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Letters to a young Lady, in which the duties and character of women are considered, chiefly with a reference to prevailing opinions. By Mrs. West, author of Letters to a Young Man. 1 vol. 8vo. $2,50 bound. Albany, Parker & Bliss.

The Miseries of Human Life, or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy; with a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy. In twelve dialogues. First American, from the 3d London edition. 12mo. pp. 220. Boston, Greenough, Stebbins & Hunt, & Belcher & Armstrong.

The Middlesex Collection of Musick; or, Ancient Psalmody Revived. Containing a variety of plain psalm tunes, the most suitable to be used in divine worship; to which is annexed, a number of other pieces of a more delicate and artificial construction proper to be performed by a choir of good musicians occasionally, in schools and religious assemblies. pp. 136. 75 cents. Boston, Manning & Loring,

The Columbian Orator, containing a variety of original and selected Pieces; together with Rules, calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence. By Caleb Bingham, A.M. author of the American Preceptor, Young Lady's Accidence, &c. 7th edition. 12mo. Boston, Manning & Loring, for the Author. Feb. 1807.

The Wonders of Creation, natural and artificial, containing an account of the most remarkable mountains, rivers, lakes, caves, cataracts, mineral springs, Indian mounds, and antiquities in the world. In 2 vols. 12mo. Boston, John M. Dunham.

Robert Frazier's Journal from St. Louis in Louisiana, to the Pacific Ocean, in one vol. 8vo.

An Introductory Address: a ser. mon; a charge and right hand of fellowship; delivered October 8, 1806, at the Ordinaion of Rev. David T. Kimball, over the first church and congregation in Ipswich. Newbury. port: M. Blunt. 1806.

Thomas Dobson, of Philadelphia, proposes to publish an elegant edition of the New Testament, with those very full marginal references, known by the name of Canne's Notes. To be printed on a superfine royal paper, with an elegant new type; and will be comprised in one large quarto vol. of about 700 pages; price to subscri bers $5. If this undertaking meet with suitable encouragement, proposals will be issued for printing the Old Testa ment in the same manner.

William Andrews of this town, Proposes to publish, by subscription, the works of William Paley, D. D. arch-deacon of Carlisle; with a Portrait of the author. Containing 1. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. II. a view of the eviden. ces of Christianity. III. Natural Theology, or the Evidences of the exis tence and attributes of the Deity, col. lected from the appearances of na. ture. IV. A Charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle. V. A Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge. VI. A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Durham. VII. Three Sermons on various occasions. VIII. Reasons for Content. ment. IX. Young Christian instructed. X. Hore Paulina; or the truth of the Scripture History of St. Paul evinced by a comparison of the Epistles, which bear his name, with the Acts of the Apostles, and with one another. XI. The Clergyman's Companion.-This work will be printed in 4 octavo volumes, of 500 pages each, on a superfine wove paper, and new type. The price to subscribers will be $2 per vol. in boards; $2,25 bound.

J. M. Dunham, of Boston, proposes to publish Sermons by Hugh Blair, D.D FR.S. late professor of rhetorick and belles lettres in the university of Edinburgh. In three volumes complete from the 25th London edition of 5 vols. To which will be prefixed the life of that venerable author. Price $6 neatly bound and lettered.

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them to his own house, and most tenderly supplied all their wants, until be was called by the providence of God to commit them to the dust. This son was early distinguished by a love of science, and a conviction of the truth and importance of the Christian doctrines, which was the occasion of his being selected by his acquaintance as a proper subject for a learned cdu cation.

He was admitted a student in Yale College, in the year 1738, and was graduated in the year 1742. Soon after this he became a preacher of the gospel, and was ordained pastor of the first Church of Christ in Canterbury in the year 1744.

In the year 1771, he was dismissed from this pastoral charge, and early in the following year installed pastor of the church in Scotland, a parish in the town of Windham, where he continued until December, 1804. While in this place he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, from Yale College. Being rendered incapable of public ministerial service, through the natu ral infirmities of age, it became necessary for his comfortable support, to remove him to the family of his son, Doctor Mason Fitch Cogswell, of this place. This was a comfortable re, treat to the venerable parent, and here the Lord hath repaid to him in kind, his filial piety to his own parents in their old age; here he hath been nourished with the most tender affec. tion, which may God reward, until his decease, January 2d, 1807, and had he survived until this day, which is the anniversary of his birth, he would have completed 87 years.

This servant of the Lord hath been a man of affliction, having buried three wives and four children, one child only surviving; and through all these scenes of sorrow, had grace given him, to honour the divine sov ereignty, and his own Christian and ministerial profession. He was an example to the church of Christ in tribulation as well as in joy.

While a member of college he was distinguished for sobriety, application, and especially for classical science, which he preserved through his whole life.

While he was in his collegiate life, there was a great revival of religion in the land, in which the colleg: shar

ed, whereby many were disposed to undertake the work of the ministry, who have since been burning and shining lights in our churches.

At this time, what was with him before a general conviction, of the truth and importance of Christianity, was changed into an experimental ac. quaintance with its power and comforts; which confirmed him in the purpose of devoting his life to the service of his Redeemer, in the ministry of the gospel. His natural temter was social and cheerful; he had a great command of his passions; his intellect was quick and clear; his imagination was lively and pleasant, yet chastened with the sobriety and seriousness of a Christian, and accompanied with the dignity becoming a minister of the gospel.

