mother that excites peculiar sorrow, ful nurse, and my kindest comforter. Dr. B. observes.

That countenance which rose or fell as 3. The loss of a mother's sympathy it was well or ill with me, is now coand its soothing expressions excites this

vered continually with the same ghastly sorrow. A mother is prompted to paleness.

paleness.

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The bowels that yearned in sympathy by the tenderness with which pily at my sorrows are now insensible nature inspires a parent, and the sanc

to every thing, and that heart is dead tion which religion gives to the benevo

even to me. No more can she encourage lent emotions of the heart in general

me when dispirited by calumny, or she considers as enforcing upon her

wipe away the tear of distress. Her every kind attention to her children in vigilant tenderness suffered not a murdistress. There are many circumstances mur nor a sigh to escape it when I was which afford ample scope for the mani in affliction ; but the dead know not any festation of a mother's compassionate

thing, nor can their ears open to our feelings. Cast your eyes over some cry.' of the sad occurrences by which her 4. The heart mourns for the loss family may be afflicted, and you will of the counsels of a mother's wisdom. perceive how they are felt in her heart, In every man's life circumstances occur and lightened by her influence.

in which the advice of others is reHow assiduous are her ministrations quisite; but the young stand in peculiar in sickness! No hand can dress the need of counsel. They are so impersore so tenderly or smooth the pillow sofectly acquainted with the world, that softly as hers. The hopes of relief they are apt to be deceived by every which she suggests, the tear that says,

fair appearance and by every flattering 'I cannot give up my child,' the pro

suggestion ; and so little do they know mises of divine aid, and the examples of the deceitfulness of the heart, that of patience in suffering which she ex they are eager to follow the impulse hibits, and the prayers by which she of every passion which promises them thus entreats the Lord in our behalf. enjoyment in complying with its • Have mercy on him, and not on him

dictates. only, but on me also, lest I should have Of all counsellors, a mother is cersorrow upon sorrow,' support and tainly the most affectionate and dissanctify the heart,

interested; and she has that complete If her children become embarrassed knowledge

knowledge of

of the dispositions and in their circumstances, the face of love circumstances of her children, which changes not into the hasty look of cold eminently qualifies her for giving advice. civility, or the insulting scowl of marked To none can you speak with such concontempt. Though all should forsake fidence as to her, nor will any one listen them, she will not. She would share with such patient attention to your with a child in misfortune not only the

statements. Others may disclose your abundance which she feels is more than difficulties and your scruples to your sufficient for her support, but even her prejudice; but in the breast of a mother last morsel, “ the handful of meal in they are lodged as safely as in your the barrel and the little oil in the cruse.” own. She is willing to impart to them even

Others may be influenced by sinister her own soul, because they are dear to

motives in the counsels which they give, her.

but those of a mother flow from the Calumny may slander them, but purest and the strongest wishes for your though it should obtain very general welfare. And her counsels are given credit, it finds not in her one prone to with the utmost mildness. The advices take up the ill report, or that defends of others are sometimes given in that them in a manner cold and careless. 'haughty manner which seeks to establish She considers her own respectability as a claim to superior intelligence and involved in theirs. Their triumph over sanctity, or with such harsh reflections slander is hers also, and what pierces on our weakness and folly, as are more their reputation enters her heart. So likely to exasperate than to humble or prompt is a mother's sympathy, that she reclaim; but a mother's counsels are requires no call to rejoice with her characterized by gentleness and benigchildren when they rejoice, or to weep nity, and though they may have been with them when they weep.

despised in time past, she is still willing Such is the friend whose loss that to renew them. The loss of such a weeping orphan thus mourns : She is monitor must be a grievous calamity. gone, who in all my ills was my watch. Some of you are probably now calling

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to remembrance those mild expostula- them not to tasks foreign to those for tions by which a mother checked the which they were committed to your excesses of your passions, and showed care; and let no consideration of adyou the folly of those desperate mea- vantage, or of convenience to yogrself, sures to which you were prompted by induce you to withdraw them from the revenge; the advices which kept you duties in which you are pledged to from forming friendships which would instruct them, and in which their friends have been a snare to you, and the

have reason to suppose they will be warnings which taught you to detect engaged. the treachery that was concealed by Watch carefully over their conduct, smiles, and the plans of ruin which

and labour . to guard them from imwere recommended by the most plausible proper associates. If they lodge with assurances of gain or enjoyment. And you, suffer them not to be absent from how sad is the thought, that the spirit

your house at unseasonable hours; and endowed with so much wisdom and if they reside in a different place from prudence hath left you to walk in your you, permit them to retire at a proper own counsels, and that painful anxieties time, and when they will not be in danand mistakes are before you !-Belfrage, ger of mingling in any scenes of folly or Pp. 133-136.

