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or four hours, and had been exposed to the disasters of the tempest from about five in the evening to half past eleven at night, at which time I reached my comfortable dwelling much exhausted, but to the great joy of my affectionate parent, who, I doubt not, had been offering up petitions in my behalf, to Him who hears the ardent whispers of the soul, when presented to him in sincerity,

For this preservation, I desire to thank my God, but my words are poor and insufficient for this purpose. May all my actions praise him, and may my lengthened life be devoted to his glory! Sept. 1, 1825.

T.K- N.

In order to prove the veracity of this position, let us glance :

1. At the physical state of Man. When all the orders of unintelligent creation were first summoned into existence, the simple volition of the Creator was sufficient; and, no sooner was the mandate uttered, than the effect was produced: but when man became the subject of creating power, a council was convened in the breast of Jehovah, and the concurrence of the indivisible Trinity was requisite for the completion of the work. "Let us make Man:" indicating at once the importance of the undertaking, and the magnitude of its consequences. The resistless fiat was heard, reechoed, and obeyed: Man was formed

ON THE PRIMEVAL AND PRESENT STATE from the dust of the ground;-and

OF MAN.

"Hoc uno loco, quasi fulmine, totus homo, quantus-quantus est, prosternitur. Neque enim naturam dicit læsam, sed mortuam per peccatum; ideoque iræ obnoxam.” BEZA. In the numerous crowd of theological speculators, there are some, who, "wise above that which is written," cannot admit the divine and scriptural declaration, of the utter depravity and desperate condition of apostate man. They contemplate his magnitude of intellect, his diversity of faculty, his dignity and superiority in the scale of creation, and then ask,-Can such be the creature which ignorance and fanaticism would represent as totally depraved, and eternally undone? Can he, who is the acknowledged representative of his Maker, be fallen so low into the awful depths of guilt, apostasy, and ruin?

with a body complicated and inserutable; with faculties extensive and diversified; with an intellect unfettered and majestic; with a soul immaterial and immortal; he stood, the image of his Maker, the counterpart of Deity! Such, in its pristine purity, was the physical state of Man. But "how is the gold become dim, how is the fine gold changed!" how is the workmanship of God defaced, how are the glories of man destroyed. The machinery of his body is, indeed, still complicated and wonderful; but sin, like a canker-worm, feeding on the vitals of the plant, extends its direful influence through every part, and is gradually hastening the whole to corruption and decay. His faculties are still diversified and extensive, but they are rather engrossed by the perishing trifles of time, than the more durable realities of eternity. His intellect is still, in some degree, unfettered and majestic; but it only soars into the regions of fancy, and is simply exercised in profitless speculations. His soul is still immaterial and immortal, but by reason of sin it is become the heir to that undying worm, and those unquenchable flames, which constitute "the second death!"

Such is, and ever has been, the reasoning of the carnal and sophisticated mind, which vents its enmity to its Maker by opposition to his word, and manifests the same spirit of unhumbled pride which stimulated him at first to disobey the mandate of Omnipotence, and seal his everlasting ruin. That man, however, is by nature so awfully depraved, and so hopelessly undone, is a truth which scripture unequivocally declares, and experience II. The moral state of Man. most palpably demonstrates ;-which If, indeed, consistency of character, reason can never refute, or opposition integrity of principle, or suavity of overcome; which is written alike upon disposition, were all that is implied in all the movements of society, and all genuine morality, we could not conthe actions of individuals, in charac-sider its influence as totally withdrawn; ters too obvious to be mistaken,-too indelible to be erased.

Such, then, being the physical, let us notice,

but if it consists in perfect holiness, internal purity, the consecration of all

be fully exemplified and enjoyed, save by the spirits of the just made perfect. The flower which once bloomed amid the innocence and purity of Eden, shall only flourish with primeval glory in the paradise of God. Perfection, which once blest with ineffable delight the stainless breast of Adam, shall be

While the moral state of the natural man must ever continue to be defiled by guilt, and blackened with impenitence and pride; let us notice,

III. The spiritual state of man; and how melancholy an aspect does it bear!

our faculties, intellectual and physical, to the purposes for which they were originally designed, and the maintaining a life of undeviating rectitude and uninterrupted devotedness to the precepts, the service, and the glory of God; our view of the subject becomes materially changed. Instances, indeed, are not rare, of the former spe-known no more, till the consummation cies of morality; but, if unconnected of blessedness in the realms of purity with at least some portion of the lat- and peace. ter, they are no more than the empty shell, the statue without vitality; or, as the flower which only blooms upon a desert soil, destitute alike of fragrance and of value. Taking then a view so extended of the subject, sad as the physical state of man appears, his moral condition is still darker, and more awful in its character, proportion, and effects. And all the morality of the world, which some delight to represent as perfect in its kind, angelic in its appearance, and divine in its influence, produced, as it is, from unhallowed motives, and exercised in opposition to the revelation of God; will appear, to an enlightened mind, as the perversion of the noblest faculties, the debasement of the sublimest affections; or, like Satan, clothed as an "angel of light," leading men blindfold to hell, by a specious and pretended path to heaven.

