580 = Retrofpec? of Domeftic Literature—Theolozy and Morals. 
a writer who figns himfelf a Prefbyter, are 
the two victims felected by this chief in- 
quifitor to grace his auto da fe. More ar- 
rogance, abule, and intolerance, could 
fearcely have been compreffed by any body 
but Dr. Ripiing within the fame number 
of pages. 
On a former occafon, we congratulated 
the public on the appearance of a new 
edition of Mr. Marth’s. tranflation of 
MIcHAELIs’ ** Introduction to the New 
Teftament.”> This has catled forth a 
’ Jearned traét, intitled ‘*TheEvidence for the 
Authenticity and Divine In{piration of the 
Apocalypfe, ftated, and vindicated from 
the Objections of the late Profeffor, J. D. 
Michaelis, in Letters addreffed fo the 
Rev. Herbert Marth,B.D.&c.”? Mr.Marth 
has alfo publifhed feparately, his «* Dif- 
fertation on the Origin and Compofition 
af the Three Firft Goffels,” Thefe 
works have excited the animadverfion of 
an anonymous writer (the Lord Bifho 
of Oxford, it is generally underftood) who 
by way of caution to ftudents in divinity, 
has written fome ‘* Remarks” on the 3rd 
and 4th volumes of Michaelis’ Introduc- 
tion to the New Teftament. To this 
tract Mr. Marth has replied, in a feries of 
*¢ Letters to the Anonymous Author of Re- 
marks on Michaelis and his Commentator, 
relating efpecialiy to the Difiertation on 
the Origin and Compofition of our Three 
Firft Canonical Gotpels. This contro- 
verfy, the fubjeé&t of. which is fo highly 
interefting in itfelf, becomes ftill more fo 
in confequence of the able and learned 
manner with which it is conduéted. 
<< Six Letters to Granville Sharpe, Efq. 
refpeciing his Remarks on the Ufes of the 
Definitive Article in the Greek Text of 
the New Teftament.”? Thefe learned Let- 
ters are the reputed produétion of Mr. C, 
WorpswortH, of Trinity College, 
Cambridge: their obje& is to ftrengthen, 
by a moft laborious appeal to the Greek 
fathers, the firft rule which Mr. Sharpe 
laid down in his remarks, which had for 
their object, as the prefent work has, the 
eftablifhment of the dofirine of the divini- 
ty of Chrift. 
‘¢ Brief Commentaries on fuch Parts of 
the Revelation and other Prophecies, as 
immediately refer to the prefent Times ; 
in which the feveral Allegorical Types 
and Expreffions of thofe Prophecies are 
tranflated into their literal Meanings, and 
applied to their appropriate Events; 
containing a Summary of the Revelation 
of the Prophetic Hiftories of the Beaft of 
the Bottomlefs Pit, the Beaft of the Earth, 
the Grand Confederacy, or Babylon the 
Great, the Man of Sin, the Little Horn, 
and Antichrif, by JosepH GaLLoway, . 
Efq. formerly of Philadelphia, in Ameri- 
ca ; Author of Letters toa Nobleman, and 
other Traéts on the late American War.”” 
The prophecies contained in the Revelations 
of St. John, a compofition, which, by many 
learned men, has been-rejected as fpurious, 
and {till more fufpected as to its genuine-_ 
nefs—ihefe Prophecies have, in different 
ages, had a number of expofitors, almoft 
all of whom have applied their myfierious 
denunciations to the pafiing events of the 
refpective times. Surely the difcrepancy 
of preceding expofitors, and the utter in- 
applicability of the fame prophecy to dif- 
ferent events, ought to teach our modern 
interpreters a leflon of extreme caution 
and difidence. But, no; as if confidence 
and pofitivenefs were the credentials of 
infallibility, each fucceeding expofitor is 
as decidedly convinced of the truth of his 
expofition, almoft ‘as if it had been re- 
vealed to him from on high! Mr. Gal- 
loway’s ** Beaft of the Bottomlefs Pit” is 
revolutionary France; ‘* the Beaft of the 
Earth!’ In his account of the Seven 
Vials, Mr. Galloway tells us, that, under 
‘the firft, are foretold the judgments that 
fhould be poured out on revolutionary 
France; under the fecond vial, on Papal 
Rome; underthethird,uponPapalGermany; __ 
under the fourth, upon the King and peo- 
ple of France; under the fifth, upon the | 
republic and people of France, in her 
Atheiftical ftate ; and the fixth, upon the 
Ottoman Empire, or Mahommedan apol- 
tacy. ‘* The Man of Sin, the Son of 
Perdition, is the republic of France, in 
all her conduét, not only afting up to it - 
in its fulleft extent, but excelling, and, 
without fhame or remorfe, glorying in this 
very charaéter, and fhewing herfelt the on- 
ly and exa&t prototype of the * Man of 
Sin.’"—*© The Little Horn :—Where 
fhall we find a power, which fo perfectly 
anfwers to this explanation of it, a power 
fo worthlefs, fo wicked, and abandoned, 
fo loft to all that is virtuous and good, fo 
avowedly impious in principle, and of 
courfe fo LiTTLE in the fight, and fo low 
in the favour, of Gad, as the revolutionary 
power of France ?”—** Antichrift,” men- ~ 
tioned in the Epiftles of St. John :—This 
refers not, as fome expofitors have ima- 
gined, either to the Pagan, Mahommedan, 
or Papal powers. Can any ferious mind 
take a view of the immoral and impious 
principles, and the hoftile conduct of the 
revolutionary republic of France againit 
all that has had the leaft appearance of 
Chriftianity, and not fee ‘ Antichrift’* 
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