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tain things required by God to be done and practised; all mo-ral, focial, and religious duties. By ftatutes we may understand certain prescribed, ftated rules refpecting religious worship and divine faith. In the first fermon he confiders the obligations of natural religion, human laws, and divine revelation. In the second he fhews the propriety and excellence of the Mofaic ftatutes, and the ordinances of the Chriftian church, but more particularly the appointment of epifcopacy.

The Fear of God, and the Benefits of Civil Obedience. Two Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Harwich in the County of Effex, on Sunday, June 21, 1778. And published at the Requeft of the Audience. By William Jones, B. A. 8vo. 15. Robinson.

In the firft difcourfe the author fuggefts feveral confiderations, which are calculated to infpire us with the fear of God: viz. the works of the creation, the awful appearance of nature in a ftorm of thunder, the vifible proofs of an univerfal deluge, the deftruction of Sodom, and the fubverfion of many ancient kingdoms. In order to recommend this religious principle, he obferves, that he, who does not fear God, will be afraid of fomething else, either the world, or poverty, or death,-In the fecond fermon he inculcates obedience to government on these maxims: that all the property of the world is originally vested in God; that kings hold of him, and the people of their kings. The Nature and Principles of Society; confidered in a Sermon, preached at Meriden, before an Amicable Society of Tradefinen, &c. on Wednesday, June 24, 1778. By John Adamthwaite, A. M. 4to. 9d. Baldwin.

Obfervations on the nature of fociety, the principles on which every community ought to be formed, and the refpectable affociation, before which this difcourfe was delivered.

An earnest Attempt to reform the Times; in a Sermon, preached at the Vifitation held at Warminster, on the 29th of May laft. By John Eyre, D. D. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie.

The author points out the duty of a good minifter, a good church-warden, and a good Chriftian; and then fums up the whole in the following exhortations,

Let us the minifters of God's blefs'd word, ftand up in thefe days of Arianifm and Socinianifm for the doctrine of a trinity in unity and unity in trinity: let us ftudy ourselves the pure Hebrew Scriptures, and propagate the knowledge of them ail we can; let us teach and preach the pure word of God in all refpects and upon all occafions; let us not deprive any parifh, where there is deemed a competent allowance for a curate, of the great benefit of a refident exemplary minister; let us not fuffer the falfe notions or imaginations of men to deceive and enfnare us; nor the evil cultoms or fashions of the world, nor its riches or pleasures, to draw us off from doing our duty; nor its frowns, reproaches, or perfecutions, to deter us from it.

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• —And let fuch among us as are church-wardens get a perfect knowledge of what they are bound to prefent, and prefent every thing that is prefentable, and do every thing else, which their office requires of them, and so discharge their oath, and keep free from the fin of breaking it, and run no risk of renouncing under these words, So help me God, the help of God, on which our all both here and hereafter depends.'

This, we believe, is fufficient to give the reader a competent notion of the author's ftyle and fentiments.

A Difcourfe delivered in one of the Catholic Chapels, on the Propriety and Neceffity of taking the Oath of Allegiance tendered by Government. 4to. Is. Crowder.

A plain, well-intended difcourfe, recommending to Roman catholic fubjects the principles of gratitude, loyalty, and obedience to the British government, under which they now enjoy fome valuable privileges,

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A Sermon preached at the opening of the New Chapel at Effex-ftreet, Strand, on Sunday, March 29, 1778. By Theophilus Lindfey, M. A. 6d. Johnson.

From these words, The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers fhall worship the Father, &c.' the author endeavours to fhew, that no being or perfon whatever is to be worshiped, but the Father. In proving this point he urges the following arguments and obfervations.

