of fome Medicines and Ways of curing Difeafes ufed by the native Indians, &c.. By Henry Flower, an American. 8vo. 6d. Cooke.

Mr. Flower feems to be one of thofe natural phyficians, who, having received, by infpiration, that knowlege which cofts your regular-bred folks fo much labour to acquire; now kindly offers his fervice to the public, by means of this advertisement, which appears in the shape of a fixpenny pamphlet.

L A W.

Art. 34. Precedents of Procefs and Irits in the King's Bench and Common Pleas; with Inftructions for fuing them out. By a Practifer in both Courts. 8vo. is. 6d. Owen.

Thefe forms, though printed in his late Majesty's reign, were never before published. The ufefulness of fuch a directory is too obvious to need farther mention.

POETICAL.

Art. 35. An extraordinary Ode to an extraordinary Man, on an extraordinary Occafion. Folio. 6d. Cooke.

Odes to great men, are usually penned in the panegyrical flrain'; but this extraordinary ode is intended only to mortify the Right Hon. perfonage to whom it is addreffed, on his late promotion: viz. the new made Earl of Chatham. The laft ftanza in the piece will thew what manner of (pirit this Writer poffeffes:

Here then, O P--t, thy empire ends,
And Britain's genius, with her friends,
Will better days reflore;

For Enoch's fate and thine are one
Like him tranflated, thou art gone,

Ne'er to be heard of more.

Art. 36. An Elegy on the Death of the late Right Hon. W...... P..., Efq; 4to. Is. 6d. Kearfly.

The mufe hath here joined the politician, to execrate the name fo lately idolized, and fo univerfally celebrated. In the folemn, pathetic ftrain of elegy, but with the fpirit of the keeneft and moft biting fatire, the memory of the late Mr. Pitt is here moft feverely treated. It would, perhaps, be deemed cruelty, in us, were we to felect any of the most angry, glowing, refentful ftanzas, by way of fpecimen: let, the following, expoftulatory lines, therefore, fuffice;-and, in truth, fo they ought; for they are fraught with vengeance enough to harrow up the foul of any human being:

-Tell us, Pynfent, is there ought in flate,

In ermin'd pomp, or coronetted glare;

To footh the fharp feverity of fate,

And fhield the rankling bofom from despair?
Can the poor toy that glitters o'er a creft,
Or all th' illuftrious baubles of a throne,
Beflow one honeft honour on a breaft,
That bafely floops to profticute its own?

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Haft thou, and tell us generously now,
Since that curft hour on infamous record;
When the green laurel with'ring on thy brow,
Beheld thee vilely dwindling in a LORD!
Haft thou (nor dare, with confcience in thy eye,
To breathe a found or accent infincere)
Once feen the bleffed morn without a figh,
Or hail'd the fober eve, without a tear?
Has the drear darkness of the midnight hour,
E'er kindly bleft thy pillow with repofe ;
Or the foft balm of fleep's refreshing power,
Once taught thofe lids in tenderness to close ?
Or fay, if fleep once fortunately ftole,

When life's low lamp could scarcely shed a gleam,
Did not fome demon harrow up thy foul,
And ftab the short, the momentary dream ?
Did not wide Fancy's all-exploring clue,
Bid Time's deep womb be accurately shewn;
And raife fuch baleful images to view,

As fcar'd thy coward consciousness to stone?
O! Pynfent, what had empires to bestow,

That e'er thy worth or character could raife,
Teach wond'ring worlds more gratefully to glow,
Or add a fingle particle of praife?

Did not whole fenates hang upon thy voice,

And fuppliant climes folicit thee for laws;
Nay, did not fame, obedient to the choice,
Still give the wreath as thou would't give applaufe?
Say, could Ambition's most exalted fire,
Mifguided man! be gratified with more
Than awe-fruck fenates always to admire,
And echoing realms to wonder and adore?
What then, quite withering on the stalk of age
Difeas'd, emaciate, finking in the grave;
Cou'd drag thee now to totter on the stage,
Or load the wretched skeleton with flave?

Trembling on life's moft miferable verge,

Nay, even now juft numbering with the dead;
Why would't thou thus in infamy immerge,

And pluck a kingdom's curfes on thy head?

The above are some of the mildeft ftanzas in this Elegy; but will not the compaffionate reader be apt to pronounce, that the tender mercies of fuch a writer, are cruelties indeed?

