V. Sermons of Consolation. By F. W. P. GREENWOOD, D.D., Minister of King's Chapel, Boston. London: Chapman, Brothers. 1845. 8vo. This little volume is one of The Catholic Series,' now in course of publication by the Messrs. Chapman. We recollect the feeling of surprise with which we opened the first of them. The title led us to expect some theology of a church which is the most exclusive at the same time that it affects universality. It astonished us, therefore, not a little, when we found that instead of Catholic' it was pre-eminently 'Rationalistic.' We use this latter adjective not in reproach, for, as our readers are aware, we have no sympathy with the outcry of No Rationalism, when directed against philosophy and assuredly we use it not in compliment to a system of theology which is the last to which it should be conceded. The character of some of the subsequent volumes has, however, induced us to modify our first impression, which was, that the series was only another of the many insidious devices by which it has of late sought to propagate rationalistic scepticism. Still, for a catholic series, it is far too one-sided. We propose, however, to return to this subject.

Dr. Greenwood's Sermons leave us at a loss in what category to classify them. They may be Arian, or Semi-arian, or (if we may coin a word) Evangelico-arian. They will, however, attract but little attention. Their style is blameless-but their cast of thought is inferior, and for the purpose of consolation singularly destitute of an essential element-pathos.

VI. Exercises in Logie: designed for the use of Students in Colleges.
J. T. GRAY, Ph.D. London: Taylor and Walton. 1845.

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The young student will derive considerable benefit from adopting this praxis, provided he bears in mind that it is rather in the department of the science of language than in that of logic. We greatly regret that Dr. Gray should have given it this title. A writer on logic ought to be familiar with the present position which it occupies,-and that, thanks to Kant and our own Sir William Hamilton, its proper domain has been definitely ascertained. It is the science of sciences-the science of the laws of thought considered as thought:-but this little work would make it the science of syntax.

VII. The School Hand-Book to the Holy Bible. By the REV. INGRAM COBBIN, M.A. With Fifty Wood Engravings. London: Thomas Tegg.

A well-executed abridgement of the author's Bible Reader's Hand-Book, admirably adapted for schools and families.

VIII. Gilbert's Modern Atlas of the World for the People; with an Introduction to the Physical Geography of the Globe, and an Alphabetical Index of the Latitudes and Longitudes of 24,000 places. Parts I-VI. London: James Gilbert. 1846. 4to.

IX. Gilbert's New Universal Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, embracing all the terms used in Art, Science, and Literature. Parts I.-X London: James Gilbert. 1846. Royal 8vo.

Both these works deserve a strong recommendation on account of their great cheapness, their beauty of execution, and their general accuracy.

