press the rest, or unhappily all ; but rather stance, in the celebrated Hampton Court into the hands of some of them that un- || conference (1604), summoned by the king feignedly wished him well, though of the || in answer to a petition presented by the meaner sort, who may, upon good assurance || puritans, in order that the objections against (very good assurance), be trusted with them; || the doctrines and ceremonies of the English for it is pitie they should admit anie limita- | Church, as expressed in the Prayer-book, tion. Doe this, and doe it mature; it had might be gravely considered, Andrewes was bin more than time long since to have bin || appointed one of the Church commissioners. about it, if I had sooner knowne it. If my | His constitutional modesty of disposition word or letter would do anie good to Mr. || would prevent him from taking a very proChurchman, it should not want. But what || minent part in these controversies; but when, cannot yourself or Mr. Sandys doe therein ? in the second day's conference, the antiquity For Mr. Cranmer is away; happie in that of the sign of the cross in baptism was the he shall gaine a weeke or two before he || subject of discussion, Andrewes, at the comknowe of it (Hooker's death]. Almightie | mand of the king, upon the Bishop of LonGod comfort us over him! whose taking || don's motion, proved out of Tertullian, Cy. away I trust I shall no longer live then || prian, Origen, and others, that it was used with grief I remember; therefore with grief in immortali lavacro; which words being a because with inward and most just honour I | little descanted, it fell from one, “ I think," ever honoured him since I knew him.

says Dr. Barlow, in his account of the con“Your assured poore loving friend, ference, “ it was my lord of Winchester,

“L. ANDREWES. obiter, to say, that in Constantine his · "At the court, Nov. 7, 1600.”

time it was used in baptism." His ma

jesty's exclamation at this announcement About a month after this letter was written,

I will recur to the reader: “What!” quoth the archbishop, who was Hooker's fast friend ||

the king, “and is it now come to that pass, and patron, sent Andrewes on a special mis

that we shall appeach Constantine of popery sion to Mrs. Hooker, to inquire after the

| and superstition? If then it were used, I manuscripts ; but he could obtain no satis

I see no reason but that still we may continue factory information about them from this most intractable of her sex. When, however,

The result of this conference did not the archbishop sent for her to London, she

much soften the asperity of the puritans, confessed that one Mr. Chark, a bitter puri

or remove their complaints, though it proved tan, and another minister not named, had

that they were unfounded. It did good also come to her, and desired that they might go

in other ways; and, not to mention the into her late husband's study, and examine

canons of 1604, in which the assistance of some of his writings; and that there they two

Andrewes is obvious,2 to it we owe our pretore and burnt many of them, assuring her

sent translation of the Bible. Since the that they had done so, because they were

commencement of the Reformation, several writings not fit to be seen.' Notwithstand

translations, in whole or part, by Wyckliffe, ing this most barbarous conflagration, the

Tyndal, Coverdale, and Cranmer, had ap. rough drafts of the three last books of the

peared ; and at the beginning of Elizabeth's “Ecclesiastical Polity” were recovered, and |

reign, Archbishop Parker had sent forth a delivered by Whitgift to Dr. Spencer, who

version, generally known by the name of drew up as perfect a copy as he could, a

the “Bishops' Bible,” from the fact of eight transcript of which was given to Andrewes,

bishops having been among the translators. among others.

But Dr. Reynolds and his brother puritans Within a year after Hooker, Elizabeth

objected to these as unfair translations, and died; but when James ascended the throne,

| desired that a new one might be prepared ; Andrewes was not less a favourite with him

which was acceded to. The king appointed than he had been with the queen. The king

fifty-four of the most learned men in the appointed him his almoner. He preached his

kingdom to execute the important work, coronation-sermon; and in all the important || forty-seven of whom lived to commence it. ecclesiastical measures which marked the

They were divided into six divisions, to each commencement of his reign, the dean of Westminster took a leading part. For in I See Barlow's Summe and Substance of the Hampton

Court Conference-in Cardwell's History of Conferences, 1 Strype's Life of Whitgift, ii. 441.

it.”

