(Christian minister, with ability and suc- 
_ €ess, in the service of a congregation in 
Barbican, London, afterwards removed 
to Worship-street. He died in April 
1797, in the 78th year of his age. 
_. The work which is now presented to 
the public, was, we are told, a favourite 
production with the author himself. 
Beet his life he was very desirous 
that it should be published ; and for this 
purpose, about the year 1792, caused 
proposals to be printed and circulated. 
*¢ But though,” says the editor, “ his 
particular friends generously came for- 
ward to countenance the design, the 
names amounted only to about half the 
_ number which was requisite for putting 
it to the press.” Finding so little en- 
couragement, he relinquished his design, 
and, towards the close of his life, be- 
queathed the work to his sister: “ hop- 
fing that, at least, she would not suffer 
it utterly to perish, even though it should 
not be able to go abroad.” A _book- 
+ seller, whose generosity Cowper has ce- 
lebrated, and others of less name have 
frequently experienced, having taken 
upon himself the charge and risk of 
publishing the work, and the present 
editor having engaged to conduct it 
| through the press, it is now presented 
|. to the public, and will, we doubt not, 
be esteemed as a valuable addition to 
English biblical literature. 
_ The character which Dr. Toulmin has 
drawn of this posthumous publication, 
is full and accurate. In his own words 
we shall lay before the reader the remarks 
in which we are anticipated. 
* It does not offer notes on every passage, 
er on connected paragraphs, but proposes 
__ illustrations of particular verses, drawn from 
all kinds of writers, in a long course of 
perroting. The quotations, of which it con- 
y 
_ 4Sists, tend to illustrate the portions of scrip- 
ture, under which they appear, by parallelism 
_ of sentiment and language, or by explana- 
_ tions of allusions or customs, or by remarks 
on grammatical idioms and anomalies, or by 
_ hints of other kinds. They are borrowed 
_ from a great variety of authors, Heathen, 
Jewish, and Christian, ancient and modern. 
In this mode of commenting, Mr. Bulkley 
has been preceded by Grotius, Raphelius, 
Westein, and many learned foreigners: and 
t home, Doddridge, Chandler, Bishop 
arce, and Wakefield, have furnished spe- 
mens of it. But this work, considering 
_ the fulness and extent to which the plan of 
itis pursued, may, I conceive, be considered 
as an unique in the English language. 
~ © Tt promises, therefore, to be acceptable 
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young preacher with many fine passages, 
from the stores of Greek and Latin erudition, 
with which to illustrate his representations 
of devotional and ethical truths derived from 
the Old and New Testament. It may also 
be expected, to precure’ from some fastidious 
and sceptical critics respect to the scriptures, 
when they find them abounding with senti- 
ments, language, and modes of expression, 
similar to those which have been admired in 
Grecian and Roman classics: but the pro- 
priety and beauty of which, because they 
resent themselves in the scriptures, they are 
apt to overlook. No reader can lay down 
he work, after inspection of it, without a 
deep conviction, that the religious and moral 
truths, which are contained in the serip- 
tures, are congenial to the human mind in 
its most pure and improved state: and the 
irreligious and those who are indifferent to 
divine truth may blush, when they observe 
how a Plato, a Maximus Tyrius, an Epic- 
tetus, a Cicero, aud a Seneca, spoke on topics 
of a religious and moral nature.” 
As affording a fair specimen of the 
plan upon which this work is conducted, 
we select the following passages. 
«¢ Proverbs, Ch. xxii. v. 6. Train up a 
child in the way he should go: and when he 
is old, he will not depart from it. 
“Tn life, says Demophilus, (suppose it to 
be a drama) youth sustains the first act; to 
which therefore all are particularly attentive. 
Te Bie, xabaccep Ogap.aTosy TewToy [LEC0S ESI % 
yEOTNS* d:0 TAVTES aUTH TPOTEKECIWe Holstein. 
p- 28. 
‘So again ; It is in youth, as in plants, the 
first disposition shews that fruits in virtue 
may be expected. Oy zpomov sor trav Qulwrs 
HAL ETL THY NEWY 4 TEeWTn DUN Tpodeimwar Toy 
Herrovra xxemoy Tns aperns. P. 30, 
«< We have it observed in Plato, that opini- 
ons formed in youth are with createst diffe 
culty eradicated. A ay radimeros wy (ves scil. ) 
aakn ev Tas Jokes, duoeuumla re nar nuerasute 
Pires yiyversa:. De Repub. lib. ii. tom. i. 
p. 142. Massey - 
Tae rey Si 
KES EC Ym EUS US EK TLIOWYs Tos 
BBS TE TIANTYT! RAL YOVERS, THY TE BAAnAWY 
Piriay wn Tepr ounce momorpevose bid. lib. 
li. ad init. 
“«Suchare the instructions to be given atthe 
earliest period to children, if we wish to see 
them honouring the gods and their parents, 
or cultivating mutual friendship and love. 
Ta Taudev adnate Savrcsoye KEL TE AVNLELOVe 
Platon. Time. Op. p. 476. 
«« The instructions given in earliest age are 
wonderfully lasting and impressive. 
— WNune adbibe puro 
Pectore verba, puer, nunc te melioribus offer, 
Quo semel est imbuta recens, seryabit odorem 
Testa diu. 
Horat. epist. ii. lib. i. ver. 67—69. 
** Now young man, apply your mind to 
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