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blood-devoted banner—of a banner the 
emblem of mifery and deftruétion, as 
ene of the moft grofs and dariny infults 
which can be offered to the throne cf 
Mercy and Omnipotence. 
Mr. Wanfey has had fevers! oppo- 
ments, and he may have had feveral de- 
fenders; we know of but one. This 
gentleman, who ftyles himfelf “ A friend 
to civil and religious liberty,” has pub- 
hffed a pamphlet, entitled, Rights of 
Difeuffion, or a Vindication of Diffenters of 
every Denomination, witha Review of the 
Contreverfy, Se. ‘The ground which is 
here choien is certainly tenable, but we 
cannot think that our author has taken 
every advantage which his pofition would 
allow. He has our hearty thanks, how- 
ever, for vindicating, in the beft manner 
he isable, THE RIGHTS OF DISCUSSION: 
there is nothing intolerant in afferting, 
that that man who is an enemy to thefe 
rights is a coward ; he is afraid of difcuf- 
fon ; he is afraid to meet his adverfary, 
and ¢berefore he fkuiks into the dark re- 
ceffes and the labyrinths of myftery. 
A very ufeful compilation has lately 
been publithed at an eafy price, entitled, 
The Univerfal Reftoration, exbidited in a 
Series of Extracts from fome of the moft 
remarkable Authors who have written in 
Defence of that interefting Suljed. The 
authors, whofe works are laid under con- 
tribution, are Winchefter, White, Seig- 
volk, Chauncy, Newton, and Petit- pierre. 
Mr. BROWNE, late of Sidney College, 
Cambridge, has publifhed an Ejay on 
Univerfal Redemption, tending to prove that 
the general Senje of Scripture favours the 
Opinion of the final Salvation of all Mankind. 
In this effay, which evinces much read- 
ing and knowledge, Mr. Browne very 
juftly contends, that the Englith reader 
has been led intothe idea of eternal pu- 
nifhments by the tranflators of the Greek 
text, who have given to the word eiwyioe, 
in tranflating it everlafling, a more ex- 
tepfive meaning than It will bear. 
Mr. Maruam's Infant Baptifm de- 
fended, Sc. 1s a very loofe and unfatisfac- 
tory performance; the fubjeét has been 
difcuffed an hundred times before in a 
much more competent manner. 
A fociety of Unitarian Chriftians, in 
the wefi of England, has printed, at its 
own expence, a little volume of Morzing 
and Evening Prayers for the Ufe of Indiur- 
duals, to which are added, Prayers on par- 
ticular Subjedis. ‘Thefe prayers are fimple 
and pious, but fimple and pious as they 
are, we are afraid they would hardly be 
be licenced 
Retrofped? of Domeftic Literature....Tkeology. 
“ By a lover of purity in religious 
worfhip,’” who has publifhed a pam- 
phlet, thowing, Tse Divine Inffitution of 
David's Pfalms, and the Unlawfulnefs of 
ufing uninhlred Hymns in Divine Wor- 
fhip ! 
Dr. Macuatne has publifhed an oc- 
tavo volume of Dz/courfes on various Sub- 
jeis, delivered in the Engh/b Courch at thé 
Hague, They are {carcely fubjeéts for cri- 
ticiim: they preferve fuch an uniform 
mediocrity of ftyle and fentiment, that 
there is nothing to praife : whether their 
inutility and inadequacy, even to amufe, is 
a fufficient ground for cenfure, we do not 
determine. Se Shp: 
Mr. Pratt, whofe profpeétus of a 
quarto polyglott bible we mentioned in a 
former Retrofpect, has now altered his 
plan, and publifhed the Profpedius for an 
odtave Polyglott. The material altera- 
tions which have taken place are, firft, 
the reduction of the price from twelve 
guineas to feven pounds; fecondly, the 
Hebrew text is printed with an elegant 
type; and, thirdly, the accents are omit- 
ted in the Greek. Mr. P. in his appen- 
dix, complains of the treatment which his 
former profpectus received from the Bri- 
ii/h Critic, and repels their obje€tions. 
Dr. SmitH’s Ledéures on the Nature 
and End of the Sacred Office, Sc. Sc. are 
written with much piety and earneftnefs : 
the occafional introduétion of allegory en- 
livens his difcourfes, and, oa young minds, 
is likely to make the happieft impretiion. 
We are forry to fay that Dr. Smith has 
admitted into his work many Scotticifms, 
and inelegant expreilious, 
Mr. Estuin, the ‘very refpe€table 
friend of the late Rev. David Jardine, of 
Bath, has publifhed two pofthumous vo- 
lumes of Sermons from the original ma- 
nufcripts of that gentleman: they are 
fuch as would be expeéted from the pen — 
of Mr, Jardine by thofe who knew his ta- 
lents, and who knew his temper. The 
unitarian tenets of the author may make ~ 
his pofthumous works lefs generally re- 
lifhed than if he had embraced a more fa-: 
fhionable fyftem of theology: but it is 
impoffible that any one fhould read thefe 
difcourfes without being ftruck with their 
fertoufnefs and folemnity, without ad- 
miring, and, itis to be hoped, imbibing 
the liberality and philanthropy which they 
breathe. ° 
The author of Reflections upon the Cler- 
gy of the Efiablifbed Church is a decided 
friend to the inftitution, and has taken 
the liberty, which ought to be allowed, 
not merely to every friend to the ecclefi- 
aflical 
