ists, and the Baptists, there are few instances of a dry formal ministry, though there remains much of it still among the Episcopalians.

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"I fear that there is among the Baptists a considerable portion of that Calvinism which knows not how to unite duty with sovereignty, obligation with privilege, watchfulness with perseverance, and the necessity of prayer with divine influence." Christian Communion. Mr. Ward then proceeds,"A Baptist church practising open, Christian Communion, I found not; and one or two ministers did not hesitate to avow, that they did not consider Pædobaptists as in the pale of the visible church!!! Is it not beyond all expression strange, my dear brother, that the people who still complain so loudly that the Baptists were imprisoned and flogged at Boston, should themselves act upon a sentiment so utterly contrary to Christian forbearance and charity."-Farewell Letters, p. 294.

Infidelity.

It is well known that Mr. Hume himself was never so much puzzled as when peremptorily asked by a lady at Bath, to declare upon his honour, as a gentleman, whether he would choose his own confidential domestics from such as held his own principles, or from those who conscientiously believed in the truths of revelation. He frankly decided in favour of the latter.

A Word to Students. "Rest not, for the Lord's sake, and for your own soul's sake, in the bare fruits of your own study; but seek to be taught of God, that you may at once grow in grace, and in the knowledge of God. Beware of curiosities and novelties in religion." Life of the pious Halyburton.

A Word to Preachers. "How often shall a plain sermon, (wherein the preacher aims not to be seen, but rather to show his Lord,) be blessed to the conversion, establishment and happiness of immortal souls; while pompous orations and laboured performances shall evaporate in sound, or produce no spiritual good; or, if they are remembered for a while, they

arc remembered not for God's glory, but for the praise of those dying creatures who made them. A poor employment this, to speak and write for the breath of worms, which is at first corrupt in itself, and soon vanishes into nothing."-Serle's Hora Solitaria, vol. ii. p. 431.

Learned Trifling.

Theophilus Raynaud was born in the county of Nice in Italy, and admitted into the society of the Jesuits at eighteen years of age, in 1602. He wrote a prodigious number of books, which have been printed in twenty volumes, folio. The titles of several of his books are very odd. He wrote a treatise concerning the Seven Anthems beginning with an O, that are sung before Christmas; and made Seven Discourses upon O, considered under these seven heads: 1. As a Letter of the Alphabet; 2. As a Noun; 3. As a Cipher; 4. As a Verb; 5. As an Adverb; 6. As an Interjection; 7. As a symbol of several things. He took great pains to adapt all these significations and symbols to Jesus Christ!

Another of his treatises is entitled, Calvinismus Bestiarum Religio; 'Calvinism is the religion of Beasts!' Memoirs of Literature, 2d edit. vol. 3. P. 30. A Jesuit who could make the letter O both a verb and adverb, was no doubt capable of making any thing of any subject.

What an admirable model this for allegorical expositors!

On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified.

"Christ crucified is the library which triumphant souls will be studying to all eternity. This is the true λaтpèlov yuxns, that which cures the soul of all its maladies and distempers. Other knowledge makes men's minds giddy and flatulent; this settles and composes them. Other knowledge is apt to swell men into high conceits and opinions of themselves; this leads to humility and sobriety. Other knowledge leaves men's hearts as it found them; this alters them and makes them better. So transcendent an excellency is there in the knowledge of Christ crucified, above the sublimest speculations in the world.”—Stillingfleet's Orig. Sacra.

On the Existence of God. "See here, I hold a Bible in my hand, and you see the cover, the leaves, the letters, and the words; but you do not see the writers, nor the printers, the letter-founder, the ink-maker, the paper-maker, nor the binder. You never did see them, you never will see them; and yet, there is not one of you, who will think of disputing or denying the being of these men. I go further; I affirm that you see the very souls of these men in seeing this book; and you feel yourselves obliged to allow that they had skill, contrivance, design, memory, fancy, reason, and so on. In the same manner, if you see a picture, you judge there was a painter. If you see a house, you judge there was a builder of it; and if you see one room contrived for this purpose and another for that, a door to enter, a window to admit light, a chimney to hold fire-you conclude that the builder was a person of skill and forecast, who formed the house with a view to the accommodation of its inhabitants. In this manner examine the world, and pity the man, who, when he sees the sign of the wheat-sheaf, hath sense enough to know that there is somewhere a joiner and a painter; but who, when he sees the wheat-sheaf itself, is so stupid as not to say to himself, This had a wise and good Creator!" R. Robinson's Vill. Disc. ii.

