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itself, but which seem to have been altogether neglected. Instead of relying on the assistance of Mr. Arrowsmith, we wish Mr. Kinneir had, as Mr. Elphinstone has done in the construction of his admirable map of Afghaunistan and the adjacent countries, made it his own business to imbody in his draught, all his personal observations to their utmost extent, and all the information he could by exertion procure. In the tracing of the coast of Caramania, we cannot discover that any use has been made of Captain Beaufort's observations and excellent map. We observe indeed on Mr. Kinneir's, the date of May, 1816, while Captain B.'s was not published till 1817; yet as Mr. K.'s book is but very recently come out, sufficient time has been afforded for every necessary correction and addition.

Art. III. A Tribute to the Memory of a Young Person lately deceased, in which some of his Letters are introduced, and a Variety of Reflections, intended for the Use of the Rising Generation: To which is subjoined a Sermon preached by the Řev. T. Langdon, on Occasion of his Death. Second Edition. f.cp. 8vo. pp. 112. Price 28. 1817.

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HE subject of this Memoir was a grandson of the late venerable Dr. Fawcett, of Yorkshire, distinguished for nearly half a century among the Dissenters in that county, for his pious labours in preaching, writing, and instructing youth; labours prosecuted, with a resolution and industry not to be surpassed, under the frequent and sometimes severe pressure of personal affliction.* The aged relative survived a little while the youth who had been to him an affectionate and favourite friend and companion; and it was his wish that some memorial should be written of virtues which had so early bloomed to be so early removed; which he had fondly anticipated he should leave to be long progressive and useful on earth, but which he was destined so soon to meet in heaven.

The young man, after a considerably protracted alternation of appearances, which excited the fears and the hopes of his friends, finally sunk in a consumption in his twenty-first year. Sentiments of piety seem to have mingled with almost his earliest exercises of thought; and they were combined with a love of knowledge, and with natural dispositions singularly innocent, affectionate, and in every way amiable. Exactly these qualities, with a constantly progressive confirmation of their principles and extent of their disclosure and exercise, formed his character throughout the advance to his manhood and premature de

* An account of the long life and indefatigable exertions of this excellent man, is intended to be published by his son, the Author of the present Memoir, and parent of the interesting youth who is its subject.

parture. He was unassuming, grateful for kindness, sympathetic with suffering, ready to subject his youthful schemes and pursuits to the interest of his relatives; he was at once reflective and cheerful; delighted with the novelties and varieties of nature and art, yet patient of assiduous labour; pleased with society and friendships, but disgusted at levity and dissipation; in all his pursuits and situations governed by conscience and the fear of God. When the state of his health became, just at that period of life which is generally animated and beguiled by gay imaginations of its future career, so precarious as to place the probabilities, during a considerable length of time, in an evidently doubtful balance between life and death, he maintained a pious equanimity and resignation, not reluctant, as appears by some expressions in his letters, to entertain the more favourable omens, but acquiescing with devout calmness in the sentence still again and again signified to him so intelligibly by the opposite indications. And when at last the time arrived which could leave no further doubt, he advanced to the accomplishment of his last work on earth, with a delightful placidity; benevolently attentive at the same time to the circumstances and interests of those around him, anxious to soothe the sorrows of his relatives, and suggest instruction to his young friends In a letter written within a very few weeks of his decease, after kindly adverting to a recent visit from the friend to whom it was addressed, and the cheering effect of kind attentions, in the tedium incident, at times, to lingering illness, he added,

But still, my dear Friend, (will you excuse my saying a word or two on a subject with which you are familiar,) there must be something more than creature comforts, valuable as they are, to support, fortify, and console the minds of such feeble infirm creatures as myself, under the pressure of wasting disease. If when heart and flesh fail, God is the strength of our hearts and our portion for ever, we have a fortress as durable as the Author of the promise itself; we are encouraged to look to him for support, and to trust in him for mercy in all times of need; ever remembering the way by which, as sinners, we must come unto the Father, pleading the meritorious sufferings of a glorious Redeemer as a propitiation for sin.-Blessed be God, in him there is a fullness that can never be exhausted! and if. by faith we are enabled, conscious of our own unworthiness, to lay hold upon the hope set before us, we have encouragement to look for that support which the world can neither give nor take away.'

Other letters and passages indicate the same simple exclusive reliance on the Mediator, which is shewn in this. It is implied even in a paper written so early as his thirteenth year, and which is expressed with an intelligence, reflectiveness, and a depth of feeling remarkable and premature for such an age. Several letters written from the neighbourhood of London, in

the beginning of his sixteenth year, give a pleasing. display of a cultivated, pure, observant, and thoughtful mind, full of sensibility and conscience. Some letters of a later date, briefly describing the objects seen in an excursion through the romantic scenery of Lancashire, shew what animated pleasure he was capable of receiving from the wild or beautiful aspects of nature, and from the monuments and relics of antiquity.

Nothing can be more modest and unostentatious than the manner in which the excellent Writer of the Memoir delineates the character of so estimable a son. He carefully abstains from high and extravagant epithets. In adverting to young Gilpin, and other instances of extraordinary attainment and excellence, mysteriously removed from the world in the morning of life, he disclaims, in terms of unquestionable sincerity, any wish to have his son regarded as one of the wonders of youthful capacity and progress. Very respectable as he was in faculty and acquire ment, it was his happy combination of all the gentle and attractive virtues, dignified by piety, that rendered him so interesting a relative to possess-and to lose. It is apparent, at the same time, that a sober and much exercised judgement had given to these captivating qualities a character of maturity and manliness beyond his age.

