painful scene of our strifes, some of the illustrious and noble army of the mar tyrs;' and yet, I conscientiously and consistently differ, And why cannot you, and your brother reviewers to whom I have referred, have the generosity to treat with a little respect, the descendants and followers of Owen, Baxter, Howe, and Milton, and many other glorious puritans, mighty in intellect, and mightier still in piety; those men of immortal name and never-fading glory, who were the steady, self-denying friends of liberty and religion, when they wanted a friend?"—p. 6.

In allusion to the unwarranted use of the name of Sir Thomas More, the following passage occurs.

"These unearthly apparitions may perhaps be seen in our cathedral aisles at the dead of night; they may be seen to pace the monkish cloisters of Oxford and Cambridge. They never approach the meeting-house. No; there, underneath its little narrow aisles, and its plain unfretted roof, repose the bones of the men of whom the world was not worthy.' They never thought of the place where their dust should rest.

They thought of the resting home of their souls. Some of them had no homes on earth, nor a place in which to rest their weary heads, nor a refuge from the vigilance of devouring persecution, except, perhaps, in the caves of the ground or the mountain fastnesses. Some were not buried in the precincts of their humble houses of prayer. Does Mr. Southey ever hear, amidst the raving winds which howl around his romantic dwelling-place, the wailings of the disturbed spirit of any puritan who made the mountain retirement his last home and his death bed? Do the bones of any ejected ministers, the persecuted victims of your church and its monarchical and truly apostolical head, Charles II, do any of their bones repose in Mr. Southey's picturesque county? Does he ever tread on their sacred dust? We would not, unless forced, disturb their graves, although we love and live upon their memories. We will read their unanswered and unanswerable works, and understand and adopt their laureate-defying arguments; but we do not like to call them up to the ignoble contests of the present day. They would reproach us, with looks of withering and unutterable scorn, for not daring boldly to fight our own battles ourselves."-- pp. 9, 10.

After a proper and amusing

reply to the notions of the reviewer, that there is "much in the Roman Church that is desirable and useful;" that it is to be regretted, that so many of the pious institutions of that church were swept away by "tasteless fanaticism;" that an establishment is necessary, because of unreason and misrule;" that the church "seeks an alliance with the state, because she cannot altogether depend on the reasonableness of her cause before a tribunal which is not altogether reasonable;" that the cause why people dissent from the establishment, is its "want of form," and several other equally sapient positions; the author in his fourth and fifth letters, enters into a very grave and forcible argument, on the necessity of an alliance between church and state, in which, however, we cannot follow him. He introduces those remarks by the following beautiful passage.

"Know then, Sir, that I, and all charitable dissenters, make a distinction in all our reasonings and conduct, between the religion in and connected with the church, and the religiousness of that church, per se, as an establishment. Hence many of us approve, with some variation, of the scriptural and correct doctrines of the church, as explained in the articles, taking these in the sense which the words of them fairly import, and which, we believe, was the intention of the honoured men by whom they were constructed. We admit, most fully, that scriptural correctness in doctrine, and especially a sincere and spiritual application of truth to our own souls, is of far greater importance than any question respecting an establishment or nonconformity. We think that the spirits of churchmen and dissenters will mingle, without a stain of their struggles on their redeemed and purified souls, in the mansions where strife never entered, and where the only unity will be that of universal, unclouded peace and happiness. They will walk together on the unsullied pavements of glory. Many of the fathers of your church, many of the reformers and martyrs, and many of the monks and Roman catholics, and many of the puritans, nonconformists, and dissenters shall

associate and converse together; and the only oblivion of which the glorified intellect of the celestial inhabitants shall be capable, will be the happy oblivion of their earthly wrongs. Th' omnific word' will have said, 'your discord end!"-pp. 39, 40.

Our limits will not permit us to enter upon the other questions

at issue; but those who are interested in the controversy, and Dissenter we trust there is no who is indifferent to it, will find themselves amply repaid by the perusal of the pamphlet, to which we must now refer them.

"The New Scheme of Evangelical Religion." A Serious Enquiry, addressed to William Wilberforce, Esq. 12mo. pp. 52. Baldwin.

