"This gracious man repeated the same thing in substance to his only daughter the Lady Tyrril, and that with many tears, and much about the same time that he had expressed what is aforesaid to me, and which Lady Tyrri assured me of with her own mouth, to this purpose.

"That opening the door of his chamber, she found him with his eyes lifted up to Heaven, and the tears running apace down his cheeks, and that he seemed to be in an extasy, wherein he continued for above half an hour, not taking the least notice of her, though she came into the room; but at last turning to her, he told her, that his thoughts had been taken up about the miseries and persecutions that were coming upon the Churches of Christ, which would he so sharp and bitter, that the contemplation of them had fetched those tears from his eyes, and that he hoped he should not live to see it, but possibly she might, for it was even at the

door: Therefore take heed (said he) that you be not found sleeping.

"The same things he also repeated to the Lady Bysse, wife to the present Lord Chief Baron of Ireland, but with adding this circumstance, that if they brought back the king, it might be delayed a little longer, but (said he) it will surely come, therefore be sure to look that you be not found unprepared for it.

To conclude in the words of Dr. Bernard, speaking of this excellent person. Now howsoever I am as far from heeding of prophesies this way as any, yet with me it is not improbable, that one so sanctified from his youth, so knowing and eminent throughout the Universal Church, might have at some special times more than ordinary motions and impulses in doing the watchman's part, of giving warning of judgments approaching.'"

How goodly 'tis to see

The rustic family

REMEMBRANCER, No. 62.

BISHOP MANT.

It is no small grief to any good heart that loves the Lord Jesus in sincerity, to see how utterly unanswerable the greater sort of men that bear the name of Christ are to the example and precepts of that Christ whose name they bear he was humble and meek, they proud and insolent; he bade us love our enemies, they hardly can love their friends; he prayed for his persecutors, they curse; he that had the command of all, cared not to possess any thing; they not having right to much, would possess all; he bade us give our coat also to him that takes our cloak, they take both coat and cloak from him that hath it; he bade us turn our cheek for the other blow, they will be sure to give two blows for one; he paid obedience to a foster-father, and tribute to Cesar, they despise government; his trade was only doing good, spending the night in praying, the day in preaching and healing; they debauch their time, revelling away the night, and sleeping away, or mis-spending the day; he forbade oaths, they not only swear and forswear, bat blaspheme too; he bade us make friends of the Mammon of anrighteousness, they make Mammon their god; he bade us take up his cross, they impose their own; he bade us lay up our treasure in heaven, they place their heaven in earth; he bids us give to them that ask, they take violently from the owners; he bade us return good for evil, they for good return evil; he charged his disciples to love one another, they nourish malice and rancour against their brethren; he left peace for a legacy to his followers, they are apt to set the world on fire; his business was to save, theirs to destroy. O God, let rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they do no better keep the law of thy Gospel.

name, to walk worthy of that high profession whereto they are called: and keep me, thy unworthy servant, that I may never deviate from that blessed pattern which thou hast set before me. O let me never shame that great name that is put upon me. Let me in all things approve myself a Christian in earnest; and so conform myself to thee, in all thy examples and commands, that it may be no dishonour to thee to own me for thine. Bishop Hall.

LEASURELY GROWTH.

We are all commonly impatient of leisure, and apt to over-hasten the fruition of those good things we affect. One would have wealth, but he would not be too long in getting of it; he would have golden showers rain down into his lap on the sudden. Another would be wise and learned, yet he cannot abide to stay for grey hairs, or to spend too much oil in his tedious lucnbrations. One would be free, but he would not wear out an apprenticeship. Another would be honourable, but he would neither serve long, nor hazard much. One would be holy, but he would not wait too long at the door-posts of God's house, nor lose too many hours in the exercise of his stinted devotions. Another would be happy, but he would leap into heaven suddenly, not abiding to think of a leisurely towering up thither by a thousand degrees of ascent, in the slow proficiency of grace. Whereas the great God of heaven, that can do all things in an instant, bath thought good to produce all the effects of natural agency not without a due succession of time,

When I look into my garden there I see first a small spire look out of the earth which in some months time grows int stalk; then after many days expectati

appears the hope of a flower, which ripened with many suns and showers, arises to its perfection, and at last puts forth its seed for a succeeding multiplication,

If I look into my orchard, I see the well-grafted scions yield first a tender bud; itself, after many years, is bodied to a solid stock, and under the patience of many hard winters, spreads forth large arms; at last, being grown to a meet age of vegetation, it begins to grace the spring with some fair blossoms, which falling off kindly, give way to a weak embryo of fruit. Every day now adds something to the growth, till it attain in autumn to a full maturity. Why should I make account of any other course in my spiritual proceedings? O God, I shall be always ready to censure my slow pace in grace and holy obedience, and shall be ever ambitious of aspiring higher in thy gracious favour; but when I shall have endeavoured my utmost, I shall wait with humble patience upon thy bountiful hand, as one that desires thankfully to acknowledge the little that I have received, and meekly to attend thy good pleasure for what may receive. So thou bring me to heaven, take what time and keep what pace thou pleasest. The same.

THE NECESSITY OF LABOUR.

