But it is evident that the Author himself has relied more upon his prose and his facts, than upon his rhymes. His account of the state of Ireland will be found amply to support the representation given in the first article of the present Number.

It will scarcely be believed,' he says, what feelings of shame and mortification I endured on my first arrival in Ireland, from finding the general unpopularity and dislike under which the Protestant clergy labour, and still more afterwards when I perceived how justly the majority deserve it. How was I not disappointed in seeing the care, the attention, the regular residence and moderate incomes of the priests contrast so unfavourably with the useless lives and overgrown fortunes of the Protestant Establishment; and how often have I not had to blush for the ministers of the faith that I professed. When I occasionally had the good fortune of meeting and conversing with Irish clergymen of a truly different character, and of exemplary virtue and charity, it only increased my regret that so few of their brethren should equal or resemble them. And how was I not grieved at finding that even of these excellent and amiable men, the greater number belonged to the lowest class of the church, the curates, and far from participating in the golden gifts of the Establishment, were generally pensioned off with a poor pittance of 751. a year. In fact, the whole body of Irish curates is in general most worthy and deserving, while the higher ranks of the Establishment are paralysed and benumbed by their own excess of wealth,-overwhelmed, like Tarpeia, in ancient history, with the very gold intended to protect and to adorn them.'

The volume will be found to contain a mass of valuable information relative to the state of Ireland, chiefly compiled from public documents, and exposing the horrible system of misgovernment and oppression under which that country has so long groaned. On some points, however, the writer discovers either a sad want of information or the warp of prejudice. He will not believe that the priests are opposed to education To 'oppose education from a fear of its overthrowing any parti'cular religion, must,' he remarks, be the act of one who disbelieves that religion himself.' And this abstract assumption, he deems a sufficient proof of the falsehood of a charge resting upon notorious fact! The fact is, that the priests are afraid of losing their power and their profits: it is not necessary that they should disbelieve their religion, to entertain apprehensions on this score. Every conversion from among his parishioners costs the priest, as it were, a meal;' and, therefore, this Writer considers the priests as fully justified in actively opposing any proselytism of their flocks.' Of course, he strongly deprecates sending Bible-readers through the country, disapproves of using the Bible in schools, and thinks that the Hibernian Society has produced but little advantage

and much serious injury to Ireland. However, he adds, that Society is now beginning to be generally condemned by candid Protestants in Ireland. He is quite mistaken. The members of that Society have much better information respecting the real state of the country, than the Author seems to have picked up from hearsay during his visit of three months to Ireland.

The philosophical pamphleteer is a partisan of the opposite cast. He thinks there is no hope of converting the Papists, except by the rigorous enforcement of the popery laws. Unassisted truth,' he maintains, is not able to contend successfully with ignorance and prejudice.' In proof of this, he appeals to the unquestionable' authority of the Abbé Dubois!! There is no human possibility of converting the Hindoos to any sect of Christianity,' affirms that veracious person: the circulation of the Scriptures among them, will only increase their prejudices against the Christian religion.' In like manuer, the Papists of Ireland (shall we say the Irish Hindoos?) can never be converted but by political means! We have no doubt that this Writer means well, and we agree with him in all that he says about the injurious tendency of Popery; but we can only view his pamphlet as a libel upon Protestantism, a concession to infidelity, and a bull from beginning to end.

ART. X.

SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

In August will be published, a pamphlet containing Remarks on the Mustard Tree, mentioned in the New Testa ment. By John Frost, F.A.S. F.L.S. of Emanuel College, Cambridge.

Mr. Holdsworth expects shortly to put to press, a new and much enlarged edition of Dr. Pye Smith's Discourse on the Sacrifice, Priesthood, and Atonement of Christ.

In the press, and in October will be published, in two large volumes, 8vo. a new edition of Dr. Cullen's First Lines of the Practice of Physic, together with his Physiology and Nosology. In this edition will be introduced numerous extracts from Dr. Cullen's MS. Lectures, hitherto unpublished, and from his printed Treatise on the Materia Medica. Edited by John Thomson, M.D. F.R.S. E. & L. Lecturer on the Practice of Physic, and late Regius

Professor of Military Surgery in the
University of Edinburgh.

Preparing for publication, A Dictionary of Latin Quantities; or the Prosodian's Guide to the different Quantities of every Syllable in the Latin Language, alphabetically arranged, with Authori ties from the best Poets. To which is prefixed, a Treatise on Prosody. By William Mosely, L. L.D.

Mr. Wivell has just ready for publication, An Inquiry into the History, Authenticity, and Characteristics of the Shakspeare Portraits, in which the criticisms of Malone, Stevens, Roaden, and others, are examined, confirmed, or refuted. Embracing the Felton, the Chandos, the Duke of Somerset's Pictures, the Droeshout Print, and the Monument of Shakspeare at Stratford; together with an exposé of the Spurious Pictures and Prints.

ART. XI. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

BIOGRAPHY.

Biographical History of the Christian Church, from the Commencement of the Christian era to the times of Wickliffe, the Reformer. By J. W. Morris. 2 vols. 8vo. 16s.

EDUCATION.

Caroline and her Mother; or, Familiar Conversations for Children. Principally upon Entomological Subjects. By a Lady. 12mo. 4s. 6d.

FINE ARTS.

A Series of Practical Instructions in Landscape-Painting in Water-Colours: containing Directions for Sketching from Nature, and the Application of Perspective; Progressive Lessons in Drawing, from the tinted Sketch to the finished Subject; and Examples of the Introduction of Figures, Architectural Subjects, particular Effects, &c. as connected with Landscape-Scenery. By John Clark. Complete in Four Parts. Illustrated by Fifty-five Views from Nature, Descriptive Objects, &c., mounted in imitation of Drawings. 61. 6s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bunyan's Vanity Fair; with a Pre

The Reasons of the Laws of Moses, from the "More Nevochim" of Maimonides; with Notes, Dissertations, and a Life of the Author. By James Townley, D.D. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Missionary Excitement: a Sermon preached before the London Missionary Society. By the Rev. Henry Foster Burder, M.A. 13.

