nies have, (like platters and tables full of dainties,) but pull and snatch away their poor neighbours' bit or crust: and a crust it is, and a dry, hard one, because of the natives' continual troubles and vexations. 9. Alas! Sir, in calm midnight thoughts, what are these leaves and flowers, and smoke and shadows, and dreams of earthly nothings, about which we poor fools and children, as David saith, disquiet ourselves in vain? Alas! what is all the scuffling of this world for? What are all the contentions of this world about, generally, but for greater dishes and bowls of porridge, of which, if we believe God's Spirit in Scripture, Esau and Jacob were types? Esau will part with the heavenly birth-right for his supping, after his hunting for god belly and Jacob will part with his porridge for an eternal inheritance! O Lord! give me to make Jacob's and Mary's choice, which shall never be taken from me. 10. How much sweeter is the counsel of the Son of God, to mind first the matters of his kingdom; to take no care for to-morrow; to pluck out, cut off, and fling away, right eyes, hands and feet, rather than to be cast whole into hell-fire-to consider the ravens and lilies whom an heavenly Father so clothes and feeds; and the counsel of his servant Paul, to roll the cares of this life also upon the Most High Lord Steward of his people, the eternal God; to be content with food and raiment; to mind not our own, but every man the things of another; yea, and to suffer wrong, and part with what we judge is right, yea, our lives; and as poor women martyrs said, as many as there be hairs upon our heads, for the name of God and the Son of God his sake. This is humanity, yea, this is Christianity; the rest is but formality and picture, courteous idolatry, and Jewish and Popish blasphemy against the Christian religion, the Father of spirits, and his Son the Lord Jesus. "Beside, Sir, the matter with us is not about these children's toys of land, meadows, cattle, government, &c. But here all over this colony, a great number of weak and distressed souls scattered are flying hither from Old and New England; the Most High and Only Wise hath in his infinite wisdom, provided this country and this corner, as a shelter for the poor persecuted, according to their several persuasions! Thus that heavenly man, Mr. Haynes, Governor of Connecticut, though he pronounced the sentence of my long banishment against me at Cambridge, yet he said unto me in his own house at Hartford, being then VOL. XV. 2 R in some difference with the Bay, I think, Mr. Williams, I must confess to you, that the most wise God hath provided and cut out this part of his world for a refuge and receptacle for all sorts of consciences! I am now under a cloud, and my Brother Hooker, with the Bay, as you have been: we have removed from them thus far, and yet they are not satisfied.' "Thus, Sir, the King's Majesty, though his father's and his own conscience, favoured Lord Bishops, which their father and grandfather King James, whom I have spoke with, sore against his will also did, yet all the world may see by his Majesty's declaratious and engagements before his return, and his declarations and parliament speeches since, and many suitable actings, how the Father of spirits hath mightily imprest and touched his royal spirit, though the bishops much disturbed him, with deep inclinations of favour and gentleness to different consciences and apprehensions as to the invisible King, and way of his worship. Hence he vouchsafed his royal promise, under his hand and broad zeal, that no person in this colony, shall be molested or questioned for matters of conscience to God, so he be loyal and keep the peace! Sir, we must part with lands and lives before we part with this jewel! I judge you may yield some land and the government of it to us, and we, for peace' sake, the like to you, as being but subjects of one King, &c. And I think the King's Majesty would thank us for many, reasons. But to part with this jewel, we may as soon do it as the Jews with the favour of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes. Yourselves pretend liberty of conscience, but, alas! it is but self, the great God self, only yourselves. The King winks at Barbadoes, where Jews and all sorts of Christian and Antichristian persuasions are free, but our grant, some few weeks after yours was sealed, though granted as soon, if not before yours, is crowned with the King's extraordinary favour to the colony, as being a banished one, in which his Majesty declared himself that he would experiment whether civil government could consist with such liberty of conscience! "This grant was started at by his Majesty's high officers of state, who were to view it in course, before the sealing, but fearing the lion's roaring, they couched against their wills, in obedience to his Majesty's pleasure! "Some of yours, as I heard lately, told tales to the Archbishop of Canterbury, viz. that we are a profane people, and do not keep the Sabbath. But, "1. You told him not how we suffer freely all other persuasions, yea, the "3. You know, that famous Calvin, and thousands more, held it but ceremonial and figurative, from Col. ii. &c. and vanished and that the day of worship was alterable at the churches' pleasure: the Romanists confess, saying, : to Mr. Richards: see Appendix, pp. 334 -339. Dr. Evans is, we perceive, publishing a volume of Cambro-British Biographical Sketches by Mr. Richards : some of these were amongst the contributions already referred to in the First Volume of the Monthly Repository. ART. III.-" Fünf Predigten von Ignaz Lindl. 