To dwell on the remembrance of a being so loved and lamented, and to compose this short tributary memorial, may well have been to the religious parent, after some interval of time, a pensively pleasing employment. But his object in pub, lishing what he had written, appears to have been, not either the display of his own feelings, or, simply, that of the character of the amiable youth; but to make of that character an instructive lesson to young persons in general, and especially those educated under the Author's care. The better to effect this, he has interspersed a number of just and serious reflections and observations, as suggested by circumstances occurring in the course of the relation. Among these are some remonstrative strictures on reading one class of romances, and on frequenting places of public amusement.

Mr. Langdon's Sermon to a congregation of the young people of the neighbourhood, preached in the fulfilment of the wish of his deceased young friend, and from a text named by him, Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded," is pertinent, plain, and sensible.

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Art. IV. A Reply to a Letter written by the Reverend John Simons, Rector of Paul's Cray, purporting to be on the Subject of certain Errors of the Antinomian Kind, which have lately sprung up in the West of England. By Thomas Snow, Seceder from the National Religious Establishment. 8vo. pp. 76. 1818.

WE applaud the good sense manifested in the following passage from this "Reply"; and while we rejoice in the evidence it affords of a return to soberness of mind, and accept the virtual acknowledgement it contains of past errors, we must think that the nature of the case called for something even more ingenuous and explicit. Mr. Snow recommends the perusal of Mr. Simon's Letter to those who have been followers with him, in order,

First, that they may be admonished against a sin, too easily fallen into amongst all religionists-into which they may fall, of wresting the Scriptures from their plain signification; by which, if one difficulty seemed for a little while to be removed, many others would be inevitably raised. Secondly, that they may be much more cautious in explaining what their true meaning is, as well as what it is not, in order to guard against the possibility of such changes as those which you (Mr. Simons) make; " using sound words that cannot be condemned." Thirdly, that they may be more cautious in encouraging persons to become religious teachers who are not qualified to be so. Fourthly, that they would admit of a more free intercourse with persons, provided they be upright and godly men, who in some particulars differ from them, that so there may be a liberal discussion of truth to mutual advantage; and also such an explanation of sentiments as might prevent those public contests, which are injurious to the public mind.'

Nothing could be more judicious, or more seasonable than this advice. Let but Mr. Snow himself and his friends have grace to follow it in each particular, and before long, we venture to predict, neither he, nor they, will be separated from the spiritual catholic church, except, perhaps, by some worthless wordy distinctions.

Having no more inclination to involve ourselves in wire-drawn theological discussions, than we have to become the arbiters of a personal controversy, we shall concern ourselves no further with the contents of this pamphlet, than to allow Mr. Snow, through the medium of our pages, to exonerate himself from the charge of being now the defender of certain absurdities, which have been, perhaps, in too unqualified a manner, or, at least, too pertinaciously imputed to him. A return towards "soundness in the Faith," in any case, especially in that of a public teacher, is so pleasing an event, that our readers will not think we occupy them too long in extracting the following declarations, which Mr. S. makes in concluding his "Reply."

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I do not,' he says, believe in an actual union from eternity between Christ and his Church.- Neither do I believe that there was any other union between Christ and the Church, before the foundation of the world, than that which consisted in their being bound up together in the unalterable decree of God, in the same ⚫ bundle of life' and that which had its being in God's purpose, to bring them together in an actual and spiritual union, in their timestate here, as the certain pledge of their eternal enjoyment of God together, in the world of glory.---I do not believe in justification from eternity, nor in any actual justification of the Church before the foundation of the World.- I do not believe in imputed Sanctification, but that the elect of God are personally sanctified, as I have before shown at large. When I assert that believers are 'dead to the law, delivered from the law,' I do not mean to teach that their mercies vouchsafed release them from the obligation to regard either God or man ; but I believe, that redemption is in order to their loving God and his Church with a pure heart fervently. That Christian liberty is a liberty from those enemies which hinder us from living unto God, in order that we may serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.'

We have all along anticipated a happy result, when the recent opinions should be submitted to the ordeal of the Press. Very many things will be spoken and written, which a man, endowed with an ordinary share of good sense, will pause to weigh, before he prints; and this very pausing may bring about the propitious moment, in which a sound understanding and genuine affections, shall triumph over a heated imagination and sinister influences. So desirable an event, we say, may be expected to take place with the humble and the upright: as to those who are wiser in their own conceits than seven men "that can render a reason,”—whether they preach, or write, or print, it matters not; their course is never retrograde; it is always onward, always downward; if they stop, we may be sure, either that some sordid passion has given another direction to their thoughts, or, that the whole elasticity of their minds is exhausted, or, that the external stimulus which has hitherto operated upon them, has been removed.

We say there is yet some ground for dissatisfaction. It is very possible that some particular expressions may have been incorrectly reported, some statement may have been misrepresented. Mr. Snow speaks in behalf of himself and his friends, but he cannot be ignorant that sentiments the very reverse of those which we have just quoted from his Reply, have long been and still are warmly maintained by individuals with whom, according to common report, he has been closely associated. Mr. Snow cannot be ignorant, that expressions to the full as extravagant and as reprehensible as any of those which Mr. Simons has adduced in his Letter, have been perpetually on the

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