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his Translation of the Bible, has published a little tract of considerable merit, 
upon The Divine Inspiration of the Jewish Scriptures, asserted by St. Paul, 2 Tim. iii. 16. 
Another Scottish divine, of the name of M‘Conochie, has ventured upon a new 
hypothesis, which he has stated in “ A Dissertation conceraing the Writer of the Fourth 
Gospel; and Mr. Granville Sharp has met with an able but no courteous oppo- 
nent to his system concerning “ The Use of the Article in the Greek Testament,” in a 
writer who stiles himself not inaptly, Gregory Blunt. 
III. Upon the evidences of natural and revealed religion, the publications of 
the last year are neither numerous nor important. The Rev. T. Robinson’s 
“© Enquiry into the Necessity, Nature, and Evidences of Revealed Religion,” may be 
considered as a useful compilation. The French Translation, by M. Chirol, of the 
Bishop of London’s Abridgment of the principal Proofs, &c. is deserving of com- 
mendation, An anonymous essay on The Mild Tenor of Christianity, will be read 
with pleasure and advantage. Mr. Crighton’s Enquiry into the Origin of True Reli- 
gion; and Dr. Priestley’s Tract, entitled, Socrates and Jesus compared, claim a place 
in the list of those publications which are designed to promote the cause of re- 
velation. 
IV. Though necessarily of a mixed nature, yet Dr. Hill’s Theological Institutes 
will be most properly referred to the class of controversial or dogmatical Divinity, 
and takes the lead among the works of this kind, which have issued, during the 
last year, from the press. Mr. Vidler in his Letters to Mr. Fuller on the Universal 
Restoration, has shewn himself an able disputant upon an important article of 
christian doctrine. Dr. Hales has very successfully opposed the fanaticism and 
the ignorance of some self-constituted teachers, in a pamphlet entitled Methodism 
Lnspected ; and a more serious attack has been made upon the same denomination 
of christians, by Mr. Nott, in his Bampton Lectur:s. A writer among the Quakers, 
who signs himself Verax, and who has already signalized himself as a champion. 
against orthodoxy, has published, in. reply to his antagonist Vindex, 4 Vindication 
of Scriptural Unitarianism, and some o'her primivive Christian Doctrines. 
V. The Sermons of the last year are uncommonly numerous. Not fewer than, 
ten volumes have fallen under our notice. The authors are Dr. Brown of Aber- 
deen, Dr. Gleig of Stirling, Dr. Shepherd, the Rev. Messrs. Gilpin, Nares, St. 
John, Warner, Buddo, Tayler, and a Layman. 
Many patriotic effusions have passed from the pulpit to te press, in-the form 
of Single Sermons. Among these are, Broadhurst’s Sermon at Bath, Bulmer’s at 
Thorpe, Overion’s at York, &c. 
‘The Fast-Day also, as might have been expected, has furnished us with ex- 
cellent discourses, from the pens of Parr, Belsham, Rees, Builer, Disney, Glassey 
Madan, Fervis, Corrie, &c. &e. 
Besides these, Sermons upon miscellaneous subjects have been published by 
Wrangham, Kentish, and Skurray. 
From the Society for the Suppression of Vice, the public have received Az 
Address, setting forth the Utility and Necessity of such an Institution. Mr Yellowes has 
printed 4 Supplement to a Picture of Christian Philosophy ; and Mr. Eaton has in 
A Familiar Conversation, endeavoured to inculcate the Christian Virtues of Modera- 
ticny Candour, and Liberality. ; 
