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would go on board a privateer. But there are ft moments to such desperadoes. God does not, once, abandon them to themselves. There are nes when the man says "I should be glad to rern but I should not like to meet that face!" if he is been treated with severity.

Yet excess of LAXITY is another danger. The se of Eli affords a serious warning on this subct. Instead of his mild expostulation on the flaant wickedness of his sons-Nay, my sons, it is › good report that I hear he ought to have excised his authority as a parent and magistrate in anishing and restraining their crimes.

Remarks on Authors.

VHEN I look at the mind of LORD BACON it eems vast, original, penetrating, analogical, beond all competition. When I look at his character -it is wavering, shuffling, mean. In the closing cene, and in that only, he appears in true dignity, s a man of profound contrition.

BAXTER surpasses, perhaps, all others, in the rand, impressive, and persuasive style. But he is ot to be named with Owen as to furnishing the stuent's mind. He is, however, multifarious, complex, practical.

CLARKE has, above all other men, the faculty of owering the life and spiritual sense of Seripture to such perfection, as to leave it like dry bones, livested of every particle of marrow or oil. SoUTH s nearer the truth. He tells more of it; but he cells it with the tongue of a viper, for he was most bitterly set against the Puritans. But there is a spirit and life about him. He must and will be

heard. And, now and then, he darts on us with unexpected and incomparable stroke.

THE MODERN GERMAN WRITERS, and the who school formed after them, systematically and inter tionally confound vice and virtue, and argue for th passions against the morals and institutions of soc ety. There never was a more dangerous book written,than one that Mrs. WOLSTONECRAFT imperfect, but which GoDWIN published after he death. Her "Wrongs of Women" is an arti apology for adultery: she labors to interest the feel ings in favor of an adulteress, by making he crime the consequence of the barbarous conduct a despicable husband, while she is painted all soft ness and sensibility. Nothing like this was eve attempted before the modern school.

"SOME men," said Dr. Patten to me, "are alway crying fire! fire!" To be sure--where there is dar ger, there ought to be affectionate earnestness. Wh would remonstrate, coldly and with indifference with a man about to precipitate himself from Dơ ver Cliff, and not rather snatch him forcibly from destruction? Truth, in its living influence on the heart, will shew itself in consecratedness and hol zeal. When teachers of religion are destitute these qualities, the world readily infers that relig ion itself is a farce. Let us do the world justice It has very seldom found a considerate, accommo dating, and gentle, but withal earnest, heavenly and enlightened teacher. When it has found such truth has received a very general attention. Suc a man was HERVEY, and his works have met thei reward.

HOMER approaches nearest of all the heathen poet to the grandeur of Hebrew poetry. With the the

ogical light of Scripture, he would have wonderlly resembled it.

OOKER is incomparable in strength and sanctity. is first books are wonderful. I do not so perfectly eet him, as he advances toward the close.

OSKIEL'S "Account of the Moravian Missions nong the North American Indians" has taught e two things. I have found in it a striking illusation of the uniformity with which the grace of od operates on men. Crantz, in his "Account f the Missions in Greenland," had shewn the race of God working on a man-fish: on a stupidottish-senseless creature-scarcely a remove rom the fish on which he lived. Loskiel shews the ame grace working on a man-devil: a fierce-loody-revengeful warrior-dancing his infernal var-dance with the mind of a fury. Divine grace rings these men to the same point. It quickens, stimulates, and elevates the Greenlander: it raises him to a sort of new life: it seems almost to bestow on him new senses: it opens his eye, and bends his ear, and rouses his heart; and what it adds-it sanctifies. The same grace tames the high spirit of the Indian: it reduces him to the meekness, and docility, and simplicity of a child. The evidence arising to Christianity from these facts is, perhaps, seldom sufficient, by itself, to convince the gainsayer: but, to a man who already believes, it greatly strengthens the reasons of his belief. I have seen also in these books, that the fish-boat, and the oil, and the tomahawk, and the cap of feathers excepted-a Christian minister has to deal with just the same sort of creatures, as the Greenlander and the Indian among civilized nations.

OWEN stands at the head of his class of divines. His scholars will be more profound and enlarged, and

better furnished, than those of most other writers. His work on the Spirit has been my treasure-house and one of my very first-rate books. Such writers as RICCALTOUN rather disqualify than prepare a minister for the immediate business of the pulpit. Original and profound thinkers enlarge his views, and bring into exercise the powers and energies of his own mind, and should therefore be his daily companions. Their matter must, however, be ground down before it will be fit for the pulpit. Such writers as Owen, who, though less original, have united detail with wisdom, are copious in proper topics, and in matter better prepared for immediate use, and in furniture ready finished, as it were, for the mind.

PALEY is an unsound casuist, and is likely to do great injury to morals. His extenuation of the crimes committed by an intoxicated man, for instance is fallacious and dangerous. Multiply the crime of intoxication into the consequences that follow from it, and you have the sum total of the guilt of a drunken man.

RUTHERFORD's Letters is one of my classics.Were truth the beam, I have no doubt, that if Homer and Virgil and Horace and all that the world has agreed to idolize were weighed against that book, they would be lighter than vanity. He is a real original. There are in his Letters some inexpressibly forcible and arresting remonstrances with unconverted men.

I SHOULD not recommend a young minister to pay much deference to the ScoTCH DIVINES. The Erskines, who were the best of them, are dry, and

labored, and prolix, and wearisome. He may find incomparable matter in them, but he should beware of forming his taste and manner after their model. I want a more kind-hearted and liberal sort of divinity. He had much better take up Bishop HALL. There is a set of excellent, but wrong-headed men, who would reform the London preachers on a more elaborate pian. They are not philosophers who talk thus. If Owen himself were to rise from the grave, unless it were for the influence of the great name which he would bring with him, he might close his days with a small congregation, in some little meet. ing-house.

SHAKSPEARE had a low and licentious taste. When he chose to imagine a virtuous and exalted character, he would completely throw his mind into it, and give the perfect picture of such a character. But he is at home in Falstaff. No high, grand, virtuous, religious aim beams forth in him. A man, whose heart and taste are modelled on the Bible, nauseates him in the mass, while he is enraptured and astonished by the flashes of his pre-eminent genius.

"HAVE you read my Key to the Romans?" said Dr. TAYLOR, of Norwich, to Mr. NEWTON.-"I have turned it over."-"You have turned it over! And is this the treatment a book must meet with, which has cost me many years of hard study? Must I be told, at last, that you have turned it over,' and then thrown it aside? You ought to have read it carefully and weighed deliberately what comes forward on so serious a subject." "Hold! You have cut me out full employment, if my life were to be as long as Methuselah's. I have somewhat else to do in the short day allotted me, than to read whatever

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