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tleman on Gen. iv. 7. Nor shall we discuss the "demoniac yells of bigotry and superstition," the soul-restraining creeds, nor vindicate the clergy from "making fashion and the world their idols, who follow divinity as they would follow a trade, because they would eat of the loaves and be filled:" these and other specimens of the verbose declamation" in which the Doctor"jumps and flutters, we cannot descend to trouble our readers with. We have already had to point out too many of Dr. Drummond's inaccuracies, and erroneous views, to occupy much of our space with hini at present; we regret for his own sake that be bas published his two letters, since his former controversial labours had been forgotten, and were we his enemies we should rejoice that he had written this second book."

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With respect to Mr. Hardy's part of the controversy, we have no hesitation In saying, that bis honest and plain un derstanding bus far more than confuted the Doctor's statements, and stripping them of the poetical, mystical, and me taphysical disguise thrown about them by the Unitarian philosophy, shown them to be unscriptuaal, and unreasonable. Many points of Mr. Hardy's pamphlet have been unanswered by the Doctor, who through his whole letter assumes a superiority over his opponent, not justified, we think, by the comparative claims of the two; and to those that he professes to reply, Mr. Hardy's rejoinder is decisive, particularly regarding the charges of misquotation from the Doctor and Mr. Belsham, and of igno rance of the Scripture history of Christ: We certainly think that Dr. Drummond must have relied on his memory for his statements respecting our Lord's preaching, or he could not have asserted in contradiction to the very words of of Scripture, that the object of his life was to promulgate the doctrines of the Gospel, rather than to be its subject; and in distinct opposition to the sacred

historian, have excluded the people from having any sbare in Christ's death. We are suprised to find such evident marks of precipitation in a pamphlet so long in its preparation.

A Treatise on the Truth and Inspiration of the Old and New Testament. Chiefly from the French of M. Jaquelot, by Wilhelmina Antoinette Bingham. London, 1829, pp. xvi. 390.

Jaquelot, the author of the treatise bere presented in an English dress, was one of those French Protestant divines who were exiled by the revocation of the edict of Naniz, from that country which they ornamented by their learning, and instructed by their example. He found refuge in the dominions of the King of Prussia, whose chaplain he became, and he died in Berlin in 1708, leaving behind him a high character for learning, piety, and talents. The treatise on the Inspiration of the Scriptures was but one of his numerous works, but we believe the only one translated into our language. We think the work so excellent that we confess our gratitude to the fair transla tor, and trust it will be generally circu lated. The present time requires such works; infidelity, we fear, is active among the bigner classes, who, by the opened intercourse with the continent, will contract, we fear, more than a taste for dress and frivolity. At all events, infidelity has assumed a bolder aspect than formerly, and must be met by corresponding exertions. Jaquelot's treatise is well calculated to remedy such an evil; it is brief, plain, and argumenta tive. We do not think his metaphysics always in unison with modern theories, and indeed we do not think its introduction or object essential to this treatise, which is quite independent of the point be wishes to prove, the separate existence of the soul. It would seem to us that many arguments in his work would be equally sound to a materialist, as to an immaterialist; and if the work reach

The sweeping style of the Unitarian school is well exemplified in this criticism. Lightfoot, Kenncott, Parkhurst, no mean Hebraists, are set aside with the greatest degree of indifference, and various meanings of this passage proposed for the reader's choice. We make our assertion too, and we tell Dr. Drummond, that the Hebrew word translated sin can in no instance be proved to signify the punishment of sin, and does signify a sacrifice for sin, and that the interpretation of the passage he would propose is a cold and unmeaning tautology, unworthy of the speaker or the subject. We refer our readers, with great pleasure, to Mr. Faber's disputation on sacrifices, in reply to Mr. Davidson's, shall we say, unadvised, publication. † John xvi. 12, 13.

↑ The translator so writes it; we have always seen it in this form, Jacquelot.

a second edition, we would suggest the propriety of omitting part or the whole of the third chapter of the first part.

