The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-23 00:00:00

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------ The Pulpit, and I name It filled
With sttletnn awe, that hid,. no- well beware
wh:tt latent I touch that hob thin;
stanch: the messenger of truth; there stint%
The Le;ate of the Saies!—llis theme diN
othcc s weed, his credentials clew.--COW PER.

lA:cm:Es ON illlli LITURGY,
commenced February life 141 h, and on March the ,'2lst Terminated,

Bit G. ANDREWLS,

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ST. .1.141 r s• C RCIS, EN PICCADILLY.

rgon considering 6 the coniniination against sinners,'
lunching wnich I have already spoken, Dl. Andrewes pro-
ceeded to explaia and enforce the

cuvßcitiN!i of wolf Es.
Sunday Evening, Februarg ihe `:'6th.—Of this office of
our church, which is also called, perhaps with more jus-
tice, the Thankss.iving of Women after Child-birth,' the
propriety is unquestionable. Since the primal sentence
smcc awfully denounced against " tlAe mother of all
living," every age has seen incontestible demonstrations
of the " sorrow" in which woman is destined to " bring
forth children ;" and therefore rational piety itself, were
divine wisdom still silent on this point, should suggest the
duty of women °Tering. up their " hearty thanks," to the
Fountain of Goodness, for their " safe deliverance from
the great pain and peril of child-birth !" As the sentence
vas public, so ought to be the deliverance from its inflic-
tions. 1)r. Andrewes accordingly reprobated the churching
of women in private houses. Setting aside the irreverence
of this practice , it is clear that those who adopt it, and the
slumber of them is by far too great, utterly confound
together places distinct as churches and houses ; for the
Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth,' conducted
thus privately, is housing rather than churching women.
wish it were for me to agree with Dr. Andrewes in other
things. There are cases, however, in which it is better to
chew the eligibility, instead of insisting on the necessity, of
our church forms.
What is always physically right. may sometimes he poli-
tically wrong ; an:l it was scarcely possible to hear Dr.
Andre:Wes expatiaLing on the biessings of fathering a nume-
rous progeny, as matters now stand, without fe,Tsig come
trivial objections to the persuasion which he -so happily
laboured to disseminate. Patriarchal precedents were the
last that should have been cited in confirmation of the
generative benediction. When Lot was able to choose
i.`ocioni, and Abraham to settle in Canaan, either for him-
self, each might feel the advantage of replenishine; the
.earth ; but we, who live where hemen affairs ace not ex-
actly in the same—state, must calculate before we pro-
create, and are not entitled to expect that the goodness of
providence will relieve the folly of our improvidence.
Could our children always possess the gates of ti;(;se, that
kite them, then, as under the first law, might our off-
spring, after honoring their fathers and mothers, rise up to
bless us. The man is not necessarily happy, thcrefore,who.
iias his quiver full of them. There arc days, as the Son. of
God once said, when it i 4 'Woe unto those that give. suck !
Dr. Andrcwes's succecding Lecture was oa the. Order for
4be

BURIAL Of'- TIIF
Sunda!, Evening, 31rtrch s.—Were-it. asked rue to selnet
,poEliLhlay
pportiou of our National Eitorfzri-which-shollY
it its fairest•liT,ht, I should tuidoti4itiriq.ly spec;.l% Triti
Order for the Burial ()four Dead.' Such is the seir ranity-
of this sacred service, such the!. inherentli-4-rtity of it, tlrtt,
separated from the exlenal triirk,
pbseryance, it appears to every hatinfin.bisorti, draws• sighs
'fool every heart, and tears into every e:ic. Here is ei-
iiihiti.il the glory of ilia& syseein which broon:ht life-and
iiniuorliklity to light. !•orrotvinz, but not :is I ho,e wilbout•
o.er the earthiy rctLain of tleparted ffietilithip, the