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 3UPCCCLVJI, 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 It was quaintly observed, many years ago, that the British 
 Colonies in the East and West were like the wings of a 
 bird, which would at length, when fully grown, carry 
 away the body out of which they sprang. Events of 
 comparatiT ely old date in the West, and recent ones in 
 the East, have awakened us to the dangers which may 
 befall the mother-country by the want of unity of heart 
 and action in her remote dependencies. Though the 
 head is of gold, the feet and toes may be of iron and clay, 
 in which there is no coherence, and which, instead of 
 being a support, may prove an occasion of downfal to 
 her colossal empire. 
 
 It concerns the Christian Statesman, then, not only to 
 annex territory and to people it, but to take care that 
 these remote provinces be :vs< much as possible assimilated 
 tq the s^at of empire, and bound to it as members of 
 one family. Let them be like the two cherubim which 
 were beaten out of the mercy-seat, being of the same 
 metal, and of the same lump, and standing like guardian 
 angels, with their faces towards the place from whence 
 they rose. We can conceive no other way of effecting 
 this than by seeking to infuse the spirit of the British 
 Constitution into all parts of Her Majesty's dominions. 
 
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 Let all the benefits of a wise, enlightened, and paternal 
 civil government, and all the privileges of British subjects 
 at home, be extended more even to those who are most 
 alien in their blood, religion, and customs in the Colonies, 
 as they are able to use them to advantage; and let that 
 Apostolic faith and order — which is the Palladium of our 
 country, and which is adapted to the spiritual wants of 
 all men, be they civilised or barbarian, be they worshippers 
 of God or of idols, — be planted and watered wherever the 
 British flag is unfurled. 
 
 If " the spirit of the living creature is in the wheels," as in 
 Ezekiel's vision, then the wheels move up and down, to and 
 fro, in harmony with the body of the wonderful chariot in 
 which the God of glory rides forth to accomplish his purposes 
 on the earth ; and if he makes the clouds his chariot, which 
 float in the sky laden with the fertilising shower of his 
 mercy, as well as the fiery bolts of his judgments, why should 
 we not trust and pray that he will make those little islands 
 which float, as it were, on the surface of the ocean, his 
 chariots to convey the best gifts of his providence — right 
 laws, and ordinances, and good government — as well as the 
 still more precious Word and Sacraments of his grace to the 
 ends of the earth ? 
 
 The primary object of the Preacher of the Sermon to 
 which these observations are prefixed, was to discharge a 
 debt of love, in subordinat' a to the Great Shepherd and 
 Bishop of Souls, to a highly esteemed brother, of whose 
 worth he has known the proof for many years, who invited 
 him to officiate on occasion of his consecration. In placing 
 his poor services at the disposal of the Bishop-elect, he was 
 glad to have an opportunity of expressing his sympathy with 
 the Church in the Colonies, and to contribute his mite 
 towards drawing public attention to a subject of such in- 
 
 
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 creasing importance. The peculiar feature of progressive 
 development in the Church in Canada, presented by the 
 voluntary action of its members in the erection of a new 
 Bishopric, forms an era in the history of the Colonial Church. 
 The Church at home, convinced that the faith of the Gospel 
 is best preserved in conjunction with order — that these 
 mutually support each other, and that, where there are many 
 officers of Christ's army, order and discipline cannot well be 
 maintained without a general officer — has shown her care for 
 her oflFspring abroad by erecting and endowing many epi- 
 scopal sees, which, by the blessing of God, have proved, where 
 these high posts are occupied by able ministers of the New 
 Testament, to be an effectual means of lengthening her cords 
 and strengthening her stakes. It is a clear evidence that 
 the same fervent zeal for the well-being and perfection of 
 Christ's mystical body has been kindled in the Far West, 
 when we find the clergy and laity of a large province — about 
 as large as Ireland, though still thinly peopled — them- 
 selves providing the endowment, and themselves obtaining 
 from Her Majesty the Queen her gracious sanction to the 
 formation of the See of Huron.* 
 
 Not but that this great district, which is likely to occupy 
 so important a place in the AVestern World (for though 
 it does not yielu golden ore, it is famous for its golden grain, 
 which equals the productions of any other soil, and which is 
 a much more inexhaustible mine of wealth than the former,) 
 has hitherto enjoyed the advantage of episcopal supervision j 
 but the Diocese of Toronto, to which it is an appendage, has 
 entirely overgrown the effective jurisdiction of a single 
 Bishop. 
 
