principle s. By admitting no delays, you must have double honour in the esteem of wise and good men, and when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes his enemies to be at peace; and what can please God more than yielding to his pure, wise, and holy reproof so speedily given, and his truth engaged no man forsaking anything, but he pledges his own a hundred fold. Should you, from the severity of the Lord's voice against you in the few months you would continue, how bitter might it be? and then losing that present testimony of your honest and most disinterested conduct. Burn this, if these arguments are rejected; be assured it is my own soul given to you on this subject. Your difficulty to Mr. Ireland's objections will be but more and more increased by delay, and to live pampered and perplexed for a season with the Lord's rod held over your head can have no meaning but what deserves the name of weakness and a divided heart, andat best, the false mother's portion. Mr. Ireland also would leave you without excuse as he has essentially agreed in any such supposed consequences if continued. This letter was wrote the day after the former, and as that being not enough explicit to satisfy my mind, I here deliver my own soul, begging the Lord to bless it so far as it appears to your whole mind His will, and as ever affectionately yours, "S. HUNTINGDON."

The substance of Mr. Glascott's reply may be gathered from the following letter: he did not resign:

"College, Jan. 11th, 1782. "My dear Sir,-My private judgment your friendly openness extorted from me, and I lament it lest you should conclude from justice, any coolness might be occasioned by that preference given by you to your choice and sphere of action; but I must ever hereafter call upon you for that uprightness due to my meanings for you, and separate from any motives whatever, but those wholly relative to yourself. This may be well proved, that disgust for me has never been felt by you; and while hurt extremely by your concealed conduct, your repeated declarations so openly that in principle and judgment you was a Dissenter and the most warmly urging the secession. The sudden change promoted by such a man surprised me, but without any reproach of mine to you. The leaving me and the work of God at a time when I was supporting your right, and deserting me in a way not kind to an old friend, surrounded by various difficulties, had not one expostulation with you on the subject. The repeated assurances to others on many occasions that no restraints should bind you, that you would refuse every obligation to residence, and then taking an oath finally to bind the conscience of every honest man (and as I am told hardly ever tendered to others), and this while under your hand declaring repeatedly nothing should prevent your services among us-this also has been done without even reminding you, lest from me any oppressive care through me might arise upon your mind, and indeed I felt such tender pity for the certain consequences of such a step for you, that all my indignation was to one whom I thought to be the wicked contriver of the whole, and of every future misery you could sustain; and thus is my most truly disinterested friendship

and faithful regard for you, to my own soul fully, fully acquitted, and that to the uttermost. Wonder not then if your last letter did occasion every surprise a mind could be filled with. Your sentiments differing with respect to the immediate resignation had no effect, as I conceived that kind of judicious honour due to yourself you might not so clearly see from those remaining partialities of your own will, nor also feel so deeply the obligation of God's voice, Turn, turn, ye at my reproof;' so as to seek immediate relief where only every faithful soul can find it. But allow me to say, the prevarication relative to your oath did more than amaze me with grief. Can it be possible the full engagement made by your supposed choice and will, and calling on God so to help you, can admit of reserves, interest alone or pleasure made for yourself or others? You are a captive of your own making to a superior that denies that God you swore to. Your engaged subjection to him you never can depart from and be just; your arguments upon this subject are as affecting to me in order to avoid the force of this truth as words can make them. You say, the civility and candour of the Bishop you having nothing to fear from; and is it possible to clothe perjury with further imposition and with hypocrisy, and suppose, because not disputed by the Bishop, the oath demands less by this means for its real fulfilment? Where is truth or justice fled? Your next argument is, that a wicked man (the late vicar) was perjured, as by not residing he was, and therefore seems more reconcilable, and, indeed, as a thing of course thus to be allowed; it is well if that man's perjury stopped there, for he that can forswear himself for case, will certainly do it for interest. You then conclude, if it does not answer in such a time, you will return to your itineracy.' You cannot hope God will withdraw his charges of truth when upon you, and so lie hardened down to all his sweet and merciful calls of conscience, and in that way indulge your own will and ease with that of others in this matter. No, no; the servant that knows his Master's will and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes;' and this shall stand while the earth exists, however you or I may believe it. You seem to think too incautiously of our Saviour's power over his house, when you say you will then itinerate. By what power? Is life your own? Is grace and gifts your own? Is his authority in your hands? Can He want the dregs of an unsubdued will for his services, when you shall choose to give them? O! no; the very idea makes me tremble. I again say with the most faithful appeal to the Trier of the hearts and reins, that no one single thought but the safety of your own soul, and the important use your dear Master may yet make of your labours, I say this wholly is all, that my heart feels in this matter for you. As to myself, many more than I actually want, and supplies sufficient in your character is to be obtained. I wish I could rejoice in such, from that blessed simplicity and honour for our dear Lord (I can never forget) you have been so honoured by; but I thank the adorable High Priest of our profession, those I have seem to answer our present wants abundantly, and in the present fires I can praise him. Should my heavy and bitter persecutor remain inflexible, the stands for the gospel now, and in future, has all I can want, while my poor little all

