wood, Bucks, 12mo. p. p. 12. Newport Pagnel. E. Crick; London, Palmer.

THIS Sermon is grounded on Isaiah lv. 12, 13. We will not dispute with the author the applicability of the text to the subject illustrated, neither will we withhold our approbation of the Sermon, on account of some minor assertions, with which we cannot agree: we will not do this, because we are so rejoiced at every instance of a minister of the establishment, breaking the trammels of custom, and declaring in language which God's poor can understand, the only gospel which God's scripture reveals; that we would not exercise over such an one's earliest performance, the dictates of an hypercritical judgment.

Oh it is indeed a privilege highly to be desired, that the soul when witnessing the approach of the last adversary, should feel only the thrill of a blessed assurance; and behold, through the intervening gloom, her crown, and her mansion, and her Lord. But our author errs; it is as contrary to scripture as to experience to assert, that those only are God's children who leave earth in this delightful chariot. We recollect reading of a circumstance, which, were there no other evidence, would operate strongly on our minds. An aged disciple, one who had made a long and exemplary profession of his faith in Jesus, a deacon too of a Baptist church for some years, was tried deeply by his eldest son drinking into all the world's follies, and ridiculing that hope, upon which his father depended for time and for eternity. Often did he breathe petitions at the throne; and after awhile felt comforted with the idea, that allured by his own joyful departure, his son would seek an interest in the same salvation. Let our author mark the result. The day of death drew near; all is gloom: life's latest pangs are now still; no ray cheers the dying pilgrim: his pastor asks, what testimony of a happy resurrection do you leave behind you? there was no reply. His son was present throughout the scene; and when, two years afterwards, he joined the same church, of which in process of time he likewise became a deacon, he confessed these to have been his reflections. "What! my father, whose life has been so exemplary! whose piety has been so marked, die thus! What death then should not I expect.

Without entering further into detail, we will only add, that the Holy Spirit was pleased to make this dreary departure of an undoubted saint, the means of answering his frequent prayers for the salvation of his son. God's ways are in the great deep-who can

know them!

Songs of a Pilgrim: Short Poems on Sacred Subjects. By John Cox, 24mo. p.p. 192. London, Nisbet; Baynes, Palmer.

We were not aware that our friend, Mr. Cox, was a poet; but from the very neat little volume before us, we find that he possesses talents of no common order for such composition. We open the

volume indiscriminately, and select a short piece, which we are sure will be esteemed, and we advise our readers to obtain the book for a further repast.

DESIRING DIVINE REMEMBRANCE.

Fountain of happiness divine,
Thy presence let me see;
In tender mercy on me shine,
In love remember me.

A sinner vile, a helpless worm,
Now lifts his soul to thee;
Assur'd thou wilt not treat with
scorn,

His cry, remember me!

When on rebellion madly bent,
I did thy presence flee;
On mercy's triumphs still intent,
Thou didst remember me.

And when my poor backsliding heart,

Forgetful is of thee;

Acting a tender Father's part,
Thou dost remember me.

And after so much mercy past,

Wilt thou unmindful be?
No: faith doth still thy promise

clasp,

"I WILL remember thee."
And as thy love I contemplate,
Thy love so firm and free;
I feel thou never canst forget,
But must remember me.

A Memoir of the Life of Rev. George Scott, of Woburn, late Minister of the Gospel, at Greenwich; with Selections from his Remains. By John Cox, 12mo. p. p. 76. Woolwich, Black; London, Palmer, &c.

A brief memoir, which will be perused with edification. The letters appended give us good reason for believing that Mr. Scott was one, who, having himself tasted that the Lord is gracious, was desirous to publish his Lord's grace, and was blessed of the Lord in his enterprise.

A Morsel of Gospel Bread for God's Poor Hungry Family. To which is added, The Temple Measured. By George Francis, Minister of the Gospel, Snows' Fields. 12mo. p.p. 59. London, Palmer.

A most excellent little tract, which such as are willing to receive the truth in its native simplicity, will peruse with comfort and very highly prize.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

We have pleasure in infoming our readers, that the Rev. JAMES B. THURLING, late of Hartley Row, has re-opened the Baptist Meeting House, in East Street, Greenwich. We wish him success in the name of the Lord. The specimen of the Rev. R. H. CARNE'S Hebrew Grammar, on a new plan, has just appeared.

