ty in execution will be allowed him;

and this will, as it ought, be more

mendation."

ORIGINAL.

Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion, delivered to the senior class on Sunday afternoon, in the College of New Jersey, by the Rev Samuel Stanhope Smith, D D. Philadelphia, Hopkins and Earle, 1809.

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, No. 6, for June 1809. By E. Bronson and others.Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia, and Farrand, Mallory, and Co. Boston.

The Boston Directory, containing the names of the inhabitants, their occupation, places of business, and dwelling-houses. With lists of the streets, lanes, and wharves; the town offices, public offices, and banks. With other useful information. Boston, E. Cotton, 1809.

A Discourse, delivered before the Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and the two Houses composing the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 31, 1809; being the day of General Election By David Osgood, D. D. Pastor of the church in Medford. Boston, Russell and Cutler, 1809.

A Farewell Sermon, preached May 28th, 1809, at Newark, NewJersey, by Edward D. Griffin, D. D. Newark, N. J. E. E. Gould, 1809.

NEW EDITIONS.

A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange, Checks on Bankers, Promissory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes. By Joseph Chitty, Esq. of the Middle Temple. A new edition, from the second corrected and enlarged London edition; with

the addition of recent English and American cases. By Joseph Story, Counsellor at Law. Boston, Farrand, Mallory, and Co. 1809.

The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires Pour La vie de Petrarch, by Mr. Dobson. The first American from the seventh London edition. Embellished with two handsome engravings. Philadelphia, A. Finley, and W. H. Hopkins, 1809.

Memoirs of an American Lady; with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they existed previous to the revolution. By the author of "Letters from the Mountains," &c. Two volumes in one. Boston, W. Wells, T. B. Wait, and Co. Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809.

The Rudiments of Latin and English Grammar; designed to facilitate the study of both languages, by connecting them together. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the high school of Edinburgh. Boston, William Andrews, 1809.

IN THE PRESS.

Collins and Perkins of New-York, have in the press, a Dissertation on the Mineral Waters of Saratoga. Second edition, enlarged, including an account of the waters of Ballstown, embellished with a Map of the surrounding country, and a view of the Rock Spring at Saratoga. By Valentine Seaman, M. D. one of the Surgeons of the New-York Hospital.

Lincoln and Edmands, Boston, have in the press, Murray's Sequel to the English Reader.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON, a most celebrated English philosopher and mathematician, and one of the greatest geniusses that ever appeared in the world, was descended from an ancient family in Lincolnshire, where he was born in the year 1642. His powers of mind were wonderfully comprehensive and penetrating. Fontenelle says of him; "that in learning mathematics he did not study Euclid, who seemed to him too plain and simple, and unworthy of taking up his time. He understood him almost before he read him: a cast of his eye on the contents of the theorems of that great mathematician, seemed to be sufficient to make him master of them." Several of his works mark a profundity of thought and reflection, that has astonished the most learned men. He was highly esteemed by the university of Cambridge; and was twice chosen to represent that place in parliament. He was also greatly favored by queen Anne, and by George the first. The princess of Wales afterwards queen consort of England, who had a turn for philosophical inquiries, used frequently to propose questions to him. This princess had a great

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regard for him; and often des clared, that she thought herself happy to live at the same time as he did, and to have the pleasure and advantage of his conversation.

This eminent philosopher was remarkable for being of a very meek disposition, and a great lover of peace. He would rather have chosen to remain in ob. scurity, than to have the serenity of his days disturbed by those storms and disputes, which genius and learning often draw upon those who are eminent for them. We find him reflecting on the controversy respecting his optic lectures, (in which he had been almost unavoidably engaged,) in the following terms: "I blamed my own imprudence, for parting with so real a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow."

The amiable quality of modesty stands very conspicuous in the character of this great man's mind and manners. He never spoke, either of himself or others, in such a manner, as to give the most malicious censurers least occasion even to suspect him of vanity. He was candid and affable; and he did not assume any airs of superiority over those with whom he associated.

