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striking remarks upon their evidence plied to the long established chaand authority. The necessity of per-racter of George III? sonal religion is seriously enforced; and the various duties of the Christian are exhibited. It concludes with the motives to a religious life. There are two errors of the press, which should be corrected in the next edition. P. 7, line 14, for intentionable," read "unintentional." P. 28, 1. 1, for "year," read years." We would also recommend "the studious Biblist," p. 10, 1.25, to be altered to "the studier of the Bible."

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"The friend, the parent, the philanthropist, the patriot, the magistrate, the protector of the oppressed, the patron of and some of them exalted claims on our the poor-each of these has separate, gratitude: but in the character of a good and pious Monarch all are united, and does honour to them all. a nation in doing honour to his memory chre, if justice write the epitaph, men At his sepulof virtue shall assemble with delight; unbelievers shall fearn to covet the hope of immortality; and the Christian faith shall multiply its converts; while, tauglit by his bright example, the most eminent in piety shall devoutly exclaim, “ Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be glory given !".

glance at those affectionate marks Mr. Hinton has indulged in a of protection which the Protestant Dissenters have always experienced from the House of Brunswick since their accession to the throne of England. The following paragraph must have been listened to at OXFORD with more than common interest.

A Sermon on the Death of his late Majesty, delivered at the Dissenting Chapel, Oxford, February 16, 1820. By James Hinton, M. A. Bagster, Paternoster-row, p. 32. THE author of this elegant sermon has, for a long period, filled the office of a dissenting minister in a city, which has not been improperly termed one of the eyes of the nation, with great credit to himself, and considerable usefulness to others. We think his congregation has given proof of good sense in request-ral, our late Sovereign closely imitated ing the publication of this funeral sermon; nor could the worthy author have with propriety refused so respectable an application. Mr. H. says in the advertisement,

"At a period when no avowal of

"In acts of justice and liberality towards the Protestant Dissenters in gene

the conduct of his immediate predecesGeorge the First, the congregation then sors to the throne. To his Majesty King assembling on this spot, were indebted for a grant of pecuniary aid equally enable to erect a place of worship, which just and munificent, by which they were constitutes a part of the building we now Occupy."

attachment to the constitution of our country, and to the great interests of religion, can be either unnecessary or unavailing, candour will at least commend the motive of the publication, and pass-royal grant, may not be generally The allusion to the justice of this ing by its numerous defects, will rejoice to promote those principles of loyalty and Christian patriotism which it

aims to inculcate."

understood. Immediately after the death of Queen Anne, the high church party in England, rather than submit to a constitutional monarThe character of our late revered chy, were resolved to replace the and beloved Monarch was so esti- abdicated popish family of the mable, and combined such an as- Stuarts upon the throne; and as semblage of excellencies, that the the Protestant Dissenters were well Christian preacher felt no danger of known to be devoted to the Probeing suspected either of falsehood testant succession in the House of or flattery in eulogizing his virtues. Hanover, the Tories, for the pur There are but few persons respect-pose of displaying at once their reliing whom it would have been safe gious and political principles, pulled for a minister of Christ to use down in many places the dissenting the following panegyric; but who meeting-houses, one of which will contradict its propriety as ap- was that at Oxford, and was af

terwards rebuilt by a grant from the Crown.

Our limits prevent us from making further extracts, which we could willingly have done. It is evident from this sermon, as well as from former productions of Mr. Hinton, that he is an Englishman of the good old sort; one who well understands and glories in the principles of the constitution of 1688. He is a scriptural loyalist, obeying just authority, because he "fears God;" and as the blessings of civil and religious liberty are enjoyed and secured in England, this is an additional motive for his " honouring the king."

Though Mr. Hinton would object to declare his unfeigned assent and consent to every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer, he yet does not scruple to enrich his sermon by a quotation from that compilation, which has, since the Act of Toleration, ceased to be the bone of contention between Episcopalians and Dissenters.

