transfigured, glorified, and enriched with the beams of celestial majesty. Let me be permitted, however, to observe, that the experience of Mr. Janeway in his last moments, while it developes the native tendency of christianity, is not to be considered as a standard to ordinary christians. He affords a great example of what is attainable in religion, and not what is indispensibly necessary to salvation. Thousands die in the Lord, who are not indulged with the privilege of dying in triumph. His extraordinary diligence in the whole of his christian career, his tenderness of conscience, his con ried too far. David danced before the Lord with all his might, and when he was reproached for degrading himself in the eyes of his people by indulging such transports, he replied, If this be to be vile, I will yet make myself more vile. That the objects which interest the heart in religion are infinitely more durable and important than all others, will not be disputed; and why should it be deemed irrational to be affected by them in a degree somewhat suitable to their value, especially in the near prospect of their full and perfect possession? Why should it be deemed strange and irrational for a dying saint, who has spent his life instant vigilance, his vehement hunger the pursuit of immortal good, to feel and thirst after righteousness, met an unspeakable extacy at finding he with a signal reward, intended, prohas just touched the goal, finished bably, not more for his own personal his course, and in a few moments is advantage than as a persuasive to to be crowned with life everlasting? others to walk in his steps. As he While he dwells on the inconceiva- was incessantly solicitous to improve bly glorious prospect before him, and his graces, purify his principles, and feels himself lost in wonder and gra- perfect holiness in the fear of the titude, and almost oppressed with a Lord, no wonder he was favoured sense of his unutterable obligations with an abundant entrance into the to the love of his Creator and Re- joy of his Lord. He which soweth deemer, nothing can be more natural sparingly shall reap sparingly; and and proper than his sentiments and he which soweth bountifully shall reap conduct. While the scriptures re- also bountifully." R. H. tain their rank as the only rule of faith and practice; while there are those who feel the power of true religion, such death-bed scenes as Mr. Janeway's will be contemplated with veneration and delight. It affords no inconsiderable confirmation of the truth of Christianity, that the most celebrated sages of Pagan antiquity, whose last moments have been exhibited with inimitable propriety and beauty, present nothing equal nor similar, nothing of that singular combination of humility and elevation, that self-renouncing greatness, in which the creature appears anni-¡ bilated and God all in all. I am much mistaken if the serious reader will not find in the closing scenes of Mr. Janeway's life, the most perfect form of Christianity; he will find it, not as it is too often clouded with doubts and oppressed with sorrows; he will behold it ascend the mount, The Gospel worthy of all accepta- THE difference between Christians Nor the resurrection and the life, and rejoices in hope of the glory of God." The Infidel either treats death with levity, or trembles with horror at his approach. HUME spent his last days in playing at whist, in cracking his jokes about Charon and his boat, in reading Lucian and other ludicrous books. Hobbes when alone, was haunted by the most tormenting reflections, and would awake in great terror, if his candle happened to go out in the night. He could never bear any discourse of death. When he found he could live no longer, he said, "I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at," and was constrained to confess, notwithstanding all his pretensions to learning and philosophy." Not so the Christian, living by faith on the Son of God, he is delivered from the tormenting bondage of the fear of death." I know," says he, "whom I have believed, and am persuaded he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day." There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness" -and not a few in the anticipation of death have exclaimed, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!" The worthy man whose decease this sermon was designed to improve drew all his consolation from the sentiments of the delightful passage on which it is founded. 1 Tim. i. 15. It would not be false or presumptuous to say that his good works at least equalled those of some who have depended upon their goodness for salvation; he performed as many charities, as some have thought sufficient to procure the favour of God and to purchase heaven; but after he had done all, he acknowledged himself an unprofitable servant, and made the merits of Christ his only hope. "I have no hope," said he, "but what arises from the cross of Christ-from what he has done for me as my sin offering, and what he is to me as my righteousness and complete redemption." Mr. Newman has illustrated this animating subject, in a very evangelical, serious, and practical manner. The following paragragh contains a token of respect justly due not only to the excellent founder of our Academical Institution at Stepney; but also to many who have been members of the church in Prescott-street. Vol. VI. C "The calumnies of those who a: e adversaries to the doctrine of " Grace abounding to the chief of sinners" are totally unfounded. They say it leads to licentiousness: that it is inimical to good works. Hence the outrageous clamours of late against Calvinism. My dear brethren, we shall take arrows from your quiver, and not be ashamed " to speak with the enemies in the gate." We shall appeal to the names of Mary Cox, and Rebecca Tomkins, and William Taylor, and other ornaments of your community. Were they licentious in their manner of