duce of extended cultivation and im proved waftes. 81. A Sermon, preached to a Seciety of Protelant Differters 'in the City of York, cn Wednefday, Dec. 31, 1800, immediately after the Interment of the Rv: Newcombe Cappe; with an Appendix, containing brief Memoirs of bis Life. By William Wood, F.L S. ed his difcourfe on Providence and the government of God; and there remain differtations on various theolo◄ gical fubjects; fome of his bett fermmons and notes on the Old and New Teftament; differtations on the temptation in the wildernefs, on the introduction of St. John's Golpel, and on the meaning of the phrates Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven; will probably be foon publifhed. The notes on the New and Old Tefiament, having been written in interleaved Bibles, at different periods of his life, will require a judicious felection, 82. The Duties of Man in public ProfTion confidered, in a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of St. Alban's; at a Vifitation hidden May 2, 1801. By Jofeph Holden Pott, Prebendary of Lin-•" coln, and Archileacon of St. Alban's. Publifhed by Request of the Clergy prefent. a felection of pfalms fitted for the ufe of Unitarian Chriftians. What he kept unpublished, in his own fhort hand, he employed his leifure, after being feized with the paralytic ftroke, in reading to his wife, who tranfcribed them, and, having been brought up under Mr. Lindfay, her father's fucceflor at Catterick,' "had imbibed his general fentiments concerning the perTHE principal object of this diffon of Chrift." From thefe were primcourfe is, -to-certify that "the retired, and, in a great degree, unconmmunica red tindies of many a laborious year at length gave Mr. C. nearly the fame views of the New Teflauient as, in ditierent connexions, and under dif ferent influences, have been gradually opened to the world by the writings of a Lindsay, a Jebb, a Priestley, and other divines, who for fome tine have been generally known by the name of Unitarian Chritians. But though, in the general illuc, he nearly agreed with , thofe eminent enquirers into Scriptore doctrines, his whole train of thought had an original caft, and, in fonie re fpects, a specific difference, from that of every other Chriftian believer. This was the natural, the unavoidable effect of an examination truly free, conducted on enlarged principles, and fatisfied with nothing fhort of what appeared to himfelf to deferve evidence." (pp. 13, 14.) For the reft, we learn no- THE Archdeacon inculcates the thing more, from the appendix than duty of Chriffian minifters, both in what has been already fet forth in our their particular and general fituations,' vol. LXX. p. 1299, and in vol. LXXI as parochial incumbents and as minifBut whilft we; p. 181, except that Mr. Cappe's faft ters of the Gospel. fermon, 1782, was "not then printed, labour truly and confiftently to fulfill but repeated, with fome alterations and to the utmost the peculiar duties of our omilhons, on a fimilar occafion, 1795, allotted cure, we fhould alfo be deby the effifiant minifter, and afterwards firous to exprefs, 'in all fit ways, our committed to the prefs. Text, If.x. 4." vigilance for the whole welfare of the His laft fermon on public occafions Chriftian Church, and, as connected' was preached on the thanksgiving, with the general advantage,' to tefiify, July 29, 1784%, but to this "the auupon every juti'occafion, our concern thor of this fketch has not immediate for the niinitierial character and func'accefs." He has therefore contented tion. I might easily produce infiances him felf with analysing the others. Mr.. enough, from the pages of Church bifC's publications of letters printed in tory, to illuftrate and explain the oppo-" the York weekly papers, in aufwer to fite extremes of ill-advised attempts in fome animadvertions therein on Mr. the clerical body whenever they have Lindlay's apology for refigning the li- aimed at independent privileges incon-'. ving of Catterick, and an anonymous fifient with the commen good of Chrifs vindication of Dr. Priefiley's litiory tian fiates, or, on the other hand, when' of the Corruptions of Chriflianity, re- they have difcovered too much reluct peting the fente of a paflage in Juttia ance to fhare in the trouble of attendMartyr, are laid atide and forgotten ing upon public buline's, and of addwith other controverfies. He publishing diguity and value to its operation. el, alto, a volume of his friend Mr. The latter point falls in more partion=" Sandercock's pofthumous fermens, and larly with my prefent fubject," (p. 17-)" "The it may vened, and competent to follow their deliberations in the manner which the minitters of the Gospel and of the Ef "The main object which I have kept in view at this time has been to recommend that zeal and promptitude which fhould operate in every man who is invefted with an honourable calling." (p. 23.) The Archdeacon, lamenting the