strength. His eye retains its fire; still strikes, and warms, and awes. His fine intellectual powers are yet in their vigour; and his masterly eloquence is the same. Even those who heard him in his first strength at the Lock Chapel, and who witnessed his yet nobler efforts before crowded auditories in St. Paul's, would join in this tribute to his preaching. Mr. De Coetlogon remains as a noble specimen. of the genuine extemporary school. He stands As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens, or free Rome, where eloquence MILTON. Nothing of person can be delineated more interesting than the figure of this preacher. His height, form, face, manner and gesture, all speak him great. There is apostolical impressiveness in him. These requisites form, however, his inferior worth. It is the pearl of great price,' which is found in him, that makes him all that he is. He knows nothing of a refined religion; of the still modernising theology of these times; of an accommodated, and accommodating, scheme for the salvation of men. It is in the old way, through the old truth, that he pleads for life! Nor does he stop here. Consolation is due to believers— denunciation is due to unbelief. When he holds out the staff,' therefore, still he can wield the 'rod.' He keeps to his text. His main divisions spring naturally from it, and his illustrations apply forcibly to it. Should he digress in this, his digressions will be found perfect episodes, which, whilst they enter into his plan, serve to variegate the path by which he proceeds to his end. Connectedness is the great want of those who generally preach in the extemporary way; yet Mr. De Coetlogon's discourses do not fail in such consistency. Proper portions fall in at their proper places; nor does one link seem wanting in the chain of thought. When all is done, he has done all. Interjections should be full of solemnity; in-. terrogations should be full of importance. Each will require wisdom and skill. Masterly are both the interjections and interrogatories of Mr. De Coetlogon. His good sense, and taste, and zeal, are here seen. Where there is so much to praise, then, who can wish to pry for faults? Where there are found such stores of mind-such originality and profoundness of thought, with such eloquence of tongue, and where, more than these, so much of human learning is joined with divine knowledge, faults, when found, are but as specks in our sun. Still Mr. De Coetlogon has his faults, but which might presently be set right. He seems to keep his voice so low, during his first prayer, that few ears can catch what he says. Now though this may be suited to praying,-whilst it saves the strength of those who have to preach,-preachers should announce texts in a bold tone. Mr. De Coetlogon is deficient in this. Scarcely as it were roused from the calmness of his first prayer, he states his text nearly in the same lowness of voice with which he prayed. Texts must sound in our ears, when meant to strike our minds. Those accustomed to religious services will acknowledge, that the enquiry of What was the Text?' when the text has not been well heard, is the most painful query that can possibly interrupt the devotional attention of a reflecting mind. But the powers of this preacher are great. Whether Mr. De Coetlogon be estimated as to manner or matter,-as to the great and high importance of what he says, or as to the eloquence with which it is said,-talents and learning he most unquestionably both possesses and exerts. Ranks he not high in the scale of mind, who wields the two-edged sword of truth, and who can 6 write as well as preach? Besides numerous single sermons, and several occasional Tracts, Mr. De Coetlogon is author of the Portraiture of the Christian Penitent,' in two volumes; of an excellent volume of Sermons on the Fifty-first Psalm;' of, our information states, The Temple of Truth, and Studies adapted to the Temple of Truth, with Studies perfective of the Temple of Truth,' in three volumes; and it has been confidently rumoured, without denial, that the same able genius bore its full share of contribution towards those classical citations which adorned the celebrated Pursuits of Literature,-a rumour that will not easily be discredited by any person who attentively peruses the Notes to his National Jubilee. Respecting divinity, besides his Tracts and Sermons, the opinions of Mr. De Coetlogon are explicitly avowed in the Theological Miscellany, in seven volumes, which was edited by him; and may also be inferred from the manner in which he urged into notice the treatises of President Edwards, especially those on Original Sin, the Freedom of the Human Will, and his History of Redemption. W. L. FANCOURT, M. A. NUMEROUS were formerly the complaints of attentive spectators, and reiterated too, respecting the remissness with which our religious services were conducted. Foreigners were particularly struck with observing this degeneracy. One foreigner who at that time repaired here, M. Darchenholz, observed, it was very easy to perceive, from the phlegm with which the English performed the duties of their religion, that they were very little impressed by a sense of its awfulness.' Are we better than our fathers then were? Under God himself, we owe to such reformers as Whitfieldreviled and persecuted as they were by infidels and formalists-the religious privileges that we now possess and exert. Hear an unprejudiced foreigner bear his unbiassed testimony to this. • The methodist form,' continues our traveller, a very numerous body. Whitfield was their founder. He was a man of profound knowledge, and inflexible virtue; and has died only a few years since. It was customary with him to preach in the streets of London, or the open places in |