upon his candid conceffion :-' yet truth,' fays he, in the weakeft hand, will ever be found an over-match for all the attacks of fubtlety and deceit.' This is commonly faid, and we fincerely wifh it were always found to be so. Notwithstanding the feverity of our Author's charge against Dr. Adams, and, indeed, not against him only, but all of the clergy, who, like him, do not fee, as our Author does, the ftri&t harmony subfifting between our articles, homilies, and liturgy, and the SACRED oracles of truth; and who are therefore equally guilty of prevarication,' and of holding in one hand a real' and in the other a convenient creed: notwithstanding the narrowness and harfhnefs of all this, we are pleafed with the handfome manner in which he expreffes himself, with regard to the minister of St. Chad's, in the concluding paragraph of this reply, viz. To the credit of the Rev. Dr. Adams, I defire to acknowledge, that although I am perfuaded in my confcience that his fyftem of divinity is as repugnant to fcripture as it is to the church of England, yet, as a man of learning and benevolence, a gentleman and friend to fociety, I really honour and esteem him.' This testimony does honour to the character of the bearer of it, as a gentleman alfo. What follows is equally becoming: although I too deeply feel the corruption of my own heart, to deny that there is a vein of fatyr which now and then may bleed rather too freely, yet I moft folemnly declare that I. am in perfect charity with Dr. A. as well as with you, Sir, my unknown antagonist; and therefore conclude myfelf, &c.'What pity it is, that gentlemen of fuch refpectable parts, and laudable endowments, do not immediately shake hands, and be fincere and cordial friends for the future! fenfible, as men of improved and liberal minds ought to be, that differences about inodes of faith, or articles and tefts of human impofition, are unbecoming the dignity of their elevation above the ignorant vulgar :-in favour of whom, too, and for their comfort, be this truth acknowledged, that one bad habit fubdued, or one virtue acquired, is worth all the learning and orthodoxy in the univerfe, with all their train of creeds and canons, and all the ans and isms, that ever difgraced the annals of religion. Art. 27. Abort Explanation of fome of the principal Things contained in the Revelation of St. John. Shewing, from the xith chap. that the Fall of the Tenth-part of Turkey, by the oppreffed Witneffes of Chrift is begun, under the Protection of the Empress of Ruffia. All Things being now ripe for the Fall of Popery, the Appearance of fome powerful infpired Perfon is fhewn to be peedily expected, to reform the Proteftant Church to the primitive Purity; which, according to the xivth Chap. and other places, is to be propagated among the Romanifts, and fupported by Wars, till they are united in the fame Faith, and in a religious War against the Turks which is to commence quickly after the Fall of the Tenth part of Turkey by the Witneffes, and be carried on by the Christian Powers, till it terminates in the Deftruction of the Mahometan Anti-Christ, and in the Restoration of the Jews in the Millennium. 8vo. I s. Owen, 1770. If any of our Readers are not fatisfied with the title-page, we refer them to the Pamphlet itfelf.-Publications of this fort frequently remind remind us of the notable observation of an eminent Divine of the eftablished church- That the Book of Revelations always finds its expofitors mad, or leaves them so.' Art. 28. Sermons on Several Occafions. By Thomas Afhton, D. D. Rector of St. Botolph, Bifhopfgate, Fellow of Eton College, and late Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. 8vo. 6s. bound. Whiston. 1770. Most of these fermons were preached on occafion of public fafts, thanksgivings, &c.-The fubjects, of course, are trite; which renders it difficult even for a preacher of tafte and learning to advance any thing that is new or peculiarly ftriking. Dr. Afhton's fermons, however, are diftinguished from most compofitions of this kind, by a liberality of fentiment, and a clear and easy flow of language. MISCELLANEO u s. Art. 29. Of the Truth. The fublime Doctrine of the new Birth, Reformation, and the neceffary Means thereto; or the Truths and Errors of Alexander Pope, and Bishop Warburton, in the Book entitled An Effay on Man, confidered and put in a clear Light. A Book that no Man or Head of a Family, that value their prefent and eternal Peace, fhould be without. By Richard Biggs, of the City of Bath. Hazard in Bath. 1770. 