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here defcribed, ftanding in the moft glaring 
hight before him ?””—Well done, Mr.Gal- 
loway! 
Thefday, the 1ft of June, 1802, being 
the day appointed to be obferved as a 
General Thank(giving for the reftoration 
of peace, our divines, in every part of the 
kingdom, were employed in pouring forth 
thew general gratulations on that happy. 
event. It is curious to obferve the va- 
rious manner in which the fubdject was 
treated by different preachers :—Mr. Tap- 
rell amufes his auditors with defcribing 
the Battle of the Nile; he applauds the 
fkill with which it was contrived, the cool 
and fteady ardour with which the plan 
was purfued, and the bold and daring 
courage which was difplayed throughout 
the engagement. Viétory, rather than 
peace, feems to be the fubje& of his 
thankfgiving. So is it with Dr. Vincent, 
who tells us, that the war has ended on 
one fide with victory, and the undoubted 
fovereignty of the fea. Mr. Garnett, 
very properly, lets the army as well as 
the navy, and the volunteers as well as 
the regulars, come in for their refpective 
thare of glory: and he very becomingly 
hints, that if the French take any liberties 
with us, we know how to deal with them. 
Thefe and many other fongs of viétory and 
defiance were offered up to the Almighty, 
as thank{givings for the bleffings of peace ! 
The fame occafion, however, called forch 
other difcourfes, in which an appropriate 
repentance for the miferies occafioned by 
the war, and a becoming difpofition to- 
wards an interchange of good offices with 
our late adverfaries, were manifeit : amon 
thefe latter difcourfes, Mr. T. Belfham’s 
may be noticed, as containing many juft 
and ufeful - reflections. Mr. BIcHENo’s 
«¢ Eftimate of the Peace” is very fairly 
made: his difcourfe contains many fenfi- 
ble remarks, and folemn exhortations: we 
are called upon not to rejoice that our 
foldiers and failors are better fighters than 
the French, but we are called upoa to re- 
pent and reform; ** and this repentance 
and reform,” the preacher fays, muft 
reach both to thofe perfonal fins and im- 
pieties, which you hear reproved in all our 
places of worfhip every fabbath day ; and 
to thofe which may more properly be cal- 
Jed our national fins, fuch as trading in 
the perfons and fweat and blood of our 
fellow-creatures; carrying war to every 
part of the earth for the fake of aggran- 
difement, and commercial advantages ; 
bariering the liberties of the country for 
honours and gold ; converting the religion 
of Chrift into a fyftem of worldly policy, 
of trade and oppreffion; proftituting the 
ordinances of the Chriftian church to mere 
fecular purpofes. The Bifhop of Llan- 
daff’s ‘* Sermon,”’ preached in the chapel 
of the London Hofpital, for the benefit of 
the charity ; and the Bifhop of Killaloe’s, 
preached in thechapel of Trinity College, 
Dublin, are both of them very elegant 
and impreffive difcourfes. Mr. Woop’s 
*¢ Sermon,” Mr. Toulmin’s, Mr. Evans’, 
and a few more may be perufed with 
advantage. ‘* A Plea for Religion and 
the Sacred Writings, addreffed to the 
Difciples of Thomas Paine, and wavering 
Chriltians of every Perfuation; with an 
Appendix, containing the Author’s De- 
termination to have relinquifhed his 
Charge in the eftablifed Church, and the 
Reafons on which that Determination was 
founded, by the Rev. Davip SiMPson, 
M. A.” This is the produétion of a 
man, who {corns thofe explanatory, palli- 
ative commentaries,' by which fome pers 
fons high in the church have filenced the 
reproaches of conf{cience: according to 
the thirty-fixth canon, a clergyman is 
required to fubfcribe willingly and ‘ex 
animo, that the book ef Common Prayer, 
and of ordering Bifhops, Prielts, and 
Deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary 
to the Scriptures ; and that he acknow- 
ledges all and every of the thirty-nine ar- 
ticles, befides the ratification to be agree- 
able to the word of God. ‘* God of my 
Fathers!’ exclaims Mr. Simpfon,; in a 
tone of ferious and impaffioned eloquence, 
‘* What a requirement is this! 
lift up my hand to heaven, and {wear by 
him that liveth for ever and ever, that I 
do willingly and ex azimo tubfcribe, as is 
legally required? And can I declare, 
that whofoever doeth not hold the Catho- - 
lic faith, as explained in tne Athanafian 
Creed, and keep it whole and undefiled, 
hall, without doubt, perifh everlafting- 
ly??? Deipiling the various manceuvres, 
which are made ule of to render palatable 
thefe harfh expreffions 5 and, inttead of 
adopting any of the illuftrations and modi- 
fications, which have been fo ingenioufly 
fuggefted, of thefe damnatory.claules; Mr, 
Simpfon, like an honeft and conictentious” 
man, declines his preferment, and re- 
nounces the emoluments of a fituatioa, 
which he can no longer retain but at the ex~ 
pence of that peace and ferevity of mind, 
which are of infinitely more va'ue than al} 
the bifhoprics of the United Kingdoms. 
‘s* A Scenic Arrangement of Llaiah’s 
Prophecy relating to the Fall of the re- 
nowned City of Babylon, and Belfhazzar, 
its King, by NarHanigEL SCARLETT.” 
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