toleration will except that fect which tolerates none but their own.' However faulty and dangerous the principles of Popery may be and certainly are, it is defirable to promote charitable and liberal fentiments towards the perfons of thofe who are involved in thefe or any other mistaken opinions. It could not have been improper if this Author had added fome farther reflections which might conduce to advance, in this refpect, the exercife of moderation, candour, and benevolence.

H. Art. 46. An Account of the Establishment of Sunday Schools in Old Brentford; extracted from "The Oeconomy of Charity." By Mrs. Trimmer. 8vo. 6d. Longman, &c. 1787.

This tract was first published at the end of The Oeconomy of Charity," [See Rev. for May, p. 436.] and Mrs. T. informs us, that it is now printed feparately, by the advice of a refpectable friend to the inftitution of Sunday fchools, for the accommodation of fuch perfons as may wish to difperfe it.-As it is the best account of these fchools which has yet been publifhed, and as thofe at Brentford are fo well regulated by, and carried on under the infpection of Mrs. Trimmer, and other ladies, who are fo kind as to aflift her in that laudable defign, we hope it will circulate through every part of the kingdom; to which purpofe, the fmallness of its price is well accomdated.

Having been witneffes to the good effects which the institution has already produced on the children of Brentford, we rejoice in this opportunity of congratulating Mrs. T. on her zeal, affiduity, and fuccefs, in bringing the fcheme of Sunday fchools to fo much perBriw

fection.

Art. 47. A Courfe of Lectures for Sunday Evenings; containing religious Advice to young Perfons. Vol. II. 12mo. Is. 6d. bound. Marshall.

This is a continuation of that useful work which we noticed in our Review, vol. lxxi. p. 159. We are glad to fee a publication continued with the fame merit which we obferved in its outfet. To inftill into young minds religious and virtuous principles is the Author's chief defign; and the fimplicity of his language is well adapted to the early years of those for whom thefe Lectures are chiefly intended. Art. 48. Select Pfalms and Hymns, for the Ufe of the Parish Church of Cardington in the County of Bedford. 8vo. 4s.; and izmo. 1s. 6d. bound. Brown. 1787.

A judicious collection of Pfalms from fome of the best verfions hitherto published. The compilers feem to have been regardless from what authors they have felected, having only in view the choice of fuch pieces as are fit for a rational Chriftian affembly. A plain tune is adapted to each, that the whole congregation may join in the finging. De

Art. 49. An Inquiry into the fecondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has affigned for the rapid Growth of Christianity. By Sir David Dalrymple. 4to. 7s. 6d. Cadell.

Notice more than fufficient has, in our judgment, already been taken of Mr. Gibbon's brief and ill-fupported attempt to account

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'for the progrefs of Chriftianity from fecondary caufes. Sir D. Dat rymple has, however, thought it worth while to re-examine, more fully than Bishop Watfon, Dr. Chelfum, and other refpondents to Mr. Gibbon had done, every pofition which this celebrated writer has advanced on the fubject. In doing this, he has difplayed much erudition, and fully difcuffed feveral curious points. He defends the authenticity and authority of the Book of Revelation against the objections of Mr. Gibbon and others. He examines feveral relations of miracles in the fecond and third centuries, and particularly a cure faid to have been wrought by Proculus, a Chriftian, in the reign of Severus; and afferts, that though many of the miraculous gifts and powers ceafed long before the civil eftablishment of Chriftfanity, there is very probable, if not complete, evidence, that even in the earlier part of the third century, the Chriftans cured various difeafes by prayer, without any human means. He apologizes for the morality of the Fathers, by comparing it with that of their contemporaries among the heathen, and particularly by running an amufing parallel between the rigid doctrines of Clemens Alexan,drinus and Seneca.

We leave Mr. Gibbon to exculpate himfelf, if he thinks it neceffary, or finds himself able, from the numerous charges of unfair infinuation which Sir D. Dalrymple has brought against him.

SERMONS.

I. Preached, Auguft 14, 1786, at St. Giles in the Fields, before the British Affurance Society, inftituted for the Support and Benefit of the Sick, or otherwife afflicted Members, Orphans, Widows, &c. By the Rev. Edward Barry, M. D. 4to. 6d. Bew.

