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on various accafions, were addreffed to 
him by the Rev. Mr. Job Orton, a fenfible. 
and moderate Diffenter, and by the Rev. 
Sir James Stonehoufe, a gentleman who 
was originally bred a phyfician, and who, 
for feveral years.in early life, was fuch a 
confirmed Infidel, to ufe his own expref- 
fion, that he did all he could to fubvert 
Chriftianity, and wrote a keen pamphlet 
againft it; the third edition of which, 
having deeply repented his apoftacy, he 
committed to the flames. The letters of 
‘thefe two gentlemen convey much moral 
inftruétion in a very pleafing manner; 
they contain remarks on books, on men, 
and manners, and evince the authors to 
have enjoyed a ftrong underftanding, and 
to have cultivated their pious affections 
with much affiduity. | 
Mr. Zoucn’s ‘* Attempt to illuftrate 
fome of the Prophecies of the Old and 
New Teftament,’’ 4s worthy of attentive 
perufal: the author judicioufly recom- 
mends great care-and attention in the 
adapting of events to the prophetic parts 
of {cripture, and very properly hints, 
that a warm and lively fancy is too apt to 
exceed the limits of moderation and dif- 
creet judgment. This pamphlet, in a 
narrow compals, contains much {piritual 
learning and ingenious reafoning. 
Joun Reeves, efq. a gentleman whofe 
political writings are notorious, has, to 
the advantage of, his own honour and li- 
terary reputation, changed the fubjeét of 
his pen, and employed it with much {kill 
in the department of biblical criticifm. 
Mr. Reeves has difplayed a valuable fund 
of erudition, and much acutenefs of cri- 
tical difcernment in ‘** A Collation” 
which he has made of the Hebrew and 
Greek Texts of the Pfalms. In this en- 
quiry the author informs us, that his 
object was, to reconcile the Septuagint 
tranflation and the Hebrew text, by ac- 
counting for thofe variances that appear 
fometimes fo confiderable, as to raife a 
doubt whether the one could ever be 
meant as a verfion of the other: to vindi- 
cate the fidelity of thefe tranflators on 
the one hand, and on the other no lefs to 
eltablifh the authenticity of the Hebrew 
on the credit of thole very witneffes in its 
favour. ; 8 
. This fame gentleman (who is one 
of the Patentees in the Office of King’s 
Printer!!!) has publifhed an edition of 
the ‘““ Book of Common Prayer,’’ pecu- 
liarly valuable for the hiftorical informa- 
tion which it contains relative to the 
erigin and nature of the rites and ceres 
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monies, and ordinances of the Church of 
England. ‘ : 
Doégtor MackeEnziz£, Minifter of Port 
Patrick, has publifhed a fingle volume of 
‘* Sermons,” which, with the exception 
of occafional Scotticifms, are written in a 
ftyle of unufual elegance: though fepa- 
rately excellent and applicable toa public 
or domeftic audience, they receive an ad- 
ditional value from the circumftance of © 
their connection with each other; thus 
forming, as it were, one extended moral 
differtation. The object of the author is 
to difplay the contrary effects of virtue 
and vice, their neceflary intermixture in 
the prefent fyfiem of things, and the af- 
furances which the Scriptures afford of 
the complete victory which the former 
will eventually obtain over the latter. 
The two firft Sermons treat of the quali- 
ties of virtue and vice confidered general- 
ly: in the four next are inveftigated, with 
much force of reafoning and felicity of 
illuftration, the effects of particular vices: 
in the three laft are confidered the Idolatry 
of the Hebrews, the return of the Jews 
from Babylon, and the hiftory and cha- 
raéter of the Revealed Religion. The 
author gives us reafon to hope that we 
may fee another volume from his pen. 
Dr. Parr has publifhed,. 1N ONE 
QUARTO VOLUME! ‘A Spital Sermon,” 
which he preached at the requeft of the 
late Lord Mayor, at Chrift Church, upon 
Eafter Tuefday, April 15, 1800: the 
text of this elaborate Sermon is taken 
from the Epiftle to the Galatians, ch. vi. 
ver. 10.—“* As we have therefore oppor- 
tunity let us do good unto all men, efpecially 
unto themwho are of the houfbold of faith.” 
From this text the learned preacher takes 
an opportunity of illuftrating the differ- 
ent theories of moralifts, as founded upon 
the felfiti or oppefite principle, with a 
particular application to the new doétrine 
of Univerfal Philanthropy. They who 
are acquainted—and who are not ac- 
quainted?—with the former writings of 
this learned divine, need fearcely be in- 
formed, that the prefent Sermon is richly 
ornamented with metaphoric gems of -va-~ 
rious fplendor: the ftyle is copious, and 
compounded of various languages, Latin, 
Greek, and Englifh. Innumerable are 
the notes attached to it, moral, critical, 
and illufrative. 
Mr. Cecit has colleéted into one vo- 
lume, ** The Difcourfes of the Hon. and 
Rev. W. Bromley Cadogan, A. M. late 
Reétor of St. Luke’s, Chellea; to which 
are now added, Short Obieryations onthe 
Lord’s 
