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Excerpt from The Preacher and Pastor
Secondly, the bare fact that these treatises have a standard authority in the church, imparts to them a factitious worth which cannot be attained by compositions of' modern date. It is impossible that any living divine will give such counsels with regard to clerical duty, as will secure the veneration already paid to the maxims which our ancestors have sanctioned. Even if the contemporary author be as good a man as Richard Bax ter, and if he express himself With as much pith and wisdom, still he cannot expect the same immediate deference, which is yielded, as by prescriptive right, to the Puritan of Kiddermin ster. The dead, when revered at all, have often one advantage over the living; their foibles are hidden behind the veil of years, it may be oi' centuries; their virtues are remembered, perhaps magnified, - and that which is unknown in reference to them is interpreted in their favor. There is a species of cano nization, which we are instinctively inclined to practise, and which often gives to the departed a more unbroken in¿uence than even they could have had while living.
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