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to impress the mind and facilitate recollection; and a defect even of this subordinate kind is the more to be regretted, when the sentiments are so worthy to be engraved on the hearts of an auditory, as those of which the following are a specimen.

Sacred as is the source, vast as is the extent of this revelation, awful and imposing as are its doctrines, its precepts, and its results; it is not for the Christian minister to amuse himself with the cold reasoning of philo sophy, falsely so called, but he must address himself to this work, with the word of God in his hand, and the grace of Christ in his heart-directed, influenced, taught by the lively Oracles of God, he must advance as an ambassador for Christ, with a firm and undaunted step. To the profligate and incorrigible sinner, he must present the terrors of the Lord; he must proclaim, that "the wages of sin is death." To the humble and contrite penitent he must announce, that " the gift of God is eternal life." To the man of God thoroughly furnished unto every good work, "Henceforth there is laid up for thee a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give thee at that day.' We must unbend ourselves from the lore of the learned, to inculcate the doctrines of the lowly Jesus. We must preach Christ, and him crucified; we must inculcate strictly, and assert constantly, this faithful saying, "that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.'

These doctrines obviously embrace the depravity of the human nature; a depravity not partial, but universal. The Oracles of God affirm that man is fallen--that all have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God that in Adam all died. The unambiguous and universal experi ence of all mankind, goes to confirm the truth which the Oracles of God teach us-that man is by the fall of Adam considered as an offender against infinite purity and perfection. The glory of God therefore, must appear in another way than what can arise from the guilty sinner himself. God might indeed be glorified in the punishment of the guilty-but in the pardon of the offender he is, he can only be, glorified through Jesus Christ pp. 7. 8.

You are not redeemed, says an apostle, with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. To deny or explain away the efficacy of the atonement for the sins of the world by the blood of Christ, is to sap the foundation of the Christian religion, and to extract from the Oracles of God their vitality; to destroy the hope they offer, and that glorious consummation ot which they lead.' PP. 6-9.

Mr. M. gives a brief summary of the essential tenets, and the moral obJigations, of the Christian religion; its doctrines he describes to be those,

Which instruct us, that He who lay in the bosom of his Father, came down from heaven for us men and for our salvation :—that he came as the good shepherd, to seek and to save those that were lost-that for his sheep, he laid down his life, he suffered and was dead—that he gave himself a ransom for all, and offered himself a willing sacrifice for the guilty sons of men. That he imposes on all his followers to take his yoke upon them; which is a system of the strictest yet most amiable morality, a going about to do good-to be holy, harmless, and unde filed to give our supreme affections to God, and those of brotherly kindness to men-to bear injuries with temper-to pass through evil and

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good report with equanimity to sustain the conflict in suffering with re signation-and finally, to endure all things as seeing Him who is invisible.

These,' continues the animated preacher, are the truths conveyed to us in the oracles of God. We are to preach them, we are to urge them with all the earnestness of persuasion, because they constitute that word which is able to save the soul.' These are the doctrines of the venerable English Reformers, and this is the preaching that we could wish to see universal in the Establishment.

In his Dedication to Dr. Shepherd, Mr. M. says, "The Clergy of Bedfordshire have been publickly attacked as being deficient in orthodoxy." We cannot suppose this refers to the Sermon preached eleven years ago, and at length complained of by Dr. Shepherd, because the deficiency there alledged was of "an awakening ministry of the gospel;" of such a ministry, we suppose, as that recommended and adopted by Mr. M., which might be a surprising novelty to many parishes whose incumbents would not yield to him in "one jot or tittle" of orthodoxy.

Art. XXIII. The Poets, a Work designed to comprize the Writings of every Author, whether original or translated, whose Productions have received the Stamp of Public Approbation. Parts I. II. Containing Pope's Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey. Price each Royal 8vo. 5s.; fine Demy, 3s. ; cheap Demy, 2s.; fine Pocket Size, 5s.; Miniature, 3s. C. Taylor. 1808.

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TO notice mere republications of well-known works is inconsistent with our plan; but as this undertaking has boldly deviated from established custom in favour of public morals, we scruple not to follow the example. It has the recommendation of extraordinary cheapness and beauty; but the distinguishing peculiarity which intitles it to our patronage is," the omission of all pieces which have a tendency to deprave the morals and corrupt the mind." This circumstance may disparage it in the estimation of certain readers, but we doubt not that the expectation of its projectors. will prove on the whole well-founded, and that some one of these editions, the size and price of which are conveniently varied, will find a place in "the library of those Academies and Families where an attention to morals is connected with the study of the Belles Lettres."

The first two sizes, printed in double columns like Anderson's British Poets, are published in Parts, once in six weeks; the other three, in numbers once a fortnight. Part III, containing Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, with Johnson's Life of Milton, and a Portrait after Faithorne, has, we believe, already appeared.

Art. XXIV. A Vocabulary; containing the most useful Words and familiar Phrases in the Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and Russian Tongues Collected by a Gentleman who has travelled, and found them sufficient to answer every Purpose of an Interpreter. pp. 16, long octavo. Price 1s. 6d. Richardson, Dutton, 1808.

