declare it. The word day is used for any indefinite portion of time. Time will make the character appear what he is; or more particularly, it may refer to the day of trial, as explained in the following sentence, for they appear to refer to the same thing: Because it shall be revealed by fire; for the fire shall try every man's (agxitextw») work, of what sort it is. Fire is a common test for the trial of metals. In allusion to this, the word fire is used, both in the Old and New Testament, as a test of character. It may, therefore, signify any thing which makes known a person's real character. Hence it signifies affliction, temptation, persecution, &c. The ενύμιν πρωσις, , a burning among them,' evidently signifies persecution, which was to try them. This fire of persecution is designed for the trial of every minister's work, to prove the character of the members he added to the church. How persecution could try the purity and excellency of mens' sentiments is difficult to say; but every one will readily admit, that it is a good test of character. The apostle enforces his caution to the ministers of the gospel, to take heed what kind of persons they admit into the church, from the consequents that are inseparably connected therewith. If any man's (agxiTent) work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.' If he build with gold, silver, and precious stones, then will he stand the fiery trial. He will be abundantly rewarded by beholding the faith, fortitude, and patience of his children. Now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.' On the contrary: If any man's (axiTexтwv) work shall be burued, he shall suffer loss.' If he build with wood, hay, or stubble, the fire will consume them; like the stony groundhearers, they will not stand the trial. Ungodly characters will abandon religion through the force of persecution. The minister in this case, will suffer loss, all his former labour bestowed on them is in vain, and to no purpose. He is greatly disappointed, he is grievously afflicted by their instability and infidelity; yet he himself, i. e. the minister, shall be saved. The apostacy of his hearers will not prevent his salvation. Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in his eyes. This may afford the minister of the gospel consolation, when he meets with disappointments in his work; yet he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire?' he shall be brought thro' the fiery furnace. God may, as a cerrection of his impropriety in admitting ungodly characters into the church, send a fire among them to purge and try them. The good minister shall be sacred, though his supposed converts apostatize. Ministers may hence learn the necessity of caution in the admission of members into the church. Through a neglect in this, have not many ministers been severely corrected? Godly and ungodly men can never unite together. There will always be divisions among them. NEOS. It is with great pleasure we present to such of our readers as are connected with Dissenting Places of Worship, the following Form of a Trust-Deed, drawn up by an eminent Conveyancer, and sanctioned by that respectable body of gentlemen, the Committee of Deputies. We consider this paper as peculiarly valuable; and trust, that by giving it extensive circulation in this work, we shall render an important service to the cause of religion, and further the benevolent design of the Committee in producing it. We copy this from a small pamphlet of 16 pages, lately printed (but not sold) by the Committee; and which Minis ters and others may, we apprehend, obtain by applying to Webster, Esq. their Secretary and Solicitor, Queen Street, Cheapside; or to any of the Gentlemen who compose that Committee *. The Form of a Trust-Deed for Dissenting Meeting-Houses, &c. recommended by the Committee of Deputies of the Protestant-Dissenters, of the Three Denominations, in and near London, appointed to protect their Civil Rights. THIS INDENTURE †, made the at day of and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and between (donor) of the one part, and (trustees) of the other part, WITNESSETE, That, for promoting the Christian Religion, as professed by Protestant Dissenters of the denomination of ; and for enabling the professors of the same religion, of the denomination aforesaid, more conveniently to exercise the forms of their religious worship, and other ordinances of their persuasion, at aforsaid; and also, in consideration of five snillings ‡ of lawful money current in Great Britain, to the said (donor) yow paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said (donor) hath given, granted, bargained, and sold, and, by these presents, doth give, grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said (trustees) and all other persons (if any) parties hereto of the second part, their [heirs, executors, or administrators] and assigns, all [here describe the parcels, omitting the usual clauses of reversion, &c. for the sake of brevily to have and hold the said and hereditaments, hereby bargained and sold, with their appartenances, unto and to the use of the said (trustees) and all other persons (if any) parties hereto of the second part, their heirs and assigns for ever |, upon the * A List of the Committee of Deputies for the Year 1810. W. Smith, M. P. W. Titford, Esq. J. Hardcastle, Esq. G. Hammond, Esq. + An Indenture is essentially necessary; and this deed must be executed in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, and be inrolled within six calendar months at the latest, to comply with the statute of 9th Geo. II, ch. 36, and within six lunar months when lands of freehold tenure, and for a freehold