of it. We continued our praife in the prefent volume*, accompanied with a partial diffent from the opinion of the very able tranflator, on an hypothefis introduced by him. Our diffent was ftrengthened by the arguments of a learned and acute, though anonymous writert, who exprefsly oppofed the fentiments of Mr. Marth. In this oppofition there would be no kind of evil, were it not the custom of authors to confider a difference of opinion, however refpectfully expreffed, as a perfonal attack or injury. We regret that this fhould be the cafe; but we must take human nature as it is. Michaelis himfelf, who can no longer refent an opinion, has met alfo with an opponent on this occafion, in another anonymous writer, who has moft powerfully fupported the Authenticity and Infpiration of the Apocalypfe, in Ten Letters on the fubject. They are addreffed to Mr. Marfh, to whom the tafk of performing the fame fervice more completely is, with great propriety, affigned. He had long ago appeared as a defender of the Books of Mofes§, in a tract which, though lefs profound than his other works, is well calculated to produce its due effect, and has lately been republifhed. The publication of the Dean of Peterborough, proving the Articles of our church not to be Calviniftical, is noticed by us, in our account of two works which maintain the oppofite opinion; an opinion, diligently revived of late, but long ago refuted, in a masterly manner, by Bishop Bull. The Harmonia Apoftolica of that learned Bifhop has therefore, with great judgment, been tranflated and illuftrated by the Rev. T. Wilkinfon. The Calvinifts, as long as they had a hope of procuring an alteration in our Articles, conformable to their opinions, laboured hard to effect it; that chance being over, they now endeavour to perfuade us that they are already Calviniftical, and confe quently that their former efforts were fuperfluous. No. II. p. 174. No. VI. p. 678. + Ib. p. 181. Ib. p. 589. No. III, P. 292. Dr. Dr. Sandford's Lectures on the Epiftles received our commendation, as well as a fet of Sermons by the fame authort; his title of D. D. was acquired in the interval between thefe publications. We fhould be glad if we could recommend without referve D. Simpfon's Plea for Religion; it has in it, however, too much that is valuable to fuffer us to pafs it by in filence. To make a work of great excellence ftill more acceffible, Mr. Clapham has employed his time in abridging the Bishop of Lincoln's Elements of Chriftian Theology; and he has performed the task with diligence and judgment, Of collected volumes of Sermons, our prefent lift offers but a few; among which, we give the first place, without hesitation, to thofe of Mr. Gisborne. The heart must be cold which is not moved by them, nor fhould we admire the head which was impenetrable to their arguments. The pofthumous Sermons of Dr. Stevens are alfo of confiderable value; and the difcourfes of Dr. Gardiner** will perhaps be read with little lefs fatisfaction than they were originally heard, from the pulpit of a well-attended chapel. Between volumes thus collected, and difcourfes fingly published, the work of Mr. Pattefont† forms a kind of connecting link. The Sermon is only one; but the Effays fubjoined as notes are thirty-three, which, being for the most part on fubjects of an interefting kind, form a publication well calculated to detain the ftudious reader, and employ his thoughts to advantage. We turn, at length, to Sermons fingly published, of which fo many have been noticed in the present volume, that we must select even from the select, to make our present enumeration. The two Sermons of the Bishop of Bangor, noticed together, but published at different times, the one on the Utility of Creeds, the • No. V. p. 560. 4 No. VI. p. 679. **No. V. p. 516. + No. IV. p. 398. No. IV. p. 411. ++ No. VI. p. 614. ‡ No. VI. p. 627. ¶ No. İ. P. 8. ‡‡ No. I. p. 45. other other on the Articles of the Church, are both worthy of the found understanding and knowledge from which they flowed. We have alfo two productions of the Bishop of Landaff, which demand our renewed attention. The former, a Sermon on the Evidences of Revealed Religion, preached at the London Hofpital; the other, a Charge to the Clergy of Landafft, arguing the neceffity of religious fanctions to fociety, and the advantages of an established religion to a Chriftian fociety. Both are of confiderable value. Mr. Burgefs, whose various merits are now rewarded, no lefs honourably to the patron than to him, with a feat on the epifco pal bench, publifhed, early in the prefent year, a difcourfe