of which a portion of the same text was Andrewes had been elevated to the highcommitted for translation. To the dean of est order in the Christian Church. On Westminster and others, whose names stand | the 16th of October, 1605, he was consefirst in the list of translators, was assigned || crated bishop of Chichester. The sees of Sathe rendering of the Pentateuch, and the || lisbury and Ely had been previously offered history from the first book of Joshua to the to him by Queen Elizabeth ; but as he was to first book of Chronicles inclusive. Every | receive them on condition that a portion of care was taken to ensure a correct version, || their revenues should be applied to other and many important rules were given ; one of uses than those for which the pious donors which was, “that when any word had seve- || had intended them, he indignantly refused ral significations, that which had been com- | to sanction that sacrilege which, together monly used by the most celebrated fathers with usury' and simony, he justly abhorred. should be preferred, provided it were agree- || His act at Cambridge on commencing doctor able to the context, and the analogy of of divinity was in proof of the divine right faith.” The royal instructions were issued of tithes; and it is remarkable, that when, soon after the Hampton Court conference; |several years afterwards, a bill was brought but the work was not commenced until the || into the house of lords for alienating Sherspring of the year 1607. The execution of burn Castle from the see of Sarum, Anit occupied the learned translators about | drewes was the only bishop who voted three years; and in 1611 they dedicated their against the measure. This singularity hav. incomparable work-equally remarkable, as | ing been observed, he remarked that it was it has been well observed, for the general | no new opinion he had expressed, as he fidelity of its rendering and the magnificent || had maintained the same many years before, simplicity of its language-to King James, in confirmation of which he related his renot only as being “the principal mover and || fusal of the see of Sarum. When this was author of the work, but since things of this I told the prince, afterwards Charles I., who quality have ever been subject to the cen- | was present at the passing of the bill, he resures ofill-meaning and discontented persons, Igretted that the bishop had not openly stated it may receive his majesty's approbation and his reasons; for if he had known them, he patronage, whose allowance and acceptance | declared that he would have obtained his of their labours, the translators declare shall father's permission to have opposed the meamore honour and encourage them, than all sure. the calumniations and hard interpretations While thus bold in defending the rights of other men shall dismay them. So that of the Church, he was not less decided in if,” continues the epistle dedicatory, “ on the maintaining the prerogatives of the crown. one side we shall be traduced by popish per- | This the many sermons which he preached sons at home or abroad, who therefore will before the king, commemorating various namalign us because we are poor instruments tional events, and which will be alluded to make God's holy truth more and more to by and by, abundantly manifest; but known unto the people, whom they desire soon after his elevation to the episcopate, still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or an opportunity presented itself wherein he if on the other side, we shall be maligned by spoke very decidedly on the matter, and self-conceited brethren, who run their own thoroughly established the king's right of ways, and give liking to nothing but what calling religious synods and assemblies. is framed by themselves, and hammered on | The Scottish Presbyterians having persisttheir anvil, -we may rest secure, supported | ed, against the king's express commands within by the truth and innocency of a good to the contrary, in calling an assembly at conscience, having walked the ways of sim- || plicity and integrity, as before the Lord ;

1 He was frequently known to lend large sums of money,

but would never receive any thing beyond the principal and sustained without by the powerful protection of your majesty's grace and favour, which will ever give countenance to honest

Aberdeen, his majesty, justly indignant at| | The preacher then proceeds to shew, that such contempt of his authority, summoned | the power of calling these councils was unseveral of the leading ministers to London, || der the law from the time of Moses to Macthat they might give satisfaction for their cabees, and under the gospel from Constandisobedience. Being indisposed to do this, || tine to the twelfth century, placed in the the king sent three questions which he de- || hands of the civil magistrate. He proves sired them to answer, the second being, || that the seven general councils-hence we Whether they acknowledge his majesty, by | may infer that Andrewes acknowledged sethe authority of his prerogative royal, as ven to have been general were convened a Christian king, to have lawful and full || at the command of princes. The same power, to convoke, prorogue, and cause de power is shewn to have called together nasert upon just and necessary causes known tional and provincial synods, till one of the to him, the assemblies of the kirk within his trumpets alluded to in the text was gotten majesty's dominion? The king also ap- || away by Rome at the council of Lateran pointed four English bishops to preach at |(1180). In reply to an objection brought Hampton Court on the subject, and com- | from the practice of the times before Moses manded the Scottish ministers to attend. It | and Constantine, when councils were held was on the 28th of September, 1606, that uncalled by princes, the bishop observes Andrewes preached from Numbers x. 12. that, as the Church was then under perse“ Then God spake to Moses, saying, Make cution, there was no Christian magistrate thee two trumpets of silver, of one piece shalt to summon them. When the magistrate thou make them. And thou shalt have them and his authority was at any time wanting (or they shall be for thee) to assemble (or call to the Church, forced she was to deal with together) the congregation, and to remove | her own affairs within herself; for then was the camp." From these significant words the the Church wholly divided from princes, and preacher clearly establishes the king's right they from it. But when this wall of par, and power of calling assemblies, and justi- || tition is pulled down, shall Moses have no fies the assertion of our twenty-first Article, || more to do than Pharaoh, or Constantine that general councils may not be called to- || than Nero ? gether without the will of princes. The im- | The sermon concludes by remarking, that portance of the subject may excuse a brief as the trumpet had been recovered by the analysis of this very elaborate discourse. |king of England at the reformation, it was

