ner, indeed, is not animated, but his difcourfes are replete with judicious and ufeful obfervations, expreffed in plain, perfpicuous, and, fometimes, elegant language; and his views of religion are equally pious and rational,

The fubjects are-The Importance of Religion to the Virtue and Happiness of private Life, and the Welfare of Society-The Importance of believing in the Lord Jefus Chrift-The Fall of our first ParentsThe Deceitfulness of Sin-The Nature of Uprightness, and the Character of the upright Man-The Conduct of Nathan and David -The Characters of Jonah, Herod the Tetrarch, Judas Iscariot, and Pontius Pilate-The Scripture Doctrine of Regeneration-The one Thing needful-Public Worship-The Difpofition and Conduct of our bleffed Saviour at the Grave of Lazarus-The Temper and Conduct of the Bereans, or the Duty of fearching the Scriptures-Religious Education-the Character and Obligations of a Minister of the Gospel.

Art. 39. A short and eafy Method of Prayer. Tranflated from the French of Madam J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion, by Thomas Digby Brooke. 12mo. I S. Wallis and Stonehouse. 1775. Having never had the happiness to be admitted into the holy fociety of Myftics, we are fuch entire ftrangers both to their ideas and language, that we are obliged to confefs ourselves altogether incapable of forming a judgment concerning the merit of their productions. Those who are bleffed with the neceffary light and unction, may perhaps find much beauty and fweetnefs in the works of Madam Guion: but the unilluminated, not having the fenfes neceffary to understand and relish them, may be allowed to expofe their ignorance by afking the initiated the meaning of fuch expreffions as thefe: "hat impurity which is oppofite to the divine union, confifts in propriety and activity"-" God being an infinite ftillness, the foul in order to be united to him muft participate of that stillness." Art. 40. A familiar and practical Improvement of the Church Ca. techism, designed to render the Work of catechifing more easy and profitable, &c. &c. By the Rev. T. Haweis, LL. B. Rector of Aldwinkle, and Chaplain to the Earl of Peterborough. 12mo. 2 s. Dilly.

Mr. Haweis, whofe theological ftrain is well known, especially among the Methodists, &c. tells us, that the manner of catechifing here propofed (for the affiftance of minifters, fchool-mafters, parents, &c.) is recommended by near twenty years experience of its usefulnefs; and on this account, he submits it to the confideration of those who wish to be ferviceable to the rifing generation. Art. 41. An Explanation of the Lord's Prayer, and of the Creed, for the Ufe of Children. 12mo. 6 d. Brotherton. A ferious little performance, well calculated for the benefit of the young and ignorant.

SERMONS.

I. The Providence of God manifefted in the Rife and Fall of Empiresat St. Mary's, Oxford, at the Affizes, July 27, 1775. By George Horne, D. D. Prefident of Magdalen College. 8vo. 6d. Rivington.

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The inftrumentality of human powers in promoting the great and general purposes of Providence, is a noble and rational object of contemplation. But when those purpofes are limited to the care and intereft of fome particular church, whether it begins in an ark, or is cultivated on an hill, how is the idea diminished, and how unworthy does it grow of the Parent of univerfal Being!

II A Vindication of the Freedom of paftoral Advice, or a Review of the indifpenfable Obligations which the Minifters of the Gospel are un der, plainly to declare the Truth to their Hearers-Preached in the Parish Church of Nantwich, Sept. 10, 1775. By John Smith, A. B. Rector of the faid Parish. 4to. 6 d. Crowder.

There was an old watchman in the parish of St. Luke, who, to make a merit of his vigilance with the inhabitants, was continually crying FIRE. The people, as often, thrust their heads out of the windows, crying, suhere, where? But their nightly guard not being able to make it out, they were tired of his importunity, and inftead of rewarding, chaftifed him. Whether this was the cafe with the Auther of the above difcourfe, he is beft able to fay; but from his talking, like the watchman abovementioned, of everlasting burnings, and of burning everlastingly,' and from his text to this addrefs, Am I therefore become your enemy, &c. we fhrewdly fufpect that the cafe has been much the fame.

