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 UNIFORMITY IN TEACHING. 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 DELIVERED 
 
 AT THE ORDINARY VISITATION 
 
 ARCHDEACONRY OF OXFORD. 
 
 BY THE VENERABLE 
 
 CHARLES CARR CLERKE, B.D. 
 
 ARCHDEACON OF OXFORD. 
 
 IN JUNE AND JULY, 1843, 
 
 Published at the Request of several of the Clergy. 
 
 OXFORD, 
 
 JOHN HENRY PARKER ; 
 J. G. P. AND J. RIVINGTON, LONDON. 
 
 1843.
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 MY REVEREND BRETHREN, 
 
 If, in contemplating the duties expected from me 
 at the present Meeting, I have felt more than ordi- 
 nary emban'asment, (which I shall be at no pains to 
 conceal,) — this has arisen from the multitude rather 
 than fi'om the fewness of the subjects which require 
 on the part of the Clergy calm and deep attention, and 
 which I conceive will give in the sight of future ages 
 a characteristic colouring to the present position of 
 the English Church. I ventiu'e to term it charac- 
 teristic, not in allusion to any individual, or to any 
 name, or to any party, or to any set of persons, whose 
 unison of thought on subjects of moment in religion 
 gives to them a distinctive character, but to the age 
 itself, which, in other matters besides religion, shews 
 itself to be not so willing now as formerly to be re- 
 strained by the energies of a few powerful minds, but 
 to be stirring and enquiring, quick of intellect, open 
 to excitement, craving for the fruits of learning, but 
 impatient of the laborious means which the attain- 
 ment of it demands. While therefore we are allowed 
 to rejoice, that in many a case progress has been 
 made in a straight and onward course, we acknowledge 
 also, and that too without impatience or snrpi'ise, that
 
 there have been wanderings great and various into 
 those paths of error, whither self-will and an un- 
 soundly instructed judgment are wont to lead those 
 who have submitted to their guidance. Melancholy as 
 it is, it is not unusual to witness, in public discussion 
 or in private conference, things which we deem 
 sacred or at least of grave importance to the Church, 
 treated with little deference — false statements con- 
 cerning them made, faults exaggerated, sound mea- 
 sures contravened, and that which we esteem to be 
 full of the brightest promises opposed. Instances 
 moreover have not unfrequently occm'red, where a 
 deep concern for the efficiency of the Established 
 Church has been openly avowed, but where the 
 object which these words are intended to imply has 
 not been so clearly perceived, or the means of cany- 
 ing such good wishes into execution so plainly dis- 
 covered, as the anxiety, let us confidently trust, has 
 been strongly felt. 
 
 Deep must be the thought, calm the reflection, 
 and extensive the learning of him, who would reason 
 on this subject now to any permanent advantage: 
 a city set on an hill cannot be hid; nor can we, except 
 with intense and painful interest, view the position in 
 this country now occupied by the Church. Have 
 we to maintain her principles, let us see that we do 
 so on holy grounds: have we to seek protection for 
 the rights and the property which is justly and un- 
 alienably hers, let us see that we do so not for per- 
 sonal advantages or for individual gain, but for the 
 
 u,uc;
 
 use of them in God's service, and for the promoting 
 of His glory. If a few short years have worked an 
 extensive change in the feehngs of men generally 
 regarding the offices of the Church, ought we not 
 to examine her system with the utmost care, seek 
 wisdom at the Fountain of all wisdom, and carry out, 
 in a spirit of humility and self-devotedness, her 
 duties, her spiritual privileges, her means and j)owers 
 of doing good? If rapid movements be discerned 
 in the distant approaches to our Zion, is it not time 
 for the watchman to ask. Is it peace? But though there 
 be many companies appearing, and much passing to 
 and fro, yet that watchman fails in the discharge 
 of his duty who sounds a false alarm, equally with 
 him who omits to sound a true one ; unless therefore 
 there be amongst us judgment, experience, and dis- 
 cernment, and God's Holy Spirit guiding them, how- 
 ever much we may care for the edification of others, 
 we may fatally mistake a place of peril for a place 
 of refuge, and cry peace, where there is no peace. 
 