X. TRACTS AND PAMPHLETS.—The World in the Church, by a Watchman, (Simpkin and Co.) is a stirring, heart-searching appeal to Christians, well adapted to promote their spirituality of mind and holiness of character.A Spiritual Watchman's Standard against present Peril (Rivingtons,) is a strange medley of Millenarian, Antinomian, and Puseyite dogmas, by the Rev. R. W. JOHNSON, Incumbent of Packwood, and is certainly not worth half the price at which it is published.-A Plea for the Outcasts of Israel, by Philo-Rhoma, is, in our judgment, a very unsuccessful attempt to prove that the ten tribes of Israel are the Gypsies.-The Scriptural Claims of Teetotalism, is a calm and Christian-like appeal in favour of total abstinence, by the Rev. N. HALL, of Hull.-The Irish Harp on the Willows, by the Rev. J. D. SMITH, of Newry. (Snow.) The spirit and aim of this address are alike commendable. Many of the thoughts and solicitudes it embodies are as suitable to the state of religion in England as in Ireland. - Seven Blessings for Little Children (Jackson and Walford,) are simple but beautiful paraphrases of some of the beatitudes of our Lord, done in Mrs. Gilbert's best style of things for infant minds.-A Manual of the Baptist Denomination for the year 1846, by the Committee of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, is exceedingly well arranged; but there is one deficiency which, it strikes us, might be easily and most usefully supplied both in this Manual and in the Congregational Calendar, namely, an Alphabetical Directory of the names and addresses of all ministers of the respective denominations.-Sermons occasioned by the Death of the Rev. HUGH HEUGH, D.D., by JAMES TAYLOR, D.D., JOHN BROWN, D.D., and RALPH WARDLAW, D.D., with the Address before the Interment, by JAMES HARPER, D.D., and A Sermon preached at East Queen street Chapel, Kingston, Jamaica, on occasion of the Death of the Rev. WILLIAM KNIBB, by the Rev. SAMUEL OUGHTON, are worthy memorials of the great and good men whose loss has been the occasion of them.-A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. THOMAS FRANKLIN, by the Rev. J. CLARK, deserves to be treasured as an interesting memorial by those at whose request it has been published.-The Retrospect, No. 1, is an Essay on fulfilling and unfulfilled Prophecy, which it seems almost superfluous to criticise, since next year is to test its truth. It differs very slightly from the scheme of Faber, and other recent writers, who have been carried away by the idea that the momentous events of the last century must needs be symbolised in prophecy, and be the forerunners of the great consummation, except in its greater boldness and minuteness of application, especially in fixing the 'beginning of the end' in the year 1847.-Two Sermons on Churches and Churchmembership, with an Introductory Letter, by B. B. WOODWARD, B.A., Congregational Minister, Wortwell, contain facts and thoughts which deserve the attention of our churches and their pastors.-A Commentary on the Holy Gospels, designed for Family Reading, by the Rev. HENRY MACKENZIE, M.A., Incumbent of Great Yarmouth, Part I., is lucid and evangelical, rich in thought, and beautifully simple in style. The Young Men's Christian Association' has given occasion to the delivery and publication of two most interesting and eloquent Lectures, the one on Luther and the Reformation, by the REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D., the other on The Extent and the Moral Statistics of the British Empire, by the REV. WILLIAM ARTHUR.—The Telegraph of the Gospel, by J. R. BALME, is a companion volume to the Lever, Mirror, and Telescope of the Gospel; quaint titles, but striking and earnest expositions of Divine truth.-Apostolical Loosing and Binding, or Remitting and Retaining Sins: together with the Keys, and Loosing and Binding, as given to Peter, explained and illustrated, by the REV. W. BLACKLEY, B.A., Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Viscount Hill, is a short but able discussion, in a right spirit, of the claims of priestly abso

lution.—John Knox, his Time, and his Work: a Discourse delivered in the Assembly Hall of the Free Church of Scotland, on Monday, May 18, 1846, by ROBERT S. CANDLISH, D.D., is an address which must have been heard with profound attention, and will be read with deep interest. Dr. Candlish's devoted admiration and eloquent panegyric of the Scottish Reformation closes with some fond regrets that the system of ecclesiastical rule and provision, which Knox laboured to establish, has at length been proved a failure; but recognising, like a wise man, the peculiar form which the question of establishments has assumed in our own day, he puts this as the simple issue to be determined-Rather no endowments at all, than the endowment of the least rag of Popery, the Antichrist of Rome. The Duties solemnly binding on the various sections of the Church of Christ, for suppressing the emulations and strifes which prevent its fulfilling its Mission to the World, by the Author of A Revived Ministry our only Hope of a Revived Church,' is distinguished by the same spirit of earnest piety and sound sense which pervades the author's former tract. The heads under which the subject is arranged appear to us peculiarly happy.—The History and Mystery of (those called) the Sacraments, showing them to be Jewish Institutions, and not Ordinances appointed by Christ to be observed in His Church, by JACOB POST, is a careful discussion of the subject, in a candid and devout spirit. It will prove interesting to those who wish to understand the views entertained respecting the Sacraments by our brethren of the Society of Friends; and it is also valuable as showing how little argument can be adduced in favour of those views.—A Sabbath Memorial of Gravesend, by EDWARD SMITH PRYCE, consists of twelve Sonnets which-and we esteem this no small praise for sonnets-may be read with real pleasure.-The Death-bed of a Child of Dr. Capadose, from the Dutch:-Ailzie Grierson, or, A Tale of a Prisoner, by a Lady:-The Gardener's Wife; a Memoir of Eleanor Elliott, by J. OSWALD JACKSON:-Giving Sight to the Blind considered as characteristic of Christ, and as a two-fold Miracle, by W. ESCOTT KIRKPATRICK, are interesting little religious works.