After shewing the applicability of the text inconsistent in the presbytery to object to his to the matter in hand, he mentions that as- | using it. “Was it, then,” he asks, “usurped semblies are necessary for the well-being of from princes, and are now princes usurpers the Church. “The Church hath her wars of it themselves ? And is this all the difto fight; the Church hath her laws to make. | ference in the matters of assemblies and callWars with heresies, wherein experience |ing of them, that there must be only a teacheth us it is matter of less difficulty to change, and that instead of a foreign they raze a good fort than to cast down a strong shall have a domestical, and instead of one, imagination, and more easy to drive out of many; and no remedy now but one of these the field a good army of men than to chase || two they must needs admit of? Is this now out of men's minds a heap of fond opinions, I become good divinity ? Nay, I trust, if having once taken head. Now heresies erunt tibi were once true, it is so still; and have ever been best put to flight by the if tibi were then Moses, it is so still ; that Church's assemblies, that is, councils, as it we will be better advised, and not thus go were by the armies of God's angels, as Eu- || against ourselves, and let truth be no longer sebius calleth them ; yea, it is well known | truth than it will serve our turns.':? that some heresies could never be thoroughly || Such is a general outline of this masmastered or conquered but so.

terly sermon; and it is observable that the “Then for the Church's laws, which we same train of argument was used by Ancall canons and rules, made to restrain or || drewes when, three years afterwards, he wrote redress abuses, they have always likewise an apology of a work of his royal master, enbeen made at her assemblies in councils, and titled “The Defence of the Right of Kings," not elsewhere; so that as requisite are as- | in which his majesty had maintained that semblies for the congregation in this sense Christian princes were over causes eccleas any other,”

1 See Sermons, vol, v, 141, Ox, ed.

siastical as well as civil within their do Illiterate call us !-let their wisest man

Draw forth his thousands as your teacher can: minions supreme, against the attacks of the

They give their moral precepts; so, they say, famous Romish controversialist Cardinal Bel. Did Epictetus once and Seneca;

One was a slave, and slaves we all must be larmine, who had written against it under Until the Spirit comes and sets us free. the name of Matthew Tortus. Andrewes

Yet hear you nothing from such men but works ;

They make the Christian service like the Turks'. entitled his reply Tortura Torti ; and it is

Hark to the Churchman : day by day he cries,

Children of men, be virtuous and be wise ; said by Casaubon to be a work of great ac

Seck patience, justice, temp'rance, meekness, truth; curacy and research.

In age be courteous, be sedate in youth.'

So they advise; and when such things be read,
[To be continued.]

How can we wonder that their tlocks are dead !
Hear you not priests their feeble spirits spend

In bidding sinners turn to God and mend;
THE POET CRABBE AND THE

To check their passions and to walk aright,

To run the race and fight the glorious fight:
METHODISTS.

Nay, more ;-to pray, to study, to improve,
To the Editor of the Englishman's Magazine.

To grow in goodness, to advance in love?

O babes and sucklings, dull of heart and slow. . SIR,-One of your correspondents has brought the So much to duties; now to learning look, poet Cowper to witness to the ecclesiastic taste of And see their priesthood piling book on book;

Yea, books of infidels, we're told, and plays, England in his time; perhaps you will allow me to

Put out by leathens in the wink'd-on days; adduce another poet, George Crabbe, in testimony

The very letters are of crooked kind, of the doings of the Methodists at the beginning of And shew the strange perverseness of their mind. the nineteenth century. The passages selected will

Have I this learning? When the Lord would speak,

Think ye he needs the Latin or the Greek? shew how much earlier than many suppose these And lo! with all their learning, when they rise schismatics began to traduce the Church from which To preach, in view the ready sermon lies ; they had separated, besides portraying to the life

