Does not yon crimfon-tinted rose, When brightly gem'd with morning dew ? Dreft in more pleasing charms appear, DIVINITY AND RELIGIOUS. The Revolution the Work of God, and a Cause of Joy. Two Sermons delivered in Brifto-Street Meeting-Houfe, Nov. 5th. 1788. By James Pedaie. 8vo. 15. Duncan, Glafgow.. Our author feems to be a minister of the Seceders, a fect of Diffenters from the church of Scotland, who are generally of the Calvinistic perfuafion. His fermons are rather loyal than elegant; rather political and religious than correct or very pleafing performances. The Rife, Progress, and Effects of Sunday Schools confidered in a Sermon, preached at Taunton, March 28, 1789. By Joshua Toulmin. M. A. 8vo. 1s. Johnson. Mr. Toulmin confiders this improvement, which arose from finall beginnings, as likely to produce the most important confequences, and his text is taken from the xviiith chapter of the first book of Kings, where the rain, after the great drought, in the time of Ahab, was brought on by a cloud, at firft no larger than a man's hand. He introduces the fubject by a view of fome great events, from an origin almost equally in appearance unimportant; and of the concurrence of all ranks and all parties in an inftitution, where no particular tenet of religion is inculcated; he hopes that a more perfect union of fentiment, or at least of the most extenfive liberality and charity, may be the confequence. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Madron, in the County of Cornwall, on the 23d of April, 1789, being the Day ap pointed for a General Thanksgiving for the Recovery of the King from Illness. By W. Tremenbeere, A. B. 4to. 15. Wilkie. This Sermon is very fhort and very loyal: it is written in cafy flowing language, though often a little too flowery and poetical. Sermons for Children; being a Courfe of fifty-two, on Subjects fuited to their tender Age, and in a Style adapted to the Underftanding of the rifing Generation. By the Rev. Mark Anthony Meilan, In three Volumes. 12mo. 9s. Printed for the Author. The language of thefe difcourfes defigned for children is inelegant, intricate, and embarraffed. The fentiments are very feldom beautiful or ftriking. The author, in one of his fermons, avows himself indebted to God's providence for gifts not lavished upon every one, for strength of understanding, and a difpofition fuited to employ it.' It is kind to inform us of this, as we certainly should not otherwife have been able to make the difcovery. Jure Divino; or, the True Grounds and Reafons for the fupport of the Chriftian Miniftry. Occafioned by the prefent contefted Election at the Afylum. 4to. 15. 6d. Johnfon. Our author states with great propriety what it is to preach the Gospel, by showing what the gospel of Chrift is, and the neceffity of understanding its nature, defign, and tendency, to carry that conviction to the mind of the hearer which the importance of the fubje&t demands: his conclufion is, that those who preach the gospel fhould live by the gospel.' This pamphlet is faid to have been occafioned by the prefent contested election at the Asylum; but we find nothing of this subject, and what relates to the conclusion confifts only of fome few vague and indecifive hints on the Utopian fcheme of equalifing livings, a measure devoutly to be wifhed for, but as imaginary as a milennium, or one vast republic. A Letter on the Sonship of Chrift, originally addreffed to fome of the Members of the Baptift Church at Edinburgh. By A. M'Lean. 12mo. IS. Buckland. This letter was originally addressed by the author to some of the members of the Baptist Church at Edinburgh, among whom it feems the fubject had created a little confufion. Mr. McLean profeffes himself a firm Trinitarian, and urges that the relations expreffed by the names of Father and Son in fcripture, are not intended to teach the manner and order of their eternal fubfiftence in the Godhead. He produces many arguments to prove, that the title of Son of God applied to Chrift merely as relative to his appearance in human nature. The greater part of the pamphlet, however, is allotted to an examination of the defence of the contrary opinion, by Dr. Robert Walker. Mr. M'Lean writes like a man of difcernment, and feems to have greatly the advantage in the controversy. An Epiftolary Addrefs to the rev. Dr. Priefley; containing an Apology for those who confcientiously fubfribe to the Articles of the Church of England. By the rev. J. Hawkins. 8vo. 1s. 6d. White and Son. This Addrefs contains an apology for those who confcientiously fubfcribe to the articles of the church of England, and in particular to the doctrines of the Trinity, &c. The author, who is the rev. Mr. John Hawkins, remonstrates with Dr. Priestley on the cenfures which the latter has caft on the clergy and the doctrines of the church of England, and undertakes to prove, that the doctrines of the Trinity and the divinity of Jefus Chrift involve no contradiction or absurdity. We have only to add, that that he writes with much good fenfe, and discovers great moderation of candour." Effufions of the Heart: or, Heavenly Meditations and Devotional Exercifes. By Sophronia. 8vo. 15. fewed. Dilly. In pain, anxiety, and affliction, the reflecting mind can only find confolation in religion, in looking to that higher fphere, where the wicked ceafe from troubling, and forrow is heard no more. In these moments, when the heart is foftened, and the mind debilitated, religion will often rife to enthufiafm, and the language fwell into bombaft. Our afflicted author is more rational than many of those whofe meditations have been publifhed: fhe displays true piety, acute fenfibility, and a rational refignation. A few wor's only, and one or two images occafionally, debafe the fubject; but, on the whole, the deferves no little commendation. An Exhortation to all Chriflian People, to refrain from Trinitarian Worship. 8vo. 4d. Johnson. Our author contrafts the different doxologies and prayers of the church of England, and other Trinitarians, with the language of the holy feriptures, and points out what appears to him a fingular and ftriking oppofition. He then exhorts his readers to avoid the Trinitarian worthip from various confiderations, and answers the objections which may be made against their feceffion. The Exhortation is plain and animated; but the reprefentations are not always fair, or the conclufions juft. A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Chrift, confidered in a practical View: humbly recommended to the Attention of the Serious. By Jofeph Cornish. 