belongs in the Lord's hands for its support and best purposes. Thus, who stays or who goes (by the Lord's appointment), is not my care. He has ready many standing idle in the market-place, and in every hour of my days here, he can graciously say to some soul whom he will make faithful, Go, work in this my vineyard; and while it is only his, I will expect labourers so sent; and as my whole trust is there, I shall not be confounded, and though drove, persecuted, afflicted, and tormented by evil men, and the rage of the world and the devil, still, still will I say, My sure trust is in thee, O Lord;' and thus till his faithfulness fails, as the mount Zion, I shall not be moved. I cannot love you better, I cannot wish you better, I cannot pray more faithfully for my own soul, than for your safety. More, mere human fidelity cannot say; and in the truth of these I remain, my dear Sir, your most truc, old, and faithful friend, "S. HUNTINGDON.

"P.S.-No one shall be ordered to supersede you at Bath or the Mulberry Gardens, should you choose it. Nothing but from the impressions of your own conscience ought to forbid every mark of former regard to you from myself; and thus farewell and farewell!"

From Mr. Glascott's first institution to the living of Hatherleigh he was the resident minister of that parish; and, what he considered a singular mercy, was never prevented from performing Divine service one Sunday during a period of nearly fifty years. When he had attained his eighty-fifth year, he was able to perform the duties of his church (in which there were three services on the Lord's day), as well as he could twenty years before. And at that period he wrote, "So abundant is the goodness and mercy of God to his unworthy servant in the decline of life, that we are favoured in our worshipping assemblies with evident tokens of the Divine presence and blessing."

Mr. Glascott was favoured with a happy, useful, and green old age, exempt from the infirmities which are usually experienced at that advanced period of life, and retaining his faculties with strength and vigour of mind to the age of eightynine. Mr. Glascott enjoyed remarkably good health until a short time before his death, when he was attacked with the influenza, at that time so prevalent; but was supported through his sufferings and tedious nights by his firm reliance on the Saviour, whose blood and righteousness he had preached for the lengthened period of sixty-six years! and was enabled to rejoice in the near approach of death, in the assured hope of being carried in safety and comfort through the dark valley. It pleased God so far to restore Mr. Glascott to health again, that he preached and administered the Sacrament on the Sunday before his death; and never did he speak with more clearness and energy in advocating salvation by Christ alone; and related

with feeling, the comfort and joy that he had experienced from resting his hopes on that foundation in his late illness. Mr. Glascott retained his senses to the last, and to the last expressed the same comfort and certainty, that he knew all was well, and that his Redeemer lived. He fell asleep in Jesus on Thursday the 18th of August, 1830, at the vicarage house, Hatherleigh, Devon; where his memory will be long cherished by his parishioners, who, as well as the inhabitants of the neighbourhood generally, testified their respect for him by a general mourning.

CHAPTER LIII.