III. The Law of Liberty-At the Opening of the Provincial Congress of Georgia. By John J. Zubly, D. D. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. Almon. Warm for the Congrefs; but fenfible. Dr. Zubly is a man of ability, and a good writer: witnefs, alfo, his rational and pathetic addrefs to Lord Dartmouth, prefixed to this difcourfe.

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IV. The Morality of a Citizen, a Vifitation Sermon ; with a View to the prefent alarming Situation of public Affairs. 4to. Kearfly.

Were we to give a ferious account of this difcourfe, which we fuppofe was never delivered from a pulpit, nor perhaps written by a clergyman, we should say, that it is a compofition of argument and folly, judgment and humour, truth and falfehood. Whoever fhould regard it as a guide to his principles and conduct would be woefully milled from the paths of liberty, of honour; and, we may add, of common honefty. But poffibly the Author may intend nothing farther than to expose, and laugh at, our weakness and errors, or to offer fome apology for those who have the principal direction of public affairs, by infinuating that in our prefent circumftances it is impoffible for them to act otherwise than they do. The morality of a citizen, as far as we can infer from this pamphlet, is, to comport with the times, and model his confcience and principles according to changes and circumstances, as fhall be moft fubfervient to his intereft.

The American difpute is the Author's great object. He strongly recommends unanimity among ourselves, in the profecution of this unhappy civil war. The Americans, fays he, pleading for their conftitutions and the rights arifing from them; and the Americans in arms, are very different objects. Virtuous as the Americans may

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be, there are men among them, who will go any lengths; and the fafety, and the very being of this country, may be more in danger by this war than may be imagined. Who would have thought when Hannibal fet fail for Spain, that he would foon be in Italy fhaking the Roman empire at its very bafe? And who will fay, there may not be an Hannibal in America? What I mean by this is not to deprefs my fellow-fubjects, but to unite them. Opinions, and projects, and cabals, in the true fpirit of Roman patriotism, fhould now be wholly laid afide, and when the honour and existence of our country is at ftake, let it not be our whole business to inquire how it became fo. War fhould be avoided, by every poffible precaution; but when once entered on, honour, fecurity, and the very being of a state may require that fome of the principal ends of it fhould be obtained.' This puts us in mind of an argument concerning American affairs afcribed to a great state lawyer: the rectitude of the caufe is not now to be inquired after: we are actually engaged in war: the fole queftion therefore is, How we shall moft effectually profecute it? We should have thought a different conclufion more upright and na tural: if we are engaged in an impolitic or unjust war, let us retract: let us acknowledge our error, and endeavour as speedily and honourably as we can to prevent future evils. This Writer concludes by adding, that he should rejoice to fee arms thrown afide, and contending parties embrace as brethren. The firft ftep, fays he, towards an accommodation, would be to facrifice incendiaries on both fides. Let them be felected and banished altogether to Terra del Fuego, or to New Zealand." To this propofition, if there are such incendiaries, we have no kind of objection.

V. On the Death of Ann Olding-at Deptford, Dec. 17, 1775With Additions, Anecdotes, &c. By John Olding. 6d. Simmons and Vallance.

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CORRESPONDENCE..

HE Gentleman who has favoured the Editor with a very fen・・ fible letter, in Vindication of the M-r-ns, may be affured that we are fincerely glad of any reformation in the forms of reli gious worship, obferved by the people of that perfuafion.-We hould ftill farther rejoice to hear that they have disavowed the offenfive tenets of their founder, and difmiffed all fenfual language from their devotions: we fhall then heartily with them fuccefs, in common with every other denomination of pious and rational Christians.

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ART. I. Travels in Afia Minor; or, An Account of a Tour made at the Expence of the Society of Dilettanti. By Richard Chandler, D. D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries. 4to. 15 s. Boards. Dodley, &c. 1775.

