own conscience. Whatever may be the result, I will strive to be faithful to my own views, and to truth, and to leave the event to God. I will exert myself to the utmost of my power to turn sinners from darkness to light. I know that the co-operation of divine influence is necessary to make my exertions effectual to any good end; but I recollect that all means are to be employed, while the effect rests upon the sanction of heaven.

Perhaps before another sabbath-day, some that hear me this day, will have removed to their long home. They may have appeared before their Maker, they may have given in their account. What if it should be said by any, that I had been accessary to their damnation! that I had not reproved, that I had not admonished, that I had not instructed them! What if they should to eternity be heaping curses upon my head, for my lukewarmness and inattention!

Or, perhaps, before the arrival of another Sabbath, I myself may have finished my course on earth. I may now be going to preach my last sermon. The opportunity I now enjoy of winning souls to Christ may be

the last I shall have for ever.

O that I may be enabled to keep my own accountability, and the immortality of my hearers in view! May these annihilate all fear of the creature, and make me solicitous to please God! May I enter the sanctuary under the deep impression of his presence! May I remember that he is acquainted with all my thoughts, and with all my intentions! May I be kept from the folly of striving merely to gratify the outward ear! May I be animated with ardent zeal-" zeal according to knowledge!" May I be in a spiritual and heavenly frame of mind! May I strive to cherish this disposition in those that hear me! May I be very serious, and very much in earnest about my own salvation, and that of all around me! and, above all, may I be indulged with thy smiles, O THOU infinitely blessed Being, and when my work on earth is finished, rise to nobler communion with thee and thy Son for ever.

The Author of the above excellent and serious Reflections is not known to the Editor:-they were published in the Baptist Magazine for July, 1810.

INDEX.

Advantages of public worship, 4.

Apostolical canons, 77.

Approach to public worship, directions for, 23--27.
Attendance, regular, on public worship, recommended,

10.

Aylmer, Bishop, anecdote of, 21.

Bands or choirs of singers, remarks on, 51.

Basil, his sermons, 66.

Behaviour, a becoming, in the house of God, 19.
Bickersteth on Prayer, recommended, 13.

Buchanan, Dr. C. 39.

Buck's Christian Guide, 74.

Bull, Bishop, 39. Quotation from a sermon of his, 42.

Cecil's Remains, 68.

Choir of singers, 51.

Christian, his duty on the sabbath, 11.

Chrysostom's mode of preaching, 66.

Church of England, a singular excellency of, 59, doctrines

of, 60, 68.

Clarke, Dr. A. quoted, 40, 44, 51, 63.

Directions to hearers, 73--75.

Doctrines of our Church not Arminian nor Calvinistic,
68, of our pulpits below the Christian standard, 69.
Doddridge, Dr. quoted, 22.

Extempore preaching, remarks on, 70.

Forefathers, pious practice of, 33.

Gardiner, Col. anecdote of, 22.

Gospel, to be preached decidedly and fully, 69.

Hall, Mr. Robert, his opinion of our Liturgy, 40.
Hearers, wayside, 31, 33, profitable, 32, directions to,
73--75, severe repartee upon, 74. Note.

Heliogabulus, saying of, concerning the nightingale's
brains, 53.

Hill's Village Dialogues, 65.

House of God, so called, 36.-

Inconveniency of kneeling in some churches, 45.
Indecency of conduct in public worship reproved, 46.
Instruments, musical, 49.

Jowett's Christian Researches, quoted, 66.

Leighton, Archbishop, quoted, 46, 72. His Lectures on
St. Peter, 68.

Liturgy, advantages of, 38, its derivation, ib. note,
comprehensiveness of its prayers, 39, its excel-
lency, 40, 59. Dr. A. Clarke and Mr. Rob. Hall's
testimonies, 40. Antiquity of the prayers, ib. 41.

Mahomedans, 7.
Minister Christian, his charge to preach the TRUTH, 64,
to speak according to the oracles of God, 65, to
take heed to his doctrine, 68, to preach faithfully,
70, evangelically, 71, practically, 72. Soliloquy, 78.
Musical instruments in public worship, remarks on, 49.
Music, sacred, its tendency, 50, abuse of at charity ser-
mons, 52, 53. Note.

Niebuhr, remark of, 45.

Organ, recommended, 55.
Orton, Job, qnoted, 12, 13.

Preaching, 63, origin of, ib. apostolical mode of, 64,
happy medium of, 65, remarks on, ib. note, fathers
of the church, their mode, 66, the present method
contrary to the primitive, ib. the primitive mode,
67, 68. St. Chrysostom and Archbishop Leighton,
original models, 68. Political, unbecoming the
pulpit, 69. Remarks on the several modes of, 70.
Proper zeal in preaching, what, 71.

Prayer, 36, house of, ib. forms of, advantageous, 37,
lawful, ib. 38, principal part of divine worship, 41.
Sitting down during public prayer censured, 43,
Postures of, 44, 45.

Psalms, used in the temple service, 51, Versions of, 55.
Psalmody, 48, part of divine service, ib. its abuse, ib.
in improper hands, 54, how to be reformed, ib.
55, 57.
Public worship, its importance, 1, a distinction between
the infidel and believer, ib. 6, necessity and reason-
ableness of, 2, advantages of, 4, privilege and duty
of, 5, 6, 47, neglect of, censured, 7--9, constant
attendance recommended and necessary, 10, 75,
propriety of conduct in, 15, 19, 22, carelessness
and irreverence in it is censured, 16, wrong notions
of, 18, essential parts of, 20, 21, 42, 43, serious
attention in, ib. 22, sleepers reproved, 21, direc-
tions for its due performance, 23--30, becoming
return from it, 30--35, uniformity in it desirable
37, apostolical Canons respecting it, 77.

Rabbins, saying of the, 2.

Sabbath, a blessing, 10, 11, profanation of, a disloyalty
and impiety, 12, pious practice of our forefathers
on, 34.

Sabbatical year, 58.

Scriptures, reading of the, 58, every seven years, ib. in
the synagogues, 59, in the Christian church, ib.
directions for reading of, 60, 61.

Sermon, wrong ideas respecting it, 17, 20, 41. Sermons
often only moral lectures, 69.

Service of the church not duly regarded, 17.