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A Sermon at the Ordination of the rev. Sir Harry Trelawny, Ban ronet, and A. B. By Edward Afhburner, A. M. Together with an Introductory Di,courfe, and Questions, propofed by William Kingbury, A. M. Sir Harry Trelawny's Anfwers and Confifion of Faith. And the Exhortation to him, by John Crifp. Vallance and Simmonds.

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These theological pieces are written in the old Prefbyterian Brain. Sir Harry Trelawny was educated in the church of England; but chofe to exercife his miniftry among proteftant diffenters; because, as he informs us, he could not confcientiously feek for orders, or continue in communion with any church upon earth, which acknowledges any other head and lawgiver in fpiritual matters, than Jefus Chrift.'

It is a pity, that this young divine delivered a confeffion of his faith, on this occafion; for we cannot but confider fuch a confeffion as a human formulary, which he is either obliged, or not obliged, to obferve, during his miniftry, If he is obliged to obferve it, he may find, perhaps, upon deeper fludy, that fome of his prefent notions are erroneous; and therefore his confeffion may be as great an incumbrance on his confcience as the xxxix. Articles. But if he is not obliged to obferve it, it is, to all intents and purpofes, as nugatory as the scheme of fubfcribing to the Articles in different fenfes.

CONTROVERSY. Objections to Mr. Lindley's Interpretation of the first Fourteen Verfes of St. John's Goffel, as fet forth in the Sequel to his Apology; with fome Strictures on his Explication of St. Paul's Text, Phil. ii. 5, 6, &c. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Johnson.

This writer endeavours to prove, that the introductory verfes of St. John's gofpel, and St. Paul's text, Phil. ii. 5, 6, are pofitive teftimonies of the pre-existence of Jefus Chrift.

In the poftfcript to this tract, the author makes fome obseryations on the worship of Jefus Chrift, the tendency of which is to fhew, that he is intitled to fuch worship as is fuited to his dignity and merit, to the benefits he has bestowed, and still has to bestow, to the derived nature and delegated powers which he holds from God.

It is no more extraordinary, he thinks, that Stephen should fay, Lord Jefus, receive my fpirit,' than that the difciples endangered by a form, when they had yet no true conception of his real dignity, fhould fay, Lord fave us, we perish.'

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The author concludes with fome excellent remarks on the abfurdities, attending the doctrines of an infinite fatisfaction, and a vicarious punishment; from which we fhall only extract the following unanswerable questions.

Granting for a moment that there are three perfons of one and the fame Being, he afks- Is not infinite juftice the effential at tribute of the Son, as well as of the Father? If it be, who made the infinite fatisfaction to the infinite juftice of the Son? Is not

fin equally offenfive to two perfons infinitely, that is, eternally juft? If the Son could not only pardon, but fuffer, and be fo fe.verely punished to pacify the Father's wrath, why might not the Father alfo, who could not be more offended, pardon fins without an infinite fatisfaction ?

This pamphlet is written with great calmness, moderation, and candour.

The Errors of the Church of Rome detected, in ten Dialogues, between Benevolus and Sincerus. To which another is added, containing a brief Vindication of the Revolution, and fubfequens Settlement of the Crown upon the illuftrious Houfe of Hanover. By the rev. James Smith, Vicar of Alkham and Capel, and Rector of Eatbridge in Kent. 8vo. 55. Johnfon.

Though the popish controverfy has been carried on for above two centuries, by the ableft writers in the church of England, and the fubject is in fome measure exhaufted, yet if there be any proteftant reader, who wishes to fee a farther confutation of the errors of the church of Rome, he will find ample fatisfaction in this tract. The author was formerly a ftrenuous defender of the Romish church; but, upon mature confideration, he quitted that communion in 1764, and has been for fome years a clergyman of the church of England. These two circumstances render him a competent judge of the various articles in debate. His experimental knowledge of popery may, at leaft, be supposed to have given him a deeper infight into the arcana of that religion, than any information, which mere proteftant writers have been able to obtain. In all points of confequence he has very judicioufly fubjoined original authorities.

MISCELLANEOUS. Select Orations of M. T. Cicero ; tranflated by Profeffor Duncan, and interfperfed with a variety of Notes, explanatory of the Perfons, Manners, and Customs of the Romans: adapted to the English Reader by Sir Charles Whitworth. 2 vols. δύο. 105. Johnfon.