 I speak unwillingly, because unworthily and 
 insufficiently, of the subjects which are now crowding 
 before the mind of the English Churchman,- not 
 passing from its field of view again, like the dreams 
 and fancies of a moment, but obtaining day by day 
 more fixed possession, and expanding and branching 
 out in many a case for good, and I lament to say in 
 many a case for evil also ; in the one instance, resulting 
 in convictions that are sound and true, and in the 
 other in persuasions that are visionary, enthusiastic,
 
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 and erroneous. There is, I have said, in all this 
 something characteristic of the age in which we live. 
 The common daily channels of public information are 
 constantly setting before the readei''s eye not only 
 discussions on religion, but opinions also, theories and 
 dogmas on Clerical duties, on the Orders of the Church, 
 and on the injunctions of her Bishops; and though this 
 novel habit be no matter for rejoicing, yet I grant 
 that so general a canvassing of Church principles, 
 and of the practices of the Clergy in the discharge 
 of their public duties, is not without beneficial results. 
 I allude to it, however, for other reasons. The 
 constant recurrence of such discussions is a plain 
 proof, not that the world is becoming more religious 
 than formerly was the case, but that in religious 
 opinions the minds of men are in a state of excite- 
 ment and disturbance. The high and constantly 
 throbbing pulse indicates not healthiness, but fever. 
 Facts and events too corroborate this statement; 
 difficulties are rising round the Clergy, which ten 
 years back were scarcely noticed. If their existence 
 was then perceived, their origin was not scrutinized, 
 and their growth was not foreseen ; in the midst of 
 much that then appeared to be hopeful and en- 
 couraging, and on which we look back with gratitude ; 
 they were viewed as passing evils, unsubstantial as 
 the motes with which the air abounds, and which 
 nothing but the intense brightness of a sunbeam can 
 bring to light. Whatever gave them life they have 
 increased and are increasing, deriving strength from
 
 the apparent want oi' harmony and agreement in 
 om- practices and teaching as Parish Priests. How 
 wrote the Apostle to the Corintliian Chm-ch? " Now 
 I beseech you, bretlii'en, by the name of oui* Lord 
 Jesus Clu'ist, that ye all speak the same tiling, and 
 that there be no divisions among you; but that ye 
 be perfectly joined together in the same mind and 
 in the same judgment. For it hath been declared 
 unto me of you, my brethren," — " that there 
 are contentions among you. Now this I say, that 
 every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of 
 Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ''." If there 
 be divisions among those that teach, there must be 
 seai'cliings of heai't among those that are taught; 
 if the voice of the shepherds be not as the voice of 
 one man, we the Clergy- must bewail it deeply as 
 a lieaAT visitation upon this Chui'ch at the hand of 
 Almighty God; and yet it is possible that the Church 
 has by slow degrees been passing through a far 
 worse state of things, and has been through God's 
 mercy awakening from another eiTor, a miity of habit, 
 rather than union of mind, subsisting in similarity 
 of practice, rather than sustained by strength of 
 conviction, and which consequently speaketh neither 
 hot nor cold. Our part is to weep over past 
 ignorances, omissions, and neglects, to mourn as 
 though perilous times were coming; to look to 
 oiu-selves, considering that it at least is possible, 
 that ere long, though the sword which tried the 
 • 1 Cor. i. 10, 11, 12.
 
 ancient martyrs is in its sheath, and the flame which 
 wafted their last words to Heaven is extinguished, 
 yet that the integrity, the faith, the consistency, the 
 devotedness, the secret of the heart of every Minister, 
 of every one foremost in the ranks of the Enghsh 
 Chm'ch, will be searched out and probed to the very 
 bottom, and that in lovingkindness as well as judg- 
 ment, because God is mindful of His Church in every 
 land. " I will turn mine hand upon thee, and I will 
 purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy 
 tin; and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and 
 thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterwards thou 
 shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful 
 city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and 
 her converts with righteousness^." It may be other- 
 wise, God knoweth ; of the future we discern but little ; 
 our present duty is to live in that charity which re- 
 spects one another's motives, and that patience wliich 
 is the harbinger of peace. 
 