 That Diocese was itself, in 1840, separated for the same 
 
 * One-eighth of the amount subscribed was contributed out of their very 
 scanty incomes by the clergy of the new cuoccec. 
 
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 reason from the Diocese of Quebec — the original see which 
 embraced the British possessions in Canada. Quebec was 
 subsequently divided into Quebec and Montreal, even as now 
 Toronto has been divided into Toronto and Huron. 
 
 Another feature of peculiar interest in connexion with this 
 new see, is, that the lay element in the Church is called forth 
 into active operation. The stipulation which has been en- 
 tered into with Her Majesty's Government is, that, in 
 consideration of the exertions of the Church in the diocese to 
 raise the Episcopal endowment, the privilege shall be con- 
 ceded to the clergy and laity, under certain limitations, to 
 elect their own Bishop, from time to time, according to the 
 practice of the primitive church. There can be no question 
 but that, whatever drawback may attend this arrange- 
 ment — and what step, however wisely directed, can be taken 
 in human affairs without a drawback? — an impulse will be 
 given to earnest and pious laymen to co-operate more ener* 
 getically with their brethren in the ministry in working out 
 the great ends of Christ's holy institution. There will arise 
 an accession of strength to our Church from this source. 
 We are the more persuaded of this, when wc see that the 
 main strength of the Dissenting bodies consists in marshalling 
 the forces of the laity in a manner available for the various 
 services to which they are adapted. Our Church and Clergy 
 have been losers by too often passing by the intelligent and 
 spiritually-minded amongst the lay members, who would have 
 served, not only as materials for the temple of the Lord, but 
 as helpers in building it. 
 
 There is one circumstance in the condition of this infant 
 Diocese to which the attention and sympathy of the Christ- 
 ian public is earnestly invited : it is, that when the endow- 
 ment had reached the amount of 8,400/., and there was every 
 prospect of the proposed 10,000/. being realised, together 
 
with provision for building an Episcopal residence, a sudden 
 cheek was given to the effort by the commercial crisis which 
 has befallen the Canadas in consequence of their contiguity 
 to, and intercourse with, the United States. This other great 
 country is now plunged into an abyss of distress and bank- 
 ruptcy. The result is, that the Bishop, having vacated the 
 living of London, C. W., worth about 1200/. per annum,* 
 with a suitable residence, has sacrificed 700/. a* year and 
 a house, and steps into his more responsible office, (to 
 which of necessity belong so many additional expenses of 
 itinerating through an extensive diocese, and of using more 
 enlarged hospitality,) with the wholly inadequate income of 
 504/. per annum, without a residence. Even this proposed 
 income, too, however inadequate, is reduced, and a portion 
 of the capital jeopardized, by the failure of a gentleman in 
 whose hands it was placed. 
 
 Though we may hope that the country will, after a while, 
 recover itself from this calamity, yet is there not a strong 
 reason for a present effort being made by Christians in Great 
 Britain to ease their Transatlantic brethren from some portion 
 of the burden of their pious undertaking, for " the children 
 ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the 
 children '' (2 Cor. xii. 14) ; and specially to mark their sense 
 of the self-devotion and self-denial of him who took up the 
 mitre at the call of God, when in so many ways it was 
 plainly taking up a cross ? The involuntary sufferings of 
 those whose goods have been spoiled in India have provoked 
 us to noble efforts for their relief. Is there no room for 
 
 * The income of St. Paul's Rectory, London, arises from the rent of 
 land which, in 1836, was bestowed upon the church, and which, at that 
 time, was of little or no value, but, by the increase of the City, and the im- 
 provement in the value of property, has, for the last two years, produced the 
 above amount. 
 
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 sympathy with those who bear burdens for Christ's sake, 
 and for his Church's good, which they might have declined? 
 If there be any burdens more than others which we are 
 called to bear, these, surely, should have the priority. 
 
