ART. 2 PAGE VI. A Treatise on the Evidence of the Scripture Miracles. By VII. The Christian Exodus; or, the Deliverance of the Israel- ..... VIII. A New Version of the Psalms of David. By Matthew X. Biblical Researches and Travels in Russia, including a Tour 359 380 400 415 439 Digest and Synoptical Arrangement of the most import- XII. The Laws respecting Pews or Seats in Churches. Compiled ... 457 The Christian Foundation. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Mary Stafford, on occasion of the Death of the late Thomas Mottershaw, Esq. By the Rev. W. E. Coldwell, M.A. Rector of St. Mary's Stafford, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Roden. Suspirium Sanctorum, or Holy Breathings; a Series of Prayers for every Day in the Month. By a Lady....... A Sermon preached at St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, on Sunday, October 9, 1825, in behalf of the General Institution of Deaf and Dumb Children at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, and published at the particular request of the Committee of that Institution. By the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry The Dangers by which the Established Church is menaced at the present Time. A Sermon preached at the Archdeacon's Visitation, held at London, April 18, 1826, by W. M. Hurlock, M.A. Rector of Hellington, in the County of Norfolk, and Lecturer of Dedham, Essex ......... A Sermon on the present Times, addressed to the Manufacturing Poor of Rochdale, and preached in the Parish Church of that place, on Sunday, 30th April, and again on Sunday, 7th May, 1826. By the Rev. James Aspinall, M.A. Curate.... A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1826. (At the Lent Assizes) Before the Hon. Sir James Burrough, Knt, and the Hon. Sir Stephen Gaselee, Knt. and published at their desire. By John Rich, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge ... A Sermon preached at the Abbey Church, Malmsbury, April 5, 1826, before the Chippenham and Malmsbury District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. By the Rev. George Bissett, A.M. Rector of Dantsey, Vicar of Malmsbury, and late Senior Colonial Chaplain in the Island of Ceylon ....... PAGE 466 472 477 478 479 479 480 A Sermon preached in St. Michael's Church, Lewes, at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Lewes, June 13, 1826. By T. B. Powell, M.A. Rector of Newick, and late Fellow of Oriel College.. 481 A Sermon preached at the Consecration of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, on Friday, April 21, 1826. By the Rev. Robert Anderson, Perpetual Curate of Trinity Chapel ...... 482 -4 Rulers a Terror to evil Works. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral A Sermon preached at St. Andrew's Church, George-Town, Deme- ..... PAGE 482 483 484 THE QUARTERLY THEOLOGICAL REVIEW. SEPTEMBER, 1826. Vie de Scipion de Ricci, Eveque de Pistoia et de Prato, et Reformateur du Catholicisme en Toscane, Sous le Regne de Leopold. Composee sur les MSS. Autographes de ce prelat et d'autres personnages celebres du Siecle dernier et suivie de pieces justificatives, tirees des Archives de M. Le Commandeur Lapo de Ricci a Florence. Par DE POTTER. 3 vols. 8vo. Bruxelles. Tarlier. 1825. THE struggle between the true faith and the false, between the ambition, the tyranny and the delusions of Popery, and the sincerity, the freedom, and the holy truth of Protestantism, is hourly pressing closer on the public mind of England. The contest has been removed from the Continent; lassitude or infidelity have in a large portion of Reformed Europe obscured the great original spirit of the Reformation. But England is still the citadel of the truth; filled with powerful minds and pure hearts pledged to the Gospel, recollections of old heroic labours against the grand corruption of Christianity, and strong and faithful contemplations of the coming triumph of the Scriptures; hopes kindled at the very altar of prophecy and of God. Popery, exiled from the British constitution by its total inaptitude for promoting the beneficent purposes of society, by its remorseless cruelty, and perhaps still more by the progress of that high visitation by whose fires it shall soon or late be smitten into dust and ashes, is now exerting itself with redoubled zeal for absolute power. Equality of privileges is out of the question. No man who knows the history of the papacy, or can measure the meanings involved in the Romish claims of infallibility, indivisibility and originality, can doubt that its unbroken purpose is, to put all other forms of faith and soT NO. VIII. VOL. IV. vereignty under its feet. The degradation of England, by artifice, or by force, before the Romish throne, is its passion, without intermission or end; for the proselytism of England would accomplish the supreme object of separating from the churches of Continental Protestantism the very champion of the Reformation. In our fancied security we may laugh at the idea of English conversion by the exploded fooleries of Popery; but we should first appreciate the easy and rapid conquest which a sensual superstition is at all times calculated to make over the multitude; its temptations of popularity and ambition (if we should be mad enough to give it the means), to the beggared, the characterless, and the unprincipled politician; its restless and reckless seduction, soliciting and enervating by all excitements, compliances, and corruptions, that immense class of society who from thoughtlessness, or habitual vice, or open irreligion, are utterly indifferent to all faiths alike; and last and most fearful of all-that judgment, by which an offended Deity withdraws his light from negligent nations. Where are the Churches of Asia, that first illustrious Christian commonwealth, founded by the very hands of the Apostles? Their fall was the subject of prophecy, and it was declared to be the direct result of their suffering the encroachments of paganism on the apostolic doctrine. British Protestantism has no deeper foundation than the Religion of the "Churches," on which St. John poured out the whole terrors of prophecy. Vigilance should be inscribed on the temple. The most resolute and unrelaxing resistance to the insidiousness of Popery; the most solemn, public, and principled assertion of the inviolability of the faith as delivered down by the great Reformers; and the firmest denial of any feeble compact, or timid alliance, with the spirit of a Religion hostile equally to temporal freedom and Christian faith, are the only conditions on which the British Church will do its duty, or British Protestantism be entitled to feel itself secure, or even the British constitution be more stable, or deserve to be more stable, than the giddiest erections of Jacobinism. There seems sufficient reason to believe that the "Roman Catholic Question" will be urged on the legislature at the earliest opportunity. Almost for the first time these hundred years, the Romish Laity and Clergy have made a combined and palpable effort to influence the elections; and in Ireland they have succeeded to a considerable extent. In England their minor share in the population has of course been less effective, but their claim shave been brought into the speeches of the various candidates to an unusual degree, and all the pretenders to liberality and reform have been their ostentatious |