Mr. Madan's "Thelypthora"-Chapel at Bootle-Anecdote of Mr. RomaineMr. Whitridge-Mr. Daniel Gibbons-Mr. Daniel Gray-Letter from Lady Huntingdon to the Trustees of the Chapel at Kendal-Letter from Lady Huntingdon to Mr. Gray-Mrs. Paul-Chapel at Hereford-Correspondence relative to it with Mrs. Paul and others_Chapels at Whitehaven, Weymouth, Sheffield, Newark-Correspondence relating to them-Letter to the Congregation at Berkhamstead-Letters to Mr. Ellis and Mr. Blake-Chapel at Birmingham-Mr. Bradford-Lord Douglass-Lady Huntingdon invited to Brussels-Escapes assassination-Death of Lord Douglass-Letter from Lady Huntingdon relative to Brussels-Her Difference with Mr. Wills— Preface to a Volume of Sermons.

THE late Rev. Martin Madan, of the Lock, was now about to publish his celebrated work, entitled "Thelypthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin." While it was in the press, Lady Huntingdon wrote to him, to beg he would suppress it, and added, "that she could send him a paper signed by above three thousand persons, with the same request." Mr. Madan replied, "that if there were six thousand names, it should not prevent the publication of his book." At the request of Lady Huntingdon, Mr. Wills wrote an answer, entitled "Remarks on Polygamy," &c., in which he scholastically and strenuously appears an advocate for and defender of that holiness without which no man can see the Lord. The publication of this singular work caused Mr. Madan to sink into deserved oblivion, and called forth a host of refutations.

But Lady Huntingdon's attention was soon called from a subject so painful, to something of a more pleasing nature. The

preaching of Mr. Romaine and Mr. De Courcy, who were occasionally introduced into the parish church at Bootle in Cumberland, by Mr. Parke and Mr. Whitridge, both natives of the parish, caused considerable sensation, and was instrumental in the awakening of many. But those faithful ministers were not often allowed to officiate in that temple of orthodoxy, scarcely ever without interruption.

It was on one of these excursions to Bootle, being invited to preach, that the churchwardens observed him pull hard at the old pulpit door, without being able to open it; he immediately suspected that a blacksmith in the parish, who was a great enemy to the Gospel, had played them a trick, and stepping up to the clerk desired him to sing a long psalm, whilst he ran to get pincers and a hammer to open the pulpit door. This was done with as little noise as possible; and Mr. Romaine got admission to the pulpit and preached, to the great edification of the people.

The Gospel being thus excluded from the parish church, a dwelling-house and then a barn were successively registered for public worship, in which the Rev. Daniel Gibbons, then stationed at Ulverstone, one of Lady Huntingdon's students, and the Rev. G. Burton, of Lancaster, occasionally officiated. Their exertions happily terminated in the erection of a very commodious meeting-house in 1780, at the expense of the above Mr. Whitridge, who, at his death endowed it with the interest of 10007. It was opened on the 30th of July the same year, on which occasion Mr. Gibbons preached a very excellent discourse, which was published under the title of " A true Guide to Happiness.'

The first minister settled over this congregation was Mr.

* The dedication to the work touches on our subject:

"To JOSEPH WHITRIDGE, Esq.

"Sir The Sermon which here claims your patronage and protection, was preached in a place which, under God owes its existence to your generosity. As the cross of Christ is the believer's glory in earth and heaven, I trust, Sir, you will ever esteem it your highest honour to countenance and encourage a work which, in any measure, recommends THIS to lost sinners. Had this sermon contained anything repugnant to the plain revealed Word of God, or contrary to the doctrinal articles of the Church of England, it would have been highly criminal in me to offer it to your protection. The degeneracy of the present age, from the doctrinal articles of the Church is truly deplorable, and loudly calls upon all lovers of our Lord Jesus in sincerity to endeavour at the extirpation of these Arian, Socinian, and Pelagian tenets, which have been substituted in their stead. The world can testify that you, Sir, have not been backward in seeking these valuable ends. May the Father of Mercies crown all your pious endeavours with abundant success! and that you may evermore rejoice in that adorable Saviour, in whom all fulness dwells, is the desire of, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, D. GIBBONS."

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