hold the dying sinner, who dares not to approach the cross of Christ, and condemns himself to eternal reprobation! Let him but hear the name of Mary, repentance and faith take instant possession of his soul, and he exclaims, Yes! she alone can presume to ask my pardon; she alone will be heard in my behalf: I believe, and I rest in hope!!" Now it is very possible that many very respectable ladies, old and young, princess and peasant, may believe that all this is warranted by the four Evangelists, because they are told so by those who have the pastoral charge of their souls, and because they are taught from their infancy to take the lesson upon trust, without any further insight into the Bible itself, than the mutilated selections which their Church allows. But what can be thought of the common honesty of a priesthood who allow such "old wives' tales" to be circulated "with the approbation of the Church" conspicuously set forth on the wrapper? Nothing, surely, can mark more distinctly the character of the man of sin, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," &c. &c. (2 Thess. ii. 9-11.) The book concludes with prayers to the Virgin, and one or two of those anthems, in which she is invoked by such titles as -the Gate of Heaven-the Morning Star, the Ark of the Covenant, and various other endearing epithets and appellations, which will be found in nauseous abundance in any Romish Livre d'Heures, which our readers may or may not happen to have at hand.

The Responsibilities of Medical Students. A Sermon preached in the Chapel of Guy's Hospital, on Sunday, March 4, 1838. By the Rev. F. MAURICE, A.M. Chaplain to the Hospital. London: Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill; and J. Highley, Fleet Street. 1838. Pp. 42. IN the discourse before us, Mr. Maurice has treated a difficult, and, at the first glance, a somewhat unpromising subject for the pulpit, with great talent and judgment. And it speaks most favourably for the medical students, that it was preached at their request, and published by their express desire.

A Few Suggestions for Increasing the Incomes of many of the Smaller Livings; for the almost Total Abolition of Pluralities; and for promoting the Residence of Ministers in the several Parishes; more particularly addressed to the Members of both Houses of Parliament. By the Rev. WILLIAM LEEKE, M.A. Derby: Bemrose. London: Hatchard, Nisbet, and Seeley. Pp. 13.

MR. LEEKE has displayed more zeal than wisdom; for we much question whether, if his plans were adopted, the public would be better satisfied, the minister of religion better paid, or the cause of the Established 'Church advanced.

The Bible the only Safeguard of the Country. A Sermon, preached at St. John's Chapel, St. John's Wood, St. Marylebone, on Sunday, April 1, 1838. By the Rev. EDWARD THOMPSON, M.A. Assistant Minister at St. John's, St. Marylebone, and Rector of Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. London: Hatchard. Pp. 20.

A POWERFUL antidote against the dangerous poisons of modern literature, and the growing progress of infidelity. Sound, argumentative, and incontrovertible; of which, indeed, we cannot say more than that Mr. Thompson has fully maintained his well-earned professional reputation.

Notes on the Sign or Sacrament of Holy Baptism. By WILLIAM CLAYTON WALTERS, M.A. late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Barrister at Law. London: J.W.Parker. 1830. Pp. 63.

WHEN the minds of the unlearned are perplexed by the new Registration Acts, and baptism is in danger of being confounded by the poor with the mere inscription of the child's name in a book, instead of an introduction to the privileges of the covenant of grace, a publication like this is of great value.

Most mistaken is that view which would treat baptism as a mere act of submission, as the oath of allegiance of a subject to his king. Nor is it less erroneous to say that it is only a solemn act on the part of the baptized, of renunciation of the devil and all his works, and of self-dedication to God. These errors have no doubt in some degree originated in the use of the word sacrament, one sense of which certainly is, an oath of fidelity to a superior or leader; but with this sense the baptism of the Scripture has no concern. The Church of England defines it to be a sign,-that by which an inward and spiritual grace is known; and this I believe is the testimony of every christian church. The Scriptures uniformly speak of baptism as an act to be done to, and not by the believer. When Jesus came to be baptized of John, John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee. It is ever mentioned as the privilege of faith. The eunuch said, "What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him." Acts viii.36. (See the case of Cornelius, Acts x. 47.) Baptism with water, and baptism with the Holy Ghost, are both spoken of as gifts, though different in kind. Acts i. 5, and xi. 16. There is no doubt but that that repentance which our Church requires to precede baptism, includes a renouncing of sin, and an engagement to be the Lord's, so that these acts of the new man may be seen in baptism, but are not necessary parts of it. Pp. 16, 17.