St. Paul, preaching at Athens, tells the affembly, that our Saviour was amg, a man, ordained to an important office, which he mentions, by God, who made the world; and it cannot be fuppofed, that the apoftle deceived his hearers, and told them only half the truth concerning the perfon of Chrift,—Our Lord never profeffedly undertook to inftruct his countrymen in the doctrine of the divine unity. This would have expofed him to derifion, as they were firmly grounded in this first and great article of religion.-Throughout the New Teftament we never find the Jews blamed in this refpect. St. Paul in his defence before Felix declared, that he worshiped the God of his Fathers. The object of his worthip was then, after his converfion, the fame as before he knew Chrift.-Our Saviour being asked by one of the learned of his nation, which was the first commandment, answered: Hear, O Ifrael, the Lord our God is one Lord, &c." Obferve, fays Mr. Lindsey, that he adopts the very words of Mofes and this may be called our Saviour's public confeffion, or declaration of his faith in God.-Jefus therefore knew of no other God, but one, whom he here calls the Father. He never proposes himself as an object of religious worship. He uniformly and to the laft fet his difciples an example of praying to the Father, and taught them to pray to no other perfon, but the Father.'-As this is a point of the greatest importance, we must leave the learned to eftimate the weight of these arguments.

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The remaining part of this difcourfe contains a very proper illuftration of the following words: "God is a fpirit, and they that worship him muft worship him in spirit and in truth.'

CONTROVERSIAL.

A Letter to the Rev. Theophilus Lindfey, A. M. 8vo. 6d. Rivington.

In answer to Mr. Lindsey this writer endeavours to prove, that the prophets fpake of the appearance of Chrift, as of that of God; that his works were fuch, as they ufually afcribed to God; that in his manner of doing them, and in his appeals to them, he affumed the character of the Son of God; and that the apostles understood this title in the most natural and proper fenfe. On these grounds he ventures to maintain, that Chrift is the eternal and only begotten Son of God, of the fame nature with the Father.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Characters by Lord Chesterfield, contrafted with Characters of the fame great Perfonages, by other respectable Writers, &c. 410. 35. 6d. Dilly.

This publication contains the characters of the following eminent perfons: George the firft, George the fecond, queen Caroline, lord Townshend, Mr. Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, Mr. Pulteney, Sir. Robert Walpole, Lord Granville, Mr. Pelham, Richard earl of Scarborough, Lord Hardwicke, Duke of New caftle, Duke of Bedford, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Pitt.

Whether lord Chefterfield has drawn his characters with impartiality, and has given accurate and just delineations of the principal perfons, who figured on the ftage of public life with himself; or whether the capital lines, forming the likeness, are -distorted by affectation, prejudice, and the medium of party, is referred to the decifion of the judicious friends of the feveral great perfonages above mentioned.

To give the public however a more perfect view of the origi. nals, and enable them to form a better judgement of the noble earl's portraits, likeneffes of the fame eminent perfons, by Barnet, Tindal, Smollett, lord Orrery, Ruffnead, Mrs. Macaulay, and other refpectable writers, are annexed.

To this publication the editor has fubjoined an appendix confifting of thirteen letters to George Faulkener, Eq. three to the rev. Dr. Samuel Madden, one to Mr. Sexton, at Limerick, two to Samuel Derrick, Efq, and one to the earl of Arran.

Temple of Cythnos, or the Oracles of Fortune and Wisdom, for the four Seajons of Life. Tranflated from the Greek. 8vo. 3. Jerved. Conant.

This work is formed upon the following ftory. A Grecian fage repaired to a delightful, though a little and unfrequented ifland, called Cythnos; built a magnificent temple, and placed

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on the fame altar the images of Fortune and Wisdom. He then industriously caused it to be reported throughout all Greece, that thefe two goddeffes were reconciled, for the benefit of mankind; that Fortune answered all thofe, who came to confult her upon the fecrets of futurity; and that Wisdom advised them how to avail themselves of that knowledge. In the fpring, those who were under the age of twenty-one; in fummer, those who were between twenty-one and forty-two; in autumn, those who were between forty-two and fixty-three; and in winter, thofe who were between that age and eighty-four, were admitted into the temple, in feparate claffes, confifting of feven perfons of the fame fex. They propofed their feveral queftions; and anfwers were returned. In this book the anfwers are divided into claffes, and the inquirer is to take at random any number from one to feven, and confult the oracle under that number. Thus the fair one, who in the fummer of her life, defiring to know, • What it is that interferes with her happiness?' and chooses the number feven, will find under that number the answers of Fortune and Wisdom. The former will tell her, Her fenfibility is fo ftrong, that it is hardly in the power of Fortune to procure her a tolerable fhare of happiness;' and the second will inform her, That though fenfibility may fometimes prove 'painful; it is a neceffary ingredient of happiness, and the great charac

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All thefe oracles are of the fame fentimental or preceptive kind, calculated to give proper comfort to thofe, who are under any perplexity, aud ufeful admonition to thofe, who are in prof perity.

