in the course of eighteen months and that he preached a funeral sermon on each of the occasions from his sermon on the death of e the fourth i make the following extract of his manner of preaching only that i select a passage from that particular sermon not because i think it better than others of his published funeral sermons but because it is the only one on which i can lay my hand at the moment � to you o men i speak and my voice is to the sons of men and i ask you whether the death of your sovereign does not tell you in vol l p the rev dr language of which the force cannot be away that verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity whether it does not teach you more of the of the world and the vanity of titles than all the volumes in your library o put not your trust in princes nor in any son of man in whom there is no help his breath forth he to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish k then there is no from the of the if it is appointed unto all men once to die are you brethren prepared for death you can surely none of you permit yourselves to doubt for an instant that you must die god has been too good to his creatures to leave any of them without witness as to the certainty of death the whole path of every man s existence and the whole circle of every man s acquaintance is with the of man s and have none of you ever had particular and affecting proof of this have the agonies of a death bed never been presented to the eye of your experience and the rev dr thus brought down irresistibly on your minds the conviction of your own and is it not the end of every private and public to strengthen this conviction i chaise you then not to from the view of that which will ere certainly befall you living as you are in the land of dying men do not think all men mortal but yourselves have not the many sick chambers which you have visited with all their noiseless their mute attendance and their watchful and the many sick beds over which you have hung and the deaths you have witnessed and the tears you have shed over them � have not all these i ask been long ago enough to you from earth and to break that accursed spell which you to its how comes it then to pass that though thousands have died before you and are dying around you you are to this hour unmoved out of your dark and obstinate and though you profess to believe the bible to be the word of god p the rev dr you can treat it as a and book you desire it not as the of your souls and can suffer it to be for days together and miss no necessary food and feel no hunger and experience no for spiritual thus giving evidence that you have no spiritual life o let me call upon you to shake from yourselves this and to awake from these destructive arise this day and call upon that god whom you have so long despised think of your guilt before him and of your utter inability to help or redeem yourselves but look at the same time to him who is able to help and who died to redeem dr published a volume of sermons of a purely practical and nature in the sermons were twenty in number at the request of his congregation in chapel he also brought out in a small volume consisting of lectures on some of the articles of faith of the church of england these lectures were seven in number and were delivered on during lent in the the rev dr year just mentioned both volumes met with a very j ir sale the reverend doctor has published various detached chiefly funeral sermons some of which have reached a third or fourth edition beyond these i am not aware of any other occasions on which he has appeared in the capacity of author it is a fact which may strike some persons as not a little curious that though as before mentioned his views are those of the highest grade of short of the rev mr a name well known to the religious world regularly before imprisoned in the queen s bench for a on certain roman catholic priests as dr s clerk in church when i was first informed of the fact i thought knowing that mr s notions on matters of doctrine are as low as dr s are high that there must be some mistake or in the matter but i find the ct to be as stated to me the mr is in prison at the time i write the rev dr doctor s name also figured a few weeks ago at the head of a for mr gather dr is distant in his manner and inaccessible by his hearers some this to reserve others to a certain degree of it is said though i know not with what truth that he is impatient of opposition or contradiction in the conduct of the religious and benevolent institutions which are connected with his chapel and that a desire to have everything his own way him in most cases to give a preference to of ladies they being more and in every respect more easily managed than persons of a different it is deeply to be regretted that a man of dr s zeal and with his means of usefulness should not be more accessible by his people and more kindly in his in that case he might reasonably expect to be made the instrument 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