A New Teacher's Magazine, price One Penny, has just been commenced, to be continued monthly.

In the Press, Discourses by the Rev. CHARLES BRAKE.

THE

Spiritual Magazine ;

OR,

SAINTS' TREASURY.

There are Three that bear record in heaven; the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these Three are One."

Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

1 John v. 7.

Jude 3.

FEBRUARY, 1834.

REMARKS ON 1 COR. XII. 20.

66 BUT ONE BODY."

(Continued from page 407. Vol. 9.)

WE shall conclude our observations upon this soul-animating truth, with the following remarks; and may God the Holy Ghost bless them to the increase of that delightful spirit of love amongst us, which more powerfully bespeaks the reigning grace of Jesus, than all the doctrinal points for which we contend. A man may speak truth,

and at the same time remain at variance with the source of truth: witness the infernal spirit which affirmed of Jesus, "we know thee who thou art." And the prophet Balaam in that memorable prediction contained in the book of Numbers (xxiv. 17.) But a man can only LIVE the truth as the Comforter descends, FIRST in the implantation of a divine and incorruptible principle; and AFTERWARDS, in the preservation of the activities of that principle through all opposition. Thus whilst the doctrinal wisdom we receive from above is unto us an evidence of an indwelling Spirit, it is alone our practical deportment that can prove the inhabitation of this same Spirit unto the world.

I. All the members of this one body are of equal importance and value in the sight of God; nor can he be said to esteem one above another.

Here is no opening for the proud triumphs of intellect; and, on the other hand, no foundation for the despondency of the least in our Father's house; the revelation of God maintains the acts of election, redemption, and conversion, as respectively founded in the absolute will of the Father, Word, and Holy Ghost; and therefore, it implies that Jehovah is moved by nothing out of himself, in the adoption of VOL. X.-No. 119.]

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his family, even to their ultimate glorification in his presence; as the inevitable consequence of that ancient adoption. All is the result of distinguishing grace: grace that blessed me in Christ before I was cursed in Adam; grace, that imputed my sins to him, who became the voluntary substitute of his people; grace, that provided an everlasting deliverance from the curses of disobedience; grace, that sent the Comforter to dwell in man below; and grace, that will finally be displayed in the translation of all the heirs of glory to their

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Completeness in Jesus, once beheld in the gospel with the eye of faith, will for ever leave the christian in the renunciation of his own works, and will ever keep the trembling from unwarrantable depression. The truth rightly received, as truly reveals the principles of error, as the light of the morning dispels the even-darkness. And the reason we have some christians exclaiming, would that I could do something more that God might be more pleased with me.' And others, surely God will not accept me, for I have no single relic of uprightness.' I say, the reason we are troubled with speeches thus antiscriptural is wholly attributable to the convert having lost sight of his completeness in Jesus. If the eye of faith be upon the word, the written word of God; if by the indwelling Spirit through that written word we are pointed to the living Word, and to our irrevocable interest in all his transactions, as the Mediator between God and men, the man Christ, Jehovah the Saviour, then shall we truly enter into rest, he being all and in all.

Complete in Christ, and thus justified from all things in and through him, we behold our everlasting preciousness in the sight of the Omniscient. We want to add no work, no will, to make our case more glorious; nor can we submit to the removal or denial of one relative excellence; no-rich and poor, high and low, strong and weak, are all the same in Christ; and shall live to prove the abiding nature of that spiritual distinction, when all temporal discrepancies shall be nullified and forgotten.

Our Saviour went not to the Sanhedrim to select the ministers of his gospel, nor did he send them to the Sanhedrim to meeten them for their important errand, even after he had fixed upon them for such momentous employments. How loudly does this inveigh against the condemnatory system of the day in which we live, which would seclude the very instruments appointed of heaven, and frequently replace their vacancies with the assistants of hell-a system that supposes the knowledge of this world" which is foolishness with God," to be the principle requisite for the ministers of the Redeemer : a system that employs the greatest advocates for dissipation and vice, to proclaim the desirableness of sobriety, virtue, and religion. We speak not against the incalculable blessings of education, nor would we keep back the last coin we possessed to confer such a favour upon the rising generation; but be it remembered, that God alone is the spiritual Teacher, and that from no other school but the school of Jesus are his ministers commissioned. Thus in returning to our theme