LISTS OF NEW BOOKS.

RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS.

Blights of the Wheat and their Remedies. Tract Society's Monthly Series.

Brown, J. T.: The Union of Christians. A Poem. Seeley and Co.
Clark's Foreign Theological Library. Vol. IV.

Cobbin, J. The Domestic Bible. Part XXII. Partridge and Oakey.
D'Aubigné, Dr. Domestic Worship. Partridge and Oakey.

Etheridge, J. W.: The Syrian Churches and Gospels. A Manual for Pedo-Baptist Churches. By one who was once an Anti-Pedo-Baptist.

Houlston and Stoneman.

Gieseler's Ecclesiastical History. Vol. I.
Hagenbach History of Doctrines.

Library. Vol. 3. 8vo.

Vol. I. Clark's Foreign Theological

Harris, Dr.: The Pre-Adamite Earth. Ward and Co.

Henry, M.: Exposition of the Bible. Partridge and Oakey.
Kenrick, J.: Essays on Primæval History. B. Fellowes.

Leask, W.: Philosophical Lectures. J. Snow.

Mason, F. The Karen Apostle. Tract Society.

Ritchie, Miss: Lessons of Life and Death. "A Memoir of Sarah Ball.

J. Snow.

Scott, W. Piety, Purity, and Benevolence.

J. Dale.

A Sermon.

Sprague, Dr. Lectures to Young Men. Tract Society.
The Life of Luther. Tract Society's Monthly Volume.
The Great Railway. By a Labourer upon it. C. Haselden.

Bradford,

The German Reformation of the 19th Century. By the German Correspondent of the Continental Echo.' J. Snow.

Birt, J. Patristic Evenings. J. Snow.

Davidson, Dr. T.: An Introduction to the New Testament: also, Essays on the Ecclesiastical Polity of the New Testament.

Massie, Dr.: The Evangelical Alliance, its Origin and Development, containing Personal Notices of its distinguished friends in Europe and America. J. Snow.

Prout, E.: Life of the Rev. John Williams. A new and cheap Edition. J. Snow.

LITERARY NOTICE.

MENTAL DISCIPLINE, by H. F. Burder, D.D. Fifth Edition, foolscap 8vo. Ward and Co.

Now ready, THE PRE-ADAMITE EARTH. Contributions to Theological Science, by J. Harris, D.D. 8vo. Ward and Co.

THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN CONNEXION WITH THE WORK OF MAN.*

THAT there is a work of the Holy Spirit essential to the salvation of man is clearly taught in Scripture, and has been always received among the fundamental doctrines of the Christian church. The nature of the case implies that such a work must be in accordance both with the character of the Holy Spirit, and with the constitution of man. As the doctrine is one of those which are revealed in the Scriptures, it can be rightly apprehended only by a careful and devout consideration of what the Scriptures teach.

What the Scriptures manifestly teach is, that a Divine power works in the heart of fallen and depraved man in such a way that he becomes holy. What is so done is, specially, the work of the Holy Spirit. By this work holiness is not only begun, but carried on and completed in the human heart. Under a great variety of language, partly figurative and partly literal, this work is described as regenerating, sanctifying, strengthening, comforting, as the witness to the believer of his adoption into the family of God, and as the earnest, pledge, firstfruits of future blessedness. It is likewise the plain doctrine of the Scriptures, that this Divine work is personal to every believer, constant, and not merely an act which, once performed, is present afterwards only in its effects.

The same Scriptures clearly teach, that it is by believing the truth,' and acting according to the truth, that the holiness of the renewed heart is manifested, guided, and sustained.

The power of the Holy Spirit does no violence to any physical, intellectual, or moral law, or mode of action, in human nature.

* On the Union of the Holy Spirit and the Church in the Conversion of the World. By the Rev. T. W. Jenkyn, D.D. Second Edition, Snow, London. 1845.

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