An Important Discovery. "Returning from the village of

Kenton," says a clergyman, "where I had been assisting the Sundayschool, and addressing the children, teachers, and parents, I passed a man, who very courteously accosted me; the compliment was returned, and I went on. Soon after, I heard a person behind me quickening his steps. I therefore walked a little slower, supposing that he might have something to communicate; he soon came up with me, and I found him to be the same individual whom I had recently passed. Upon entering into conversation, he observed, You have, Sir, been speaking on the necessity of parents setting their children good examples. I am sure it is of great consequence; for I can tell you that when I went to the ale-house on Sundays, my lads used always to go with me; and now, when I go to worship God, they go with me there also. Ah! Sir, (said he,) what pains are now taking to what there used to be when I was a lad! Do you know, Sir, I was thirty years of age before I knew I had a soul: and, Sir, I'll tell you how I knew it. One of our lads was out one Sunday to play, and he was brought home with one of his ankle bones out of joint. The next Sunday another of my boys got lamed, and so I determined to send them to a Sunday school, to be out of the way. I took them to the OrphanHouse Sunday-school, and it was there, Sir, that I learned that I had a soul." Sund. School Gleanings, p. 97.

'MR. DUNKLEY. FEB. 1823, died at Hounslow, in Middlesex, Mr. THOMAS DUNKLEY, in the 75th year of his age. Blessed with the privilege of a religious education, he early imbibed the principles of evangelical truth, by which his deportment was habitually governed. He was deprived of both his parents at a very early period; but the Lord raised him up a friend in his much-esteemed cousin, the late excellent Dr. Gibbons, who placed him at school, and at the usual time put him apprentice to a watchmaker in London. He generally

attended the ministry of that venerable divine, and occasionally at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, to hear the eminent servant of God, the Rev. George Whitfield. He commenced business in London; but through losses in trade, and many trying providences with which his heavenly Father saw fit to exercise him, he was induced to remove to the village of Hounslow. Being some miles distant from the means of grace, his soul longed to find an habitation for his God, and after gaining the consent of a gentleman at Hounslow to let them have a piece of ground,

Travels in New England and New York. By T. Dwight, S.T. D. LL. D. 4 vols. 8vo. 21. 2s. Baynes & Son. Ir is only when Voyages and Travels have a particular reference to the state of Religion in the world, or are written with a view to its promotion, that they fall within the department of our Review; and even then, so circumscribed are our limits, that we can do little more

than mention the author and his design.

Dr. D. is so well known to our readers by his excellent "System of Theology," (see vol. xxix. O. S. p. 68.) that they will be prepared to expect a particular attention to the religious condition of the States through which he travelled, as well as a judicious mixture of serious remarks throughout the whole. These tours employed the vacations of Yale College in 1796, 1805, and at other times when the sedentary nature of his employment, as President and Theological Professor, made relaxation and exercise absolutely necessary to his health;

and the issue will contribute not a little to the edification as well as amusement of his readers in both Continents. Dr. Dwight has been particularly attentive to the eminent characters which the United States have produced in every walk of life, of whom he has presented us with a variety of anecdotes. He has also inserted accounts of the principal Sects in the United States, and of the native Indian tribes, some of which are indeed extremely interesting; and the whole is well adapted to enlarge and improve the minds of attentive readers. But there is nothing, perhaps, that will more interest the feelings of our pious readers, who watch "the signs of the times," than the following observations in the concluding pages.

66 Religion is plainly extending its influence over these States, although much less rapidly than every good man must wish; and, wherever it prevails, softens and humanizes both the heart and behaviour. That it will hereafter increase with wonderful celerity, and that at no great distance of time, is the general belief of Christians. That it will first shed its happy influence on the nations where it already exists, may be regarded as a thing of course; and here certainly as probably as in any other country. Should this expectation be realized, both

the manners and the morals of the Americans, as a people, will be raised to a higher degree in the scale of intellectual existence than the world has hitherto witnessed.

"As a consequence of this consuminhabitants of these States may be fairly mation so devoutly to be wished,' the expected to unite their efforts with those of their brethren on the eastern side of Christianity through the world. Already the Atlantic, in spreading the blessings of they are extensively and deeply engaged in sending the gospel and faithful ministers to preach it, into the regions of darkness and the shadow of death.' The spirit with which this is done, and the exertions to which it gives birth, are, as you have seen, rapidly increasing. It is difficult to assign limits to their future progress or their future efficacy. When we consider the number of those who, within a few years, will in all probability unite to accomplish this glorious object; when we remember that the efforts made

hitherto have only invigorated the disposition to make more and greater efforts, there will be nothing romantic in believing that colleges here may regularly send out their quotas of missionaries; or that ships, extensively freighted with Bibles, and good will over every ocean, and to may convey these messengers of peace every benighted corner of the globe.” Remarks on Female Education;

adapted particularly to the Regulation of Schools. 12mo. 5s. 6d. Holdsworth. WHOEVER will give himself the trouble of a careful and faithful examination of the state of society, will be insensibly led to reflect on the indescribable importance of an appropriate and serious education, in order to form, to elevate, to dignify the female character. And perhaps much more attention is desirable in the proper education of females in the middle classes of society than most persons are aware. It is a talent that we seldom see "laid up in a napkin." While it confers distinction on the possessor, it usually bestows numerous and important benefits on society.