THE following passage, from Grimshaw's Life of the Rev. Legh Richmond, is extracted, and severely and unjustly animadverted upon in the volume before us. "What must I do to be saved?' cried the gaoler: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,' was Paul's reply. Salvation is wholly of faith, from first to last. This is the grand discriminating principle between true Scriptural, Evangelical Religion, and all mere imitations or assumptions of that title. Our paradox is that 'weakness is strength.' The soul that by faith, through grace, is saved without works, obtains an inward principle of love, which must work, cannot but work, and actually does work. The order is thus; first, God loved us; secondly, thence we obtain faith to trust him; thirdly, we are thus saved; fourthly, we therefore love him who first loved us; fifthly, this love produces good thoughts, words, and works, as the fruits, not the root of our salvation. Thus is He, the Author and finisher of our faith, and the Author of salvation to all them that obey Him. He has promised to all, as well as to David, to perfect the thing which concerneth his people. Whom He loveth, He loveth to the end, trust Him, therefore, evermore. Such is the Christian's doctrinal, practical, and experimental creed."

The author of this volume assures us, that the propositions contained in the foregoing extract, are of very questionable authority;" and are

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an exaggeration, if not a mis-statement, of the truth as laid down in Scripture, according to any fair and candid interpretation of the spirit and meaning of the words of the apostles; and of the Son of God himself as recorded in the Gospel ;" and moreover, that such views of divine truth have "a tendency to undervalue good works, and to turn practical Christianity into mysticism; to exalt a favoured few above their fellows, and to throw others into despondency or despair, to foster presumptuous and uncharitable judgments, to confuse our moral distinctions, by stigmatizing as sins, what are only sinful in their abuse and excess; to produce an unsocial and exclusive system, tearing asunder the tenderest ties of family and kindred attachments; to turn religious zeal into party spirit, to generate an impatience of all established religious authority," &c. &c.

Such are the views entertained by this liberal author respecting the doctrines of free and sanctifying grace, as believed by the excellent writer of the "Dairyman's Daughter."

In perfect keeping with the candid interpretation of the "New Scheme of Evangelical Religion;" the designation given to the old fashioned doctrine of salvation by grace. This anonymous scribbler insinuates that "the passion" for fame, or "an ambition" to gain a niche in "the temple of worldly distinction," was the ruling principle of Legh Richmond's life. We shall not insult our readers by any attempt to refute so base an insinuation, it is deserving only of the profoundest contempt.

Twelve pages of this ephemeral and illiberal production, are occupied with

an attempt to refute "the doctrine of assurance," said by the author to be maintained in the passage already quoted. Of this doctrine he appears to have an awful dread, and hence he labours most stoutly to disprove its truth from the Sacred Scriptures. He might have saved himself the trouble of his logomachy, if he had read the passage attentively, for unquestionably no such doctrine is contained therein. He is evidently fighting with a man of straw, a figment of his own brain. His object appears to have been to bring Evangelical Religion into contempt; and hence endeavours to make his animadversions on the sentiments of Mr. Richmond the stalking-horse to accomplish his purpose.

The Scriptures fulfilled: or, the Bible the Word of God; in Seven Lectures on the Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecies, &c. &c. By Robert Weaver. Mansfield. 12mo. pp. 200. 5s. London.

THE elaborate and interesting writings of Newton, Horsley, Kett, Keith, and others, have nearly exhausted the subject of fulfilled prophecies. Variety in the mode and style of discussion, together with some further incidental illustrations from the works of recent travellers, is all that can be reasonably expected in any new treatises on these important topics. In the volume before us, we find the author disclaiming all pretensions to originality, and confessing his obligations to previous writers, and especially to Newton and Keith, to whom, indeed, he is largely indebted; but at the same time he thinks the subject to be sufficiently important, and his own style and manner sufficiently varied from those of his predecessors, to justify his claims on the attention of the public. He has therefore preached and published seven discourses on the prophecies relating to the Jews, Arabs, Egyptians, Edomites, Tyrians, Ninevites, Babylonians; and also to those relating to the Messiah, and the conversion of the Gentiles, &c. They are written in a plain and popular style; the arguments are well arranged and illustrated; and the inferences in favour of the truth and

inspiration of the Scriptures are briefly and forcibly stated. The applications of the subjects to the consciences of his audience, have been, we think, unwisely omitted, as they would, without doubt, if pointed and practical, have greatly promoted the efficiency of this work.