The Gentiles gathered to the Fold of Christ: a Sermon preached at the Poultry Chapel, on Monday Evening, May 7th, 1827, to the Juvenile Societies in Aid of the London Missionary Society. By the Rev. Thomas Raffles, LL.D. 1s.

Excitements to exertion in the Cause of God: a Sermon preached at the Thirty-third Anniversary of the London Missionary Society, at the Tabernacle, May 9th, 1827. By the Rev. James Parsons. 7s. 6d.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. Whatever difference of opinion may exist between us on certain topics of Biblical Criticism, and however opposed you may feel to the Rev. G. S. Faber's Dissertations on Prophecy, which I esteem, or to the Theological views of Bishop Horsley, "whom I consider to be the first evangelical expositor of Scripture that has appeared in any age or nation," I am confident you would not intentionally misrepresent my meaning. I therefore trust, that you will allow me to explain in your pages, two particulars noticed in your Review of my Sermons, to obviate any misconception which might thence arise in the minds of your readers.

The following passage occurs in page 557 of your Review.

"After this signal display of failure of judgement, it will scarcely surprise the reader, that Mr. Coleman should adopt the damnatory sentence of the Athanasian Creed in all its literal intolerance and presumption; and that he should boldly affirm, that all unbelievers in the doctrine of the Trinity are as far removed from the way of salva tion as the followers of Mohammed. How far he meant this sweeping sentence to apply, it is impossible to say. It would seem to include all who reject the Athanasian Creed as a disgraceful relic of the darkest age of the Church, a monument of human presumption and uncharitableness, respecting which, were it not unhappily incrusted into the English Prayer Book, two opinions could not exist among pious believers," &c. &c.

Throughout the Sermon in question I have invariably stated my opinion, that a belief of the doctrine of the Trinity, "AS IT IS SET FORTH IN HOLY SCRIPTURE," is absolutely necessary to salvation. And I purposely employed the words printed in small capitals to prevent any misconception of my meaning, to distinguish the doctrine "AS SET FORTH IN HOLY SCRIPTURE," from the doctrine“ AS SET FORTH IN HUMAN FORMULAS." That this meaning was clearly expressed, the following extracts from the Sermon will show.

"It is our duty to preach this doctrine, (the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity,) BECAUSE IT IS A PART OF THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD, and this WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD we must preach unto you, whether you will hear or whether you will forbear: for necessity is laid upon us; yea, woe will be unto us, if we preach not the gospel.

"It is our duty to preach this doctrine unto you, because we are commanded, in the words of our text, to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Hence we are necessitated to inculcate the mysterious doctrine of the Trinity, and to enforce this doctrine ON SCRIPTURAL GROUNDS, that we may instruct you in the offices and covenant engagement of the triune Jehovah, in whose name you have been baptized, and that you may the better understand the nature and obligation of your baptismal

Vows.

"It is our duty to preach this doctrine unto you, because, accords ing to the language of our text, the reception of the doctrine of the

Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation. On this ground I have preferred the marginal to the textual rendering, and have quoted it: Go ye therefore and make disciples (or Christians) of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.' From these words we infer, that he who does not believe the doctrine of the Trinity, AS IT IS SET FORTH IN HOLY SCRIPTURE, is no disciple of Christ, and has no pretensions to the name of a Christian. Nay, further, we contend that such a character is as far removed from God, and from the way of salvation, as the deluded followers of the Arabian Impostor, &c. &c.

"Furthermore, if it be our duty as ministers to preach, it is your duty as hearers to receive this doctrine. For whatever we speak to you ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY, we speak in the name and under the commission of Him who hath sent us; and the words which we speak are not the words of man, but the words of God. We, then, are ambassadors for Christ, and as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. WE ENTREAT YOU TO EXAMINE THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELVES, ON THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT, WITH DILIGENCE AND PRAYER; AND TO RECEIVE THE DOCTRINE OF TRINITY IN UNITY, AS IT IS SET FORTH IN HOLY WRIT."

The following paragraph of the Preface will further illustrate my sentiments on this subject.

"The language by which the Author has characterized the antiTrinitarian heresy, is the mere converse of that which, if Christ be not God, must belong to every Trinitarian. For if Christ be not very and eternal God, then all who believe in his Divinity must be idolaters, because they worship as God him who is no God; and the Spirit has expressly declared, that no idolater can inherit the kingdom of heaven. If, on the contrary, as Trinitarians contend, Christ be God, then the denial of his divinity must be a damnable heresy, and they who die in this heresy must be excluded from all possibility of salvation. These contradictory systems cannot by any ingenuity be made to coalesce. If Christ be not God, then no Trinitarian can be saved. If Christ be God, no anti-Trinitarian can be saved. The one denomination or the other denomination must eternally perish." The following sentence occurs in page 554 of your Review.

"To extend the divine declaration to the duty of buying any human expositions, must surely appear to the Writer's better judgement, a very unauthorized and presumptuous wresting of Scripture. Blessed is he that buys and reads the interminable dissertations of Mr. Faber says Mr. Coleman."

The meaning I intended to convey was simply this. That intellectually to understand the Apocalypse, it is necessary to study SOME dissertations on prophecy, and that this study is obligatory upon all, "who have money to purchase and time to read" such publications. My object was to recommend the treatises of Bishop Newton, Faber, and Gauntlett, as in my judgement the best elementary works on Prophecy, not to enforce the purchase of these particular books as a matter of duty. The paragraph might have been worded more per