more of envy and malevolence, than of a true regard for facred literature... "་ RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. K. Art. 44. Catechetical Exercifes By Charles Bulkley. 12mo. 38 fewed. Johnfons 1774• #x Mr. Bulkley has here published fifteen lectures, principally addreffed to children and young perfons. The fubjects are first, A DEITY, his being, his attributes, his providence; and, with refpect to the last, its reality, its nature as a plan of moral government, its extent, and its views. Secondly, MAN, his origin, nature, and duty; his prefent fituation, natural and moral; aud. his cha racter in general. Thirdly, a FUTURE STATE, and the hope and expectations of mankind in relation to it. Fourthly, the chriftian religion, its defign, evidences, principles, ufefulness, and duties.' The volume concludes with a brief view of the evidences of chriftianity, without entering into the account of its defign, principles, &c. The Author at the entrance on his lectures, premises that, in treating on the feveral topics, as founded in reason and nature, he fhall take frequent occafion to illuftrate them by the language and maxims of the fcriptures, tho' their authority and evidence come not till afterwards to be diftinctly confidered. In the mean time, adds Mr. Bulkley, by this manner of proceeding we shall have, as we go along, and before we touch directly on that particular, one confiderable argument in favour of the fcriptures, namely, their harmony and agreement with natural religion.. Thefe difcourfes on the topics above mentioned, are intermixed with questions addreffed to the young perfons for whom they are defigned, to which are added the answers they are fuppofed to return. Hence we are to infer the writer's opinion of the best method of conveying inftruction to the minds of children and youth: and, certainly, however ufeful catechifms or other forms ufed in education, may be, their benefit must greatly depend on the care of others to talk with them familiarly on the fubjects to which their attention is directed, and to propofe proper and ftriking questions concerning them, which may lead the growing mind to think and reafon for itfelf. སྙ་,་』༄ Thefe exercifes appear calculated to answer the best purposes, if young perfons will but carefully attend to them. H. Art. 45. A Letter to the Moft Reverend the Lord Archbishop of r Canterbury, on the prefent Oppofition to any further Reformation. Oftavo. 6 d. Johnfon. In this letter, which contains fome things that well deserve the Archbishop's ferious attention, we find the following passage. So entirely averfe have you, my Lord, declared yourfelf to all reforma tion, that you have done all that in you lay, to prevent the Acaft degree of it in future. You are faid to have forbidden access to the library at Lambeth to a certain dignitary of the church of only humbly requested admission, in order to examine what materials it might furnith towards a judicious and rational review of our liturgy, reo kuin who On On what authority this charge is brought against his Grace, the Letter-writer does not tell us. If there is a just foundation for the charge, his Grace is an object of pity;.if the charge is groundless, the Letter-writer is an object of contempt.. Art. 46. An Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled, "Confiderations on the Propriety of requiring a Subfcription to Articles of Faith." Oxford. At the Clarendon Prefs. 8vo....s. Rivington... The candid and difpaffionate reader will find very little edification in this anfwer, and will only learn that the Author is a zealous advocate for fubfcriptions to articles of faith, for the doctrine of the trinity, for our present ecclefiaftical establishment, &c. Of his candour our readers may form föme tolerable judgment from the following fpecimen: the Author of the Confiderations obferves, and obferves justly, that the judgment of moft thinking men will be always in a progreffive state. So indeed we find, fays our anfwerer. Thefe thinking men will one year preach up the divinity of our blessed Saviour; the next year they will explain it away; foon after, growing fill wifer, they will teach their flock that he is a mere man, and no worship due to him: at laft, they will give them to understand that the apostles creed is erroneous. I fear that while the teacher's underflanding is in a progreffrue ftate, his congregration will be in a retrograde itate, with regard both to faith and morals. And I humbly think that in fuch cafes these thinking men, if they choofe to retain their preferments, fhould keep their opinions to themfelves.' This paffage, furely, needs no comment. * "I am well perfuaded, fays this Author, that the generality of the clergy, when they offer themselves for ordination, confider feriously what office they take upon them, and firmly believe what they subfcribe to. Rifum teneatis Amici! Art. 47. A Reply to a late Publication of S.