2 edit. 12mo. Petersburg, 1820." Five Sermons by Ignatius Lindl, a Memorial to his beloved Friends and Parishioners. HE Author of these Discourses that there is no express Scripture, first, T has produced the extraordinary for infant baptism; nor, secondly, for abolishing the seventh day, and instituting of the eighth day worship, but that it is at the churches' pleasure. "4. You know that, generally, all this whole colony observe the first day; only here and there, one out of conscience, another out of covetousness, make no conscience of it. sensation in Russia. He preaches at the Maltese Church in Petersburg to immense crowds of hearers. He is a Dane by birth; he professes Reformed Catholicism, and attacked not long ago the worship of images so eloquently, that the Sardinian Ambassador made a representation to the Emperor, requesting that he might be removed, for having taught heretical doctrines in a Catholic place of worship. Alexander, who has had of late a fit of polemics upon him, is said to have read over the obnoxious Sermons,and not only to have sent an unfavourable answer to the Ambassador, but to have honoured the preacher with his special protection and approval. It is not difficult to ascertain his ulterior views, in thus supporting and encouraging a reforming Roman Catholic preacher; he supposes that he is "rendering good service" to the Greek Church, by allowing these dogmas of the Roman Creed to be attacked which are not recognized in Russia; and would certainly see with great complacency the barriers broken down which divide his Catholic and Protestant subjects, whom he would rejoice to submit to the same ecclesiastical domination. It has certainly long been an object with him to diminish the papal authority in Russia and Poland, of which the banishment of the Jesuits is a new proof; and he has found in Sistrenciwitz, the Archbishop of Mothe present Catholic Metropolitan, hilow, a willing agent for carrying these plans into effect. We know that great anxiety and alarm have been excited among the Russian Catholics, in consequence of the pontifical powers Quoted in a letter from Isaac Backus which have been assumed by the Me "5. You know the greatest part of the world make no conscience of the seventh day; the next part of the world, Turks, Jews and Christians, keep three different days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, for their Sabbath and day of worship, and every one maintains his own by the longest sword. 6. I have offered, and by these presents, to discuss by deputation, writing or printing, among other points of difference, these three positions, first, that forced worship stinks in God's nostrils; secondly, that it denies Christ Jesus yet to be come, and makes the church yet national, figurative and ceremonial; thirdly, that in these flames about religion, there is no other prudent Christian way of preserving peace in the world, but by permission of differing consciences! “Accordingly, I do now offer to dispute these points, and other points of difference, if you please, at Hartford, Boston and Plymouth. For the manner of the dispute, and the discussion, if you think fit, one whole day in each month, in summer, at each place by course. am ready, if the Lord permit, and as I humbly hope, assist me. "As to myself, in endeavouring after your temporal and spiritual peace, I humbly desire to say-if I perish, I perish! Its but a shadow vanished-a bubble broke-a dream finished-Eternity will pay for all! Sir, and servant, am your old and true friend "ROGER WILLIAMS." tropolitan. They have seen with smothered indignation a man, originally a Protestant minister, elevated to the highest ecclesiastical dignities, loaded with wealth and titles and authority, as a reward for having sacrificed, as they imagine, the interests of the "holy Church of Rome;" but they must suffer in silence. As soon as Mr. Lindl felt the secure ground he stood on, by the decided protection of the Russian Government, he printed this small volume of Sermons. He says, that previously to his arrival at Petersburg, he "had thundered forth the word of God, for ten years, in vain ;" and now, for the first time, begins to gather in the harvest of his labours. The first Sermon is from John xvi. 13, entitled, "Christ the One Thing needful;" the second from Luke xxiv. 46, 47, "The New-birth of Man;" the third from Matt. xvi. 17, "What is the Revelation of Flesh and Blood? What is the Revelation from the Father in Heaven?" the fourth from Matt. xi. 28, "Faith and the Fruits of Faith ;" and the last from 1 John ii. 28, " A Word of Parting and Encouragement for the Faithful in our Days." We shall give a short translated extract or two from each Sermon. We conclude it will be new, and we trust it will be interesting to our readers to know something of the style of preaching in a country so remote from us, and especially as these Discourses will probably be connected with considerable changes in the religious state of Russia. Superstition and unbelief have erected their throne in the house of impiety. Immorality and unfettered passion reign over mankind. Instead of christian brotherly love, we find every where selfesteem; a self-esteem-a selfishness, the worst enemy of God and man, is the stifler of every thing that is noble in the world-the peace-destroyer-the parent of discord and war and confusion-the cause of so much evil to man, of which we alas! have been all eye-witnesses, and shall yet witness, I fear, its more frightful progress. "O how justly did our forefathers call this earth a valley of tears, which our voluptuaries now celebrate as a paradise! Indeed, indeed, the thinking man, the Christian, feels it is now more than ever a valley of tears, a valley of poverty, crowded, pressingly crowded-a valley filled with the tears and the blood of the miserable, and being filled more and more. enough to contain the volumes which "What library in the world is large should record the tales of human miseries? So large, my beloved, so all-encircling-seizing all-sparing nothing; so dreadful, so unmeasurable in their results- -so high, so deep is the shame and sorrow and suffering that sin has introduced into the world! "Who, who then, I say, does not wish for deliverance? Alas for us, if there