Some low-pric'd stuff they purchased at the stalls,

And more like Seneca's than mine or Paul's. the fanaticism and presumption of their preachers;

Children of bondage, how should they explain for here, as in his other poems, the poet was con The Spirit's freedom while they wear a chain ? cerned with real characters: indeed, in the present They study words for meanings, grow perplex'd, instance he is well known to have drawn his por

And slowly hunt for truth from text to text,

Through Greek and Hebrew.... traits from certain intruders into his parish of

No; let the pope, the high and mighty priest, Muston, who, during his absence, had sown, as Lord to the poor and servant to the beast; they always do, the seeds of dissension between

Let bishops, deans, and prebendaries swell

With pride and fatness till their hearts rebel: the pastor and his flock. It was probably while

I'm meek and modest.'" suffering from these injuries that he penned his fourth letter on sects and professions in religion, Crabbe then proceeds to sketch the preachment which forms part of the poem named The Borough. l) of an Arminian or Wesleyan teacher, in which,

In the introduction to this poem he thus alludes though the doctrinal error is the opposite to that to that portion of it which refers to what he well of the Calvinian, the arrogance and abuse of the designates the spiritual influenza of the Methodists. Church are the same:“ I have only to observe," he writes, “ that their

" Shew me one Churchman who will rise and pray tenets remain the same ... there is yet that ima Through half the night, though lab'ring all the day, gined contention with the powers of darkness that Always abounding-shew me him, I say.' is at once so lamentable and so ludicrous ; there is

Thus cries the preacher; and he adds, their sheep

Satan devours at leisure as they sleep. the same offensive familiarity with the Deity, with

Not so with us; we drive him from the fold, a full trust and confidence both on the immediate For ever barking, and for ever bold: efficacy of their miserably delivered supplications,

While they securely slumber, all his schemes

Take full effect--the devil never dreams; and on the reality of numberless small miracles

But I detect, and at his work surprise, wrought at their request and for their convenience; The subtle serpent under all disguise. ... and there still remains the same wretched jargon,

These are in part the ills the foe has wrought,

And these the Churchman thinks not worth his thought; composed of scriptural language debased by vulgar

They bid the troubled try for peace and rest, expressions, which has a kind of mystic influence Compose their minds, and be no more distress'd. on the minds of the ignorant.” In the poem itself, These are the Church-physicians : they are paid to which these excellent remarks are prefatory, the

With noble fees for their advice and aid;

Yet know they not the inward pulse to feel, poet thus describes the subject-matter and manner To ease the anguish, or the wound to heal. of the Methodist preachers of his day and parish : With the sick sinner thus their work begins :

• Do you repent you of your former sins? “ A sect remains, which, though divided long

Will you amend if you revive and live? In hostile parties, both are fierce and strong,

And, pardon seeking, will you pardon give? And into each enlists a warm and zealous throng.

Have you belief in what our Lord has done ; Soon as they rose in fame the strife arose

And are you thankful !-- all is well, my son. The Calvinistic these, th' Arminian those;

A way far different ours- we thus surprise
With Wesley some remained, the remnant Whitfield chose: ||

A soul with questions, and demand replies.”
Now various leaders both the parties take,
And the divided hosts their new divisions make.

The poet then gives a very graphic description See yonder preacher to his people pass,

of the Wesleyan dogma of conversion, which makes Borne up and swell'd by Tabernacle-gas;

the new birth quite independent of the sacrament Much he discourses, and of various pints, All unconnected, void of limbs and joints :

of baptism, and a matter not of faith but of feeling, He rails, persuades, explains, and moves the will

or rather of passion :By fierce, bold words and strong mechanic skill. That Gospel Paul with zeal and love maintain'd,

11. How dropp'd you first,' I ask, 'the legal yoke? To others lost, to you is now explain'd;

What the first word the living Witness spoke? No worldly learning can these points discuss,

Perceived you thunders roar and lightnings shine, Books teach them not as they are taught to us.

And tempests gathering, ere the birth divine ?