This fair author, aware that most of the writers on female education have adapted their instructions for domestic tuition, wisely, as we think, for the reasons just stated, directs her attention to

"the mode of tuition, the general regulations, and the moral discipline of Ladies' Schools." The work containsIntroductory Remarks Religious Instruction-Moral Discipline - General Instruction - Health and RecreationDomestic Arrangements - Intercourse with Parents-Teachers in Schools--Private Governesses, and conclusion.

We suppose that the author is in the profession herself. The Introduction, and one or two other chapters, seem rather tedious, and not so pointed and decisive in the tone of sentiment as might be wished; yet we think that to young Governesses and Teachers, who anxious to know and perform their duty conscientiously, the work may become exceedingly useful for reference and good counsel.

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The Oracles of God, Four Orations. For Judment to Come, an Argument in Nine Parts. By the Rev. E. Irving, M.A. (concluded from our last, p. 421.) WE now, according to promise, attend Mr. Irving, to examine very briefly the Second Part of his work; and here he has judiciously chosen that subject, which of all others was best adapted to his gigantic powers, and on which there was no danger of his using language too strong or too pointed; and while he grasps the mighty theme, and "reasons of Judgment to Come," we hope that his argument and his eloquence will not be employed in vain; but make many a Felix tremble in his infidelity.

This Argument is divided into Nine Parts, as follows:

"Part I. The Plan of the Argument; with an Inquiry into Responsibility in general, and God's Right to place the World under Responsibility.-II. and III. The Constitution under which it hath pleased God to place the World.IV. The good Effects of the above Constitution, both upon the Individual and upon Political Society.-V. Preliminaries of the solemn Judgment.-VI. The last Judgment.-VII. The Issues of the Judgment. -VIII. The only way to escape Condemnation and Wrath to come.IX. The Review of the whole Argument, with an endeavour to bring it home to the sons of men."

The following passage is very forcible, and at the same time touches upon some points of peculiar importance, but not usually treated in the pulpit, on a presumption that persons guilty of such conduct, seldom visit places of worship; they may, however, have strayed into the Caledonian Church, and we

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should be happy to hear that they have been pierced to the heart with it.

"There be those who confound the foresight of death with a fearfulness of death, and talk of meeting death like brave men; and there be institutions in human society which seem made on purpose to hinder the thoughts of death from coming timeously before the deliberation of the mind. And they who die in war, be they ever so dissipated, abandoned and wretched, have oft a halo of everlasting glory arrayed by poetry and music around their heads; and the forlorn hope of any enterprise goeth to their terrible post amidst the applauding shouts of all their comrades. And to die game,' is a brutal form of speech which they are now proud to apply to men. And our prize-fights, where they go plunging upon the edge of eternity, and often plunge through, are applauded by tens of thousands, just in proportion as the bull-dog quality of the human creature carries it over every other. And to run hair-breadth escapes, to graze the grass that skirts the grave, and escape the yawning pit, the impious, daring wretches call cheating the devil; and the watch-word of your dissolute, debauched people is, A short life and a merry one.' All which tribes of reckless, godless people lift loud the laugh against the saints, as a sickly timorous crew, who have no upright-gait in life, but are always cringing under apprehensions of death and the devil. And these bravos think they play the man in spurning God and his concerns away from their places; that there would be no chivalry, nor gallantry, nor battlebrunt in the temper of man, were he to stand in awe of the sequel which followeth death. And thus the devil hath built up a strong embattled tower, from which he lordeth it over the spirits of many men, winning them over to himself, playing them off for his sport, in utter darkness all their life long, till in the end they take a leap in the dark, and plunge into his yawning pit, never, never to rise again. P. 526.

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Even in this solemn warning there are some expressions which accords not with the general design, and in the next paragraph, for which we have not room, others far more exceptionable. Indeed, Mr. Irving, as himself confesses, bas (should we not say affects?)" an unwonted costume of language, and a very ungainly style of sentiment." He is

evidently an admirer of Milton's prose style, and we unite with him so far as respects its strength and point; but why copy also his quaintnesses and vulga¬

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