MIDDLESEX. Married.-At St Andrew's, London, the rev. W. Lewis Buckle, M.A. of Lincoln college, Oxford, and rector of Adwell, in that county, eldest son of the rev. William Buckle, of Pyrton, and of Burgh House, Surrey, to Mary Freeman, second daughter of William Manley, Esq. of Bedford-row, London, serjeant at law, and commissioner of the board of excise. Married. The rev. Charles B. Taylor, to Adine, daughter of A. D. Lewis Agassiz, Esq. of Finsbury-square, London. NORFOLK. Married. The rev. Philip Ward, M.A. to Horatia Nelson Nelson, the adopted daughter of the late Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Married.-At Northampton, the rev. J. Riddell, M.A. to Dorothy, youngest daughter of the late John Foster, Esq. of Leicester Grange, Leicestershire. NORTHUMBERLAND. Died. On the 31st ult. the rev. James Boutter, M.A. vicar of Emeldon, and formerly follow of Merton college, Oxford. The living is in the gift of that society. - NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Married. The rev. Henry Jenour, rector of Epperston, to Caroline, youngest daughter of the rev. W. Smelt, rector of Godling, and niece to the late Earl of Chesterfield. OXFORDSHIRE. WALES. Married. At Newton Nottage, Gla morganshire, the rev. John Blackmore, felow of Exeter college, Oxford, to Ann Bassett, second daughter of the late rev. Robert Knight, formerly of Tewkesbury, and niece to Colonel Knight, of Tythegston. Married. The rev. James Williams, B.D. fellow of Jesus college, Oxford, and rector of Llandeusant, in the county of Anglesey, to Frances, second daughter of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. M.A. of the Stone House, Shrewsbury. Married. The rev. Edward Murray, second son of the late Right Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's, and nephew of the Duke of Atholl, to Ruperta Catharine, only child of the late Sir George Wright, Bart. MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. -The Wrath of Cain; a Boyle Lecture, delivered at the Church of St. Martin's in-the-Fields, Wednesday, February 7th, 1822. By the Rev. William Harness, A.M. Alternate Morning Preacher at Trinity Chapel, and Domestic Chaplain to the Dowager Countess De La Ware. 3s. 6d. 8vo. Rivingtons' Annual Register; or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1797. 8vo. 11. 4s, A Summary of Christian Faith and Practice, confirmed by References to the Text of Holy Scripture, compared with the Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies of the Church of England; and illustrated by Extracts from the Chief of those Works which received the Sanction of public Authority from the Time of the Reformation to the final Revision of the Established Formularies. By the Rev. E. J. Burrow, D.D. F.R. and L.S. 3 vols. 12mo. 11. 1s. Sixteen Village Sermons, on certain Parts of the Christian Character. By the Rev. Edward Berens, A.M. 12mo. 4s. A New Selection of Reading Lessons, with Reflections. For the Use of Na tional Schools. By Richard Johnson, Master of the Central National School, Newport-Pagnel, and Author of " Village Schoolmaster's Assistant." LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. WORKS IN THE PRESS. Nearly ready for publication, Marci b-Presbyteri celedensis Explanatio Fidei ad of Cyrillum: nunc primum seorsim Edita, Accedit versio Anglicana, et varietas Lectionis e Codicibus MSS. th In the Press, Ecclesia Africana: sive Collectarea de Diœcesibus, Ecclesiis, Scholis, Bibliothecis, Episcopis aliisque Doctoribus, Synodis, et Symbolis, Africanis; quaæ inserviant Studiosis tum Historiæ et Antiquitatum Ecclesiæ Africanæ, tum fidei ab a Conservatæ. Pars Prima. The First POLITICAL THE nation already begins to feel the beneficial effects of the meeting of Parliament. The violent opposition with which ministers were threatened, has dwindled away to nothing; and the landlords and tenants, who were complaining of their insuperable difficulties and distresses, have in a great measure returned to their senses. The parliamentary debates have convinced and satisfied all reasonable men, that agriculturists bear no more than their fair proportion of the public burdens; that their circumstances, in the long run, have been more prosperous than those of any other class; that the country is abundantly able to fulfil all its engagements, and that national ruin and national bankruptcy are nothing more than the ridiculous bugbears of the weak, or the mischievous predictions of the wicked. Messrs. Cobbett and Co. affirm that the country is ruined, and cannot pay its debts.Mr. Tierney and Mr. Ricardo, and other eminent members of opposition, maintain directly the reverse, and have no doubt that there is still a mine of wealth in Great Britain, which will enable it to triumph over all its embarrassments. This is the first result of the present session of Part will contain the English Extracts, with one Latin Extract from Spanheim's Geographia Ecclesiastica. Nearly ready for publication, Adnotationes Millii Auctæ et Correctæ ex Proiegomenis suis, Wetstenii, Bengelii, et Sabaterii Ad I. Joann. V. 7. una cum Duabus Epistolis Richardi Bentleii et Observationibus Joannis Seldeni, Christophori Matthiæ Pfaffii, et Christiani Friderici Schmidii de eodem loco. Collectæ et Editæ a Thoma Burgess, S.T.P. S.R.S. S.A.S. et S.R.S.L. Episcopo Menevensi. RETROSPECT. parliament parliament the desponding have been encouraged, and