IF this performance had been considerably more copious, which it might have been without any diminution of convenience in point of size, it would have justified the compiler's eulogium. In its present state, howVOL. IV.

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ever, it will enable a traveller to express his most usual and important wants. It is remarkable that the compiler should have thought his traveller would have occasion either to express such a wish for himself, or such a request to another, as would require the insertion, among other useful phrases, of" Go to the Devil!" The Russian words are printed, not in the Greek, but in the Roman character, and adapted to the German pronunciation.

Art. XXV. The Evils with which we are threatened as a Nation, and the Duties in which we should be engaged. Two Sermons, delivered in the Church of Renfrew, on Thursday, 18th Feb. 1808. By the Rev. Thomas Burns. 8vo. pp. 52. Glasgow. Brash and Reid, 1808. AFTER praising the seriousness and evident good design of the preacher,

and blaming his tendency toward a blind and passive acquiescence under arbitrary power, there is nothing in his Sermons that particularly de serves our notice. He pictures the consequences of French invasion in very frightful, but probably very true colours; he laments the neglect of religious institutions, the love of innovation, and the murmuring spirit which has gone forth, he says, against the Schoolmasters, the Clergy, and the Ministers of State. The second Sermon advises Faith, Prayer, Repentance, Dependence, and a Regard to the Divine Promises. The most remarkable thing about the performance is, that it should have been printed.

Art. XXVI. A Selection of Psalms, adapted to the Service of a Parochial Church. From Various Authors. 12mo. pp. 84. price 1s. Nicholson, Poughnill; Crosby. 1808.

THE coarse doggrel that generally prevails in the old version of the

Psalms, and the smooth insipidity of the new, have contributed very much to render the psalmody of parochial churches an irksome part of the service; congregational singing in the establishment has therefore been decaying year after year, or has been only kept up to little valuable purpose by those who could relish sound without sentiment in the worship of God. A decay so unfavourable to the edification and delight of the congregation must necessarily have been detrimental to the interests of the Church; we could therefore wish very earnestly, as Dr. Shepherd does, (vide supra, p. 750) either that hymns of respectable poetical merit and rational piety were introduced by authority into the church service, or if the unfounded prejudice against them is still thought worthy of regard, that a Selection or Version of the Psalms were generally adopted, which might breathe the sentiments and feelings peculiar to the Christian dispensation. In the absence of any general reform, some respectable attempts at improvement have been successfully made, in particular instances, by individual clergymen ; and those who are disposed to follow the example may properly consult Mr. Nicholson's publication before they adopt another. Its tenor is generally commendable, but the selection will not always be thought judicious, nor the variety sufficient. We were sorry to see no other representative of that exquisite composition, the CIIIrd Psalm, than five stanzas about flowers, beat into the veriest tinsel by Mr. Merrick from the 15th and 16th verses of the original,

ART.XXVII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

The Rev. Dr. Williams's long promised Essay on the Equity of Divine Government and Sovereignty of Divine Grace, is expected to appear in the course of a month. Among other important disquisitions it will contain an examination of the Latitudinarian Hypothesis of indeterminate redemption, and the Antinomian notion of the divine decrees being the rule of human conduct.

Dr. William Smith, late Chief Justice of Cape Breton, has in the press Theological Thoughts on God, the Creation, the Fa. I and Redemption of Man, God's dealings with Man from the Creation to the Consummation of all Things; in an octavo volume.

The second volume of the History of Surrey, by Manning and Bray, a great part of which was consumed by fire, has been resumed, and may be expected in the course of next winter.

In a short tinie will be published the commencement of a work intitled a Geographical, Historical, and Political View of Spain and Portugal, from the earliest accounts to the present period: By Alexander Beaumont, Esq. It will be continued in numbers published every fortnight until completed, price Is, each. The first number is to contain a view of Cadiz, and views and portraits will be continued through the work.

An edition of Pococke's Travels in the East, in three quarto volumes, will be published in October..

Dr. George Alleys of Cork, has nearly ready for the press, Observations on the Hydrargyria, or that peculiar species of eruptive disease which arises from the exhibition of mercury, to be illustrated with coloured engravings. This publication will contain all the information on this singular and interesting disease, which the observations of those gentlemen whose attention has been particularly directed to the subject, have afforded; besides what the author was enabled to collect during an attendance of more than six years, on the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin.

Dr. Reid, the author of the Reports of Diseases inserted regularly in the Monthly Magazine, intends to collect those which have appeared into a small volume, to be published early in the winter, printed uniformly with his Treatise on Consumption.

A new edition of Clarke's Observations on Diseases in Long Voyages is in the press. The subscribers to Wild's Select Views

of Canterbury Cathedral, and the public in general, are informed, that a corresponding collection of twelve picturesque views of the exterior and interior of the Cathedral of York, accompanied by geometrical plans, and historical and descriptive letter-press, is in preparation by the same author; intended to be published complete in itself, but in an uniform manner with the former work, in order to unite with it into one volume, illustrative of the architecture and effect of the two metropolitical cathedrals of England.