8vo. 15. Robinfons. While Diffenters of every denomination are faid to be migrating to the pale of Socinianifin, faid very aptly by our author's friend, to be the frigid zone of religion, yet Mr. Cornish stands firm and unmoved. His Vindication is a plain, judicious, and generally accurate view of the best arguments which have been adduced to prove the pre-existence of Chrift; among these we perceive fome which appear to us to be new, or at least enforced in an unusually perfuafive ftyle. MEDICAL. A Tale of Truth. Addressed to Arthritics: containing a fecure, cheap, and certain Remedy for the Gout. 8o. 6d. Kearsley. The remedy is opium, given after the first violence of the pain, and its aftringent effects are prevented by tincture of rhubarb. Bu, really, has not the author read Dr. Warner's work, or any medical treatife on the fubject of gout? Opium is frequently recommended. Though we live by the practice of phyfic, and do not greatly love empiricifm, we have fuch a regard for the author, for his truly benevolent and difinterested attempt, attempt, that we will tell him, his cafe is not a fair one: his gout is complicated with rheumatifm; and if he takes Dovar's powder (the pulv. ipecacuanha compofitus of the last Difpentory) it will fucceed better." The Hiftory and Chemical Analyfis of the Mineral Water lately dif covered in the City of Gloucefter; the various Difeafes to which it is applicable confidered; and the neceffary Regulations for. drinking it with Succefs afcertained and prefcribed. By John Hemming, M. D. 8vo. 1. Hookham. Cur author gives a very laboured account of this mineral water, which contains in each gallon of fixed air feventy-two ounce measures; calcareous earth, combined with the fame acid, thirty grains; aerated magnefia twenty-four grains; aerated iron, eight grains; and Epfom falt, thirty grains. It appears to be unequal in its ftrength at different times; and, at beft, its impregnations are so flight that no material advantage can be derived from them, except perhaps from the iron. There are probably ten thousand fimilar fpings in England of at least equal frength, and many of fuperior powers. NOVEL S. The Hermit of Snowden; or, Memoirs of Albert and Lavinia, taken from a faithful Copy of the original Manufcript, which was found in the Hermitage, by the late Rev. Dr. L. and Mr. in the Year 17**. dvo. 35. Walter. Without pretending to examine the authenticity of the manufcript, or to develope the inconfiftencies of a tale fo trite as the discovery of a hermitage and the papers containing the story, 、 we can fafely fay that the tale is written by no common author; is pleafing, and may be useful. It teaches the falutary leffon of guarding against mean fufpicion and unreasonable jealoufy; the danger of protracting the happinefs within reach, left the unaffected love of a delicate female fhould be the ill-disguised dictates of interest or ambition. Read it, ye fons of fashion or of fortune, and change your conduct: be happy, if your hearts, depraved by vanity and diffipation, will permit! Elenora, a Novel, in a Series of Letters, written by a Female Inhabitant of Leeds in Yorkshire. 2 Vols. 12mo. 65. Walter. An accident prevented Eleonora from reaching us fo foon as we expected, and to that circumftance alone must be attributed our delay. It is, on the, whole, a work highly creditable, to the good fenfe and the benevolence of the author. The flory is not perplexed by an artificial plot unravelled with skill; but an artlefs tale, told in an eafy pleating, ftyle, enlivened by the occafional introduction of humorous perfonages and ughable events, and rendered inftructive by the excellent morality which pervades every page of these volumes. We heartily with the author, in her future attempts, the fuccefs which the fo well deferves. The The Innocent Fugitive; or, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. By the Author of the Platonic Guardian. 2 Pols. 12mo. 55. Hookham. We reviewed The Platonic Guardian in our LXIVth volume, P. 392, and we there traced the fair author in the footsteps of Mits Burney. The character of Bennet is drawn and coloured from the fame original, and fome lefs important and striking imitations of that celebrated novellift may be difcerned. The prefent ftory, and particularly the hinge on which it turns, is in fome degree improbable; but it is pleating, and often interefting. The characters are neither pointed, nor difcriminated with much addrefs. 1 Hartley Houfe, Calcutta. 3 Volumes. 12mo. 75. 6d. Dodfley. We have been much pleafed with thefe volumes; for, in the guife of a novel, they will convey much information. They contain a pleafing, and, we think, an accurate defcription of Bengal and its capital, Calcutta. MISCELLANEOUS. Obfervations on the Herring Fisheries upon the North and Eaft Coafts of Scotland, &c. By Lewis M'Culloch. 8vo. Is. 6d. Richardfon. Thefe Obfervations are clear, plain, and apparently honest. They are highly creditable to the author's good fenfe and prac tical knowledge of his bufinefs, and deserve the attention of those who are engaged in the fisheries. A Letter to the Author of a Letter to the Bishops, on the Applica cation of the Diffenters for a Repeal of the Corporation and Teft Acts. By W. A. 8vo. 6d. Printed for the Author. The manly language of the author of a Letter to the Bishops refpecting the Repeal of the Teft Act, is parodied in this little pamphlet, and applied to the opponents of baptism by immer fion. Exercifes in Latin Compofition. By the rev. J. Adams. 12mo. 15. 6d. Law. This fchool-book is intended as a fequel to Exempla Minora, Bailey's Exercifes, &c. or to be used alternately with them. The first part contains eafy English leffons, with the Latin words to be rendered by the fcholar into their proper cafes, mcods, genders, &c. The fecond, Englif leffons without the Latin words, that the learner may, by confulting his dice tionary, choose for himself. The author entertains a high opinion of the utility of his manual, and we agree with him that under proper direction it may prove ferviceable. |
