The Author having requested the Reverend the Vicar of St. Bride's to express an opinion of the volume prior to its circulation, that gentleman has kindly returned the following
SIR, I have availed myself of the earliest leisure moments at my disposal to read your Treatise on "The Joys of Heaven,"-not, indeed, with as much attention as I could wish, but with sufficient to direct me in forming a judgment of the work. You seem to have compared with much diligence, and connected with much skill, the intimations which are scattered throughout Scripture on this most interesting and important subject; and without making myself responsible for the correctness of every sentiment, still less the accuracy of every expression, I think that, as a whole, the Book displays a power of thought which will recommend it to the few who reason,