indolence and inattention by which men in all departments too frequently relinquifh the juft right which belongs to them, adds, "If an infiance vet more recent were required in order to fhew how easily an antient and accuftomed right may lapfe, almoft imperceptibly, I might point to what took place at the Reftoration. Before that period the clergy had been wont to give their aids to the itate by their own votes; but at that time they were brought on a fudden, by the private agreement of two or three eminent perfons in diverfe ftations, to wave that exercife of their deliberative judgment and diferetion. The tranfaction is re-flight, in thefe critical times, when the corded, in very few words, by thuje who have occafion to make mention of it. Nor is it my purpole to offer an objection to the meature. But furely be well remarked, upon this inftance, that the private refolution which produced the fufpenfion of a former privilege, and the filence, or referve at feaft, which accompanied the meature, may require fome note of cantion. Whatever be the line which it may be right for any body of men in fociety to take with reference to the common before the Church.” nefit, and I truft that the common welfare will always be the fingle end of every mealare which hall obtain your approbation, yet, where peculiar interetts have been regularly lodged, when they are to be yielded up, or to be fubjected in any manner to change or regulation, they who are to make the facrifice, or to act under the new form which is introduced, will do well to mark their own fteps, to denote their own concurrence with decifive expreffion of their fentiments, and to fornith public teftimonies that their heedfulnefs has been directed, at fuch times, to the general concern. In matters of importance, previous applications from the Synod to the Parliament have been ufual in this kingdom. They were in no respect difcouraged by the Reforma tion. The methods for this courfe fubfifis fil; they are not extinct; they have never been fufpended; nor is the fpiritual government in this land without that fouree of counfcl which is to be found in 'âtiemblies legally con GT, Retiem 83; Divine Authority of the Bible; lation and Reaton opp fed to Sophifiry and Riai,ule; being a Refutation of Paine's "ge of Reajon, Parts I, and II By Robert Thomion. THIS writer, of whom we know. only from his prefatory adverufement that he wrote in France, where he was limited in the privilege of confulting criticks and commentators, or of knowing much of the anfwers that had appeared," and that he deferred his publication in expectation of a third part of Paine's work, which he has at this moment ready for publication." Without entering into a comparifon whether there have been abler refuters of Paine's (cepticitin, the friends of Revelation will feel themfelves obliged to the prefent. 84 Reply to the Rev Herbert Marth's Vin.. AN ufeful manual for travellers and others who vifit this venerable pile. "A few lines in the original, which have given offence to fome refpectable individuals here, have, with the author's permillion, been omitted." Note 2, p. 24, feems to be the fug geftion of fome modern alarmist, not without reafon angry with the contrivers of the modern style of Gothic (from whole frenzy we hope our cathedrals may be faved); which appel lation certainly obtained in an earlier period, and among criticks of true arIn this fingle pile chitectural tafte. may be difcovered the rife, progress, and perfection, of the pointed or Gothic architecture, there not being a fingle fiage of that remarkable and interefting fpecies of building, and hardly an ornament made ufe of in it, that may not be traced in fome part or other of Winchefter cathedral." (p. 82.) We could have wifhed the epi taphs on the modern monuments had been given, particularly that of Dr. Balguy. None have yet been placed over Dr. Warton and Mrs. Montague, in the North aile. In the account of Bp. Hoadly's monument there is a reference to the Introduction, which does not appear. In the note p. 50-52 we have fome excellent ftrictures on the modernization of Salisbury cathedral, which we would fain perfuade ourfelves the general outcry has averted from fimilar fiructures, and that the fame tricks will not be played here. Nor are the firictures on modern altarpieces, p. 57, lefs juft; and the facrifices of the rich glowing colours of antient windows covered over with whitewafh, in order to prevent the glare which they are fuppofed to caft on altar-picces f. See vol. LXIX. p. 749. + The last remains of fome of the rest fpecimens of painting on gl.fs, in the windows of Fotheringhay collegiate church, I The error of thofe Antiquaries who reprefented the mortuary chetts on the top of the choir-walls, in which the bones of different princes, bishops, &c. are enshrined, as of lead, is corrected. They certainly were fo at the firft tranflation by Bp. Blois; and Rudbourne repeatedly calls them farcophagi plumbei ;" and this probably mifled fuch writers who afterwards defcribed Fox reduced them to fix of wood, inthem with especial examination. Bp. cloting a fhell alfo of wood to be placed over each of the fix arches. We always conceived that the words remaining on the edge of Bishop Beaufort's tomb, Tribularer fi nefcirem mifericordias tuas, fee the goodness of the Lord in the land of It is true the three firft words are printwere an old translation of Pf. xxvii. 