for his Confeffional, hath treated with an equal degree of respect the memory of Dr. JORTIN. He fpeaks of him as a writer of far fuperior abilities; as a worthy preacher, a great and good man; "one, who was completely qualified to do juftice to any fubject he undertook to handle, and to whofe remains a kind of veneration is due.”— "One who had incomparably the art to recommend an hundred things to our ferious attention, which a confident paradoxical adventurer, would make perfectly ridiculous," And, after paying a very liberal tribute of acknowledgment to him, as a man of innate candour, modefty, and diffidence, -"Would to God, he concludes, I had the talents to perpetuate the rest of his excellencies to the lateft pofterity! But he refts from his labours, and heareth not the voice of the oppreffor, nor of the petulant fcorner. His works will fufficiently fpeak for him, while there are any remnants of piety, learning, and good-fenfe among the fons of Britain; and will follow him to those mansions, where neither envy, malevolence, nor the dogmatical arrogance of ignorant fupercilious criticisin will deprive him of his reward. Dum Dum juga montis aper, fluvios dum pifcis amabit, Dumque thymo pafcentur apes, dum rore cicada, Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefque manebunt *. To teftimonies like thefe, at once fo very respectable, and so ably expreffed, even filial piety can hardly fuggeft an addition. Their veracity has been felt, and will be acknowledged by the beft judges of literary ability. The heart of the grateful Editor is much flattered by them. He ranks it among his trueft honours to have this farther occafion of announcing them to the judicious Reader, as a laft parting tribute to parental worth. And, while fenfible that by the fubfequent theets, he is merely prefenting a learned trifle, in comparison of fome former pieces, from the fame hand, and upon fubjects of highest spiritual concern; the encouragement already given forbids. him to doubt of a favourable reception, when thus refpectfully offering-what many, perhaps, and very juftly, may confider, but as "the gleaning grapes, when the vintage is done," LONDON, 1789. R. J. *See Hiftorical View of the Controverfy concerning an Interme diate State, &c. Second Edition, p. 268, 289, 296. |