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oracles ; it humbled the pride of emperors; 
it confounded the wisdom of philosophers ; 
and introduced into the most civilized na- 
tions of the world a new principle of virtue 
and religion. ‘This extraordinary influence 
and authority it has maintained for nearly 
eighteen hundred years ; it has been looked 
up to as the certain and unerring road, not 
only to present, but future happiness ; and is 
still regarded by the wise and good, as a sys- 
tem founded by the gracious Saviour and 
Deliverer of mankind.” 
Art. XIV. <Abrégd des principales Preuves de la Vériti et de 
Chretienne, par Beilly Porteus, Seigneur Evcque de Londres. 
septi¢eme Edition, et dedié avec permission a Monseigneur PE veque de Londres, par 
12mo. pp. 164. 
J. L. Cuiror, Pasteur a Londres. 
THE original of this work is too 
well krown, and too generally admired, 
to need our commendation and our 
praise. M. Chirol has performed no 
mean service to the public, by translat- 
ing this valuable compendium with faith- 
leash and elegance, into a language 
more widely used than that in which it 
wus originally composed; and for the 
Art. XV. The Mild Tenor of Christianity: an Essay. 8vo. pp. 159. 
THE advertisement prefixed to this 
little work, will exhibit the design, and 
_gomething of the manner of the author: 
« The design of this essay is to revert to 
the original departure from the simplicity and 
lenient character of the christian doctrine, 
and to pursue the deviating stream through 
all its wanderings till it was checked by the 
mound of reformation; and in the second 
part of this essay I propose to offer some re- 
ynarks on the same deviating stream as it 
glides along with less aberration in its min- 
gled state. This scheme involves a number 
of celebrated personages, whose characters 
will be surveyed under a new aspect 
«© Next will be considered the more culti- 
vated parts of British christianity; to which 
will be added, an account of some charitable 
institutions on the Continent, with a cursory 
ife of Vincent de Paul, whose name is not 
familiar to the English reader. 
«© Some reflections will then be offered on 
controversial ec discourses, as hostile to 
the spirit of christian ethics; which naturally 
lead to a cridigue on the Master of the ‘Lem- 
ple. ne 
«© Some observations then oceur relative 
to biblical expositions, with strictures upon’ 
the Reverend William Gilpin; concluding 
“with remarks on the sombre morality of Dr. 
Johnson.” 
-* Conformably with this design, the 
‘author, with some appearance of order, 
has brought together much miscellaneous 
mattez, illustrative of the mild genius 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS, 
One defect pervades the volume: the 
want of references to the authorities © 
upon which the writer has depended. 
Such references would have been _of 
great utility, not only in confirming 
what the author has advanced, but in 
introducing others to the same ‘sources 
of information as those from which he 
has himself drawn. 
li Divinité de la Religion 
Traduit de P Anglots sur la 
sake of the interests of christianity, we 
earnestly wish that its circulation may 
be as extensive amongst young persons 
upon the Continent, as the original has 
been among the young persons of our 
own island. . 
Some notes are added by the trans- 
lator, which form a valuable addition to 
the text. 
of christianity, when rightly professed ; 
and of the bigotry and austerity which 
have characterised those who have mista- 
ken its proper spirit. He begins by select- 
ing passages from the scriptures to prove, 
according to his own too often inflated 
language, ‘* that the emanative benevo- — 
lence of the Father of the Universe, 
rushes forward to all his. children.’*— 
Page 3. From these he passes to the 
writings. of the fathers, and to the origin 
of monkish institutious. Anecdotes are 
interspersed, of St. ‘Anthony, Alfred, 
Peter the Hermit, St. Bruno, St. Ber- 
nard, and others. Approaching the re- 
formation, he celebrates the virtues of 
Grosteste, Las Casas, and Wickliffe; 
and we are entertained with a specimen 
of the religious farces which were once 
in such great request. From the period 
which has elapsed since the reformation, ~ 
the author has selected several eminent 
characters, who have honoured, by the 
mildness and excellence of their conduct, 
the faith they professed to maintain.— 
Amongst these we meet with the names 
of Sadolet, Montaigne, Vincent de Paul, — 
Fenelon, Addison, and Rundle. 
Our readers will be interested by the 
following account of Vincent de Paul: 
«© He was born 1756, in a village near the 
Pyrennees. He was educated at a monastery 
in the same village, and distinguished him- 
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