writers, a fairer administrator of your time, or a hand more skilled to attune the best passions of the heart.

When a mind, feeling itself capable of great things, is arrested in its course by severe calamity, let MILTON, with a single line, teach the believer in the doctrine of Providence, the lesson designed by that calamity. It is a strong temper, that can move on with energy :— is not that a stronger, that can "stand and wait"?

The eminent character and the solid counsels of SIR MATTHEW HALE must commend themselves to the understanding, heart and conscience, of every genuine Christian. It is very animating to behold, in him, so strong and steadfast a light, shining throughout one of the darkest periods of English history. The man's whole soul appears to have been brought into subjection to the law of Christ. He walked uprightly; and so, walked surely.

In JEREMY TAYLOR, treating on the use of Time, you have alternately bright similies and grave precepts, all expressed in choice and elegant diction. He describes, also, the character of a truly noble Christian lady; in which there is a larger portion of useful detail than might have been expected from a writer endued with such high poetic fancy. But here

he drew from life: and no female will ever regret studying, in earlier and later years, the portrait of Lady Carbery.

JOHN BUNYAN furnishes you with a few beautiful emblems, designed to illustrate the tempering of the heart on Evangelical Principles. His simple sketches are, if such a phrase may be allowed, like Written Pictures, the expressiveness of which can never be surpassed by the limner's pencil. For nearly two Centuries," the fathers to the children" have handed down his incomparable Allegory, as the delightful amusement of our youth, and the instructive teacher of our maturer years: nor will this Work cease to enjoy universal admiration, so long as the English Language, and the love of Spiritual Piety, shall last.

ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON, "that angelical man," as Bishop Burnet calls him, writes with his accustomed pathos on the miserableness of throwing away that season which is given us, that we may prepare for Eternity. Some biographical notices are added, illustrative of his character; showing with what a high and heavenly temper he looked beyond things seen and temporal, to the things which are not seen, and which are eternal.

The first passage, from RICHARD BAXTER, exhibits

the value he set on the earlier hours of the evening, for purposes of devotion: and it is, in a certain sense, useful to know what seasons so eminently devout a man found advantageous for holding converse with God and his own heart. This portion is selected from his "Saint's Rest"; a book composed in the former part of his life. The Extracts, following, were written by him toward the close of his career; when, after many a scene of tumult and controversy, his graces were matured, and his judgment more settled, in old age. As a controversialist, he differed from Richard Hooker in this-that he had not enjoyed the ground-work of an academical education. The habits of sound public studies incline a man to look around, on all sides of a question, before entering upon disputation about it; and restrain him from excessive confidence in his own cause, while combating the opinions of others. With much ingenuousness, Baxter, in his later days, confesses with what an ardent temper he had sprung forth to his earlier labours; and how greatly experience and reflection, and bodily infirmity also, had combined to soften down his temper. Persons of a sanguine, self-confident temperament ought, especially, to study this admirable chart of religious life; in which one of

the most extensively-useful of modern divines has so minutely endeavoured to trace the principal bearings of his course, through times and scenes and subjects full of agitation and perplexity and danger.

Where shall we find thoughts more choice, or better adapted to those three contemplative seasons of our existence-Morning, Evening, and wakeful Midnight— than in the Hymns, next following, of BISHOP Ken?

From DR. WATTS I offer you only the beautiful ode, on the Setting Sun; one of the finest of our English Lyrics. So may Time close, with you, and with me!

From Law's" serious Call" you have here one of the most admired treatises in our language, on a particular branch of the use of Time. That book, however, cannot, without much caution, be recommended to you. It is, throughout, deficient in clear evangelical statements of the free grace of Christ, and of the work of His Spirit in the hearts of believers. Fallen Man needs something more than perfect rules: he needs a guide to ONE, who alone can give him the heart to love holiness, while renouncing all hope of being justified by his own doings. Still, read his spirited argument on Early Rising: as far as this topic is concerned, you will find him (so, at least, he seems

to me) unanswerable.-When, further, you read his description of the Man of Letters transformed into the faithful Village-Pastor, let your thoughts be lifted up in prayer, that all the Clergy of our land may copy that picture!

DR. DODDRIDGE, a man delicate in health, and therefore wisely methodical in his multifarious labours for the good of souls, presents you with a far more systematic arrangement of the duties of a day, than any other of the writers that I have quoted; not excepting even Bishop Hall. Those who walk not circumspectly, will regard his Rules as too formal and strict; not fitted for persons in active life, but savouring rather of the contrivances of a recluse. Yet, this eminently useful writer was not only a studious critic and author, but a laborious preacher, pastor, and tutor: witness the account given by his Biographer, and which is here added, concerning his employment of his time :—and to the exactness with which he observed his own rules may be attributed his success in some of his most important labours. Deviations from absolute punctuality may, indeed, every day occur: these, however, form no excuse for desultory habits. RULE must ever be deemed of the highest value, by an upright conscience. As for those who are regardless