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expressing a wish that, in future, that should enter as little as possible into the idea of the Meeting. Our separation this day has been very affecting; every one seemed as if taking leave of his dearest friend, who was going to India. . . . . Our Jubilee was as different from the religious dissipation of the Mission Societies, as a sweet rustic scene differs from Cheapside, O for more of that divine composure, that tender love, that heavenly ardour which animated the whole company! Less mixture of the animal I never expect to see in this world. Humility, meekness, gentleness, love, stillness, the full eye, the tender look, the slow unimposing voice; in short, come and see, come and taste, come and exemtaste,-come plify, if our lives be spared to another year;-and in the mean time believe me, my dear friend,

"most affectionately yours,

"C. SIMEON."

CHAPTER XI.

DEATH OF BISHOP YORKE-DR. DAMPIER SUCCEEDS TO THE SEEHIS FEELINGS TOWARDS MR. SIMEON-MR. SIMEON'S LETTER TO HIM—EXPLANATION OF HIS SENTIMENTS AND CONDUCT—IRKEGULARITIES OF FORMER TIMES MR. SIMEON'S REGARD FOR ORDER-CANDID ADMISSION

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AN UNDERGRADUATE.

1809-1811.

In the latter part of the year 1808, Mr. Simeon sustained a serious loss in the death of his kind friend and patron, Bishop Yorke. The considerate regard and steady support he had hitherto enjoyed from his Diocesan were now to be exchanged for suspicion and interference on the part of his successor. Little sympathy or respect was felt by Bishop Dampier for the minister of Trinity Church; and no one was more aware of this than Mr. Simeon himself. Dr. Dampier had formerly been a Fellow of King's, and though he had left College before Mr. Simeon arrived there from Eton, he was certainly not ignorant of Mr. S.'s career; and it was well known he had not viewed it with much favour. Mr. Simeon, anxious to prevent any expression of the Bishop's feelings, which might operate unfavourably upon his ministry, took the first opportunity he could of presenting to him a copy of the Helps to Composition; accompanying it with a respectful request, that his

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Lordship would condescend to peruse the preface, as it contained a faithful exhibition of the 'sentiments he held, and as he held them.' To this note the Bishop returned an answer certainly not distinguished for its courtesy, or calculated to allay Mr. Simeon's previous apprehensions. As it was possible however that the object of Mr. S.'s former communication might have been misconstrued, and also that his late long absence from Cambridge might require some explanation, he once more ventured to conciliate his Diocesan by a further exposition of his sentiments and conduct.

"My Lord,

"Feb. 10, 1809. "During the greater part of last year I was under the necessity of being absent from my charge. My strength had been so impaired by ministerial exertions, that I was compelled to desist from all public duty, and to seek the renovation of it by a change of air and sea-bathing. In October last I returned to my work, and since that time have continued it on the lowest possible scale of exertion, never attempting more than one sermon in the day, notwithstanding the prayers are read for me. By proceeding thus cautiously, I hope to be able to maintain my ground, without having any further occasion to apply for leave of absence. I take for granted, that if any record be kept of applications for leave, you will find that my absence was solicited, and complied with in due form; but if your Lordship should wish for a copy of my late Diocesan's letter, I will send it you with great pleasure. It breathed a truly parental solicitude and kindness throughout.

"I am almost afraid that I did not state, with sufficient clearness, to your Lordship my reason for

'asking permission to lay my Books before you. I beg to assure your Lordship, that it was not from a high conceit of any thing that I had written, or from an undue desire to obtrude any thing of mine upon your Lordship's notice; but from a wish that your Lordship should know, from an authentic source, what are the views and sentiments of one, who is now immediately under your Lordship's cognizance and jurisdiction. Your Lordship knows full well, that even truth itself may be so stated, as to convey a very erroneous idea of a person's sentiments: if, for instance, any one should say, that I maintain the doctrine of Justification by faith alone, and yet leave an impression on the mind, that I neglected to enforce good works; what he might say in words, would be substantially true, but, in fact, it would be as false as if he should accuse me of Socinianism or Deism. Indeed it appears to me, my Lord, that the very same doctrines may be useful or pernicious, according as they are stated in a way crude and rash, or qualified and cautious: and this is what I meant, when I said, that the preface contains all that I hold, and as I hold it. For if only here and there a sentence were culled from the sermons, which are studiously compressed into the smallest space, my views might possibly be mistaken; but in the preface they are brought to a point, in such a manner, that they cannot possibly be misunderstood. In all matters that form a ground of difference between persons of real piety, I think I have endeavoured to exercise caution and moderation, but in truths of fundamental importance, I have thought it my duty to speak with firmness and energy. Doubtless, it is not to be expected that every sentence in 600 ser

mons should be so written, as to commend itself equally to all; but the general scope of the whole, and the spirit which it breathes throughout, will I hope be approved by all, even by those who here and there might have stated matters somewhat differently; and, if one single sentence were pointed out to me as objectionable in any view, I should instantly! guard against its appearance in any future edition.

"As under divine providence your Lordship is now become my immediate superior in the Church, to whom I owe all possible deference and respect, I trust your Lordship will approve of my wish to lay before you the means of ascertaining my true sentiments, and of obviating any misconceptions, which the statements of others, however unintentionally, might pos sibly create. Nor will your Lordship think this caution unnecessary, when you are informed, that only about two years ago, the late Editor of the Cambridge Intelligencer (Benjamin Flower) published such falsehoods respecting me, that I judged it necessary to send them to my Diocesan, and to take his judgment on the expediency of commencing a prosecution against him. It is the same man who was brought before the House of Lords, and committed to prison, for his unwarrantable attacks on the Bishop of Llandaff. Being the great organ of the Jacobins, he laboured to destroy the character of every supporter of order and government. His attacks on me were frequent, with my name in telegraphic characters. Your Lordship may judge of the tenor of them by one single sentence in the first of them: When will this man (namely myself) cease to whet the appetite of ministers for blood?' To enter into a paper war with such a man would answer no good end. The

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