The great and wise God that hath been pleased to give to all creatures their life and being, without their endeavour or knowledge, hath yet ordained not to continue their being, without their own labour and co-operation, so as he hath im

posed upon them all a necessity of pains taking for their own preservation. The wild beasts of the desert must walk abroad, and forage far for their prey; the beasts of the field must earn their pasture with their work, and labour in very feeding to fill a large maw with picking up those several mouthfuls, whereby they are sustained; the fowls of several kinds must fly abroad to seek their various diet, some in the hedges, some in the fields, some in the waters; the bee must with unwearied industry gather her stock of wax and honey out of a thousand flowers; neither know I any that can be idle and live: but man, as he is appointed to be the lord of all the rest, so he is in a special manner born to labour; as he upon whom the charge lies to provide both for himself and all the creatures under his command, being not more impotent than they in his first entrance into the world, then he is afterwards by the power of his reason more able to govern them, and to order all things that may concern both their use and conservation. How willingly, O Lord, should I stoop to this just condition of my creation; labour is my destiny, and labour shall be my trade: something I must always do both out of thy command, and my own inclination, as oue whose not unactive spirit abhors nothing more than the torment of doing nothing. O God, do thou direct me to, and employ me in, those services that may be most for thy glory, for the good of others, and my own discharge and comfort. The same.

An Appeal to the Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, on the subject of the Turkish New Testament, printed at Paris, in 1819. Containing a View of its History, an Exposure of its Errors, and palpable Proofs of the Necessity of its Suppression. By Ebenezer Henderson, Author of "Journal of a Residence in Iceland." 8vo. pp. 70. 3s. Holdsworth, 1824.

It is some months since that a Letter appeared in our Remembrancer, gned Scrutator, and drawing our attention to the version of the Turkish

Scriptures recently put forth by the British and Foreign Bible Society. We were so struck with the importance of the facts therein disclosed, that we did not hesitate to insert it, in the hope either that the charge would be instantly disproved, or the version itself suppressed, and greater caution promised in the execution of subsequent translations. In this hope we have been unhappily disappointed: no answer has been given to the letter; the Version has not been suppressed; nor has any fresh pledge, that we know of, been given, of increased vigilance in the department of

translation. The charge remains then in all its former force. Can the Bible Society flatter themselves that it will be suffered to die away without any farther inquiry on the part of the public? Will its own members be satisfied; men so professedly alive to whatever regards the integrity of the Word of God? Our columns may be passed by as unworthy of the Society's regard; but a pamphlet has now appeared, which speaks in a voice that must be heard, confirming every charge made by our Correspondent, and adding so many more, and placing the whole subject of this miscalled Version of the Scriptures in so full and so fearful a light, that we know not what answer can be given by the Society; and if not given, what further claim they can have on the confidence of the public.

The pamphlet is written by Mr. Henderson, till lately an active member of the Bible Society, one of their accredited agents, a person acquainted with all the circumstances relative to this Version and its Author; capable, from his knowledge of the language, of giving an opinion on its merits, or, as he expresses it, of its demerits, and yet not depending wholly on his own judgment, but calling in that of others, holding official situations under the Society, or well qualified to form a judgment on the subject. The pamphlet is written with great temper; is short; and keeps to the main point, which is placed before the reader in a manner that brings conviction at every step. The writer evidently cannot forget his former connection with the Society. Every fact seems forced from him by a painful sense of duty, and we value his testimony the more from

• Dr. Paterson, his fellow-labourer on a Mission from the Society to Persia, His excellency Mr. Popoff, one of the Secretaries of the Russian Bible Society, the Scotch Missionaries residing among the Tatars in the south of Russia.

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this very circumstance. The case must indeed have been strong to have induced a man with such feelings, and so situated as Mr. Henderson, to withdraw from the Society. whole means of support depended on the Society, and at the time of his withdrawing he was on his road to Persia, as their accredited agent, appointed on an important mission connected with that country. No sooner, however, did he receive, as he was on his road, a communication that the Turkish Version, notwithstanding the remonstrances of himself and his fellow-labourer, Dr. Paterson, was yet ordered to be put into circulation, than he hesitated not to forego all his worldly prospects, and retire from a Society with which, as a Christian, zealous for the purity of God's word, he could not conscientiously hold any farther connection.

Mr. Henderson, however, shall speak for himself:

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"Matters being thus brought into a satisfactory train, I proceeded with the revision of the text, which I had undertaken at the request of the Committee; but had only time to go through the four Gospels when I left the Russian metropolis, in company with Dr. Paterson, to proceed on an exploratory Biblical mission into Persia, after having visited the different Bible Societies in the central, western, and southern provinces of Rus On this tour it was of course out of my power to carry on the revision of the remaining books: yet I frequently read in them, with a view to become more familiarly acquainted with a language which was to be my only colloquial medium, after leaving the frontiers of the empire. The faults which every renewed perusal defellow-traveller, who, as well myself, betected, I naturally communicated to my came every day more convinced of the alarming nature of the evil. The reader may therefore conceive what was our surprize, when on the eve of leaving Tiflis for Persia, we had forwarded to us, not officially, but through a channel as indubitably certain, the unexpected information, that amongst other resolutions, adopted by the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society on the 9th and 13th of August, 1821, was one purport