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CHAPTER II. 
Be Ba ee: Bey AQ ar oe 
AND 
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
SUCH of our readers as take any interest in theological enquiries, will be no 
Yess pleased than surprised to learn, that amidst all the agitation of renewed war- 
fare, and all the alarms excited by the peculiar circumstances of our country, this 
_ braneh of literature has not been neglected. The list of theological publication is 
_ hearly as large as usual; and many of the works which it contains are important 
and valuable. 
I. The entrance upon this part of our labours is auspicious. Dr. Stock, the 
learned bishop of Killala, with zeal and industry worthy of the cause of sacred 
| literature, has enriched the catalogue of biblical versions, by publishing “ The 
Book of the Prophet Isaiah, in Hebrew and English.’ His chief object, indeed, has 
been to exhibit the original text in a metrical arrangement; but in the progress 
|} of his work he has produced a new translation of this sublime prophecy, generally 
| distinguished by correctness and taste. Mr. ¥. MM. Good has employed his learn- 
| ing and talents in a similar useful service. He has selected a book usually es- 
~ teemed sacred, and certainly not undeserving of all the aid and embellishment 
whith can be derived from his extensive knowledge and cultivated taste ; and 
the Song of Songs is now presented to the English reader, in a state which must 
afford him pleasure, though it may not, with all the aceompanying notes, appear 
quite to harmonise with the pure word of God. 
Mr. Warner has published an English Diatessaron, which, we doubt not, will 
prove an acceptable present to those whose knowledge of the scriptures is cdn- 
fined within the limits of their native language. 
A third edition of Dr. Willan’s United Gospel has appeared, enriched with 
many useful additional notes.” ; 
II. The works which compose the second class in our Gs dupes are for the 
_ Most part valuable. The three volumes of Notes on the Bible, ly ihe late Rev. C. 
| Bulkley, edited by Dr. Toulmin, will be found a very important acquisition to the 
/ Student in Divinity. Of Mr. Bryant, in his Odservations upon some Passages in 
Scripture, some may think— Arma trementibus evo circumdat nequiequan humeris.”? 
These observations are founded upon the principles to which he is well known to 
‘| be attached, and discover a zeal for the interests of religion, which years cannot 
lessen. The very learned translator of Michaelis having been again attacked by 
his “ Anonymous Adversary,” has ably illustrated The Hypothesis proposed -in’ the 
| Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of our Three first Canonical Gospels. Dr. 
Findlay, in answer to a passage in Di, Geddes’ pretace to the second velumé oF 