This tranflation of Cicero's Select Orations, with the original text, and hiftorical, critical, and explanatory notes, from preceding commentators, and particularly from Dr. Middleton's Life of Cicero, was published in 1755.

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The editor of this edition thus explains his defign in the fent republication: This part of Cicero's works is, in my opinion, well tranflated by Dr. Duncan, incomparably better than by any other English translator, and being published without the Latin, and with fuch notes as are calculated for the benefit of the English reader only, cannot fail of being acceptable to every perfon, who is defirous of improving his tafte, and cultivating noble and generous fentiments.'

The Orations included in these two volumes are, against Q. Cæcilius, for the Manilian Law, for Rabirius, four against Catiline, for Muræna, for Archias, for Coelius, against Pifo, for Milo, for Marcellus, for Ligarius, and the i. ii. ix. against Antony.

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Mifplaced Confidence; or, Friendship betrayed; containing a ge nuine Narrative of real Misfortunes. 3 vols. Izmo. 750 bd. Jewed. Fielding and Walker.

If a controverfy with various perfons concerning a former publication of the author's, could be offered to the world as a book of entertainment, the prefent volumes might have fome claim to the specious title-page, which feems to promife very different contents. If fcurrility and grofs illiberal abufe, without the addition of wit or humour, may be relifhed, the author may hope for fuccefs.

British Zoology. Vol. IV. By Thomas Pennant, Efq. 8vo. 11. 15.

White.

The learned zoologift of our country concludes his labours in this fcience by the prefent publication, which contains only cruftaceous infects, viz. crabs and lobsters, worms and fhells. He omits all other infects, being unacquainted with that class of animals, and excludes lithopytes and zoophytes, which are almoft completely described by the late Mr. Ellis. Ninety-three plates, elegantly engraved, accompany this volume, and form a capital ornament to a branch of natural history which contains by far the leaft interefting objects, when compared to the for going claffes of quadrupeds, reptiles, birds and fish. We do not mean to fay that the naturalift ought entirely to neglect fhells and worms; but we are firmly of opinion that every animal ought only to engage his attention in proportion to its importance, or usefulness. The ingenious author, however, feems to have flighted them more than we had expected; for throughout this volume he has, in general, confined himself to dry definitions, without enlarging on the hiftory of each fpecies in that elegant and fkilful manner which does him fo great honour in his former publications. Excepting the article of the Lobfter, the Pearlgaper, and the extract concerning Oyfters, from bishop Sprat's Hiftory of the Royal Society, we cannot avoid obferving, that Mr. Pennant has left this branch far more imperfect, and to appearance more uninteresting, than it really might have been made. We would afk, if the articles Crawfish (p. 18), Afcaris (p. 32). Lumbicus intestinalis (p. 34), Slug (p. 40. 41), and feveral others, might not have been amply and ufefully enlarged upon. Sometimes our ingenious author's affertions are liable to caution; for inftance, when he fpeaks of the Nereis noctiluca, it fhould almost appear from his words, that this was the only animal that illuminates the fea at night: though it is well known that many other marine worms have the fame property, but by no means certain, that the luminous appearance of the fea is always owing to fuch animalcules. In the fame manner, when he fays that pearls are the difeafe of the fish, analogous to the ftone in the human body,' it ought to be obferved that this is no more than a bare fuppofition, without a fingle fact to support it, and that many other hypothefes concerning the origin and nature of pearls have been formed by naturalifts, which have at least an equal fhare of plausibility. What Mr. Pennant fays immediately after

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feems, in fact, to invalidate his affertion of pearls being a dif cafe of the fish; on being squeezed they will eject the pearl,and often caft it fpontaneously in the fand of the fiream.' Surely inftinct would teach them to rid themselves of this concretion at all times, if it were really fomething unnatural, unneceffary to their existence, and painful or cumbrous to themfelves. With regard to the eight-armed Cuttle-fish, we hope neither Mr. Pennant nor his friend who has been refident in the Indian ifles, will Credit the Indians, when they fay thefe worms fometimes catch their boats in their arms and fink them. Pontoppidan himself could not have told a more wonderful story.

