THE NATURE, POWER, DECEIT, AND PREVALENCY OF INDWELLING SIN IN BELIEVERS: together with the Ways of its Working, and Means of Prevention, opened, evinced, and applied. With a Resolution of sundry Cases of Conscience. By John Owen, D.D. Religious Tract Society.

OWEN on Indwelling Sin is a work too generally known, and too well appreciated, to need more than an announcement of its appearance in a small, neat volume, among the valuable reprints of the Tract Society. This treatise has, for nearly two centuries, been a standard work in the church of Christ.

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THE SACRED CASKET; containing Gems from the best English Authors, in Prose and Verse. some Original Pieces. Ward.

MOST of the poems in this neat little volume are familiar to the Christian reader. A number of prose extracts are interspersed, with some pleasing originals. Among the latter, we wish the Call to the Protestants of England' could resound through the land; and, despite of the unaccountable aversion that some good people display against being reminded of the signification of their own distinguished title, we trust such a call is resounding, and will be responded to. We like the choice and arrangement of gems in this casket very much.

EARLY LESSONS FOR CHILDREN, on Moral and Religious Duties. Illustrated and enforced by Scripture Examples. Whyte and Co., Edinburgh.

A LITTLE tale, concerning some little children, with Old Testament histories, as far as the Exodus, very neatly brought in, by means of conversations with a mother. It is quite suited to the capacity of folks who have not passed the age of seven or eight years, and furnishes them with a pleasing introduction to the study of scripture. A continuation is promised, in a second part, shortly to make its appearance: we wish it success.

AN EXPLANATION OF THE HUNDRED AND TENTH PSALM: wherein the several Heads of Christian Religion therein contained, touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of his Kingdom, the Character of his Subjects, his Priesthood, Victories, Sufferings and Resurrection are largely explained and applied. By Edward Reynolds, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Norwich. Religious Tract Society.

WE have here a very full exposition of one of the shortest yet most sublime Psalms of David. It is a work of deep study, and if studiously read it will be found to repay the attention bestowed, by the rich store of spiritual knowledge contained in it. Bishop Reynolds, like Dr. Owen, was a nonconformist during the extraordinary times of the rebellion, but

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found no difficulty in availing himself of the extended sphere of usefulness opened to him at the restoration, by accepting an episcopal charge. In the work before us he has engaged in the grandest subject that can possibly occupy the mind of man: he has treated it with great perspicuity, and in a very attractive style. Without going out of his way to be controversial, the author has dealt some powerful blows at Antichristian heresy, both of the Socinian and Romish schools. We recommend it as an admirable book for the library, worthy to be diligently studied.

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THE TYPICAL PART OF OUR TEACHING: a Dissertation, shewing that the Miracles of Christ were prefigurative of the System of Divine Economy which he came to introduce. By Josiah William Smith, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and of Lincoln's Inn. L. and G. Seeley.

SOME watchfulness is requisite in admitting opinions on the subject of typical meanings in scripture, beyond what is generally recognised. We have met with the most fantastical extravagancies, recommended from the pulpit, and in private discourse, under the dignified title of types discovered or adapted by the individuals who broached them. Some of those early writers, commonly called the fathers, and exalted to a high pitch of importance by the Oxford Tract gentlemen, have overstepped all bounds of common sense, and run into preposterous absurdities in that way. The short essay, however,

which we now introduce, belongs not to this class. It is perfectly sober and safe, and calculated rather to guard the reader against the snare of fanciful interpretations than to extend it. Mr. Smith considers our Lord's miracles to have been designedly typical of the dispensation introduced by his first advent: and we raise no objection against the very temperate system that he has embraced. The book cannot lead the reader into error; and it may open a very interesting field of enquiry on a subject that cannot be too much before our eyes, or within our hearts -the mighty works of our incarnate Redeemer.

WE cannot refrain from noticing a pamplet published by Nisbet, as A Sermon preached on Sunday, the fifth of Novemher, 1837, at Trinity Chapel, Conduitstreet, by the Rev. H. H. Beamish,' but with which indeed we were principally struck on account of the important 'Preface' introducing it. Mr. Beamish has there placed, in a startling light, the conduct of those ministers of our establishment who ventured to set at defiance alike the law of the land, and their own solemn obligation to observe the rubric of the Common Prayer-Book. Proceeding from this ground, he has exposed the 'masked Popery' within the pale of our church, with so much boldness and fidelity, that we wish it were brought before every congregation in the land. Some of our readers will be surprised to hear, what, indeed, we could long ago have told them, that one of the Oxford divines, while reading the communion service, stands with his back to the people, and facing the table, contrary

to the express words of the rubric, but in faithful accordance with the attitude of a Romish priest at mass. Another humbly bows to the table, making the sign of the cross upon his breast as he approaches to or recedes from the chancel. These things, with the embroidery of little crucifixes on their surplices, and the setting up of the same article in their churches and apartments, proclaim pretty loudly the rapid secession of these deluded ministers from the principles which led Ridley and Latimer's living bodies to the stake at Oxford, in 1555, and earned the same honour for the mouldering bones of Bucer and Phagius in the following year at Cambridge. Mr. Beamish also gives some curious extracts from the writings of this singular sect. We have only to add, that the sermon itself is an appropriate and welltimed historical sketch, rightly applied to the occasion that called it forth.

The Protestant Association have published, as a tract, the paper of X. Q., in a recent number of this periodical, entitled, 'A Sketch of a System.' We wish this excellent society were better known, appreciated, and supported.