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this as well as of al] his other works. His 
ofthumous publications, it is believed, 
will be found to be of confiderable impor- 
tance, and will fully prove that the laft 
years of his life, like all the preceding, 
were unremittingly dedicated to public 
fervice. 
‘This Ecclefiaftical Hiftory bears all the 
internal marks of having been compiled 
with great diligence, care and refearch, 
and, in a muititude of inftances, it evinces 
the candour ard liberality of the author’s 
mind. His peculiar tenets in theology 
lead him to view many things in a light 
very different from thofe who hold ortho- 
dox osinicns; but his favourite doctrines 
never induce him to ciftortor difcolour facts. 
THEOLOGY. 
66 Sermons on a number of conneZied 
Subjeés, by Joan SMaLuey, D.D. Paf- 
tor of a@ Church in Berlin, in the State of 
Conneticut,’ have jately appeared in an 
Svo. volume of 436 pages. The fermons 
are twenty-!hree in number, and may be 
pronoun ed to be plain, fenible and judi- 
cieus difcourfes. They are throvghout 
ftrone}: tin“ured with what js celied in 
the Eaftrrn States Hopkinfian divinity ;— 
a fer of opinions winch are fuppeled by 
‘ thofe who hold them to be new, but which 
fe-m +o be little more than old ones 
brought tort’: again into the light, and ex- 
hibired in {cme flight variations of phrafe. 
In point of ftyle, the'e fermons are heavy, 
dull and unpolithed; they are, however, 
much efteemed in the New Engiand &ta es, 
and certainly breathe a very warm ‘pirit 
of piety. Tne author is confidered as one 
of the principal champions of the Hop- 
kinfian divini'y. 
In the beginning of the prefent year, an 
ofiavo volume ot ‘ Sermons on a variety 
of important Subjedis,’ was allo publithed 
by the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, the writer 
fiom whom the Hopkiofian Syftem of 
Theology derived its denomination. Thefe 
fermons, like ail the writings of Dr. Hop- 
kins, evince good fenle, learning, reflec- 
tion and warm piety; but his manner is 
dull, and his ftyle rugoed and every way 
unpleafing. Amons thofe who embrice 
this author's pecuhar opinions (it they 
may be faid to be peculiar) this publica- 
tien cannot fail to be very acceptable. 
He died about the period at which the 
publication took place. 
By the publication of a fecond volume, 
Mr. Tuomas Dosson, of Philad:Iphia, 
has completed his ‘* Letters on the Ex- 
ifence and Charadter of the Deity, and the 
Moral State of Man.’ As in the tormer 
yolume, fo in the prefent, Mr. Dobdfon 
Half-Yearly Retrofpe of American Literature. 
[Sept. 1, 
difplays good fenfe, found refleétion, 
much ferioufnefs, and a very benevolent 
defire to inftil truth into the minds of the 
rifing generation; and while he exhibits 
a commendable attachment to principles 
which he feems to have adopted with care 
and difcrimination, he gives frequent 
proofs of the candour and liberality of his 
mind, 
Among a Jarge number of fingle fer- 
mons which have not come into our 
hands, and which perhaps deferve not long 
to detain our attention, we think proper to 
mention ‘* 4 Difcour fe before the Society for 
propagating the Gofpel among the Indians, 
and others, in North America, by Dr. La- 
THROP, Pafior of the fecond Church in 
Bofton.”” re: 
This is a fenfible difcourfe, plainly, and 
judicioufly compofed ; and well adap'ed 
to the occafizn on which it was delivered. 
“ The babpinefs of American Chriftzans, 
a Thank{eiving Sermon ;” preached on 
Thurfday, Nov. 24, 1803, by the Rev. 
Evans JOHNS, Pattor of a Church in 
Berlin, Conneéticut, is entitled to refpeét- 
ful notice. The author is an emigrant 
from England, who.lately fettled in that 
part of the United States. He feems to 
frel very happy in the enjoyment of the 
privileges of an American citizen, and 
particularly inthe repofe, tranquilhty and 
fecurity which fo greatly dillinguifh the 
condition of the inbahitants of this rifing 
empire. Like the other inhabitants of 
Conneéticut, he is warmly attached to the 
ancient inftitutiors and fleady Labits of 
that State; and though many of thofe are 
doubtlefs very abfurd and ridiculous, there 
certainly are not wanting others which the 
people of the neighbouring States might 
advantageoufly imitate. 
“© The iWiffionary Magazine of New 
York’? which for fome years pait had been 
proceeding in a refpeétable and uleful 
courfe, was difcontinued about the begin- 
ning of the prefent year, for want of en- 
couragement. | 
‘© The Evangelical Magazine of Con- 
neélicut,” publifhed monthly, which was _ 
commenced about two years ago, is ftill 
fupported with fome degree otf zeal and 
fteadinefs. We occafionally obferve in it 
communications of a plain and ferious 
kind, quite decently written, which muft 
~be in a confiderable degree interefting to 
the friends of religion in that quarter of 
the United States. 
A publication under the fame title, and 
of a correfpondent degree of merit, has 
been, for fome time paft, carried on in the 
State of Matiachuiletts. 
A periodical 
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