on Charity, which we characterized with justice as an univerfal manual of that duty. Wẹ have feldom feen fo much compreffed, within the compass of a modern Sermon. In an exhortation of great precifion and force, Mr. Coopers warns the Clergy against the errors of enthufiafm, on the one hand, and the danger of receding, in any degree, from the truth, in the oppofite extreme. The cautions are well stated, and certainly are not fuperfluous. Though we haften to the clofe of this fection, we must not omit to mention fuch difcourfes as that of Mr. Howley, at the confecration of the Bishop of Gloucefter, Mr. Law for the fons of the Clergy, and Mr. Hall on the subject of War**, For reafoning, for eloquence, or for both, they are all confpicuous, and deferve to rank among the best productions of the kind. In a clafs by itself we muft place the excellent Concio ad Clerum of Archdeacon Polttt; to clear argument, and found theology, partly on the fubject of the Calviniftic difpute already alluded to, it adds the merit of fimple and unaffected Latinity, adapted no lefs to the nature of the compofition, than the topics were to the times. + No. V. p. 558. No. II. p. 194. ** No. V. p. 558. 2 No. IV. p. 436. No. III. p. 325. tt No. II. p. 195. MORALITY. MORALITY. There can be no doubt that to this clafs belong Mr. Pearfon's Annotations on Paley*; but our mention of that work recals the name of Remarks on the theory of Morals," by the fame author, which, by fome accident, has been paffed by. It preceded in time, and fhould therefore have been firft noticed. Treatifes on Education we have ufually confidered as a branch of morals; but, wherever claffed, Dr. Barrow's Essay† on that fubject must be confidered as a work of fingular merit. It is more practical, and lefs indebted to fancy, than fuch books have ufually been; the result of excellent judgment, improved by long experience. Carrying on education to the ftudies of the College, Mr. Kett's Elements of general Knowledge feem almost infeparable from the foregoing; the work is equally the refult of much experience, and attracts by the elegance as well as by the folidity of its information. As a work of a minor clafs, Mrs. Helme's book, entitled Maternal Inftructions, may be mentioned; it exhibits much affiduity of reading, applied to a very ufeful purpose, that of strengthening the youthful mind. LAW. We were pleafed with the perufal of certain Law Effays, by Mr. W. D. Evans, as calculated to improve the ftudent, and evincing original thought in the writer; but we have not yer heard of any continuation of them. Of lefs originality, but not without its profeffional ufe, is Mr. Serjeant Marshall's treatife on the Late of Infurance. The learned Serjeant had, in Mr. Park, a predeceffor, who left little to be added to his labours, and ftill lefs to be controverted of his doctrines. A fmall but ufeful work, on the Duties of a Conftable*, proceeded from the pen of Mr. Colquhoun. That active and enquiring magiftrate, beginning with a particular object, extended his de fign till he rendered his book of general benefit. Mr. Moore's ftatement of the Cafe of the London Clergy+, contains a fair account of the law as it ftands, and a strong plea to the legislature to amend, in that inftance, the provifions of it. Sir F. Eden's tract on Friendly Societiest may be confidered as a propofal for a benevolent law, hereafter to be further digefted. Our retrospect does not at prefent show us any other works of confequence, connected with the fubject of Law. POLITICS. The fpeculations of Sir Francis D'Ivernois, on the general politics of Europe, have always deferved at tention. In his work on the Five Promifes of the first Confuls, he confidered the peace then fubfifting as an experiment, the dur tion of which was likely to be very thort; unhappily, its duration was even less than he appeared to apprehend, and the whole of Europe is again difturbed by the ambition of one man, On the internal politics of this country, we have not much, nor that of primary importance in the come pafs of the prefent volume. The Minifter's able ftatement of our financial fituation, in December, 1802 is even now fatisfactory, though we have been compelled to renew our expences, and to fubmit to additional burdens, for the fake of still higher interefts. To the Memoirs of this Administration, we could have wished that a renewal of War had not been deftined to be added; but, we trust that a fhort pe * No. I. p. 87. 6 No. II. p. 108. + No. V. p. 568. ‡ No. II. P. 206. Subftance of Mr. Addington's Specch, No. JII. P. 2979 1 1 No. Vi. p. 680. riod |