Rev. Mr. Bowen, Kidwelly V. Caermarthenshire.

Rev. Thomas Seabrook, Densten perpetual curacy, Suffolk.

Rev. William Howell, Felsham. B. Sufi folk.

Rev. Thomas Williams, rector of Brimp ton, and vicar of Cloford and Buckland Dinham, Camelly R. all in the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Rev. Dr. Goodenough, eldest son of the bishop of Carlisle, a prebend in that Cathedral, vice Sheepshanks, dec.

Rev. J. Eddowes, Selton V. Leicestershire.

Rev, A. H. Matthews, B. D. Stanton Harcourt V. Oxon, vice Slatter, dec.

Rev. Samuel Chilcott, B. D. Otterham R. Cornwall, vice Jose, dec.

Rev. John Fellowes, M. A. Shotesham All Saints with St. Mary and St. Botolph VV. with Shotesham St. Martin R. annexed, Norfolk.

Rev. Thomas Watkins, M. A. Mynty V. Wilts.

Rev. John Surtees, Stenford V. Lincolns, Rev. Edward T. May, Fremington V. Devon.

Rev. Dr. Routh, president of Magdalen college, Oxford, Tylehurst R. Berks.

Rev, George Coxe, M. A. St. Michael's R. near Winchester, vice Watkins, resigned,

Rev. Thomas Carlyon, Probus V. Cornwall.

Rev. J. P. Gilbert, M. A. St. Wenn V. Cornwall, vice Carlyon, resigned.

Rev. Phillip Du Val Aufrere, B. A. Baw} deswell R. Norfolk.

Rev. Wm. Stafford, B. A. Overbury V. Worcestershire.

Rev. P. L. Godfrey, B. D. Aston and Ayott St. Lawrence R. Herts.

Rev. Thomas Davis, Ponhill V. Cornwall.

DISPENSATIONS.

Rev. William Stabback, to hold the perpetual cure of Mariansleigh, Devon, with St. Clether R. in Cornwall.

Rev. Daniel Boys, to hold Benenden V. with Brookland V. both in Kent.

Rev. John Brooke, M. A. to hold Elmsted V. Essex, and Whittlesford V. Cambridgeshire.

Rev. W. Wade to hold Lilley R. Herts, with Impington V. Carubridgeshire.

Rev. George William Hall,. B. D. Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, elected Master of that society, vice Smyth, dec.

Rev. P. Pullan, B. A. elected Master of Holt School, Norfolk,

Rev. William Beeby, M. A. appointed Master of Northleach School, co. Goucester, vice Allen, dec.

Mr. Dobinson, of Hertford, appointed Master of the Free Grammar School of that town, vice Moore, resigned.

Rev. Joseph Richardson, M. A. to the Mastership of the Grammar School at ShefGeld, Yorkshire, vice Chadwick, dec.

Rev. Mr. Keate, Under Master of Eton College, appointed Head Master, vice Dr. Goodall, appointed Provost thereof, vice Davies, dec.; and the Rev. Mr. Thackeray, to be Under Master.

Benjamin Heath Malkin, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, elected Head Master of the Free Grammar School in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, vice Becher, dec.

Rev. Dr. Douglas, master of Bene't college, vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

REV. JONATHAN STUBBS.

In our number for December, we gave a brief account of the Rev. Jonathan Stubbs, A. M. curate of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, of whose invaluable services the church has been deprived, while he was yet in the prime of his life, and the height of his usefulness. We then intimated that two sermons had been preached on the occasion of his death, which would shortly be published, and that we should then have it in our power to lay before our readers some farther particulars of his life and character. Those sermons are now before us; one preached at Derby, by the Rev. Thomas Gisborne; and the other at Uttoxeter, by the Rev. Edward Cooper*, names too well known to our readers, to require that on such an occasion we should either panegyrise their compositions, or vouch for their representations. We shall proceed, therefore, to extract from them a more detailed account of this faithful servant of Christ; not without a hope, that the loss which the church has sustained in him may, through the Divine grace and blessing, be in some measure repaired by the influence of his bright example on the minds of his brethren in the ministry, who may thus have an opportunity of contemplating it.

Mr. Stubbs was born October 11, 1773, being the only son of the Rev. Jonathan Stubbs, now de ceased, formerly Rector of Weston Longville, Huntingdonshire.

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was educated at Winchester College, from which he removed first to Cambridge, and afterwards, in 1794, to New College, Oxford; where he obtained a fellowship, which he

* Both are printed for Cadell and Davies

held until his marriage in March 1807, with Miss Kirke of Derby. In the year 1798, he entered on the curacy of St. Alkmund's parish in Derby; and it was soon after this appointment, that he became deeply, but gradually, impressed with those views of the importance and responsibility of his ministerial of fice which ever afterwards so powerfully influenced his conduct. He quitted this curacy in the autumn of 1803; and having employed himself for several months, with cir cumstances of particular kindness in the care of the churches of Scropton and Broughton in Derbyshire, in the spring of 1804, he undertook the curacy of Uttoxeter, where he continued till his death, which happened, as has been already stated, in consequence of an overturn in an open carriage on the 13th of November last. A compound fracture of his leg was followed by a delirious fever, which terminated his short but luminous career, on the 27th of the same month, in the 38th year of his age, leaving one son, aged sixteen months.

In speaking of him, Mr. Gisborne observes, with much feeling:

"He was a friend whom I have well known for many years, and under a variety of circumstances: and, with reference, to those many years and that variety of circumstances, I can bear testimony to the habitually Christian frame of his heart, and to the corresponding excellence of his conduct."

"There are certain individuals thoroughly known to me, towards all of whom I might be unjust were I to say, that I never was intimately conversant with any person who has been an equally strenuous mi

nister of Christ. But I never knew any person who surpassed him.

