foner, and carry him into a land of darkness, where all things are forgotten.' He informs him, that he was ushered into the world with a nature, replete with enmity against God;' he reprefents to him the awful confequences attending the manylinked chain of his rebellions; and at laft endeavours to give him confolation, by an affurance, that there is not greater demerit in his fins, than fufficiency in the Saviour.-This is the plan ufually purfued by all the orators of the Tabernacle and the Lock, on which we leave the intelligent reader to make his own reflections.

A Sermon preached in the Cathedral-Church of Hereford, before the venerable the Dean of Hereford, on the 19th Day of Auguft, 1778, being the Day in which be held bis Vifitation. By the rev. Thomas Horne. 410. 6d. Baldwin.

The author confiders the conduct of the Chriftian minifter in the public exercise of his function, and in private life. On the first head he obferves, that the gravity of the facred function is utterly irreconcilable with a spirit of conceit and vanity; that the preacher should pay a fpecial regard to the circumstances and fituation of his people; and that he must earnestly and affiduoufly inculcate thefe two articles, the redemption of fallen man by a crucified Saviour, and, in that Saviour, a union of the Godhead with human nature. On the fecond head, he reprefents the importance of a good example in the preacher as the most perfuafive and efficacious method of inftruction; obferving, that though it is inconfiderable in appearance, it has a keen edge, and, as it ftrikes at the heart, without touching its pride, will therefore infinuate itself into a bofom, which would be impenetrable to remonftrance.'

A Sermon preached at St. Sepulchre's, London, on Sunday, March 15, 1778, for the Benefit of the Humane Society inftituted for the Recovery of Perfons apparently dead by drowning. By Colin Milne, LL. D. 8vo. Is. Rivington.

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Most of the popular preachers in this metropolis have been mere enthufiafts, and their fermons wild and incoherent rhapfodies on the corruption of human nature, all-faving grace, allhealing faith, and the all-fufficiency of the atonement. have now the pleasure to find, that popularity and fanaticism are not infeparably united. Dr. Milne has a confiderable fhare of the former; but, if we may judge by this fpecimen, no tincture of the latter. His difcourfe undoubtedly deferves the highest commendation. The chief defign of it (except the latter part, which relates to the Humane Society) is to refute the falfe and illiberal fentiments of those wretched declaimers, who reprefent the human heart as naturally fordid, bafe, and ungenerous; as an utter ftranger to the focial and benevolent affections, and the feat of nothing but malevolent and malig nant palions.

The

The Parish Clerk's Pocket Companion: being a Collection of Singing
Pfalms from the Old and New Verfions; fuited t every Sunday,
Feftival, and Holiday throughout the Year. By Jofeph Fox.
12mo. 25. Johnson.

The first edition of this work was published in 1752, and was favourably received by the author's brethren. The prefent is improved and enlarged by the addition of the New Verfion.. The Pfalms, or verfes, which are to be fung, are not printed at full length, but only the first line, with a reference.

The Pfalms are in general properly adapted to the occafions, on which they are to be used. Though perhaps in some instances the author might have made a better choice. For example: the following lines do not altogether breathe the meek and humble fpirit of Chriftianity:

In time of war and tumults.

• Pfal. vii, v. 6, 7, 8.

• Arife, and let thy anger, Lord,
In my defence engage,' &c.

If the author fhould make any farther improvements in this work, we would recommend a fhort Index, directing the clerk to Pfalms proper to be fung after fermons on the most important topics of religion; fuch, as, the Divine Omniscience, Provi dence, Repentance, Faith, Humility, Death, Judgment, Hea

ven, &c.

As many parish clerks have neither fenfe nor judgement in the felection of their pfalms, this work will be of great ufe to that venerable fraternity.

A Sketch of the diftinguishing Graces of the Chriftian Character, &c. By Philip Gurdon, M. A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. fewed.

Mathews.

