verfion of the will could be conquered by an appeal to the head, Atheism would be here fubdued. The confirmation of well-difpofed minds, in their found and rational belief, will be the effect most commonly produced. Dr. Paley certainly gives new life and energy to the moral proofs of a Deity, in this very able publication. We have no original work within our prefent lift, which can be arranged with the foregoing in magnitude as well as value, except indeed volumes of Sermons, which we ufually confider apart. Thus circumflanced, we fhall not further delay our mention of Mr. Reeves's edition of the Greek Teftament, a book in which, to a neat and diftinct type, are added the advantages of those sections, arguments, and divifions, which have been approved in his English Bibles. Newcome's Harmonyt, in English, offers to the divine a most useful and convenient book for comparing the narratives of the Evangelifts; it gives indeed a facility, of which even the uninftructed may avail themfelves, for the better understanding the. Gofpels. Mr. Thirlwall's English Diatefaron‡ is, like his Latin book of the fame kind, at once a tribute to the merit of the original compiler Dr. White, and an inftructive manual for the pious reader. As a compilation of utility, in many refpects, we ought not to omit Buck's Theological Dictionarys, though the author occafionally inculcates fome tenets, which have not our affent. Among fmaller tracts,we cannot pafs by Mr. Robinson's Serious Call. It would be hard to refufe a fingle mention here, to a book which accidentally we have twice noticed in our critiques. Though thefe accounts proceeded, as may be fuppofed, from different pens, it will be feen that they agree in commendation. Tothe critical reader, Mr. James's Essay on Jonah has fome attractions, though we fhould not venture to re+ No. IV. p. 436. + No. IV. p. 437. No. 1. p. 72; also vol. xxi. p. 440. * No. VI. p. 683. $ No. II. p. 203, No. III. p. 331. commend commend it as a comment for general adoption. The Churchman's Remembrancer is a work which we hope to fee continued; it confifts not in general of original matter, but of useful tracts republithed; with the addition, however, of illuftrations by Mr. Churton, and other able divines. It has been well begun, and we truft will be well encouraged and continued. We proceed now to volumes of Sermons, several of which have lately paffed through our hands. We fhall here mention thofe of Dr. Brownt, Principal of the College of Aberdeen. The previous character of the author had excited an expectation, which was by no means disappointed. If we did not bestow indif criminate praife, it is because we have no high opinion of the value of fuch praife. An author who deferves to be read with care, deferves alfo to be eftimated with exactness. Such an author undoubtedly is Dr. Brown; and fuch also is another, well known for literary exertions, Dr. Gleig, of Sterling. Dr. Gleig's Sermons, opposed to the prevailing evils of the times, are of fingular value and importance. We have doubted whether, on one or two doctrinal points, they are expreffed with fufficient caution; but relying on the found principles of the writer, we are perfuaded that these doubts may admit of a fatisfactory folution. In the plain ftyle fuited to their title, though not deficient in energy, Mr. St. John's Practical Sermons§, have received jult praife; they have also been attacked, but we take part with thofe that praise, not those who attack. Two fets of Sermons have lately been tranflated from foreign languages, and two others either felected from former writers, or founded on the inftructions of a fingle divine. The two former are from Zollikofer and Durand¶, the two others are the works refpectively of Mr. Clapham and Mr. Wrangbam; they are all of too much merit and utility to * No. III. p. 324. § No. III. p. 248. II. 171. + No. IV. p. 393. ‡ No. VI. p. 663 I No. I. p. 12; and be be omitted in this fketch, though we cannot place them on a level with works of original compofition. We generally close our theological account with fingle Sermons, or other detached difcourfes from the clergy. Among these, the firft at present on our lift is the Charge del.vered by the Bishop of Lincoln to the clergy of his diocefe*, in the beginning of the laft fummer. The Charge is a direct attack upon the too prevalent doctrines of Calvinism, by urging the fcriptural truth, that falvation was freely offered, through Chrift, to all who would accept and abide by the conditions of the offer. This truth was never more required to be maintained, nor can it often be more ably supported. The Sermon of the late Bishop of Exetert, on the