derly did she entreat them seriously to seek the Lord; begging them, at the same time, to regard the words of a dying friend.

On Thursday, March 22, she changed for the worse. On being asked by her father how she did, she said, very ill. They saw her dissolution approaching, and were unwilling to speak much to her; but when Mr. Paul proposed prayer, she seemed very anxious for it. After prayer, Mr. Paul asked her a few questions relative to her happiness; to which she answered in the affirmative, saying, 'Yes, blessed be the name of the Lord! After lying some minutes silent, she, seemingly in great pain, with her eyes steadfastly looking upward, said, Yes, he is my rock and stay; I see the Lord Jesus standing, ready to receive me; and where he is, there shall I be also!' They who were present felt that beautiful sentiment of Dr. Young:

The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walks of life,

Quite on the verge of heaven.'

She continued very ill through the night, and got very little rest. All the next day, Friday 23, she was very low. The Lord was so very good that, she seemed to have no temptation to doubts or fears, fretfulness, or even impatience. Glory be to his eternal name! he keeps the best cordials for the severest trials! Throughout that day and evening, the constant cry of her heart was, Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly! A friend called at night to see her; and when be was praying, she seemed lifted up above every earthly object, saying often, I will go! I will go! Ou being asked where she would she said, go, To heaven! At other times she said, very emphatically, O come! O come, and take me home! She continued in this happy frame until half-past one o'clock, on Saturday, March 24, 1810, when her father being at prayer, her happy spirit took its everlasting flight to the realms of bliss, to see the God she loved, in the 22d year of her age.

Thus did our gracious God bonour his handmaid, by giving her soul a dismission from the body, without any of those convulsions or pains which usually attend the parting stroke; and, by permitting her to give her dying testimony to the truth and importance of the gospel of the blessed Jesus, before many witnesses!

RECENT DEATHS.

MARCH 17, 1811. Died at Woolwich; in his 82d year, Mr. Hugh Mitchell, Druggist; having resided there half a century. His liberality in supporting the gospel, and that not confined to his own place of worship at Deptford (Mr. Barker's, formerly Mr. Olding's, of which he was a member 52 years); his sympathizing attention to the numerous sick poor, and his exemplary Christian deportment, have made his loss publicly felt, and geits vicinity. nerally lamented in the town and

We hear that a Mrs. W. of Manchester, when speaking to a sick person on the necessity and comfort of being prepared for death, was herself suddenly struck, and im mediately expired. The sick person did not survive more than half an hour.

Equally sudden was the death of Mrs. S. Tunner, a member of the Church in Unicorn Yard, who fell, in a fit of apoplexy, while Mr. Hutchings was preaching from Luke viii. 8, on Lord's Day morning, April 21.-Truly,' in the midst of life we are in death!'

Mr. Joseph Holland, of Gutter Lane, by lightning, as he was riding near Hampstead.

A gentleman, apparently in good health, as he was just stepping into the Liverpool coach, at Charing Cross.

At Ardwick, near Manchester, Mrs. Clegg, wife of Arthur Clegg, Esq. aged 75.

The Rev. Mr. Meakin, an evangelical clergyman, Afternoon Lecturer of Christ Church, Newgate Street

The Book of Job, translated from the Hebrew, by the late Miss Elizabeth Smith; with a Preface and Annotations, by F. Randolph, D. D. 8vo, 78.

MANY of our readers are atquainted with the pleasing and pious Fragments, in Prose and Verse,' of the late Miss Smith, of Bristol. The present is a valuable addition to the posthumous works of that learned, accomplished, and amiable young lady. That such

characters should be snatched from the society and enjoyment of mortals, when they have scarcely reached the beginning of those extensive blessings which might have been hoped from their continuance with us, is among the deep mysteries of God's holy and unsearchable providence. The manuscript of this translation of the book of Job was submitted to Dr. Magee, whose opinion is given (in the new edition of his Doctrine of Atonement, and in his Letter to Dr. Randolph) that this work is incomparably superior to Bishop Stock's late version; and that it conveys more of the true character and meaning of the Hebrew, with fewer departures from the idiom of the English than any other translation whatever that we

possess. Miss Smith was entirely self-taught in oriental attainments; and the editor hints; with good reason, the probability that her previous acquaintance with the Arabic and Persian languages had given to her a greater facility and precision in her Hebrew researches.' The book of Job was well adapted for the studies of one so prepared; since we have much reason for believing that it is a Hebrew version from an Arabic original, though made at a time when those sisterlanguages had not very widely diverged from each other. Its conversion into Hebrew we are most disposed to attribute to Moses, while a sojourner in Arabia, previously to his divine commission.

