THE

BAPTIST MAGAZINE

FOR

1826.

THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK ARE GIVEN TO THE WIDOWS OF BAPTIST MINISTERS, AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONTRIBUTORS.

VOL. XVIII.

Speaking the truth in love.-EPH. iv. 15.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY WIGHTMAN AND CRAMP,

24, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1826.

PREFACE.

IN reviewing the labours of another year, the Editors cannot but express their gratitude to those kind friends by whose contributions their work has been enriched, and to the Public at large, for the increasing patronage with which it has been honoured. The success they have met with, and the testimonies of approbation with which they have been favoured, encourage them to persevere, and justify their hopes of continued and progressive prosperity.

In conducting this Miscellany, they wish to act without fear and without favour. They are, nevertheless, sincerely desirous of giving satisfaction to their friends in every part of the kingdom. But always to please, and to please all, cannot be expected. It remains, therefore, to seek useful and important ends, to cherish pure motives, and to give no unnecessary cause of offence; so doing, the results need not be dreaded. It may be proper to add, that if in any case their measures should not be approved, the Editors invite correspondence, and are ever ready to give explanations, and state the reasons of their conduct.

From rivalry and opposition, the Editors feel persuaded they have nothing to fear. They will only observe, that whatever may be their opinions of the comparative merits of contemporary publications, they will never obtrude those opinions on their readers; much less suffer their pages to be disgraced by misrepresentation or scurrility. Weapons so contemptible and unholy they

PREFACE.

In reviewing the labours of another year, the Editors cannot but express their gratitude to those kind friends by whose contributions their work has been enriched, and to the Public at large, for the increasing patronage with which it has been honoured. The success they have met with, and the testimonies of approbation with which they have been favoured, encourage them to persevere, and justify their hopes of continued and progressive prosperity.

In conducting this Miscellany, they wish to act without fear and without favour. They are, nevertheless, sincerely desirous of giving satisfaction to their friends in every part of the kingdom. But always to please, and to please all, cannot be expected. It remains, therefore, to seek useful and important ends, to cherish pure motives, and to give no unnecessary cause of offence; so doing, the results need not be dreaded. It may be proper to add, that if in any case their measures should not be approved, the Editors invite correspondence, and are ever ready to give explanations, and state the reasons of their conduct.

From rivalry and opposition, the Editors feel persuaded they have nothing to fear. They will only observe, that whatever may be their opinions of the comparative merits of contemporary publications, they will never obtrude those opinions on their readers; much less suffer their pages to be disgraced by misrepresentation or scurrility. Weapons so contemptible and unholy they