1094 
pulpit eloquence fince the time of the Re- 
formators: a work which undoubtedly 
would prove highly ufetul and interefting. 
s¢ Verfuch eimer metrifchen Uberfet-: 
zung des Propheton Jona, von P. H. 
(GRANGAARD.”’ 1708. pp. 96 Attempt 
towards a metric Tranflation of the Pro- 
phecies of Jonah. 
preiles, in the preface to his tranflation, 
the moft tolerant fentiments, which do 
honour to his benevolent heart, and dif- 
plays fuch charitable principles with re- 
gard to thofe who differ from him in their 
notions of God and divine worfhip, that 
we cannot but efteem him as a worthy 
teacher of the chriftian religion. He 
wifhes to promote by his work religious 
toleration, and a generous conduct to- 
swards thofe who deviate in their opinions 
from the eftablifned principles of the pro- 
teftant church, and to diffufe a more ge- 
neral love for the reading of facred writ. 
We have great veafon to hope that he will 
attain the former object, but apprehend 
very much that he will not be fucceisful 
in carrying the latter point, as his tranf- 
Jation is tar from beine elegant, and in 
many places very flat. 
¢¢ Die Vifionen Habakuks, &c. &c. 
von G. C. HorsT.”’ 1798. pp. 188. 8vo. 
The Vifions of Habakuk, newly tranf- 
lated, with hiftorical and critical annota- 
tions. Together with a Treatife on the 
Prophetifin of the ancient World, efpe- 
cially of the biblical Prophets. Mr. 
Hortt difplays a refined and corre& judg- 
ment in uniting the expofitions of the 
beft modern writers of the prophecies of 
Habakuk, combining with them many 
pointed obfervations of his own. He 
takes particular pains to unfold the cha- 
ra¢teriftical {pirit of the age in which 
Hahbakuk wrote, and the peculiar cir- 
cumftances and individual relations under 
which the prophet appeared as an infp'red 
poet among his nation. 
is faithful, correét, and elegant. The 
annotations contain many ob/ervations 
which evince the tranflator’s acutenefs 
and erudition. 
—& Jefus,wie er lebte und iehrte; nach den 
Berichten der Evangelitten,” dc. &c. 
1799 pp- xii. u. 258. 8vo. Jefus, how he 
Jived and taught; after the Accounts of 
the Evangrelifts, &c. &c. The anony- 
mous author was grieved to fee that it 
grows fafhionable with many of the better 
claffes, and even with fome of the lower 
ranks who have heard fomething of the 
new philofuphical principles wh ch of late 
have been ftarted, to fpeak of the founder 
of our religion in a thoughtlefs and con- 
Mr. Grangaard ex-. 
His tranflation. 
Retrofpect of German Literature—Divinity. 
temptuous manner, and to account it good 
breeding to fneer at the creed of our fore- 
fathers, without ever having enquired 
into the truth of it. He thinks it necef- 
fary that the better informed thould exert 
themfelves to counteract this abufe of thé - 
liberty of thinking, and to guide the im- 
patient and prefumptuous fpirit of our 
times by reprefenting the principal fub- 
jects of religion in a manner conformable 
to the new light which begins to diffufe 
itfelf irrefiftibly over all ranks. Urged 
by thefe confiderations, he made the pre- 
fent attempt to reprefent the hiftory of 
Jefus divetted of every thing that has a 
miraculous appearance, and to fhow how 
our Saviour could perform and teach what 
he did perform and teach, without the aid 
of fupernatural agency or influence. We 
are perfeétly fenfible of the author’s good 
intention, but do not think that his man- 
ner of relating the hiftory of Jefus will. 
_have the effect which he hopes to pro- 
duce. " 
‘¢ Chrifilicher Religions unterricht fuer 
die Jugend, von Cu. Fe. SINTENIS.” 
1798. pp. 112. 8vo. Inftruétion in the 
Chriftian Religion for Youth. Mr. S. 
expounds in this volume, with great per- — 
fpicuity, the doétrines of Chrift, as re-. 
corded by the evangelifts, without taking 
any notice of the eltablifhed dogmas of 
the church. His ftile is indeed in many 
places rather flowery, and extremelylively, 
but neverthelefs completely intelligible to 
readers of all clafies. 
‘¢ Dr. F. V. REINHARD, vom Werth 
der Kleinigkeit in der Moral.’’ 1798. pp. 
292. On Micrology in Ethics. Micro- 
logy in ethics is defined by the venerable 
author, by attributing a falfe importance to 
things which are indifferent to morality, 
and beftowing upon them more attention 
than they deferve. The fpirit of micro- 
logy difplays itfelf in expounding the 
moral laws, in deciding upon cales of 
confcience, as they are called, in the life 
and actions of chriftians, and in thofe 
practices by which piety and virtue are 
to be acquired, nourifhed, and preferved ; 
there exilfs confequently a hermencutical, 
a cafuiftical, a moral, and an afcetic mi- 
crology. Mr. R. treats with great acute- 
nefs and erudition on each of thefe differ. 
ent forts of micrology, and fhews in a very 
energetic manner how baneful] isthe in- 
fluence which it has on the progrefs of 
genuine chriftian virtue. To conclude 
from our own feelings, we may fafely af- 
feit, that all thofe who have an opportu- 
nity of perufing this lttle treatife, will 
efteem the worthy author, who, in a maf- 
terly 
