cases in which we can see nothing good in life, except that it is the gift of a good God-except that it is the path through which the immortal mind of man must move to heaven, death is rather to be welcomed as a friend, than to be dreaded as an enemy. And in every case one stern consolation is afforded by the uncertainty of what is future; for though at an early period of life, and in the ordinary circumstances of fortune, the future may justly take its colouring rather from hope than fear; yet in the impenetrable gloom that rests upon it, who can tell what severity of misery may be awaiting him? If the Captain of our Salvation, pure and holy as he always was, still was perfected by suffering," who can tell what degree of suffering the wisdom of Almighty God may judge necessary in this probationary state, for a frail and erring creature?

Military Discourse preached in the Garrison Chapel, Woolwich, and afterwards at Hilsea Barracks, by the Rev. Mr. Leggatt.

PSALM XC. V. 16.

"Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children."

WHILST then we mark the day when we behold returning into dust that mortal part of our nation's hopes, which we considered as the boon of Heaven, sent to bless us in a perpetuity of those earthly blessings, that have long richly flowed to us through the channel of the blood of her fathers, and we consider the death of our expected future Queen, as the work of the Most High, reckoning pious princes the greatest blessings to a nation, and accounting their deprivation its awful and severest judgment; let us not only bow our heads in tears, but our hearts in penitence, over her hearse; and let us commit to the grave, and bury in the tomb with her, those our secret sins and more open transgressions, which had they been

before forsaken, might have arrested the arm of Divine Mercy m our behalf, to spare her to us, and delaying to take her to himself, to have continued her in the flesh, to her people's necessities, and his own glory.

But since it has pleased a gracious Providence not to repeat in her that ample fulfilment of the petition of his unworthy servants, which he hath been so graciously pleased to vouchsafe in the life of our revered Monarch of her line, by making her, like him, to go on from strength to strength, at once advancing the glory of her subjects, by her public rule, and their happiness by her private prayers and Christian example, till gathered like a shock of corn, in its completest earthly ripeness, into the garner of our Saviour; and her earthly body no longer capable, through the natural decay of mortality, to bear a corruptible crown, to have been changed for a glorious body, and fitted with a crown incorruptible; since it has pleased God, in her earliest trials, in the furnace of sorrow, when in the travail of her body, unsurpassed by any of her subject daughters of affliction, and unrelieved by the joy of seeing of the travail of her soul in a child being born into the world, as finding it abortive of her own, wrapped up in the hopes of a nation, the Angel of the Divine Presence so strengthened her from on high, as to make her bow, in pious resignation, to the Divine Decree, "Thy will be done :" since it has pleased Heaven to see of the fruit of her faith, and satisfied therewith, to hasten her reward in her reception to the arms of her Redeemer, and place her beyond the reach of sorrow and sin for evermore; how must the natural flow of selfishness be arrested in our bosoms, when, for the loss of an earthly diadem, and a reversionary rule over a Jerusalem on earth, in bondage, with her children, we contemplate her in possession of that Jerusalem above, in which there is no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, as the inhabiter of a city which hath foundation, whose builder is God, of which the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple, which

hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, which the glory of God doth lighten, and of which the Lamb is the light, and to which the Kings of the earth are described as bringing their glory and honour.

Sermon by Robert Gray, D. D., addressed to the Parishioners of Bishop-Wearmouth.

JEREMIAH, chap. iv. v. 10.

"Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people, and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul."

IF we look to the circumstances of the times which seem most evidently to bear the stamp and character of divine appointment, and at the same time consider the prominent features and predominant offences which distinguish the age, we cannot but admit, that there is sufficient ground to apprehend that those afflictions which we have experienced in many recent and successive events, have had an especial reference to misconduct on our part; and that without adverting to any points of doubtful character; but confining our attention to excesses, condemned by reflecting men of every description, much of public guilt, and open ingratitude towards God, has been manifested around us; while individuals, if they will examine themselves, will feel, in conscious reflection, on many secret sins, that there is much for which they must stand selfaccused in the sight of God.

If God has " removed our soul far off from peace," and if we are commanded in adversity "to consider our ways," the first feeling of deep humiliation, the first wish of deriving profit from the tribulation in which the whole kingdom participates, is to inquire whether the Lord may not have "afflicted the land for the multitude of her transgressions," and with serious examination to endeavour to ascertain, by what offences it is but too probable, that the Almighty may have been incensed against us.

If the whole people of this kingdom, if all civilized nations, mingle their regret with associated feelings upon this occasion, it may allay even the sharpest sorrow, to reflect that a religious impression is made by this event, of which the moral and spiritual effects may be of incalculable importance. The virtuous expression of feeling, which has been manifested throughout this kingdom, must be considered as highly to the credit of the nation. It affords the strongest proof of a beneficial effect upon the public mind, and it is calculated, in the assurance of the mediation of Christ, to plead for the mitigation of the offences which we may have committed in the sight of God.

SERMON II.

PSALM XC. V. 11, 12.

"Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."

IN the retrospect of the events of sacred and profane history, there are many striking relations of the premature loss of persons in whose life the most important înterests, and the most anxious hopes, were concentered; but with respect to merely human occurrences, and to the failure of merely earthly grounds of confidence, an instance of equal impression; so complicated with great and extensive concerns-so momentous in all its public and private consequences-so combined with all the best affections of men, as that which we are now as sembled to deplore, has rarely, if ever, occurred.

Without taking into contemplation the great ascendency which this nation has established, or the effects which have resulted from its influence over other countries, in promoting whatever is connected with the cause of humanity; in exploring and in civilizing unenlightened countries; in propagating the Gospel, or in diffusing Christian knowledge; without considering the importance of power well directed in these re spects; but looking only to the maintenance of the civil and

religious interests, which are immediately connected with attachment to the house of Brunswick, and feeling a just and reasonable anxiety for the preservation of a family distinguished for its unshaken adherence to the principles of freedom and toleration, and for the protection of a Church justly regarded as the glory of the reformation; we cannot, in the full sense of the value of the privileges which we enjoy, but feel every emotion excited when the succession to the throne, in the direct line of descent, is affected by two connected events. However we may trust in Providence for the continuance and renewal of the august family, under whose auspices we have so long flourished, and been raised to an eminence which the nation has never before attained; yet, we should be wanting in the expression of the right feeling that becomes us, if we should fail in any tribute of reasonable concern for the loss of a Princess apparently modelled to the wishes of a free and well informed people, and justly fixing and concentering in her person every affection, and every sentiment of respect.

A Discourse by C. E. De Coetlogon, A.M., Rector of Godstone, Surrey.

GEN., chap. iii. v. 19.

"Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return."

IT is not seldom, indeed, that creatures, of capacities so very limited, are both amazed and confounded with the dispensations of Divine Providence: nor can it possibly be otherwise in the present state. Suffice it for us, that God is his own Interpreter; neither would it befit his infinite Majesty and dignity to give such insignificant reptiles an account of any of his matters. "Not deeply to discern nor much to know; mankind were born to wonder and adore." Of this, however, we may be certain, that, amidst all the obscurities with which our puny minds are agitated and puzzled, "Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things."