 It is proposed to open a Subscription, and it is hoped 
 that a Fund will be raised sufficient to complete the Endow- 
 ment and to erect a suitable Residence for the Bishop, which, 
 if built of wood, will cost 1000/.; but of brick, which is 
 far more desirable for its permanence, will, with a site, cost 
 about 3500/. or 3000/. 
 
 Subscriptions will be thankfully received by the llev. 
 Mesac Thomas, Secretary of the Colonial Church and 
 School Society, Serjeants' Inn, 9 Fleet Street, London. 
 
 
A SERMON, 
 
 if9. 
 
 EoM. i. 16. 
 
 " For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ : for it is the 
 power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth ; 
 to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." 
 
 Were we to see a well of water springing up in the 
 midst of a desert of sand, and fertilizing not only 
 the waste places on its own level, but afterwards 
 ascending the base of an adjacent mountain, and 
 carrying fertility to its highest top, we should turn 
 aside to see this " great sight," and examine this 
 remarkable phenomenon. The progress of the 
 Gospel of Jesus Christ on this very account chal- 
 lenges our earnest and devout attention. It went 
 forth at first from the lips of one who grew up, ** as 
 a root out of a dry ground," one, who was " despised 
 and rejected of men," a poor and, by repute, an 
 illiterate individual. It was at first communicated 
 to a company of men of low estate — fishermen, 
 
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 and others of like occupation. It was then first 
 preached hy them to the poor of the land, and 
 to that nation, which was most despicable in the 
 eyes of the world. It was afterwards sounded forth 
 amidst the learning and refinements of Athens and 
 Corinth, and, at length, was proclaimed within the 
 walls of imperial Rome, and in every place it bare 
 its own proper fruit. The truth of the Gospel 
 began to be heard and believed in the lowest places, 
 and thence ascended to the highest pinnacles of 
 human society, and had its trophies everywhere. 
 
 Unlike the costly productions of art or commerce, 
 which are first possessed, enjoyed, and monopolised 
 by the rich and powerful, and seldom find their way 
 into the cottages of the poor, the Gospel was first 
 conferred on the poor by the bountiful Giver of 
 ** every good and perfect gift," to show that the gift 
 of grace was not purchased by money or commanded 
 by power ; and it was afterwards extended to the 
 rich, great, and noble, to show that God's mercy is 
 over all his works, and that he ** will have all men 
 to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the 
 truth." * 
 
 This contrast is to he observed between the 
 Gospel in its purity and every corruption of it. 
 The latter generally takes its rise amongst men of 
 commanding and cultivated intellect and influential 
 position. It is fostered amongst the aristocracy of 
 society, and thence descends to the lowest of the 
 
 * 1 Tim. ii. 40. 
 
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 people, unless it is checked by the gracious pro- 
 vidence of God. Every perversion of truth pro- 
 claims itself to be of man, by grasping at earthly 
 advantages, and decking itself with earth's costliest 
 trappings, and yet coming to nought in spite of all. 
 But " the wisdom, which is from above," shows itself 
 to be of God by its tendency upwards — its steady 
 ascent towards its own level, notwithstanding the 
 disadvantages of its humble origin as regards this 
 world.* 
 
 St. Paul's mention of his mission to Rome, in 
 the verse preceding the text, has suggested these 
 observations. He began his ministry in the syna- 
 gogues of the Jews, and then carried it on in the 
 deserts of Arabia : he ended it within the walls of 
 the metropolis of the civilised world — the seat of 
 imperial majesty. 
 
 In the prospect of visiting Rome, had he ** con- 
 sulted with flesh and blood," and hearkened to the 
 suggestions of mere worldly prudence, he would 
 naturally have had many misgivings. That Gospel, 
 which he had preached elsewhere, and which had 
 been commended to the hearts and consciences of 
 simple and illiterate people, might appear very weak 
 
 • " The ancient Christians were, for the most part, slaves, 
 and men of low station. The whole history of the expansion 
 of the Church is, in reality, a progressive victory of the 
 ignorant over the learned, the lowly over the lofty, until the 
 Emperor himself laid down his crown before the cross of 
 Christ." — Oldshausen, as quoted by Al/ord, on 1 Cor. i. 26. 
 