A fenfible, and pathetic exhortation to promote the prudent as as charitable inftitution for which it was delivered. From Galatians, vi. 10. the preacher recommends the Affociation formed by his audience; and addrefies the heart without aiming to gratify the luxury of the ear by the ftudied affectation of ornamental language: he is, 1 as the true preacher ought to be, more perfuafive, than, flowery.

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II. at the Opening of the new Chapel in Bridge Street, Briftol, Auguft 24, 1786. By Benj. Davies, D. D. To which is prefixed an Introductory. Addrefs, by the Rev. James Manning. 8vo. 6d. Buckland.

The circumftance of opening a new Meeting-houfe, gave the preacher an opportunity, from Zechariah, vi. 13. to advert to man as the fpiritual temple of the Lord; on which idea he pours forth a copious fund of Scripture authorities to work up the mystical allufion, under a series of divifions and fubdivifions,, that muft, confequently, render the difcourfe intricate, to common readers. But we are perfaded he confulted the taste of his fubfcribing audience; who probably have not the puny ftomachs of babes, but can digeft trong meat, and certainly have a right to be fed with that kind of food that pleafes them beft.

N. III. A Caution against Socinianifm, in a Difcourfe preached at the Cathedral, Canterbury, on Good Friday, 1787, and published for the Benefit of the Charity Schools, St. Clement Danes, Westmin

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fter. By George Berkeley, LL.D. Vice Dean of Canterbury, Rector of St. Clement Danes, &c. 8vo. IS. Gardner.

This difcourfe afferts the doctrine of Univerfal Redemption in its common acceptation, against the Calvinifts on the one hand, and the Socinians on the other. The Author calls the doctrines of the former horrible opinions, and the fyftem of the latter a horrid berely. He maintains the neceffity of understanding the language of Scripture not metaphorically but literally, and fays, that prying into myfteries, like gazing on the fun, begins in pain, and ends in blindness." He inveighs against the prefent champion for Unitarianifm, as one who oppofes doctrines he has never (as it fhould feem) given himself the trouble to examine,-who is bufied in perverting the faith of thefe nations, and whofe fincerity in his profeffion of Chriftianity, is to be queftioned. Maft this writer be told, that declamation is not argument, and that abuse is not refutation? E. IV. Preached at the Diffenting Chapel in Crofs Street, Manchefter, March 26, 1786, on Occafion of the Establishment of an Academy in that Town. By Ralph Harrison, Member of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchefter. Together with a Difcourfe delivered September 14, 1786, at the public Commencement of the Manchester Academy. By Thomas Barnes, D. D. Member of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchester. 8vo. 1s. Johnson.

The importance of knowledge, the value of a good education, the right of private judgment, and the ufefulness of Diffenting Academies, are the topics of the former of thefe difcourfes. The latter reprefents the beneficial influence of education, in a strain of elo-quence which does great credit both to the abilities and spirit of the Author.

The particulars of the Inftitution, Plan, and Préfent State of the Manchester Academy, are fubjoined.

E V. On profane Swearing. Preached in the Author's Parish Church on Sunday, Jan. 7th, 1787. By S. Smalpage, M. A. Vicar of Whitkirk, Yorkshire. 4to. Is. Wallis.

A plain, fenfible, excellent difcourfe. The text is James, v. 12. whence the Author, in a very proper manner, displays the evil both of perjury, and of profanenefs in common converfation; but the latter is principally the object. Since perjury is acknowledged to be fo great a crime, we cannot here avoid expreffing fome aftonishment that in this Christian country fo little attention fhould be employed on the multiplicity of oaths, and on the form, the nature, and the manner of adminiftering them. H.

VI.

By Edward Parry, Rector of Llangar, in Merionethfhire. 8vo. 1s. Fletcher, at Chefter. 1787. This difcourfe was preached at Mold, for the benefit of the Chefter Infirmary. The text is Go thou and do likewife.' The preacher judiciously exhorts his hearers to go and do as the charitable Samaritan had done; and, by contributing their mite to a public hofpital, 'pour wine and oil' into the wounds of the afflicted poor.