This translation, excepting in the few narrative parts, is disposed

in the mode introduced by Bishop Lowth, representing the distichs of the poetic original, by correspondent divisions of the prosaic version. It is not, in our opinion, a literal translation, in the sense of a bald and servile rendering, which, from the absurd retention of peculiar idioms, often misrepresents the real sense to the mind of a modern reader. The lamented translator has aimed to preserve a judicious fidelity: a fidelity which conveys the genuine meaning of the original, without addition, detraction, or alteration: a fidelity equally remote from the fault which we have condemned, and the other extreme of diffuseness and paraphrase. Did our limits permit extracts, we could adduce ample evidence of the sensible and faithful accuracy which generally charaction, of the admirable selection and terizes the work under consideraappropriate beauty of the language in which it is expressed, and of the imbued the mind of the amiable just and elegant taste which deeply translator.

We have observed one instance of boldness, on which, we think, the translator would not have ventured, unless urged by the apprehension of an otherwise insoluble

difficulty. This is, when in ch. i. 6,

בני האלהים and ii. 1, she renders

(sons of God, or sons of the gods) as if it stood without the final D (sons of perdition). This gives, indeed, a plain and beautiful sense to an obscure phrase; but such a method of removing a difficulty, in defiance of all the sources of authority, is violent, dangerous, and inadmissible by all the just rules of criticism. The only reason assigned by Miss Smith in her note, is properly given up by Dr. Randolph ; yet, without substituting any better ground, he clings to the new interpretation. If the Doctor conceived (and this appears no improbable conjecture) that the second word

night be put in the plural number, as a well-known mode of express

ing emphasis, sons of execrations, he did not advert to the consideration, that is the plural of

.אלה

To the Biblical scholar this work cannot fail of being very useful and to the plain English reader it deserves to be warmly recommended, as furnishing excellent means of understanding one of the most profound and obscure of the sacred books, and yet one of the most ancient, beautiful, and instructive.

Mercy and Judgment: Two Sermons, occasioned by the Death of

Mr. Basil Owen Woodd, e'test Son of the Rev. Basil Woodd. By the Rev. Joshua Mann, Assistant Minister of Bentinck Chapel. 28. 6d.

THESE Sermons were occasioned by the death of Mr. B. O.Woodd, at the age of 23. His natural disposition was amiable, and his manners engaging; but his temper was lively, unguarded, and irresolute; so that, when exposed to the snares of the world, he soon appeared unequal to the trial. In the pursuit of medical knowledge, he became acquainted with dangerous companions; and was led into temptations which his too pliant disposition was little formed to resist. While exposure to fatigue, late hours, the changes of our uncertain climate, added to his own indiscretions, made a serious attack on his con

stitution, a severe cold, which

he took in November, 1810, produced a violent inflammation of the lungs; and a consumption, which issued in death, on the 19th of March, 1811.

The history of his case, as stated in these sermons, is full of instruction, especially to young gentlemen. During the season of dissipation, the religious principles which he imbibed from a pious education, rendered him frequently a miserable creature. He knew that he was wrong, resolved upon reformation, violated his resolutions, resolved again, and again relapsed, still hoping, however, one day to gain the victory over himself: but affliction, and the awful approach of death, were to be the means of his

conversion. In the course of an illness of five months, he discovered many hopeful symptoms of genuine repentance, which are faithi fully and prudently detailed in these should we be, if the scanty limits truly excellent discourses. Glad of a sixpenny publication would permit, to lay these before our readers; ; but we must desist; and can only recommend, as we most cordially do, these serious, judicious, and evangelical sermons to all our readers. We particularly wish that the parents, guardians, and are in danger of rain from their other friends of young men, who

connexion with men of the world,' would put them into the hands of such persons. We hope and pray with the deceased youth, that his death may prove an extensive bene. fit;' and we unite also with the reverend and much-afflicted parent, in saying, Let the event have all the effect which it is calculated to produce: exhort the parent, — warn the child.'

The Excellence of the Liturgy: « Sermon preached at Aylesbury, at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Bucks, by the Rev. Basil Woodd, M. A.

THE motto of this discourse is (2 Tim. i. 13) Hold fast the form of sound words,' &c. Mr. Woodd considers the Liturgy, 1st, As a gion; 2, As a course of scriptural summary of our most holy reliinstruction; and, 3, As an exercise of rational, pure, exalted devotion. Happy would it be, if all who use the Liturgy, improved it for these important purposes !