CVI.** THE CHURCH'S PARISH MINISTERS. STILL, as I turn thy monumental page, Loved Church, it binds affection's chords to see, How mid their charge, from worldly follies free, CVII.** THE CHURCH'S PEOPLE. AND well it likes me, in thy bygone days To scan the chance wayfarer's crude address, Thus WALTON, EVELYN, NELSON, once were blest; Learn'd wisdom in communion none but thine, And in thy bosom found their Saviour's rest. Ken, and White, afterwards refused to withdraw their allegiance from James II. and were deprived. CVIII. GOD THE PRESERVER OF HIS CHURCH. A SOUND is in the trees and on the flood! The wind is it lifts the waters high, up; As if to battle with the eternal sky, And from its roots to tear the ancient wood. Thou canst the tempest's fearful roar assuage, Tumultuous noise! and more tumultuous still, Lash'd into storm the maddening people's rage. CIX. TO THE READER. READER, if aught, these Musings brief comprise, May quell a judgment harsh, or wish unkind, For my lov'd Mother-Church; and in thy mind, Bid thoughts more just, and kindlier feelings rise: Deem them not air-born baseless fantasies! Scan her by God's own word, and thou shalt find, The more thou scann'st, thy spirit more inclin'd Her name to venerate, her worth to prize. To thee the search a rich return may bear Of sacred lore, and aspirations raise Which the earth owns not: nor shalt thou not share TRINITY CHURCH, NEW-YORK. RECTOR OF THE SAME. One volume. 8vo. Illustrated. This is a very interesting and well-executed work-which will repay perusal, not oxy by churchmen, but by all who claim descent from a connexion with old New York. For in truth the records of a church which was the parish church, in the beginning of s whole city-cannot but interest the descendants of the old citizens. "Mr. Berrian has performed his share of the work con amore--almost, in some par ticulars with an excess of affection, which has led to rather ampler citations from the early vestry proceedings-than either their interest or present importance warrant, and thus has unnecessarily swelled the volume. "But with all allowance for this dwelling upon the past-the book is, as we have said, very interesting and attractive, and we hope none will deprive themselves of the pleasure and profit of reading it.'-N. I Courier. ENGLISH CHURCHWOMEN OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. One Volume. 18mo. 50c. This is a small and very neat edition of a most delightful and useful book. It contains the biography of such excellent characters as Viscountess Falkland, the Countess of Car berry, Lady Capel, and Mary Evelyn. We cannot think of a better volume to put int the Parish Library and the Family Circle. Wherever it goes, it must exert a most be nign influence."-Calendar. "A charming compendium of female biography, of which it must have occurred to the reader there is a fack in our literature. Of course, as the title implies, the memorials atə confined to members of the Established Church of England, but that makes them no le interesting and certainly no less profitable to the religious reader, since the principles of virtue and religion are subjects for delightful contemplation, and profitable withal, whatever their incidental relation or position. We are glad to possess and commend to others this excellent pubiication."-N. Y. Commercial. "No intelligent Christian can read these biographical notices, without meeting with tra of character well worthy of admiration and imitation."-Southern Churchman. LATHROP'S APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION. CHRIST'S WARNING TO THE CHURCHES: WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION. BY THE REV. JOSEPH LATHROP, D. D. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE BY THE REV. J. M. WAIN WRIGHT, D. D. "A Treatise on the necessity of external ordination, and of a succession from the Apostles to constitute valid Orders, from a Congregational minister, is somewhat of an anomaly Yet this is such a one. The author was settled in West Springfield, Mass., and delivered and published these sermons on the occasion of being visited and annoyed by an itinerant preacher who "made great pretensions to piety," and "taught that every saint has a right to preach." The work in its present republished form, cannot fail to be useful in teaching men from whence authority to preach the Gospel is to be derived.-Calendar "Here we have a defence of the apostolic succession, written by an eminent Congregationalist, the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, and edited by a high Churchman, the Rev. Dr. Wainwright. It is a good book, although something of a curiosity in its way. It is gotten up in Stanford and Swords's usual neat and tasteful style."-Recorder. |