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The work consists of two parts, of which the first aloue was completed by its author, and is certainly superior to the second. The proofs of the divine origin of the books of Moses and his codes are, in many respects, original, and in all are able; we refer particularly to the arguments drawn in the 13th, 14th, and 15th chapters from the memorials and monuments contained in the writings of the Jewish legislator, which we think very well wrought out. A similar argument is carried on in the twentieth chapter, in which the author reasons from the appeal made by the sacred historian to various records, the book of Iddo, the book of Jasher, and others, and shows that such an appeal strongly indicative of the truth of the records that have come down to us. We think occasionally our translator must have mistaken the author; thus in page 238, she says, "In that peo ple, (the Jewish) were mystically all the true people of God; to them alone the covenant of works was confined, to the whole race of mankind in general, the covenant of grace is open." If we understand this passage, it appears to us to be theologically incorrect. In page 332, we think a confusion exists between the restoration and conversion of the Jews; the latter is undoubtedly spoken of in the passage referred to, Rom. xi. 25, 26, and we do not think there is any ground for thinking the former is intimated. Indeed, we think, the fair translator has unnecessarily brought for ward the subject of the restoration of the children of Israel; as an evidence being unfulfilled, it is obviously of no value, and as the doctrine itself is by no

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LITERARY NOTICES,

Just Published-The Christian's Manual; or the Desire of the Soul turned to God: containing Extracts from the writings of the Rev. William Law, M.A. on the following important subjects, in Three Parts: 1. A Practical Treatise on Christian Perfection. 2. The Spirit of Prayer, 3. On the Lord's Supper. To which are added appropriate Frayers and Meditations. Also, price 1s, in neat boards, The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper fully explained, being the third part of the above work; to which is added, an earnest Exhortation to a regular attendance on that most Holy Ordinance.

In 1 vol. Svo, price 3s 6d. Gideon, and other Poems. By the author of My early Years," "Jane and her Teacher," &c.

Early in October will be Published, in Foolscap 8vo, Price Is. 6d. The Mother and her Daughters.

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Just Published, the Fifth Edition of The Cabinet Lawyer; including the Statutes of the 10 Geo. IV, and legal Decisions to the close of the Summer Assizes, presenting, in a popular and comprehensive form, a complete Digest of the Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional Law of England as now administered,

We are glad to learn that Mrs. Mathias has two volumes in the press in continuation of." Domestic Instruction," and intended for older pupils.

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FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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"On my way to Rome, last winter, I established, with the consent of the pastor of each parish, a school for girls in each of the following parishes: Latour, Angrogné, and Prarustine, schools the girls are taught reading, writing, cyphering, needle-work, knitting, psalmody. They learn spinning at home. The Scriptures are read daily in these schools. Every morning and afternoon, prayers are read from a tract which I published at Paris, and which consists of extracts from our Common

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Prayer book, adapted to the several mornings and evenings of the week. Each of these daily schools have a Sunday-school annexed to it, under the care of the mistresses. The expenses of each school for one year is £12. The master of the Latin school, with the consent of M. Best, pastor of Latour, and president of the Commission for the Hospital, agreed to conduct the family-worship at the hospital, and to read my tract of Church of England prayers every morning and evening, as well as other prayers on the Sundays. He also reads the Scriptures to the patients. For this service, and for giving instructions in the winter evenings to inferior school-masters, and those who wish to be such, I engaged to send him about £5."

ITALY.

Extract of a letter from Professor Tholuck.

"I should be sorry to leave Italy, without informing you of an event which took place previously to my leaving Rome, and which will give you particular pleasure as it did me.

In a letter written to you in March, I gave you some account of a young Jew who had requested me to instruct him in Christianity, and whose serious conversion I had reason to expect. He at length expressed his decided wish to receive baptism from me, before my departure from Rome. After having advised with the Prussian minister about the practicability of receiving a Jew in Rome into the communion of the Protestant church, and after having engaged the young man to continue a course of religious instruction, even subsequently to my departure, I complied with his request, at which he was particularly delighted. The 5th of April was the last day of my officiating in the German Protestant Chapel, and the last function I had to perform, was the very satisfactory one of administering the rite of baptism to a child of Israel. The morning of this very day our Protestant friends had been mixed with the vast crowd which filled St. Peter's, in order to attend the coronation of the Pope. In the afternoon, at four o'clock, we assembled under the humble roof of our little German Chapel. There the young man read his confession of faith, which I had left unaltered, and the simplicity of which struck every person present. The principal part is as follows, in his own words: I was born a Jew, but educated a Deist. I did not know the glo

rious promises given to my forefathers. I had a god quite of my own forming. In this state, however, I was never happy. I felt something was wanting to human happiness, but did not know what. I was sometimes alarmed at this miserable state. I came to Rome to improve myself in my art, and here the impression I had always had of the vanity of earthly greatness increased. One day I came to the Protestant service, without any idea of what it could afford me. I felt myself attracted, repeated my visits to that place of worship, and at last began to perceive that it afforded me that which I had hitherto vainly looked for.'

