512 Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature....Theology and Morals. [Sur. 
a volume of pofthumous “* Sermons,” by 
the Rev. Samuel Bifhcop, fome of whole 
poetical compofitions aré well known: 
thefe fermons are chiefly upon practical 
-fubjeGts; they are pious and intelligent. 
Mr. HuTTON, to his “* Appeal to the Na- 
tion on the Subje& of Mr. Gilbert Wake- 
field's Letter to W. Wilberforce, Efg.” has 
fabjoined ** Four Sermons on important 
Subjects, connected with the Appeal :”” Mr. 
HUvTTON isa man of ftrong underftand- 
ing, but he has not imbibed fuficiently 
the fpirit of chriftianity, or he would 
have been more decent and temperate in 
his controverfial writings: Mr. WakE- 
FIELD’s irritable temper ought not to 
difturb the tranquillity of his antagonift. 
Mr. CLaRKE’s “Naval Sermons, preached 
on Board his Majefiy’s Ship the Impetueux, 
in the Weflerin Squadron, during its fervices 
of Breft,” &c. are plain and appropriate. 
The fingle fermons of the laft fix months 
are, as ufual, very numerous; it will be 
fufficient to fpecify a few of the beft and 
2 few of the worft. Among the former 
is to be noticed as a difcourie of pre-emi- 
went merit, “ Rome isfallen!” by FRAN- 
cis WRANGHAM, M. A. Mr.WRANG- 
WAM is a member of the Church of Eng- 
Jand, and a member who does honour to 
the eftablifhment ; his fermon en the Fall 
ef Rome, breathes the fpirit of chrifti- 
anity; anditis written in a ftrain of elo- 
quence, bold and impreffive. Thenotes, 
with which it is illuftrated, evince the 
author to have enriched his mind with 
the treafures of ancient and modern lite- 
rature ; and the appofitenefs of the fub- 
ject having induced him to affert an ex- 
tract from his own unpublifhed poem 
«< On the Defiruction of Babylon,” we are 
treated with a favourable fpecimen of Mr. 
WRANGHAM’s poetical abilities. The 
Rev. CHARLES DAvuBENY has moft un- 
luckily fele€ted the <¢ Fall cf Papal Rome”’ 
€or the fubjecét of one or his fermons: 
nothing could poflibly be more unfortu- 
mate! The Lord Bithop of Briftol’s 
“¢ Sermon, preached before the Lords Spiri- 
tual and Temporal, on Wednefday, March 
7th, 1798, bemg the Day appomted for a 
General Faft,” isa fine fpecimen of mili- 
tary eloquence; it would have been very 
appropriate had their lordfhips been on 
the eve of a defperate engagement with 
the enemy. Mr. WicKeEs’s fermon on 
the fame day and on the fame occafion, is 
an adulatory and moft obfequious compo- 
ftion. Mr. Nispett's ‘* View of the 
Nature and Defign of Public Fafts,” was 
cceafioned by Peter Pinder’s Satire on 
Fafts. ‘This fermon contains many judi- 
cious obfervations; but furely the preacher 
adopts a very Hibernian method of jufti- 
fying fafts on chriftian principles, when he 
takes all his feriptural quotations from the 
Old Teftament. Does no one of the four 
Evangelifts fay any thing on the fubject ? 
Dr. WILLIs’s “* Sermon on the Confecra- 
tion of the Colours,” &c. is publifhed for 
the benefit of the Foundling Hofpital ; 
like Mr. Guasse’s ‘* Afjociation Ser- 
mien, it contains an animated exhorta- 
tion to war. The fentiments of Mr. 
GReEGOR’s * Sermon’ are liberal, and 
the language is eloguent. Mr. ParR- 
TRIDGE’s explanation and vidication of 
the rogth Pfalm, do him credit: it feems © 
now to be fully afcertained, that the im- 
precations are only recited by David, as 
uttered by his enemies againft him. In 
Mr. ANMER’s “¢ Confideration on the Doc- 
trines of a Future State and the Refurrec- 
tion, as revealed, or fuppofed to be fo, im 
the Scriptures,’ &c. we difcover much fo- 
lidity cf judgment, much candour, mo- 
defty, and unaffected piety. Sir RICHARD 
Hiiy’s “ Apolosy for Bratherly Love,”* 
is addrefled, in a feries of letters, to the 
Rev. C. DauBENY: the former of thefe 
polemics js a zealous advocate for the cal- 
viniftic {cheme of divine grace, and com- 
bats with much care Mr. DAUBENY’S 
arminian arguments. It is poor praife— 
and yet it is all the praife he merits—to . 
fay or Sir R. Hitt that he is lefs dog-- 
matical and intolerant than his opponent : 
in point of ability he has a more evident 
advantage. ‘* Vetus Tcflamentum Gre- 
cum, cum vartis Leétiontbus:°> Mr. 
Houmes has publifhed the firft volume of 
this work, which difplays much induftr 
and learning; the text which he has fol- 
lowed, is that of the Vatican folio, printed 
in 1587. ‘** A Tranflation of the New 
-Teftament from the Original Greek,” has 
been humbly attempted, to ufe his own 
mode& and becoming words, ‘¢ by Natha- 
niel Scarlett, affified by Men of Piety and 
Literature.’ Generally {peaking, this is 
a confiderable improvement of the vulgar 
verfion, which, however, is properly made 
the bafis of the prefent; the great altera- 
tion is in fingle words, and this alteration 
has, in mojit inftances, made the fenfe 
more clear and intelligible to common 
readers. This work is moreover pub- 
lithed in a better mode than the common 
tranilation: the teftament is not dish- 
gured by the ufe of verfes, which conti- 
nually mar the fenfe and deftroy the em- 
phatis; the numbers, however, are re- 
tained in the margin. Another very judi- 
cious change is made: the fubjeck is put 
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