AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, DEVOTED TO BIBLICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE, THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION, THE HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS, ETC. CONDUCTED BY JOHN HOLMES AGNEW. Second Series. VOL. IX. NOS. XVII., XVIII.-WHOLE NOS. XLIX, L. NEW-YORK: FOREIGN LITERATURE, 236 BOSTON: LONDON: ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by J. H. AGNEW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southeru District of New-York. University Press, JOHN F. TROW, PRINTEM 33 Ann.street, NRW-YORK. . CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. Page . Art. I. BENEVOLENCE AND Self- Sprague, Pastor of the Second ISHNESS. By Jeremiah Day, D. Presbyterian Church, Albany 164 1 {rt. IX. CONFLICT OF Laws-of TAPPAN'S REVIEW OF EDWARDS ART. X. Review OF DR. EDWARDS's ma N. Martin, New York City 33 BERTY AND NECESSITY.” By Rev. Samuel T. Spear, Pastor of the ART. III. BAPTISM. By Rev. Ed. Second Presbyterian Church of ward Beccber, President of Illi- Lansingburgh, N. Y. nois College, Jacksonville, Ill. 29 ART. X. CRITICAL Notices. IN ALL AGES. By Prof. J. M. 2. Bush's Notes on Leviticus. · 241 Sturtevant,Illinois College,Jack- 109 4. Lost Sister of Wyoming .242 ART. V. ECONOMY OF NATURE SUB- ORDINATE TO THE MORAL Gov. 6. Brande's Encyclopedia of George Duffield, D. D.. Pastor 7. Alison's Histooy of Europe 244 of the First Presbyterian Church, 8. Pictorial History of France 244 127 9 Harkey's Church's Best State 245 ART. VI. EXPOSITION OF Jepn- 11. The Salem Belle THAH's Vow, Judges 11: 30–40. 12. Noebden's German Gram- 143 13. Adolphe Monod's Lucilla 247 ART. VII. CHRIST THE PREACHER'S 15 Jane Taylor's Writings 248 MODEL. By Rev. Asa D. Smith, 16. Old Humphrey's Addresscs 248 Pastor of the Brainerd Presby- 17 Smith's Vuiversalism Exam- WRITINGS OF EBENEZER PORTER ART. XII. LITERARY INTELLIGENCË 251 . . ART. I. CHARACTER AND THEOLOGY ART. VII. BAPTISM. By the Rev. OF THE EARLY ROMANS. By Edward Beccher, President of Rev. Albert Smith, Professor of Illinois College, Jacksonville, Rhetoric and English Literature, Illinois Art. VIII. Christ PREACHING TO ART. II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SPIRITS IN PRI80s. By Kev. THE DOCTRINE OP Divine DE- Thomas H. Skinner, D. V. 470 Professor in the Theological ART. IX. CRITICAL NOTICES. 1. Perkins's Residence in Persia 480 2. Jones's Religious Instruction CERNING LIBERTY AND NECESSI- phy 483 TY.'' By Rev, Sanjuel T. Spear, pastor of the Second Presbyte- 5. Eddy's Christian Citizen 484 6. Dr. A. Reeu's Advancement of 7. Mot als Missionary Labors 186 ART. IV. THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE 8. Burrows's Bible in Spai i 467 AMERICAN TRACT SOCI Ety. By 9. President Edwards's Works 488 Rev. W. R. Williams, D. D., 10. D'Aubigne's Puseyism t.x- Pastor of the Amity.street Bap- tist Church, New York 343 11. Humphrey's 'Thoughts for ART. V. MORAL AND LITERARY In. 12. Chester's Greenwood Ceme: 490 Sanborn, Prof. of the Lain Lan. 13. Alison's History of Europe 491 guage and Literature, Dartmouth 14. Dr. O'Sullivan 8 A postacy 491 493 ART. VI. Life, CHARACTER, AND ART. IX. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 455 WORKS OF JOHN WESLEY. By . AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY. JANUARY, 1843. SECOND SERIES, NO, XVII.---WHOLE NO. XLIX. ARTICLE I. BenevOLENCE AND SELFISHNESS. By Jeremiah Day, D. D. L. L. D. President of Yale College, Connecticut. Ir is asserted by many, by some even who appear to be exemplary Christians and able divines, that self-love is the moving principle of all voluntary action ; that it is common to saints and sinners ; that it is an essential element in benevolence itself. By others, it is considered as identical with selfishness; as directly opposed to benevolence; as the radical principle of all iniquity. Is it not high time, that Christian brethren should come to some understanding, with respect to the essential characteristic of the religion which they profess? If the existing disagreement, on this all important point, is in appearance only; if it is nothing more than a difference in the interpretation of certain words and phrases, while there is a real harmony of belief, with respect to the nature of the distinction between virtue and vice, benevolence and selfishness; strenuous efforts ought to be made to dispel the mists which the ambiguities of language have thrown around the subject; that those who are brethren in profession should no longer be alienated from each other, on account of supposed differences of opinion, which are, in reality, only verbal ; and on the other hand, that those who have adopted erroneous and heretical tenets, should not have the SECOND SERIES, VOL. IX. NO. I. 1 |