12mo. 1 S. It has been the fate of many great men to perish by very despicable means. The warrior Pyrrhus fell by the hand of a poor old woman; the warrior Warburton falls by the arms of a poor old gardener-for fuch, we have been told, is this Richard Biggs of the city of Bath ; who, on account of his being the oracle of the alehouses, is honoured with the title of Bishop Biggs-How Bishop Biggs has encountered Bishop Warburton in the field of scientific battle, and totally put him to the rout, the following paffages afford a very melancholy proof: • POPE. ⚫ For Me kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower: BISHOP WARBURTON. < If there is any fault in these lines, it is not in the general fentiment, but a want of exactness in expreffing it. It is the higheft abfurdity to think, that earth is man's footstool, his canopy the skies, and the heavenly bodies lighted up principally for his ufe; yet not fo, to fuppofe fruits and minerals given for that end. BISHOP BIGGS. Surprising, that a man should thus blunder! It is the highest abfurdity, fays he, as Man is placed on this earth, that, therefore, it may be faid, in a limited fenfe, to be his footstool; and, as he is covered with the skies, that, therefore, in a comparative sense, it may be faid to be his canopy; and, as the heavenly bodies are the neceffary means means of producing the fruits of the earth, by which man lives, it is abfurd to fay they were defigned for his ufe, as the end of them, the fruits they were productive of, was defigned for him! Can God be faid to defign a thing for a ufe, and not to design the necessary causes for the fame ufe ? ' POPE. Each feeming want compenfated of course, Here with degrees of fwiftnefs, there of force. BISHOP WARBURTON. • It is a certain axiom in the anatomy of creatures, that in proportion as they are formed for ftrength, their swiftnefs is leffened; or as they are formed for fwiftnefs, their strength is abated. BISHOP BIGGS. It seems the poet meant of different fpecies, or fpecies in general; but this is only true, according to the Bishop's meaning, of particulars of the fame fpecies. The horse is stronger and swifter than the bull Arge, jaces! or cow. Art. 30. Genuine Copies of the Love-letters and Cards which have paffed between an illuftrious Perfonage and a noble Lady, during the Courfe of a late Amour. Published by a Proctor of Doctor's Commons. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. Brown. An impudent, bare-faced attempt to impofe on the public. Art. 31. The Cafe of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, ftated. With a new Preface. 8vo. 3 s. Hingefton. Molyneaux's famous tract reprinted, with fome prefatory obfervations relative to the prefent ftate of affairs in Ireland; which highly deserve the attention of every reader, who, as a citizen of the world, wishes well to mankind; and, as a fubject of the British empire, would rejoice to fee every part of it happy in the poffeffion of its native rights, and in the full enjoyment of all the benefits of a wellframed, though now, perhaps, impaired conftitution. Art. 32. Letters from Lothario to Penelope. 2 Vols. 12mo. 5s. fewed. Becket. The Compiler of thefe letters appears to be a person of taste and fenfe; but as the letters themfelves confift of little more than collections, or epitomes, of pieces already published, they hardly come within the province of our Review. Art. 33. Some Account of the British Dominions beyond the Atlantic: containing chiefy what is most interesting and least known with refpea to thofe Parts: particularly the Important Question about the Northweft Paffage is fatisfactorily difcuffed with a large Map; in which the faid fuppofed Paffage, and all the Artic Regions, are more fully delineated than ever before. By William Doyle, L L., B. 8vo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Domville, &c. The firft fcheme of Mr. Doyle is to reform geography, by altering the great divifions of the world, and inpofing new denominations on them: thus inftead of four quarters, as they are called, Europe, Afia, Africa, d America, he propofes three grand divifions, by the names of Ogygia, Atlantis, and Australia. Of Of thefe, Ogygia is to comprehend Europe, Afia, and Africa, or the old world; Atlantis to comprehend America, restricted to South America; Sebaftia, including North America from Hudfon's Bay fouthward to Darien; and Hyperborea, including all to the north of Hudson's Bay with Iceland: under the name of Australia, he claffes all thofe fouthern parts as yet imperfectly discovered in the Pacific Ocean. Subordinate to thefe great outlines, he propofes our American Colonies to be claffed under the names of Neanglia, Jacobea, and Mafia, or Midenfia.. But if our ideas of all thefe parts are fufficiently clear, by the long eftablished and univerfal ufage of the rames already ad mitted, why muft we endeavour to perplex the language of mankind, for the fake of a few etymological conceits? Our Author indeed might give as a reafon, that then it would be neceffary for every body to have his gloffary. He propofes that his new geography fhould be fpread by fome news papers adopting it; but who would read it? Or if he found mankind in fo' teachable a difpofition, how many generations