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Europe, in their own communion, are banishing them from their feveral ftates; and we, it is imagined, not fo prudently connected and attentive to our own interefts as they are, fhall give them shelter in ours.'

Here Mr. Ridley enters on a brief view of the ftrange origin and deep-laid policy of the Jefuitic fociety, the favourite fociety of Mr. Phillips; and then finally takes leave of his antagonist, in the following terms. Whatever your reafons may be, for thus extolling the Jefuits, or what thanks foever your Popish fuperiors may give you for this wanton disturbance of your country, which permits you and your affociates to live in peace amongst them, we acknowlege the goodness of the divine permiffion, in thus fuffering you to awaken us from a forgetfulness of those corruptions and that tyranny from which he has thrice delivered us. Security is often fatal, and your performance is like the alarm of the rattle-fnake, which puts the paffenger on his guard. We might forget the controverfy were we not, by thefe efforts, called upon to Review it. God permits these skirmishes to exercife us, left we contract an indolence that might deftroy us. As the idolatrous nations were not to be entirely confumed by the Ifraelites, left the beasts of the field fhould increase upon them. When like attacks repeted call for a like defence, it would be more nice than wife to neglect ufing the old weapons, only because they have been already fuccefsful. If thofe, which your unprovoked attack upon our conftitution in church and ftate has obliged me to draw forth in defence of both, convince you, that the bishop of Rome has no jurifdiction in this realm from fcripture; that we, holding the form of found words commanded by Chrift, and delivered by the Apofiles, under apoftolical difcipline, are members of the true church, however others may cut themfelves off from our communion: and that the additional articles in the creed of Pope Pius are novelties, unknown to the first ages of Chriftianity, and which the council of Trent had no authority to impofe on a church unwilling to receive them; you will then fee your obligation to fubmit yourself to the King as fupreme, and to obey the fpiritual governours of your national church, who have the rule over you. One of us must be guilty of ichiẩm: and though the infirmities of fallible men fhould make us mutually bear with one another, yet it behoves each of us, for his own Lake, to avoid the punishment of fchifm, by a careful avoiding the guilt of it. This I have confcientiously endeavoured to do on my part, knowing how much it concerns me: I hope you will take as much honeft pains on yours. And if we ftill continue to think differently, be you careful not to behave feditiously, and God pardon the involuntary errors of either!'

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Such of our Readers as are defirous of a farther acquaintance with Mr. Ridley's literary productions, are referred to our account of his life of that noble Martyr, Dr. Nicholas Ridley, the Protestant bishop of London, burnt for his religion in the bigot and bloody reign of Queen Mary---begun in our Review Vol. XXIX, and finished in Vol. XXX.

MONTHLY

CATALOGUE,

For DECEMBER, 1765.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 10. Practical Chriftianity, illuftrated in Nine Tracts, on various Subjects: namely,-The Neceffity of being acquainted with our fallen State-A familiar Introduction to the Knowlege of ourfeives;-Helps to Self-examination ;-Rules for promoting Religious Converfation among Chriftians;—A familiar Catechifm, or the Operations of the Holy Spirit illuftrated and proved;-Of Conviction of Sin;-An Examination for the Lord's Supper;-A Letter on the first Question in the Office for the ordaining of Deacons ;-A Funeral Sermon on a young Man drowned. By Samuel Walker, A. B. late Curate of Truro, in Cornwall. 3s. Dilly,

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12mo.

LL thefe tracts, except one, were printed feparately in the Author's lifetime; and fome of them, as the addrefs to the reader informs us, paffed through feveral editions. They are now, fays the Editor, collected into a pocket-volume, in order to preferve them from being loft, and to render them the more useful to awaken and convince finners, and to lead them, by a true faith, to our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Saviour and Redeemer, by whofe blood and righteoufnefs alone they can be accepted with God." We have already given our Readers fufficient fpecimens of this Writer's principles and manner of treating religious fubjects;-fee our accounts of his fermons entitled The Chriftian, REV. Vol. 13:1 of his Familiar Introduction to the Knowlege of ourselves, Vol.

25; and of his Fifty-two Sermons, Vol. 29.

