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man becomes, in the hand of his superiors, as
this wax, this corpse, this old man's stick, in
the manner that Ignatius superadds by way of
explanation-I ask, 'in the name of common
sense,' will not that man do whatsoever his
superior commands? He will, you say, but
'where no sin lies!' Will your wax demur to
be made into a RAVAILLAC, by Madame Tus-
saud? Will your corpse refuse to be dissolved
into rank corruption? Will your old man's
stick aid his steps, but refuse to knock down'
'according to his convenience ?"- Pp. 233,

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The "Jesuit in the Family," by the same author, is a work of a different description. It is "a Tale," told with great vivacity, and is designed to illustrate the working of the system, and to display the Jesuit in action, especially with regard to conversions." It has not the boundless complexity and gorgeous extravagance of the work of Eugene Sue, but it is beyond comparison, more true to nature and to fact. To those who are pleased with such works as "Father Clement," &c., this "tale" will afford a high treat, as the incidents are both numerous and exciting, and the author has evidently an extensive and intimate acquaintance with the whole machinery of Jesuitism, and the spirit which actuates it.

The Works of the Rev. ALEXANDER CARSON,
LL.D. Volume the First. Dublin: 12mo.
Pp. xii. 454. Price 5s. cloth.

sion of the bible he bowed with the simplicity of a docile child, and adhered with the tenacity of a resolute man. He commits himself boldly to scriptural principles and phraseology, when they clash with the speculations of philosophy and the diction of philosophizing divines. The fundamental principle of the baptists in the baptismal controversy he carries into every controversy and every investigation, the true meaning of the text is to be decisive, in spite of difficulties, inconveniences, dislikes, surmises, and human authority. God is in all his thoughts: he has con tinually before him God's sovereign power, his constant superintendence of human affairs in all their minutiæ, his determination to overrule for good all the evil that exists in the universe, the certain accomplishment of all his pur poses and fulfilment of all his declarations. It is such teaching, it appears to us, that the age requires.

The present volume consists of Miscellaneous Treatises. Its contents are derived chiefly from original manuscripts. It is a slight deduction from their value that they had not undergone the author's final revision when he died, but that they had been originally intended for publication is evident from their character. The difficulty of reading his hand writing, which we can certify was not a trifling obstruction, has occasioned undesirable delay in their appearance, and has caused, in some cases, a demand on the ingenuity of the editor as well as on his industry; but, though these things are properly mentioned in the preface to avert the se verity of criticism, the result has been so successful that they would not have been guessed if they had not been disclosed.

This is the first of a series of volumes to which we are anxious to direct the attention of all our readers. The name of Dr. Carson has appeared before the British public principally in connexion with the ordinance of baptism; and it is not generally known, that if he had The first and longest piece is on the never written a syllable on that subject, doctrine of the atonement. The auother works of which he is the author thor shows in an address to the pubwould have entitled him to an honour-lic which occupies nearly two hundred able place in the first class of modern pages that the scriptures declare that theologians. His acuteness in the de- all men are guilty before God; that tection of error, the exposure of so- the scriptures teach that the death phistry, and the perception of the hinge of Christ is an atonement for sin, on which a question turns, is perceptible the only atonement, and an atonein all his writings, whether they relate ment for the chief of sinners; that to the claims of evangelical truth to the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the cordial acceptance of mankind, or to way of being interested in his atonement; the details of doctrine and practice. that faith in the atonement of Christ, or The bible was his constant study; the the belief of the gospel, effectually bible was his oracle to which he ap- changes the mind, pursuits, and conpealed on every question; to the deci- duct, of all that receive it; that this

all subjects-Letters to the Author of an Article in the Edinburgh Review on Evangelical Preaching-The Truth of the Gospel, demonstrated from the character of God manifested in the Atonement, in a letter to Mr. Richard Carlile-Remarks on the General Resurrection-A View of the Day of Judgment

First Day of the Week-Remarks on the Character and Empire of Satanand the sermon preached in Surrey Chapel, in 1842, on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society.

plan of salvation is the wisdom and power of God, but is folly and weakness in the estimation of human wisdom; that the gospel denounces wrath against all who reject it, and against all the workers of iniquity, and promises unbounded happiness to believers. The treatise contains much forcible argument, pointed illustration, and energetic-Remarks on the Sanctification of the appeal; and its general tenor will commend it to all evangelical Christians, though some views are brought out that will not meet universal concurrence among them, as, for example, that "it never can be true of any that shall eventually perish that Christ died for them, nor can it be duty for such to believe that he died for them." There is in such assertions, in the judgment of many, an apparent incompatibility, at least, with the apostolic language, "Through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died?" "Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died."