The author endeavours to fhew, that the Holy Spirit exerts a fecret, yet efficacious influence on the minds of men; that we cannot but be as fenfible of this operation, as we are of the air on our bodies; and that it does not fupercede human endeavours: for, fays he, though we are not capable of thinking, much less of doing, any thing of ourselves, yet a knowlege of our own natural impotency leads us to God for that grace, whereby we are capacitated to strive and to labour in our spiritual courfe.' He/ then proceeds to fhew, that the Holy Spirit produces the following graces, which make up what he calls, the animated por traiture of a heaven-born Chriftian;' namely, faith, repentance, hope, the love of God and man, peace, joy, humility, meeknefs, patience, righteoufnefs, and temperance.

This performance breathes a fpirit of piety, modesty, and benevolence, But the author, with all the Calvinifts and Me. thodists, infers the natural impotence of man from paffages, which have no relation to that subject. One of his first and fun

damental

damental teftimonies is this: Not that we are fufficient of our felves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our fufficiency is of God.' 2 Cor. iii. 3. These words, he imagines, imply, men's utter inability to do, or even to think any thing that is good, without the special affiftance of God. But with equal propriety we might from hence infer, that we are not able, by Our own natural faculties, to think any thing at all, either good or bad. These interpreters of fcripture do not feem to know or confider, that these words are applied by the apoftle wholly and folely to the first preachers of Chriftianity, and their natural infufficiency to accomplish the converfion of the world. Of ourfelves, fays the apoftle, we are not able to think or judge, Koyioaoba, what is beft to be done for the fervice of the gofpel: but all our fufficiency for this arduous undertaking is of God, who has made us ABLE MINISTERS of the New Tefta ment,' with demonftration of the Spirit and with power.

CONTROVERSIAL.

Bishop Taylor's Judgment on Articles and Forms of Confeffio n particular Churches, with Notes, and an Epiftle dedicatory, to the right reverend the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, 8vo. 1s. 6d. Johnson.

Bishop Taylor's difcourfe on fubfcription is in his Ductor Du. bitantium, b. iii. c. 4. where it is included in three folio pages. The rule, which the author lays down and illuftrates, is, that ⚫ fubfcription to articles and forms of confeffion, in any particular church, is wholly of POLITICAL Confideration.' The pamphlet before us is infcribed to the bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, in confequence of his lordship's having lately republifhed "A Moral Demonftration of the Truth of Chriftianity," from the fame volume; and in confequence likewise of his hav ing, in a Charge, delivered to the clergy of his diocefe, in 1775 and 1776, inculcated fome principles different from those of bishop Taylor. In the dedication the editor makes some re marks on his lordship's Charge, and contrafts the different ideas, concerning fubfcription, of these two eminent prelates, equally cordial and zealous in their attachment to the church of England. The paffages, which he more particularly points out, are the concluding fentences of each writer, expreffed in the following terms:

Bishop Hurd. And if we only use that latitude, which the expreffon fairly admits, and which the church allows, they (the Articles) will continue to answer the great end hitherto effected by them, of preferving among the members of the church an unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.'

Bishop Taylor. This (latitude) is the laft remedy, but it is the worft; it hath in it fomething of craft, but very little of

ingenuity; and if it can ferve the ends of peace, or of external charity, or of a phantaftic concord, yet, it cannot ferve the ends of truth and holiness, and Chriftian fimplicity."

The editor has fubjoined fome notes to bifhop Taylor's tract, in which he takes notice of two or three mistakes in his lordship's citations, and attempts to afcertain the meaning of fome paf-. fages, which are not, he thinks, expreffed with fufficient pre

cifion.

A Dialogue on the Subject of Religious Bigotry, between Candour and Orthodoxy. Small 8vo. 1s. Buckland.

