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nave given the mot j important inthe pages 
of our Magazine.* If it exhibits indeci- 
ficn on the part of the Britifh Muinifters, 
itexbibits fueh a degree of foliy, ambi- 
tion, and infolerce, cn the part of the 
Fir Conful, as :uttdegrade him for ever 
i the eyes of every man of peloon ho- 
nefty or uaderftanding, and mui produce 
in the breaft of Britons one univerial de- 
termination to oppolethe march of his do- 
minion, and humble Irs high-creited 
pride. 
The two foilowing works, cf which 
we fall tranferibe the title-pages, will be 
foun! extremesy ufeful in the “commercial 
world: ** Tables calculated fer the Arli- 
tration of Exchanges, boi jimple and 
ccmpound 5 with an Account of the Cur- 
rencies aud Menies of tie principal Com- 
mercial Cities of Eurcpe.. Taken “on the 
lateft and def? Authorities. By fj. RoE s- 
CHEMACHER.’ 
‘© Tables of the feveral Exropeau Ex- 
changes, feewing by Infpedicn the Value 
of any Sum of Money in all the principal 
Places of Europe, at the different Prices 
to which the Ceurfes of Exchange mary rile 
cr fell. And deferibing in what Moncy, 
veal cr imaginary, Books and Acccunts are 
ufually kept, crt Bills are drawn ct each 
Place, with the plain Method cf Calcula- 
tron by the Rule of Three. Tables equating 
the Monies of the different Prowinces of 
Spain with each other, anda Table cf the 
Flemifh Maney. To wiich is prefixed, an 
Account of the Ujances, or eats at which 
Bills are drawn, from the feweral Places, 
together avith the Deys tf Grace allo wed 
in cach. By Roperr Bewicke.’ 
Omitting a few pamphlets of minor 
confideration, we proceed to the tubjeét 
of 
THEOLOGY 
‘ Natural Toeology ; or, Evidences of 
ot 3 
be “Beige and Aitributes af the Deity, 
col eGfed from the Blac home of Nature. 
By Wittiam Parey, D.D. &e.” 
And ts it pcflible he fuch a work as 
this fhould be neceflary >? ‘* Tue heavens 
declare the glory of God, and thefirmament 
fheweth his handy werk. Day unto cay 
uttereth Speech, and night unto night 
fheweth knowledge. There is.io fyeech 
nor Janguage where ther voice is not 
heard.”? Can any man beholdthe beauty, 
erder, and magnificence of the creation, 
vaithout sekudwled iging the extitence of an 
Almighty Being? Can any man deny that 
the univerfe bears innumerable and moit 
* See p.451 and feq. 
young, 
Retrofpedt of Domeftie Literature—T heolozy. 
palpable marks of intention and contriv- 
ance. The great difficulty of the natural 
theologift arifes from the multiplicity f 
objeéts which, at the fame infant, pre- 
fent emcees to his mind as evidences 
of the omniprefent exiflence and fuperin- 
tendence uf aDeity. Dr. Paley is parti- 
cularly fortunate in the executivn of this 
difficult tafk, the tafk of fele&tion: from 
a confideration that ail our ideas of intelli- 
gence ere cerived frem the confcicufnefs of 
its exiflence in human creatures, the infe- 
rence cf its exiftence in the Author of the 
univerfe is more immediate and refiftlefs 
when his works bear an obvious analogy 
to the preduce of our power, induftry, and 
fkili, Ren we comprehend the end, and are 
able to judge cf the eflicacy and operaticn 
of the means. For this reafon Dr. Palcy 
hes felected, with great judgment, ‘* the 
mechanical fun@tiens and contrivances in 
arganzed bodies, as proofs of defign, ia 
preference to thofe peculiar and inexpli- 
cable prepertirs which human art can net- 
ther beitow nor meke ufe of.” 
He examines with an anatomical aceu- 
racy, which fhews the range of his fudies, 
the mechanical contrivances in the animal 
bedy, and particularly in the human 
frarre, The arrangement of the benesy 
the mu‘c! eS, the blood- veffels, inteftines, 
&c. 3 and the adartation of each and ail 
to their refp« tive functions; the peculiar 
tructure of different e¢l:ffes of animals, 
the formation of their. organs, as {ubdler- 
vient to the neceffities of thew refpective 
ficustio’s, are furveyed with admuratle 
minutenefs, and brought forward to cn- 
force the argument. 
Coniidering the fubjeét of this work, 
the arrangemcn’s of its faéts, the per{pi- 
cuity of tts reafoning, and the fimplicity 
cf ifs ftyle, we cannot hefitate to pro- 
rounce it a moit valuable addition fo the- 
ologic literature 3 and ftrongly to recomr 
mend it as a text-bockto thofe who fuper- 
intend the rel-gious inflruétion of the 
the ignorant, and the poor. 
Dr. Gardiner has publifhed a volume 
of “* Serzeons,” of confiderable merit. 
Mr. Sanprorp, chaplain to the Right 
Hon. Lady Abercrombie, has alfo pub- 
lithed a volume of “ Sermons,” chiefly 
defigned for young perfons. 
“© Diateflaron ; Sfetts integra Hifleria 
Domini nofiri Ffie Chrifti, Latiné, ex 
Quaiuor Evangelis inter fe collatis, pfhf- 
que Ewangsliytarum Verbis, apte et or- 
nate di ifpofitis confecta, &$c. in-Ufum Scho- 
larum, ree et fiudio T.'THIRLWaLL.”” 
In this La:in tranflation of Profeffor 
White’s valuable Diateflaron, the ape 
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