Art. 11. Letters on the Fall and Restoration of Mankind. Addressed to all the ferious Part of every Denomination. By Stephen Penny, Accomptant. 8vo. 4d. Bristol, printed by Farley, and fold by Baldwin in London.

Mr. Penny is alarmed and concerned for the fafety of orthodox Chriftianity, which he thinks will be in fome danger from the new tranflation of the New Teftament which is advertifed to be in the prefs, and speedily to be publifhed, by the celebrated Mr. Harwood.' 'He is alfo much fended at the pamphlet publifhed by Geo, Williams, the Glocefter

fhire footman, entitled, An Attempt to restore the Supreme Worship, &c. To obviate, in fome degree, the apprehended ill effects of this unpub - lifhed book, and this re-published pamphlet, Mr. Penny has given us his own peculiar fancies relating to the fall, the redemption, the trinity, &c. which he first printed in a weekly news-paper, and has now collected into a pamphlet, with some additions.

*In a fecond edition, with a preface, which this Writer fuppofes to have been written by Mr. Harwood.

POLITICAL and COMMERCIAL.

Art. 12. Commercial Laws, Charters and Decrees; being an au thentic Copy of the Privileges and Immunities which have been granted at fundry Times, and on various Occafions, by the Kings of Portugal, in Favour of the Merchants of Great Britain; the whole properly attefted, and taken from the Regifter-book, by the British Confuls refiding at Lisbon. 4to. 4s. Jones, Clif

ford's-Inn.

The publication of these commercial decrees, &c. cannot but be acceptable to all who are concerned in the trade with Portugal. There is among them, a copy of the Articles of peace, alliance, and commerce, concluded between the moft ferene LORD PROTECTOR Of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the one part, and the most ferene king of Portugal, and of the Algarves, on the other part: done at Westminfter, on the 10th of July, 1654.' This treaty, like his other tranfactions of the fame kind, does honour to Cromwell's memory; and fhews how nobly the national reputation and interest were fupported under his fteady and vigorous adminiftration.

Art. 13. The fecret Springs of the late Changes in the Ministry, fairly explained, by an Honeft Man. In Anfwer to the Abuse and Mifreprefentations of a pretended Son of Candor. With an Introductory Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Becket and de Hondt.

Our Readers may remember the appearance of one or two pamphlets, occafioned by a notable paper in the Public Advertiser of Sept. 5, 1765; in which the difmiffion of the late miniftry was freely animadverted upon; and fome hints were thrown out, in order to account for that fudden change, in a manner not fo much intended to do honour to the gentlemen who came in, on that occafion, as to vindicate the just feelings and refentments of a GREAT PERSONAGE, on account of the arrogant behaviour of the former fet.

This pamphlet contains a new edition of that paper, with the Author's own commentary upon, and defence of it; and it now appears to be the production of no contemptible, though an incorrect pen. The fpirited Writer intimates, that he is not an author by profeffion; that he was a military man, of good repute in the army, and of great diftinction in the world' and [braving the confequences of fuch a declaration] he

openly

openly profeffes himself to be a friend to the cause of the Earl of B-t. He is not, however, fo blindly attached to that nobleman's caufe, as not to fee the error of his Lordship's conduct, in one very material refpect, his avowed contempt of popularity; on which he makes the following remark, thus introduced: When I wrote my letter, as well as when I faw the extract of it in print, the E of B-e had never had any direct nor indirect knowledge of my being one of his advocates; that long before, and ever fince, I never had the least intercourfe with himself, and very, very little with any of his friends; and that it is not a very long while ago, that by the means of fome of the latter, I did fend him very freely my fincere opinion on his unaccountable neglect, in fuffering the people to continue in that unjust, unfortunate, and dangerous odium, which they had been, and were ftill daily infpired with, againft him, by fo much public calumny, flander, and abufe, as the news-papers were filled with; and that I thought it high time, and his duty towards his k-g and country, as well as himself and family, to vindicate his honour and reputation, in the fame public manner as they had been attacked.

