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The three evangelists here subjoin the words, for a testimony unto them (sis paprópiov avrois). This implies, that the command here given had some respect to the Priests. By pronouncing the Leper clean, they must testify to the reality of his cure, and thus condemn their own unbelief. [The preceding lepet (priest) is to be taken collectively, as appears from the subsequent aurois.]

LITERARY

NOTICES.

The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor, containing the Old and New Testaments, with Practical Expositions and Explanatory Notes. By Thomas Williams, author of "The Age of Infidelity," in answer to Paine, fc. &c. To which are added the References and Marginal Readings of the Polyglot Bible, together with original Notes and Selections from Bagster's Comprehensive Bible and other standard works ;-Introductory and concluding remarks on each Book of the Old and New Testaments, and a valuable Chronological Index. The whole carefully revised, and adapted to the use of Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, and Christians generally. Embellished with maps and engravings. Edited by Rev. WILLIAM PATTON. Complete in two volumes. New-York; Conner & Cook, Franklin Buildings, 1833.

THE work of which the above account is given on its title page, promises no more than it fulfils. It presents the result of much research in a small compass, which can be procured at comparatively little expense. It is judicious in most of its statements, and thoroughly evangelical in the spirit it breathes, and the sentiments it inculcates. It is peculiarly adapted to be useful to both teachers and pupils in Sunday Schools, and for this reason, it can hardly fail to be studied in connexion with these important institutions, wherever its character is understood. "There are many persons," says the English Editor, "both in early and advanced life, who take great pleasure in searching the Scriptures; but for want of an acquaintance with the original languages, with ancient history and oriental manners, they are impeded and discouraged, especially when they meet with men who not only reject the Bible themselves, but delight to depreciate and degrade it; thus perplexing and discouraging those who wish to make it, not only their study, but their directory through life. From a desire to assist such persons, both in studying the Scriptures and in repelling their opponents, the COTTAGE BIBLE was projected." Of his qualifications for the undertaking, the Editor modestly says, that he "brings to the execution of his plan, no pretensions to ability, but that of having studied the Scriptures for half a century, and formed a collection of books the most necessary and suitable to assist him in the design." The substance of these works he has endeavoured to compress, and to add, in the most concise form, such practical remarks as appeared to him desirable. The introduction of Hebrew and Greek characters is avoided; and even the critical notes are rendered intelligible to the reader of a common English education.

Of the candour of the Editor there can be no doubt. He is worthy of credit when he says, "It has been the author's aim to follow the inspired writers, and by no means to bend them to his preconceived opinions, or to any human system. He has never shunned fearlessly to express what he conceives to be their meaning; at the same time he ventures to hope, that he has expressed himself with becoming modesty, imploring both for himself and for his readers, that wisdom from above which is profitable and even necessary, to direct us in all cases, and particularly in Theological inquiries."

The value of the work is much increased by the additions, and other improvements of the American Editor. "Free use," he tells us, "has been made of authors illustrating the historical facts, natural history, and geography of the Bible; also, the manners and customs of Eastern and ancient nations. The Cottage Bible, as now presented to the public, probably contains more to illustrate the Scriptures from travels, than can be found in the same compass and expense, in any other commentary." "The maps accompanying the present edition have been prepared with great care after an extended comparison of authorities, and it is hoped, will be well calculated to aid the student of the Bible in obtaining accurate geographical knowledge. The plates are designed not merely to ornament the work, but to illustrate important portions of the word of God."

The general circulation of works like the one now noticed, cannot but be regarded as very auspicious to the interests of valuable biblical knowledge, among those who, from want of a learned education, or from their circumstances, are denied access to higher and more expensive sources of critical investigation. It is one of the happy characteristics of the age, that it aims to bring down to common use the more important facts and materials of thought, which were formerly regarded as the exclusive property of scholars, men of literary leisure, and the devotees of science.

Poems and Prose writings, by RICHARD H. DANA. Boston. Russell, Odiorne, & Co. 1833.

THIS work has been so often and so favourably noticed in our critical journals, that it is above the need of eulogium from us. We defer to a future period the more extended remarks we had designed to offer on this work, the more willingly, as we believe it is not an ephemeral production, but destined to live, and assert a place in the immortal literature of our nation. Mr. Dana's poetry is founded on nature, and strikes a chord to which the human heart responds, and therefore, like that of Cowper and Wadsworth, will always be read and loved.

We must content ourselves now with a single extract. It exhibits, more perhaps than any other poem in the volume, all the peculiar characteristics of Mr. Dana's poetry,-a varied and somewhat rugged versification,-vigour of thought and moral conception,-a yearning love for nature in all its forms, -a sad, but pleasing and attractive melancholy in view of the perversions of life, brightened and cheered by the hopes of religion. It is the last in the collection of poems; and with sentiments so pure and elevated we are happy to close our present volume.

DAYBREAK.

The Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened towards the sun rising; the a ame of the chamber was Peace; where he slept till break of day, and then he awoke and sang. The Pilgrim's Progress.

I.

