the caution of the 15th verse, and beware, lest such as assume our office, by multiplying the "ones" enumerated, into many ways of religion, should bring them through error into the broad way that leadeth to destruction.

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It is possible in the lapse of time that some words may become obsolete, and others may almost insensibly change their force and meaning. Should it be so, or if with the increase of learning it should be thought a more accurate translation of the Holy Bible might be rendered from the Hebrew and Greek texts, let seventy men, as of old, or some sufficient number of the learned and the pious, be engaged to perfect the Holy Bible in the English tongue. But then let the new version be the authorized version; let it be the book of standard authority to which we may all appeal in defence of Truth, and for protection from Error, according to the wisdom contained in the sixth article of the Church of England.

FINIS.

J. Rider, Printer, 14, Bartholomew Close, London,

"A CITIZEN OF NO MEAN CITY."

PREACHED IN THE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY,

BEFORE THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR,

THE WORSHIPFUL THE ALDERMEN,

THE RECORDER, THE SHERIFFS,

THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONDON, THE LIVERIES OF THE SEVERAL COMPANIES, AND THE CITY OFFICERS,

ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1839,

BEFORE THE ELECTION OF A LORD MAYOR.

BY THE REV. CHARLES CATOR, M.A.,

Of Brazenose College, Oxford; Rector of Stokesley, Yorkshire; and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor.

· LONDON:

J. G. F. AND J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL; R. HASTINGS, 13, CAREY STREET, LINCOLN'S INN; AND

WM. BRAITHWAITE, STOKESLEY, YORKSHIRE.

Price One Shilling.

At an Especial Court, held on the Vigil of the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel (that is to say) Saturday, the 28th Day of September, 1839, and in the Third Year of the Reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, &c.

RESOLVED,

THAT the Reverend CHARLES CATOR, M.A., Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, be requested to cause the Sermon preached by him this Day before his Lordship, and this Court, and the Livery of the several Companies of this City, at the Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, previous to the Election of a Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing, to be printed, and send a Copy thereof to every Member of this Court.

At a Court of Common Council, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the

City of London, on Friday, the 4th Day of October, 1839:

RESOLVED,

THAT this Court doth request the Reverend CHARLES CATOR, M.A., Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, to print the Sermon preached by him at the Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on Saturday, the 28th day of September last, previous to the Election of a Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing, before his Lordship, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, several Members of this Court, City Officers, and the Livery of the several Companies of this City; and that he cause a Copy thereof to be sent to every Member of this Court, and to each of the City Officers.

WOODTHORPE.

To the Right Honourable SAMUEL WILSON, LORD MAYOR, the Worshipful the ALDERMEN, the RECORDer, the SHERIFFS, and the COMMON COUNCIL of the City of London.

MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN,

IN presenting to you the Sermon, which it was my high privilege to preach preparatory to the election of the Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, it is no less due to you than to myself, that I take this opportunity of correcting a misrepresentation of the circumstances attending the Resolution of the Court of Aldermen that it should be printed. Their resolution, which made a vote of thanks usually awarded to the preacher, to depend upon their approbation of the Sermon, having surprised me into a dilemma, on either horn of which I might have been held up to contempt and scorn, I was compelled to sue for a hearing.

Had I refused to print the Sermon on the plea that I did not think the Court of Aldermen a competent tribunal to pronounce judgment upon the course to be pursued by a minister of Christ, in the discharge of his sacred functions, it might have been imputed to me that the sentiments uttered were too intolerant for the public eye. If I had consented to print the Sermon in the ordinary way, and after perusal it had not justified the assumption on which the Resolution had been founded, it would have been imputed to me, that for the sake of courting a vote of thanks, or for baser motives, I had mutilated or retracted what had been uttered.

Under this conviction, having ascertained the wish of the Court to be, that the sermon should be printed, I said: I should readily comply with the request, provided the Lord Mayor would nominate any two gentlemen, or the Town Clerk, or other person, to see it through the press, reserving to myself the correction thereof, and the privilege of adding explanatory notes. Thus, when printed verbatim et literatim, it would be seen that I had not impugned the motives either of Mr. Wesley or Mr. Whitefield. This proposition having been declined by the Court in the most flattering manner, I requested the Lord Mayor, as my personal friend, to take charge of the sermon, which he kindly consented to do.

One word on the subject itself under discussion. It would really seem as if it were at this day questioned whether Holy Scripture,