Died.-At Blackheath, while on a visit to a friend, in the 44th year of his age, the rev. John Josias Conybeare, M.A. prebendary of York, and vicar of Batheaston, in the county of Somerset, which living is in the gift of the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. Mr. Conybeare was elected student of that society, from Westminster college, in the year 1797; was professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1808 to 1812; professor of poetry from 1812 to 1821; and the last Bampton lecturer. He was the son of the rev. Dr. Conybeare, rector of Bishopsgate, London, and grandson of the rev. Dr.J.Conybeare, rector of Exeter college, from 1730 to 1733, when he was chosen dean of Christ Church, and held that situation to his death in 1756.

Married.-At Lambeth,the rev. Edward Allen, of Blackheath, to Anne, the only daughter of William Whitton, esq. of Stockwell Common.

At Mary-le-bone church, the rev. E. Cobbold, of Bloxhall, Suffolk, to Louisa, third daughter of the late rev. J. D. Plestow, of Orchard-street, Portman-square, and Watlington, Norfolk.

At Mary-le-bone church, the rev. Wm. Robinson, son of sir J. Anderson, bart. to the hon. Susannah Sophia Flower, eldest daughter of Viscount Ashbrook.

At St. George's, Bloomsbury, the rev. John Bayly, M.A. vicar of St. Merin, Cornwall, and reotor of Chilthorne Dorner, Somersetshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Valentine Cooke, Esq. of Hertford-street, May-fair.

Died.-At Chelsea, aged 67, the rev. J. Dixon, rector of Sullington, Surrey.

In New North-street, Red Lion-square, in the 93d year of his age, the rev. Edw. Garden, rector of Kington, Wilts, and nearly sixty years reader to Gray's Inn. NORFOLK.

Died.-At South Walsham Rectory, aged 71, the rev. John Hunt, B.D. rector of that parish.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Died. At Tuxford, aged 70, the rev. G. Waddington, vicar of that place.

Married. At Brighton, the rev. J. Wood, of Newton Hall, Middlewich, Cheshire, to Mary, third daughter of the late J. Nugent, esq. of Clay-hill, Epsom, and niece of the late right hon. Edm. Burke. WILTS.

Married. At the Cathedral, Sarum, by the rev. Herbert Hawes, D.D. prebendary, the rev. Henry Playsted Jeston, son of the rev H. Jeston, rector of Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, to Elizabeth Purvis, second daughter of the late William Eyre, esq. of Newhouse, Wilts.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

Died.-At King's Norton, the Rev. Hugh Edwards, upwards of 40 years minister of that place.

WALES.

Married-The rev. Watkin Edwards, curate of Llamblethian, Glamorganshire, to Miss Sarah Powell, of Cwmusk, Breconshire.

IRELAND.

Married.-At Dublin, by his father, (the Lord Bishop of Cloyne) the rev. ArchdeaconWarburton, to Alicia, youngest daughter of the late T. B. Isaac, esq. of Holywood House, county of Down. RUSSIA.

Married. At Cronstadt, by the rev. E. Law, the rev. R. W. Blackmore, chaplain to the Russian Company at that place, to Mrs. Henbry, relict of John Henbry, esq. of Archangel, and daughter of the late Andrew Elliott, esq. rear admiral in H. I. M. service.

THE JOY OF SIMEON.

Luke ii. 29-32.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart

in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thon bast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

THESE are the words of the devout Simeon, on his entering into the temple at Jerusalem, and beholding the child Jesus. It was the custom of the Jews, as we read in a preceding verse of the chapter, at a certain time after the birth, to bring their male children and present them to the Lord. In conformity with this established usage, Jesus was now presented in the temple. Simeon, by the inspiration of God, was led to the same place at the same time. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Full of this expectation, and relying on the secret revelation from God, he also entered into the temple: and as soon as he beheld the holy child Jesus, he took him up in his arms, and blessed God that he now saw that day of joy, to which he had so long and anxiously looked forward. Without any previous in. REMEMBRANCER, No. 68.

struction from the parents, he seems immediately to have recognized in the lowly infant, that Person, to whose coming he had been taught by God to look forward with hope and faith. Accordingly he gives his testimony to the Divine character of Jesus, he openly proclaims him the Saviour of mankind, crying out, in the words of the text, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."

Such was the pious confidence of the holy Simeon-with such joyful rapture did he hail the birth of our blessed Lord. He rejoiced that life had been spared to him to behold the truly blissful event, which it had now been his lot to see accomplished. All other things he considered as nothing in comparison with this great joy; having witnessed this, he was content to die; he felt that he should depart in peace; that nothing remained now to attach him to this life-that he had obtained all the comfort he desired.

Here indeed was a subject of sincere and ardent joy. To behold that, to which, through a length of time, we have stretched our distant anxious hopes, is in itself a source of the greatest pleasure. But when the consideration of real and solid 3 M

advantage to be obtained from the object in view is added-when not only our expectation has been raised, but our closest interests are involved, and our deepest feelings implicated,-then indeed there is room afforded, if ever, for the most transcendant joy, to indulge its raptures. The occasion which prompted the grateful effusion of the old man in the text, was one of this kind, or rather it was of a nature even surpassing every possible circumstance of human calculation.-For, consider in the first place, who that sacred person was, whose birth he welcomed with such eager exultation. If you have read your Bibles with even a moderate share of that attention which the book of God's word requires from you and every sincere Christian, or, I may say indeed, if you know any thing of true religion, you will not need to be reminded by me, who that Divine Person was. You will have already learned, as you read in the Scriptures, that he was God manifest in the flesh; that he was the same, who, in the beginning was with God, and was himself God; by whom all things were made; who was one with the Father; who being the brightness of the glory of God, and the express image of his person, yet humbled himself to the form of a servant, and was made flesh; that is, took upon him our nature, and by uniting to the godhead a human soul and human body, became thus both God and man, in which two-fold character he is called in Scripture Christ the Lord; or, as he is otherwise styled in this chapter of St. Luke, the Lord's Christ. From these, and many other passages of Holy Writ, you will have learned that the wonderful person, after whom we justly boast ourselves to be called Christians, and who is the author and finisher of our salvation, was not a mere man; was not exactly what we are, and nothing more; but that he was also, at the same time, perfect God; that in him

were united two distinct natures, the divine and the human; and that, in consequence of this glorious union, he became the Christ that should take away the sins of the world.— Such was that extraordinary person whose appearance Simeon rejoiced to behold-a person, it will be readily allowed, sufficient to reward the most glowing anticipations of hope, and to call forth the liveliest expressions of grateful love and adoration.

But in the next place, consider, for what object this Divine Person had vouchsafed to descend from the throne of his majesty, and to come amongst us; and you will then see more clearly, why it was that this venerable old man rejoiced on beholding the child Jesus, and taking him in his arms, blessed God for the long expected sight. I again. refer you to those inspired oracles of God's word, which alone are capable of giving us instruction on such a subject. Do we not read in them, that he came to bear our griefs, and to be bruised for our iniquities; that by his stripes we might be healed; that he came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for us; and again, that he might go, before and prepare a place for us, in order that where he is, there we may be also; besides the strong evidence which the whole tenor of Scripture. in general bears to this point-that in him we have a sacrifice, obla tion, and satisfaction for all our sins; and that it is, consequently, on his death and sufferings in the flesh, that we must rest our hopes of salvation hereafter.-What an awful, and at the same time, what a consolatory truth-to know that he not only took upon him our nature; but that this condescension on his part was for the sake of us; that he not only deigned to appear on earth, to bless mankind by his visible presence; but that he came on the especial errand of making atonement for us by his death, and reconciling us to