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 and foolish to those, whose intellects had heen ex- 
 ercised, and taste cultivated, hy heathen philosophy 
 and literature ; who had been conversant with the 
 affairs of this world on a great scale. He would 
 naturally question, from what he had experienced 
 at Athens and Corinth, — Will the great condescend 
 to learn from one so insignificant as I am ? and will 
 the conquerors of the world bow the neck to the yoke 
 of Christ, when one belonging to a captive nation 
 proposes to put it on ? Surely they will spurn it, 
 when it is required that " every thought " shall be 
 brought " into captivity to the obedience of Christ.'* 
 Surely they will set it at nought, when they com- 
 pare it with the wisdom of their wise men, with the 
 excellency of speech of their eloquent orators. 
 
 But St. Paul did not reason thus. He had 
 such confidence in the divine nature and efficacy 
 of the message which he bore — such an estimate of 
 the value of the treasure committed to him, though 
 he carried it in an earthen vessel — such reliance 
 on the promised agency of the Holy Ghost bearing 
 witness to Christ in the Gospel, that he boldly 
 avows, though in the immediate prospect of stand- 
 ing before Caesar and his imperial court, " I am 
 not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." It is not 
 as if I were called to provide an entertainment for 
 the great and noble out of my own poor resources ; 
 but I am to spread out a feast of the Lord's own 
 providing. God is to be the host, for " The Lord 
 of hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat 
 
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 things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things 
 full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined ;" ♦ 
 so that kings md princes of the earth should count 
 it an honour to he the guests. While the enter- 
 tainment is every way worthy of the King of kings 
 and Lord of lords, we are to be but as servants, 
 ministering the Gospel of God ; for " We preach 
 not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and our- 
 selves your servants for Jesus' sake."t Thus Paul 
 could adopt the sentiment of the inspired Psalmist 
 as his own : — ** I will speak of thy testimonies also 
 before kings, and will not be ashamed." 1: 
 
 Having considered the determination of the 
 Apostle to plant the standard of the Cross on the 
 walls of imperial Rome, two important inquiries 
 remain, which we are enabled to answer by the 
 text : — 1 . Why is the Gospel such a treasure, that 
 the preacher of it need not be ashamed to bring it 
 forth, and open it out in the presence of the wise, 
 great, and noble, more than of the poor and un- 
 learned? 2. Who are they that are enriched by 
 that treasure? 
 
 As to the first, the value of the Gospel consists 
 in its being a display of the gracious power of God 
 in the salvation of lost man. '* The heavens de- 
 clare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth 
 his handy work." § His creative power and wisdom 
 are abundantly illustrated by the boundless ex- 
 
 * Isa. XXV. 6. 
 X Ps. cxix. 46. 
 
 t 2 Cor. iv. 5. 
 § Ps. xix. ]. 
 
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 tent of the universe, and the order and harmony 
 of those bright worlds, which move like floating 
 islands in the vast expanse. But when God was 
 then pleased to exert his Almighty power, there 
 was nothing to let or obstruct him in its operations. 
 " He spake, and it was done ; he commanded, and 
 it stood fast."* Not so, when he put forth his 
 gracious power to save. His own justice and holi- 
 ness resisted its progress. The law with its curse, 
 the full penalty of which had been incurred by us 
 guilty transgressors, stood in the way, and claimed 
 its victims. *' Let them go dovt^n into the pit, which 
 is digged for the ungodly," was the stern demand 
 of Justice. By what contrivance, then, shall the 
 "Author of eternal salvation" overcome this resist- 
 ance ? How shall Justice be prevailed upon to 
 cancel her claims, as fully satisfied, and give free 
 course to Mercy ? Here lies the great mystery of 
 godliness, and this is that which is revealed in the 
 Gospel. God, in human flesh, surrendered him- 
 self to be the victim of divine justice in our stead ; 
 so that the great God, in perfect consistency with 
 his hatred of sin and determination to punish it, 
 could say, ** Deliver him from going down to the 
 pit: I have found a ransom I"t This is the **arm 
 of the Lord" which was laid bare to pluck the brands 
 out of the burning, when Jesus of Nazareth was 
 born, and lived, and died, and rose again, but 
 
