Half-yearly Retrofpec? of Britifo Literature. 
the Hebrew text of the Old Teftament 
with the common Englifh tranflation, the 
Greek feptuagint verhon, the Latin vul- 
gate, and the Chaldee paraphrales, in five 
parallel columns: below thefe, acrofs the 
page, is to be given the Samaritan pen- 
tateuch in Hebrew characters; the plan 
for the New Teftament is equally exten- 
five. Dr. HUNTINGFORD has publifhed 
a fecond volume of ** Difcourfes on differ- 
ent Subjects; the greater number of 
thefe difcourtes, it is to be obferved, have 
-areference to the political tenets of the 
prefent day: as may be expected, they 
are written in a ftyle of claflical and dig- 
nified eloquence. An anonymous writer, 
of confiderable ability, has publifhed 
“© Remarks on Revelation and Infidelity :” 
a debating fociety is imagined at Edin- 
burgh, in which a young infidel, Mr. 
Goodwill, attacks the commonaly-received 
opinions, but after a fevere conteft, is con- 
‘verted by a man of learning and experi-. 
ence, Mr. Chriftian.. Mr. BRYANSON 
BROMWICH, in his ** Examination of the 
DoSrines of the Church of Rome,’ has 
dilplayed grof$ ignorance of the fubjeét 
on which he treats, and the moft detefta- 
ble illiberality in his manner of treating 
it. Dr. GAsxin has edited two volumes 
of ** Sermons, preached to Parochial Con- 
gregations, by thelate Rev. Richard South- 
gate; to which is added a biographical 
preface, by the editor. Dr. Price 
preached his very excellent fermon at the 
Old Jewry, on the centenary of the Re- 
volution of 1688; the whole church was 
indignant at the impiety of mingling po- 
litics with religion, and preaching the 
principles of liberty from the pulpit; 
fince his time, however, we have had in- 
numerable opportunities of obferving, 
that the Dr.’s example, if not of preach- 
ing the principles of liberty from the pul- 
pit, at leaft of mingling politics with. re- 
ligion, has been followed by thefe who 
moit loudly oppofed it. .Mr. Southgate’s 
fermons abound with. political allufions : 
in one inftance (vol. ii, p. 334.) the ac- 
quittal of Meffrs. Harpy, THELWALL; 
&c. is adverted to with regret, and the 
criminal acclamations of the populace 
with feverity. Mr. Southgate’s fermons 
contain much good fenfe, and his notions 
of toleration occafionally exhibit. him in 
an amiable point of view. The learned 
Dr. BLANEY’s new tranflation of “ Za- 
chariah,” is accompanied with notes, 
critical, philological, and explanatory: 
an appendix is added, in reply to Dr. 
EVELEIGH, and a diflertation on Daniel 
1X, 20, te the end. The candour and 
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liberality which Dr. BhaneY¥ oppofes ta 
the intemperance and acrimony of hig 
antagopifts, do him the greateft honour. 
‘© Three Sermons on a Future State,’ by 
Dr. SHEPHERD, archdeacen of Bedford, 
are written in a ferious and impreflive 
manner: in the frft difcourfe, the various 
arguments are colleéted in favour of a 
future ftate: in the fecond, is confidered, 
with becoming diflidence, the probable 
nature of our happinefs: and in the third, 
Dr. SHEPHERD has argued in favour of 
the opinion, that death is a change of ex- 
iftence, and not an annihilation of it. 
Mr. Erre’s “ Reply to the Rev. R. 
CHURTON,” is conduéted with great 
ability: Mr. CHurton had attacked 
the catholic church, and endeavoured to 
eftablifh the pretegfions of the church of 
England to an uninterrupted fucceflion of 
divinely appointed teachers and prietts, 
from the apoftles. A pretention {fo arro- 
gant, and fo obvioufly untenable, is op- 
poled by Mr. Eyre, who has fhown him- 
felf to be a very powerful polemic. “Mr. 
Simpson’s ** Thoughts on the Novelty, 
Excellence, and Evidence of the Chriftian” 
Religion,” is an elegant performance, 
An enumeration of all the fingle fer- 
mons which have been publifhed in the 
courfe- of the laft fix months, would oc- 
cupy a great deal more room than moft of 
our readers would think negceflary to de- 
vote to the fubjeét: to fele&t a few of the 
beft, and a few of the worft, will be am- 
ply fuficient. We fcarcely ever perufed 
a fermon with more pleafure, than Mr. 
ArcHaARD’s * Philofophical Difcourfe on 
Prowidenie: addrefed to the Modern Phi. 
lofophers of Great Britain; the dith- 
culties of difcufling the queftion of a 
moral providence upon philofophical prin- 
ciples, are ftated with unufual energy and - 
acutenefs; and the impotence of {olitary 
unaffifted reafon to difcover the moral 
government and providence of God, is 
illuftrated in a ftrain of impreflive elo- 
quence. Among the many fermons, preach- 
ed on the general thankigiving day (Dec. 
19,1797), that delivered before his ma- 
jefty at St. Paul’s, by the learned Bithop 
of LINCOLN, muft not be forgotten. ‘The 
reverend prelate feems proud of the hu- - 
mility ot his fellow-countrymen: ‘ while 
our enemies,” fays he, ‘ have infulted 
the majefty of heaven, we have humbled 
ourfelves before our Ged, and ackaow- - 
ledged our tranfgreflions.” The humi- 
lity of a royal proceffion to St. Paul's, 
where ten thoufand diamonds fparkled in 
the furs, and each fair damfel vied with 
her rival neighbour in the coftlinefs, the 
proiufion 
