The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-04 00:00:00

JITT,Y el)e Rulpft. Nu 5. (THIR! SERIES.) In his Ettrnal Mind conceived, Not to t) Dom) got. , my teatiou it it dare rebel, As the arnhitiout. angel , •fi+ t. to hell ! WESLEY'S LIFE or CHRIST. R Er. ANDREW FULLER, OF KETTERING, IS NoRTH AMP TONSHIRE. Locke, speaking concerning religion, says, that, "besides his par- , tit-mho cal:iug tor the support of this life,, every tail' has a concern in a future: life, which ITe is lymad to look after. . There is indeed • c ieie . ore science," continues thi• philo•oplier," incorupa*,e above all the rest, -where it is not by corruption earrowaiii**trade or fltc- Con, fur mem or ill ends, RUA ectilar interests; • •Cintian theology, wine], containing the keowledge of God awl his creatures, our duty to hie) and our fellow-creatures, and a view of cur present and fu ture state, is the coniprehensiOn of all other knowl, dge, directed to its tune end : f. e. the 1101)6111• and.veneration of the Creator, and the happiness of mankind. This is that noble study which is every teae's ditty ; anti which every one, that can be called a rational t...ture, IS capable I 1." Reli4ion hying thus inseparable from our essential eood, whether in time or eternity, its miei•ters ‘s ill next occupy cur fixed at tehtioti. Much a 4 aeother age might here deserved the censure of taking ' little tlesught' about the church militant. Cowper would no longer have to complain, hat he lived till now, that who will mayt.reach, and vliat they Preachers are, at kende regaieled with " a vigi_ het eye ;" excited to um rtion; or, supine and unworthy, rendered amenable, as they •Iteold ha., to eie trilmoal of opinion. Atspnew Fueeen, the subject of this passing sketch, has been so song e .fablis:ied in reputation with the theological world, that he may. }mire elerprely be contemplated as belonging to a preceding genera, lion. If the peewit multi r has on this necasion forborne to prefix the epiillet of at vt. reed to the name of this preacher, it is not be cause he himself is watiting ill lespect at this time, but because it is precisely the kind of guise in wine!' thi- eminent polemic seems least imibiti,ins to fig„re before the vapid. Instead of thinking, with the Rev. John Mai tin, that " the word reverend is properly applied to Ministers of Jesus CliriA " perhaps objects, with Coupe-r, • to ti.e title reve:•end, and to all other ecclesiastical Pteliap•. I say, such may be the na_ titre ut Mr. ',Lee's di like to the clerical style ; though, d r eente, folio g r av e, elders slieuld be revere if they expi ct to he it sired. No repntaole minister feels himself hurt," reeialks the senttstu first et )tell. when conic whiLesieal ecople refuse to ray dile accited to his p character yet, .01 every pi o per nceasion, he w his office, as n l tiot he afraid, or ash tilted to shiw that the elders that rule ate 5t...11 worthy of double litelcur, especially they who lahten in the vrte'd and doetriee." The st : le of reverend is of all distinctions hest apprnpriated to such as milli-ter in holy things. It :,:Tears, however, to have form ed one of the ruvoint Weary rejects, aniongst certain pious cha meters, tat supereede the use ef the word reverend in its specific Eeu e. " 11l the ea , 1727, when the Fiends Revolution was much a d re ircia bi this cantor : , it was propo , :ed, in a .c !ect company, ty lay a s ide 01. , word rectre;al. I," ob ,, cr% es the Rev. John Martin, " hap p ew it] to he present, and (ko‘. int..; somewhat of the influence of words upon VICO Mid thiegs) n it only opposed the ini;oral;on, but of. fired to argue die point its dci;ate. Ai v offer was !leered ; but flu' • see ti:e Vey. John Ren4ark's- on Noneon 1, r , it' ; ttets ou variuu, Subjucti, by W. Coopvr, of Dublin. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 42 9 . offence is not forgotten ." May our nnparsonic gospellers inark this The al kis not lec sacred, becanse it happens to be born eup by 41a worthy hands. Let us honour that to which honour is d Mr. FULLER is celebrated, whether in writing or pr 'aching, foe the precision and acuteness of his reasoning; so that t those who most value what may be called the rationale of a di Peourse, and oo consider that to determine the judgment is still I lie principal point, arc accustomed to speak of this preacher as hosting attaineti •' e perfection of his sacred art. Professor Scougal, ht wever, who ill not soon be adduced in favour of illogical guides its the church, thought otherwise respecting preaching. , He contends, that, "'the . judgment being informed, we must do all to intim; pee the affec tions ; that this is the proper cod of preaching ;" and I hat, although it is 44 overvalued by those who place all religion iii hearing, yet certainly it is of excellent use, and ought to he ir simged -with a great dial of care." Here the present preacher falls .thort. He rts.