In his preaching, he rested every thing on the true and only true foundation, Jesus Christ and him crucified.' He brought forward distinctly, firmly, and habitually, the grand and characteristic doctrines of the Gospel: the universal corruption of human nature in consequence of the Fall; the entire inability of men to deliver themselves either from the punishment or from the dominion of sin; justification exclusively through the atoning blood of our Redeemer, who by the grace of God tasted death for every man; sanctification exclusively through the renewal of the heart to the image of God by the transforming influence of the Holy Ghost. Thence he proceeded to raise the superstructure of holy practice. Decidedly as he averred that the very best of human performances cannot plead merit with God, cannot on that ground claim reward from Eternal Justice as of debt: no less strongly did he declare the indispensable necessity of consistent good works in every branch of Christian virtue as fruits and evidences of living faith; no less earnestly did he proclaim that they who believe in God must be careful to maintain good works;' that Jesus Christ died to purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works;' that without holiness no man shall see the Lord;' that obstinately to persist in any known habit of sin is practically to renounce the kingdom of heaven. Force and plainness were distinguishing features in his discourses. He did not keep back the consoling mercies, the animating promises, of the Gospel. He did not represent to men their danger without directing them to a place of refuge. But his energy seemed the most frequently and the most anxiously to be exercised, in exhortation to flee from the wrath to come. Casting his eyes around on the irreligion and the lukewarmness prevalent in the CHRIST. OBS. App.

world, he continually felt himself impelled to lift up a warning voice, to strive to rouse his hearers from the sleep of death, to awaken them to salutary apprehension, to urge them to throw themselves without delay on the merits and the grace of the only Saviour, and in the strength derived from him 'to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.'

"Such was this teacher, when in the pulpit. Such were his instructions in the three full services, which he performed every Sunday in his church. In the discharge of the private duties of his ministry, he was laborious to a degree scarcely to be paralleled. He had under his single care a population amounting to about four thousand souls: a population by no means comprised within a single town, but partly scattered over distant farms and hamlets. Some hours in every day were usually dedicated to the visitation of the sick. These visits were not seasons of form, but of business; not hurried over, or slightly employed, but solicitously adapted, as circumstances might warrant, to the spiritual benefit of the sufferers. Here also his plainness and his force were singularly eminent, in a regu lar and direct application of scriptural truths to the state of the individual; and in pointed, apposite, and emphatical observations detecting all evasions, and exposing every false excuse. Almost every evening in the week came accompanied with its appropriate office, which no severity of weather was permitted to interrupt; with a lecture, namely, consisting of the reading of a Sermon with prayers, at an Älms-house, or at a Work-house, or at a remote village within the parish; or with some kindred occupation. Add to these professional engagements the prayers, and the exposition of Scripture, in the private devotions of his family, the daily employment of a considerable portion of time in the preparation of Sermons, and the large mass of occasional duty conti

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nually recurring in so populous a parish and you will say that you have rarely heard of a character, by whom time was so conscientiously redeemed. One day in fact passed like another. His labours were regular, uniform, pursued with most exemplary patience and perseverance. The workman was always at his work. He had no impeding habits he allowed himself in no foreign occupations, in no interfering indulgences. From his station he was seldom absent. His absences were short; and were very commonly connected with some object of religious edification to himself or to other persons. And he was previously careful to secure, if it were possible, the uninterrupted continuance of his lectures on the week-days, by the assistance of clerical friends; who had learned not to be surprised when they found that he had prepared and left behind for them a long list of sick persons whom he requested them to visit; a list sometimes accompanied with remarks and suggestions as to the state of mind of particular individuals. While he had a cordial respect and regard for all, of whatever denomination, who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity,' he was firmly attached to the Establishment of which he was a minister; and actively warned his congregation not only in private but from the pulpit against errors, into which he saw reason to fear that they might be drawn by persons of a different persuasion. His sobermindedness was so steady and so striking, that it must be no common ignorance which could have imputed to him extravagance or indiscretion. His private charities among his people were such as you would expect from a man, who did not lay up his treasure upon earth. In every fit mode within his reach he was vigilant to forward the interests of religion. Very recently he rendered a signal service to his flock, and to numbers who never heard and may never hear his name,

by procuring the institution in his parish of a Bible Society, partly for the special purpose of supplying an annual quantity of Bibles to the lower classes in the place, partly as an auxiliary to the general British and Foreign Bible Society stationed in the metropolis: to that general Society, which, in proportion to the period during which it has subsisted, has conferred on this country and on the world more extensive blessings than those which have flowed from any other association ever formed in any quarter of the globe: a Society which most happily unites Christians, of opinions however widely discordant, in that grand and simple object in which all may agree and co-operate; the diffusion of the pure word of God, of that word which is the depository of the truth as it is in Jesus.""

"Our late friend was naturally retired, shy, and of few words: a circumstance which stamps a higher value on the vigour and the steadiness of his professional exertions, as it denotes the strength of the principle which produced them. His humility rested on a stedfast conviction of the sinfulness of baman nature; and of the feeble advances which he conceived himself to have made under the grace set before him. He was meek, unobtrusive, remarkably free from irritability under trials, and of a serenely cheerful frame of mind. His friends he loved with a pure heart fervently: and they found his kindness and his deportment always the same. His conversation leaned to subjects tending to the glory of God and the welfare of man. Aud when he entered into discourse of public events, it generally became apparent, that he was observing them with a religious eye, and was applying them to religious improvement. His views of the great fundamentals of the Gospel grew stronger and clearer to the last; were more firmly riveted in his heart, more distinctly exhibited in his conduct.