 * Ps. xxxiii. 9. 
 
 f Job, xxxiii. 24. 
 
it was hid from unbelieving Jews. This is that 
 arm of which the Prophet, foreseeing the universal 
 proclamation of the Gospel, saith, " The Lord hath 
 made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the 
 nations, and all the ends of the world have seen the 
 salvation of our God." * It was not, then, by a 
 simple Jiat, by an expression of his will, that the 
 salvation of man was accomplished. It cost more 
 to redeem souls. The Son of God must come to 
 do the Father's will, and to accomplish his eternal 
 purpose ; and he did it, by fulfilling every precept 
 of the law in his life, and exhausting its curse 
 in his death. ** His agony and bloody sweat, his 
 cross and passion," and not merely the word of 
 his power, have laid the foundations of the " new 
 heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth 
 righteousness." The kind of power, then, which 
 God puts forth in the Gospel, is not an arbitrary 
 power, which often tramples on right, but a righ- 
 teous power, which ** magnifies the law, and makes 
 it honourable." 
 
 This is further illustrated and confirmed in the 
 following verse, — "Therein the righteousness of 
 God is revealed,'* for the salvation of everv one that 
 believeth. It will aid us, perhaps, in forming a 
 more just conception of that righteousness, which is 
 revealed in the Gospel, if we consider the part, 
 which the three persons of the Godhead have 
 
 * Isa. lii. 10, 
 
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 respectively in it. It is the righteousness of God 
 the Father, inasmuch as he has appointed it, pro- 
 vides it, and accepts it. It is the righteousness of 
 God the Son, as he fulfilled it in the days of his 
 flesh, by his obedience to the precept and curse of 
 the law. It is the righteousness of God the Holy 
 Ghost, as it becomes ours only by him : he takes 
 of that righteousness, and shows it to us ; for no 
 man can say that Jesus Christ is " the Lord our 
 righteousness'* ** but by the Holy Ghost."* The 
 righteous power, then, by which the lost are saved, 
 is wielded by all the three persons of the Holy 
 Trinity ; the righteousness by virtue of which they 
 are justified is in the fullest sense ** the righteous- 
 ness of God ;" and they, who are bound up in the 
 bundle of righteousness and life with the Lord 
 their God, are bound with a threefold cord which 
 cannot be broken. 
 
 There is good reason, then, why the minister of 
 the Gospel should not be ashamed to sound it forth, 
 whether in the cottages of the poor, or the palaces 
 of the great. It propounds a remedy for sin, with 
 which all, in every rank, are chargeable, and which 
 must be equally fatal to all, unless they repent and 
 receive forgiveness. And this remedy is so divine, 
 as to be complete and infallible ; for it is the 
 righteousness of God, who is " mighty to save," 
 bestowed, as a free gift, upon guilty man. " For he 
 hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, 
 
 * 1 Cor. xii. 3. 
 
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 that we might be made the righteousness of God in 
 him.''* 
 
 Such, then, being the treasure of the Gospel ; 
 who are they who are enriched by it ? To whom 
 belongs the gift of forgiveness and acceptance with 
 God, as a righteous man ? *' To every one that 
 believethj" for, as is farther explained in the fol- 
 lowing verse, the righteousness of God is revealed 
 in the Gospel, ** from faith to faith." This expres- 
 sion signifies intensely, that it is faith only that 
 apprehends it, as " death unto death " implies, that 
 death only is the portion of those who reject 
 the Gospel. The Gospel, then, is only effectual 
 "through faith unto salvation" — faith from first 
 to last.t If we believe with the heart, then it is 
 "the Gospel of our salvation.*' t To those who 
 believe not, it is the news of their condemnation ; 
 **for this is the condemnation, that light is come 
 into the world, and men love darkness rather than 
 light, because their deeds are evil." § 
 
 Now this fact, that it is faith only, which lays 
 hold upon and appropriates the righteousness of 
 God, accounts for that, which might otherwise 
 seem strange ; that a certain pre-eminence is 
 assigned to it in Scripture above other graces, by 
 
 * 2 Cor. V. 21. 
 
 f " Fides, inquit Paulus, manct fides. Fides est prora et 
 puppis. Sic pulchrc ad w sonat w, ut mtto et us 2 Cor. iii. 18 
 dc gloria purissirau." — Bexgel, in loco. 
 
