The twenty-fourth contains, in a pleafing fimple stile, the brief eulogy of an agreeable excellent wife. The last line of it reminds us of the ftory of a funeral fermon, in which the Preacher is faid to have infifted particularly on the subject of his discourse having been an excellent knitter. The orthography is antique as the Latin Reader will readily obferve; and the bidding the Reader go about his business, is a conclusion that becomes very appofite, from the character of the good housewife, whom the infcription commemorates. It was taken from a very old ftone, near the Tiber.

Hofpes, quod dico paullum eft; afta ac pellige.

Heic elt fepulchrum haut pulchrum pulchrai faeminae:
Nomen parentes nominarunt Claudiam :

Suom marietom corde dilexit fouo:
Gnatos duos creavit ; horume' alterum
In terra linguit, alium fub terra locat.
Sermone lepido, tum autem inceffu commodo:
Domum fervavit, lanam fecit. Dixi. Abei.

The following infcription on a bridge three miles from Rome, is no bad compliment to Narfes, the repairer and beautifier of it, who was a General fuccefsfully employed by Juftinian against the Goths. We have seen a fimilar Greek epigram, on much the like fubject, in the Anthology.

Quàm bene curvati directa est semita pontis,
Atque interruptum continuatur iter.
Calcamus rapidas fubjecti gurgitis undas,

Et libet iratae cernere murmur aquae.
Ite igitur faciles per gaudia veftra, Quirites,
Et Narfim refonans plaufus ubique canat.
Qui potuit rigidas Gothorum fubdere mentes,
Hic docuit durum flumina ferre jugum.

The epitaph on Philumena's nightingale, number 32, is extremely beautiful and elegant. The Writer could not avoid having Lefbia's Sparrow in his eye: and, indeed, the diction and fweetness of it are fcarcely unworthy of Catullus. But it is too long to infert here.

The brief notes at the end of the book cite the Author or Authors, from whose collections the prefent one is compiled; with their different readings, and a few proper explanations of certain paffages, which chiefly relate to fome funeral and fepulchral cuftoms of the antients. What we have selected as a specimen of this collection, we believe will not dishonour it; feveral of the reft are, in our judgment, inferior to thofe, and fome of them would fcarcely have been commemorated in print, if they had been wrote in our age or language. But the venerable idea REV. Aug. 1758.

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Juftification; or, the Gospel Way to Salvation impartially enquired into, and fully explained. Being an attempt to reconcile our differences about faith and works; and point out the properest means of attaining an affurance of Salvation. By Thomas Green. M. A. Vicar of Wymeswould, Leicestershire. 12mo. I s. 6d. fowed. Oliver, and T. Payne.

HE Author of this little piece is to be efteemed for his THE Trood good intentions and endeavours, though the end he propo es fhould not be generally answered. His ftile is very plain, and Critics may apt to fay, that he has dwelt too long upon fome parts of his fubject, and repeated the fame things again and again; but for this he makes an apology, acknowleging, that he ventured to be perhaps a little tedious to those who want no directions, rather than be too brief to those who do.

He divides his work into three chapters. In the firft of which, while he allows and maintains, that we are juftified by the sighteousness and obedience of Chrift, and by faith in him, he infifts, that Chriftianity is a practical thing; and clearly fhews, from the general tenor, as well as from particular parts of fcripture, that it will not be a fufficient plea at the day of judgment, that we have relied on the righteoufnefs of Chrift for falvation, unless we have been also careful to do what he has commanded. It is plain,' fays he, that we are faved by grace and faith in Chrift, but then there must be our co-operation with the divine affiftance, and our faith must be fruitful. We must be far from claiming any merit from our beft fervices, and yet we fee, that according to the conditions of the gofpel, fomething must be done on our part, and fomething that was alfo left to our free will and choice, otherwife there could be no manner of virtue in our obedience.'

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He endeavours to fhew, that the articles of the Church of England upon thefe points, are conformable to his manner of ftating the cafe; and he concludes this chapter with quotations from eminent Authors that agree with him.