Now, brighter than the host that all night long,

In fiery armour, far up in the sky

Stood watch, thou coms't to wait the morning's song,
Thou com'st to tell me day again is nigh,

Star of the dawning! Cheerful is thine eye;
And yet in the broad day it must grow dim.
Thou seem'st to look on me, as asking why

My mourning eyes with silent tears do swim;

Thou bid'st me turn to God, and seek my rest in Him.

II.

Canst thou grow sad, thou say'st, as earth grows bright?
And sigh, when little birds begin discourse

In quick, low voices, ere the streaming light

Pours on their nests, from out the day's fresh source?
With creatures innocent thou must perforce

A sharer be, if that thine heart be pure.
And holy hour like this, save sharp remorse,
Of ills and pains of life must be the cure,

And breathe in kindred calm, and teach thee to endure.

III.

I feel its calm. But there's a sombrous hue,
Edging that eastern cloud, of deep, dull red; !
Nor glitters yet the cold and heavy dew;

And all the woods and hill-tops stand outspread
With dusky lights, which warmth nor comfort shed.
Still-save the bird that scarcely lifts its song-
The vast world seems the tomb of all the dead-
The silent city emptied of its throng,

And ended, all alike, grief, mirth, love, hate and wrong.

IV.

But wrong, and hate, and love, and grief, and mirth
Will quicken soon; and hard, hot toil and strife,
With headlong purpose, shake this sleeping earth
With discord strange, and all that man calls life.
With thousand scattered beauties nature's rife ;

And airs, and woods, and streams breathe harmonies:-
Man weds not these, but taketh art to wife;

Nor binds his heart with soft and kindly ties :-
He, feverish, blinded, lives; and, feverish, sated, dies.

V.

It is because man useth so amiss

Her dearest blessings, Nature seemeth sad;

Else why should she, in such fresh hour as this

Not lift the veil, in revelation glad,

From her fair face?-It is that man is mad!

Then chide me not, clear Star, that I repine,

When nature grieves; nor deem this heart is bad.

Thou look'st toward earth; but yet the heavens are thine;

While I to earth am bound:-When will the heavens be mine?

VI.

If man would but his finer nature learn,

And not in life fantastic lose the sense

Of simpler things; could nature's features stern
Teach him be thoughtful, then, with soul intense,
I should not yearn for God to take me hence,
But bear my lot, albeit in spirit bowed,
Remembering humbly why it is, and whence:
But when I see cold man of reason proud,
My solitude is sad-I'm lonely in the crowd.

VII.

But not for this alone, the silent tear
Steals to mine eyes, while looking on the morn;
Nor for this solemn hour: fresh life is near;-
But all my joys!-they died when newly born.
Thousands will wake to joy; while I, forlorn,
And like the stricken deer, with sickly eye

Shall see them pass. Breathe calm-my spirit's torn;
Ye holy thoughts, lift up my soul on high!—

Ye hopes of things unseen, the far-off world bring nigh.

VIII.

And when I grieve, O, rather let it be
That I-whom nature taught to sit with her
On her proud mountains, by her rolling sea-
Who when the winds are up, with mighty stir
Of woods and waters-feel the quick'ning spur
To my strong spirit ;-who, as my own child,
Do love the flower, and in the ragged burr
A beauty see-that I this mother mild

Should leave, and go with care, and passions fierce and wild!

IX.

How suddenly that straight and glittering shaft,
Shot 'thwart the earth! In crown of living fire
Up comes the Day! As if they conscious quaft-
The sunny flood, hill, forest, city spire

Laugh in the wakening light.-Go, vain desire!
The dusky lights are gone; go thou thy way!
And pining discontent, like them, expire!

Be called my chamber, PEACE, when ends the day;
And let me with the dawn, like PILGRIM, sing and pray.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1834, by LEONARD WOODS, Jun. in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of New-York.

West & Trow, Printers.

LITERARY

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THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

NO. II.-JUNE, 1834.

ART. I. PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND.

By Rev. LEONARD WOODS, D. D., Abbot Professor of Christian Theology, in the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.

NUMBER II.

Recapitulation as to mental faculties. Disposition, inclination, susceptibility, &c. considered.

THE remarks made in the previous essay on the manner in which mental operations are classified, and then referred to the mind as possessed of faculties adapted to the different classes of those operations, show I think clearly and satisfactorily, the truth of what I suggested at the beginning of the discussion, that what we call the faculties of the mind are not to be considered as distinct parts into which the mind is divided, and which, by being united together, constitute the mind, as different parts or ingredients make up a complex material substance. Locke well observes, that the ordinary way of speaking of the faculties of the mind is apt to breed confusion in men's thoughts, by leading them to suppose that the words denoting those faculties "stand for some real beings in the soul;" or, as he says in another place, for "so many distinct agents in us, which have their several provinces and authorities, and command, obey, and perform several actions, as so many distinct beings; which has been no small occasion of wrangling, obscurity and uncertainty." The mind is a simple, indivisible, spiritual being. And when we speak of it as having different faculties, we do nothing more than to say, that the mind itself, a simple, immaterial being, performs so many different kinds of actions, and of course has power or ability to perform them; for how could it act in these different ways, without power to do so. But what we call a power or faculty of the mind is no more a distinct agent, than the faculty of speaking or VOL. I. 21

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