mischief by the way. To expose the • Dr. B's Counsels for the Sanc. young to the temptations which must tuary embrace various topics which

assail them in the streets of large cities are too often overlooked. Such

at late hours, is not merely thoughtless, are-Caution to the rich-grace

but cruel. If they are entangled in the

pollutions of the world, they will be to the poor-the devout soldier- the

strongly impelled to pilfer or defraud, honourable merchant-the respect in order to obtain money for their ed physician--the Christian doc vicious gratifications. Alas! it is not a trine concerning lawsuits, &c. We tale of fiction, but of sad reality, which have only however room for the so often presents young men of fair following passage, and we select

promise, instigated to forgery or robit in preference to some others as

bery by abandoned women, by whose

wiles they have been ensnared, and adverting to one fruitful source of

closing in shame and horror a life that corruption which at present so which once promised a very different lamentably prevails.

termination. 5. Attention to apprentices and young Let them have leisure for mental impeople in his employ will also be studied provement, and access to all the means by the respectable merchant. Their of knowledge which are in your power. dependent condition, and the confidence It will be most honourable to you to reposed in you by their parents, give make your dwelling so pleasant to them, them strong claims to your regard. Do that they will have no wish to stray not oppress them by requiring services from it; to give them such opportunities humiliating in their nature, unsuited to of instruction as will enable them to their years or their strength, or exhaust- store up materials for contemplation for ing by their continuance. It is painful every vacant hour; and to have your to see to what low offices children from care and kindness mentioned with gra respectable families have been in some titude long after you have gone to the cases subjected, through the caprice or other world, by those whom you have tyranny of those to whom they were trained up in every suitable habit.-Pp. committed ; and such degradation will 315-317. either crush all honourable feeling in a The Domestic Constitution, by boy, or drive bim to relinquish a service Mr. Anderson, is also a valuable and in which he will be compelled to submit

interesting work, though labouring

interes to it.

Act to them and speak to them as if under a somewhat unintelligible they were your children; and let their title. The Author observes in his accommodations in your dwelings, if preface that they reside with you, be as comfortable Much has been said, and perhaps as as your circumstances will admit. Suffer much written, respecting improvements not the ill humour which you dare not in Society, with comparatively but slenvent on others to be let loose on them, der reference to the neglect of Parental and blame them not with faults with Obligations, and the consequent abatewhich they are not chargeable. Put ment of Parental Authority-evils for which, by the will of God, Parents only sleep with serenity, but secure just alone are responsible, and which they as large a portion of earthly good as is alone can rectify or remove. Every consistent with their real advantage, inquiry into faction and disorder, dege and that of their children after them. neracy in morals and increase of crime, Any man, it is true, of a careless or must, of necessity, prove essentially indifferent character, may leave wealth defective, which does not embrace them, behind him, but there is one important and the fulfilment or neglect of their question which follows—Will it prove obligations; for to whatever other expe beneficial, or a source of true enjoydients men may betake themselves, it is ment? For this, he had made no profrom the Parents, as such, themselves vision. When toiling on from day to alone, over the broad surface of a city or day, all the while he had forgotten that a nation, that the restorative or remedy blessing, which “ maketh rich, and is to be sought and found.-P. vii. bringeth no sorrow with it;” though

there is not in Scripture one single pasHe therefore proceeds to point sage, which regards not this asa material out the family constitution-the ingredient, in all hereditary possessions. connexion between its different On the other hand, whatever be the branches--the penalty or punish- rank of the good man, they represent ment of disobedience or negleci. him as standing on the highest ground, descending to posterity, &c. He

1 with regard to his legacy. As far as contrasts obedience and success

the family is concerned, he requires not

the intervention of wealth, as it is called, with negligence and ruin-traces

to die well. Has he been pious, and the causes of failure to their source industrious, and generous ? and has he - points out the means of proee paid regard to his family, not as being dure with regard to a family or to to survive him only, but as bound, domestic government--domestic

with him for immortality, and soon to devotion, and domestic education,

follow bim? Then all is right. Rich and concludes with an address to

or poor, such a man must leave “ an

inheritance to his children's children." Christian parents, ministers, and

parents, ministers, and Here, however, in reference to the heads of families. We can only, divine blessing, it seems impossible to however, afford room for one ex forget one singularly-affecting passage tract, which we trust may induce in the evangelical history: “ And they some to procure and carefully peruse

brought young children unto him, that the volume itself.

he should touch them;" or, as Matthew has it, “ that he should put his hands

on them and pray; and his disciples peculiar blessing of the Almighty, rebuked those that brought them. But which has ever rested on the head of when Jesus saw it, he was much disthose "parents who have fulfilled their pleased, and said unto them-Suffer the natural, and reasonable, and incumbent