We would willingly quote the whole of the observation upon the baptismal service of our Church, did our limits admit; as it is, we must refer to p. 43, et sub., where its agreement with Scripture is ably maintained; and the doctrine of regeneration in baptism is

placed in its proper and legitimate point of view, as maintained, we believe, by every genuine and apostolic branch of the catholic church of Christ.

Tracts for other Times. No. I.-Of the Unity of the Church. By T. BINNEY. London: Warren, &c. Pp. 16.

UPON the attendance of Churchmen at their societies at Exeter Hall, proper the Dissenters offensively thrust their sectarian trash into every one's hand. Thus we became possessed of T. Binney's ideas upon Church unity; which, like T. Binney's other writings, are fallacious, and intended as a covert attack upon what he invariably alludes to as a sectarian Establishment.

Godly Meditations upon the most holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By CHRISTOPHER SUTTON, D.D. late Prebend of Westminster. A New Edition. Oxford: J. H. Parker. Pp. xxxii. 350.

THE editor of this really pious volume appears fully to appreciate its character, and takes a just view of the peculiar period at which it was written. "Of the work itself," he says, "little need be said, except that it is written in the devotional tone of Bishops Taylor and Ken, and other luminaries of the same period of our Church. It scarcely needs be added, that, the subject being what it is, its language is not adapted for every company, nor bears to be thrown in the way of persons taken at random." The fact is, to persons of an excitable temperament, and whose religious opinions are rather derived from a heated imagination than a sober contemplation of the Gospel, this volume might be dangerous; and, therefore, however we may be struck with the fervid and glowing piety of the writer, we must caution our readers against an indiscriminate circulation of it,

"The Gospel truly preached;" in Three short Extracts from the Works of John Joachim Spalding, Provost of the Ecclesiastical Consistory of Berlin in the middle of the last Century. Translated by the Rev. ARTHUR B. EVANS, M.A. Rector of Colne Rogers, and Vicar of Barnwood. To which is added, "The Ministerial Office," a Sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary-de-Lode, Gloucester, June 12, 1809, at the Visitation of the Ven. Archdeacon Stonehouse. London: T. Cadell, Strand. Gloucester: T. Jew.

THE very natural distrust entertained in this country against the neoteric theology of Germany, has operated unjustly towards her older divines. There is a fine field of devotional writing, pulpit oratory, critical and exegetical divinity, still to be opened up to the English reader from German authors of the first half of the last century. The translator of the above extracts had already done great service to the cause of religion, by placing in the hands of his countrymen the work of Spalding on the " Value of Feelings in Religion;" a treatise not sufficiently known, but of an intrinsic excellence, which must ever recommend it to the sound and sober Christian To the Calvinistic zealots of these times, who, by severing" baptism" and " regeneration," and confounding the "new birth" with "repentance," reduce all to a matter of individual feeling,-and pervert the Apostle's doctrine of the election of the Gentiles, to some moment of penitential agony in the awakened sinner,-the essay of Spalding might bring a salutary conviction of their error.

The extracts from Spalding in this little volume, and the Visitation Sermon of the translator annexed to them, all relating to the proper estimate and conduct of the ministerial function, comprehend a variety of suggestions and admonitions of the highest utility, while they furnish materials for deep reflection and self-examination, to every minister of the Church of Christ. If any one rises from their perusal, unconvinced by the cogency of the reasoning, uninstructed by the clear statement of his duties, and unimpressed by the

lasting responsibilities of his office, we should augur as unfavourably of his religious principles, as of his understanding.

The Book of Enoch the Prophet; an Apocryphal Production, supposed for ages to have been lost, but discovered at the close of the last century in Abyssinia; now first translated from an Ethiopic MS. in the Bodleian Library. By RICHARD LAURENCE, LL.D. Archbishop of Cashel, late Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Oxford: Parker. 1838. 8vo. Pp. lix.

250.

