ing; and on this short notice he would collect the opinions of twenty or thirty writers on the subject, and within the limited time, would send all the extracts, together with his own conclusion on the whole. In maintaining his opinions he was candid and liberal, and open to conviction, as appears indeed from his yielding his judgment to the better arguments of Ridley on the question of the Sacrament. The uncommon caution of his temper qualified him eminently for the office of a Reformer. In his conversation he was remarkably guarded. In acting he always felt his ground as he proceeded-not attempting unattainable objects, how. ever desirable and rarely evincing in his schemes any thing either superfluous or defective. He was of a most amiable disposition. His countenance was always enlivened with that cheerful smile which made every one approach him with pleasure. And such was the composure of his temper, that from his outward behaviour his friends could form no conjecture of any disturbance which might have occurred to him. Nor was he less formed for a private, than a public station. His humility was truly apostolical, and his placability was equal to his humility. As a master he was much beloved in his family. He had, according to the custom of the times, a very numerous retinue, among whom the most exact order was ob served. Every week the steward of his household held a kind of court in the great hall of his palace, in which all family affairs were settled -servants wages were paid-complaints were heard, and faults exa. mined. Delinquents were publicly rebuked, and after the third admonition discharged. His hospitality and charities were great and noble. Among other instances of his charity we have one recorded which was truly noble. After the destruction of monasteries, and before hospitals were erected, wounded and disbanded soldiers were exposed to the greatest misery. For the use of these the Archbishop fitted up his ManorHouse of Beckesburn in Kent. He formed it indeed into a complete hospital, appointing a physician, a surgeon, nurses, and every thing proper, as well for food as physic. Nor did his charity stop here. Each man, on his recovery, was furnished with money to carry him home, in proportion to the distance of his abode. He left behind him a widow and children, but of these little is known. Henry the VIIIth had kindly provided for them without any solicitation from Cranmer himself, by a grant from the Abbey of Welbeck, in Nottinghamshire, which they enjoyed after his decease. King Edward made some addition to his private fortune, and his heirs were restored in blood by an Act of Parliament, in the reign of Elizabeth. And the three wise Men of the East coming to worship Jesus, A comet dangling in the air, Presag'd the ruin both of death and sin; And told the wise men of a king, The King of glory,--and the Sun To draw towards that blessed hemisphere. * From Jeremy Taylor's Festival Hymns. Vol. XV. p. 76. Bishop Heber's edition of his Works. Full of mercy, full of love, Look upon us from above; Thou who taught'st the blind man's night Thine and the day's (and that thine too); The lame away his crutches threw ; Return'd unto its infancy: The dumb amazed was to hear His own unchain'd tongue strike his ear: Thy powerful mercy did even chase The devil from his usurp'd place, Where thou thyself shouldst dwell, not he. O let thy love our pattern be; Our souls unto thy glory, when Our dust shall cease to be with men.-Ameu. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. An Address, delivered before the Trustees, Faculty, and Students of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, in Christ Church, New York, on the Occasion of the Delivery of the Testimonials to the Students who had completed the Course of Studies, July 30, 1824. By William White, D.D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania. 8vo. pp. 14. T. and J. Swords. New York. 1824. IT affords a very just and delightful conviction of the real Catholicism of the Church of England to behold her flourishing under the most dissimilar forms of government. It shews a congruity in her principles with the nature of man, which recommends it to the acceptance of persons however dissociated from us in political opinions and institutions. It argues the Church to be no scheme cunningly devised for upholding the constitution of the State, but that, however vitally united the Church and State may be in this country, and admirably subservient to each other-yet the Church has its own essential existence, independently of that constitution of government with which, among ourselves, it is exhibited so immediately interwoven. Insidious enemies of our Communion have taken advantage of the accidental close connection subsisting between our Church and State, to represent the case as if they were essential to each other-an inference, evidently most derogatory to the high character of the Church-and proceeding on the clear fallacy, that two things, which appear in one case inseparably united from their beneficial effects on each other, must be inseparably united in their essence. History indeed has amply instructed us that our ecclesiastical and civil polity contribute most powerfully to support and adorn each other-by the warnings of a grievous experience cautioning us to beware of those political evils which we may expect from ecclesiastical insubordination, and by the experience of good, on the contrary, enjoining us to uphold the Church, if it were only for the peace and prosperity of our Jerusalem. But however married to each other the Church and State may be in this country, we are not to suppose that the Church is dependent for its existence on the State. For her out. ward prosperity and glory she must look to the countenance of her Royal Head and the Government; but in her own intrinsic nature, she subsists by a divine prerogative of immortality upon which no human laws can intrench. For her charter is the predictive promise of Christ; "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world!"-As a testimony then of this fact, we cannot but contemplate with delight the picture of the American Church, growing up amidst institutions yet rough from the forge of democratic innovation-and not disdaining, notwithstanding that tendency to national dislike which is the natural offspring of colonial hostility, to take a pleasure in owning herself sprung from our stock: Ipse hostis Teucros insigni laude ferebat, Seque ortum antiqua Teucrorum a stirpe volebat. The proceedings of a Church so circumstanced with regard to ourselves, must naturally be watched with a very intense interest. The situation indeed of the little flock of Episcopalians in the midst of a host of rival institutions equally enjoying the favour of the American Government, is in itself sufficient to awaken our tender concern for their welfare. We need not apologize, therefore, for inviting continued attention to a |