cations, the divides her work into parts and fe&tions, detailing is each section so much truth in regular and didactic order, and then adding as many questions, to each of which the children must find the aufwer for itself in the fection which has been immedi ately read. A fpecimen will exhibit the plan, and recommend, we think, this fmall volume to every father of a family, who really wishes his children to understand what they commit to memory.

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68 TEACHER.

"True faith and obedience are infeparably united; for if we have a thorough dependence on the word of God, we will [shall] do all that he defires us to do, in full confidence of receiving the recompence of obedience. It is thus that we act in the common affairs of life; for none of us would eat what we were affured was poisonous, unless we had no faith in the perfon from whom the affurance came. None of us would refufe to take the Reps, which we were told would entitle us to a great legacy, unless we diftrusted the word of our advifer. In like manner would we, but for our want of faith, earnestly ftrive to do all that God has commanded. If we do not thus ftrive, our pretenfions to faith are hollow and deceitful. Let us remember the declaration of our Saviour, Not every one that faith unto me, Lord, Lord, fhall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father Which is in Heaven,'

"QUESTIONS.

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"Can we by faith without obedience please God? "When we expect to be happy by following our own evil inclinations, do we then fhew our faith in God's word? "How do you illuftrate this?

"When we do what God has in his word forbidden, and neglect to do what he has commanded, have we then any just prétenfions to a true faith?

"What are the words of our Saviour upon this fubject?' We have long thought, that an explanation of the Church Catechifm upon this plan would be a proper book to be put into the hands of young perfons, previous to confirmation; and we truft that a friend our's, who has fuch a work by him, will be induced, by the fuccefs of this fmall volume, to put it to the prefs immediately.

ART. 34. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Sarum, on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Days of July, 1809. By the Reverend Charles Daubeny, Archdeacon of Sarum. 8vo. 33 PP. 15. 6d. Rivingtons. 1809.

We always open with pleafure the productions of fo found and able a member of our Church as Mr. Archdeacon Daubeny, Our expectations are then fanguine; nor are they in general difappointed. In the prefent inftance, we have to announce a 飛 maferly view of the prefent ftate of religion ; and a confidera.

tion of thofe objections, which are but too popularly circulated, against the Clergy of the Eftablishment.

Mr. D. firft confiders the accufation of a want of zeal in the Clergy; and here he incidentally touches upon the causes of the zeal which is exerted against them.

The corruption of the natural man," fays he, "is in nothing more apparent than in his difpofition to refift whatever. prefents itself to him under the fhape of an obligation. Leave him in the uncontrouled exercife of his own will, and he may Occafionally choofe right. But prefcribe a rule, enact a law, or fettle an establishment, to which obedience is required, and refift. ance begins. For the very requifition of obedience, or the interdiction of practice, in any way, provokes the corruption of human nature; which draws men, who might otherwife be differently difpofed, to become like wayward patients, who choose rather to nourish the prevailing humour of disease and infirmity, than to obferve the prefcription of the furgeon; and to tear off the pleifter, though with a certain increase of danger to themselves, rather than endure its proper working." P. 10.

Speaking, however, of the importance of zeal, he obferves very truly, that “zeal without knowledge, so far as the lower ranks of the community are concerned, will never fail, in the long-run, to prove an overmatch for knowledge unaccompanied, He therefore ftrongly recommends a fuffi eient infufion of this very active quality.

with zeal."

P. 12.

In confidering the other popular objection, of not. fufficiently preaching the peculiar doctrines of the Gofpel, the Archdeacon takes occafion to explain and illuftrate, from the Homilies, the true doctrine of falvation through the merits of Chrift; defiring, when that is rightly understood, to wave the confideration of "thofe deep things of God, on which the moderation of our excellent Church has judicioufly enjoined filence." He then briefly. but ftrongly notices the infidious attempt of the editors of the pretended" Improved Verfion," to deftroy the effentials of faith; and the unfound and dangerous defence of the Church, by the author of the "Hints on Evangelical Preaching." He then concludes a very judicious and useful Charge with thefe encouraging words of Lactantius.

"Verum non eft defperandum. Fortaffe, non canimus furdis. Nec enim tam in malo ftatu res eft, ut defint fanæ mentes, quibus et veritas placeat, et monftratum fibi rectum iter, et videant et fequantur."?

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 35. An Account of Jamaica and its Inhabitants. By Gentleman long refident in the Weft Indies. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Longman and Co. 1809.

After the fuperb and coftly work on the Hiftory of Jamaica by Sir Hans Sloane, and the fatisfactory but elaborate publication: of Bryan Edwards, an account of this interesting region on a

fmaller

fmaller fcale, and to be obtained at a moderate expence, was cer tainly defirable. This volume appears to anfwer the purpofe; and at the fame time that it communicates a concife analytis of the topics difcuffed in the larger works above-mentioned, it fupplies fome obfervations on important matters, which a refidence of 21 years in Jamaica has of courfe qualified the author to make with effect. It will be found a ufeful and entertaining volume, and appears to omit no one fubject, concerning which information may be required, by those who have occafion to be acquainted with the hiftory, affairs, and condition of this island.