"After having addressed to him a few words suitable to the occasion, I asked him the usual questions preceding the act of baptism; and then administered the sacred rite, whilst the godfathers, according to the custom of our church, put their hands on his head, and prayed over him."

PALESTINE.

Carac, an Arab city, in the land of Moab, five days from Jerusalem, is inhabited by Arabs, called Beni Sahar, and are supposed to be the descendants of the tribe of Issachar. There are Arabs of Carac, professing the Greek religion, to whose ancestors the Gospel was preached by the Apostle Paul and by Origen.

At Hebron is a tribe of Arabs called Beni Dayem, who pretend to be the descendants of Edom. At Hebron are at present sixty families of Jews.

The Arabs around Mar Saba, are called Abedea, i. e. slaves; for they are the descendants of those hundred slaves, whom the Emperor Justinian presented to the convent of Mar Saba.

We regret to say an attempt has been made on the life of the zealous Joseph Wolfe, but providentially without effect.

AMERICA.

We have now lying before us an address from the managers of the American Bible Society to the inhabitants of the United States, on the resolution passed by the Society at their last Anniversary, to supply with the Scriptures. in the course of two years, all the families that might be in want of them. It is an animated and pious address, calling on all to join in the adoption of a measure, "bold but not presumptuous," and stating that not fewer than 800,000 families within the limits of the States,

and the adjacent territories, are unblessed with the Sacred Volume." Such exertions on the other side of the At

lantic, should excite to an holy emulation the friends of the Bible in the old world.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Italy. The Gothic translation of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians has been recently recovered from a codex rescriptus in the Ambrosian Library, in Milan, and has been published, with a translation and notes, by Castillionæus. Hitherto, fragments of the Gospels and of the Epistle to the Romans were all that had been discovered of this important version made by Ulphilas in the fourth century.

Netherlands. By a table in "Quitelet's Statistical Researches respecting the Kingdom of the Netherlands," it would, appear that in that country a greater number of journals are published, in proportion to the population, than in any other in Europe. They

have one for every 40,953 inhabitants; in France, one for every 52,117; in Britain, one for every 46,800; and in Spain, one for every 869,000 persons. The author has omitted to state the circulation of each.

America.-We have now lying before us what we cannot but deem a literary curiosity-a newspaper printed in English and Cherokee, for the use of the Cherokee Indians of North America. The latter language is in a character invented entirely by an Indian, who never to that moment had been able to read or understand a word of English. There is a very respectable assortment of articles in the paper, literary, miscellaneous, and political.

DOMESTIC RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

Incorporated Society for Building Churches, &c.-A numerous meeting of the subscribers and friends of this Society was recently held. There were present the Archbishops of Canterbury and York; the Bishops of London, Lincoln, Gloucester, Bristol, Litchfield and Coventry, Winchester, Bath and Wells, and Chester; Lord Bexley, and several other noblemen and gentlemen. A long report of the proceedings of the Society was read by the secretary, from which it appeared that the applications for assistance from different parishes during the present year amounted to 140, seventy-six of which had been granted, and the sum of £10,583 advanced. By this outlay no less than 20,004 sittings had been obtained; of which 13,604 were free seats reserved for the poor. From the formation of the society to this time, the amount of money expended and to be paid was £120,000, for which have been procured 185,433 sittings, of which 137,497 are free. The sum remaining in the treasurer's bands on the last day of March was £33,736. 4s. 9d. The King's letter produced the sum of £40654 5s. 7d. The committee, however, stated with regret, that owing to the distress

which abounded in many parts of the country, no less than 1,256 parishes were altogether unable to contribute a single shilling to this good work. The Report concluded by a strenuous appeal to the liberality and christianity of the public for the necessary supply of funds. This is the first report since the incorporation of the society, which took place on the 15th of July in the last year.