In the quotations from ancient authors, we ftill find the man of elegant tafte, and the judicious critic, fuch as he has difplayed himself throughout all his writings. His terminology is as ufuál, extremely apt, concife, and expreffive; and the definitions and defcriptions very perfpicuous and juft, Linnæus having been our author's chief guide in thefe lower links of the zoological fyftem*. Taking all the excellencies of the British Zoology together, our countrymen may now boaft a more completely inftructive account of the animal creation in this island, than any other country ever poffeffed. In regard to the hiftorical part, the Fauna Suecica of Linnæus, however valuable, cannot be compared to it.

Beauties of Natural Hiftory; or, Elements of Zoology. 12mo. 35. 6d. Urquhart and Richardfon

Another volume without method, knowledge, or ufe, added to the endless lift of wretched compilations. If our countrymen go affray in natural hiftory, when they have Willoughby, Ray, Albin, Edwards, and Pennant, they are furely to blame. HEPI TÔN NOMËN, x. t. λ. A Treatife of Laws, from the Greek of Sylburgius's Edition, of Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus, bis Therapeutica, &c. Done at the Prefs of Commeline in the Year MDXCII. Now published by Thomas Comber, LL.D,, 8v0. 23. White.

Theodoret was a native of Antioch, a difciple of St. Chryfoftom, and bishop of Cyr, a town in Syria, called by Latin writers, Cyrus or Cyropolis. He lived in the fifth century; and wrote upon a great variety of fubjects, The best edition of his works by Sirmond was published at Paris in five volumes folio, 1642. Photius, Daillé, and others, fpeak of him with great refpect.

This little tract contains a fhort hiftorical account of all the ancient pagan legiflators; proving, that their laws are infinitely inferior to the laws of Chrift; and that they have gradually funk into neglect and oblivion, while the evangelical fyftem is received and admired by all nations. The good bishop is extremely fevere upon the laws of Plato.

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The Greek text is printed on a good type; and the translation is accompanied with fentimental' and explanatory notes.

Sentiments on Education, collected from the best writers; properly me tbodifed, and interfperfed with occafional Obfervations. By John Afh, LL.D. 2 vols. 8vo. 65. E. and C. Dilly.

In the first volume the author endeavours to give his young pupils a general idea of reading, grammar, drawing, arithmetic, geometry, geography, aftronomy, chronology, mufic, rhetoric, public fpeaking, and commerce. As many of these sciences are very extenfive, he has confined himself to a fhort explanation of fome of their firft principles, and recommended fuch practical books as have treated on them profeffedly. The fecond volume confifts of effays and extracts from eminent writers, on female accomplishments, modefty, the government of the paffions, fubordination to fociety, behaviour in focial and civil life, love and marriage, the management of a family, and religion; with many fpecimens of epiftolary compofitions.

The contents of the first volume are chiefly scientific, and therefore more efpecially adapted to young gentlemen. Those of the fecond are rather fentimental, and more immediately calculated for young ladies.- Both of them are inftructive.

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A ftrict and impartial Enquiry into the Caufe of the Death ofthe late William Scawen, Eq. of Woodcote-Lodge in Surry. which is added an Account of accidental Poifons, to which Families are expofed, with their Antidotes, under the following general Heads, viz. Stings and Bites, Vegetables, Minerals, Fumes and Vapours. By Dr. Ingram. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Cadell.

The author of this pamphlet has clearly proved, that Mr. Scawen had not one of thofe fymptoms, which must have appeared, if he had been poifoned by corrofive fublimate, and that the impoffibility' of peifon having been given him is demonstrable from the medical evidences against Miss Butterfield.

The author's account of poifons, with their antidotes, annexed to this Enquiry, may be of great fervice in private families, where other immediate advice cannot be obtained. ·Phlebotomy: or, a Reply, both Purgative and Sudorific, to the Author of a Pamphlet, entitled, "The Oeconomy of Quackery confidered." By Francis Spilfbury. 8vo. IS. Wilkie.

Hitherto we never understood that phlebotomy was the fame thing with evacuation by purgative and fudorific medicines; but it is truly amazing what discoveries may be made by an adept in the art of empiricifm. If this pamphlet can be fuppofed to poffefs any fenfible quality, it is rather that of an emetic than any other; for we must confefs that we are perfectly fick of the perufal of it. So much impudence, in defence of fo much ignorance, was perhaps never before obtruded upon the public.

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