18. ed in Italicks in our verfion, as if not in the original; and in the Vulgate the fenfe is as in our common one. But occur in fome of the Latin Fathers, as may not the paffage in the infeription their verfion of the original? Among the rebufes in Bp. Langton's chapel we fee the mufical note called a long inferted in a ton, in allufion to his name (p. 96). Is not this fuppofed note a black letter 1, I? Is not the conjecture, p. 100, that a which fill cover the whole vaulting of chapel, "from the figures of angels it, was probably dedicated to the Guar of Angels, given by Governor Pownall dian Angels," as vague as that of Choir to the compartment between the vaulting and the upper windows in that part of Lincoln cathedral which extends from the upper tranfept to the Ea ed with angels playing on a variety of window, because it is fo richly adornmufical inftruments? Camden's Bri tannia, II. 260. We have found fo much pleafure in Perufing this guide through the cuthe dral, that we cannot help wishing for a fimilar one about the city. penny volume. The difingenuous afperfions caft on the Clergy of the E tablishment and the Dilenters are in the extreme unworthy the profellors of the pure Golpel of Jefus Chrift, who, nor his difciples and apottles, never used or encouraged fuch language, nor authorifed their converts 10 a perpetual round of finging and prayng, of canting the elect, and of abyfing thofe whom they differed from or wifhed to convert. "Their modet manner of fpeaking of their own endowments and imperfections would be.a better pattern for Bristol, as the foundation of his diffent from the Church of England, Mr. Harte, an elderly clergyman of the laster place, whole learning is exceeded only by his modefty, has been, with fome difficulty, induced to publish this reply to the various objections, many of which, by their weakness and fa lacy, defeat theinfelyes, and the reft are antwered in a very able manner. 90. The Cafe of Kidd Wake; being a Nax ative of bis Sufferings during Five Tens Confinement in Gloucefter Penitentiaryboufe for booting, billing, and calling out No War! as bis Majefty was paffing in Day of October, 1795. Written by himself. IT muft give pleafure to every friend to the King and Conftitution of this country to ice the acknowledged happy effect of the folitary cell. fuch preachers to follow than their ex-State to the House of Piers, on the 2916 ample of going from place to place, and from houfe to houfe, to preach the Gofpel; which no more applies to the prefent ftate and circumftances of the country than the wandering and unfettled life which our forefathers led does to the civilized and polished fiate of fociety in the prefent time;" as is well obferved in 87. A Dialogue between a Country Gentleman and one of his poor Neighbours aubo będ been led away from the Church under the Pretext of bearing the Gospel and attending Evangelical Preachers. 66 IN which there are many other fenfible arguments againft fetting up their private opinions against the authority of Heaven; to defpife the mi-, nifiers and ordinances of God being to defpife him; and no pretence of ferving him as well as another is to be admitted," according to the remark of one of their own religious tracts circulated by them. 88. A Dialogue between a Churchman and; a Second Edition. MR. GRAY'S writings are well known. In this little tract he has not only brought back the wanderer, but 91. A Differtation on the Oriental Trinities, from Volumes IV and of Indian Antiqui ties; with all the Plates in those Volumes ille frative of the Subject By the Auth trating the hiftory and antiquities of MR. MAURICE's labours for illuf India, civil and religious, are well known. The great demand for the two particular volumes in which the doctrine of the Afiatic Trinity is defcribed incrcating fince the warm commendation of that work by the Bishop of Lincoln, in his Elements of Chriftian Theology, has induced him to reprint, in a fall edition, all that relates to it in feven quarto volumes, with thirty engravings. The arrangement of the whole under diftinct heads, where the Hebrew, Perlian, Indian, and other veftigated, and the fubdivifions of the Gentile Trinities, are fuccellively infirst edition, render this publication work into finaller chapters than in the more valuable, and fhew that the Pla tonic Trinity is no longer to be confi dered as an original doctrine, when, 500 years before its promulgation, the doctrine flourished in the Eaft in its fulleft extent, however obfcured by phyficks and falfe philofophy. exercited his beft arguments to con-z. Reflections on the present State of Popery," vince him of his error. 