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sible power. It was this that poisoned tbe | liturgical forms ever composed, even fountain of life, and corrupted the church at were it not for the imposition of the its commencement, when the sous of God entered into an unholy alliance with the Liturgy by the Established Church; daughters of men, and blended the church and notwithstanding we think that no and the world. And how has it possessed truly pious person needs composed the church ever since, convulsing and rend- forms of prayer for secret devotions, ing it like a demon! Oft times casting it because "our Father who seeth in into the fire and into the waters, to destroy secret" looks for the utterance of the it, and sometimes reducing it apparently to a state of death, insomuch that many thought heart, and can understand the meaning it was dead. O, when will the Divine Mas- of a contrite tear, a penitential groan, ter himself come in the plenitude of his or an evangelical desire-we yet know omnipotence, in the full power of his word persons who, from timid feelings and and spirit, and rebuke and cast out this foul the want of habit, cannot (at least they and stubborn fiend, which his disciples have been so long labouring to expel in vain! think so) conduct prayers in their faUntil then the churches will not have rest, milies with their domestics; and for for it fills them with strife and confusion, such persons, and in such cases, we and every evil work." p. 57. think set forms may be necessary and useful; nor do we feel any objection to recommend this volume, as containing very good prayers for every day in the month, both morning and evening, besides four which are entitled "Occasional Prayers."

But we must forbear quotation; we have already exceeded our intended limits. We sincerely rejoice, that while many of our valuable ministers are growing old in the service of Christ, and must soon cease from their labours, others are rising up to fill their places, with such a portion of piety, and talent, and zeal, as augurs well for the future interests of the church. We do not, however, present this sermon to our readers as a complete model of perfection, in which the eagle eye of criticism could discern no defects; these are, indeed, but slight and few, while its excellences are many and great. There are a few typographical errors, which it is unnecessary further to notice. One thing we must mention, that with a good type and paper, the price is very moderate. We can cordially recommend the sermon to our readers, and hope that it may have an extensive circulation.

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THOUGH We are decidedly of opinion that free, or extempore prayer is to be preferred for public worship, to any

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OBITUARY.

MRS. JENNET BULLOUGH.

Mrs. Jennet Bullough, the daughter of John and Sarah Lawson, was born Sept. 5, 1755, at Heath Common, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. In early life she removed to Shipley, where she established a school, the duties of which she continued to discharge until nearly the close of her protracted life. Many of her surviving pupils, who now sustain great respectability both in the church and the world, can testify to the deep anxiety she was wont to manifest for the moral, as well as the intellectual improvement of those entrusted to her care. Happy would it be for our rising youth, if all those who undertook their education would adopt a line of conduct so exemplary, and merit a similar eulogium!

For some time after her settlement at Shipley, she seems to have lived in the neglect of religion. Alluding to this period, she says, "I was blind and ignorant till it pleased the Lord to open my eyes." Her first impressions were deep and very distressing. She was, to use her own words, "struck with terror while reflecting on the day of judgment.” | This led her to the house of God; and there, under the sound of the Gospel, she discovered the way of salvation. Having obtained peace with God, she shortly afterwards made a public profession of discipleship in the ordinance of baptism, a profession which, through divine grace, she not only maintained unsullied through a long series of trials and vicissitudes, but which glowed and brightened like the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

The manner in which she was brought to the knowledge of the Lord, and the character of her subsequent experience, may be ascertained from the following extracts of her diary. "1795. Bless the Lord, () my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name, for all

his mercies bestowed upon me; but especially for giving me to see my lost condition as a sinner; for I was blind and ignorant till it pleased the Lord to open my eyes. I had a book lent mé which is called 'the Practice of Piety,' which I read, though in a careless way, till I met with a passage which said we must give an account to God for every idle word. I was struck with terror. I thought, if this be so, then how can I appear before the bar of God? I could read no more. I shut the book, and went to the Baptist chapel. From that time I became more and more concerned about the salvation of my soul. I saw I was a sinner, but still remained ignorant of the justifying righteousness of Christ. Thus I went on for about two years, seeking to establish my own righteousness, till the Lord was pleased to let me see that, if I was saved at all, it must be by sovereign grace, and not by human merit. Then did prayer become a sweet and precious privilege, which before that time I had attended to merely as a duty, from a principle of slavish fear, and I was brought to see that I neither knew how to pray, nor what to pray for; but as the Lord has promised in his word that all his people should be taught of him, I was encouraged to go on begging of him to guide me in all my ways. I felt a growing love in my heart to the Redeemer and his cause, and a great desire that the Lord would dispel my doubts and fears, and open the way, that I might comply with whatever he had commanded in his word. I saw that baptism was a positive institution, and, as I thought, binding on all believers; but at the same time I had such a fear lest I should not bear that description, that I durst not comply, lest I should bring a reproach on the cause of Christ. But the Lord dealt very kindly with me, by letting me see more of the ability and willingness of Jesus to save the vilest of the

On the settlement of a minister:*"O Lord, thou hast dealt bountifully with us, thou hast caused us to hear the voice of joy and gladness. We have

human race, and he was pleased to bless a sermon which was preached by Mr. Bowser, from Col. i. 13. which encouraged me to embrace the ordinance of baptism, that I might enjoy the fellow-seen thy love to thy people. Thou hast ship of the saints, and unite with them in celebrating the dying love and rising power of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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not suffered thy vineyard to become desolate, but hast sent thy servant amongst us, to keep us in the way. And now our eyes behold our teacher, make him, O Lord, a blessing to thy church; and grant that we who compose it may be a people united in the bond of peace, of one heart and of one

"March 13. Bless the Lord, O my soul! I have this day been favoured another opportunity of sitting down at the Lord's table, to commemorate his dying love. O that the words I have heard this day may ever be re-mind, that he may have much pleasure membered by me. May I know what it is to be in the possession of the grace of Christ! O that I could be more devoted to the Lord, and live more to the praise and glory of his name! But what shall I say unto thee, O thou preserver of men! Thou hast all hearts in thy hands; guide me by thy counsel, teach me by thy Spirit, preserve me by thy power, and suffer me not to go astray from thee, the centre of my happiness: but O my wretched and deceitful heart!

"Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love;

in coming amongst us. And do thou graciously bless his labours amongst us, both to the conversion of sinners and to the building up of thy church. Grant him, O Lord, many seals to his ministry, that we may have the happiness of seeing thy cause flourish once more, for it is most delightful to see the wicked brought out of darkness into thy marvellous light."

On returning from a morning's walk : "I have been this morning viewing the works of creation. Every thing speaks the goodness of God: the heavens are adorned with his glory, the fields are clad with his bounty, the birds are sing

Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it;ing his praise. I beheld man going Seal it from thy courts above."

On the admission of a member into the church:-"“O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise; for thou hast remembered us in our low estate, thou hast caused the vine to bring forth a branch. Preserve it, O Lord, while young and tender, water it with heavenly showers, that it may grow and bring forth much fruit, and so prove an honour to thy cause, and a source of joy to us. Grant a blessing, O Lord, on what I have attended to in thy house this day, that it may make a deep and lasting impression on my mind, and stir me up to a more lively sense both of duty and privilege, that I may become more devoted, and zealous, and humble,

"For thou wilt happiness divine,

On contrite hearts bestow;
Then tell me, gracious God, is mine
A contrite heart, or no."

forth to his labour. Ah, thought 1, if
he be walking in the fear of the Lord,
what a happy man! He will labour all
day, depending on the Lord for strength,

he will eat his meals with thankfulness,
return to his home at night, though
weary and fatigued, he will praise the
Lord for the favours of the day, deliver
his all into his hands, and once more in
O that I may be
peace retire to rest.
enabled to do the same. Bless the Lord,
O my soul!"

Sabbath morning :- "Why is my heart so far from thee, O my God?

What is the cause of all these backslidings and heart-wanderings, of which I am the unhappy subject? Is it not for want of more love to thee, my God and Saviour? O Lord deliver my soul from this spiritual lethargy, and hide not thy face from me. Arise thou Sun of righ

* I. Manu, A.M. now of Maze Pond, London.

the glory of God; uttering, as long as utterance was continued, “Come, Lord Jesus; come quickly." She was insen

teousness, and shine upon my soul, and warm this cold heart with thy genial rays, that I may be enabled this day to wait upon thee with devotion, and wor-sible some time before her death, and ship thee in spirit and in truth."

On a birthday :-" () Lord, thou hast added one year more to the number of my days. I am now threescore years and four. When I look back upon my past life, I am lost in wonder to think that the Lord should have been so kind as to indulge me with so many privileges, while I have made so little improvement of them, and so little progress in the divine life. Quicken me, O Lord, by thy good Spirit, that I may be more alive to thee and to thy ways, and let the few remaining days which thou hast appointed to me in the world, be spent to thy honour and glory, through Jesus Christ. Amen."

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calmly fell asleep in Jesus, Sept. 20,
1828. At her request, a funeral ser-
mon was preached by Mr. Edwards,
from Psalm cxvi. 7. "Return unto thy
rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt
bountifully with thee."
Shipley, Nov. 14, 1828.

J. E.

MR. WM. PATTENDEN. Saturday morning, Nov. 22, 1828, died Mr. Wm. Pattenden, of Guildfordplace, Spafields, aged 74.* About twenty years of age, he was led providentially to attend upon the ministry of the Gospel at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, and frequently heard Mr. Romaine, and other popular preachers of that period. By the managers of the Tabernacle he was encouraged and em

From these extracts, which form but a small proportion of what she has written in a similar strain, it is easy to perceive that the mind of the deployed as an itinerant preacher, in ceased was richly imbued with the various villages near town; but soon spirit of holiness. But her religion was after renouncing the principles of Panot confined to the secrecy of her feel- dobaptism, he received adult baptism ings. The beauty of hollness was im- from the late venerable Dr. Gifford, at pressed upon her character, and strik-Eagle-street, in or about the year 1778, ingly displayed in the tenor of her though he did not then join the church, conduct. In her general intercourse being engaged from that time till his with society she was modest and retir-last illness, that is, for full half a cening, though uniformly upright and tury, in preaching either statedly or obliging. She walked in the midst of occasionally. About 1792, he was orthe path of judgment. Ardently at- dained over a small congregation at tached to the house of God, she was Acton in Middlesex, which at the end regular in her attendance on the means of three years he was obliged to give of grace, and her deportment while up through ill health, but subsequently there was peculiarly solemn and devo- he laboured two years at Hayes in the tional. She was frequently and severely same county; and afterwards was inafflicted herself, and although her mind strumental in forming a small Baptist was naturally irritable, yet she cherish-church at Battle-bridge, under the pased an abiding submission to the righteous will of God. She had her imperfections, and she often deplored them, but it seldom falls to the lot of one individual to present to the eye of scrutiny so much that is excellent, with so little that is detracting. At the commencement of her late illness, her mind was dark and distressed, but the light of heaven 'soon broke in upon her, and she descended the valley of the shadow of death, rejoicing in hope of coffin.

toral care of Mr. Sowerby, of which he was himself chosen one of the deacons, and frequently assisted the pastor in his ministerial duties, especially on ordinance days.

For the last thirty years he preached occasionally to many congregations, both Baptists and Pædobaptists, and during above fourteen years of this period he

By a mistake, 76 was put upon his

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