 I Eph. ii 13. § John, iii. 10. 
 
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 its being more frequently insisted on than any of 
 the rest, and by its being placed in a more pro- 
 minent position. It is commended as the founda- 
 tion-stone of personal holiness , *' building yourselves 
 up on your most holy faith."* It is designated ** pre- 
 cious faith." t Is it that faith is more intrinsically 
 precious than humility, purity, courage, constancy ? 
 No I but it has a relative value which, does not 
 belong to them. It is, as it were, the check by 
 which we draw out of God's treasure the unsearch- 
 able riches of the ** everlasting righteousness " of 
 his [^Son. No other grace answers this end, and 
 therefore faith is commended to sinners first of all, 
 as the means of their acceptance with God, and 
 adoption into his family. All other graces, indeed, 
 are to be diligently cultivated, having their proper 
 value, as fruits and evidences of that acceptance. 
 But faith is as the queen bee in the midst of the 
 swarm. Get this and keep it, and all blessings 
 in clusters shall be yours, for having this you 
 have Christ ; and shall not God " with him also 
 freely give us all things?" 
 
 If, then, it be admitted as a principle that 
 cannot be gainsayed, that the glorious Gospel of 
 the grace of God is the only appointed instrument 
 for the salvation of lost man ; and if that faith, 
 which lays hold of God's strength and righte- 
 ousness, comes by hearing it ; it follows that there 
 
 * Jude, 20. 
 
 t 2 Pet. i. 1, 
 
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 is a solemn and weighty obligation on all in au- 
 thority in Church and State to take care, as far 
 as in them lies, that the Gospel be preached and 
 taught. It was the chosen motto for the Archi- 
 episcopal seal of Ussher, that great Primate of 
 the Irish branch of the United Church — " Woe is 
 me if I preach not the Gospel I ** It is, blessed be 
 God, virtually the motto of a goodly company of the 
 Prelates of the United Church of our day. It is 
 also the motto of a goodly number of the Colonial 
 Bishops; and I am persuaded, that it has long 
 since been adopted, and will ever be the motto, of 
 our esteemed brother, who is this day to be sealed 
 as a Father in God for the Diocese of Huron, in 
 Canada. He comes to us with high commen- 
 dations. Having purchased to himself a good 
 degree, by twenty-five years' service in our Church 
 in North America, he comes, chosen as a Bishop 
 of that branch of the Church, by the unanimous 
 suffrage* of the clergy and laity, who have been 
 eye-witnesses of his past services ; and the choice 
 has been sanctioned by her gracious Majesty the 
 Queen. 
 
 It so happens, that I can testify from personal 
 
 * The election was keenly contested ; but after the votes 
 of the clergy and laity had been taken, and found in favour of 
 Dr. Cronyn, the Rev. E. Dewar moved that the Bishop of 
 Toronto be requested to recommend Dr. Cronyn to Her Majesty 
 the Queen, as unanimously chosen by that Synod to be the 
 Bishop of the new diocese. This resolution was carried 
 unanimously. 
 
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 knowledge, that our brother shrank from the high 
 and responsible office, rather than aspired to it. 
 After the example of his Divine Master, of whom 
 it was said by one of old, that, " When sought for 
 to be crowned, ho hid himself,"* our brother strove 
 hard to devolve the mitre on another, whom, in 
 the humility of his mind, he esteemed better than 
 himself. 1, with many others, can also testify, 
 that before he left Ireland for his new home and 
 sphere of labour in America, we had constant 
 opportunity of fully knowing "his doctrine, manner 
 of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, pa- 
 tience.'* t And I shall only say, that he was such 
 a man then, and is such a man to this day, by the 
 help of God our Saviour, as the Church has reason 
 to rejoice in numbering amongst her ecclesiastical 
 rulers. 
 