ART. 36. Adam and Margaret, or the Cruel Father punished for bis unnatural Conduct to his innocent Daughter. A Narrative of real Incidents. With fame Reflections, and a Propofal for culti wating a Department of Literature to be entitled Private Bio graphy. By Alexander Mollefon. 8vo. Is. 6d. Glafgow, for the Author; Conftable, Hunter, and Parker, London. 1809. The narrative contained in this little tract reprefents the cha racter of a man who before his induftry had flackened or vice pre dominated, was fober, quiet, and attentive to his work. This proved only a deceitful calm. Profperity afterwards tempted and corrupted him; he became attached to drinking, and from that time never behaved well. Intoxication inflamed his temper, na turally fevere, to a degree of favage barbarity, and gradually by his ferocity, we fee his family declining in health and refpectabi lity, till every one has funk filently into the grave, except one poor daughter, who afterwards, when diftrefs and illness over. powered him, proved his only folace. The tale is remarkably well told, and calculated to produce beneficial effects. The pro pofal fubjoined fhould only be admitted after the most mature deliberation, and even then we should hefitate upon its propriety. ›

ART. 37. La Morale des Anciens; on Penfées, Maximes, tirée de Zoroastre, Confucius, Solon, Pythagore, Socrate, Platon, Ariftote, Cicéron, Sénèque, Plutarque, Marc-Aurèle, &c. Tri Par M. E. A. Girot. 12mo. 348 pp. 58. Dulau. 1808

A complete digeft of ancient morality, fo formed as to demonfrate in every particular how far thofe unaffifted reafoners went, and wherein they were of neceffity deficient, would be a work of extreme and difficult labour; but, if it could be well completed, a document of great utility. The prefent book, with much more moderate pretenfions, will yet be found both pleafing and inftruc tive; and may be put into the hands of young' perfons with ad vantage. Even those who have already paffed through the common track of inftruction may often fee, with furprife, what valuable points of morality have been occafionally discovered by perfons who had not the light of revelation. But they will obferve alfog

that

that the maxims which moft nearly approach to the perfection of Chriftian morality are given by thofe authors who lived after the diffufion of the Gofpel; from which they appear to have caught fomething, though without proceeding to conviction.

This book, the evident refult of much diligence in compila tion, is divided into chapters, under the heads of, 1. Dieu, Res ligion. z. Ame. 3. Parens, Enfans, Famille. 4. Hommes." 5. Jeuneffe, Education. 6. Vie, &c. &c. and the maxims under each head are numbered. At the end are fubjoined short notices of the authors quoted, to whom each fentence is referred in its place. An English translation is promifed, and has perhaps ere now appeared.

ART. 38. The Comet; by the Author of All the Talents. 24 Edition. 8vo. 86 pp. 3s. 6d. J. J. Stockdale. 1808.

On the cover of the book, this Comet is called a mocknewfpaper; and the idea, though not new, is capable of being, made a vehicle for various fpecimens of wit and humour, in profe and verfe. We cannot however fay, that the wit and hu mour, which are attempted to be infufed into this production, are at all to our tafte. They are generally coarfe and extravagant. The few verfes which are inferted are far from good, and even in those few the author has not abstained from plagiarism ; as in these lines,

Nor blame I, nymph, that you difdain'd my pray'rs, "But ah, why did you kick me down the ftairs ?

Thefe are palpably ftolen from a little epigram fo very generally known, that it can hardly be neceffary to quote it. Yet the Comet (at 3s. 6d.) is ftated to have reached a fecond edition.

MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

DIVINITY.

The Chriftian Advocate; defigned to plead the Caufe of Primitive Chriftianity. 8s. 6d.

A Vindication of the Jews, by way of Reply to the Letter addreffed by Perfeverans to the English Ifraelite. Humbly fubmitted to the Confideration of the Miffionary Society and the London Society for Promoting Chriftianity among the Jews. By Thomas Witherby. 75.

Early Devotion; or an Addrefs to Young Perfons on the important Duty of private Prayer: with faitable Forms for dif ferent Ages, chiefly in Phrases taken from the Scripture and

from

from the Liturgy of the Church of England. By a Clergy'

man. 2S.

The Divinity of the Apocalypfe demonftrated by its Ful filment in Anfwer to Profeffor Michaelis. By the Rev. J. M. Butt, A.M. late fudent of Chrift Church, Oxford, and Author of a Commentary on the Seventy Weeks and Laft Vifion of Daniel. Izmo.s.

The Doctrines of Predeftination and Affurance examined, with a fhort View of the Pelagian Controverfy, in a Sermon preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincoln; at his Triennial Vifitation, held at Newport Pagnell, in the County of Bucks, on Tuesday, May 23, 1809. By the Rev. Thos. Le Mefuriers M.A. Rector of Newton Longville, in that County; with large Notes. 2s. 6d.

HISTORY.

Hiftoric Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Jonah Bar rington, one of his Majefty's Council at Law, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland, and Member of the late Irish Parliament for the Cities of Tuam and Clogher. Part I. 11. is.

Grafton's Chronicle; or, Hiftory of England. To which is added his Table of the Bailiffs, Sheriffs, and Mayors of the City of London, from the Year 1189 to 1558 inclufive. 2 vols. royal 4to. 41. 45.

POLITICAL.

The First Book of Napoleon, the Tyrant of the Earth, writ ten in the 5813th Year of the World, and 1809th of the Chrif tian Era. By Eliakim the Scribe, a Defcendant of a modern Branch of the Tribe of Levi; a Rabbi, educated in the Chrif tian School of the Sons of the Prophets. 8vo. 6s.

A Curfory View of the late Adminiftration; with a few Remarks on the Strictures of the Quarterly Review on Mr. Moore's Publication. 1s. 6d.

Memorandums and Narratives, Civil, Military, Naval, Parliamentary, and Ecclefiaftical; including an Account of Penfions, &c. as extracted from Papers laid before the Houfe of Commons, and other authentic Documents. 4to. 11. 15.

JUBILEE.

An Addrefs to the Inhabitants of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the approaching Jubilee. Is. The Jubilee; a Poem on the approaching Anniverfary. By William Jerdan, Efq. 2s.

The Character of the King; or, the Royal Jubilee, interfperfed. with authentic Anecdotes of his Majefty, together with an admonitory Addrefs to the People of the United Kingdom. 2s. 6d.

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