life? Were they enemies to good works? And under whose ministry were their religious sentiments formed? Under ABRA'HAM BOOTH, the author of the Reign of Crace," a name venerable here, and venerable every where; a man, who made it the object of all his ministry to shew (what his own personal example happily illustrated) the consistency between "the death of legal hope, and the life of evangelical obedience." THEOLOGICAL NOTICES. In a few days will be published, the Pædobaptists' reply to three queries in the Evangelical Magazine on the subject of Baptism. Dr. Gill's Cause of God and Truth will be put to press immediately. As very few copies will be printed besides what are subscribed for, our readers who intend to possess the work, should apply to their Booksellers without delay. In the press and speedily will be published, the third edition of Jesus shewing Mercy. By John Hayter Cox. A Sketch of the History and Proceedings of the Deputies appointed to protect the Civil Rights of the Protestant Dissenters. Mr. W. Jones, author of the History of the Waldenses, is preparing for publication, a Biblical Dictionary, on an improved plan: adapted equally to the use of Ministers, Students, and private Christians. MISSIONARY RETROSPECT. English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. THE unexpected success which attended the efforts of the Independents and Puritans to convert the North American Indians, gave birth to this Society in 1647," which," says Mosheim," in proportion to the increase of its number, influence, revenues, and prerogatives, has still renewed and augmented its efforts." Before the troubles broke out which ended in the independence of the United States, the Society employed nearly 100 missionaries, besides catechists and schoolmasters, and expended from 4000 to 5000l. per annum. Since that period its exertions have been much curtailed, and are now chiefly confined to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada. A wide field is, however, still open to the enterprize of the Society in the West Indies. It employs, at present, between 40 and 50 missionaries, and about the same number of catechists and schoolmasters, in whose support it expends about 30001. per annum. An anniversary sermon is preached before the Society, at the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, by one of the Bishops. new institution still continning, as a separate and not incorporated Society, to prosecute their benevolent designs at home; and the incorporated Society confining its operations principally to the British Plantations in America, the proceedings of the "Society for promoting Christian Knowledge" have gradually been extended to other quarters, chiefly to the East Indies. It has contributed to the translation and circulation of the Scriptures, &c. in several tongues. Its missionaries are all ordained ministers of the Lutheran Church; and it numbers, among those which it has employed, the 66 apostolical Swartz and Gericke," by whose labours, and those of their brethren, many thousand natives have been brought to the profession of the Faith. The Society has, at present, in India, the following missionaries, who are Lutheran clergymen: viz. Christian Poble, at Trichinapally; John Caspar Kolhoff, at Tanjore; Charles William Pævold, at Madras; and Immanuel Gottfried Holzberg, at Cuddalore. Besides these labourers, the following natives, ordained by the missionaries according to the Lutheran ritual, are under the Society's protection: viz Sattianaden, Wedanayagam, Nanaperagason, Abra The Society for promoting Christian ham, and Adeykalam. Was formed in 1698, for the ad- The first of these native missionaries has long laboured with zeal and success, and is now grown old, in the service of his Master: the other four, being the eldest catechists in the Tanjore mission, and well approved, both in respect of ability and picty, were ordained by the Lutheran Missionaries, March 17, 1811, at Tanjore. The Rev. Mr. Jacobi, a Lutheran clergyman, has been lately appointed by the Society to proceed to In dia, in order to strengthen their missions The Society expends, at present, about 1100/. or 1200l. per annum, in the support of these missions. On the 23d March last, a Charge was delivered before the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, to the Rev. C. A. Jacobi, then about to proceed as one of their Missionaries to India, by the Rev. Dr. Middleton, Archdeacon of Huntingdon. The Charge has since been published, and is highly deserving of notice. Dr. Middleton first exhibits a picture of the horrid nature of the Brahminical superstition, inferring from it "how weak and wretched is human nature in its most favoured circumstances, unblessed with a knowledge of the true God, and of his reasonable service." The office of the missionary is to" dissipate the darkness of the heathen world, to instruct mankind in the way and in the will of God, and to unfold to them the mysteries of redemption”~ and“ in such a work God will be with" bim. The archdeacon then adverts to the low state of Christia nity in India, notwithstanding the early age in which it was originally planted there, and in a note seems to lament" the extraordinary inattention shewn to the Syrian Christians." He exposes the unchristian proceedings of the Romish Church, in the propagation of its faith, and its unjustifiable conduct in violating the freedom and vitiating the purity of the primitive Syro-Indian Church, and establishing the Inquisition at Goa in all its horrors, which, Dr. Middleton adds, " still remains to stigmatize the Christian name. But if the efforts of the Church of Rome to diffuse Christianity were conducted in an unchristian spirit, those of Protestants have been shamefully inadequate. The Danish Mission, * Dr. Middleton will doubtless rejoice with us, to learn that the Inquisition at Gea was abolished in October last; and that