"First of all," as classed in the highest rank and among our intercessory devotions, let supplications and prayers be made for kings, and for all that are in authority. Considering how vast are the interests which depend on the success of our prayers, let us ' MOST HEARTILY beseech the King of kings, the only ruler of princes, that he will mercifully replenish the heart of our Sovereign with the grace of his holy Spirit, that he may always incline to the divine will, and walk in God's holy way, that he will plenteously endue him with the gifts of heavenly wisdom,' through an extended and prosperous reign. In proportion to the sincerity and fervour of our prayers, will be our promptitude to every measure by which the peace of our country may be promoted and its safety secured."

The Christianity of the New Testament impregnable and imperishable. An Address occasioned by the Trial of Mr. R. Carlile, &c. &c. By John Evans, L L. D.

AFTER reading this pamphlet, we can only say, that in our opinion the title is excellent, containing a very consoling truth; that the contents also are excellent, consisting chiefly

of extracts from the Evangelists; and that the quotations in it are excellent, being made from the invaluable writings of Dr. Doddridge, Dr.Watts, &c. But when the author gives us his own sentiments in his own words, we are compelled to see with the deepest regret, that he does not direct his readers to the atoning sacrifice of the cross, which, as we most steadfastly believe, is the only foundation of hope for perishing sinners; and which also forms an essential part of "The Christianity of the New Testament." In a word, we say with Isaac, "Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" Gen. xxii. 7,

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

In the Press.

THE Welsh Nonconformist's Memorial; or Cambro-British Biography. With an Account of the first Planters of the Gospel in Britain, &c. By the late W. Richards, LL. D. of Lynn.

Just Published.

MEMOIRS of the Rev. S. J. Mills, an American Missionary. By G. Spring, D. D.

Narrative of a reclaimed Infidel. Edited by W. Roby. 6d.

Burnham's Pious Memorials: continued by the Rev. Geo. Burder. 10s. 6d. boards.

Discourses at the Ordination of the Rev. John Addison Coombs, Salford, by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, A. M. Robert Winter, D. D. and Thomas Raffles, A. M. 2s. 6d.

Letter from a Mother to her Daughter at, or going to, School. By Mrs. J. A. Sargant, 3s. in box and gilt edges, or bound.

Georgiana: or, Anecdotes of George III. By Ingram Cobbin, M. A. 2s. 6d.

Dr. Winter's Sermon at Salters' Hall,

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Intelligence, &c.

SOCIETY

FOR THE RELIEF OF

was held at York-street Chapel, Manchester, of the friends of the above Institution. Joseph Weight, being called

Aged and Infirm Baptist Ministers, to the chair, addressed the meeting in an

INSTITUTED AT BATH, 1816.

THE Annual Meeting of this Society will be held at the Vestry of the Baptist Meeting, Somerset-street, Bath, on Wednesday, the 14th day of June next, at 12 o'clock. In the interim, the beneficiary members, annual subscribers, and congregations who are disposed to aid the funds of the Society by a collection, are respectfully requested to pay their subscriptions and collections to any member of the committee, who are desired to remit all sums received on account of the Society to the secretary, the Rev. J. P. Porter, Bath. The committee avail themselves of this occasion to suggest to their brethren in the ministry, who are members of this Society, that if each of them would make a collection (either public or private) the aggregate, although the sums were individually small, would be a valuable accession to the comforts of the aged or infirm; as one half of such collections would be immediately divided among the claimants.

The beneficiary members intitled to claim on the funds of this Society, those who claimed last year as well as others, are reminded, that their application MUST be in the hands of the secretary, on or before the 14th of May, or it cannot be attended to; and those of them who retain the pastoral office must accompany their application with a certificate from their respective churches, that they retain such office (notwithstanding their claim on this Society) with the consent of a majority of the members present at a church-meeting, held by public notice, for the especial purpose of giving such certificate.

YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE

Assistant Baptist
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

ON Wednesday, July 14, 1819, a numerous and very respectable meeting

appropriate speech, and introduced the business of the day; after which the following resolutions were passed.

1. That the great object of the Baptist Missionary Society, and the measures pursued by it for spreading the knowledge of revealed truth among the heathen, are cordially approved of by this meeting; and that we deem the successful efforts of its Missionaries as an expression of divine favour and approbation that calls for much gratitude, and gives great encouragement to continued exertions.