the ill-intentioned have been rebuked-and increasing confidence must be the ob. vious and speedy consequence. The principal difference which has arisen among the opposite parties in the senate, refers to our future plans and prospects-the ministers upholding an efficient sink. ing fund-the opposition proposing to do away with it entirely, and to take off taxes equivalent to its amount. It has been decided, by a large majority, that the former system shall be adopted-and we sincerely rejoice in the determination. The greatest statesmen that England ever saw, agreed in estab. lishing and supporting this fund, although they agreed in nothing else-long experience has proved its value; and at the very moment in which its abolition is desired, it is enabling government to save a million and a half annually, by reducing the five per cents. to fours. If under such circumstances the sinking fund is to be destroyed, at all events we ought to hear very plain reasons for the measure. ought to come recommended not merely by the eloquence and ingenuity of its advocates, but by It their great financial skill and character, by the concurrence of the principal monied and mercantile interests, by the support of those who are not systematically in opposition to the government, or openly endeavouring to bring themselves into power. None of these recommendations are possessed by the greater measure of us. The opposition, and the opposition only have supported it; they regarded it as a proper question to embarrass the ministry; they hoped that it would have found favour with the country gentlemen, and they are very deservedly disappointed. The only subject upon which it is probable that the House of Commons will be more equally divided, is the subject of retrenchment. It is impossible to deny that the reforms and reductions which have been effected during the last summer, might have been commenced, if not completed three years ago. The inference is, that ministers will be economical, as soon as they are compelled to be so, but not before: and this inference must weigh with every independent member of the senate, when he is voting for the abolition of places. We believe there is no doubt that the plan for reducing the five per cents. will be carried into immediate effect. The only question is, whether the bonus already offered will suffice, or whether government will be compelled to propose more favourable terms. This depends upon the price of stocks: if they continue as they now are, the original bonus is expected to prove sufficient; if they fall it will be insufficient. Ireland, which must hereafter attract so much of the attention of parliament, has been disposed of for the present in the only manner of which the case admits. The hands of the government have been strengthened by the re-enaction of the Insurrection Act, and it merely remains to lament that the Act was ever repealed. When it has once more effected its object, and tranquillized our unfortunate neighbours, the time will have arrived for inquiring into the real grievances of the Irish, and endeavouring to remove them. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Poor Curate's Statement should be communicated with his name to the proper authorities. OETE has been received, and is under consideration. A London Curate cannot be inserted. The account of Bernard Hall shall appear. We have received a long and angry Letter from Mr. G. F. Stratton, on the subject of the Warwickshire Bible Society. Our conduct respecting such Letters has always been regulated by a short and simple principle. We have never objected to insert any explanatory circumstance with which we have been furnished; but have always refused to print answers to our Reviews. Mr. Stratton's Epistle is not such an answer; but he goes ou of his way to attack other persons: and from the tone in which he writes can hardly have expected that his Letter should be noticed. We are wil, ling, however, to insert all that can be justly considered as self-de fence. He informs us, that he does not reside in Warwickshire, that he asserted, that he had conferred with 15,000 persons on the occasion of establishing the Oxford Bible Society, and that Mr. Percy is not a Methodist Preacher. The first fact is immaterial, unless Mr. Stratton had added, that he does reside in Warwickshire. The second we extracted from a very laudatory report of Mr. Stratton's speech, which appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal, June 26, 1813. The third is only a misnomer, as Mr. Percy is an Independent minister and preaches to all 7 sects. SERMON ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF RELIGION. ST. JOHN xiii. 17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. THE great end of all religious knowledge is the sanctification of our hearts, and the improvement of our lives. He is not the best Christian who knows most of his Bible, or can apply a text with the greatest readiness (though the more we know, and the more readily we can apply on occasion, the better,) but he is the best Christian who has transplanted all its fruitful doctrines and holy laws and amiable graces into his heart and life. We are to become wiser that we may be better, and better that we may be happy now and for ever. "If ye know these things," the holy and blessed truths of my religion," happy are ye, adds our Lord, if ye do them," if ye