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Lord’s Prayer, and Letters to feveral of 
his Friends.”? Thefe difcourfes, without 
any ornaments of ftyle, and without dif- 
playing any marks of a fine imagination 
or a correct talte, are neveérthelefs ex- 
tremely refpeftable, from that fervent 
piety which pervades them, and that phi- 
lanthropy which is exprefled in every 
page. 
The Rev. P. Toucw has publithed 
the firft volume—two others are to fuc- 
ceed it—of ‘* Sermons of the late Rev. 
John Touch, A.M.” Mr. Touch ap- 
pears to have laboured in his holy voca- 
tion with unremitting affiduity, and the 
unfinifhed {pecimens which his fon has 
afforded us of his pulpit-powers do him 
high credit. 
Mr. KinGHorn’s little pamphlet, en- 
titled ‘* Public Worfhip confidered and 
enforced,”” evinces much Chriftian zeal, 
without any mixture of the leaven of il- 
\ liberality. 
Mr. BENSON, a preacher among the 
Methodifts, has publifhed a very {pirited 
and fenfible ‘* Vindication’’ of the people 
fo denominated, in aniwer to the Report 
of the Lincolnfhire Clergy, which we no- 
ticed on a former occafion. 
An Author, who figns himfelf Curftar, 
has addrefled “* A Letter to the Lord 
Bifhop of Lincoln, refpetting the Report 
from the Clergy of a Diftriét in the Dio- 
cefe of Lincoln,” in which Report the 
increafe of Methodifm is confidered as a 
eaule of the declenfion of religion. Cur- 
fitor difclaims all connection with Me- 
thodifm, and denies that he writes in fup- 
port of it. He apprehends that the 
Bifhop of Lincoln is projeéting a curtail- 
ment of the religious liberty of this coun- 
try, to which the Report before adverted 
to is a preparatory meafure. We fin- 
cerely hope that his apprehenfions are ill- 
founded, and that his well-intended letter 
in behalf of univerfal toleration may be a 
work of fupererogation. 
Mr. BusFizLD is the author of an 
ufeful little pamphlet, entitied, ‘* The 
Chriltians’ Guide ; in fix progreffive Lec- 
tures, embeilifhed with a few ferious Ex- 
tracts and IHiluftrations, with copious 
Notes, for the Parifhioners of Shepton.” 
Mr. WeLLBELOVED’s § Devotional 
‘Exercifes”’ ave well calculated to lead the 
young mind from the contemplation of 
the Works of God to the contemplation 
of God himfelf: they are elegant, im- 
preflive, and comprehenfible to the under- 
fiandings uf young perfons. 
The Rev. Mr. Pearson has felected 
. 
a Sedo] 
with the defired effe&. 
Retrofpec? of Domeftic Literature—Theology and Morals. 
from various writers, ‘ Prayers for Fa- 
milies 3 confifting of a Form, fhort but 
comprehenfive, for the Morning and Even- 
ing of every Day in the Week.” 
Mr. CumBeruanp has addreffed to 
the patrons and profeffors of the New - 
Philofophy, ‘* A few Plain Reafons why 
we fhould believe in Chrift, and adhere to 
his Religion.” The reafons- muft, of 
courfe, be thofe which have been urged a 
thoufand times before, but Mr. Cumber- 
land will rather irritate than repel by the 
violence of his abufe, and the evidence 
which it affords, that however firm his 
belief of the Chriftian Religion, he has 
learned but little of the benevoleace, be- 
nignity, and forbearance which it incul= 
cates. ; ; 
The Lord Bifhop of WincHEsTER; 
in ** A Sermon,” containing many excel- 
Jent refleSions, which he preached before 
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, -in 
Wettminfter Abbey, on the laft Faft Day, 
gave it as his opinion, that political de= 
tails were unfit for the pulpits Mr. Pre- 
bendary Poulter, however, has dedicated 
to this Right Rev. Prelate ‘* Two Ser- 
mons,”* (one of which he preached at the 
Cathedral Chapel, Winchefter, on the 
very fame day) which are a political 
rhapfody from one end to the other. 
Among the mafs of fingle fermons we 
may particularize as worthy of attention, , 
Mr. Thomas Belfham’s, ‘** On Freedom 
of Enquiry,”? Mr. Jerram’s ‘¢ Chriftian 
Miniftry exemplified in St. Paul,”’ a Ser- 
mon preached at the Vifitation of the Bi- 
fhop of Lincoln; Mr. Whitmore’s dif- 
courfe ‘On the Duty of not running in 
Debt,”’ was preached before the Univer- 
fity of Cambridge: a more appropriate 
fubject could not have been felected, and 
we fincerely hope that it will be attended 
Mr. GEORGE WaALKER’s Sermon ** On 
the Right of Individual Judgment in Re- 
ligion,”’ bears all thofe of marks of manly 
fpirit and ftrong underftanding which the 
author is well known to poffefs. 
Although the following article may 
feem mifplaced in an account of Englith 
literature, yet we cannot find a more ap- 
propriate place for it, and it has toomuch 
merit to be omitted.—*¢ Sermons fur le 
Culte Public, par Louis Mercier, Pafe 
teur de Eglife Frangaife de Londres, 
2 tom.’ This eloquent preacher, who 
has long commanded much admiration 
from the pulpit, has here furnifhed the 
readers of the French language with a fet 
of difcourfes upon the important ai 
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