him, in the proper sense of the term, a Christian. He did not indeed learn this lesson easily, or at small cost. At an early stage of his Indian career, it pleased God to visit him with a succession of severe domestic afflictions, painfully illustrative of the vanity of human hopes, the precariousness of earthly enjoyments, and the awful nearness of the things which are unseen and eternal. He was in circumstances very unfavourable to religious instruction and improvement;-heathenism and false religion prevailing all around; the partial intermixture of Christianity which exist ed, possessing little of that Divine religion beyond the name; his situation ill allowing of seclusion from worldly occupation and society. Yet that season of heavy calamity was blessed to his mind. It led him to the only true Source of felicity. He derived, on this occasion, much useful spiritual counsel from a friend, who afterwards became his near connexion, and who was himself the friend and disciple of the celebrated missionary Schwartz. Thus, in a soil prepared by the means of grief and trouble, it pleased God that the good seed should be sown; it was subsequently cherished amidst the silence and comparative solitude of one of the remoter stations in our Indian dominions; and it produced blessed fruit to the praise and glory of God.

"The deep persuasion of the importance of religion which now possessed itself of his whole soul, did not slacken his attention to his proper duties. On the contrary, he laboured, if possible, only the more abundantly. A new principle of action governed him; a profound and abiding sense of his obligation as a Christian; a grateful and affecting remembrance of the mercies of God in Jesus Christ; a solemn and exciting anticipation of the awful account which he must one day give of the talents committed to his charge. He now sought to

please, not men but God, the Judge of all. Let it not, however, be thought that these his good deeds formed in any degree the ground of his hopes before God. His reliance was on the meritorious cross and the mediation of Christ. It was indeed a remarkable feature of his character, through his whole life, that, while no man entertained a stronger sense of the obligation of duty as such, or more assiduously strove to discharge with fidelity the trusts reposed in him; none ever avoided more carefully the escription of merit to his own good works, or watched with more jealousy against the delusions of that self-righteousness to which the human heart is so lamentably prone, and which is apt to mingle with, and tarnish, even the graces of the most confirmed Christian.

"I will proceed to notice some few of those virtues and graces by which the strength of his Christian principles was most fully developed.

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"And here I must, in the first place, mention his remarkable uprightness. As a public functionary, placed in situations of great trust and responsibility, an excellent spirit was in him;' and against him, as against Daniel, the gainsayer 'could find none occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful.' His first rise in India, as I have already intimated, at a comparatively early period of life, was owing to the signal example of probity which he exhibited under circumstances of peculiar difficulty, and at a time when the general practice of our Indian administration had not yet attained that remarkable purity by which it appears now to be distinguished. This honourable characteristic he retained through life.'

Mr. Wilson goes on to notice his scrupulous and unbending love of justice; his indefatigable diligence and activity; and his remarkable purity, elevation, and sensibility of spirit, refined and exalted by religion, which, though he was necessarily much engaged in the tumults

of secular life, kept him far remote from its low chicanery, its bitter tempers, and its unholy passions. Mr. Wilson most justly specifies that distinguishing feature of his character his consistency. He preserved through life a most exemplary unity and harmony throughout his whole deportment.

"The springs of this consistency," remarks Mr. Wilson," must be sought in the nature of the motives that actuated him. Religion was with him, not a matter of fancy or speculation, not an illdirected zeal, not a spirit of party, or of controversy; but the steady, quiet, unostentatious devotion of the heart and life to God, resting in a deep consciousness of the fallen and lost condition of human nature, and animated by a lively faith in that glorious victory which has vanquished death, and brought to light life and immortality."

We cannot refrain from adopting a considerable portion of the remainder of Mr. Wilson's description, and the more so, because it exhibits this excellent and eminent man in an aspect in which his example is of the greatest value to persons like himself, immersed in the ordinary duties of life, but desirous of living" in the world as not of the world." Mr. Wilson thus proceeds :

"I am hence led to mention the remarkable spirituality of mind which he maintained amidst a course of severe secular occupation. The Apostle has told us what is the real talisman of a Christian's life: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.' Our la mented friend felt himself to be a stranger and a pilgrim in this mortal state; he was seeking a better country. His scene of service was on earth; but his heart, like his treasure, was in heaven. It was scarcely possible to be admitted to any intercourse with him, and not to be struck with his heavenly-mindedHe freely lent himself, as his duties prescribed, to the affairs