were no redemption ! He is the sighing for freedom-there is a Saviour, "But exult, sorrow-stricken humanity, the deliverer of the world! Christ, the Prince of life, the one thing only needful for the whole human race.' -Ŕp. 5—7. "Come unto me, and I will give you rest.' Come, then, and follow his voice, his invitation. Who among you is willingly deceived? Who among you does not desire ever to hear truth, ever to aspire after it? "Come on, beloved spirit! come to Christ! he is the truth. Abide in this thee.' He has said of himself, I am the truth, which shall free thee, shall inspire truth.' "Who among you would not walk in the right path, the path which leads through this valley of tears to the land of peace and joy? "Come on, beloved spirit! come to Christ! He is the right way, the way in which thou canst not wander while thou journeyest. He has said of himself, I am the way.' "Who would willingly remain in everlasting death? Who sighs not for a life peaceful and eternal? "Go then to Christ! he is the life: and they who abide with him and in him have life eternal.”—Pp. 10, 11. Sermon II. "And now let each propose to his heart the interesting inquiry: Am I born again to the Holy Spirit-a child of God; or am I still in the old birth of sin? Woe unto thee, man! if the coming anger of God should overtake thee in the grave of thy misdeeds-thou wilt not, thou canst not stand before his terrible frown. "How fearful, hearer, is the thought if thy awakened conscience reproach thee! Thou art twenty years old, and not an hour for Christ. Thou thirtythou forty-thou fifty-thou sixty-merciful God! what an age for the world what a youth for heaven! Younger than the babe first opening its eye on the light of day. "And yet more dreadful for thee, O man! if thou bear the burden of more than sixty years, one foot in the grave, and art yet wandering in vanity, not born again in the Holy Spirit; for these are the words of Jesus, Verily I say unto you, he who is not born from above, cannot see the kingdom of God.' "How long yet wilt thou serve the world, the world's lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life'? The longer thou lingerest, the firmer are the fetters of sin bound around thee."Pp. 55, 56. "On one side of you is Jesus sowing the good seed to a new birth, by means of his faithful servants and ministers; on the other is Satan, the prince of darkness, scattering the tares that shall be gathered together and burnt at the last day. Man stands between them-he is not constrained-he may choose between the good and the evil seed. Jesus would invite, impel him into his kingdom, but it is not of this world; but Satan is also there urging him to enter his kingdom, which is full of worldly riches and worldly joys-riches and joys which dazzle and mislead him, till they consign him to misery and perdition. Weep for your sins and errors, and hunger after Jesus the sin-destroyer, and you will be satisfied with his holiness, which is the genuine tree of life. On this tree grow the lovely fruits of meekness, benevolence, pure-heartedness, peacefulness and long-suffering, which can never fail the true believer. "These noble fruits, on which our godlike Master has scattered down beatitudes, are connected with other invaluable ones, which the believer shall gather in through eternity.”—P. 132. "O goodness without measure, without bounds! O love without parallel! What thou givest, thou makest our own. Thy mercy showers it down a hundred and a thousand fold! Here and there it descends, though we have not the slightest claim upon heaven; but to be able to serve thee, O God, that is blessedness." -P. 134. The last Sermon has this perora tion: "Beloved in the Lord! when we cast an attentive glance on the present state of things, and on the events which have succeeded each other on this earthly ball, on those perplexities so wonderfully unravelled; when we call back to our lively remembrance the scenes of blood and murder from the beginning of the French Revolution; how a power, almost con "Choose then, O man! but look for- temptible in its origin, marched on with ward ere thou choose."-P. 79. The third Sermon: "The little household of genuine Christians, trampled upon like the earthworm, exposed to all the frownings of the storm, oppressed and persecuted till the great Judge shall appear, and the great day of harvest dawn: "But now they must carry the cross; they must follow their great Redeemer; they must bear reproach and contempt; they must be silent; they must suffer, though they be called fanatics, or fools, or enthusiasts or dreamers; I have openly been so denominated! "But if I preach that Christ, the spirit of Christ must dwell in, and lead and govern mankind,—this is no fanatical doctrine; it is a biblical, an evangelical, a catholic doctrine, taught by the Old and New Testament."-P. 101. The fourth Sermon is a sort of comment on the beatitudes; it concludes thus: "Beloved Christian souls! let us lose no time, for time is short and costly. "Acknowledge your sins, with faith in Christ, and you will be poor in spirit. mighty steps till it fixed itself on the highest pinnacle of Europe-a power which rolled over the lands like a mighty stream, and swept away thrones and dominions, destroyed the strength and the riches of nations, till the earth had drunk in the blood of sacrificed millions; which stung like scorpions, lashed like a scourge, till it was broken by the Lord of armies, and reduced to its original nothingness," &c.—Pp. 135, 136. cimen of our author's prayers: By way of conclusion we give a spe "O best-loved Lord and Saviour! Never again be the light of faith extinguished in our heart, but rather may it burn brighter and brighter that we may bring forth fruit in abundance, and become more like thy image. Where that light is put out, re-awaken it; where it has never shone, enkindle it, from thy finally lost. 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