 I believe that I am speaking within the truth 
 when I say, that never since the conclusion of 
 the labours of those pious men to whose exertions 
 we are indebted for the compilation of the Articles, 
 the Canons, and the Litm'gy of our Church, has 
 there been more need than now of sound learn- 
 ing and sobriety of mind, a careful weighing of 
 words and propositions, and an earnest application to 
 the study of every thing that is precious in the 
 writings of the worthy men of old, the ancient Bishops 
 '' Isaiah i. 25, 26, 27.
 
 and Doctors of the Church. And there is also 
 abundant need of a patient consultation of the 
 Di\-ines of oiu* own Church, who though they have 
 long been numbered with the dead, or, to use an ex- 
 pression more congenial to our faith, though they 
 have long slept, resting from their labours, yet do 
 they still speak unto us in their wTitings as judicious 
 expositors of the truth, forcible elucidators of the 
 Christian faith, and able defenders of the principles of 
 the Church. There is a wide difference between the 
 knowledge obtained through the restlessness of an un- 
 disciplined mind, which constantly seeks after some 
 new thing, and that expected from the Scribe instructed 
 unto the kingdom of heaven, which brings forth from 
 its treasures thinos new and old. Our suide is a 
 " word behind us, saying. This is the way, walk ye in it, 
 when we tm*n to the right hand and when we turn to 
 the left'." Our teachers also are near, ever at hand; 
 they ai'e the promises which we made, and the obhga- 
 tions under which we bound om'selves when we 
 became Ministers of the Gospel of Christ. In our 
 public Ministiy, therefore, and in our intercom-se with 
 all committed to our spiritual care and charge, we 
 are, first, "to teach nothing as required of necessity to 
 eternal salvation, but that which we shall be persuaded 
 may be concluded and proved by the Scriptm-e." 
 Secondly, to " give faithful dihgence always so to min- 
 ister the doctrine and sacraments and the discipline 
 of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this 
 
 ' Isaiah xxx. 21.
 
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 Church and realm has received the same according to 
 the commandments of God." Thirdly, " to banish and 
 di'ive away all erroneous and strange doctrines, contrary 
 to God's word." Fourthly, " reverently to obey our 
 Ordinary and other chief Minister, unto whom is com- 
 mitted the charge and government over us, following 
 with a glad mind and with their godly admonitions, 
 anel submitting ourselves to their godly judgments^" 
 If we be diligent in prayer and our reading be 
 the Holy Scriptures, and if we receive the Articles 
 and the Liturgy of our Church as concluded from 
 them, and using them as in some sense a help to the 
 study of the same Scriptures, we shall not fail of unity 
 of teaching. Our commission in our respective cures 
 is to teach simply what the Church bids us teach; 
 to hold her language regarding Justification, the 
 Apostolic Succession, the Holy Sacraments, the 
 wi'itings of the Fathers, and the mysterious counsels 
 of God Almighty. We are bound to hold, that " we 
 are accounted righteous only for the merits of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works 
 or deservings " ;" " that we be justified by faith in Christ 
 only;" " that we be justified by God's free mercy and 
 the merits of our Saviour Christ only, and by no virtue 
 or good works of om- own that is in us, or that we can 
 be able to have or to do for to deserve the same; 
 Christ Himself only being the cause meritorious 
 thereof;" "and yet that faith doth not shut out repent- 
 
 ^ Vide Ordination Service. ' Article xi. 
 
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 ance, hope, love, dread, and the fear of God to be 
 joined in every man that is justified, but it shutteth 
 them out from the office of justifying." " Neither doth 
 faith shut out the justice of our good works neces- 
 sarily to be done afterwards of duty towards God, 
 for we are most bounden to serve God in doing good 
 deeds commanded by Him in His Holy Scripture 
 all the days of our life ; but it excludeth them so that 
 we may not do them to this intent, to be made just by 
 doing of them. For all the good works that we can do 
 be imperfect, and therefore not able to deserve our jus- 
 tification, but our justification doth come freely by the 
 mere mercy of God, and of so great and free mercy, 
 that whereas all the world was not able of themselves 
 to pay any part towards their ransom, it pleased our 
 heavenly Father of His infinite mercy, without any our 
 desert or deserving, to prepare for us the most precious 
 jewels of Christ's Body and Blood, whereby our ran- 
 som might be fully paid, the law fulfilled, and His 
 justice fully satisfied V Secondly, the teaching en- 
 trusted to our care is that " from the Apostles' time 
 there have been three Orders of Ministers in Christ's 
 Church, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Which 
 Orders were everaiore had in such reverend estima- 
 tion, that no man might presume to execute any of 
 them except he were first called, tried, examined, 
 and loiown to have such qualities as are requisite for 
 the same^/' and that those we ought to judge law- 
 
