We are grieved to see a sentiment which should have had the utmost prominence in a treatise on the importance of the preacher's office, stated in so infirm a shape The portraiture the Author has drawn of those to whom it will be necessary to preach the doctrine of conversion, is indeed admirable; but why should it be insinuated that there is only a faint probability of the occurrence of such cases? Is there a parish throughout the kingdom, in which the doctrine is not necessary to be often taught? And why should it be said, that cases indeed may occur,' when it ought to have been said, that in every place the preacher will find urgent need for testifying "repentance toward "God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." It is indeed grievous to behold a sentiment which pervades the Scripture, so veiled and weakened; to see in a sketch of Apostolic preaching, a point of so much importance, and which one would have expected to find in the very centre of all the light, and colouring, and description, which the spiritual artist could throw into his picture, thus chastened down and thrown into the back ground. When a minister resides in the midst of a population, one half of whom never enter a place of worship of any kind, while one half of those who do, are living" according to the course of "the world," shall he be told so very calmly, cases indeed may occur in which it may rather be your business to convert 'than to enlighten and improve? This appears to us a very perilous weakening of the Gospel minister's commission, and a strong evidence of the injurious prejudices under which the Author's mind is oppressed. We think, that with his heart, if he had stood in any other relation to the people of this country, than that of a minister of the National Church, he would have seen that these cases, which he now represents as only probable, are certain, and instead of being few, are by far the more numerous in most towns, and in most congregations. (To be concluded in the next Number.) ART. XIII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. *** Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending Information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the Public, if consistent with its Plan. Mr. J. Suelgar, of Hampstead, is printing a neat impression of Four Discourses on the Divinity of Christ: by the late Rev. Js. Harvey, M.A. of Weston Flavel. In the press, The Principles of Diagnosis By Marshall Hall, M.D. &c. 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