2. That this meeting cannot better at test their sense of the value of the labours of the Missionaries, than by giving them support from this country; and do therefore request the zealous exertions of all present, and of all their friends, to increase the funds of the Society, and thereby render the labours of the Missionaries still more extensively useful.

3. That as one of the most likely means to increase the funds of the Parent Institution, this meeting do recom mend the formation of Associations, to collect for three distinct objects, viz. the mission-the translation of the Scriptures-and the native schools.

4. That the thanks of this Society be given to W. Hope, Esq. the Treasurer, and to Mr. W. Stephens, the Secretary, for their services during the past year; and that they be requested to abide in the same offices the ensuing year.

5. That the thanks of this Society be given to the collectors of the several districts for their past services; and also to those individual friends who have given encouragement to the Society by their subscriptions and donations.

6. That this Society hold their next Annual Meeting at Liverpool, on the second Tuesday and Wednesday in July, in the following year, of which due notice shall be given in the Baptist Magazine.

7. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to those friends in Manchester, of the denomination called Independents, who have generously

promised to present one hundred pounds | "Dear Father in Christ, to this Society, in the present year.

8. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to Joseph Weight, for the very acceptable manner in which he has presided on the present occasion. In moving and seconding these Resolutions, several animated and interesting speeches were delivered by Messrs. Fisher, Lister, and W, Hope, Esq. Liverpool; Cox, of Hackney, who also preached a sermon on the occasion; Smith of Sheffield, and several other ministers. The meeting, however, owed one of its highest gratifications to the presence of Mr. Ward, then recently arrived from Serampore, who entered into an ample detail of the state of the Mission at the instant of his quitting India. As we understand a report of the whole of the proceedings on this occasion, accompanied by a statement of the Society's receipts and disbursements, will very soon be submitted to the inspection of the public, we, at present, forbear entering more into detail than merely to state that Mr. Stephens preached a most interesting sermon on the Tuesday evening, from John iii. 14, 15. Mr. Cox on Wednesday morning from Isaiah ix. 7. At the close of this excellent discourse, our friends already named came forward with their very liberal donations.

The business of the Society was at tended to in the afternoon, and Mr. Ward preached a most impressive and appropriate sermon in the evening from Luke x, 30-37, and concluded the services of a day which will be long remembered with gratitude by all who feel concerned for the salvation of the heathen,

Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. A FEW days since the following letter, enclosing one pound for the Mission, was put into my hand. I baptized the writer, and several of his family, some years since. Mrs. More's Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, seems to live again in this pastoral brother, whose humble piety, and tender devotion, may dictate to the poor, especially, how they may cast a mite into the treasury of God, and prefer a modest, and successful claim on the abundance of the wealthy. The funds of the Mission, exhausted as they are, would soon revive and flourish, by the cordial reception of a hint to be derived from the conduct of this obscure benefactor,

JOHN SAFFERY.

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I hope my love to you and yours is, as in time past, unfeigned. Dear Father, I have not forgot the great kindness of you and your church to us poor people; neither hath my God for gotten it, for he will surely bless you. A few years ago, I, by the goodness of a kind friend, became a constant reader of the Baptist Magazine. By the news I understand the state of the heathen world, and it deeply affects my soul, particularly the state of the poor slaves. For them I sigh, and look upward: 0 my God, hasten their deliverance!

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Having but little to give, I set apart. one day in a week for fasting, and prayer; and so continued for two whole years. The Lord blessed me with much nearness to himself, and I felt it good to wait on the Lord, and rejoice in the God of my salvation. I had also the happiness to think that, while I was praying for the hastening of Christ's kingdom, I was saving a mite to cast into the treasury of God. Sometimes my dear wife, and aged mother, and my dear little daugh ter, joined with me in this, and the Lord blessed us indeed.

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I was very fond of tobacco: I gave up this also, for the dear cause of Christ. Dear father, all that we give, we give as a thank-offering to God for all his great mercy as an unmerited free gift. Dear father, let not this be known in my neighbourhood: if you do, I shall be much hurt, and offended. Could I write better, I could tell you much more: so no more at present from your affectionate sun in the gospel,

"The poor Shepherd of
"Salisbury Plain,"

"Feb, 23, 1820."

