esired that it might be known publicly, it
was told him by the Bishop of Oxford [Seeker]. The Master seemed
mightily pleased, and was in hopes it would be of great service to the
public as well as his private family, which will be a pleasure to
every body, and make even the death of Her Majesty (so great a seeming
loss) of advantage to the nation."

I have been mainly induced to publish these Remains by the pleasure with
which some copies I had given away privately have been received, and I
confess that the fruit I should be most gratified to see, would be the
recovery of some longer work, not less worthy of its Author's reputation.

EDWARD STEERE, LL.D.

University College, London,
1st September, 1853.

FRAGMENTS.

From the autographs of Bp. Butler now in the library at the British
Museum. [Add. MS. 9815.]

I.

God cannot approve of any thing but what is in itself Right, Fit, Just.
We should worship and endeavour to obey Him with this Consciousness and
Recollection. To endeavour to please a man merely, is a different thing
from endeavouring to please him as a wise and good man, _i.e._
endeavouring to please him in the particular way, of behaving towards him
as we think the relations we stand in to him, and the intercourse we have
with him, require.

Almighty God is to be sure infinitely removed from all those human
weaknesses which we express by the words, captious, apt to take offence,
&c. But an unthinking world does not consider what may be absolutely due
to Him from all Creatures capable of considering themselves as His
Creatures. Recollect the idea, inadequate as it is, which we have of
God, and the idea of ourselves, and carelessness with regard to Him,
whether we are to worship Him at all, whether we worship Him in a right
manner, or conceited confidence that we do so, will seem to imply
unspeakable Presumption. Neither do we know what necessary, unalterable
connexion there may be, between moral right and happiness, moral wrong
and misery.

Sincerity is doubtless the thing, and not whether we hit the right
manner, &c. But a sense of the imperfection of our worship, apprehension
that it may be, and a degree of fear that it is, in some respects
erroneous, may perhaps be a temper of mind not unbecoming such poor
creatures as we are, in our addresses to God. In proportion as we are
assured that we are honest and sincere, we may rest satisfied that God
cannot be offen