-Newton of Norwich, intitled An Appendix, &c. In Answer to which it is plainly fhewn, that the Quakers are not Calvinists, &c. By Jofeph Phipps. 8vo. 1S. Richardfon and Urquhart. 1774 R. R. Mr. Phipps feems defirous of having the last word, and renews feveral confiderations which he had before offered: but it is time to drop the difpute. He and his brethren feem to have formed ideas about the light, the Spirit, the word, &c. but could they properly and clearly explain themselves, it would probably be found that the rational and confiftent, on each fide, mean nearly the fame thing. H. Art. 48. A reply to the Layman's Addrefs to the Baptifts: II. Dr. Gill's answer to the Rev. Mr. Addington, refpe&ting the Disturbance in Munster. II. The Doctrine of Baptism, &c. 8vo. 6d. Lewis, &c. 1774. Mr. Robert M'Gregor here tells his friends, the baptifts in and about Reading, that all who have wrote against the baptifts have only furnished arguments to confute themfelves. After fo notable a declaration, it will not be needful for us to take farther notice of his pamphlet: as to Dr. Gill's letter mentioned in the title page, it chiefly relates to the disturbances occafioned at Munfter. many years ago, by an extravagant fet of people, with which it would be as ungenerous, by way of reflection, to upbraid the prefent race of bap tifts, A tifts, as it is in good Dr. Gill to afk, who fupports the temple of paganifm, the pantheon, the abominable fcene at Cornely's, the coterie, masquerades, &c. &c. and to reply, the Pedo-baptifs. H. Art. 49. Chriftiani cultis: or the Ornaments of a Chriftian: being a Collection of Chriftian Virtues and Graces: also their oppofite Vices, &c. By Hugh Hopley. 12mo. I s. Lane, in Aldgate High-street. 1774. An arrangement of a great number of texts of fcripture, under various heads, which may be usefully confidered for the direction and improvement of life. H. Religion, with respect By Chriftopher Wyvill, The third Edition, Art. 50. Thoughts on the Articles of our to their fuppofed Utility to the State. L L. B. Rector of Black Notley, Effex. corrected. 8vo. I S. White, &c. The first edition of this valuable tract was published without the Author's name; and we now infert the title of this new impreffion, that our readers may know to whom they are obliged for fo meritorious a production. See Review, vol. xlv. p. 239. Art. 51. Logica Genevenfis continued; or, the Firft and Second Parts of the 5th Check to Antinomianifm: Containing an Anfwer to "The Finishing Stroke" of Richard Hill, Efq. By Mr. Fletcher. 12mo. 1 s. Hawes in Lamb Street, near Spital Square. Will thefe fpiritual gladiators never be weary of cutting and flashing each other, for the diverfion of the Public? Art. 52. Solitary Walks: To which are added, the Confolations of Religion in the Views of Death and Lofs of Friends; a Funeral Addrefs on the late Rev. Ed. Hitchin, B. D. With poetical Meditations. Written among the Tombs. bound. Otridge, &c. Profe and verfe; pious and Calvinistic. 1774. POLITICAL. I zmo. 2s. 6d. Art. 53. A Review of the prefent Administration. 8vo. Becket. 1774. I S. This pamphlet is intended to vindicate and extol the measures of the prefent miniftry. The treaty with Spain, the affair of the Eaft India company, and the measures taken with the American colonies, are the principal fubjects here confidered, and each of them have the writer's great applause. This declaimer appears capable of good compofition, but through hafte and negligence, as we fuppofe, his expreffions are often imperfect or inaccurate: an inftance of which the reader may fee in the following part of a long fentence, when speaking with relation to the East India company, it is faid, the honour of the English nation was loft in the rapacity of thofe invaders of the rights of mankind; whom the farther we look into their tranfactions, the more we shall be fhocked with crimes, that will make us fhrink with horror, till the repetition of them, which rife in as conftant fucceffion, as the morning fun, will make our feelings as callous as the hearts of the perpetrators, who lured with the glitter of wealth, loft all the feelings of humanity,' &c. &c. It would be a lofs of time to attend much farther to this writer's eflections, but we must take notice of one paffage among others, re lative lative to the