A Supplement to the Works of John Hutchinfon, Esq. &c. By the late learned Robert Spearman, Efq. 8vo. 35. 6d. fewed. Law.

The works of Mr. Hutchinfon confist of twelve volumes, containing Mofes's Principia, part I. or an account of the Diffo lution and Reformation of the Earth; with an Effay to fhew, that the Air was the Rival fet up against God, and that a great Part of the Bible was to fet Men right in that Point.-Part II. or an Account of the natural Agents, which perform the Operations of Nature, viz. the Air; or Fire, Light, and Spirit.The meaning of Names and Titles of God.-The Confufion of Tongues, and the Trinity of the Gentiles.-Power, effential and mechanical. -Glory, or Gravity.-The Hebrew Writings perfect. The Religion of Satan, or natural Religion, and the Data in Chriftianity.-The Agents that circulate the Blood explained,-Glory mechanical; and a Collection of Tracts.

This performance is an index and explanation of all the Hebrew words, cited in the fecond part of Mofes's Principia: to which is prefixed Mr. Hutchinson's life. Mr. Spearman, who is likewife the author of an Enquiry after Philofophy and Theology, and Letters on the LXX. was one of the ableft Hutchinfonians.

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Leffons for Children, from Two to Three Years old. 6d. ferved. Johnson.

Leffons for Children of Three Years old. 6d. Sewed. Johnson. Thefe are excellent books for little children. The chit-chat, of which they confitt, is very properly adapted to their capacities; the fentences are fhort; and the type large and clear.

I books of this kind, the fecond article is a circumftance of great importance. Children fhould be taught to pronounce their fentences with vivacity and fpirit. And this is practicable in fentences of three or four words, or, at most, of five or fix. A long fentence, extending, through feveral lines, is not to be compaffed by their feeble organs: for inftead of fupporting their voice with fmartness and energy, they are perplexed by a multiplicity of words, and naturally fink into a whining, drawling

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The Beauties of Flora displayed: or, Gentleman and Lady's Pocket Companion to the Flower and Kitchen Garden on an entire new Plan. With a Catalogue of Seeds neceffary for each of them. By N. Swinden, Gardener and Seedsman, at Brentford-End. Small 8vo. 25. 25. DodЛley.

The author of this little work defcribes upwards of two hundred different kinds of flowers, and gives particular directions for their cultivation and arrangement, that the combination of their feveral beauties may afford the moft confpicuous and picturefque appearance when in bloom: which he introduces by feven plans (engraved on copper), accompanied with proper de fcriptions. He next lays down the method of forming the feveral plantations: treats of the situation, foil, &c. neceffary for a pleasure-garden, and gives directions for fowing and managing annual flowers; which is fucceeded by a catalogue of the feeds of eighty nine flowering-plants of that kind. The conftruction of a hot-bed for tender annuals, and directions for sowing and managing them, fucceeds, with a lift of eighty-nine tender annuals. The management of More Tender Annual Flowers, is next laid down, accompanied with a lift of fourteen plants of this divifion. He then goes on to treat of biennial and perennial flowers, in the fame manner, and prefents us with a catalogue of eighteen biennial flowering-plants, and thirty perennials; to which he adds nine more that require greater care in the cultivation than the preceding. He then treats of the kitchen-garden; and gives directions for the culture of the different efculents and pulfe which are appropriated to this branch of his work. The catalogues of the flowering plants are given in English, with the Latin generic names under each, together with their colours.

The author has acquitted himfelf with credit, particularly in the improvements he propofes, which are ingenious; and his tract will be a useful companion to thofe ladies and gentlemen who amuse themfelves in the ftudy of horticulture.

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