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triads of the poor, upon the great mass of
hearers, any effects like those which attended the discourses of
George Whitfield ? Judicious discourses are, alas ! not execu-
tive discourses. They do not break the heart of stone, and
make us feel the heart of flesh.

.Our present author, however, partly admits this. Adverting
to a Rev. Mr. Brine, whom he likewise singles out here, Mr.
Martin is compelled to acknowledge that, " though his sermons
were judicious, him delivery was not at all engaging." Attraction
itself is not here, nevertheless, the pitch of genuine excellence.—
The Rev. Mr. Martin well knows this. Giving an account of
the origin of those divine feelings which alone can impart fer-
vour to the soul and fire to the speech, " I recollect," affirms
this preaches, " that just before, I had been reading some ac-
count of the spread of the Gospel abroad and at home, without
much effect; but afterWardS, musing on those accounts, I blushed
in thinking how much zeal some Ministers had manifested in
the cause of God, more than 1 yet felt, or had statedly prayed to
possess,—and soon, (without the least change in my doctrinal
sentimems,) my h. art was hot within pie, accompanied with
such freedom of thought, and of speech on religious sulojects,
that, at present, I cannot exactly describe." Here was spiritual
agency on the heat t : what were the immediate consequences
of it ? Why, that he instantly became what all pious Ministers
ought to be. Attend to what is added. " Secret, social, and
public prayer, chatechising children, preaching, meditating on
the Scriptures, and christian conversation, were so managed by
men," subjoins Mr. Martin, " as they had not been before ; I
mean to say, with that degree of pleasure and vigour, with that
solicitude to edify others, and with that desire to grow in grace
myself, and with such fear and godly jealousy, lest any thing
should chill my zeal or give a wrong bias to my affections, as I
had not experienced in any former revival of religion." Such has
been the experience of one of the living witnesses to Christi-
anity,—of an upright and. able Minister of the New T. stament ;
whose integrity is above the affectation of being righteous over-
much, and the soundness of whose reasoning powers fully ex-
elnpts him from the suspicion of fanaticism.

'hie Rev. J. CHURCH, for some time past Minister of the
Obelisk Chapel, in St. George's Fields, near the Obelisk, appears
to he one of those preachers whom it is now too much the high-
church fa:shion to stigmatise as " self-sent apostles. Yet Mr.
Church can preach well, understands the great leading truths of
Christianity, and does good in his day. He is strong in the faith,
full of zeal, and speaks home to the heart. Eloquence of this
style, is, and must be popular. Where the heart fires the tongue,
the tongue will fire the heart.

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Antinomiamsna has been imputed to the Minister of the
Chapel. What is meant by this ?—Prove there are
either Antinotnians or .Arminians living in the world. Per-
haps there are neither. Lives there the man who thinks that
metre fa.ith will save his soul from death ? Or, lives there one who
feels that mere works can save his caul from dealt ? No such
religionists arc found. Mankind are not now, if they ever were
so. quite such stark madmen. ONEBIMUS.

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