American colonies. The colonists, fays he, would evade the authority of the legislature, by faying they would tax themselves; but the fincerity of that profeffion we have fufficiently experienced. We with to be informed whether our colonies have ever refused to raife money when it has been requested by government, by taxing themfelves: we have not yet learned any inftance of this kind, and therefore conclude the above reflection to be unjuft. Whatever reception this pamphlet may meet with from those who enter but little into the true nature of a subject, it is certain that plaufible declamation will have little weight with those who attend to fober and folid reasoning. MEDICA L. H. Art. 54. The Medical Mifcellany, or a Collection of Cafes, Tracts, and Commentaries, exhibiting a View of the Prefent State of Medical and Chirurgical Practice, and Literature in England. Second Edition. With an Appendix. By T. Tomlinfon. 8vo. Baldwin. 1774. The medical mifcellany firft appeared in detached numbers, and the Author propofed to complete a volume every year. This publication has however been dropt for fome time; and Mr. Tomlinfon does not intend to refume it, as it is an undertaking too comprehenfive to be carried on by a fingle perfon, and as it is in a great meafure fuperfeded, he fays, by the Edinburgh medical commentaries, which are conducted upon a fimilar plan. The Appendix to this fecond edition of the medical mifcellany, confifts chiefly of cafes of wounds and injuries of the head, published from Mr. Tomlinfon's notes, which were written while he was a pupil at St. George's Hospital. ASTROLOGY. D. Art. 55. Arcandam's Aftrology, or Book of Destiny: fhewing the Method of cafting every Perfon's nativity, &c &c. Tranflated from the French of J. Fr. Neveau, altronomer, many Years confined in the Baftile for foretelling the Death of the Dauphin of France, Father to the prefent King. 12mo. I s. Bew. 1774. Comes about a century too late. SERMONS. I. The established Mode of Subfcription vindicated-At the Archdeacon's II. Preached in the Chapel of the Hofpital for the Maintenance and The Appendix is fold feparately. Price is. IV. 4/6 board IV. Chriftian Fortitude. By Angus Bethune, A. M. 6d. Do naldfon. V. At Lambeth Chapel, at the Confecration of the Hon, and Rev. A CORRESPONDENCE.. A HINTER OF TRUTH charges us with having "forgot" a work, entitled, The Philofophy of the Paffions. Our very brief account of that work will be found in the Review for October, 1772, p. 326. The fame Writer queries whether Dr. G.'s "Effays," cenfured in the Review, be not the fame which received, from the fame Critic, a competent portion of praife, under the title of " the Bee," fome time before? If this Correfpondent will do us the favour of more particularly pointing out the "Effays" to which he alludes, with the numbers of the Review in which, they were mentioned, we will endeavour to give him a fatisfactory anfwer to his inquiry. As to fecond or fubfequent editions, our plan does not oblige us to notice them; yet they are fometimes mentioned, when they happen to fall in our way, and when the improvements are confiderable. We have not yet feen the fecond edition of the Dying Negro, to which our Correfpondent fays there are fome Additions, with a prefatory 'addrefs, &c. **We could not purchase a copy of The Bagatelle, the impreffion being called in. +++ A letter is received without any fignature; the Writer of which bestows on the Great and Excellent Dr. Samuel Clarke, the epithet of unhappy! Such prefumption would juftly deferve chaftifement, but that the Writer appears to be rather the object of pity than of refentment.-He feems, alfo, to be defirous of drawing us into a revival of the controverfy concerning the Godhead of Christ." As we hope to be more usefully employed, we would recommend him to George Williams, the learned Livery Servant, of Tewkesbury'; who is able to give him full fatisfaction on the fubject,-provided his mind be honeftly and fairly open to conviction. ** The subject of LITERARY PROPERTY will be taken up in our next Review; and an account will be given of the feveral publications relating to that important litigation:"from Sir James Burrow's tract, to Dr. Enfield's; including alfo Dr. Kenrick's Addrefs to the Artists, &c. The Peruvian Letters are left at Mr. Becket's. One of the volumes was imperfect. ERRATUM in our laft, viz. At the close of the account of Eunomus, p. 456, par. 6, 1. ult. for 'fingular nature,' read' fimilar.' brrata in our last Appendix, viz. P. 569. l. 17, for 26, 106, 450 tvises, read 25, 105. 450. Ibid. l. 24. The Same Correction, vis 105. |