estate are conveyed, and no lease for a year is used, thus complying with the statute of inrollments of bargains and sales. No other consideration must be introduced, except when there is a purchase of land; then the consideration should be expressed, and the purchasers should, in all cases, be directing parties. § These words are inserted to guard against the accidental omission of one of many names. Freeholds and leaseholds may be comprized in the same deed, and even in the same clause of grant: but there should be two clauses of habendam, one for the freehold, the other for the leasehold; and all the estate of the grantor must XVIII. U u trusts, and for the ends, intents, and purposes, hereinafter expressed, declared, and contained, of and concerning the same; and it is hereby declared and agreed, That the said hereditaments so [bargained and sold, or surrendered as aforesaid, are respectively [bargained and sold, or surrendered] upon the trusts hereinafter declared, that is to say, upon trust, that the trustee or trustees for the time being, shall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter ||, permit the sad [meeting-house] and premisses to be used, occupied, and enjoyed as a place of public religious worship for the service of God, by the Society of Protestant Dissenters, of the denomination called ; and also, by such other persons as shall hereafter be united to the said Society, and attend the worship of God in the said meeting-house; and also, at all times for ever hereafter, permit the said room, called The Vestry-Room, to be used with and he appendant to the said meeting-house, as a vestry-room; and the said piece of ground, called The Burial-Ground, to be used with and be appendant to the said meeting rass: no estate, rent, or benefit, by way of condition or otherwise, may be reserved. See 9th Gen. II, ch. 36. When there are leaseholds, let the habendum be to the trustees, their executors, adminstrators, and assigns, henceforth, for and during the residue of a certain term of years, which the said (donor) hath therein (being a term which was created by indenture) bearing date on or about the one thousand eight hundred and and made between of the other part, at the yearly rent of day of day of of the one part, and and to be computed from the When there are copyhold, add And this Indenture further witnesseth, That, for the considerations hereinhefore expressed, the said did, on the day of` the date of these presents, being a surrender in effect, but an indenture in form, prepared for complying with the provisions of the act of parliament, made in that behalf, personally go before steward of the manor of.. in the County of and did, out of court, by the rod, surrender out of his hands, into the hands of the lord of the said manor, by the hands and acceptance of the" said steward, according to the custom of the same manor, ALL, &c. to the use and beh of of the said, &c. and other persons (if any) parties hereto, of the second part, their heirs and assigns for ever: nevertheless, to be held by them" upon the trusts, and for the ends, intents, and purposes hereinafter expressed, declared, and contained, of and concerning the same. | Forms frequently required are the following : — Permit a Meeting-house, Vestry-room, or other offices, to be built on the said piece of ground; and to be used, occupied, and enjoyed as and for a place of public religious worship, &c.; such meeting-house and other erections to be built at the expence of such members of the said society of Protestant Dissenters, and such other persons as shall think fit to subscribe to the same, and according to such plan as the said society, or the trustees thereof, shall adopt for that -purpose. Permit and suffer the said piece of ground to be from time to time, and at all times hereafter, used as a Burial place for the interment of deceased members of the said Society of Protestant Dissenters and others, according to the regulations to be prescribed by the majority of the uren-members for the time being, of the Society attending the aid Meeting-house, being sub-cribers thereto, and communicants therein, and being present at a church-meeting to be convened for that purpose. If the premisses are intended to be used as an Academy, then say, Permit and suffer the said messnage, or tenement, and hereditaments, hereby [ba gained and sold, or surrendered to be used, orcupied, and enjoyed, as and for an Academy, or School, or Place of Classical and Religious Instruction for Young Men, devoted to the Ministry among Protestant Dissenters; or otherwise, ja such manner, and under such regu a ions, and with full power to alter and vary such regulations as the major part of the trustees for the time being, together with the major part of the men subscribers for the time being to such Academy, who Stall have been subscribers thereto for twelve preceding calendar nails, shall, at any public meeting to be convened for such purpose, and held after a week's prefides notice thereof, from time to time, order and direct. R house as a burial-ground; and the said to be used and inhabited by the officiating minister for the time being, for his residence, or otherwise to be let, as the major part of the men-subscribers to the said meeting, being members thereof and communicants therein, shall, at a meeting duly held for that purpose, declare; and permit such person or persons as shall be nominated by the mensubscribers for the time being to the said meeting-house, or the major part of them, being members of the said so ciety and communicants therein, at any meeting for that purposs duly assembled, to receive and take all such voluntary subscriptions, and