That man was originally moral, is a truth that does not admit of rational disputation. The appearance of a temple in ruins, is sufficient evidence that it was once a perfect and splendid edifice; and the present state of man will indubitably demonstrate that his body and his soul, now guilty and debased, were once elevated and pure; but, when Adam sinned, real morality received its mortal wound. No longer could it rest in a bosom at variance with its Maker. No longer could it spread its sacred fibrils in a soil that was only productive of thorns; and however what remains may be idolized by some, and counterfeited by others, yet, it must be repeated, that upon the entrance of sin, pure and perfect morality left our guilty world for ever! True it is, that some beams of its pristine glory continue to shine upon the souls of true believers through the sacrificed and immaculate Jesus, - the source and the centre of holiness and peace; yet even these cannot present a standard of perfect morality, nor can it ever

We have seen his physical nature still marked with much that is wonderful and glorious. We have seen him as a moral agent; incapable, indeed, of exemplifying a perfect morality; but exhibiting at least an interesting, though counterfeit, species of it. We must, however, contemplate the spiritual condition of the natural man, as darkness without one beam of light; (Job xii. 25.)—as despair, without one glimmering of hope; (Eph. ii. 12.) as death without one spark of animation, or of life; (Eph. ii. 1.)

True it is, we may trace the magnitude and splendour of the fabric, and behold the columns, and the capitals, and the tracery, and the arches-but they are stretched in ruinous prostration, and are covered with the emblem of decay. True it is, we may still discover the dimensions and the stateliness of the oak-but though it stands erect, and spreads its wandering branches to the heavens; it is destitute of verdure and of life, and “quasi fulmine," it is smitten with "the blast of the terrible one." True it is, we may perceive the vastness and the width of the river, through which a flood of holy aspiration and heavenborn feelings were once perpetually flowing to God, as their origin, their centre, and their end; but the fountain is now exhausted and dry-and no silver stream reflects the sky upon its waveless breast.

It is

Do we inquire the cause? uttered by the voice of nature; it is proclaimed by the heralds of the Gospel; it is written with the flames of justice; it is thundered by the Word of the Eternal" All have sinned."

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Drawn & Engraved by Thomson, from the Bust by Baily, in the pofsesion of Sir The Lawrence.

Henry Juseli

Published by Fisher, Son&C: Caxton, London, Oct.1.1825.

Sin has paralyzed the energies, despoiled the beauties, prostrated the dignity, and extinguished the glories of man; it has reduced him to a level with the irrational creation; and rendered him the child of pain, of wretchedness, and death. Yes! the scepticism of man may ridicule; the reason of man may dispute; and the pride of man may deny, the truth;-but the testimony of experience, and the page of inspiration, alike declare "naturam non læsam sed mortuam per peccatum

esse.

Such, then, is naturally the state of man. Is it, however, hopeless or irremediable? No! Infinite wisdom has planned, infinite power effected, and infinite mercy offers, a way of redemption. The condition of man was desperate, the soul of man was ruined by reason of sin; but Christ, assuming our nature, bore the curse of iniquitysatisfied the demands of justice-fulfilled all righteousness-purchased pardon for the guilty and redemption for the believing. But here the depravity of man is manifested; the spiritual death of all mankind is awfully attested. He who has formed and created them; He who has "poured out his soul" to redeem them; He who will come in his glory to judge them;-is, by some neglected, and by others despised. They see no beauty in his character, no veracity in his words, no terror in his threatenings, and no value in his redemption:—and, rejecting all the offers of merey, and refusing to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Saviour, grasping solely at the perishing shadows of time, they fill up the measure of their guilt, and sink into interminable wo.

Such is not, however, universally the case. There are some, who, drawn by the mercy, and quickened by the Spirit of God, accept the overtures of redemption, and bow in humble subjection at the feet of their deliverer. In such the image of God is partially restored the flame of devotion is rekindled. The temple rises again with somewhat of its former splendour, till it reaches beyond the starry firinament, and "the top stone is brought in with shoutings of grace, grace unto it." The oak, released from the icy trammels of winter, again assumes its verdant dress, and stands adorned with all the luxuriant decorations of spring. The fountain again sends 83.-VOL. VII.

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MEMOIR OF HENRY FUSELI, ESQ. R.A. (With a Portrait.)

JOHN GASPARD FUESSLI, the father of this celebrated artist, was a painter and writer of considerable talents at Zurich in Switzerland, where he died. in 1781. He married in 1740, but though, for all that appears, his wife was a very amiable woman, her hus band used to say, "that wedlock was incompatible with the cultivation of the fine arts."

: Three sons were the fruits of this union, and they were all distinguished/ by their genius. Rodolph, the eldest, settled as a painter at Vienna; Henry, the second, rose to still greater eminence in England; and Gaspard, the youngest, became distinguished as an entomologist, but died in the prime of life.

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The daily press has made Mr. Henry. Fuseli to be eighty-seven years of age at the time of his death, which is a palpable mistake, if, as we have reason to believe, his parents were married in 1740. His original destination was the church, and, after going through the high school of Zurich with great credit, he was sent, with his compa triot the celebrated Lavater, to the university of Berlin, where they both studied together under their learned countryman John George Sulzer, professor of mathematics.

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Here Henry Fuséli, for so we shall call him, though he had not then altered the orthography of his patronymic, applied very diligently to the ancient and modern languages; without omitting other pursuits. He and Lavater also made many excursions round Berlin, and both formed some; interesting friendships in that city. Young Fuseli drew a number of sketches which excited notice, and he wrote some poetical essays which were much admired.

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