The Chinese Classical Work; commonly called the "Four Books ;" translated, and illustrated with Notes, by the late Rev. David Collie, Principal of the AngloChinese College. Malacca. Royal 8vo. 1 vol. Mission House, Austin Friars; or Black, Parbury, Allen, &c.

THIS translation of the works of Confucius, the oracle of the Chinese, has lately reached this country, and is now offered for sale, for the benefit of the widow and orphan of the excellent and lamented translator. The work contains a full exposition of the sentiments and views of the Chinese, on all subjects connected with governMr. Collie has added a considerable ment and politics, religion and morals.

number of multifarious and valuable

notes, illustrative of the text, and has, moreover, given brief memoirs of Confucius and some of his celebrated disciples. We earnestly recommend the volume to the attention of all the friends of literature and humanity.

The Morning's Repast: a Collection of Texts, with Meditations and Hymns, arranged for daily Use and Private Devotion, &c. &c. By a Lady, 18mo. 1s. 6d.

THE fair authoress informs the reader, in her preface, that "for private devotion, she has been in the habit of using daily, a text, a meditation, and a hymn," and that her only motive in submitting this arrangement of text, meditations, &c., is " a wish to communicate to those whose spiritual taste they may suit, a relish of good things in the form in which she has herself enjoyed them in the closet." This motive will, doubtless, be duly appreciated by those who desire a morning's spiritual repast," but who have no inclination or leisure to prepare one for themselves.

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"A. One only; viz the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ; of which all Episcopal communions, whether Romanist or Protestant, National or Particular, are component parts; therefore it would be more correct to say the Church in such a place, than the Church of such a place, but custom has ordered it otherwise."

"43 Q. Who after these, (the Socinians,) are the farthest removed from

the Catholic Church of Christ?

"A. The Quakers; for they reject not only his Ministers, but also the two Sacraments ordained by Christ him

self!

"44 Q. What other Sectaries disgrace and annoy the United Church, obscure its lustre, and make it an object of contempt to foreign Papists?

"A. Presbyterians, Methodists, Anabaptists, and many absurd enthusiasts."

Such are some of the anti-social and unscriptural sentiments which a Baronet of the County of Berks thinks it desirable to inculcate for the support of the Church "against her enemies" and we hesitate not to say, that if such doctrines are to be taught, and such a spirit to be maintained by the members of that church, the sooner those "enemies" triumph, the better it will be for the country, and for the cause of truth throughout the empire.

Leaves from my Sketch Book: Comprising Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse. By Thomas Wallace, Minister of Providence Chapel, Grantham. 18mo. pp. 138. "THE Ladies of Nottingham, Grantham and Newark," for whom the author has expressed "a few wishes," in doggrel lines, will, no doubt, be thankful for these Leaves; which, probably, were designed for their respective albums, but by some mischance or other, have been transferred into a separate volume.

Twelve Moral Maxims of my Uncle

Newbury. 18mo. pp. 72. 1s. THESE pithy and moral maxims are explained, illustrated, and enforced,

with great shrewdness, humour, and seriousness; and are well deserving the attentions of the rising generation, public and boarding schools. especially of the youth in our various

Little Jane: a Memoir of Jane E. J.
Taylor, who died in the 14th year
her age.
By Thomas Lewis, of
Islington. 18mo. 56 pages. 6d.
Westley and Davis.

We are happy to introduce this pleasing narrative of the Christian experience of an intelligent and pious child to the notice of our readers, as it furnishes a striking illustration of the advantages connected with pastoral catechetical exercises. We scarcely need recommend it, as four large editions have been exhausted, and a fifth demanded in a few weeks.

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The Causes of Declension in Christian Churches; a Discourse delivered at the Monthly Meeting, by John Arundel. 1s.

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On the first of April will be published, and continued monthly, price Four Pence, The Christian Inquirer. The object of the above work is to promote full and free inquiry on all subjects connected with divine revelation, the Holy Scrip tures being assumed as the only standard of appeal.

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