European Magazine FOR JULY, 1818. [Embellished with, 1, an elegant Frontispiece, representing LORD HOWE'S MONUMENT in ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; and, 2, a Portrait of the Rev. RICHARD Yates.] AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. B SEASON, 1817-18. EAST INDIA SHIPS, With their Managing Owners, Commanders, Principal Officers, Surgeons, Pursers, Time of coming afloat, &c; 4 Lady Lushington.. 594 Bombay 7 Northampton...... Wm. Pullham LONDON, Published for the European Magazine by 7. Asperne 32, Cornbill 12Aug 1818. The Rev Richard Yates ID CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA; RECTOR OF ASHEN; AND ALTERNATE PREACHER TO THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. {WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY H. MEYER, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY S. DRUMMOND, ESQ. 4. R. A.]. Πισὺς καὶ φρόνιμα οικονόμο. St. Luke. Naffixing this motto to our present cation to every one who has the satisfaction of knowing the Reverend Gentleman to whom it is applied, both as a member of society, and of our ecclesiastical establishment. The testimony which the words convey is not here adduced in eulogy, but as they were first employed by the Divine Author of them, as characterizing the sincere and provident pastor of His visible Church on earth-We quote them, in this instance, as marking the labours of the minister, not solely as praising the conduct of the man, for this is a tribute which, however due, we know full well would not be acceptable to the mind which they so appropriately delineate. We content ourselves, therefore, with uniting our assent to that promptitude with which many of our readers will acknowledge the propriety of their application: and while we make this individual adoption of them, we desire to pronounce it as our honest conviction, that since the Reformation, no period of the English Church has produced a fuller witness of the spiritual faith fulness and the learned ability of its clergy, than that in the light and guidance of which we have the happiness to enjoy the inestimable benefit of Christian instruction. It were indeed an easy effort of our pen to trace that "cloud of witnesses" which, like the Shechinah of the Temple, declare the presence of the tutelary Grace of Bea ven overshadowing with its blessing the for us to rejoice in the good, to express our acknowledgments of its efficacious influence, and to satisfy ourselves that our grateful sense of it requires no argument to assert, Quod pluribus, quod i sapientibus, quod omnibus videtur,that the Word of God is delivered from our National Pulpit as it has been enjoined by the Spirit of Truth,-dipupos, pure and undefiled."-And this assertion we ground upon the evidence of those devout and enlightened men who although "dead yet speak," in the works which they have bequeathed to posterity, and upon the examples of their successors, by whose living la bours we are still edified and "built up in our most holy Faith." By the candid and earnest inquirer after truth, it will not be required of us that we should substantiate our position against every exceptious objection which strives to vindicate by distinctions without difference and terms of cold division, those peculiar separations from our ordinances and formularies which are too often found to set at nought the excellencies of holiness, and to violate the charities of social life. We need not go so far out of our way to establish the point we thus assume; and we fear not to submit it to the judgment of even those who clain the privilege of conscientious dissent, and who protess to decide by the test of deliberate opinion, not by the rash assumption of bas |