 ^ Homily of the Salvation of Mankind. 
 8 Preface to the Ordination Service.
 
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 fully called and sent, which be chosen and called to 
 this work by men who have public authority given 
 unto them in the congregation to call and send Min- 
 isters into the Lord's vineyard, and that the autho- 
 rity whereby they execute the office of pubUc preach- 
 ing, and ministering the Sacraments in the congre- 
 gation, is the authority of Christ, the commission 
 under which they speak is the commission of Christ, 
 and the name in which they minister is the name of 
 Christ, and that an examination of Holy Scripture 
 and of ancient authority corroborates this tenet, and 
 demonstrates it to be of primary importance "". Our 
 teaching, correspondent as it should be with the Ser- 
 vice Book from which we minister, and with the Arti- 
 cles which we have subscribed, will speak of the blessed 
 Sacraments as " effectual signs of grace," the one 
 " a sign of Regeneration," the other " a Sacrament 
 of oiu" redemption by Christ's death." So that in 
 the one instance, " they that receive Baptism rightly 
 are grafted into the Chui'ch;" and in the other, " to 
 such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive that 
 holy Sacrament, the bread which we break is a par- 
 taking of the Body of Christ, and likewise the cup of 
 blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ '." Next 
 we are called and sent to maintain that Holy Scrip- 
 ture is the sole authoritative source of faith, or, in 
 words more famihar to us, they " contain all 
 
 '^ Articles xxiii. xxvi. and Preface to the Ordination Services. 
 ' Art. XXV. xxvii. xxviii.
 
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 things necessary to salvation, so that whatsoever is 
 not read therein or may be proved thereby, is not 
 requu'ed of any man to be beheved as an article of 
 faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salva- 
 tion." The Chui'ch having " authority in contro- 
 versies of faith, and being a witness and keeper 
 of Holy Writ," holding this high office, and yet 
 without authority to " ordain any thing that is conti'ary 
 to God's word wi'itten, or so to expound one place of 
 Scripture as that it be repugnant to another ^" 
 Finally, the revealed ti'uths of the Gospel of Christ, 
 m then' length and breadth and depth and height, 
 are especially and uni'eservedly committed to our 
 keeping, and in obedience to our mission we do not 
 keep back any doctrine required of necessity for 
 eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, but 
 om* duty is to instruct the people committed to our 
 spii'itual care and charge so wisely and so truly, 
 as to bring them " to that agreement in the faith 
 and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and 
 perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no place 
 left among them either for eiTor in rehgion or for 
 viciousness in life""." 
 
 How much diligence of investigation is here 
 needed, how much patient inqumng after the truth, 
 how clear a discernment between the teacliing which 
 woidd either extenuate or exaggerate the truth, 
 and that sober body of divinity which our Church 
 holds stedfastly to be the truth, and maintains 
 
 ' All. vi. XX. " Ordination Service.
 
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 the same partly by explicit teaching in fixed and settled 
 formularies, and partly by implication in her Ser- 
 vices and Rituals of Worship. Invested as you 
 are, my Reverend Brethren, with spiritual autho- 
 rity, and laden with special obligations as Parish 
 Priests, you have in the present momentous crisis 
 in an especial manner need of the exhibition of 
 a cautious and scrupulous forbearance. Our public 
 teaching in our parishes must be according to the 
 ancient phrases, " sincere and pure";" simple, faith- 
 ful, exact, complete, not assuming a controversial cha- 
 racter, because controversy now unhappily agitates 
 the Church, nor giving undue prominence to dis- 
 tinctive theological opinions, to the omission of the 
 primary Articles of the Christian Faith. 
 
