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The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory, No. 6. Vol. 2. By John E. Hall, Esq. of Baltimore. William P. Farrand, & Co. Philadelphia, and Farrand, Mallory, & Co. Boston. 1809.

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, No. 9, for September, 1809. By E. Bronson and oth. ers. Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia, and Farrand, Mallory, & Co. Boston. Christian Monitor, No. 9, containing seven Sermons on the Education of Children. Boston, Munroe, Francis, and Parker, 1809.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Vol. 4. part 1. Containing the cases from January to June, 1808, inclusive. By Dudley Atkyns Tyng, Esq. counsellor at Law. Edward Little and Co. Newburyport. 1809.

An Appendix to the New Testament, by James Winthrop, Esq. Cambridge, Hilliard & Metcalf. 1809.

An Abridgment of Dr. Fobes'. Scripture Catechism, revised by an association of ministers, and designed for the children of their respective societies. Cambridge, Hilliard & Metcalf. 1809.

The Mediator's Kingdom not of this world, but spiritual, heavenly, and divine. Illustrated in remarks upon John, chap. 18. verse 36. By an inquirer. New York, Williams and Whiting. 1809.

A Sermon preached at the Dedication of the new meeting house in Hadley, Nov. 3, 1808. By Samuel Austin, D. D. Pastor of a church of Christ, in Worcester. Worcester, Goulding and Stow, 1808.

Freedom in preaching the gospel, the privilege and the duty of its ministers. A sermon preached at the ordination of the Rev. Warren Fay,

to the pastoral care of the church and congregation in Brimfield; Nov. 3, 1808. By Samuel Austin, D. D. Worcester, I. Thomas, Junr.

The gospel minister commissioned by Christ. A Sermon preached at the ordination of Rev. John Milton Whiton, in Antrim, Sep. 28, 1808. By Samuel Austin, D. D. Amherst. Joseph Cushing, 1808.

A Sermon preached at the ordination of the Rev. Samuel Osgood, to the pastoral care of the first church and society in Springfield, January 25, 1809. By Thaddeus Mason Harris, Minister of Dorchester. Springfield, Dickman, 1809.

A Sermon preached at the installation of Rev. James Thurston, to the pastoral charge of the church in Manchester. By Joseph Buckminster, D. D. Portsmouth, 1809.

A discourse delivered to the congregational society in Woburn, June 28, 1809, At the dedication of their meeting house, by Joseph Chickering, Minister of said society. Charlestown, Hastings, Etheridge, & Bliss.

The wisdom of God. A sermon delivered before the Massachusetts Missionary Society, at their annual meeting in Boston, May 30, 1809, by Samuel Worcester, A. M. minister at the tabernacle in Salem. Boston, Joshua Cushing.

Believers baptism no argument against infant baptism: Infant baptism a Gospel Ordinance, three sermons delivered in the independent church, Beaufort (S. C.) by the Rev. Benja min M. Palmer, A. M. Pastor of said church. With an Appendix, by another hand, containing observations on close communion. Charleston (S. C.) J. Hoff.

The noble convert. A sermon preached at Bridgeport, May 28th 1809, at the request of the Hon. Pierpoint Edwards, Esq. by Elijah Waterman, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bridgeport. Bridgeport, H. Ripley.

A charge delivered at a public Commencement, July 27, 1809, to the senior class of the Philadelphia Academy, upon their having completed the course of study prescribed by that institution, by James Abercrombie, D. D. One of the assistant ministers of Christ's church and St,

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The Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Sung at the chapel of the Lock Hospital. From the last London edition. In one volume royal quarto on a fine wove paper. Boston, West and Blake, and Manning and Loring, 1809.

The Star in the East. A Sermon preached in the parish church of St. James, Bristol, on Sunday, February 26, 1809, for the benefit of the "Soci ety of Missions to Africa and the East." By Rey, Claudius Buchanan, LL.D. from India. To which is added an Appendix, containing the interesting Report of the Rev. Dr. Kerr to the Governor of Madras, on the state of the ancient Christians in Co chin and Travancore; and an account of the discoveries made by Dr. Buchanan, of 200,000 Christians in the sequestered regions of Hindoostan. Boston, Munroe, Francis, and Parker. 1809.

Living Christianity delineated, in the Diaries and Letters of two eminently pious persons lately deceased, viz. Mr. Hugh Bryan, and Mrs, Ma

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Murray's Sequel to the English Reader Boston, Lincoln and Edmands. 1809.

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To the choice of the subject which we have contemplated this afternoon, my hearers will readily suppose I have been directed by the late de cease of the senior Deacon of this religious Society. It is sanctioned by long custom that, after any of our friends and brethren have acted in some of the most conspicuous and important stations, a particular notice should be taken oftheir lives and characters when the scene of their activity is closed, and we have just returned from following their sable hearses to the congregation of the dead. But few persons have been brought into more public view, and for a long course of time sustained a greater variety of offices, than our late respected Brother.

