Matthias Faber does not shrink from telling a story, and a story with a good practical moral to it, but he does not attempt simile to any extent. There is an apparent crudity in his discourses. Probably this is owing to their being printed from the abstract which he drew up before preaching; so that when delivered, the apparent abruptness and ruggedness of this outline may have been smoothed away. Few ancient preachers would be more serviceable to a clergyman of the present day, or more acceptable to an English congregation. Unfortunately, the volumes are somewhat scarce, and consequently expensive. The following is a list of Faber’s works and their several editions: 1. Controversiæ contra Altorfienses Professores. 2. Concionum opus tripartitum; Ingolstadii, 3 vols. fol., 1631; Cracoviæ, 1647. 3. Auctuarium Operis Concionum Pars; Græcii, fol., 1646; Antverpiæ, 2 vols. fol., 1647. Auctuarium pro Dominicis et Sanctis; Cracoviæ, fol., 1647. Opus Concionum, Pars Hiemalis; Antverpiæ, 3 vols. fol., 1650. Auctuarium; Antverpiæ, fol., 1653. Opus Concionum … cum Auctuario; Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 4to., 5 partes, 1669. Opus Concionum, Pars Æstivalis; Antverpiæ, fol., 1663. Opus Concionum; Coloniæ, 3 vols., 4to., 1693. Concionum Sylva nova, seu Auctuarium. Cui accedunt Conciones Funebres, Nuptiales, et Strenales posthumæ. Coloniæ, 4to., tomus primus, 1695. 4. R. P. Matthiæ Fabri Conciones Funebres; Brugis, 12mo., 1723. 5. Höret den Sohn Gottes; Olivæ, 24mo., 1678. I shall give the reader the outline of some of Matthias Faber’s sermons, that he may judge for himself whether he deserves the praise I have accorded to him. Fourth Sunday in Lent. St. John vi. 13. “They gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves.” Introduction. There were twelve baskets full of food gathered from this feast which Jesus made in the wilderness, and twelve are the wholesome lessons which I gather from it, and with which I feed you to-day. 1. Learn fervour and zeal for hearing the Gospel. “The people,” we are told, “ran afoot out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto Him.” Behold their earnestness, and contrast it with your indifference. They came on foot, they came long distances, they came in great numbers, they outwent Christ and His Apostles, they came voluntarily and without having been summoned, they came oblivious of their bodily wants, bringing with them their wives and children. Faber draws a contrast between these people and his hearers, undoubtedly just, but certainly not flattering: and he applies to the latter the words of God to Ezekiel, “Ye pollute Me among My people for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread.” 2. Learn the various effects produced by God’s Word on different hearers.