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He never thought either his merit or his reputation, sufficient to excuse him from any of the com. mon offices of social life. Though he was firmly attached to the church of England, he was averse to the persecution of the Nonconformists. He judged of men by their conduct and the true schismatics, in his opinion, were the vicious and the wicked. This liberality of sentiment did not spring from the want of religion; for he was thoroughly persuaded of the truth of Revelation; and amidst the great variety of books, which he had constantly before him, that which he loved the best, and studied with the greatest ap. plication, was the Bible. He was, indeed, a truly pious man : and his discoveries concerning the frame and system of the uni. verse, were applied by him to demonstrate the being of a God, and to illustrate his power and wisdom. He also wrote an excellent discourse, to prove that the remarkable prophecy of Daniel's weeks, was an express prediction of the coming of the Messiah, and that it was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

The testimony of the pious and learned Dr. Doddridge to the most interesting part of this great man's character, cannot be omit ted on the present occasion. "According to the best informa. tion," says he, "whether public or private, I could ever ob tain, his firm faith in the divine Revelation discovered itself in the most genuine fruits of substantial virtue and piety; and consequently gives us the justest reason to conclude, that he is now rejoicing in the happy effects of it, infinitely more than in all the applause which his philosophical

works have procured him, though they have commanded a fame lasting as the world."

The disorder of which he died, was supposed to be the stone in the bladder; which was, at times, attended with so severe parox, ysms, as to occasion large drops of sweat to run down his face. In these trying circumstances, he was never heard to utter the least complaint, nor to express the least impatience.

He departed this life in the eighty-fifth year of his age; and in his principles and conduct through life, has left a strong and comfortable evidence, that the highest intellectual powers harmonize with religion and virtue ; and that there is nothing in chris. tianity, but what will abide the scrutiny of the soundest and most enlarged understanding.

How great and satisfactory a confirmation is it to the sincere, humble Christian, and what an insurmountable barrier does it present to the infidel, to perceive in the list of Christian believers, the exalted and venerable names of Bacon, Boyle, Locke, Newton, Addison, and Lyttelton! men who must be acknowledged to be ornaments of human nature, when we consider the wide compass of their abilities, the great extent of their learning and knowledge, and the piety, integrity, and be neficence of their lives. These eminent characters firmly adhered to the belief of christianity, after the most diligent and exact researches into the life of its Founder, the authenticity of its records, the completion of its prophecies, the sublimity of its doctrines, the purity of its precepts, and the arguments of its adversaries. Murray.

Bur before we attend to the application of Christ's righteousness to us, it is necessary to obviate an inconsistent consequence drawn, by many, from the above conclusion, viz. that if Christ has made full atonement for the sins of the whole world, then all mankind will be saved. This consequence rests altogether on the absurd idea, that the payment of a debt entitles to a reward: Whereas Christ teaches, that when we have suffered the penalty and done all the law re. quires, we are unprofitable servants, we have done but our duty. As our surety Christ has paid our debt, both of passive and active righteousness, but he has done no more. He neither loved nor served God more than he ought, therefore, in the eye of law, is an unprofitable servant, he has done but his duty; and can claim no more for us than an exemption from the demands of the first covenant. By obtain. ing our discharge, he opened a way for God to bring in another "Covenant, established on better promises: Wherefore," said the apostle, "ye are dead to the law by the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, even to him who was raised from the dead." Though the death of Christ brought in universal redemption from the penalty of the first covenant, yet, it gives no claim to gospel salvation for any one. It merely opened a

way for God to offer salvation in a new and better covenant. The law as a covenant of life, has become as a dead husband to us, by the death of Christ, that we may be united to him in this new covenant, as the only way of salvation; but we have no right to his interest, the inher. itance of heaven, until we be married to him in the second covenant. To that we must look for every good, for time and eterty. If we fulfil the condition of this covenant we shall be safe, otherwise, we must abide the consequences of disobedience.

Having stated the demands of law on us, as fallen creatures; and showed that Christ, in our nature and as our covenant head, has answered these demands and delivered us from the law, as a covenant of life, and by his obe dience, attained to its righteousness, we now proceed to inquire, how his righteousness applies to us unto justification of life.

We have no occasion for fine spun, metaphysical arguments on this subject. It is sufficient for my purpose to observe, that our loss and recovery were in the way of a covenant transaction, through a constituted publie head. While our first parents were the whole of human kind, and as such, the natural and necessary representatives of their future generations, God was pleased graciously to covenant with Adam that if he would faith