Among the minor articles are- A Letter to the Emperor Napoleon, Sovereign of Elba, on the most important of

The next volume is to comprise the author's works on the Romish and the Unitarian controversies. It is said that it is now ready for the press, and that it will be published as soon as possible after the subscriptions for the first volume are received. We hope that other valuable performances which appeared in his life-time, on Providence, on the Principles of Biblical Interpretation, and on the Figures of Speech, will constitute parts of the series, and that a respectable subscription list will encourage their speedy appearance.

BRIEF NOTICES.

Notes, Critical, Illustrative, and Practical, on the Book of Job with a New Translation, and an Introductory Dissertation. By the Rev. ALBERT BARNES. Carefully revised and compared with the last American edition. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. Vol. I. London: Routledge. Pp. 414.

In the introduction, which extends to one hundred and twenty-eight pages, this able com

mentator maintains that Job was a real person, who lived in some part of Arabia Deserta, lying between Palestine and the Euphrates, some time between the age of Terah, the father of Abraham, and that of Jacob; and that the work was composed by Job himself in the period of rest and prosperity which succeeded his troubles, came to the knowledge of Moses during his residence in Arabia, and was adopted by him to represent to the Hebrews, in their trials, the duty of submission to the will of God, and to furnish the assurance that he would yet appear to crown his own people, however much they might be afflicted, with abundant blessings. The book, considered as a poem, he describes to be a public debate, conducted in a poetic form, on a very important question pertaining to the divine government; the object being to teach that God will eventually show himself to be the friend of the righteous, that there is true virtue which is not based on selfishness, and that real piety will bear any

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Popery: its Character and its Crimes. By
WILLIAM ELFE TAYLER. With Fourteen
Illustrations from MSS. and Rare Books
London: 16mo. pp. x. 343. Price 5s, cloth.

Patriotism requires that vigorous efforts should be made to disseminate among all classes of the community a knowledge of what popery is, what it has done, and what it is intent on doing. The exertions that have been made during the last fifty years to misrepresent it, hy its insidious advocates and their infidel allies, have been lamentably successful, and thousands of our countrymen appear to be quite willing to be beguiled. The very same causes which lead many of the children of wealthy dissenters to join the established church, are leading the children of wealthy church people to hanker after Romanism: aversion to heart religion; the desire for something to answer the purpose of religion which is congenial with the carnal mind; and the love of fashion. We welcome,

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therefore, the publications of all who have studied popery, in order to portray it faithfully, and put the British public on its guard. Mr. Tayler is of this class, and he has illustrated the subject by reference to facts and documents which to most of his readers will be new. He treats of popery, first, as "a spiritual famine," showing that "the principal means employed by the blessed God in renewing and sanctifying the mind of man are undoubtedly the word of God, the preaching of the gospel, and Christian prayer;" but that all these popery has either, to a considerable extent supplanted, or else so thoroughly perverted as to render them nugatory, where it has not changed them into vehicles of moral poison." He then treats of it as " a moral pestilence," dwelling particularly on “the confessional-purgatory-indulgences -the worship of the virgin, the saints, and idols-the corrupt lives of its popes and clergy -and the awful extent to which the priest usurps the place of God." The unusual character of some of the illustrations will render this an acceptable book to reading societies.

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It will be deemed a proof of our weakness, perhaps, that we should stumble at a word, but, knowing the importance of words as well as the respected author does, why should he have placed a stumbling block in our way? As he is aware that many of "the fathers who originated the imposing ceremonials and mystic grandeur of the Lord's supper" did so, "in order both to put and keep down private judgment under the iron heel of selfish and ambitious priestcraft;" and that, "another fact concerning the original inventors of such forms deserves our attention, they gave magnificent names to the Lord's supper, and strained all the powers of both the richest languages and the most brilliant imaginations, in order to express love, for the feast ;'"-we cannot refrain from their own awe and admiration, gratitude and an expression of surprise that he should speak of it habitually as the sacrament. A sacrament is bad enough-we are always sorry to hear the word from dissenting lips-but the sacrament is Christ's Commission to his Disciples; or the worse. Does our good friend sympathize with Duty of Christians to make known the Gos- the men who " 'recognized in the sacrament pel to the World, asserted and enforced, in a some mystical and supernatural virtue or Discourse on Mark xvi. 15. With an Ap-efficacy beyond and above anything contained pendix on Preaching, &c, By WILLIAM PECHY, A.M. London: 8vo. pp. 85.

Price 25.