other sums of money as shall, from time to time, be paid or subscribed by any person or persons whomsoever, towards the support of the public worship of God in the said meeting-house, and for defraying the expences and charges attending the same, or as shall be contributed for the benefit or support of the minister for the time being officiating therein; and permit to officiate in the said meeting-house such person or persons, of the denomination of Protestant Dissenters, called as the said subscribers, or the major part of them, men or women, being members of the said society and communicants herein, at a meeting duly assembled for that purpose, shall from time to time elect, to officiate as their minister or pastor, in the said meeting-house, according to the usual order and customs of societies of Protestant Dissenters of the denomination aforesaid. MARTIN LUTHER's life was a continual warfare: he was engaged against the united forces of the Papal world; and he stood the shock of them bravely, both with courage and success. After his death, one would have expected, that generous adversaries should have put up their pens and quitted, at least, so much of the quarrel as was personal: but, on the contrary, when his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation; and, by the venom of their tongues, sufficiently convinced the world, that the religion they were of, not only allowed prayers for the dead, but even curses too. He was a man certainly of high endowments of mind, and great virtues: he had a vast understanding, which raised him up to a pitch of learning unknown to the age he lived in; his knowledge in Scripture was admirable, his elocution manly, and his way of reasoning, with all the subtilty that thos honest plain truths be delivered would bear: his thoughts were bent always on great designs a and he had a resolution fitted to go through with them. The assurance of his mind was not to he shook nor surprized; and that mappnora* of his (fór I know not what else to call it) before the Diet at Worms, was such as might have become the days of the apostles. Bis life was holy; and, when he had leisure for retirement, severe his virtues active chiefly, and humilitical; not those lazy sullen ones of the cloisters. He had no ambition but in the service of God; for other things, neither his enjoyment nor wishes ever went higher than the bare conveniences of living: he was of a temper particularly averse to covetousness, or any base sin; and charitable even to a fault, without respect to his own cecasions. If among this crowd of virtues a failing crept in, we must remember that an apostle himself has not been irreproachable: if, in the body of his doctrine, one flaw is to be seen; yet the greatest lights of the church, and the purest times of it, were, we know, not exact in all their opinions. Upon the Boldness of speech. whole, we have certainly great reason to break out in the phrase of the prophet, and say, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings!' OBSERVATIONS ON THE BURIAL OF CHRIST. [From Dr. Gill's Body of Divinity.] 1. THE fine clean linen in which Christ was wrapped, may be an emblem of his innocence, purity, and holiness; who, notwithstanding all appearances and changes, was holy, harmless, and as a lamb, without spot and blemish; and likewise of his pure and spotless righteousness, now wrought out and brought in by his active and passive obedience completely finished, called fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints; and in which bis dead members, his people, who are in themselves dead in the law, and dead in sin, being enwrapped, or having his righteousness imputed to them, it is unto justification to life. 2. As Jacob, the patriarch and type of Christ, was honourably buried by his son Joseph; so Christ, the antitype of him, and who is sometimes called Israel, was honourably buried by another Joseph, and he a rich man; which fulfilled the prophecy in Isaiah liii. 9. 3. As sin was first committed in a garden, whereby Adam and his posterity came short of the glory of God, so sin was finished in a garden. There he was buried, there the last act of Christ's humiliation for it was performed, and hereby way was made for our entrance into the garden of God, the heavenly Paradise above! 4. A garden is a place where fruit-trees grow, and fruit is in plenty; which may direct us to think of the fruits of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection, who compares himself to a grain of wheat, which, unless it falls into the ground and die, it abides alone; but if it die, it brings forth much fruit +, such as redemption, reconciliation, pardon of sin, &c. As also, that as Christ's removal from the cross was to a garden, so the removal of saints at death, will be from the cross of afflictions and tribulations to the garden of Eden, the Paradise of God, where there are pleasures for evermore! 5. To Death. A very convincing proof of the truth and reality of Christ's death: Christ was taken down from the cross, and baried, not by his enemies, but by his friends, who would never bury him alive.' Dublin. ADOLESCENS. ADVERSITY lives next door to Prosperity. The brightest sky may speedily be overcast with clouds. The most violent storm is usually succeeded by the sweetest calm. mercies. If we cleave closely to God, no enemy can hurt us. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. TO YOUTH. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov. iii. 17. One of the most successful engines employed by the powers of darkness against the younger part of mankind, is the misrepresentation of the rehgion of Jesus Christ. The followers of the Saviour are standered |