let them have their full effect on your conduct. We cannot then be more usefully employed than in looking at the sum of a Christian's knowledge, and bringing together into one comprehensive view all the great truths that our Lord hath sanctioned or revealed in his Gospe!; I say sanctioned or revealed, because some are truths that the world knew not till our Lord had revealed them: others were already contained in the law of Moses and the religion of REMEMBRANCER, No. 40. [VOL. IV. nature, being all such moral truths as God had delivered to the Jews from Mount Sinai, or had imparted originally to man. These our Lord sanctioned and adopted into his own most holy religion, that consummation of all others, and rare union of every possible moral and religious perfection. The first great truth then, and the foundation of all others, and the very life and soul of religion is the being of God. This our Lord evidently takes for granted, as an article of nature's creed, universally acknowledged by all mankind in all ages and places of the world. "Ye believe in God," says he and then on this, as a received truth, he goes on to ground the peculiar article of the Christian's creed, " Believe also in me." All the attributes of God are faithfully and minutely laid down in the Gospel. He is declared to be "the Father of lights, the giver of all good gifts, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God, the blessed and only Potentate, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see." In the works of creation indeed, in the daily mercies of his providence, in the wonders of grace, in the blessednes and perfection of the Gospel, in the effects of his wisdom, pov and love, we may see God, Сс self no man hath seen, nor can see, for "God is a Spirit." Farther, we are permitted, nay, commanded to worship, this great and mighty and spiritual God, under the most endearing of all human appellations: and, as our Lord, being his Son, in his own natural right, constantly addressed Him by the title of Father, so we, that are his sons by adoption and grace, have received also of his spirit, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father." And, as we are wonderfully drawn towards Him by this tye of filial love and affection, so does our affection and gratitude rise into wonder and adoration, when we contemplate that fundamental article, and very corner-stone of Christianity, the mysterious existence of the Godhead in three distinct persons, one in nature, one in power, one in design, and all intently bent on the one great work of man's redemption. This redemption is the next great truth made known unto us in the Gospel. The power and mercy of God had created man in his own image, in the possession of a free will, a reasonable mind, a pure heart, and a strong predilection for what was good; yet not without a law. "For in 'the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Adam ate of the forbidden tree and fell; and in his fall drew after him all his posterity into the same state of weakness and depravity, and sickness and death, and the fearful expectation and desert of eternal misery, which had been the just but wretched consequence of his own perverse disobedience. At length he pays the debt of his corrupted nature, and dies; but not before a Redeemer is promised, and men had been taught to offer animal sacrifices as types of that great propitiation hereafter to be effected for the sins of the world. What that propitiation was, and in whom alone God had been through all ages well pleased under the typical offering of these animal sacri fices, let the Baptist tell us. When looking on the ever-blessed Jesus, as he was walking as man amongst the sons of men, he exclaimed (thus connecting the type with its antitype) "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world." Christ has come in the flesh, God hath tabernacled himself in a human body; he has lived and died, and borne our sins in that body on the tree; the debt of sin is cancelled; the ransom is paid, and man is free. By the first Adam we fell, by the second we are restored to the divine favour, and the gates of the heavenly Paradise are opened to all believers. But on what conditions; and how shall those conditions be performed? And what encouragements have we to their performance? God might have withheld his pardon. The establishment of certain conditions doth not at all destroy the freedom of the gift. The gift of salvation is still free; still of grace. God was in no ways bound to give it; though having given it, he may, for the good of man, and the enhancement of the gift, and out of regard to his justice, apportion it only to such as strive to deserve it in the way that he hath appointed. Hence follow, on man's part, the required conditions of faith and repentance; repentance whereby we forsake sin, and enter on a godly life: and faith, whereby we stedfastly believe the promises of God made out of respect to the effectual atonement of Christ. Connected with this head is consequently the whole body of moral law, that Christ has delivered; a law that comprehends in one clear view all that God hath impressed on the heart of man; all that reason hath duly inferred; all that Moses hath divinely and permanently taught; with all those positive institutions, and all those other graces, which, whether from their greater spirituality, or more extended in |