This elegant and judicious sermon, and its valuable appendices, inculcate impressively the obligation of every Christian to make personal

exertions for the salvation of fellow sinners.
The author shows how erroneous it is "to con-
fine our idea of preaching to the act of standing
up in a public assembly and delivering a set
discourse on some religious topic, taking as the
theme of meditation, or the subject of exposi-
tion or comment, some sentence of the inspired
word,"-to preach being, in New Testament
diction, "to proclaim, to publish abroad, to
make known in any and every way, any given
message." He observes that "a letter to a
relative or friend, written in a tone of unas-
suming modesty, and breathing a spirit of
natural, unaffected earnestness and pathos; a
word 'fitly spoken' to a neighbour in sickness
or trouble; the gift or loan of a book, or even
a tract, together with numberless expedients of
the like unobtrusive and familiar character,
which Christian wisdom will readily enough
suggest, afford examples of the principle here
insisted on, and may fairly be considered as ful-
filling the requirement in the text, no less than
the more formal and public class of Chris-
tian ministrations." Pecuniary contributions
towards the spread of the gospel, he contends
are not to be regarded as a gift, they are but the
discharge of a debt, and they must not in
any case be regarded as a commutation for
active service, but leave every other mode of
Christian usefulness that may still be open, as
stringently binding as ever.
We wish that

this discourse may obtain a large circulation.
Sacramental Experience: or, the Real Secret
of Enjoyment at the Lord's Table: a Guide
to old and Young Communicants. By
ROBERT PHILIP, of Maberly Chapel, Author

in either the other ordinances of grace, or even in the oracles of God ?" If so, will he tell us what it is? if not, why does he call the Lord's supper the sacrament? If we take exception to his phraseology, however, we are happy to his readers fairly that "he pretends to set attest the excellence of his principles: he tells nothing right with them at the sacrament, but by trying to set all things right in every duty of life and godliness."

A Narrative of a recent Visit to Jerusalem and several parts of Palestine, in 1843-44. By JOHN LOWTHIAN, of Carleton House, near Carlisle. Third Thousand. London: 16mo. pp. 151. Price 2s. 6d. cloth.

The author, who appears to be a gentleman advanced in life, and accustomed to agricultural pursuits, having spent about four months in a visit to Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, and parts of Palestine, has given us in this volume a detailed account of what he saw, heard, and thought during the tour. The simplicity with which he tells every thing that occurred, and the evidences of a devout mind which his journal affords, render the perusal of his volume an agreeable exercise; though his views on some subjects would have been modified, had he availed himself more fully of New Testament light in his applications of Old Testament prophecy.

First Impressions of England and its People,
By HUGH MILLER, Author of the "Old
Red Sandstone," &c. London: Johnstone.
Small 8vo. pp. xviii. 407.

The author, whose cradle was rocked on the north of the Tweed, being, in the autumn of 1845 in that state of indifferent health and consequent languor which an overstraining of the mental faculties usually induces, wisely determined to visit the south, and take a view of

his English neighbours and their country. His intentions were, to lodge in humble cottages, to wear an humble dress, to see what none but humble men can see-society without its mask —and, in the meantime, to explore the formations wanting in the geological scale of Scotland-the Silurian, the Chalk, and the Tertiary. Happily he brought with him ample stores of good sense and good humour, with a remarkable freedom from prejudices and offensive nationality. He returned at the end of two months, and the result is a book;-a book such as fathers of families have reason to welcomea book of amusement that is at the same time instructive, and perfectly devoid of any injurious tendency.

Prevention better than Cure; or the Moral Wants of the World we live in. By Mrs. ELLIS, Author of "The Women of England," &c. &c. London: Fisher, Son, and Co. 12mo. pp. 336.

Another volume from Mrs. Ellis's prolific pen. It is uniform with most of her other productions, in size and appearance, and is inferior to none of them in respect to sentiment, style, or adaptation to existing circumstances. The axiom supplying the title is variously illustrated, especially in reference to the subject of education. The principal practical recommendation is that a system of moral training should be generally adopted both in families and schools in connexion with those means of intellectual improvement by which the age is distinguished. We commend it to the perusal of all classes, especially heads of families and those who are entrusted with the instruction of youth.

An Antidote to Infidelity. Lectures on the External Evidences of Divine Revelation: delivered at Silver Street Chapel, in February and March, 1831. By JAMES BENNETT, D.D.

With the Discussions that followed. Third Edition. London: 12mo. pp. 361. cloth.

Sixteen years ago, Dr. Bennett announced a double course of Lectures on Infidelity; on the Internal Evidences for the evenings of successive Lord's days, and on the External Evidences for the evenings of successive Thursdays. They have met with sufficient acceptance from the public to pass through two editions, and warrant the publication of a third at a greatly reduced price, two shillings and sixpence, instead of five shillings and sixpence. At the close of the Thursday evening Lectures, Dr. Bennett allowed himself to be questioned by the infidels present; this gave additional spirit to the lectures themselves, and the record of the discussions that ensued is entertaining as well as instructive. The work deserved to be reprinted, and we hope that the lowness of its price will obtain for it an extensive circulation.

A Companion for the Season of Maternal Solicitude. By THOMAS SEARLE. Fourth Edition. London: 16mo. pp. 138. Price 2s, cloth.