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E have already acquainted our Readers with the nature and occafion of Dr. Chandler's Travels into Greece and Afia Minor. Two different publications, on this fubject, have preceded the prefent volume, and another is to follow it. Of the Ionian Antiquities, an account was given in the Review for May, 1770; and the Infcriptiones Antiqua were the fubject of an Article in our Number for March, 1775. The volume intended to fucceed the prefent work, will contain the Travels into Greece.

That our Readers may the more clearly comprehend the defign of the worthy and laudable Society, in the inftitution of this Eaftern Tour, we fhall tranfcribe the principal articles of inftruction given to Dr. Chandler, and his ingenious companions, for their direction and government in the voyage and journey. These inftructions were drawn up by the late celebrated Mr. Wood, Author of the Ruins of Palmyra, &c. one of the Society; and who, as we are informed, was the principal promoter of the undertaking.

INSTRUCTIONS for Mr. Chandler, Mr. Revett, and Mr. Pars. "Whereas the fociety of Dilettanti have resolved, that a perfon or perfons, properly qualified, be fent with fufficient appointments to fome parts of the Eaft, in order to collect informations, and to make obfervations, relative to the ancient ftate of thofe countries, and to fuch monuments of antiquity as are ftill remaining; and the fociety having further refolved, that a fum, not exceeding two thoufand pounds, be appropriated to that purpofe, and having alfo appointed you to execute their orders on this head; we, the committee entrusted by the fociety with the care and management of this fcheme, have Rev. Vol. LIV. agreed

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agreed upon the following inftructions for your direction in the dif charge of that duty to which you are appointed.

"Our principal object at prefent is, that, fixing upon Smyrna, as your head-quarters, you do from thence make excurfions to the feveral remains of antiquity in that neighbourhood, at fuch different times, and in fuch manner, as you fhall, from the information collected on the fpot, judge most fafe and convenient, and that you do procure the exacteft plans and meafures poffible of the buildings you hall find, making accurate drawings of the bafs-reliefs and ornaments, and taking fuch views as you fhall judge proper; copying all the infcriptions you fhail meet with, and remarking every circumftance which can contribute towards giving the best idea of the ancient and prefent ftate of thofe places.

"As various circumstances, beft learnt upon the spot, muft decide the order in which you shall proceed in the execution of the foregoing article, we fhall not confine you in that refpect, and fhall only obferve in general, that, by a judicious diftribution of your time and bufinefs, you may, with proper diligence, in about twelve months, vifit every place worth your notice, within eight or ten days journey of Smyrna; it may be most adviseable to begin with fuch objects as are lefs diftant from that city, and which may give you an opportunity of foon tranfmitting to the fociety a fpecimen of your labours. You will be exact in marking distances, and the direction in which you travel, by frequently obferving your watches and pocket compaffes, and you will take the variation as often as you can.

"Though the principal view of the fociety, in this scheme, is pointed at fuch difcoveries and obfervations as you shall be able to make with regard to the ancient ftate of thofe countries, yet it is by no means intended to confine you to that province; on the contrary, it is expected, that you do report to us, for the information of the fociety, whatever can fall within the notice of curious and obferving travellers; and, in order to ascertain more fully our meaning on this head, we do hereby direct, that from the day of your departure from hence, to that of your return, you do, each of you, keep a very minute journal of every day's occurrences and obfervations, reprefenting things exactly in the light they ftrike you, in the plainest manner, and without any regard to ftyle or language, except that of being intelligible; and, that you do deliver the fame, with whatever drawings you fhall have made (which are to be confidered as the property of the fociety) to Mr. Hayes †, to be by him tranfmitted, as often as conveyances fhall offer, to us, under cover to William Ruffell, Efq; fecretary to the Levant Company, and you shall receive from us, through the fame channel, fuch further orders as we fhall judge neceffary. ›

In general, we fuppofe, thefe inftructions were properly obferved, by our travellers; but, in one refpect, we do not find, in the book before us, that they have been ftrictly followed. The gentlemen, we fee, were enjoined to take the variation,' as oft as opportunities might allow but this injunction does not appear to have been duly complied with, in these travels.

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