Viewing him as a MINISTER, he had set out with all the advantages which one of the first schools and universities could afford: but he seems to have soon discovered how miserably deficient that minister must be, who stops at the learning of the schools. While he could have distinguished himself as a scholar, the following remark, which he makes upon Mr. Romaine in his Funeral Sermon, will as strictly apply to himself: "The errors and vices of the heathen, however ornamented by rhetoric or poetry, were disgusting to a heart purified by faith: he therefore turned from profane to sacred litera, ture."

The simple fact is, that, what he once counted gain, he learned afterwards to count but loss for Christ. I remember hearing him say, "I have no patience now to read Homer, Virgil, or Horace, whom I used to idolize. To a man who enters into the views of the Bible, they become not only insipid, but often disgusting. In genius, taste, and elegance they never have been excelled; but" as Dr. Horne also remarks, "in almost every thing thing else worth knowing, they were as ignorant as the beasts that perish."

The Scriptures, indeed, he had studied day and night in their original languages: he had studied them critically, and in their connection, till he was familiar with them beyond most of his contemporaries. His mind was a concordance and harmony

of Scripture. He quoted with amazing facility (not at random, as some do, who distinguish not sound from sense, but) whatever tended to explain or illustrate the point before him. To this may be added, that his diction, like that of the original he studied, was so plain and perspicuous, that the meanest of his hearers might clearly understand him.

Learned, like Moses, in all the wisdom of his day, he discovered what far surpassed it all, and became a special witness and example of the truths which he was sent to teach. To which of us all in the Ministry could those words be so strictly applied? By faith, when he was come to years, he refused the honours to which he was born; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ his greatest riches?

The philosopher may declaim on the vanity of human greatness: he may also speculatively perceive the truth of his principle: but, to feel it abiding at heart, and to act upon it humbly and consistently through life, requires a grace which our brother actually possessed; and he nobly demonstrated thereby, that this is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith.

His firm and decided adherence to the Government under which he was placed, both in the Church and in the State, will sufficiently appear in

his Discourses; and his readiness to instruct the ignorant, recover the wandering, visit the sick, promote useful institutions, and relieve the distressed, has been already described.

As a WRITER, he certainly did not excel: he thought so himself: a discovery, which much inferior writers seem not to have made. It was probably on this account that he published so little. The pieces delivered to me by Mrs. C. for republication, and printed in the volume of Discourses, will shew the dates and occasions of their first appearing. Besides which, he published a Memoir of the life of the Rev. William Romaine, to whose eminent piety and usefulness he bore a faithful testimony. I cannot help adding, that the reader will see more of him in his Letters, than in any thing he published.

As a PREACHER, he certainly stood high and I may safely affirm this, though his voice was rough, and his utterance rather indistinct, and at times unpleasantly monotonous. I am also ready to acknowledge, that, like many other useful men, he was more qualified to make the assault than to conduct the siege. He was more of an Ajax, than a Ulysses; more of a herald, than a casuist. His memory, indeed, was remarkably strong, his mind firm and vigorous, and his discourses studied; but he had not the imagination,

taste, or ear that some have.-Plain and convincing, decisive and commanding, he exhibited truth in the mass, and characters in the general, with great effect; but, to discriminate with accuracy-to touch the strings of the heart with skill— and to meet objection in its different forms, were talents he did not so much possess himself, though he knew how to value them in others.

I fear not, however, again to assert, that he was a Preacher of eminence in point of effect; and such a one as will scarcely be conceived by those, who knew him only by the sermons which he had printed. For, if he had not the Apostle's address, yet, like the Apostle, he had such a deep and evident persuasion of the truths he taught, that he seemed more like a man talking of what he saw, what he felt, and what he kept firm hold of, than of what he had heard or read. He had such a conviction of the reality and importance of Divine Revelation, that he did not treat of it as some do, who seem to doubt whether it would bear them out should they go all lengths with it. These, like children venturing on ice newly frozen, step and step with tender tread, fearing that the next venture should ingulph them: he, on the contrary, having knowledge of the foundation, stood upon it as on the everlasting hills; and from thence, as one bearing the message of Heaven, boldly called the World to account.

In treating of his grand theme, the glory of the

Redeemer, I know not that he has left his equal upon earth. He often spoke upon this subject with such an authority and unction, that unbelief seemed but folly, and vice madness: and thus he proceeded, till a holy sympathy was propagated, and men left him, like ELISHA after the mantle was cast over him, wondering what had so strangely carried them away from the Plough and the Oxen.

Το say any thing further of Mr. Cadogan as a Christian seems needless. His piety was not only transparent, but splendid. I doubt not but many, who, "tied and bound by the chain of their sins,' could not approach his faithful ministry, said, as he passed their doors, Let me die the death of the righteous. His life was a sermon, known and read of all men who did not wilfully shut their eyes against the light of it: and I am happy at the conclusion, to add so respectable a testimony as the following, from a sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Valpy of Reading, on the Fast Day, March 8, 1797, at St. Lawrence's in that town, before Mr. Justice Thompson and Mr. Justice Lawrence, the Judges of Assize.

"I am taken away from the evil to come,' were among the dying expressions of a late great and good Pastor of this town:-of whom it may be truly said, that he taught the noblest truths of Christianity with the zeal and fervor of a primitive Father of the Church;-and that he practised, in