The National Register.
London, England, 1809-05-21 00:00:00

MAY 91.

may chcose to send, something- now in the pnims et
newspaper literatuie ; and the ino!le in which Mr. Cob_
belt intimates his intention to bring out another pub
hcation is more iin than fair.
We trust we have said sulitc;ent to strew that Mr. Ceb.-
lictt is, iu one point of view, nt least, a pretender. Ms
universal ohjeet (to borrow ;) new-fan fed phrase) is tet
make the most of existin4 circumstances. lie lA ever on
the catch to avail himself of them ; and this he dues with
much dexterity.

CV pulpit.

The Pulpit, and I name it fiNed
With solemn awe, that bids me well hew at,
With what intent I touch that holy thing!
There stand!, the messenger of truth; there it:olds
The loy.; IV^ of the Skies!—llis thrale
ILA of sacred, his creilentia clear.—COWPElt.

LECTURES ON THE LITURGY,

Coma:eared February the 14th, evident March the2jst Tcrminat4lll
BY G. ANDREWLS, D.D.
oF
Sr. JAITES's CHURCH", IN PICCADILLY.

Perhaps there is no political ceremony in which the
united properties of church and state arc so happily cont.
hilted as in the form of the

SOI,I_:MNIZATION OF VATRIMONY.

.clinflai; Leming, March 19, 1)r. Andrewes, conformably
with the course he at first adopted, delivered an important
and impressive lecture ou the subject that is now proposed
to our attention. Ido not mean to say that he was ins a-
riably excellent; hut, with sue!, reasonable allowances as
ought to be made, his Fr4ellt kCt;ire 1»10-11t read Nritlt
considerable advantage, was hear 4 with dccided
atten-
Lion. While it Iteconn my bounden duty to mark his do-
my more plels'.:ig• employ will be to point out his
111Critsi.

Marriage is with us, as it ought tv he, a ref pious insti-
tution. Policy urges the propriety o this rite, hitt it is
piety that &Tides its necessity. It these vile liodies of ours
may he tendered the temples of the holy 00..4, how just is
it tbal. their union, e%en oil earth, sho-lit spiritual, as
well as natural 1 flow desirable is it also, in;:rely as it re-
spects this state of being, that the highest of humnn ohliga-
tunis shoold bo contracted under divine sanctions ? Dr.
Andre wes did melt, therefore, when he censured the leN
with(itch many persons are apt to consider the solemn:-
zation of matrimony ; and when, as he said, that place is
°lien ;reated as the " Ten pie of thinen," Iticn ot:ght
oily to be approayhed as the " Altar of the Lk ing
s:ieh irreleorAt impropriety did not eYyape nirn, and
when he had already cmuleinned the practice Of non-itt,....nd-
awe ‘,.; :he funerals of friends, it rather surprised me to
find hint pa;sing offer the now %intern' fasbior. 4'11(11110V
prevat.t, of marrying. prk'ately in tie houses Of
the eyii is great, and it is also a7nong. the great. These
domes'ic marriages nn: !nave to sati4lv the mind ; bu;,
4!ivestod of all sanctifying se!emaities, they inake no trite,
improsi;o.: On the heart. Cod is :7.i;; to he found, and
cit,ellv so, in his own hoy:se' i;e coadeseends to dwell in
the temple ml ::le with ; and woe he to such as either
negi.ert or refuse io upon him there.
Never was it ine...nt that our `olemnization of Vo!siinry
should he in print... par! of this holy ofilce refer 4
to the lilacs in whii.:h it is t i be rrformed ; and r....provr;,
silently bat sacrtail• , ate pre.tent misuse of this pa:i of our
national litnrg.,. li is tint a private ci‘ it contract, but
religious ordinance, which, giving the woman to
the 'Till arid the: man to the woman, makes of both one.
o clear is the church on this that, snpposing mar-