COMMITTEE OF DEPUTIES,
FOR THE YEAR 1820,

Appointed to protect the Civil Rights
of the three Denominations of Pro-
testant Dissenters.

WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. M. P. Chairman,
Philpot-lane,

JOSEPH GUTTERIDGE, Esq. Deputy
Chairman, Camberwell.
JAS. COLLINS, Esq. Treasurer, Spital-sq.
Samuel Favell, Esq. Camberwell.
John Addington, Esq. Spital-square.
John Towell Rutt, Esq. Clapton,
Edward Busk, Esq. Pump-court, Temple,

James Esdaile, Esq. Bunhill-row.
W. A. Hankey, Esq. Fenchurch-street.
William Hale, Esq. Homerton.
David Bevan, Esq. Walthamstow.
William Burls, Esq. Lothbury.
Joseph Bunnel, Esq. Southampton-row,
Bloomsbury.

pear with honour in the learned professions, or to adorn private life with literary pursuits in the hours of leisure from business.

It is not intended that this Institution should interfere with any which are already established. The theological semi

James Gibson, Esq. Lime-street, Fen-naries it will not infringe on, or injure.

church-street.

James Pritt, Esq. Wood-street, Cheap-
side.

T. Wood, Esq. Little St. Thomas-Apostle.
John Christie, Esq. Hackney-wick.
Samuel Jackson, Esq. Hackney.
William Titford, Esq. Turner-sq. Hoxton,
William Shrubsole, Esq. Bank.

They are well adapted to their professed design; and in the careful instruction of the students, and in the extensive course which they pursue, will bear a comparison with any of the most celebrated Universities in Christendom. Instead of being a rival to these, the new College will be a useful and beneficial ally; and

W. Freme, Esq. Catherine-court, Tower-will present candidates for the ministry hill.

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THAT SO large and respectable a body of people as the Protestant Dissenters should not have a College for the instruction of their youth in the higher branches of languages and sciences, is a subject both of astonishment and regret. Nonconformity excluded them from the Universities, by the oaths and subscriptions which were demanded at their admission, or in the course of their studies, in order to the attainment of literary honours. In consequence of this, the Universities of Holland, and especially of Scotland, have been the usual resorts of the young gentlemen who wished to participate of the benefits of a liberal education. Is it not natural to suppose, that the inconvenience of going so far from home has prevented very many from enjoying this inestimable privilege?

with a valuable opportunity of becoming greater adepts both in the learned languages, and in various departments of science.

Should the plan in general, meet with the approbation of the public, it is the wish of the writer that gentlemen in the metropolis would stand forward, and soliciting the co-operation of friends to the cause in every part of the country, would mature the plan, and begin to carry it into execution, by subscriptions for its support, and looking around for professors well qualified by talents, and habits of labour, to perform the duties of their office, with reputation to the institution, with peculiar benefits to the students, and with honour to themselves.

Plan of a Dissenting College.

I. PROFESSORS-Four in number at first. 1. For Languages-The higher departments of Latin, and Greek, and the Hebrew.

2. For Logic-Metaphysics-and Rhe

toric.

3. For Moral Philosophy-Philosophy of History—and General Principles of Law.

4. For Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

5. For Botany, Chemistry, and Natural History, when the fund will allow of a fifth Professor.

II.

SALARIES OF PROFESSORS.- Not less than four hundred pounds a year. 1. Partly from the subscriptions of the public.

But, should such a state of things always continue? Ought not the foul reproach to be rolled away from before our doors? Is it not incumbent on us, without delay, to form an institution which will enable our respectable youth to reap all the advantages which the most liberal education can confer, without making a sacrifice of their principles as Dissenters? Deeply impressed with these considerations, I beg leave to submit to all who are without the pale of the Established Church, the plan of a College which will secure to the students a liberal education, 1. Men of unfeigned piety, of high and communicate to them such a course moral character, and of liberal sentiof instruction as will enable them to ap-ments.

VOL. XII.

2. Partly by fees from the students, from six to ten pounds a year each.

III. QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PRO

FESSORS.

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