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verted: to Chriftianity, the Rev. Mn 
Jones, of Nayland, has publifhed a 
*s Letter’ to them, which refutes, in a 
forcible and farisfactory manner, the er- 
yoneous opinions peculiar to this very 
fingular people. 
The Bifhop of London’s « Charge,” 
which has for its cbje€t -to exhort his 
clergy to counteract, to the utmoft of their 
power, the pre-difpofing caufes of inf- 
delity, feems to have been loudly called 
for by the filent. but rapid growth of this 
evil... Weare furprifed that the right re- 
verend author of this Charge fhould fo far 
lend, an ear to the romantic effufions of 
Barruel, as to fuppofe that there arc fo~ 
cieties inftituted among us ‘for the pur-~* 
pofe of propagating infidelity: and profli- 
gacy through the ifland, and aaa 
among the lower clafles of people; when 
it if confidered how much our property 
and fecurity depend on the belier of thefe 
laf{ in future ret? ibution, who could find 
any intereft in endeavouring to. deftroy 
this belief ? 
Mr. Haz has publithed ae §© Ser- 
mons’ which ire preached at the Bamp- 
ton -Leétiires an 1798; and Dr. Bar- 
ROW has likewife publithed his on the 
{ame occafion in 1799: both thefe Sep 
tlemen have Bie Bi themfelves to be able 
reafoners and judicious divines. 
a Devotional E Exercifes and Cae 
plations,” by ALEXAND CLEBYVE, 
A.B. form an elegant and ufeful duode- 
cimo volume. 
A rhapfodical, but apparently 
meaning enthn fiat, has publithed bey 
Letter to the Pope on the probable Caufe 
of the War, and that it waits on his 
Holine(fs to invite the Bleffings of Peace :’% 
Cuxisropursus, for fo-he ftyles him- 
felf, thinks that if the pope would allow 
priefts to marry, we fhould have peace!!! 
» Dr,CardeEw’s ‘ Sermon, preached at 
Truro, before the Governors of the 
Cornwall General Infirmary,’’ inculcates, 
in very forcible language, the duty of 
beneficence to the poor, whofe wretched- 
nefs, neceffarily exifting m a ftate of de-. 
pendence on daily labour for the bate 
neceflaries of life, 1s feelingly expatiated 
Upon. 
Mr. Smity’s “Tax upon Income,’ 
is a fermon as-whimfical as its title. 
“ Confiderations.on “the Nature and 
and Efficacy of the L.ord’s Supper,” by 
Vicesimus Knox, D.D. is a highly 
interefting and, important work, which 
attacks the opinions of: bithop Pearce, 
Dr. Sykes, Dr. Balguy, and wr. Beil, 
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Prin 
wells’ 
ay. Retrafpeét of Domeftic Literature... Theolo py. 
“North of £ 
‘made by him in Gacn alls 
1037 
refpecting this great facrament, as derot 
gatory of its high dignity. 
Dr. Knox has alfo publithed Gane 
Leétures,’’ in two volumes, which confit 
of fermons feleéted from the works of no 
lefs than fixty-three divines, all of whom 
cannot furely merit the title of of? cele- 
brated, which the compiler has given 
them. 
The fociety calling themfelves Unitas 
rian Chriftians, eftablithed in the weft of 
England, for promoting Chrifian know~ - 
ledge, and\the practice of virtue by the 
diftribution of books, have publi fied 
‘« Morning and Evening Prayers,” which 
breathe a {pirit of piety and virtue. 
. Mr. RowsanpD HILL has publifhed 
tae * sora of a Tour through the 
England and Part of Scotland, 
with Remarks on the eftablithed Church 
of Scotland; in confequence of this 
tour,, Mir. Hill has been nick-namedy 
by the high-church party, and not with- 
out caufe, the Spiritual Qubiote® the 
jou el of this ofd flager in the itinerant 
avork, as he calls himfelf, is a very tire- 
fome pertor mance, and exhibits great 
marks of {piritual pride and contempt of 
every other religious fect but his own. 
While Mr. Hill affedts a {pirit of the 
moit extenfive liberality, it.is very evi- 
deat that he ts only inclined to “tolerate 
thofe preac hets who are of the right fort. 
“Since the publication of Mr. Wilber< 
force’s book, an alarm has -arifen among 
the high church party, at the growing 
influence of thofe Who modeftly ftyle 
themfelyes Evangelical Chriftians. The: 
oe R. PoLwHEZieE;, vicar of Ma- 
accan, feemis to. feel this alarm, and, in @ 
ys Peni to the Rev. Robert Hawker, 
Jaments, ‘tha t not content with inftilling 
his own doctrines imto the minds: of the 
flock immediately ehtrufted to his care, 
he has deemed it right to become a kind 
of itinerant preacher, and, ina late tour 
diifufed his 
principles widely - over the country. 
Much as fenifm is to be deprecated, we 
cannot help thinking that till many grofs 
abufes exifting in the eflablifhed churck 
are done away by authority, many ey 
lous and fincere members of it will think 
it righ: it to aét for themfelves 
Wir. BLakew re mnieGier at 
Shrewfbury, is another clergyman under 
the influenee of the alarm we have al- 
luded to; he-has publifhed a / fermon, en- 
titled “A Waraing againft Schifm.’ 
. “© AT reatife on ‘the Seri iptures, acl" 
by the Rev. Wa. Jesse, is the work of 
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