his delegated trust ; The messenger of God, the friend of man!' Young in years, but old in truth, he has done good, avid does good. He will atchieve more good. He is a workman wise needs not be ashamed of his work. Unknown while he is to me, personally considered, still I must wish his welfare. This wig& I put up for the sake of the Church. O N i SI St US. MISCELLANIES. A late French paper states the following melancholy atom rence :—The wife of M. Lafosse, resident at Villeneuve d'Agen e imprudently playing with a fowling-piece in her husband's cham ber, let it fall oat of her hand, when it went off, and inflicted a mortal wound. The husband, alarmed by the report, first en tered the chamber, and beholding his wife, to whom he had not been united more than ten months, and who was far oJ vanced in pregnancy, in the agonies of death, etalibed himself with a knife, and expired. We are happy to be informed that there is a very general in tention to devote the Pulpit on the Fast Day to the furtherance of the Subscription for the Relief of Vie 13r.tisli Prisoners MAW suffering in France. Sr. DAN', 111 -Friday the people of Wales celebrated the anniversary of their titular Saint in tie accustomed manner. St:- vice was performed in St. James's church, to which a number of gentlemen went in their carriages in procession, together with the charity children, preceded by the Pritice'e ilume, which . also ornamented the bats of the noble yen and gentlemen wi.e. attended full dre . e:teil. A great number of persons assembled in . the street to see the procession. In the evening* there was n granti dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, where a hanesenro cuLlectbon Ixas made or the charity. The annualdonation or: the Prince Regent was received with acclamation. The even ing was dis.inguished by hilarity and good humour. The ponrer disciples 01 . 5 t. David enjoyed themselves in conviviality at Lew beth, anti kept -ap the festive .lance until the appearance of Phu , . bus suggested the propriety of their retirement to their reelec five habitations. The following paragraph, in the justice of which ell Tro.l`t agree, as well ay it the propriety of tire application of the heae tiful and affecting I. assage from Shakespeare withwhich it closes, is talc en from The arrerd Uniemity Them/dr— Grettly as we deplore the affliction with which his I\l7 , jesty has been so severely visited, it besungttectionahly bet7l prod'uc. thee of,e tu9st important consequencee-the estahlishineet ot that confidence between the King and the Heir Apparent, which the obliquity of Court policy has, in several si l eeessiose r e i g ns, been so industriously exerted to destroy. The corcluct of the _ Prince of Wades has defeated the _machination of his enemies, and silenced for ever the foul tongue of calumny. Tie ten'peeel rate forbearance with which the Prince of ' has entered 09 :7! the important trust delegated by the nation, forty's a contrast sk_ forcible with the eage r avidit y to enter on his father's functions ' insinuated by factious malignity that the Prince 'Regent has at ode irrevecably se7ureci the confidence of hie-P.oyal Father. and of the people of the United Empire. And when he shall he called on tierosign the porter with which he has been vested, he may, with his illustrious predecessor, Harry, Prince of Wales, coDscientiously address his Royal Father : There is your Crown ; And he that wears the Crown immortally, Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more, Than as your honour, and as your renown, I.et me no more from this obedience rise. If it did infect my blood with joy, • Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride; if any rebel or vain spirit of mine Did, with the least affection of a welcome s 1, • Give entertainment to the might of it, Let god for ever keep it from my head i And make me as the poorest vassal is, s 'sat doth wita awe and terror 'weal to it 1 00,