1 THE Eclectic Review. MDCCCXXVII. JULY-DECEMBER. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXVIII. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπι CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; SOLD BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, EDINBURGH; W. COLLINS, 1827. CONTENTS. PAGE A FEW Philosophical Reasons against Catholic Emancipation 185 Aird's Religious Characteristics 166 Alexander's Shigurf Namah-i-Velaët; or, Excellent Intelligence concerning Europe 162 Travels from India to England 193 Burnett's Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting 506 Burton's Testimonies of the Anti-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ King's Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Aus- 485 Lee's Controversial Facts on Christianity and Mohammedanism Orme's Defence of the Missions in the South Sea and Sandwich Islands, &c. - Memoirs, including Letters and Select Remains, of John Urquhart Ottley's Collection of Fac-Similies of scarce and curious Prints, &c. Inquiry into the Origin and early History of Engraving upon Copper Reflexions suggérées par l'Annonce du Concours qui doit s'ouvrir, pour la Nomi- nation de Deux Professeurs à la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de l'Acade- Report of the Select Committee on Emigration, in 1826 Resolutions of the Reformation Society Roberts's, Emma, Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1827. Art. I. 1. The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany: in a Series of Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge. By the Rev. Hugh James Rose, M.A. of Trinity College and Vicar of Horsham. 8vo. pp. 200. Price 8s. Cambridge, 1825. 2. Der Zustand der Protestantischen Religion in Teutschland, &c.; being a German Translation of the preceding. With a Preface and Annotations. Small 8vo. pp. 236. Leipzig, 1826. Price (at Treuttel and Würtz's, London) 5s. 3. Reflexions suggérées par l'Annonce du Concours qui doit s'ouvrir, pour la Nomination de Deux Professeurs à la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de l'Academie de Montauban. Par M. Stapfer, ancien Pasteur, &c. 8vo. pp. 45. Paris, 1824. Inserted in the Archives du Christianisme du XIX. Siecle. Septième Année. A GLANCE at the extent of human depravity, intellectual or sensual, may lead us to apply the proverbial question of Solomon," Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?" The newest objections and theories of infidelity are rarely any other than reproductions, in more modish dress, of older speculations. Voltaire, and his confederates on the Continent, forged their light missiles out of the heavy materials produced by the English deists, who had by a few years preceded them; and their arguments, as to general suggestion, and often as to specific form, may be traced to the Manichean Faustus, to Julian, or to Celsus. The early replies, also, of Origen and Eusebius were noble models to the best Christian advocates of modern times. In a word, the weapons which are employed to assail the cause of truth and goodness, and the armour by which it is defended, are, in all periods of time, substantially the same. The weeds of unbelief grow in the evil heart of man; they have always a character congenial to their soil; and they can never be eradicated till its nature undergoes a Divine change. VOL. XXVIII. N.S. B |