Iittle children to come unto me, and obligations; and in exact proportion

forbid them not; for of such is the as they have fulfilled them ? For

kingdom of Ged." Christian parents, although it is true, that Jehovah never who dwell upon such a scene as this, will reject the forecast or the labour of and these heavenly expressions, man, but calls him to be heedful and surely derive, not only instruction, but diligent; still, if he is defrauded of his the greatest encouragement from both. due honour, and if Parents will adven In contemplating the scene, you ture on any thing, only upon trust in cannot overlook the parties who brought their own wisdom and strength, all their these children, and their purpose in so toil is vain. “ Except the Lord build doing, however dim and indistinct their the louse, they labour in vain that views. Luke, in somewhat amplifying build it : except the Lord keep the city, this clause, says, “ they brought to him the watchman waketh but in vain." also infants ;” as though he had said, For a parent especially, in such a case, " having seen in how many ways He “it is vain for him to rise up early, or could remove the diseases of riper years, sit up late;" he, and, it may be, his and infuse vigour into the decayed children, will, in the end, only “ eat limb, or the decaying frame, they hoped

limb, or the decaying frame the bread of sorrows:” while, on the that children also, who had before them contrary, the father and mother who the whole journey of life, might not be seek supremely the divine favour, not sent away empty, should he but con

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descend to touch them, or lay his hands is with the children, with the species as upon them.”

such, we have here to do; and, blessed What though the apostles themselves be the Saviour! they actually form the might frown, or censure, and forbid, or foreground of this picture. Though imagine that it were below the dignity never registered among the denizens of the Son of God, to notice little of this little world, that is now of small children? If ever the Saviour was account indeed, “ for of such is the displeased with his disciples, it was kingdom of God." The whole species then; nay, then, it seems, he was much are safe, and beyond the reach of wo. displeased ; and so far from the But they died, say you, some of them parties who brought these little ones before they knew their right hand from being censured, the apostles themselves, their left; and others, alas ! more under rebuke, must give way, and advanced, and, therefore, more engagstand aside, and make room for their ing, yet never knew the difference approach.

between good and evil. Ah! so much See then the King of kings take up, the better for them. That was a knowin succession, these children in his ledge which carried your first Parents arms, and lay his hands upon them out of Paradise, and this ignorance has the ancient and solemn manner of not prevented your Children from blessing among the Jews. Surely this entering into it. Thus, in one moment was no vain show, nor did the Messiah of time, could the divine Redeemer, by pour forth his prayer into the air, or a few magnificent and gracious words, pronounce his blessing in vain. And remove from the parental heart a load what should he request for them, but of anxiety," for of such is the kingdom that they might be received among the ef God;” and as for the tender frame number of the Sons of God? For let so soon consigned to its native element, us hear it again—What were the pre- though “in Adam all die," yet," so in cise terms in which he had invited their Christ shall all be made alive.” approach? “ Suffer the little children Surely then this must be regarded, as to come unto me, and forbid them not; one most solemn and delightful indicafor of such is the kingdom of God." tion, of what was originally intended by Who then would, or who dare shut the the Domestic Constitution as such ! gate upon those, or even neglect them, while it involves certainly far more than whom the Saviour will not permit to a hint to Parents, as to how they should be forbidden? As parents, Oh! what conduct themselves, with reference to could you desire more than this? Mil Children who remain and survive. For lions of infant souls, it seems, compose was it intended by the Saviour to speak the family above; and assuredly, in consolation only to bereaved Parents? point of number, such souls must form Most certainly then he did this, as they, no insignificant proportion of the celes since that day, have often felt; but this tial millions. Regret not now, my as certainly was not all : he had been reader, for one moment, that nothing is cnring others, and conferring bodily here said of the parents of these chile health on many who were beyond the dren, either as to their character or power or skill of man's device; and the motives, or whether those who brought blessing he now pronounced on those them even sustained this relation; for who needed nothing of this kind, must with regard to scripture, as Mr. Boyle have chiefly referred to the great inhabisaid, its very silences are teaching. It tant within.--Pp. 431–435.

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commanded to “ follow their faith, conable publication, every way deserving sidering the end of their conversation ?" of serious perusal. It is principally a

The Bible, and the Bible alone, it is compilation from the writings of very true, must be thy Rule of Faith, and eminent divines; a practice which Mr. Standard of Duty; and every word they B. thus defends in his address to the

utter, must be brought to the touchstone reader;

of the Word of God, “to the law and My particular share in them is not to the testimony : if they speak not great-having done little more than according to this Word, it is because refer thee to the Oracles of Truth them there is no light in them.” It is permitselves, and the comments upon them ted thee, in a humble, teachable, prayerof godly men, “ whose praise is in all ful temper, to exercise thy Protestant the Churches.” When I could do so privilege-to “ try the spirits whether with propriety, I have preferred to speak they are of God;” in order that thou through their mouth, rather than my mayest know to " separate the precious own. I intreat thee particularly to from the vile,” to “refuse the evil and observe, that they are all “ of one ac- choose the good.” But, having once cord, of one mind,” in declaring that done this, in whatsoever they “ speak Sanctification is the Evidence and Test as the Oracles of God," thou art bound of Acceptance. « Despise not their to hear them, and to submit thyself." prophesyings.” Wilt thou say : “ this Should another edition he called for, is after all but human testimony ?” which we earnestly hope, it would be True: but what are the most faithful desirable that the observations inserted discourses from the pulpit, and the in the Appendix should be introduced soundest expositions of Scripture by into the body of the work, and that the living niinisters, but, in the same sense, whole should be printed in a more