would it require, before all the world was taught? And when effected, what would the leffon be worth to the learners ? However, as he has in this work made a beginning, we wish him fuccefs, begging only fome refpite for ourselves. In order that the poffeflions of the European powers might be accommodated to his allotments and new geographical divifions, he propofes certain exchanges of dominions among the European powers to effect a contiguity of empire; for which the work may be confulted. When the powers of Europe have carried thefe barters into execution, fo that among other changes, we have obtained a clear title to all the northern ifles and continent, which he calls Hyperborea; one excellent effect is to refult, by transporting all convicts, fraudulent bankrupts, and even fufpected perfons who escape legal conviction, thither. In short, he adds, a knave fhould not be left in Britain!' The fooner this happy fcheme is executed, the better; only it may be left to his confideration, whether this might not leave the mother country too thin of inhabitants? And when the Author publishes the remainder of this grand work, the prefent being (at the end) called the first part only, it would be equally happy could he fuggeft a plan to repair this lofs in population, by producing none but honeft men in future. When this is done, no lefs is due to fuch a great genius, than to eternize his memory by dropping the name of Great Britain, and giving the regenerated island the name of Doyleia. * Even conundrums do not efcape our Author's notice in this great undertaking. Some of our Readers may, perhaps, have heard a vulgar faying, as jure as God's in Gloucefter to verify this, he would establish a bishopric at Gloucefter in New Jersey! or if this fituation is inconvenient, he would have another Gloucefter founded for that purpofe. On this occafion he may be reminded that the Devil is alfo faid to look over Linen: but what ufe he may convert this to, is referred to his mature reflection. He He urges many reafons against the probability of a navigable north-weit paffage into the great Southern Ocean, not altogether to be rejected he produces De Fonte's journal *, as the most decifive in its favour; and concludes, after fpecifying his doubts of it, that at moft it will only fhew, that there is a communication between the two feas, navigable by boats. Art. 34. A fart Narrative of the horrid Maffacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the 5th of March, 1770, by the Soldiers of the 29th Regiment, which, with the 14th Regiment, were then quartered there. With fome Obfervations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. 8vo. 2 S. Printed by Order of the Town of Boston; London reprinted by Dilly, Bingley, &c. Of the particulars of the unhappy affair which gave being to this Narrative (corroborated by a collection of 96 authentic affidavits) the public has been made fufficiently acquainted by the news papers; and we have nothing to obferve, on the fubject, except to exprefs our furprize that, confidering the odious occation on which the troops were fent to Bofton, tumults between them and the inhabitants did not fooner happen, and that greater mifchief has not been done than the killing and wounding only eleven of the town's people. Art. 35. Reflections; occafioned by reading a fcurrilous Paper, intitled, No. 134. North Briton. With Remarks in Vindication of the Army. 8vo. 6d. Millan. A judicious defence of the general inftitution and character of the military, against the popular invectives of a political writer. SERMON S. I. Innocent Blood crying to God from the Streets of Boston.-A Sermon occafioned by the horrid Murder of Meffrs. Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Crifpus Attucks, with Patrick Carr, fince dead, and Chriftopher Monk, judged irrecoverable, and feveral others badly wounded, by a Party of Troops under the Command of Capt. Preston, on the 5th of March, 1770, and preached the Lord's Day following. By John Lathrop, A. M. Paftor of the fecond Church in Boston. 4to. 6d. Dilly. The echo of Dr. Free's inflammatory fermon on the massacre in St. George's Fields. II. On occafion of the Death of the late Alexander Earl of Eglintoune. By Alexander Cunyngham, Minifter at Symington. 8vo. 6 d. Glafgow printed, and fold by Drew in Middle-Row, Holborn. +++ His lord hip was the preacher's patron; and the fermon is dedicated to the countefs of Eglintoune, mother to the deceased: an eulogium on the character of this unfortunate nobleman will, therefore, naturally be expected, with fome feverity of expreflion, toward the perfon who was fo unhappily instrumental to his lordship's untimely end. But, furely, the circumftances of Lord E.'s death, which many confider as, in a great measure, accidental, were not fo extraordinarily dreadful as to justify Mr. Cunyngham in pronoun See Review, vol. xxxix. p. 240. cing |