 I have reminded you, that we must banish eri'one- 
 ous doctrines, doctrines that are strange not to one 
 or to another among the Clergy, but to the Church 
 at large. It is consistent with the nature of a 
 Church, it is necessary to her preservation, and it is 
 agTeeable to the vow made at our Ordination, to main- 
 tain, that the instruction which each one of us then 
 received and the authority wliich to each one of us was 
 committed does not extend to the pronouncing on 
 our own judgment, uncoiToborated, unsupported by 
 recorded decisions of the Chm'ch, that a doctrine is 
 eiToneous or strange, although we may conclude it 
 to be visionary or crude. There are matters in 
 
 " Vide the usual form of the sentence of Consecration of 
 Churches.
 
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 which no evil has been anticipated from a diversity 
 of opinions amongst the parochial Clergy, matters, for 
 instance, connected with the future state of the visible 
 creation and the present condition of that which is 
 invisible. On all such points the parochial Minister 
 in his public preaching to his flock will do best to 
 imitate the prudence of our Church, believing fully 
 that if ever controversy should force such speculations 
 to become strange doctrines and arm them with results 
 dangerous to the Christian faith, then as here- 
 tofore a faithful and true decision will be received 
 from the College of the Clergy convoked to delibe- 
 rate and authorized to pronounce a solemn dogma in 
 accordance with the Holy Word of God. 
 
 I trust that it has been observed that I speak only 
 of the public preaching of the Parish Priest among 
 the people committed to his cure and government. 
 I am not stating, nor would I presume to state in 
 this holy place, what oui* duty may be in any other 
 capacity under circumstances of emergency. The 
 assent which we have given to the Articles and 
 Formularies of the Chmxh, when we were admitted 
 to parochial cures, assumes them to be ever after, 
 so long as we hold such cures, the standard of our 
 preaching in such cures. " What they assert we 
 assert, what they deny we deny, as far as they go 
 we are supposed to go, and when they stop we go 
 no further ";" they are to us a pattern of caution on 
 points that are mysterious, and reserve on those that 
 " Remarks on Clerical Education, by Rev. H. Raikes.
 
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 are not essential. If such a statement of the duties of 
 the Parish Priest in his public preaching- within his 
 cure may at first appear to curb the imagination, 
 yet it imposes no yoke upon the conscience; if it 
 fetter the fancy, yet the liberty of the mind and 
 judgment is not infringed; for he has already publicly 
 declared that he has arrived at the same conclusions 
 which the Articles promulge, that he has, by study 
 of the Holy 8criptm*es, attained to that degree of 
 conviction which their language naturally expresses, 
 and which enables him to use it as his own. 
 
 I have now spoken of plain and general public 
 duties of which perhaps we need to be reminded, 
 lest we be earned among the turbulent waves of 
 rehgious controversy, by the rapidly increasing 
 cuiTent of public feeling. In touching on such 
 a subject as I have done, I have, I fear, trenched 
 upon the utmost limit of the province which is 
 considered mine. Far heavier duties may be laid 
 on many of us, than the mere patient unwearied 
 teaching the parishioners entrusted to oui* care. 
 Points of doctrine and matters of practice are now 
 discussed among the lay as well as ordained members 
 of the Church, which every Clergyman must view 
 with anxiety, and which many contemplate with the 
 utmost alarm. There is no feai* for the result of 
 temperate, cautious, and patient discussion of opinions, 
 but a rash and headlong entrance into the field of 
 controversy on important topics, is an earnest of 
 and signal for desperate hostilities. Such an onset
 
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 attracts into the ranks both of friend and foe heart- 
 rendings and mistatements, sometimes of an ad- 
 versary's legitimate deductions from acknowledged 
 premises, and sometimes of his sentiments and 
 opinions. In such a case the very points originally 
 under controversy are fi'equently misapprehended 
 or lost sight of, and persons, differing one from 
 another only in degree, have thought and spoken 
 as though they were enlisted in an engagement for 
 first or at least important principles. What I have 
 said is, I think, exemplified in the present condition of 
 the English Church. She is fearfully distracted by 
 contests and hostilities amongst her children. Yom* 
 attention must be called to them, for peace and 
 truth and wisdom are at stake, and who shall guard 
 these graces, unless they be committed as a standard 
 to the keeping of the Ministers of Christ? 
 