As a native of Boston, he discovered a very earnest attachment to its interest, and at an early season of life, bent his mind, among other things, to the desire of its exterior improvement.

From the calling which he pursued, and in which he acted as a principal, he greatly amended the style of architecture ; and there is now a considerable number of private, as well as some public edifices in this town and in the vicinity, indebted for their conveniency and beauty to his skill: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was well justified in making him one of its members.

When the political concerns of our country, no less than fifty years ago, required a martial spirit and knowledge of tactics, Colonel Dawes was one of the most useful officers of the militia of this then province.

To the fiscal state of this capital he paid a very particular and assiduous attention. With its pecuniary concerns, there was no person more intimately acquainted. I have un. derstood that the Town of Boston had often considered itself as having been overcharged in the general tax throughout the Commonwealth.

From the knowledge which he was judged to possess on this subject, he was elected, by a full vote of the inhabitants of this place, as a member of the house of Representatives in the General Court, in the year 1777, among which body, his information on many points connected with the relative situation of the towns in the whole State, especially on the subject of taxation, gave him, for a number of years, so decided an influence, as to enable him to repel many improper claims, and effectually to serve the interest of this his native place.

Although by these particular ex. ertions, he voluntarily consented to an abridgment of his popularity among the members of the General Court, yet such was the sense which the citizens of Boston entertained of his services, that by their united suffrages he was advanced to a seat in the Senate, in which station he serv ed several years. Soon afterward he was elected to the Council; and it was no small gratification to him that in each of these offices he acted for a while as colleague with the Hon. Messrs Phillips and Mason, his brethren both as members and Deacons of this church.

life, he gradually withdrew from many other public engagements, observing, among other reasons, that at such an advanced age, it was fit that the business of the present world should give way to the more interes. ting concerns of the future.

In his connexion with this reli. gious Society, I find by the Records, that Mr. Dawes was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Sewall in this Church in the month of August, in the year 1731. He was admitted as a member in full communion, in A. D. 1749, being in his 19th year. Since my own relation to this Society, I have always known him among those, who have taken the most active part in its concerns. After the revolutionary war with Great Britain, during which the internal part of the house in which we are now assembled was destroyed, he drew the plan, in which, with a few late alterations, it now appears; and was a principal agent in the erection of the adjoining buildings belonging to the general estate. In the year 1787, he was chosen a Deacon, in which office he continued until he was removed by death, being upwards of 21 years. He was remarkable for being a constant worshipper in the house of the Lord. During the last year of his life, disorder and sickness impaired, in some degree, the vigor of his mind, which was naturally strong, and being improved not indeed by an academic, yet by a good education, endued him with uncommon ability to serve both the public at large, and his particular friends. It was a great consolation to the members of his family and to others, that notwithstanding this violent shock to his constitution, his rational powers and faculties were continued. Throughout this sickness, his views and conversation principally turned on the great subject of religion. In the frequent visits I paid him, and which he always appeared to receive with gratification, he fully expressed his sense of the great depravity and sinfulness attached to human nature -the necessity of the divine influences in the renewal and sanctification of the heart-the insufficiency of man's righteousness for the end of justification-the glorious nature of

pardon in virtue of the mediation ;with animated hopes that through the faith he had long professed and still continued to declare in the blessed Redeemer, he might be freely accepted, and made completely happy in the enjoyment of a holy God.With these sentiments, he mixed many others respecting the instability of all earthly things-the importance of contemplating time in relation to eternity, and continually seeking a state of preparation, by grace, for the change which will soon be made on us all by the stroke of death.

He lived to the beginning of the new year; and though weak and faultering, he said to his family he would begin it in the House of the Lord. He heard my worthy Colleague in the morning on a subject adapted to the season. He was not able to attend the service of the afternoon, but, as I learn, conversed with his particular connexions in the eve. ning in a manner the most appropriate to the occasion, and with a great degree of seriousness, solemnity, and affection. At four o'clock the following morning, by a sudden fit of the paralytic kind, he was bereaved of his reason; and in six hours afterward resigned his spirit unto God who gave it.

Brethren! we shall all die. To that eternal Being we shall speedily go, who is acquainted with the state of the living and the dead-who will judge us all in righteousness by his Son according to the rules of the blessed Gospel, through which each Christian believer will be accepted, and the saint rejoice and triumph for

ever.

On this occasion, may the comforts of religion be administered to the bereaved family of the deceased!-May the event be sanctified to this Christian Society with which he was so long connected and when we shall all leave the present world of sin and death, may we attain an everlasting life of righteousness! May we joyfully rest in Jesus Christ, with whom we trust is our departed friend and brother.

* This was the first day, as well as first Sabbath of the year 1809.