THE

METHOD

QUARTERLY REVIE W.

1845.

EDITED BY GEORGE PECK, D. D.

VOLUME XXVII.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME V.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY G. LANE & C. B. TIPPETT,

FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

200 MULBERRY.STREET.

J. Collord, Printer.

1845.

LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

CONTENTS.

CONTENTS OF JANUARY NUMBER.

ART.

Page

I. Justification by Faith

5

II. Elements of Algebra

26

III. Kant and Kantism

43

IV. Neal's History of the Puritans

54

V. Policy of the Romish Church

63

VI. Protestantism in Great Britain

101

VII. No Church without a Bishop

120

VIII. Critical Notices

159

1. Miscellanies? consisting principally of Sermons and Essays; 2. A

Treatise on the Forces which produce the Organization of Plants; 3. The

Anatomy of the Human Body; 4. The Autobiography of Heinrich Stil-

ling; 5. A History of Greece: 6. A Grammar of the Greek Language ;

7. Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; 8. The Reformers

before the Reformation; 9. Theological Sketch-Book, or Skeletons of

Sermons; 10. The First Three Books of Homer's Diad; 11. Persecu-

tions of Popery; 12. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth; 13. Scenes,

Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean; 14. Demonstrations

of the Necessity of Abolishing a constrained Clerical Celibacy; 15. Sab-

bath School Books.

CONTENTS OF APRIL NUMBER.

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165

198

220

235

248

269

280

315

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I. Doctrines of the Resurrection of the Body

II. Scripture and Geology

III. Philosophy of Christian Morals

IV. Works of the Rev. Wm. Jay

V. Ciocci's Narrative

VI. Jarvis's History of the Church

VII. Elements of Logic

VIII. Critical Notices

1. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic ; 2. A

Practical Manual of Elocution; 3. The History of Rome; 4. History

of the Popes, their Church and State, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth

Centuries ; 5. Ranke's History of the Reformation; 6. The Works of

the Rev. Sidney Smith ; 7. Kidder's Sketches of Residence and Travels

in Brazil; 8. Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire under

Napoleon; 9. Cobb's School Books; 10. Upham's Principles of the

Interior or Hidden Life ; 11. Sunday School Publications.