phisticated minds are the fittest recipients of Christian truth. They have been accustomed to deal with realities, and thus the facts of revelation, when admitted, naturally come to them and operate on them as realities. On the other hand, metaphysicians and poets are very apt to convert the gospel into an ingenious argument and a beautiful dream. We must become as little children, and learn Christianity not as judges but as those who are to be judged by it. Let us follow this servant of God as he followed Christ. He was long bewildered in his search after happiness and holiness; at last he found them in the cross. Leaning on this he walked in peace and godliness whilst here, and departed hence in the sure hope of glory. His mind was evidently of a high order-his turn of thought is powerful and original-his imagination is of a fine ethereal quality—and his expression vigorous and striking. But our business is not with human genius, but with Christian doctrine. We do not recommend this book for the passing pleasure which it may afford, but for the permanent profit, which, by the divine blessing, may be derived from it. We recommend it as a perspicuous and serious illustration of divine truth-and our prayer is that the eyes of our minds, and of the minds of all who read it, may be opened by the Spirit of God, to discern more and more our need of salvation, and the fulness and preciousness of that salvation which is in Christ Jesus. "Now unto Him that is able to keep us from B falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." T. E. Edinburgh, July, 1822. THE LIFE OF THE REV. JOHN GAMBOLD. THE REV. JOHN GAMBOLD was born April 10th, 1711, at Puncheston, in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. His father, a clergyman of the Church of England, lived an ornament to his profession, being well known and respected for his unaffected piety and purity of manners. He had the happiness truly to know the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom he believed, and to love Him with his whole heart. He educated his children with the utmost care and attention, and spared no pains to instil into their tender minds the principles and precepts of true Christianity, which powerfully influenced his own heart, and were the invariable rule of his conduct. His son, whose course through life, and personal qualities are here recorded, had the benefit of his father's instruction and example until he went to the University of Oxford, in the year 1726, where he entered as servitor in Christ Church, and soon became eminent for his diligent application to study, |