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anguages at Babel, proving it to be miraculous, in opposition o Le Clerc; which was edited by the learned Bowyer the printer. Lond. 1730, 8vo.

WROE, CALEB, a dissenting minister at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, who died in 1728.-Four Letters to a Friend; by a Country Minister, Lond. 1725, 8vo.-Remarks on the various Interpretations of the more sure word of Prophecy. Ibid. 1726, 8vo.

To neither of these publications did Mr. Wroe attach his name. I have ascertained, however, that they were written by him. The letters contain among other things remarks on the Scripture sense of the word heresy, which, he justly observes, signifies the choice which men make of their party, opinion, and practice; and, therefore, heresies are good or bad according as men's choice is right or wrong." Wroe was the author of one or two sermons also, which contain judicious observations on the Scriptures.

WYNNE, RICHARD, a clergyman of the Church of England; born 1718; died 1799.-The New Testament carefully collated with the Greek; and corrected, divided, and pointed according to the various subjects treated by the inspired writers; and illustrated with notes. Lond. 1764, 2 vol. 8vo.

The chief value of this work is in the improved division of the contents of the New Testament; in which the author chiefly follows Bengelius. The translation is mostly Doddridge's, and so are many of the notes; and yet the author scarcely acknowledges the extent of his obligations to that excellent writer.

ZEGER, TACITUS NICHOLAS, a Minorite friar, and native of Flanders; died in 1559.-Scholia in Omnes Novi Testamenti Libros. Coloniae, 1553,

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8vo. They were reprinted at Cologne in 1555, along with his Restitutor Locorum Depravatorum Novi Testamenti.

He is one of the authors who appear in the Critici Sacri, and the Synopsis of Poole. He was a good Greek scholar, and a tolerable critic.

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CLARK, WILLIAM, a Scotsman of some poetical talents.—The Grand Tryal: or Poetical Exercitations upon the Book of Job. Edinb. 1685, fol.

This work contains no notes or exposition; but is, on the whole, a very respectably executed poetical version of Job. The common English translation is given on the margin; and the paraphrastic poetical version of it, which is exceedingly liberal, in the text. It is dedicated to the Earl of Perth, then Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

COCKBURN, PATRICK, Professor of the oriental languages at Paris, and afterwards at St. Andrews; and the first reformed minister of Haddington, where he died in 1559.—Oratio de Utilitate et Excellentia Verbi Dei. Paris. 1551, 8vo.-De Vulgari Sacrae Scripturae Phrasi, libri duo, etc. Ibid. 1552, 1558, 8vo.-In Dominicam Orationem Pia Meditatio, etc. Andreanop. 1555, 8vo.

These are among the scarcest works in Scotish literature: the only copies of them which I have seen are in the Advocates Library. His Oration is dedicated to Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and shows the progress of the author's mind towards the principles of the Reformation. His two books De Vulgari, etc. contain a dissertation on the sin against the Holy Ghost, and illustrations of some obscure passages. The second edition contains an appendix which is not in the first. The

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small work on the Lord's Prayer was printed at St. Andrews by John Scott, and shows the piety, as the others had shown the learning of Cockburn.

FERME, CHARLES, A. M. born and educated at Edinburgh, where he was elected a regent in 1589: he was afterwards minister of Fraserburgh, and died about 1620, under fifty years of age.-Analysis Logica in Epistolam Apostoli Pauli ad Romanos. Edinb. 1651, 12mo.

This is a small but very excellent work, in which the argument and meaning of the epistle are very accurately unfolded. The author was a pupil of Rollock, and ranked among his own disciples Calderwood, Scot, who became minister of Glasgow, and Craig who was professor of divinity at Saumur. The work has a preface by Principal Adamson, containing a short account of the author; but in which no mention is made of the year of his birth or death.

JOHNSON, JOHN, a nonjuring clergyman; born 1662; died 1725.-Holy David and his Old English Translators cleared, etc. Lond. 1706, 8vo.

This article the reader will find inserted under the title of DAVID, HOLY. The name of the author had somehow escaped me when the article was written. He appears to have been a respectable man, and was the author of several controversial works.

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