THE high character which the Archbishop of Cashel has obtained, both in England and upon the continent, by former editions of this work, and other translations from the Ethiopic, renders it almost superfluous for us to direct attention to the present reprint. The additions, however, are highly important; consisting of-1. "The Book of Enoch as selected and arranged by the Rev. Edward Murray;" 2. Extracts from the Book of Enoch, trauslated from the Ethiopic into Latin, by M. de Sacy; 3. Extracts from the Chronographia of Georgius Syncellus, as quoted by Fabricius in his Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti ; 4. Remarks.-And we cannot but observe, that whatever may be the date of the original book, (and the testimony of St. Jude is conclusive as to its being in existence before the coming of our Lord,) it is highly valuable, as distinctly proving that the doctrine of a triune Deity early prevailed among the Jews. "Three Lords are enumerated; the Lord of spirits; the Lord the elect one; and the Lord, the other power; an enumeration which evidently implies the acknowledgment of three distinct persons, participating in the name and in the power of the Godhead. Such, therefore, appears, from the evidence before us, to have been the doctrine of the Jews respecting the Divine nature, antecedently to the rise and promulgation of Christianity.” P. lvi.

The Doctrine of the Church of England upon the Efficacy of Baptism, vindicated from Misrepresentation. By RICHARD LAURENCE, LL.D. Archbishop of Cashel, late Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford. Third Edition, revised, with an Appendix. Oxford: Parker. London: Rivingtons. 8vo. Pp.ix. 132. WE Congratulate the friends of the Established Church ou the appearance of a third edition of this very valuable work. The Church of England is here ably vindicated from the "misconceptions and consequent misrepresentations of the evangelical party;" and an "Appendix" is added, containing extracts from the formulary of baptism used in the Church of Rome, with the formularies adopted by the Lutheran and our own Church; as also further remarks in opposition to the Calvinistic doctrine of Regeneration." This latter portion of the book, though concise, abounds with matter of deep interest. Popery and Rationalism are briefly, but powerfully, denounced; and the superiority of intellectual over sensible objects of adoration, ably maintained; and the "perpetual blazoning of the figure of the holy cross," shown to lead to actual idolatry amongst the common people.

A Companion to the Eton Greek Grammar; containing the Quantities of all the Syllables, both in Greek and Latin, accurately marked; together with Schemes of Analogical Association interspersed throughout, for exhibiting the Tenses of Verbs, and their several Derivatives, as they appear to sympathize in quantity; and containing also Notes and References to the best Prosodiacal Authorities to Bishops Maltby and Blomfield; to the "Indices Attici ;" to Matthiæ, Labbe, Leeds, Sandford, Taylor, &c. By the REV. ROBERT COLE, Master of the Free Grammar School, Andover. London: Hamilton and Co. 1833. Pp. 223.

To those who adhere to the use of the old Eton Grammar, in their system of instruction, this edition offers much valuable help and without entering into a discussion respecting its merits, we beg, at once, to recommend it most strenuously, having examined it with some degree of attention, and being fully persuaded of its efficacy. The title sufficiently details the contents; and all we have to do further is, to assure our readers that the programme is justified by the performance. Mr. Cole evidently has proved himself to be a most careful and indefatigable instructor.

Tabula Theologica; or, the Elements of Scriptural Knowledge, presented in one Tabular View, and accompanied with Doctrinal Essays. By the Rev. ROBERT COLE, Master of the Free Grammar School, Andover. Second Edition. London: sold by Rivingtons. 1835.

Scriptural Aphorisms and Analogies, presented in a series of Doctrinal Essays; designed as Illustrations of the Tabula Theologica. Second Edition. 1835. Pp. 42.

THIS is a singularly curious and interesting publication, designed to serve a purpose of great importance in the interpretation of scripture doctrines, by placing them before the eye in such a general and logical form, as to show the bearing of the different parts upon the whole of the system; and a guide to the expositor in his exhibition of that system as a clear and satisfactory scheme, consonant alike with truth, reason, and the nature of man.

It is not, of course, being a compendium of Greek and English terms, so much adapted to the general reader as to the student in theology; but to the latter it is calculated to be of great service.

The Essays are written in a scholarlike and pleasing style.