89. Dr. Gill's 'Reafins for feparating from the Church of England calmly confidered, in a Letter to a Friend. DR. G's work having been lately reprinted in London, and circulated as GENT. MAG. June, 1802, compared with its former Ștate. A Se mòn, in Commemoration of the great Deliverances of Britain in 1605 and 1688, preached at Salters-hal', Nov. 2, 1800, tu the Supporters of the Lord's Day Evening Lecture at that Place, and published at their Requet By Robert Winter, FROM P FROM that pulpit where, half a century ago, the ablest Divines amongst the Diffenters argued and thundered againfi Popery in all its branches, and "afterwards formed their difcourfes into a body, as their immortal bulwark and trophy, has iffued this fingle fermon (whether it be one of many annual ones there delivered we do not at prefent recollect), which certainly is not without merit. From Rev. xv. 34, Mr. W. reprefents the wonderful change which has taken place in the ftate of the Romish Church, brought about by what he tenderly calls the enterprising fpirit and exertions of France, as a fource of very important religious inftruction. 93. The Fall of Antichrift the Triumph of the Chriftian Church. By C. E. D: Coetlogon, A. M. of timely attention in regulating the hufbandinen's wages, and the various effects of licentioufhefs; and that they, from thefe two adventitious causes, exceed in number and confequent expence all thofe impotent and indigent poor that arise from age, ficknets, and infirmity, fuch only who were defigned to be fupported by the poor-rate. The various fupplies from the poorrate or otherwife are partial and tem "porary, and, being, indifcriminately adminiltered, give no encouragement to the fober and industrions, but depreciate the price of their labour, by raifing to a level with them the lazy, indolent, and profligate; and this undeferving part have received or felt the greater advan age of all fuch indiferi minate relief. As long as these able and healthy labourers are occafionally claffed with the impotent and indigent poor, by being fupported occafionally by the fame charitable fund, fo long will the more indolent labourers continue to increase in their number. The rich, and all thofe that contribute to the fupport of the poor, will find no end to fupport fuch claimants till they are duly feparated from parith paupers. A SUMMARY view of the rife, progress, and fall of Popery, and a feaTonable alarm echoed after the more powerful one of the celebrated author of the "Purfuits of Literature," to whom Mr. De C. pays due compliments, as he does to thofe dignitaries of our church who have traced the ftrict refemblance between the Anti-During the last fifty years, with the chrift of Scripture and of Rome. Serious Chriftians muft, however, be grieved to fee the fpirit with which the Etablished Proteftant Church of thefe kingdoms is treated by this writer, when reprobating the bull Unigenitus. We have but one remark inore, which is, that if the intolerating (pirit of falfe religion facrificed a million of perfons in the perfecution of the Albigenfes, what muft we fay of that double intolerancy, falfe religion and falfe policy, which has facrificed fo many millions of its own fubjects in revolutionized France! rapid increafe of luxury and licentioufnefs, the public revenue has rifen from 6 to 22 millions. In the fame time the price of the neceffaries of life has been more than doubled; and the number of perfons relieved by the poor-rate, at a moderate.computation, has increased in the fame proportion: the poor-rate has increased from 1 to above 3 millions; and out of this fum must be deducted about 300,0001. collected for the purpofe of building or repairing bridges and gaols, on account of the militia, and other county expences. The amount of what is raised for the maintenance of the poor is not fo great as might be expected; for, the number of those who receive relief is doubled, and fo is the price of the necellaries of life. Their prefent aliowance will furwith no more than three-fourths of what was allowed the poor at the for mer period. Comparifon of the prices of the comnion neceflaries of life about 50 years fince with the prices of the fame for a few years past (p. 13): About 50 years ago, Of late, s. d. s. d. 94. The Means of reforming the Morals of the Poor, by the Prevention of Poverty; and a Plan for meliorating the Condition of Pari Paupers, and diminishing the enormous Expences of maintaining them. By John Hill, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. MR. H, from perfonal obfervation, fuggefts that "the rapid increase of parish paupers has arisen from the want A cottage and garden s. d. S. d. from 200 to 30 0 from 30 0 to 50 o' 1 |