puters of this world, it is time to throw afide these old Instruments of vanity and mischief.

In fection 5th, book gd. we have the following note. As what is here faid relates entirely to the revolutions in the ftate of religion here at home, ftrangers will not be able to fee the force of it, without fome further account of this matter.Juftification by faith alone, built upon the doctrine of the redemption of mankind by the death and facrifice of Chrift, was the great gofpel-principle on which proteftantifm was founded, when the churches of the north-west of Europe firft fhook off the yoke of Rome: by fome perhaps pushed too far, in their abhorrence of the Popish doctrine of merit; the Puritan fchifm amongst us being made on the panic fancy that the church of England had not receded far enough from Rome. However, juftification by faith alone being a golpel-doctrine, it was received as the badge of true proteftantifm by all; when the Puritans (first driven by perfecution from religious into civil faction, and thoroughly heated into enthufiafm by each faction, in its turn) carried the doctrine to a dangerous and impure antinomianifm. This fanatic notion foon after produced the practical virtues of these modern faints. The mifchiefs which enfued are well known. And no fmall share of them has been afcribed, to this impious abufe of the doctrine of juftification by faith alone; first by depreciating morality, and then by difpenfing with it.

When the conftitution was restored, and had brought into credit those few learned divines whom the madness of the preceding times had driven into obfcurity, the church of England, still smarting with the wounds it had received from the abuse of the great golpel-principle of faith very wifely laboured to restore morality, the other eflential part of the Chriftian system, to its rights, in the joint direction of the faithful. Hence, the encouragement, the church gave to thofe noble difcourfes which did fuch credit to religion, in the licentious times of Charles II. composed by these learned and pious men, abused by the zealots with the nick-name latitudinarian divines. The reputation they acquired by fo thoroughly weeding out these rank remains of fanaticifm, made their fucceffors fond of fharing with them in the fame labours. A laudable ambition! but, too often mixed with a vain paffion for improving upon those who have gone, fuccefsfully, before. The church was now triumphant, The fectaries were humbled; fometimes oppreffed; always regarded with an eye of jealoufy and averfion; till at length this gofpel-principle of faith came to be esteemed by those who should have known better, as wild and fanatical. While they who owned its divine original found fo much difficulty in adjusting the distinct rights and prerogatives of faith and morality, that by the time this century was ready to commence, things were

come

come to fuch a pafs (morality was advanced fo high and faith fo depreffed and incumbered with trifling or unintelligible explanations) that a new definition of our holy religion, in oppofition to what its founder taught, and unknown to its early Followers, was all in fashion; under the title of a Republication of the Religion of Nature; natural religion, it feems, (as well as Christianity) teaching the doctrine of life and immortality. So fays a very eminent prelate. And the Gofpel, which till now had been understood as but coeval with redemption, was henceforth to be acknowledged, as old as the creation?

The fecond volume concludes with an appendix of about thirty pages, wherein his Lordfhip endeavours to fhew, that the omiffion of a future ftate in the Mofaic difpenfation doth not make it unworthy of the original to which believers afcribe it. -This appendix contains fome fmart and pertinent reflections upon what Voltaire has advanced in his Dictionnaire Philofophique, Art. Religion.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For SEPTEMBER, 1766.

POETICA L.

Art. 10. The New Bath Guide: er, Memoirs of the B-r-d Family. In a Series of poetical Epiftles. The third Edit. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Dodfley.

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N our Review for June, we endeavoured to entertain our Readers with an account of the first edition of this humorous and sprightly performance; to which the very ingenious Writer has added two or three pieces, under the title of Epilogue to the Second Edition. In the first of these additional papers, he pleasantly rallies the criticisms which, we are to understand, have been paffed on this work:

There are who complain that my verfe is fevere,
And what is much worfe-that my book is too dear:
The ladies proteft that I keep no decorum,
In fetting fuch patterns of folly before 'em :
Some cannot conceive what the Guide is about,
With names fo unmeaning to make fuch a rout:
Lady Dorothy Scrawl would engage to bespeak
A hundred fuch things to be made in a week:
Madam Shuffledumdoo, more provoking than that,
Has fold your poor Guide for two fish and a mat;
A sweet medium paper, a book of fine size,
And a print that I hop'd would have fuited her eyes.
Another good lady of delicate taffe,

Cries, Fie! Mr. Bookfeller, bring me fome pafte;
I'll close up this leaf, or my daughter will skim
The cream of that vile methodistical hymn"-
Then stuck me down faft-fo unfit was my page
To meet the chafte eyes of this virtuous age!-
Rav. Sept. 1766.