 I am reluctant to speak even thus far on subjects so 
 full of painful responsibilities to some amongst us, and 
 of deep anxiety to all ; and moreover circumstances 
 have not so changed since the Bishop of the diocese 
 addi'essed to us his Charge last year, as to make 
 it requisite for me to detain you longer, than while 
 I add my testimony to that of many others, to the 
 truth and to the value of his words, which wliile 
 they plainly brought to view growing errors, were 
 considerate in their rebuke, and kind in the caution 
 which they conveyed. I should now therefore, were 
 I to presume to proceed to speak of opinions or 
 of practices most commonly canvassed amongst us.
 
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 but deliver similar sentiments and advice in far 
 feebler terms, without the authority either of station 
 or of judgment, which gave to that Charge the 
 weight and the importance wliich it has so deservedly 
 acquired, not in this country only, but in our colonial 
 possessions, and in foreign lands. The remarks 
 which I have now offered to your consideration 
 have been framed simply with a view to Ministerial 
 laboiu's, to om' teacliing the flock respectively com- 
 mitted to our charge. Conversant as we should be 
 not only with the truth in all its branches, but also 
 with the theories and opinions exhibiting every 
 shade of en*or, yet the tone of our teaching and 
 the manner of oui' stating truths should not 
 betray the secret influence of favourite theories, 
 but should be shaped according to the capacities 
 and condition of the hearers. It is a knowledge of 
 their errors, and an apprehension of the dangers to 
 which they are exposed, which adjust in due propor- 
 tion to theu wants our inculcation of Scriptm*e 
 truths. And if relatively to the moral sense, the per- 
 ception, the knowledge of others solemnly entrusted 
 to our teaching, we, as occasion may require, enforce 
 mth more than ordinary earnestness, plainness, and 
 frequency, some truths of the Gospel to the post- 
 ponement, I will not say omission, of others, yet 
 surely this is perfectly consistent with the conviction 
 which all receive with reverence, that abstractedly, 
 the doctrines of the Blessed Gospel are one whole 
 undivided truth, composed of parts, each perfect, each.
 
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 like the visible works of the Creator, very good, each 
 important; all to be received implicitly and in faith ; 
 all given by inspiration of God, and all profitable, in 
 vai'ious ways according to various purposes, " for doc- 
 trine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in 
 righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, 
 thoroughly furnished unto all good works." It remains 
 for us, persuaded as we are in our own mind of these 
 holy truths, to labour to inculcate them on those who 
 seek our counsel and advice with fresh earnestness and 
 zeal and love year by year. When the wolf cometh 
 the hireling -fleeth, and the sheep are scattered. Be it 
 our part to watch the signs of these peculiar times j 
 and if clouds arise, though they be in the eyes of 
 others but as a man's hand, yet let our prayers be 
 earnest; for ourselves, that we fall not from Christian 
 stedfastness, nor incur the hireling's guilt; and for 
 others also, that in simplicity and godly sincerity we 
 may earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to 
 the Saints, as good shepherds, as faithful stewards, 
 as vigilant watchmen, as men that must give ac- 
 count for the souls of others at the awful day of 
 Judgment, at the disclosing of the secrets of the heart. 
 Pray we for ourselves, and pray we for one another, 
 that our Ministerial labom*s when closed in death 
 may be found in some sort at least a counterpart of 
 that character which the holy Prophet gave to Levi 
 and his priesthood, " My covenant was with him ofhfe 
 and peace ; and I gave them to him for the fear where- 
 with he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
 
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 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was 
 not found in his hps : he walked with me in peace and 
 equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the 
 Priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should 
 seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of 
 the Lord of hosts'"." 
 
 " Malachi ii. 5, 6, 7. 
 
 BAXTER, PRINTEB. OXFORD.