it depends. The temper also with which this correspondence was carried on, is such as might be expected between writers entertaining a mutual respect for each other, though personally unacquainted; and the spirit of the controversialist, on either side, appears to be always under this control. It will be observed, however, that Dr. Waterland, in the arrangement of his arguments, pursues, in his second letter, the same order which he had adopted in the first; and disapproves of Mr. Kelsall's first considering what reason has to allege, and then proceeding to the authorities of Scripture and antiquity. Mr. Kelsall, no doubt, was sensible of the advantage he might derive from taking this course. But, as Dr. W. justly observes, "there is no reasoning to any

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good purpose in this question, till some foundation "be laid, either in Scripture or antiquity, or both, "to reason upon." Undoubtedly, on any matter of revealed religion, and especially on a positive duty instituted by Divine ordinance, no reasoning can avail, which is adverse to these authorities. The truth to be established must primarily depend upon its agreement with the word of God, and the concurrent practice of the primitive Church. The propriety of our author's mode of treating the subject is therefore obvious. With what success he has advocated his opinions, the impartial reader is left to judge. On a point not absolutely of fundamental importance, to espouse, on the one side, the opinions of such men as Laurence, Brett, Leslie, and Waterland; or, on the other, those of such opponents as Bingham, Burnet, Kennet, and Kelsall; can hardly be deemed discreditable to either party. We know

that great and good men have differed, and still differ from each other on this point, without any diminution of mutual respect, or any intentional deviation from the doctrine or discipline of the Church.

The Letters on Lay-Baptism are followed, in this edition, by a series of hitherto unpublished letters to the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Mergate, Kent, the wellknown author of several valuable publications and of other writings which still exist in manuscript. The works by which he is chiefly known, are his Lives of Wickliffe and Pecock, and his History of English Translations of the Bible. That in these, his acquaintance with Waterland was of great advantage 'to him, the Letters sufficiently prove. It appears not, however, that Dr. W. intended more than to furnish his friend with materials, and to suggest hints for the use of them; nor ought it to derogate from the talents and industry of Mr. Lewis, that he availed himself copiously of this aid, in addition to his own indefatigable labours. Dr. W. encouraged him also in the prosecution of other designs of considerable interest and importance, but which, from want of sufficient patronage, he was compelled either to leave unfinished, or to withhold from the press. Among these, were the Lives of Bishop Fisher, of Dr. Hickes, Servetus, Mr. Johnson, author of the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Dr. Wallis; besides a history of the English Liturgy and other historical and ecclesiastical tracts; some of which are among Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian library, and others, probably, in private hands. It is to be regretted that none of these have yet been printed. The Life of Fisher he had intended to print in one volume

with the Lives of Wickliffe and Pecock, had he met with due encouragement from the booksellers. The history of our Liturgy, or some parts of it, he submitted to Dr. Waterland's inspection, who kindly proffered his assistance towards its revision and improvement.

Dr. Waterland has proved himself, by these letters, to have been eminently qualified for such labours. They shew an extent of historical reading which entitles him to rank high among ecclesiastical antiquarians. His acquaintance with the history of our own Church was also greatly facilitated by his skill in Anglo-Saxon literature, and by his accurate observation of the progress and variations of the English tongue, from very remote periods, to the time of the reformation. Of this he had given proof in some parts of his Critical History of the Athanasian Creed; and these letters afford still further evidence of his attainments in this useful branch of knowledge. Many of his observations on the peculiarities of style, phraseology, and orthography, in the earliest English translations of the Bible, and on the internal evidence of the times in which they were written, shew much critical sagacity and discernment and where any extraordinary difficulties of this kind occurred, it will generally be found that Mr. Lewis adopted his solution of them.

The letters addressed to Mr. Loveday, Dr. Zachary Grey, Mr. Browne Willis, and Dr. Williams, derive their chief interest from the literary, ecclesiastical, or academical occurrences of the time when they were written. They throw some light also upon the controversies in which the author was then

engaged. To these is subjoined a letter to Mr. Edmund Law, of Christ's College, Cambridge, (afterwards Master of Peter House and Bishop of Carlisle,) containing some ingenious suggestions with reference to one of Mr. Law's notes on Archbishop King's Origin of Evil, respecting what constitutes moral good and evil, and their connection with the present well-being of the world.

In addition to the above-mentioned letters, (which could have formed but a small part of his extensive correspondence,) there have been found copious marginal notes, in Dr. Waterland's hand-writing, upon some of his own works, and upon the works of other writers; sufficient, if collected together, to form a volume of very considerable magnitude.

The additional notes upon his own writings, it has been thought expedient to print entire. Those on his Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity, are contained in a copy met with accidentally in the shop of a London bookseller. Those on two of his Charges and his tract on Regeneration are in copies now in possession of the Rev. Archdeacon Pott. They were all probably intended by the author for the improvement of any subsequent impression that might be called for.

The notes upon other writers are much more numerous. Some are polemical, some merely illustrative, or corrective. The following is a list of them, in chronological order. 1. Johnson's Unbloody Sacrifice. 2. Whitby's Disquisitiones Modesta. 3. Hoadley's Answer to the Lower House of Convocation. 4. Wheatly on the Common Prayer. 5. Brett's Discourse on discerning the Lord's Body

in the holy Communion. 6. Jackson's Remarks on Waterland's Second Defence. 7. Dr. Clarke's Observations on Waterland's Second Defence. 8. Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation. 9. Stebbing's Defence of Dr. Clarke. 10. Middleton's Letter to Waterland. 11. Sober and charitable Disquisitions on the Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity. 12. Dr. Reed's Essay on the Simony and Sacrilege of the Bishops of Ireland. The copies of the works in which they are written, are all (except Wheatly on the Common Prayer) deposited among Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian library. That of Wheatly is in the library of St. John's College, Oxford; to which College it was bequeathed by Mr. Wheatly himself, once a Fellow of that Society".

"The editor has since been favoured by Mr. Neville, the Master of Magdalene College, with the perusal of some other marginal notes by Dr. Waterland, preserved in the library of that College, viz. on his Second Defence of the Queries, his Critical History of the Athanasian Creed, his Review of the Eucharist, and Mr. Gilbert Burnet's Full Examination of several important Points relating to Church-Authority, &c. in a second Letter to Mr. Law, 1718.

The notes upon his Second Defence and his Review of the Eucharist relate to the first editions of those works, and were most of them adopted in the revision of the second editions. Those upon the Critical History of the Athanasian Creed relate also to the first edition; but they are not in his own handwriting. They appear to have been written by one of his friends, (perhaps Mr. Wanley,) and to have been submitted to Dr. Waterland's consideration; some use having evidently been made of them in his second edition. The notes upon Mr. Burnet's tract contain some valuable observations upon the several heads into which it is divided, human authoritative benedictions, human authoritative absolutions, and Church-communion. Mr. Gilbert Burnet was