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Guide.1

Guide.] O fpare me, good Madam! it goes to my heart,
With my fweet methodiitical letter to part.

Away with your pafte! 'tis exceedingly hard,
Thus to torture and cramp an unfortunate bard:

How my mufe will be shock'd, when the's juft taking flight,
To find that her pinions are faften'd fo tight!

First Lady.] Why you know, beyond reafon and decency too,
Beyond all refpect to religion that's due,

Your dirty fatirical Work you purfue.

very well know whom you meant to affront

In the pictures of Prudence, and Tabitha Runt

Guide.] Indeed, my good ladies, religion and virtue
Are things that I never defign'd any hurt to.
All poets and painters, as Horace agrees,
May copy from nature what figures they pleafe;
Nor blame the poor poet, or painter, if you

In verfe or on canvafs your likenefs fhould view :
I hope you don't think I would write a lampoon?
I'd be hang'd at the foot of Parnaffus as foon

Second Lady.] Prithee don't talk to me of your Horace and
Flaccus,

When you come like an impudent wretch to attack us.
What's Parnaílus to you? Take away but your rhime,
And the ftrains of the bellman are full as fublime.—
Third Lady] Doft think that fuch ftuff as thou writ'ft upon
Tabby.

Will procure thee a buflo in Weftminster-abbey ?

Guide.] 'Tis true, on Parnaffus I never did dream,
Nor e'er did I tafte of fweet Helicon's fiream:

My fhare of the fountain I'll freely refign
To thofe who are better belov'd by the Nine:
Give bufto's to poets of higher renown,
I ne'er was ambitious in marble to frown:
Give laurels to thofe, from the god of the lyre
Who catch the bright fpark from ethereal fire;
Who, fkill'd ev'ry paffion at will to impart,

Can play round the head while they teal to the heart ;.
Who, taught by Apollo to guide the bold fteed,
Know when to give force, when to temper his fpeed:
My nerves all forfake me, my voice he difdains,
When he rattles his pinions, no more hears the reins,
But thro' the bright ether fublimely he goes,
Nor earth, air, or ocean, or mountains oppofe.
For me, 'tis enough that my toil I pursue,

Like the bee drinking fweets that exhale from the dew;
Content if Melpomene joins to my lay
One tender foft ftrain of melodious Gray;
Thrice happy in your approbation alone,

A Letter to Mifs

If the following ode for my hymn can atone. The ode referred to, in the laft line, is entitled, Jenny W-d-r, at Eath; from Lady Eliz. M-d-fs, her Friend in the Country. It is a becoming tribute, july paid to rational religion;

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and is followed by a converfation-piece, wherein the bad of the late Mr. Quin is introduced, commending the ftrains of our facetious moralist: in return for which civility, the congenial Guide thus addreffes the friendly ghoft,-and concludes the volume:

For thee, who, to vifit thefe regions of fpleen,
Deign'ft to quit the fweet vales of perpetual green,
Forfake, happy fhade, this Pocotian air,
Fly hence, to Elyfium's pure ether repair,
Row, Dryden and Otway-thy Shakespeare is there;
There Thomson, poor Thomfon, ingenuous bard,
Shall equal thy friendship, thy kindness reward,
Thy praife in mellifluous numbers prolong,
Who cherish'd his mufe and gave life to his fong.
And O may thy genius, bleft fpirit, impart
To me the fame virtues that glow'd in thy heart,
To me, with thy talents convivial, give
The art to enjoy the fhort time I fhall live;
Give manly, give rational mirth to my foul,
O'er the focial fweet joys of the full-flowing bowl;
So ne'er may vile fcriblers thy memory flain,
Thy forcible wit may no blockheads profane,
Thy faults be forgotten, thy virtues remain.
Farewell! may the turf where thy cold reliques reft,
Bear herbs, odoriferous herbs o'er thy breast,

Their heads Thyme, Sage, and Pot-marjoram wave,
And fat be the gander that feeds on the grave.

