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patient of his disease, who, when it was commended to him, took the paper only, and put it up in his pocket, but never drank the potion that was prescribed in it. All that Christ did for us in the flesh, when he was here upon earth; from his lying in a manger, when he was born in Bethlehem, to his bleeding upon the cross on Golgotha; it will not save us from our sins, unless Christ by his Spirit dwell in us. It will not avail us, to believe that he was born of a Virgin, unless the power of the Most High overshadow our hearts, and beget him there likewise. It will not profit us, to believe that he died upon the Cross for us; unless we be baptized into his death, by the mortification of all our lusts; unless the old man of sin be crucified in our hearts. Christ indeed hath made an expiation for our sins upon his cross; and the blood of Christ is the only sovereign balsam to free us from the guilt of them but yet besides the sprinkling of the blood of Christ upon us, we must be made partakers also of his Spirit. Christ came into the world as well to redeem us from the power and bondage of our sins, as to free us from the guilt of them. "You know (saith St. John) that he was manifested, to take away our sins; whosoever therefore abideth in him, sinneth not, whosoever sinneth, hath not seen nor known him." Lo the end of Christ's coming into the world. Lo a design worthy of God manifested in the flesh. Christ did not take all those pains; to lay aside his robes of glory, and come down hither into the world; to enter into a Virgin's womb; to be born in our human shape, and be laid a poor crying infant in a manger; and having no form nor comeliness at all upon him, to take upon him the form of a servant; to undergo a reproachful and ignominious life, and at last to be abandoned to a shameful death, a death upon the cross; I say he did not do all this, merely to bring in a notion into the world, without producing any real and substantial effect at all, without the changing, mending, and reforming of the world so that men should still be as wicked as they were before, and as much under the power of the Prince of Darkness; only they should not be thought so: they should still remain as full of all the filthy sores, of sin and corruption as before; only they should be accounted whole. Shall God come down from heaven, and pitch a Tabernacle amongst men? Shall he undertake such a huge design, and make so great a noise of doing some.

thing, which, when it is al summed up, shall not at last amount to a reality? Surely, Christ did not undergo all this to so little purpose; he would not take all this pains for us, that he might be able at last, to put into our hands, nothing but a blank. He was with child, he was in pain and travel, and hath he brought forth nothing but wind, hath he been delivered of the East wind? Is that great design that was so long carried in the womb of eternity, now proved abortive, or else nothing but a mere windy birth? No, surely, The end of the Gospel is Life and Perfection, 'tis a divine nature, 'tis a Godlike frame and dispostion of spirit; 'tis to make us partakers of the Image of God in righteousness and true holiness, without which, salvation itself were but a notion. Christ came indeed into the world, to make an expiation and atonement for our sins, but the end of this was, that we might eschew sin, that we might forsake all ungodliness and worldly lusts. The Gospel declares pardon of sin to those that are heavy laden with it, and willing to be disburdened, to this end, that it might quicken and enliven us to new obedience. Whereas otherwise, the guilt of sin might have detained us in horror and despair, and so have kept us still more strongly under the power of it, in sad and dismal apprehensions of God's wrath provoked against us, and inevitably falling on us. But Christ hath now appeared, like a day-star with most cheerful beams; nay, he is the sun of righteousness himself; which hath risen upon the world with his healing wings, with his exhilarating light, that he might chase away all those black despairing thoughts from us. But Christ did not rise, that we should play, and sport, and wantonize with his light; but that we should do the works of the day in it: that we should walk ivoxnów (as the apostle speaketh) not in our night-clothes of sinful deformity, but clad all over with the comely garments of light. The Gospel is not big with child of a fancy, of a mere conceit of righteousness without us, hanging at distance over us; whilst our hearts within are nothing but cages of unclean birds, and like houses continually haunted with devils, nay the very rendezvous of those fiends of darkness. Holiness, is the best thing that God himself can bestow upon us, either in this world, or the world to come. True evangelical holiness, that is, Christ formed in the hearts of believers, is the very cream, and quintessence of the Gospel.

Vol. VII, Churchm. Mag. Oct. 1804. Pp FROM

FROM ARCHBISHOP LAUD'S DEVOTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

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SIR,

MAGAZINE.