 But while it is evidently the primary duty of a 
 Bishop, as a steward of God, to be himself a preacher 
 of the everlasting Gospel in its purity, the second 
 is like to it, and is implied in the solemn charge, 
 **Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be par- 
 takers of other men's sins."t Take care that they, 
 to whom you entrust the preaching of the Gospel, 
 bo themselves men, who know and love the truth 
 of the Gospel, lest you be a partaker of the great 
 sin of those who corrupt the Gospel. It is not 
 enough that candidates for orders are ready to 
 
 * "Qii;xsitus ad coronam latuit, ad cruccm scsc reddidit." 
 t 2 Tim. iii. 10. I 1 Tiiu. V. 22. 
 
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 subscribe the Articles of our Church, although 
 they, and especially the Xlth, Xllth, XII Ith, and 
 XVII ill, give no uncertain sound as to the fun- 
 damental verities of the Gospel. For there are 
 found too many, who subscribe them, and yet in 
 their loaching make void some of the most material 
 of them J and thus depart, if not from the order, 
 yet from the faith, both of our Church, and of 
 the Scriptures. Therefore a Bishop must exercise 
 an independent judgment, formed on the best 
 grounds within his reach, of the real sentiments 
 and spiritual condition of the candidates for orders 
 who are presented to him. Neither is it sufficient 
 that any should be able to make a fair show in the 
 flesh of being a man of God. Great apparent 
 holiness may co-exist with utter unsoundness in 
 the faith. One of the ancients well saith, that 
 '*We are not to judge the faith by the man, but 
 the man by the faith ; " * which sentiment is but 
 an echo of St. Paul's : '* Though we, or an angel 
 from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you 
 than that we have preached unto you, let him be 
 accursed." t 
 
 Spiritual discernment, therefore, is specially 
 needed by a Bishop, that he may ** try the spirits 
 whether they are of God," lest ** false prophets," 
 ** like wolves in sheep's clothing," go forth into his 
 diocese. Discernment, we say ; for neither is a 
 
 * TertuUian, De Praescrip. adver. Hteret. 
 t Gal. i. 8. 
 
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 form of sound words always an adequate test of 
 a man's orthodoxy, as, on the other hand, a 
 defective mode of expressing the faith of the 
 Gospel is not decisive evidence of the want of 
 it: for there are those who are feehle in matters 
 of speculative divinity, who are mighty and 
 powerful in the essentials of the life of faith. 
 Nor will the external semblance of zeal and piety 
 be an absolute security against unsound speech, 
 which would eat the vitals of the Church like a 
 canker. 
 
 The time would fail me to enlarge upon the 
 high and responsible duties of the Episcopal office, 
 for which a man requires many keen eyes and 
 manv strong hands, and which is about to be 
 conferred this day upon one who, from his in- 
 most soul, exclaims, "Who is sufficient for these 
 things ? '* Nor would it be suitable to thft 
 present occasion, nor yet to the preacher, lest he 
 intrude into matters too high for him. 
 
 Let us look up to our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 the great Head of the Church, on whose shoulders 
 is the weight of her government, in whose hands 
 are the reins, and whose eyes run to and fro 
 through the earth, while he walks in the midst 
 of the seven golden candlesticks, intreating him 
 **to cleanse and defend his Church" in these 
 realms, so that it may be a city set on a hill, the 
 light of which may be shed abroad over the 
 whole world. 
 
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 And let England labour for the propagation of 
 the Apostolic order and faith in her wide-spread 
 colonies. Let her feet be shod with the pre- 
 paration of the Gospel of peace amongst the 
 Heathen. These will be her best bulwarks 
 against all her enemies ; even more than the 
 wooden walls of her navy, and the iron ones of 
 her army. It was promised to Israel of old, that 
 when the tribes went up to worship and serve 
 the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem, their hostile 
 neighbours should not covet or invade their country. 
 May we not entertain a holy confidence, that if 
 England continues to work the work of the Lord 
 in the world, and abounds in it more and more, 
 the Lord will water her with the dew of His 
 blessing, and spread over her the shield of His 
 protection, saying to other nations, who may be 
 tempted to envy her greatness, "Destroy it not, 
 for a blessing is in it ? '* 
 
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