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.
Art. 37. A Collection of Tracts, published between the Years 1729
and 1759, in the Defence and Explanation of Chriftianity and its
Evidence. By Henry Stelbing, D. D. late Chancellor of

Sarum.

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Sarum. Improved and prepared for the Prefs by the Author, and now republifhed: by Henry Stebbing, D. D. Morning Preacher to the Hon. Society of Gray's-Inn. 8vo. 6s. Townsend.

The Editor of thefe tracts tells us, in his preface, that they are printed exacly as they came from the hand of the Author; who corrected them not long before he died, with an inclination that they fhould fome time or other be re-published. The Editor further tells us, he has reafon to believe, that the Author, had he lived longer, would have put them to the prefs himself.

The Author himself gives his reafons for re publishing and collecting them into one volume, in a short preface, which is as follows: I have put thefe tracts together to refcue them from the common fate of small pamphlets published feparately. At the time when they were written, Christianity had been fiercely attacked, by its open, professed enemies; and the clergy found themselves under a more than common call to exert themselves in its defence. Many hands were employed in this work, and many excellent pieces were published which will be of lafting ufe. I challenge no more than my fhare in this common stock of merit, whatsoever it may be that the public fhall think I deferve.

The author of The Divine Legation of Mofes, &c. may not, perhaps, like his company; but he has no right to complain. I point not at the MAN as to his real internal character (of which I know nothing) but I cenfure his WORKS, which hurt the caufe he endeavours to fupport. Whatever excufe fuch writers may be entitled to, their errors certainly deferve correction; for the mifchief is the fame, as the danger of an arrow or cannon-ball is the fame, whether it comes from the enemy with intention to deftroy, or from the ill-pointed direction of a friend and ally.

In reprinting thefe pieces I have not followed the example of the author, in cramming the margin of my book with fecond thoughts, commonly worfe than the firft. I have left them to reft on their original ftrength, and my bufinefs has been rather to contract than enlarge. To this purpose I have ftruck out feveral paffages which I thought might well be fpared; and the CONCLUSION of The History of Abraham juftified, &c. which is for the most part perfonal, I have, in decency to his EPISCOPAL character (fince acquired) entirely fuppreffed.

'June 2, 1761.

HENRY STEBBING."

The tracts contained in this collection are these following:-1. A Defence of Dr. Clark's Propofitions, on the Ule and Neceffity of Revelation; 2. A Defence of the Scripture Hiftory, relating to fome of our Saviour's Miracles; 3. A Difcourfe on our Saviour's Power of Healing; 4. An Examination of Mr. Warburton's fecond Propofition in his Divine Legation; 5. Confiderations on the command to Abraham to offer up his fon Ifaac; 6. The Hiftory of Abraham juftified; 7. A Letter to the Dean of Bristol.

Art. 38. The Caufes and Reafons of the prefent Declension among the congregational Churches in London and the Country. In a Letter addreffed to the Paftors, Deacons, and Members of thofe Churches. By one of that Denomination. Interfperfed

with Reflections on Methodifm and Sandimanianifm. 8vo. 1s. Johnson and Co.

This Letter writer, who figns himself AN INDEPENDENT, afcribes the declension of which he complains, in the congregational churches (by which he means the diffenters of his own perfuafion) to the incroachments of the Methodists and Glaffites, or Sandimanians. The causes of this prevalence of the new fectaries over the Independents, he attributes to the many defects among the latter, both in doctrine and difcipline; and efpecially to their departure from the holy fcriptures, for the fake of following the inventions of men, the cant of fanatics, and the nottrums of fyftematic divines:-the particulars of all which he points out, with great plainnefs, and with no fmall degree of feverity, and even of ridicule The edge of his fatire, indeed, is not extremely fine; but many of his ftrictures are fhrewd, fenfible, and jutt.

Art. 39. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, concerning his Inconfiftency with himself. Occafioned by the Publication of his Sermon, entitled, The Lord our Righteousness. 8vo. 6 d.

Keith.