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WE E are obliged to 4 Conftant Reader for the remarks on Dr. Franklin's Swimming Anchor,' of which we gave an account in our Review for June laft, page 468. Our Correfpondent is right in fay ing it is not new, as we have found, on farther examination, that a machine of a fimilar kind was ufed by Capt. Cook, which was new to that able navigator. We find alfo that Capt. Inglefield, in the narrative of his run, in a boat, after he had quitted his fhip, to the Western lflands, contrived a curious fubftitute for this machine. We have likewife found that thefe machines are used in the British navy for various purposes; viz. for preventing a fhip from driving to leeward, for warping a fhip forward in a calm,-for a decoy to an enemy t, &c. Thefe things may be new to American feamen, and confequently Dr. Franklin is perfectly justifiable in publishing them; but they fhould not have been printed, without mentioning the writers, if known, who have defcribed them. Our Correfpondent, however, is mistaken when he fays, that the fwimming anchor is perhaps as old as Dr. Franklin himfelf.' It is doubtless a very ufeful invention, and as fuch, though not univerfally known, can never be made too public.

Vid. Narrative of the Lofs of the Centaur Man of War, Rev. vol. Ixviii p. 187. + If a frigate, or swift-failing ship, wants to decoy another within her reach, the throws out one of these machines a-ftern, then fets all her fails, and makes the ap pearance of running from the enemy; who, obferving her with fuch a crowd of fail out, and making fo little way (for the machine prevents her from going faft through the water), takes her for a heavy-laden rich merchantman, purfues, attacks her, and catches a Tartar.

$15 Our beft thanks are due to Biblicus for his very fenfible letter on the paffage in Haggai, refpecting the Temple. If we should hereafter have occafion to enter again upon that fubject, his hint shall not be forgotten.

It is probable that this subject will, very foon, be again introduced into our Review.

Theophilus may be affured that the Sermon which he mentions is not over-looked. In our customary notice of publications of that kind, it will certainly be included; but many articles are obliged to wait their turn, or incidental delays, to which all human affairs are unavoidably fubjected.

tit R. S. could not poffibly find Mallet's Life of Lord Bacon in Per GENERAL INDEX, as that biographical work was published fome Years before the commencement of our Review.

Our Anfeuers to feveral other Correfpondents must be deferred till

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MONTHLY REVIEW,

For OCTOBER, 1787.

ART. I. Obfervations on the Land Revenue of the Crown. 4to. 10s. 6d. Boards. Debrett. 1787.

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UBLIC fame afcribes this well-written work to the Hon. Mr. John St. John *, who was many years furveyor of the crown lands, and who hath here prefented us with a more authentic account of the nature and extent of the land revenue of the crown than ever before appeared in this country; on which account, we doubt not but the treatise will be deemed peculiarly acceptable, at this time, when the subject is fo frequently difcuffed.

Many readers, however, will, probably, be fomewhat difappointed on the perufal of this volume; for the land revenue of the crown will appear to be a matter of much smaller amount than they had preconceived: nor will those who hunt for information. refpecting the abuses of management in this department be much better fatisfied; for, on this popular topic, fcarce a fingle infinuation is thrown out, nor the moft diftant hint given, which could lead him to fufpect that any kind of abufes at all prevail. The Author only attempts to give a plain ftate of the actual amount of the land revenue of the crown, as it ftands at the prefent day; and this we have reafon to believe he has done with fidelity and precifion. This account is preceded by fome hiftorical notices of the land revenue of the crown of England, at different periods of the British hiftory; which, although they may not prove fatisfactory to the profeffed antiquary, will be highly acceptable to those who wish to attain, without much trouble to themfelves, a tolerably just notion of this branch of British hiftory, during thofe periods in which fome degree of certainty prevails.

Though our Author, after the example of Mr. Hume, declines entering deeply into the minute difcuffion of queftions of remote antiquity, refpecting the nature and precife extent of the landed revenue of the British crown, yet he cannot entirely avoid hazarding fome obfervations on that fubject, at the time of

* Brother to the late, and uncle to the prefent Lord Bolingbroke. VOL. LXXVII.

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