S the last number of your very useful Magazine contains the conclusion of the life of ARCHBISHOP LAUD, I would beg leave to submit to you, the propriety of giving such parts of his most excellent Officium Quotidianum, or DAILY OFFICE, as you may think proper. The whole of this very excellent, and now scarce book, would be a valuable acquisition in the private devotions of every orthodox christian, who would most thankfully rejoice in the opportunity of exercising such fervent piety, earnest zeal, and truly christian humility, as those prayers comprise, in all the rich simplicity of plain and easy language. If, however, you would please to insert some of the most material parts as extracts, to afford specimens of the whole, it may perhaps lead to a new edition of this truly christian and highly excellent piece; which for piety and plainness, may be ranked with the admirable manual of Bishop Andrews. For this purpose I have transmitted a copy of some of the prayers, which I hope will appear in your next Number.

I am, Sir,
Yours respectfully,

: Newington Butts, Sept. 1804.

JUVENIS.

After a preface; a short illustration of the Lord's prayer and creed, and an advertisement concerning the hours of prayer, he begins at p. 9, the daily office of a christian

THE OFFICE FOR EVERY DAY.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

For preventing

grace.

O LORD, I am risen up, and fallen prostrate before thee: Prevent me, I beseech thee, in all my doings, with thy most gracious favor, and further me with thy continual help,that in all my works begun, continued, and ended in thee, &c.-*Almighty God and

Eng. Lit.

* P. 9.

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most merciful father, all merciful, mercy itself; I have erred wittingly, nay run from thy ways, more like an untamed heifer, than a lost or wandering sheep. I have followed too much, even altogether, the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart. I have offended against, nay been offended at thy holy, most holy laws. I have left undone, not done at all, those things which I ought to have done, and I have done, done nothing else, but those things which I ought not to have done. And there is no health, no hope of health in me. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon me, miserable, most miserable sinner; the greatest sinner, and most unthankful for so great a grace. Spare me and them, all for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.*

O Lord, I give thee humble and hearty thanks (increase my thankfulness I beseech thee) for all beneThanksgiving fits and blessings, both spiritual and temporal, which in the riches of thy great mercy, thou hast liberally poured down upon me, but especially spiritual. Lord, let me not live but to praise and magnify thee and thy glorious name. Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation, from the time of my birth to this present moment, for &c.--For bringing me safe to the beginning of this day, in which, and all the days of my life, I beseech thee preserve me from sin, and from danger, in soul and in body, that all my thoughts, words, and works, may tend to the honour and glory of thy name, the good of thy Church, the discharge of my duty, the salvation of my soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee, through Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer, Amen.+

O eternal God and merciful Father, I humbly beseech thee, bless thy HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH, For the Ca- wheresoever spread upon the face of the tholic Church. whole earth good Lord, purge it from all atheism, heresie, schism, superstition, factitious maintainance of groundless opinions; that one faith, one Lord, one baptism, may in all places be uniformly professed,

* P. 10. + P. 13.

The Christian Church being Catholic, or UNIVERSAL, shews the absolute necessity of distinguishing the Romish Church, as the Roman Catholic Church, since its corruptions have made it so bad a part of the Church universal,

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as thy Church is and can be but one; and grant, good Lord, that I may be, and continue, a faithful, living, and working member, under Christ the head, in that Church, the body, all the days of my life, and at the hour of my death, through the merits, and by the grace of the same Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour. Amen*. O merciful God, bless THIS particular For this parti Church in which I live: make it, and all the members of it, SOUND IN FAITH, and HOLY IN LIFE, that they may serve thee, and thou bless them through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.†

cular Church,

ANECDOTE OF DR. ISAAC BARROW.
[From Dr. POPE's Life of Bishop WARD.]

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HEN Dr. John Wilkins, afterwards Bishop of Chester, was Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, just after the restoration, he desired Dr. Barrow to give him a Sunday, which he readily consented to do. Accordingly, at the time appointed, he came with an aspect pale and meagre, and unpromising, slovenly and carelessly dressed. Thus accoutred he mounts the pulpit, begins his prayer, which, whether he did read or not, I cannot positively assert or deny: immediately all the congregation was in an uproar, as if the church were falling, and they scampering to save their lives, each shifting for himself with great precipitation; then there was such a noise of pattens of serving maids, and ordinary women, and of unlocking of pews, and cracking of seats, caused by the younger sort hastily climbing over them, that I thought all the congregation were mad: but the good doctor seeming not to take notice of this disturbance, proceeds, names his text, and preach'd his sermon, to two or three, gathered, or rather left together, of which number, as it fortunately happened, Mr. Baxter, that eminent nonconformist, was one, who afterwards gave Dr. Wilkins a visit, and commended the sermon to that degree, that, he said, he never heard a better discourse: There was also amongst those who staid out the sermon, a certain young man who thus accosted Dr. Barrow as he came down from the pulpit: "Sir, be not dismay'd, for I assure you 'twas a good sermon."

* P. 14. + P. 15.

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