640. 
improved Machinery into the Woollen Ma- 
nufacory, Ge.” are calculated to difii- 
pate a very noxious prejudice. 
THEOLOGY AND MORALS. 
The Bifhop of London has publifhed 
an excelleat ‘* Charge’ to the clergy of 
his diocefe. We are particularly pleafed 
to fee him fo ftrenuoufly recommending 
the education of the poor, as we know 
many perfons who have afferted, that igno. 
rance is not merely the mother of devo- 
tion, but the mother of obedience. §* No 
fuch thing, (fays, and fays truly, the re- 
verend Prelate.) Ignorance, 1s the mo- 
ther of fuperftition, of bigotry, cf fana- 
ticifm, of cruelty, and of rebel.ion. Thefe 
are its legitimate children; it has never 
yet produced any other, and never will to 
the end of the world: and we may lay - 
this down as an inconteftible truth, that 
a well-informed and intelligent people, 
mere particularly a people well acquainted 
with the Sacred Writings, will always be 
more orderly, more decent, more humane, 
more virtuous, more religious, more obe- 
dient to their fuperiors, than a people to- 
tally devoid of all inftrudtion and all edu- 
cation.”?> We could not help {fmiling at 
the notice taken of the dangers which are 
fuppofed to have arifen from our inter- 
courfe with the Continent during the late 
peace. Our religion ts built on a very 
fandy foundation, if the firft wind that 
lows can overturn, or even thake it. 
Mr. Jerram’s * Letters on the Alone- 
ment-are vety argumentative; the ob- 
ject of the author is to anfwer objections 
again the doftrine; to eilablifh the doc- 
trine itfelf by Scripture evidence ; and, 
Jaftly, to fhew that it is perfeétly confo- 
sant with our own, ideas of fitnefs, and is 
a 
veroor. F 
Dr. Hewar’s © Sermons” on various 
fubje€ts are plain and picus; but there is 
not fafficient novelty of remark on the 
refpeCtive fubjeéis, nor fuficient flrength 
of reafoning, variety of exemplificaiion 
or fplendour of eloquence, to give them 
a claim to high, public notice. 
< Socrates and Fefus compared, by Jo- 
SEPH PRIESTLEY.” 
Notwithftanding the pecultarity of fome 
of Dr. Priefiley’s doGtrinal tenets, he was 
as zealous and enlightened a defender of 
Chriftianity as any difciple of his great 
matter could be. © The object of the pre- 
fent excellent traét is to inflitute a com- 
parifon between enlightened reafon and 
Revelation, Sosrates was one of the wileic, 
Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature.—Theology and Morals. 
and moft illuftrious teachers of the heathen 
world, yet his inferiority in every refpect 
to Jefus, is very frikingly and fully dif- 
played-in thefe few but valuable pages. 
_ The learned Bifhop of Killala, Dr. 
Srock, has publifhed a tranflation of 
“© The Book of ihe Prophet Ifaiab.” 
¢< In the {pace of one year (he obferves) 
I had read over the greatef{ part of the 
Old Teftament in Hebrew; and during 
my progre{s my ear became fo accuftomed 
to a Certain rhythm or’ metre, feeming to 
pervade the whole of that volume, that I 
refted at laft in a conviction, that not the 
Pfalms and the Prophecies only; but the 
hiftorical parts alfo, commonly fuppofed 
to be written in profe, are in fact com- 
pofed in verfe, with no other difference 
from the reft but that they want the orna- 
ments and bolder features of poetry.” 
In confiftency with this conviétion thé re- 
verend and learned Prelate has thrown the 
whole into a metrical ‘form, as well the 
Hebrew text as his own tranflation, which 
correfponds with the arrangement. We 
fay bis own tranflation, becaule, although 
the verfion of Bifhop Lowth is profeffec 
adopted, the corrections and alterati 
of Bifhop Stock are fo numerous as mate- 
rially to have altered its charaéter as well 
as its appearance. The prefent tranflation 
is accompanied with critical and explana- 
tory notes, &c. 3 
A third edition, with many additional 
notes and obfervations, has recently been 
publifhed, of Dr. WiLuan’s United 
Gofpel; or, Minifiry of our Lord and Sa- 
wviour Fefus Chrift, combined from ibe 
Narrations of the four Evangelifis.” 
‘¢ Notcs on the Bible, by the late Rev. 
Cuarvtss BuLKLeEY. Publifbed from 
the Author's MS.; with Memoirs of the 
Author and bis Works, by Joshua Youn. 
MIN, D.D.” 
This pofihumous publication mult be 
efieemed as a valuable acceffion to our 
fkock of biblical criticifin. It does not 
offer notes on every paflage, or on con- 
nected paragraphs, but, as the editor ob- 
ferves, propoles illuftrations of particular 
words drawn from all kinds of writers in 
a long courle cf reading. The quotations 
of which it confifts, he continues, tend to- 
illu@rate the portions of Scripture under 
which they appear by paralielifm of fen- 
timent and language, or by explanations 
of allufions or cuftoms, or by remarks on 
grammatical idioms and anomalies, or by 
hints of other kinds; they are borrowed 
from a great variety of authors, Heathen, 
Jewith, and Chriftin, ancient and mo- 
derne 
Mr, 