The plates in this publication will be carefully engraved in aquatinta, and consist of, as follow:

1 A general View under the N. W. aspect. 2. The west front. 3. The nave. 4. The transept. 5. The south wing of

ditto.

6. The south front. 7. Exterior. of the chapter-house. 8. Interior, of ditto. 9. The choirs. 10. The south aisle. 11. The chapel of our lady. 12. The east front, With a general plan laid down to scale from actual measurement, and a plan of the undercroft, with the capitals of its columns, and other details; the whole of which, already completed in etching, may be inspected, and subscribers' names received, at Taylor's Architectural Library, where the original drawings, exhibiting the intended effect of the plates, may likewise be seen.

Soon will appear a work intitled Parliamentary Logic; to which will be subjoined two Speeches delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland, and other Pieces; by the Right Hon. William Gerard Hamilton; with an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. never before published.

The Flowers of Literature for the year 1807, is nearly ready for publication.

A new edition of Swift's Works in nineteen volumes octavo, is now under the care of Mr. John Nichols. It will contain many new articles, and a head of Swift's taken from a cast made immediately after his death.

Dr. Watkins is printing two new editions of his Scripture Biography, with consider able improvements and additions; one of them is in duodecimo, for schools, as before; and the other a handsome octavo volume, printed in a large type for the use of families.

The life of Romney, by Mr. Hayley, is nearly finished. This is expected to be an

interesting work, that will tend to make that painter more universally known, to whom Mr. Hayley has already paid so classical a tribute of affection. Mr. Isaac Peach, one of the painter's earliest pupils, has lately gained the first prize given by the English school.

A member of the University of Oxford has projected a small work, intitled "The - Essentials of English Grammar” on a practical plan; for the use of Classical and French schools. In this work he has laid a foundation for Classical and French literature, without violating the purity of the English language. It also contains such rules to distinguish the parts of speech, and such a guide to parsing, as are not to be found elsewhere.

A new edition of Hephestion's Treatise on the various Greek Metres, corrected from the authority of several MSS. and accompanied with copious notes and illustrations, is now printing at the Clarendon Press.

A Portuguese and English dictionary, in a pocket size, abridged from Vieyra and others, will be published speedily.

A Monthly Publication in Portuguese is just announced, to be printed in London

under the title of "Correio Braziliense, Noticias Politicas, e Mercantis, da Europa." Subscriptions for not less than Half a Year are received by the Printer, Mr. Lewis No. 2, Paternoster Row.

An 8vo. edition carefully revised and corrected, of the Rev. Richard Baxter's Practical Works, is just going to press. A prospectus of the Plan of Publication will shortly appear.

Mr. Boothroyd has in the press a new edition of Bishop Newcome's Version of the Minor Prophets; with additional notes from Blaney and Horsley on Hosea.

Mr. R. Cope of Launceston is preparing for the press an Essay on the Sin against the Holy Spirit. Translated from the French of an eminent divine.

A few persons have agreed to undertake reprinting the most valuable Theological Works of the two last centuries, under the care of competent editors.

A new edition of Puttenham's Art of Poetry is in the press, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, Esq. F. R. S.

The Rev. Johnson Grant will shortly publish the Pastoral Care, a didactic poem, in three parts.

ART. XXVIII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

2s.

AGRICULTURE.

tion, the Consular and Imperial GovernThoughts on Tillage and the Corn Laws, ment. With 62 Portraits, reduced from the

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An authentic Narrative of the Causes

which led to the Death of Major John Andre, Adjutant-General of the British Forces in North America. By Joshua Hett Smith, Esq. Counsellor at Law, late Member of the Convention of the State of New York. To which is added, a Monody, by Miss Seward. Embellished with an accurate Likeness of Major Andre, engraved from a Drawing by himself, a Map of North America, and a Print of the Monument erected to his Memory in Westminster Abbey. 8s.

Characters, Moral and Political, of the Principal Personages of the French Revolu

Original Pictures in the Museum at Paris. To which is added, the Caitiff of Corsica, a Historical Drama. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians; with an Abridgement of his Diary and Journal from President Edwards. By John Styles, Author of an Essay on the Stage, 12mo. 4s.

BOTANY.

Practical Botany; being a new Illustration of the Genera of Plants. By Robert John Thornton, M. D. Vol. I. Price 11.

Flora Græca Sibthorpiana, Fasciculus II. Folio, 121. 12s.

A Catalogue of Plants growing in the Vicinity of Berwick upon Tweed. By John V. Thompson, Esq. Surgeon to his Majesty's Thirty-seventh Regiment, 8vo. 4s. 6d.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

Pindari Carmina, ex Editione Chr. Gottl. Heyne, 2 vols. 32mo. 5s.

CHEMISTRY.

A new System of Chemical Philosophy. By John Dalton. 7s.

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