His natural disposition, together with his religious acquirements, ren, dered him a pleasing companion to all who reverence virtue; a beloved child of his parents; a kind husband, and a parent, whom his children could not fail to love and reverence.

He was a firm believer of the evangelical doctrines of the gospel, and as on these he built his own hope of a blessed immortality, so he inculcated on others the necessity of both believing and obeying them, that they might inherit eternal life. The faith on which he relied as divine and saving, was one that is accompanied by fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ, and productive of good works.

His preaching was, generally, plain and practical, addressed to the understanding and consciences of his hearers. The natural and Christian benevolence, which shone in his countenance, were admirably adapted to enforce the doctrines of divine love, and impress the minds of his hearers with the words of our Lord, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another, By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."

His private diary, which he kept for many years, gives abundant evidence, that in prosperity he was grateful to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, especially for the gift of an all sufficient Redeemer, and the

grace of God which he purchased on the cross; that in affliction he was still before the Lord, adoring the corrections of a Father's hand; that he was anxious to fill up his life with usefulness; and that in his extreme old age, he was enabled to adopt the

words of the apostle, "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day."

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Several valuable communications are on hand, and shall be seasonably introduced. A Biographical Sketch, promised this month, is unavoidably de ferred for a future Number.

ADDRESS OF THE EDITORS.

Ar the close of the second volume of the Panoplist, the Editors beg leave respectfully to address the Christian community. Nothing but a full persuasion of the increasing importance of this publication, and à humble, though animating hope of its increasing utility, could induce them again to solicit public patronage. Although there is no reason to doubt the promptitude of a large number to continue the encouragement they have already given the Panoplist, and no occasion, perhaps, for particular arguments to persuade others to co-operate with them, still it appears a service which the Editors owe to the community and to themselves, to unfold the considerations which elevate their hopes, and stimulate them to unremitting exertions.

The Editors derive their most powerful motive from the importance of the Christian cause. That cause involves the interests of truth and virtue, and all the spiritual concerns of mankind, besides having an inseparable connexion with their temporal enjoyments. That cause the word of God requires all men to defend and propagate. The Editors feel the obligation. And as divine Providence has, through the medium of the Panoplist, given them access to the pub. lic; they resolve, though at the expense of much time, labour, and personal convenience, to use that advantage for the Redeemer's glory, and the prosperity of his church. It was and is their fixed resolution to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. That the public might entertain no doubts concerning their views of that faith, they have explicitly avowed their firm adher

ence to what have been called the doctrines of the Reformation, or the doctrines of grace. These doctrines, which constituted the religious faith of our venerable forefathers, the Editors embrace, as the truths of God, and will endeavour to use the whole Christian armour in their defence. In this undertaking they hope for the countenance of Christians. If pub lications intended merely to refine, literary taste, to gratify curiosity, and to entertain a vacant hour, obtain support from men of the world; may not a publication, which aims to advance undefiled religion, and to qualify men for celestial enjoyment, expect the patronage of those, who seriously feel the importance of Christianity?

The Editors derive another motive from the alarming events, which are taking place, both in Europe and Amer ica. The enemies of our holy religion wish us to believe, that there is no danger. They cry, peace and safety, while they are coming in like a flood upon us, intending, from our security, to obtain the greater advantage against us. Are our apprehensions of danger groundless? What shall be said of that licentious spirit, which hates the purity, and casts off the restraints of the gospel, or of that proud philosophy, which will not bow to its mysteries? What shall be said of that bold, enterprizing spirit of impiety, which openly renounces moral and religious obligation, prostrates every venerable and sacred institution, and gives unbridled liberty to depraved passion? What shall be said of that boasted liberality, which denies the plain, obvious sense of Scripture, and instead of the divinę

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ny instances, been more deeply im pressed, than ever before, with the dangers of the times, and excited to the important duty of strengthening the things which remain, which are ready to die. The constantly increasing circulation of the Panoplist affords proof of its general acceptance. And the Editors cannot but be animated by the explicit, decided approbation of their most respectable correspondents in England and Scotland, as well as in America, and by the advice and solicitation of some, who are not only pillars of the church, but the boast of science, and ornaments to their country, that the Panoplist may be continued.

Two years ago, it was the full conviction of the Editors, that the circumstances of the times loudly called for such a publication. Nothing but that conviction could have induced them, in the midst of their other employments, to undertake such a laborious and arduous work. And nothing but a conviction that the same providential call is continued, could persuade them to proceed. To drop the publication in these circumstances would doubtless be pleasing to the enemies of truth; but it would be as painful to its friends. In short, all the considerations which influ. cnced the Editors at the beginning, and many new ones, arising from the progress and success of the work, from the promised aid of numerous correspondents, and from various other advantages they have secured, combine to warm their zeal, and prompt them to perseverance.

The Editors are not insensible of the delicacy, arduousness, and responsibility of their undertaking. But believing that the cause, in which they are engaged, is the cause of truth, and humbly depending on the assistance and blessing of God, they are unappalled by the greatest diffi culties.

Let the friends of the gospel remember that, by subscribing for the Panoplist, they have opportunity not only to entertain and profit themselves and their particular connexions, but to encourage a work, which is designed extensively to promote the glorious end, for which the Saviour lived, and suffered, and died.

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