• Whether this has had any effect upon his own mind, I have not been able to learn; but I have fince feen with pleasure, that there have already appeared in your papers, other fuch convincing juffifications of his charac te and conduct, that unless the public fhould read nothing but the onwarranted, unfupported (though thousand times repeated) lies, that are thrown out against him; and prefer the falfe wit and ridicule with which they are kept up, to the authentic facts and found arguments which have appeared in his defence, it is impoffible that the nation can fill perfift in an odium, founded upon nothing but detected and confuted flander and calumny. The Earl has always been blamed, by many of his friends, from the moment he appeared on the ftage, for not having minded enough the dangerous effects which the full fcope and impunity of such infamous, and unexampled abufe, would at laft produce amongst the generality of the people. He ought to have taken up the cudgels and thruft them into the hands of the ableft pen-men he could get, whether volunteers or mercenaries, for the vindication of his majesty's confidence in his counfels, as well as for the honour of government and his own reputation. He was, unfortunately for this kingdom, too much the man of honour, for using the means and tools employed by micifters in fupport of their power: he fcorned too much the mean and nauseous tak of purchafing men whom he could not but defpife, at the expence of his fincerity, and with favours they did not deferve. He would otherwife have had a Churchill, and a Wilkes, at his elbow, and have furnished them with materials of truth and found politics, instead of the fcurrilous falfhoods, and feditious tenets, which their talents were employed in. He was, moreover, too much cut out for council and cabinet, to make the best of a drawing room: his mind was too elevated for the fecondary views and functions of a minifter; and he was too intent upon the objects on which the preservation and the welfare of a whole people de

It seems (according to this gentleman's folemn declarations) the paper in the Public Advertiser was not intended for the prefs, but was really an extract of a private letter to a friend; and by that friend inferted in the news paper, without the Writer's knowlege.

pended,

pended, to mind fufficiently how far his own was at stake; and what Thare it deserved in his attention, for the better execution of his falutary defigns. He would otherwife have instructed and authorized his friends, from the beginning, to publifh fuch truths as he alone was poffeffed of, and entitled to communicate, to the ruin of falfhood, before it had made fuch deep and lamentable impreffions on the minds of the people. He would, in imitation of Mr. Pitt, not have fcrupled to difclofe whatever fecrets he might have thought proper, in order to inftruct the public with his motives, firft, for refigning his public flation, and afterwards, for totally withdrawing his affiftance from his fucceffors, and his advice from his king. He would not have confided fo long in the notion, that his integrity, and the purity of his intentions, with a fuitable conduct and deportment in his retreat, would be fufficient to withstand, and at laft overfet all the efforts of inveterate envy and malice: and he would not have been so reluctant in furnishing his friends with those few materials which they have latterly thought it necessary to extort from him; and to publish (as Lam effured by fome of them of undoubted veracity) without his knowledge or confent, not merely in vindication of his character, but of the higheft and facredeft one amongst us.'

As to the Author's explanation of the fecret Springs of the late changes in the ministry, as he hath improperly expreffed it in his title-page, those who, at this time of day, may be curious of farther information, we refer to the pamphlet at length.

Art. 14. A Candid Review of the New Administration. 8vo. Is.

Wilkie.

An acrimonious answer to a pamphlet, entitled, The Merits of the New Adminflration, mentioned in our Review for September. The prefent anti-ministerial Writer affects the moft fovereign contempt of the gentlemen now in power; whole removal he confiders as the first step to our fafety:'-but, by the way, he has not fhewn what degree of dan ger we are threatened with, fhould they continue in the places they now fill-and that they will continue, there is now very little room to entertain even the smallest doubt.

Art. 15. A Vindication of the Miniftry's Acceptance of the Adminifiration; with an Expofition of the real Motives of a noble Lord's declining it. In Anfwer to A Letter from a Son of Candor to the Public Advertiser. With a Propofal to establish the Public Tranquillity, to the Satisfaction of all Parties. In a Letter from a Citizen to his Friend in the Country. 8vo. Is. Coote. In this answer to the Principles of the late Changes, &c. the Author undertakes a great deal, and performs little. He is an indifferent writer, and his attempts at pleasantry are coarse and awkward. His manner of accounting for Lord Temple's declining to embark in the ftate veffel, are no better than mere cavils against what was faid on that fubject by the author of the PRINCIPLES: who, perhaps, is equally out of the fecret. In short, it is happy for the prefent miniftry, that their permanency does not depend on the abilities of their literary advocates.

• See Review for the last month, p. 399.

Art. 16.

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