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No works of devotion have appeared during the last year. 
VII. The controversy which has been excited by those who call themselves 
* The True Churchmen,”’ is still going on; and its conclusion is, we apprehend, 
to the list of Mr. Overton’s opponents; and endeavoured to repel from the 
articles of the church, the charge of Calvinism, in a work entitled Vindicie Ecclesia 
: 
yet ata great distance. Mr. Daubeny has, during the past year, added himself 
. 
| Anglicane. Dr. Prettyman also has more briefly attempted the same, in 4 Charge 
| delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese; and the editors of the Churchman’s Re- 
Swiith Article of the Church of England. Mr. Myles has published a chronological 
| membrancer have republished, in the same cause, Dr. Winchester’s Dissertation on the 
History of ihe Westleian Methodists, which furnishes much information respecting the 
rise and progress, and internal government of this formidable sect. 
It was not to be expected that Mr. Hook’s Anguis in Herba, noticed in our last 
yolume, would pass without animadversion, from those who consider Pluralities 
eet ‘ 
to give a fuller account. 
NO part of literature promises to be 
productive of more valuable conse- 
quences, than that which embraces the 
important objects of restoring the purity 
of the original scriptures, and of pre- 
senting them to the unlearned reader, 
in versions more free from error than 
those which are now in his hands. And 
it is one of the pleasing features of the 
present age, that men, high in rank and 
in renown» for learning, devote their 
talents and their time to this excellent 
pursuit. Our shelves groan under the 
| massy folios of learned and laborious 
interpreters ; our libraries overflow with 
| erudite researches into the meaning of 
_ passages, many of which owe all their 
_ difficulty to the error or thé ignorance 
z of a transcriber ; and become plain and 
intelligible by a different reading, sup- 
_ ported by the authority of an ancient 
copy; or suggested by skill, acquired 
y in an habitual attention to sacred philo- 
gy. The industrious commentators of 
‘former times are. not to be contemned : 
their learning and their zeal have illu- 
inated many an obscurity, and unra- 
and Non-Residence incapable of being defended; 4 Reply has accordingly appear- 
‘ed, written by 4 Member of the Established Church. 
These, with a few of less note, constitute the works in Theology, which have 
been published since we closed our former volume, and of which we now proceed 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
Arr. 1. The Book of the Prophet Isaiah: in Hebrew and English. The Hebrew Text 
metrically arranged : the Translation altered from ihat of Bishop Lowth. 
critical and explanatory. By Joserw Stock, D. D. Bishop of Killala, M. R. I. A. 
and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Ato. pp. 185. 
With Notes 
velled many an intricacy in our holy 
books: but the labours of Wetstein, 
Mill, and Kennicott have encouraged 
a more useful race of biblical critics, 
whose elucidations are more attractive 
to persons of genius and of taste, and 
adapted to become more speedily and 
more generally beneficial. In this dis« 
tinguished and meritorious service, our 
own country has already earned the 
highest praise; and scarcely a year 
passes which does not add another name 
to the honoured list of those, who, by 
labouring to recover the original text, 
and to render perfect our already valu- 
able English version, perform the most 
acceptable service which criticism can 
render to the world, and prove them. 
selves the real friends and benefactors . 
of mankind. ‘To the revered names of 
Newcome, Lowth, Blaney, Chandler, 
Dodson, Geddes, Campbell, Wakefield, 
&c. we have now to add that of Stock, 
an Irish prelate, baud parvi nomin's. From 
the editing of Greek and Roman classics, 
he has very laudably turned his talents 
to sacred criticism. To this he was 
