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fest for his wife, and the deference, 
modesty, and fidelity with which his af- 
fection should be returned; and consi- 
dered even in this sense alone, fully enti- 
tled to the honor of constituting a part 
of the sacred scriptures.” Weare proud 
to discover in the sacred volume the mo- 
del of all the correct morality, and the 
rational theology of the ancients: we 
receive the highest pleasure in tracing 
the sources, whence flowed all the good 
principles which the philosophers of 
antiquity imbibed, up to “ Siloe’s brook 
that flowed fast by the oracle of God ;” 
but it is not without considerable pain, 
and even disgust, that we see the sacred- 
ness of divine inspiration attributed to a 
work which, according to its warmest 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
admirer, has suggested many passionate — 
if not licentious thoughts, to the votaries 
of illicit love. 
To sum up, ina few words, an opi- 
nion of the work before us: the arrange. — 
ment is new and ingenious; the transla~ 
tion faithful and elegant; the poetical 
version is, for the most part, correct and 
beautiful ; the notes are full of profound — 
learning and good taste. It is a work 
which every scholar will peruse with 
pleasure; from which the divine may 
reap improvement; but notwithstandin 
all the “delicacy of diction” of whic 
the translator boasts, it is a work which 
we would carefully guard from the eye 
of youthful modesty, 
Arr. UWI. The United Gospel; or Ministry of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
combined from the Narrations of the Four Evangelists. 
third Edition, with many additional Notes and Observations. 
THIS work, which has been several 
years before the public, and not without 
just reason favourably received, is de- 
signed **to exhibit the events of the‘ 
gospel history in their proper order of 
succession ;”” not by bringing together 
the accounts of each evangelist, and 
placing them in parallel columns, but 
“by combining the accounts of the four 
histories, and relating every circum- 
stance in their own words;” selected 
and arranged, so as to afford the fullest 
history of every transaction, In deter- 
mining the order of the events, one 
evangelist is not uniformly preferred to 
another; but greater regard is paid to 
him who gives the fullest account of the 
different periods of our Lord’s minis- 
try. 
On the subject of the duration of 
Christ’s ministry, Dr. Willan agrees 
with the late Primate of Ireland in as- 
signing to it a period of three years. 
On the merits of this work, it is not 
our province to enlarge; it belongs to 
our plan only to announce the sanction 
which the public have expressed in call. 
ing for a third edition, We cannot 
howeyer refrain from presenting our 
readers with a specimen of the notes 
which accompany this edition of ‘the 
United Gospel ; they are in general valu- 
able, especially those which contain re- 
marks connected with the author’s pro- 
fession. Mrs. Willan has also contri- 
buted to the information which this part 
of the work conveys. 
Of the prevalence of the opinion re. 
ByR. and M. Wittan. The 
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specting the agency of malicious spirits — 
on the human body, among mankind, © 
in all ages, and in all countries, Dr.° 
Willan has collected the following cu- 
rious evidence. 
«* The diseases thought, in Asia, to arise 
from dwmeniacal possession, or to be other- 
wise inflicted by - vil spirits, by the moon, 
planets, &e. were epilepsy, catalepsy, te- 
tanus, hysterical and other convulsions, 
palsy, apoplexy, carus or lethargy, incus 
bus, sommambulism, melancholy, mania and 
yhrenzy, idiotism, loss of memory, sudden 
es of voice, any singular deformity, and a 
wasting without apparent cause, 
*« Socrates and Plato, in Phad. describe 
two species of mania; one arising from 
bodily disease, (vmovoenuxtav abewmwy) 
the oiher, from a change of state effected by 
divine impulse, (vio Oeas sEaraayns Tuy 
escByrwy YOULL WY spryvosevny ) which he refers 
to Apollo, Bacchus, the Muses, Venus, and 
Eros or Cupid. Epilepsy was among the 
Greeks so generally referred to supernatural 
influence, that it was termed, even by their 
physicians, the ‘sacred disease,’ Hippoera- 
tes seems to haye been the first who com- 
bated this opinion of his countrymen, He 
thinks the Siecle no more deserving the ap- — 
pellation of sacred than many others, as fever, 
ague, phrenzy, &c. Aflier exposing the ab- 
surdity of those who pretend to decide from 
some variation of the symptoms in different 
cases, whether the fits were occasioned b 
Cybele, Neptune, Hecate enodia, Apolla 
nomius, Mars, or some of the heroes, he 
severely reprehends the exorcists of his time 
as impostors, affecting a degree of sanctity 
and wisdom inconsistent with the general 
tenor of their conduct, and pretending to set 
aside what more than human power had ins 