Did fire, and storm, and earthquake, all appear

munition ; thy treasuries overflow with the tribute Before that still small voice, What dost thou here? Hast thou by day and night, and soon and late,

of conquered kingdoms. Plenty waves upon thy Waited and watched before admission-gate;

fields, and opulence glitters in thy cities. Thy nod And so a pilgrim and a soldier pass'd

is as the earthquake that shakes the mountains, To Sion's hill through battle and through blast ?

and thy smile as the dawn of the vernal day. In Then, in thy way, didst thou thy foe attack, And mad'st thou proud Apollyon turn his back?

thy hand is the strength of thousands, and thy Heart-searching things are these, and shake the mind, health is the health of millions. Thy palace is Yea, like the rustling of a mighty wind.

gladdened by the song of praise, and thy path perThus would I ask :-nay, let me question now How sink my sayings in your bosom? how ?

fumed by the breath of benediction. Thy subFeel you a quickening? drops the subject deep?

jects gaze upon thy greatness, and think of danStupid and stony, no! you're all asleep;

ger or misery no more. Why, Seged, wilt not Listless and lazy, waiting for a close,

thou partake the blessings thou bestowest? Why As if at church ;-do I allow repose ? Am I a legal minister ? do I

shouldst thou only forbear to rejoice in this general With form or rubric, rule or rite comply ?

felicity? Why should thy face be clouded with Then whence this quiet? tell me, I beseech;

anxiety, when the meanest of those who call thee One might believe you heard your rector preach, Or his assistant dreamer.'

sovereign, gives the day to festivity, and the night

to peace ? At length, Seged, reflect and be wise. Such was the style of Wesleyan preaching in the || What is the gift of conquest but safety ? why are year 1810. I am afraid that the same style still || riches collected but to purchase happiness ?” prevails among the emissaries of the Conference, | Seged then ordered the house of pleasure, built wbich would appear to be one of the many forms of || in an island of the lake Dambea, to be prepared antichrist developing themselves in these latter for his reception. “I will retire," says he," for days.—I remain, sir, your well-wisher,

ten days from tumult and care, from counsels and AN OLD-FASHIONED CHURCHMAN. decrees. Long quiet is not the lot of the governors

of nations, but a cessation of ten days cannot be denied me. This short interval of happiness may surely be secured from the interruption of fear or perplexity, sorrow or disappointment. I will exclude all trouble from my abode, and remove from my thoughts whatever may confuse the harmony of the concert, or abate the sweetness of the banquet. I will fill the whole capacity of my soul with enjoyment, and try what it is to live without a wish unsatisfied."

In a few days the orders were performed, and Seged hasted to the palace of Dambea, which stood in an island cultivated only for pleasure, planted with every flower that spreads its colours to the sun, and every shrub that sheds fragrance in the air. In one part of this extensive garden were open walks for excursions in the morning; in another, thick groves, and silent arbours, and bubbling fountains, for repose at noon. All that could solace the sense or flatter the fancy, all that industry could extort from nature, or wealth furnish to art, all that conquest could seize, or beneficence attract, was collected together, and every perception of delight was excited and gratified.

Into this delicious region Seged summoned all p. 180.

the persons of his court who seemed eminently

qualified to receive or communicate pleasure. His THE HISTORY OF SEGED, LORD OF

call was readily obeyed; the young, the fair, the ETHIOPIA.

vivacious, and the witty, were all in baste to be Of Heaven's protection who can be

sated with felicity. They sailed jocund over the So confident to utter this-.

lake, which seemed to smooth its surface before “ To-morrow I will spend in bliss ?''

them : their passage was cheered with music, and Thus, in the twenty-seventh year of his reign, || their hearts dilated with expectation. spoke Seged, the monarch of forty nations, the dis- || Seged, landing here with his company, detertributor of the waters of the Nile : “ At length, || mined from that hour to break off all acquaintance Seged, thy toils are at an end ; thou hast recon with discontent, to give his heart for ten days to ciled disaffection, thou hast suppressed rebellion, ease and pleasure, and then fall back to the comthou hast pacified the jealousies of thy courtiers, mon state of man, and suffer his life to be diversithou hast chased war from thy confines, and erected fied, as before, with joy and sorrow. fortresses in the lands of thy enemies. All who He immediately entered his chamber, to consihave offended thee tremble in thy presence, and || der where he should begin his circle of happiness. wherever thy voice is heard, it is obeyed. Thy || He had all the artists of delight before him, but throne is surrounded by armies, numerous as the knew not whom to call, since he could not enjoy locusts of the summer, and resistless as the blasts | one but by delaying the performance of another. of pestilence. Thy magazines are stored with am- || He chose and rejected, he resolved and changed