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Art. 11. An Ode in Honour of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's Birth-day, Aug. 12, 1766; as intended to have been performed before their Majeflies at Kew. By the Rev. William Scott, M. A. (formerly of Trinity-Coll. Camb. and Affiftant Morning-preacher at St. Sepulchre's, Snow-hill. 4to, Is. Wilkie.

GRAND CHORUS.]

SPECIMEN.

God fave the King!

Long live the Queen!

And may their royal race rule o'er

Great Britain's realms from ftorms of state ferene!

Till fun and moon fhall be no more!

If, as hath been observed, that nonfenfe fuits beft with mufc, what pity the Author was difappointed by the gentlemen of the Queen's Arms. Concert! his piece muft have fucceeded amazingly! and he him.felf might, in time, have gained a fprig of that laurel which once fo becomingly fhaded the brows of Tate, Eufden, and Cibber.

MISCELLA NEOUS.

Art. 12. The Theory and Practice of Gunnery, treated in a new and enfy Manner; with the Conftruction cal Ufe of an Inflrument for readily folving the feveral "Caf's: alfo Rules for calculating the Charges of Mines, with Remarks on Mir. Belider's left Method, and various problems of Ufe in Practical Gunnery; to which are

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prefixed the Elements of Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, &c. By Edward Williams, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. 8vo. 6s. Vaillant.

Our Author fuppofing his pupils entirely unacquainted with figures, begins his book with the first rudiments of arithmetic, in order to render this work totally independent of any other. Its independence would have been yet more compleat if he had ftept a little farther back, and begun with the alphabet. Advancing regularly through the different ftages of numeration, addition, fubtraction, multiplication and divifion, he proceeds to fractions, vulgar and decimal; and thence to applicate numbers, exhibiting feveral ufeful tables, which inform the young gunner, among other things, that 4 farthings make a penny, 12 pence a fhilling, and 20 fhillings a pound; that 2 piots of wine make one quart, 4 quarts one gallon; that 60 feconds make one minute, 60 minutes one hour, 24 hours one day, &c. Having now taught the addition, fubtraction, &c. of different denominations, he proceeds to the extraction of the fquare and cube root, logarithms, arithmetical contractions, and concludes this first book with proportion.

Book 2d begins with the outlines of geometry, teaches the use of the fector, the conftruction and ufe of fcales, plain trigonometry, menfuration of distances and heights, and at laft, in page 228, (the whole book containing no more than 302) touches the fubject of gunnery. First, the Author defcribes the inftrument contrived for folving the feveral cafes, of which it is impoffible to give a proper idea without the plate to which he refers. Having finifhed his cafes in gunnery in about 30 pages, he proceeds to the method of calculating the length of fuzes, the defcription and ufe of inltruments, a few problems concerning mines, and fome miscellaneous problems; and concludes with an appendix containing the demonftrations of the principal parts of his work.

Having thus curforily mentioned the contents of this volume, we must take the liberty to obferve, that though it may teach the rudiments of arithmetic, and may be an ufeful affiftant to a practical gunner, yet it is by no means fufficient, independent of other affiitance, to inftruct a beginner in the theory of gunnery upon which the practice ought to be founded. Before he had proceeded to the folution of the feveral cafes which occur in practice, the Author ought certainly, befides the general principles of trigonometry, to have given its peculiar application to gunnery, without which the practical gunner muit remain ignorant of the principles upon which he acts, and must confequently be at a loss whenever a new problem is propofed. His problems are neither sufficiently varied, nor the rules by which they are folved fufficiently clear, nor frequent. In short, thofe who are inftructed only by this book, will acquire little more than a mechanical method of calculation which, though it may anfwer the purposes of common practice, will leave them ignorant of the mathematical principles of gunnery.

Art. 13. The British Zoology. Class I. Quadrupeds. II. Birds. Published under the Infpection of the Cymmrodorion Society, inftituted for the promoting ufeful Charities, and the Knowlege of Nature, among the Defcendents of the Ancient Britons. Illuftrated with one hundred and feven Copper-plates.

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