Retrofpe of Domeftic Literature.—T heology. 
_is a very ingenious and animated com- 
pofition. GEorRGE Cooper, Efq. has 
ublithed fome “ Letters on the Irifh 
ation written during a Vifit tp that 
Kingdom, in the Autumn of 70... 
Thefe letters impart a great deal of in- 
. formation, relative to the real character 
of the inhabitants of Ireland, which is 
conveyed in a polifhed and highly orna- 
mented diétion. ‘‘ The Doétrine of an 
Appeal to the People, and the Right of 
Refiftance,”’ as laid down by Mr. Savu- 
RIN, in the Irifh Houfe of Commons, 
confidered and confuted by the Rev. Dr. 
Crarke. We like not the agitation of 
fo idle a queftion, as the right of a people 
to refift the irruption of defpotifm : fup- 
pofe it were refolved by King, Lords, 
and Commons, in Parliament affembled, 
that in no extreme cafe whatever, the 
people have this right; and fuppofe, for 
{ake of argument, that a Nero or a Ro- 
befpierre fhould afcend the throne of 
Britain, and attempt the fubverfion of 
its conftitution—of what ufe would thisre- 
{olution be ? Mankind will not be reafon- 
ed out of the feelings of humanity, nor 
will facrifice their liberty, by a {crupulous 
adherence tothofe political maxims which 
were originally eftablifhed to preferve ir. 
So fays Sir William Blackftone, who 
elfewhere obferves, after having laid 
down the Law of redrefs againft public 
oppreffion, that “in thefe or other cir- 
cumftances, which a fertile imagination 
may furnifh, fince both law and hiftory 
are filent, it becomes us to be filent too; 
leaving to future generations, whenever 
neceflity and the fafety of the whole 
fhall require it, the exertion of thofe in- 
herent, though latent powers of fociety, 
which no climate, notime, no contti- 
tution, can ever deftroy or diminifh*,”, 
THEOLOGY. 
*¢ ACall for Union with the Eftablifhed 
Church, addreffed to Englith Proteftants, 
&c. by Isaac HUNTINGFORD.” The 
learnea Warden of St. Mary’s College 
is laudably anxious to clofe thofe religi- 
ous {chifms which moft chriftians have 
lamented: he is anxious to bring diffent- 
ers of every denomination within the 
pale of his own church, but feems to 
ferget that conceffions muft be made as 
well on one fide as the other. ‘The pre- 
fent publication contains very little ori- 
ginal matter from Dr. Huntingtord’s 
pen; itis chiefly a compilation from va- 
rious authors, Sherlock, Hafcard, Hoad- 

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ley, Beaufobre, Tillotfon, Stillingfleet, 
Wilberforce, &c. Dr. Uuntingford’s 
merit, therefore, confifts entirely in the 
judgment of his feleétion. An o€tavo 
volume is publifhed of “ Praétical Ob- 
fervations on the Revelation of St. John, 
written in the year 1775, by the late 
Mr. Bowp Ler.” The explanations 
here given of the prophecies are always 
ingenious, but not always fatisfactory : 
the work evinces much piety and good 
fenfe. | 
The Rev. Mr. MILNER has continued 
the controverfy which his late Civil and 
Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of Winchefter has 
excited, by the publication of a quarto 
volume of ‘‘ Letters to a Prebendary, 
being an Anfwerto Reflections on Popery, 
by Dr. Sturges, &c. &c.”” In the courle 
of thefe letters, Mr. M. renews with un- 
abated violence, his former attack on 
Dr. Hoadly, and on thofe characters who 
were concerned in effcéting the reforma~ 
tion. If this work raifes Mr. Milner in 
our eftimation as a man of learning and. 
laborious refearch, it certainly gives us 
no very flattering idea of the mildnefs of 
his temper, or the moderation of his 
principles. | ae 
Ananonymous author has written fome 
ferious and candid ‘* Obfervations,” on 
that part of the Bifhop of Lincoln’s Ele- 
ments of Chriftian Theology, which con- 
tains his lordfhip’s expofition of the 
17th article of the church of England. 
The objeét of our author is to prove, in 
oppofition to the lcarned prelate, who 
afferts that the articles of the church 
of England are not calviniftic, that the 
feventeenth, refpeéting predeflination 
and eleétion, contains no other doctrine 
than that of the pureit calvinifm. 
Mr. Frenv has alfo addreffed in a 
feries of Letters to his lordfhip, fome 
fhrewd and very acute ‘ Animadver- 
fons” on the Bithop of Lincoln’s Ele- 
ments of ‘Theology. 
The Rev. GEorGe RicHarps has 
publifhed the Sermons which he preach- 
ed in the year 1800, at the Bampton 
Leétures. The learned divine has, in 
a moft able and perfpicuous manner, il- 
luftrated and defended in this ferics of 
fermons, the divine origin of prophecy = 
the fubjeét feleGted is of the higheft im- 
portance ; and Mr. Richards has treated 
it in a way which does honour to himielr, 
and will be extremely ufeful to the 
younger branches of the clergy. | 
The Rey. RoperT Rogerts has 
publifhed a “ Vindication of Chriftian = 
4H Wye 
