Psalter, The, in English Verse, 249. Return to an Address of the Hon. the House of Commons, dated 20th August, 1839; for a Return of all Associations formed and armed for the Protection of Life Sermons to Presbyterians of all Sects. By Stebbing's Continuation of Milner's History The Church of Rome in her Primitive Pu- The Englishman's Library, 250. The Apostolical Authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews. By the Rev. Charles The Second Report of the New British and The State in its Relations with the Church. The Revival of Religion. By Douglas of W. Wilberforce's Letters to the Marquis of ART. I. 1. A View of the Evidence afforded by the Life and Ministry of St. Peter to the Truth of the Christian Revelation. By Philip Stanhope Dodd, M. A. 2. Deism compared with Christianity, in an Epistola- tory Correspondence between a Deist and a Christian; intended as a Book of Reference, containing all the Principal Objections against Revealed Religion, with their Refutations. By Edward Chichester, M.A. II. 1. Curæ Criticæ in Historiam Textus Evangeliorum, à 2. Biblisch-Critisch Reise: nebst einer Geschichte des III. Life and Times of Archbishop Sharp, of St. Andrews, &c. By Thomas Stephen, Med. Lib. King's Coll....... 101 IV. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, containing the Accentuation, the Grammatical Inflections, the Irregular Words referred to their Themes, the Paral- lel Terms from the other Gothic Languages, the Meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin, and copious English and Latin Indexes, serving as a Dictionary of English and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of Latin and Anglo-Saxon; with a Preface on the Origin and Connexion of the Germanic Tongues, a V. Elizabethan Religious History. By Henry Soames, M. A. 152 VI. The Apostolical Authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews. THE BRITISH CRITIC, AND Quarterly Theological Review. JULY, 1839. ART. I.-1. A View of the Evidence, afforded by the Life and Ministry of St. Peter to the Truth of the Christian Revelation. By Philip Stanhope Dodd, M.Ă., Rector of Penshurst, Kent, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. Rivingtons. 1837. 2. Deism compared with Christianity, in an Epistolatory Correspondence between a Deist and a Christian; intended as a Book of Reference, containing all the Principal Objections against Revealed Religion, with their Refutations. By Edward Chichester, M.A., Rector of the Parish of Kilmore, in the Diocese of Armagh. Second Edition, enlarged. 3 vols. Rivingtons. 1834. WHEN some one was recommending candid and good-humoured disputes on the most important religious questions, by the argument that "truth will always bear an examination," Dr. Johnson replied, “Yes, sir, but it is painful to be forced to defend it. Consider, sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime once a week?" And we ask, who would indeed like to be perpetually exposed to the hard, relentless scrutiny, which it is now thought reverent and decent to apply to Apostles and Evangelists? Who would like the hacknied alternative of folly or imposture ever impending over him? All other trials have an end. The longest Chancery suit, though it may have outlived the brief reigns of half a dozen chancellors reversing one another's decrees, and even the lives of the parties first interested; though it may have consumed the property at stake, is at last settled: calumnies are in time forgotten the insolvent himself may at last be whitewashed: the most questionable character, if he have successfully braved investigation, casts off at length the slough of ill report, and walks abroad with a fresh infancy of reputation, positis novus exuviis, nitidusque juventâ, and all the chivalry of society is pledged not NO. LI.-JULY, 1839. B only to allow but to maintain his new honours. It is so with all other men and things, but not with the facts and the writers of Sacred History. They are never to be allowed the benefit of an honourable acquittal. Surely in keeping up the never-ending questions of authenticity and genuineness, and in soliciting new accessions to the Evidences of our faith, we do not use the same feeling and discretion we should in the parallel cases which common life affords. If we or our friends should happen to be personally calumniated, we should not be continually fanning the calumny with fresh defences: we should suffer it to sleep in silence after one sufficient answer. The words of a false charge, once repelled, become malè ominata, from which kindly lips forbear. We are grieved even to remember false suspicions. We would fain envelope the objects of our love and reverence with all kinds of good associations, and protect them from ill and disparaging ones. The loyal mind will not ever so faintly imagine anything unworthy or questionable concerning them it cares for, though it be in the shape of a negative: much less will it subject them to a rude strife of words, suppositions, apparent inconsistencies, ingenious explanations, arguments, and triumphs. In how many cases do we utterly abstain from explanation, even when we feel our conduct must appear dubious to others, trusting to the inherent power of innocence and truth, which we know generally, when undefended is defended most. As far as concerns the duty of self-defence against the actual attacks of unbelievers, or sceptical speculators, grievous though it be, still it comes with the consolation that it is necessary. The Church cannot choose the modes and points of attack which the world from time to time shall adopt against her; neither can she altogether choose for herself her modes of defence: they are among the "good works" which our Heavenly Father hath "prepared for us to walk in." Each generation also has one part more than another to perform. Though the quiet soul would of course take more pleasure in peacefully edifying the Church, and bringing her out to her fair proportions; yet our lot may be rather with David to be men of war, than with Solomon "men of rest:" it may be ours to procure" rest from all our enemies round about," and so gain peace and quietness" for the days of our successors: though even in that case we may gather the materials, and bequeath to others the glory of working them into a temple of the Lord. Or ours may be the more mixed and more common portion to work at the wall with one of our hands and with the other hold a weapon. Thus it is too in those vast foreign cathedrals, whose gra |