In the preface, the author telis us that this "book originated in an inquiry for some work,

bearing upon the subject of which it treats;"
that he possessed no treatise, nor was he
aware of any being extant, which had allusion
to the subject, with the exception of a sermon
tract by the Rev. J.
by Charnock, and a
Townsend," and that therefore he "composed
this small volume." His work consists of five
chapters on a variety of subjects appropriate
to the occasion indicated by the title; and con-
tains several suitable and simple prayers, and
a number of hymns, which if not remarkable
for poetical talent, are pious, and likely to
The circumstance of its
prove acceptable.
having reached a fourth edition, is a proof of the
favour with which the public regard it.
The Bible Remembrancer; intended to assist
the Memory in Treasuring up the Word of
God; including, among numerous useful ar
ticles, a Scripture Numeration; an Alpha-
betical Index to the Psalms; Improved
Readings; a Key to the Promises; and ana
Analysis of the whole Bible. By the Ret.
INGRAM COBBIN, A.M. Illustrated with
Maps and Cuts. London: Partridge and
Oakey. 16mo. pp. viii. 198.

In this handsome little volume, a great quantity of matter which a young student of scripture will find to be interesting and useful, is condensed into a small compass. Some of

the many

tables it contains are new and curious.

The Geography of Palestine, or the Holy Land,
including Phenicia and Philistia; with a
description of the Towns and Places in Asia
Specially
Minor visited by the Apostles.
adapted to the purposes of Tuition; with in-
troductory remarks on the method of teaching
Geography, and Questions for Examination
appended to each Section. By W. M'LEOD,
Head Master of the Model School, and
Master of Method, Royal Military Asylum,
Chelsea; late Master of the Model School,
Battersea: Author of "Arithmetical Ques
tions," &c., after the Method of Pestalozzi.
London: Longman and Co. 12mo. pp. 105.
An admirable introduction to the study of
scripture geography. It deserves the imme-
diate adoption of all schools, families, and bible-
classes.

Chapters on Country Banking. By J. R.

ROGERS, One of the Auditors of the Star
(Wesleyan) Life Assurance Society. Part
I. Second Edition. London: 8vo. pp. 64.
Price 3s. Post paid, 3s. 6d.

We do not profess any knowledge of the
subject to which this pamphlet refers; but we
are informed that the author is a respectable
dissenter, and his work appears to contain in-
formation which it must be important to many
classes of the community to possess.
Parting Precepts to a Female Sunday Scholar,
on her advantages and responsibilities. By
Mrs. J. BAKEWELL, Author of "The Mo-
ther's Practical Guide," "Lord's Prayer
Female
Explained," " Friendly Hints to
Servants," &c. &c. London: B. L. Green.
Pp. xii. 94.

A suitable little book to put into the bands of a female Sunday-scholar, when leaving the school which she has been in the habit of attending.

The Stars and the Earth; or Thoughts upon Space, Time, and Eternity. London: 32mo. pp. 48. Price 1s.

Some curious speculations founded on the length of time taken in the transmission of light to the distant parts of the universe.

Bible Scenes: or Sunday Employment for very Little Children. By the Author of "Mamma's Bible Stories." 64 History of our Saviour." London: Grant and Griffith.

Twelve coloured illustrations of facts in the history of our Lord, on cards, with a small companion volume, in a neat box.

Education, By THOMAS BINNEY. London: Jackson and Walford. 8vo. pp. 72.

Two able addresses delivered at Mill Hill School: the first, to the pupils, in the year 1842; the second, to the Rev. S. S. England, on his introduction to the chaplaincy, April 15th, 1847.

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Thirty Years' History of the Church and Congregation in Prince's Street Chapel, Norwich. By JOHN ALEXANDER, Pastor. Norwich: 10mo. pp. 46.

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"He being dead yet speaketh." A Sermon preached in The Territorial Church, West Port, Edinburgh, on June 6, 1847, being the Sabbath immediately following the death of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D., &c. &c. &c. By the Rev. W. K. TWEEDIE, Free Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh. London: 8vo. pp. 18. Price 6d.

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Meditations on Romans viii. 32. In Four Letters to a Christian Friend. London: Hamilton. 18mno. pp. 53.

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A Letter from Rome, showing an exact conformity between Popery and Paganism. By CONVERS MIDDLETON, D.D. New edition, with an abridg ment of the author's reply to "A Romanist." London. pp. 66. Price 18.

The Apprentice's Monitor, or the History of John Harris. A Narrative of Facts. Second Edition, enlarged. London: pp. 18. Price 2d.

Tract Society's Monthly Series. The Life of Lady Russell. London: 18mo. pp. 192.

Guide to the Saviour. For the Young. London: R.T.S. 18mo. pp. 96.

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