it is now thrown open to public investigation, with all its ells, secret chambers, c. which has existed little more than a century, has been counteracted, and in a great measure defeated, by the lives of the bulk of Europeans, who, calling themselves Christians, shewed "a more than heathen contemp of religions obligations." But these have not been the only difficalties. The Hindu superstitions, the institution of caste, and the strange policy of ovr Indian Government, in refusing to patronize native converts to Christianity, are unquestionably powerful obstacles. Notwithstanding, however, all these discouragements, the word of God is found to prevail, and the number of native Christians to increase. The Society, some years ago, was presented with the sermon of an ordained Convert from Hinduism, and four other Tamul Catechists have lately been called to the ministry; aud, the Archdeacon observes, "it is from the labours of ordained converts that we expect the most favourable results.” "They are the instruments by which, under God, his holy faith, will find its way to the hearts of the heathens,” who have lately shewn a more than ordinary readiness to be instructed." After some farther seasonable and judicious observations on the various encouraging circumstances which the recent discoveries in Indian lite‐ rature, as well as some recent occurrences in India, furnish for missionary attempts, Dr. Middleton proceeds to address some exhortations to Mr. Jacobi himself. He strongly urges him to the acquisition of the native languages, without which you would be but as a barbarian to the people, and they barbarians to you." Then follows some admirable conusel, applicable no less to the Christian Pastor in England than to the Christian Missionary in India, and which we trust the three or four thousand clergymen whose names are enrolled in this Society, will con sider as addressed to themselves with as much force and propriety a to Mr. Jacobi. "You will consider that it is not merely in preaching what you shall have premeditated that your usefulness will consist: you will find it necessary to converse with them familiarly on every subject which may present itself; to enter into their sentiments, feelings, associations, and prejudices, and to be altogether such as they are, except only in their ignorance, superstitions and vices.""You will diligently review the records of the Mission, and the labour of your forerunners, considering well to what causes their success has been chiefly attributable, and to what their failure, and resolving to profit by their experience, while you emulate their bright example. Above all you will make the Sacred Volume your meditation by day and by night; both as it will enable you to establish Divine Truth in the hearts of your hearers, and (which is indispensable to that great end) to preserve it pure and vigorous in your own." "Avoid every thing which may be construed into a subterfuge, or suppression of the truth: inculcate the doctrine of a crucified as well as of a glorified Redeemer: exhibit the Man of Sorrows in his meekness and lowliness. point out the necessity of an offering for sin: and let your endeavour be less to make a multitude of pretended proselytes, than that they who shall profess the faith of Christ shall profess it in truth and sincerity." 66 Finally let me remind you, that under the guidance of the blessed Spirit you must ultimately rely for your success on those Christian graces which are the proper fruits of the Spirit: they must live in your life, and breathe in all your actions. Humility, patience, kindness, devotion, charity, and peace are the virtues of the Christian Apostle: by these you will adorn and recommend the doctrine of God your Saviour. That the Almighty may accord to you these assistances, and whatever else may further the work to which He hath visibly called you, that be may make you the instrument of good to thousands, and through those whom you shall instruct, bring tens of thousands from the power of Satan unto himself, is our most fervent prayer." Mr. Jacobi's reply follows the address. After a short exordium he proceeds to give some account of his life, or what some Christians would call his experience. "When a boy of seven years, my father, one of the most learned and pious ministers of the Church of Saxony, telling me something about this. country, said, Behold, God has certainly yet great designs with England, and it is a mighty instrument in his hands to establish his kingdom on earth.' He then telling me of the Missions, I felt so deeply touched, that I cried out, Father, I will one day go to England, from thence to be sent out among the Gentiles.' And from that time all my thoughts were filled with this design. Childish as this might ap-. pear, my father kept these words in his heart; and when I afterwards had been four years at the College, and the hour of his death approached, he wrote me that I might tell him, before he died, what my resolution about my future state of life was. I answered, that I was determined, if it pleased the Lord, to follow what I thought my calling to the Mission. I was then sixteen years of age. My father answering to this, exhorted me to look carefully on the ways of God with me; not to presume to guide my own fate: but as he had no objection to my determination, he wished me the blessing of God in it. Alas! this was his last letter; the last words of which were, May the Lord finish his work!' He soon after died, and thus took my promise to be a Missionary with him before the. Heavenly Throne. "When eighteen years of age, I left College for the University at Leipsic, where I studied two years upon my own fortune. Here many. temptations assaulted me from all quarters: the allurements of sensual pleasure were easily overcome: but a more formidable enemy, the modern divinity (if I may so term it) had very nigh caused my foot to slip |