હું The few defects of Mr. Wilson's preaching are not serious or great. He might easily avoid the habit of taking up and urging the points of his discourses with an Observe here,' or, Observe now, or, Observe then; nor would he encounter much difficulty in correcting, as to himself, the common-place custom of closing a sermon, with I shall make no particular application of this practical discourse.' These may seem slight faults, scarcely worth remark, but faults they still are. The Reverend Daniel Wilson has published a sermon entitled Obedience the Path to Religious Knowledge; preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's Church, Sunday the 28th of January, 1810.' He has since sent from the press 'The Blessedness of the Christian, in Death: two Sermons, occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Richard Cecil, &c. preached in St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row; the first, on Sunday, August 26, and the second on Sunday, September 2, 1810.' Mr. Cecil died at Belle-Vue, Hampstead, on the 15th of August preceding. He has well described his own lot. It sometimes pleases God to disqualify Ministers for their Work,' observes Mr. Cecil, in his Miscellaneous Remarks on the Christian Ministry, before he takes them to their reward. Where he gives them wisdom to perceive this, and grace to acquiesce in the dispensation-such a close of an honourable life, where the desire to be publicly useful survives the power, is a loud AMEN to all former labours!' The Pulpit. He said, that Talkers concerning Religion abounded; but that there was very little heart-work. All were become approvers of true Christian Doctrine; but'numbers, in the midst of their professions, remained too much like the rest of the world; ambitious, greedy of gain, followers of plea Not so formerly,' continued he: a truly sincere and religious character was then derided, despised, persecuted; and nobody, who was not deeply in earnest, supported faithfully the trial of these crosses. The Religion of Christ,' added the Rev. Joseph Milner, is not of this world!' sure. ISAAC MILNER. ADAM CLARKE, LL. D. WHOEVER shall examine the actual state of religion, especially as connected with political considerations, the progress of what we deem Evangelical Preaching, of Arminian Methodism, of Unitarian Proselytism, of Antinomian Advocacy, the late rise of New Sects, the contests between Catholics and Protestants, and, lastly, the High-Church Prejudices, still unhappily in |