In this Dialogue the author introduces two gentlemen, under the appellations of Candour and Orthodoxy, debating on certain theological fubjects, concerning which they entertain very different opinions. The former exclaims against the narrow heart and the cruel bigotry of his adverfary; the other reproaches his antagonist with want of principle. A friend interpofes; the matter is debated with freedom on both fides; and the moderator gives his opinion of the controverfy in the following terms: Friend Candour, I think the matter has been pretty fairly and fully agitated; and I must own, though I cannot adopt his creed, there is fome weight in what our neighbour has advanced. I perceive from the whole, that all parties use many favourite terms, juft as politicians do, to ferve their own particular purposes. I must confefs, that freedom of inquiry does and ought to fuppofe, that a man must be left to judge of the neceffity and importance of those truths he might have dif covered; and I am convinced there will be no hurt in all this to fociety, yea, much good, if a powerful magiftrate, and haughty ftate prieft, never take it into their heads to imagine, that they can make converts to their effentials in religion by fome kind of perfecution.'

A Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Profecution against the Rev. Edward Evanfon, late Vicar of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucefter. By Neaft Havard, Gent. Town Clerk of the Borough of Tewkesbury. 8vo. Is. Robinson. A Word at Parting: being a few Obfervations on a mutilated Sermon, and an Epifle dedicatory to the worthy Inhabitants of Tewkesbury; lately published by Edward Evanfon, M. A. To which are added the Arguments of Counsel in the Court of Delegates touching Mr. Evanfon's Profecution. By Neaft Havard, Gent. 8vo. 15. Robinson.

The profecution commenced against Mr. Evanfon, by fome of the inhabitants of Tewkesbury, was for preaching, fpeaking, and writing against the doctrines of the church of England, and for making arbitrary alterations in reading the Liturgy,' With regard to the Liturgy, the complaints here alleged are, that Mr. Evanfon had read the Nicene Creed in an indecent manner; that in October 1772, he read no farther than the word

• in

invifible, ordering the clerk to proceed as ufual; that, in the Apoftles Creed, instead of the refurrection of the body,' he faid, the refurrection of the dead; and that, in the bleffing at the end of the fermon, after the word Almighty,' he conftantly omitted the following claufe, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft.'

From thefe publications it is very clear, that if there has been a want of prudence and orthodoxy on one fide, there has been likewife a want of temper and moderation on the other.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Experimental Syftem of Metallurgy, with general Remarks and Explanations. By the late John Henry Hampe, M. D. c Fol. 18. Nourse.

We have not seen a more contemptible scientific production by any modern author. The reader is here prefented with a courfe of experiments, founded on the fallacious and long fince exploded doctrine of the tranfmutation of metals. It is, in fhort, a fyftem containing all the abfurdities of the Hermetic philofophy, exemplified in a variety of inftances, fo obviously hypothetical and falfe, that it is difficult to fay, whether they afford ftronger evidence of the extreme credulity or difingenuoufnefs of the author.

An Effay on divided Commons. 8vo. Is. 6d. Robinson.

This Effay relates particularly to those commons that are fituate far from lime, and it confifts of two parts. The first contains eftimates of the expences of cultivating waftes, which the author accompanies with obfervations; and the fecond contains remarks on turf-afhes and quick-lime.

A Letter to the Guardians of the Poor, of the Burgh of Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk. 8vo. 6d. Evans.

The writer of this Letter evinces the fuperiority of workhoufes to any other mode of relieving the poor, efpecially in great towns. The fubje&t of the Letter is local, but the obfervations it contains may prove of more general advantage. The Female Ffler; or, Wit for the Ladies. 12m0. is. 6d.

Bew.

Comical jeft, fmart repartee, brilliant bon-mot, humorous joke, fenfible pun, keen epigram, diverting tale, pleasant fable, good conundrum, ftrange epitaph, &c.-There's a repait for you, ladies, if you have but an appetite for it!

The Trial of Francis Soulés, for the Murder of Mr. John Fen ton, May 16, 1778. 8vo. Od. Crowder.

The fate of the unfortunate perfon, whofe trial is here related, remains to be determined in the court of King's-Bench; the jury having been directed to bring in their verdict special.