National Society.-The annual meeting of this Society took place on Saturday, at the Central School, Baldwin's Gardens. There were present, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Bishops of London, Durham, Lincoln, Litchfield, Llandaff, Gloucester, Chester, Bristol, &c. &c. The most interesting part of the Report related to the death of his Grace, the lord President; in regard to which, the opinion of the meeting was expressed with singnlar feeling and interest; the magnificent legacy of £20,000, which the Society has received from the late James Tillard, of Canterbury; and the appropriation of the funds, in grants, towards building schoolrooms. It appears that a peculiar demand has been made on the Society's resources, from the manufacturing dis

tricts in the north, during the past year, and by the number of applications for aid; that no diminution had taken place in the zeal of the clergy for promoting the education of the poor.

Clergy Orphan Society.-The annual public examination of this Institution took place lately, in the presence of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of Winchester, St. Asaph, Chichester, Carlisle, Chester, Litchfield and Coventry, Ely, Gloucester, Bristol, the Dean of Peterborough, and of a large and distinguished meeting of the friends and benefactors of this charity. The girls were examined in the Scrip. tures, and in Ancient and Modern History, and some of them in the French Language. The boys in Virgil, Horace, the Greek Testament, and in many parts of general knowledge, and a few of them in the first two books of Homer.

Clergy Mutual Assistance Society.A Society for this purpose has been established under the patronage of the Archbishops of Cunterbury and York. The object of which is, to enable Clergymen to prepare for the education and settlement of their children, by means of Mutual Assistance, and to afford them an opportunity of securing a provision for themselves, their wives and families, when more than ordinarily needed, namely, in sickness, in old age, and in death.

The plan embraces also a Fund in aid of the poorer clergy.

Opening of a Popish Chapel for preaching in the Irish Language, in the city of Norwich.-One of the most curious circumstances attending the celebration of this occurrence was, that the bells of St. Giles's parish church rang during the day, in honour of the event. -No similar demonstration, since the Reformation, has taken place on any occasion connected with the Catholic body, and we cannot but compliment the parish authorities on their tolerant permission of the wishes of their fellow Christians of the ancient faith. Could that venerable Bishop of Norwich (we mean Bishop Hall, the memory of whom is embalmed in the hearts of all who know his works,) could that servant of God behold one of those churches, once placed beneath his fostering care, thus act, what would be his thoughts? Protestant England may, indeed, weep when her children celebrate the increase of that postacy which their forefathers consi

dered as dishonouring to God, and destructive to the souls of men.

ISLE OF MANN.

Poor Churches in the Isle of Man.An appeal has recently been published on behalf of the inhabitants of the Isle of Mann, from which it appears,-That the population of the island is not less than 50,000 souls, and the existing churches do not afford room for more than about 9,000. In the town of Douglas alone, where the total number of inhabitants amounts to about 7,000, and where the churches can accommodute but about 1.300, there are no free seats, and 4,000 of the poorer classes, who are professed Members of the Church of England, are excluded, by the want of accommodation within her walls, from joining in ber service. The same deficiency of means existed in several other parts of the island.

The inhabitants of this little island labour under many privations. They have little access to the sources of na. tional wealth and prosperity, being in a great measure excluded from the henefits of commerce and manufactures. They are consequently much circumscribed in their means, and obviously unable to provide adequate places of worship for themselves. The island indeed abounds with stone, and timber is cheap, and the inhabitants are willing to devote their personal labour to the cause, but they are unable to provide funds for the purchase of the necessary materials, and the payment of the uecessary artificers.

Under these circumstances, the Bishop of Sodor and Mann has recently applied to the Commissioners for Building, and the Society for the Enlargement of Churches, but the Isle of Mann was found to be neither within the rules of the former, nor the Charter of the latter.

The last and only resource, therefore, is an appeal to public liberality by the inhabitants of this little island; and they are induced to make it with the greater confidence, from recollecting the generosity of the British nation towards their ancestors, when they had not, as their descendants now have, a sort of family claim on the affectionate regards of the people of England, by being recently more closely united under the same gracious sovereign. Their object is Christian unity, and their appeal to Christian charity. They trust that an island where a Barrow, and a Wilson, and a Hildersly laboured, shall not now be deprived of the benefit of Chris

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