-, sons, but he does not persuade. • His sentences continually drop. He seems not tz% know what to do with his arms ; but his thick brows, and grey hair, give hiss great weieht. Mr. Font Ett is not aware, of course, of the fregiseney with which be uses the expression '‘ In this wise," just as so vie use the one of That is to say :' yet, as Steele would ask—how can a ju dicious man di , tingoish ose thing front another, with tut sayinr 'This here,' or ' That then. Aml how can a sober ma to make di.-course of any tolsrahlo length, without That is awl, if he be a very grave man indeed, withsut ''That is to say?' Aoki how,in structive, as well as entertaining, are those usual expressi sus in the months of great men, i. e . 14 things as That,' and - ,The of That !' Conoregation is the legitimate phrase by which to tic serthe an as - csiblage of cliristian worshippers ; and it sounded as toms than ordinarily - reprehensible on the part of 1111'. FULLER, consider ing the school in which lie was instructed, to find him sultstitutisig the word audience for that of congregation. Theatres h ave .their andiences; churches have their conoregations. Audience is one of the p l ippyioos w h ich embellish the new race of preachers . Of Mr. Ft:Let:ll's multifarious writings, his Letters oesSandem anianism are reputed the chief. Sandeman was broadly a reused , antinomiani•on ; and his productions are by sonic deno t• nding to lead maukind the more securely to destruction. It ism). the object of the present writer to enter into this eontrov trigs , ; but it is %veil if Mr. Funer a, in his zeal to counteract the sheets Sanlemanianism, may not have to regret his having, pa rtially sailed the very citadel of that faith in whose defence he imagine , himself to have fought. Sandman would not have been treated lisrdly at the hands of Toplady. Good old Mr. Romaine mots accus tomed to cry out, in his quaint but terse style,—' Up svith the Saviour' and down with the sinner; though. botwitlista.sding the sucees , folness of that embassador christianity, his writ gigs like 0 0. 0 h a y s ! Als o v oted dangerous by the eclectic conclaxte of this age. His walk of faith, his life of faith, his work of I'M th, where arc they now Afflonost the leading labours of Mr roust., it *mitt to be noticed, before this article is ended, that he has entered warm!, into th^ views of those individuals who limo been for some time endeavouring the Conversion of the Jews to Christianity; hawing preache4 the first of the Demonstration Di , cont - ses. which wt re institute 1 by the London Society. Though he has therein suffiels curly demonstrited Je.iis the trite Messiah,' as fat' as christians fees) Con•Prbed on this head, yet he does rut appear to entertain very , angnine hopes or the impression which such sentiments ?re likely to make on the miods of Jews...." The negroes from Ali ica." ' sulisequently owns, " though injured and enslaved by mils calling thernstives chtistians, have no such inveterate antipathy to christ the Jews. If serious ehristisns, who carry it kindly to t ceinmend their Saviour to them, it is not untreqnently 'Oh si cess ; but it is rarely so with the other, who appear to be Oven to blindness of mind, and hardness of heart." This eoncessi on, col ing from Mr. Fut.Lrit, is of the 'nest serious khol ; and is d of the maturest consideration of those , who aretelieitati t,g time: , seives en being instramental in reclaiming the lost stool th house of Israd. 'Determined to accelerate the march of p lophee respecting that nation, let them proceed to establish their" eonote , Asylum ,1r Converted Jews," without finding any occasimi for sir stitnting the humiliating inscription of au Avium for A!tost Icy! °NEM NUS. r I it II t-, a •. la be bg a be n- Ile • c• In Mg of i i m- . of as tot of aft- cd the ►he ke. his :re be ily • ing re ftra cry titig tsc re. me. tip irg e,n• the .cy [eta tib.