This Letter-writer is an advocate for what is called The Doctrine of the IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST;-a doctrine, which (it feems) Mr. Wefley has at one time maintained, and at another condemned. In fupport of this affertion, feveral quotations are given, from different parts of Mr. Wesley's works: of which the following may serve as fufficient fpecimens:

The RIGHTEOUSNESS that The fcriptures no where counCHRIST WROUGHT, is made ours tenance any fuch IMPUTATION of by IMPUTATION.'-Quoted, from the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.' the Chriftian Library, at p. 2. of Quoted, from Treatise on Justi this letter. fication, at p. 3. of this letter.

To all believers the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST is imputed.Serm. p. 14.

There is no true faith, that is juftifying faith, which hath not the righteoufnefs of CHRIST for its OBJECT.-Serm. p. 15..

The righteoufnefs of CHRIST cannot be imputed to any other man for his righteoufnefs.-Treatise on Juft. quoted at p. 3.

Neither is the righteoufnefs of CHRIST the OBJECT of faith as juftifying, nor doth the fcripture, where it fpeaks of faith as juftifying, make the least mention, or give the leaft intimation of fuch a thing,' Freatife on Juft. p. 17.

After the foregoing, and fome other like quotations, the Letter-writer afks the following question: Do there not appear most flagrant cons tradictions, and palpable inconfiftencies, in thefe extracts; not in appearance only, but in reality; not barely in expreflion, but in fentiment alfo?'- A queftion, which we fhall leave to Mr. Wesley himself to

anfwer.

Art. 40. Another Defence of the Unity, wherein St. John's Introduction to his Gospel, and his Account of the Word's being made Flef, are confidered. With a few Remarks on fome very fome very late no

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table Publications, particularly thofe of Dr. Benjamin Dawson, and Dr. Kennicot. 8vo. Is. Longman.

The Author of this Defence endeavours to establish, first, the true fenfe of the Locos, or Word; fecondly, of its being made flesh, and dwelling among us; thirdly, wherein the glory of the only-begotten of the Father did confift; fourthly, what St. John meaneth, when he says, and we beheld his glory?

The term Locos, or word, he' fays, is ufed by the evangelift, for the manifeftative will of God, however, or whenever made.-After giving what he takes to be St. John's meaning, in his introduction, he makes feveral obfervations; the first of which is as follows:

St. John's account of the Locos or word, will, by no means, allow us to conceive of it as any part of the person of Jefus Chrift; but only as refiding in or with him; and becoming divinely oracular throughout his public miniftrations. Which, at once, removes all obfcurity, and fecures us from the unpleafing perplexity of vulgar interpretations. We can now conceive of the fame divine being, who gave existence to the univerfal fyftem, as manifefting his will, by creation, by prefervation, and by that government which he exercifes over his rational and moral offspring; as alfo in the finishing of his plan, becoming fechinized, or as dwelling in the man Chrift Jefus; and thereby making himfelf most graciously familiar with mankind!

There is therefore no manner of occafion for the childish and abfurd invention of a trinity in unity; or, an hypoftatical union of a duplicity of natures, in the perfon of Chrift. Nor are we led to speak of him, fometimes as God, at other times as man. Opinions which confound, but do not convey any one rational, juft, and instructive idea of the Locos, or word of God.

But when we affix this fenfe to the term, as expreffive, or as manifeftative of the will of God, whether under the idea of creator, of preferver, or governor and redeemer, we are then able to conceive of it, as in the beginning, as with God, and even as God; because the will of the deity imports fupreme authority; and is every where to be fo reverenced, even as God.'

It is of the utmost importance, our Author fays, to preferve an idea of the Locos or word, as diftin&t from the perfon of Jefus Chrift; other wife we cannot understand him when he is abfolutely difclaiming all divine perfections, and when he is afcribing all that wifdom and power, which did attell his miffion, to communications of divine ability from the Father.

He goes on to obferve, that the fenfe in which he understands the Locos, quite annihilates the idea of Chrift's pre-existence; that the opinion of more than one perfon in the godhead is unfcriptural, &c.-but we must not enlarge.

Art. 41. The Proteftant; or, the Doctrine of Univerfal Liberty:afferted, in Oppofition to Dr. Lowth's Reprefentation of it, in his late celebrated Letter: with a few Words on fome recent Publications. 8vo. Is. 6d. Flexney, &c.

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Civil and religious liberty are fuch inestimable bleffings, that thofe who shew a warm and generous concern for preferving them, and have a watchful eye over those who are fuppofed to be either luke warm friends, or real enemies to them, are certainly entitled to the favourable regards

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