Peace, proved the Cycnea Cantio of the author. He is now in peace, though from us, alas! it has been long removed. The fubjects of the Bishop of Oxford's difcourfe at Bow Church are Miffions and Charity-fchools, which, in his hands, become moft profitable topics of inftruction. The confecration of Dr. Burgefs and Dr. Fisher to the dioceses of St. David's and Exeter, happily called to the pulpit a preacher who, as if a double confecration required double energy,, has produced a difcourfe, which does honour at once to himself and the occafion. Mr. Churtons argues for epifcopacy; and, though it is not perhaps poffible to write what is abfolutely new, on a fubject fo often difcuffed, he gives his arguments, by fkilful management, the vigour and effect of novelty. Mr. Glaffe, preaching before the Sons of the Clergyll, vindicates, with much ability, the honour of the married priesthood; and fhows the importance, not only of the husband, but of the wife, to the interests of religion and of fociety. Of Sermons occafioned by the late Faft, or by temporary occafions, the num ́ber is too confiderable to permit us even to select the * No. II. p. 124. No. VI. p. 678. + Ib. p. 199. ‡ No. VI. p. 677. most moft meritorious. The names of feveral of the authors will fay all that we could wish to say for them*; but Mr. Drewe has now first established a title to celebrityt. Of a very different kind are, Mr. Todd's Charity Sermon, preached at Shrewsbury, and the pofthumous difcourfe of Dr. Arnald§, on the duties of English Universities; but both are too good to be paffed over in our prefent enumeration. With very found learning, applied to an important purpose, Mr. Moore has diftinguished his Concio ad Clerum, preached before the members of Sion College. The interpretation of one Hebrew verb is the principal obftacle in his way, and the advantages of his plan are such as intereft the learned reader for his fuccefs. HISTORY. Without any intermediate gradation, we proceed, on the prefent occafion, to this clafs; in which we begin with an author partly analysed in our preceding volume. The Hiftory of England, under the first twenty-three years of the prefent reign, is written by Mr. Adolphus, with a fpirit and propriety which will lead many readers to wifh, with us, for its continuation to the prefent time. Too much has been written for party purposes, while a real hiftory of the time was, till lately, a defideratum. Foreign history, written by an Englishman, is of a very different nature, but Mr. Card has contrived to feel, and to communicate, an intereft refpecting the Revolutions of Ruffia. On the fubject of Troy, we may still fay, — erunt etiam altera bella, Atque iterum ad Trojam magnus mittetur Achilles. *For inftance; Dr. Glaffe, No. IV. p. 439. S. Madan, No. V. P. 558. Beloe, No. VI. p. 680; and, on another fubject, G. Andrences, No. II. p. 201. + No. IV. p. 438. No. VI. p. 680. § Ib. p. 682. No. VI. p. 640. On the prophecy of 70 Vol. xxi. p. 6; and No. II, p. 158 of this. IV. p. 357 Weeks. ** No. III. p. 299; 2 In the war which lately arofe, Dr. Chandler fights as manfully as any hero, ancient or modern,-fi Pergama dextrâ ;-but fome of the old Greeks will yet contend on the oppofite fide. To the history of Italian poetry,. Mr. Mathias has fmoothed the way, for the readers of that language, by his judicious felections from Crefcimbeni and Tirabofchit; and he writes Italian with a purity and spirit which almost entitle him to a place in the hiftories he has thus republished. ANTIQUITIES. Of antiquaries, we encounter only two in the courfe of the prefent volume; Mr. Edwards, who has, with diligence and care, republifhed the Survey of St. Afaph, written by Browne Willis; and Mr. Goughs, who, amidst his more arduous researches, has folaced himfelf with the records and remains of Plefby. BIOGRAPHY. Cowper, a general favourite, has been made in part his own biographer, by the number of his Letters which Mr. Hayley has interwoven in his Life. This method, which has been adopted in many cafes, is of courfe fuccefsful, in proportion to the intereft attached to all the remains of the author, and the judg ment employed in felecting the Letters. The public, we believe, has fully fhown, that it was not indifferent to any thing from the pen of Cowper; and the biographer has had his fhare of praife, though not without diminution. The Life of Reid¶ is calculated for philofophers of the metaphyfical clafs; and Mr. Dugald Stewart, in writing it, has fhown himself well worthy to continue and complete the refearches of + No. IV. p. 413. No. 1. p. 55. * Hiftory of Ilium, No. V. p. 545. ‡ No. I. p. 1. § No. V. p. 505. + No. VI. p. 614. |