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and the communications of the world; yet it was with a chastised spirit, and under a prevalent recollection of heavenly and everlasting things. And if it be asked by what means such a frame and temper of mind were preserved in the midst of a life so long and toilsome, I answer, that it was, under the Divine blessing, by the habitual cultivation of communion with the Father of spirits. He was much in prayer, in devout reading, and in meditation. The Bible was his daily study; and the time allowed to his stated devotional exercises he would never, under the impulse of any exigency, materially abridge. He has been known to press the importance and advantage of these observances with peculiar earnestness on those who, like himself, were of necessity deeply engaged in worldly business; observing, that such a practice, instead of hindering the due performance of their proper duties, would, like the pulse given to the Jewish captives (Daniel i. 8-16), prove the best incitement to exertion, and truest source of success.

"Above all, he was attentive to the duty of hallowing the Sabbath. It may be observed, that by a careful performance of this duty, he had, at an early period of his religious career, displeased, and even in some degree alienated, influential persons, in whose esteem he held a high place; but to the end of life, he maintained the same ho-. nourable singularity. Nor had he, on the whole, reason, even in a worldly view, to repent it. The declaration of the admirable Sir Matthew Hale, who was accustomed to say of himself, that he always found the week prosper in proportion as he had improved the previous Sabbath, was frequently in our departed friend's mouth: and probably he could have verified it from his personal experience. He kept the day holy, not by passing through a mere routine of forms, but by paying a serious attention

ledge of Christ, with his lips uttering sentiments relative to his favourite object, the spiritual welfare of India, without any lingering or protracted disease, by a release as placid as that of an infant, he fell asleep in the Lord. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace !" "

We cannot conclude this memoir without expressing our gratitude to Mr. Wilson, that, in the intervals of pain and lassitude with which we are concerned to hear he has for some time been struggling, he has been able to exhibit this interesting sketch of his revered friend's character, for the benefit of mankind. We are sure we shall best meet his feelings, if, in concluding our memoir, we add our earnest wishes and prayers that all into whose hands either Mr. Wilson's sermon or our own memoir may fall, may be stimulated by the perusal to follow the example of the revered individual whose removal we are lamenting, as he followed Christ."

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To the Reder. Geve diligence, Reder, (I exhorte the) that thou come with a pure mynde, and as the Scripture sayth, with a syngle eye, unto the wordes of health, and of eternall lyfe: by the which (if we repent and beleve them) we are borne anewe, created afresshe, and enjoye the frutes of the bloud of Christ; which bloud cryeth not for vengeaunce, as the bloud of Abel: but hath purchased lyfe, love, faveour, grace, blessynge, and whatsoever is promysed in the

Scriptures, to them that beleve and obeye God: and stondeth bitwene us and wrathe, vengeaunce, cursse, and whatsoever the Scriptures threateneth agaynst the unbelevers and disobedient, which resist, and consent not in their hertes to the lawe of God, that it is ryght, wholy, iuste, and ought soo to be.

Marke the playne and manyfest places of the Scriptures; and in doubtfull places, se thou adde no interpretacion contrary to them: but (as Paul sayeth) let all be conformable and agreynge to the fayth. Note the difference of the lawe, and of the gospell. The one axeth and requyreth, the other perdoneth and forgeveth. The one threateneth, the wother promyseth all good things, to them that sett their trust in Christ only. The gospell signifieth gldde tydyngs, and is nothynge butt the promyses off good thynges. All is not gospell that is written in the gospell boke: for if the lawe were a waye, thou couldest not know what the gospell meante. Even as thou couldest not se perdon, favour, and grace, excepte the lawe rebuked the, and declared unto the thy sinne, mysdede, and treașpase. Repent and beleve the gospell, as sayth Christ in the fyrst of Marke. Applye all waye the lawe to thy dedes, whether thou finde luste in the bottom of thyne herte to the lawe warde; and so shalt thou no dout repent, and feale in the silfe a certayne sorrowe, payne, and grefe to thyne herte; because thou canst nott with full luste do the dedes of the lawe. Applye the gospell, that is to saye, the promyses, unto the deservynge off Christ, and to the mercye of God and his trouth, and so shalt thou nott despeare; butt shalt feale God as a kynd and a mercifull Father. And his Sprete shall dwell in the,and shall be stronge in the, and the promises shall be given the at the last, (though not by and by, lest thou shouldest forgett thy sylfe, and be negligent) and all threatenyngs shal be forgeven the for Christis blouddis