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In the fecond chapter he proceeds to give a fhort account of the fcripture notion of righteoufnefs, or juftification, according to Dr. Taylor's explanation, in his Paraphrafe and Notes on the Epiftle to the Romans, from which work he produces a long paffage, wherein the Doctor mentions a two-fold juftification and falvation, as infifted on in fcripture. The first, a juftification by faith alone, without the deeds of the law, or any works of righteousness. This has a relation to the Heathen itate, or the condition perfons are in before their converfion. It confifts in the forgiveness of fins, in our being admitted upon our faith into the kingdom and covenant of God, and is of free grace without works; for how wicked foever Heathens have been, upon profeffion of faith in Chrift, their former wickedness is no bar to their admittance into the church of Chrift, or an interest in its privileges and bleffings.

Now this firft juftification does not terminate in itself, but leads to the other, which is called the final juftification or falvation, and which is compleated when we duly improve our first juftification, or our Chriftian privileges, by patient continuance in well-doing, to the end of our lives. This firft faith or juftification will come to nothing, unless it become a living principle in the heart, working by love, and bringing forth the fruits of righteoufnels. This is the faith made perfect by works, the continued faith, the stedfaft faith, faith unfeigned, and the like.—

To illuftrate and confirm fuch fentiments is our Author's bufinefs in this chapter. He produces fome paffages from the Epiftles, in which the Writers refer to the first juftification, and others in which they refer to the fecond; and his inference upon the whole is, that faith without obedience, is only a foundation without the fuperftructure, and very different from that which the gospel reprefents as neceffary to our eternal happiness. This alfo he fhews to have been the notion of antiquity, and that of our own church.

In the last chapter he enquires, how far the notions advanced by fome Writers who have treated on union with Chrift, the holinefs we acquire by the imputation of his righteousnefs, our affurance of falvation, and the like, agree with the manner in which he has treated his fubject; and particularly confiders fame ftrange fentiments in Marthal's celebrated book on Gospel Sanctification. He concludes with fome juft animadverfions upon a fanatical account that was published* not long ago, of the extraordinary Converfion of Abbot Lewen, whilft under confinement in Leicester Goal for the murder of his wife, by William Kendrick. Independent Minifter.

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We shall conclude with obferving, in regard to this piece, that though the Author's manner of writing is rather inaccurate, his aim is manifeftly good; and we heartily with him fuccefs in enforcing the abfolute neceffity of a holy life upon the Chriftian plan, in order to our obtaining the glorious rewards it proposes.

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Remarks on the Rev. Dr. Powell's Sermon in defence of Subfcriptions, preached before the University of Cambridge on the Commencement Sunday, 1757. Wherein the latitude faid to be allowed to Subfcribers to the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England, is particularly confidered. With a Dedication to the younger Students in both our Universities, who are defigned for the Miniftry of the Church. 8vo. 1 s. 6 d. Millar.

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E have read this pamphlet with peculiar pleasure, and would earnestly recommend it to the attentive perufal of fuch Students in Divinity as are defigned for the miniftry of the church of England. It contains many excellent and judicious obfervations on a point, wherein their peace, comfort, and usefulness are nearly concerned. The question propofed to be illuftrated by our Author, is, as he himself obferves, no abftrufe point of cafuiftry, but a plain queftion of fact, which being fairly ftated, may be understood by every one who has laid a competent foundation for his theological ftudies in practical Ethics, and can judge of the force of that evidence which the common sense of mankind accepts as decifive, in the moft obvious and familiar occurrences of human life.

That it is the right and duty of every Christian, to examine all the articles of faith which are proposed to him, and all the religious laws which he is required to obey, and to judge for himfelf, whether they proceed from God, is the grand principle of the Reformation, with which PROTESTANTISM must stand or fall. This duty, our Author preffes with great earneftness upon the younger Students in both our Univerfities, who are designed for the church; and he is of opinion, that fuch of them as have the beft capacities of understanding, and the deepest impreffions of religion upon their minds, will, upon a ferious and impartial examination of this important cafe, find the greateft reluctance in themselves to comply with the terms of ministerial conformity. At the fame time fuch of them are, he says, of all others, the best qualified to promote the true interefts of religion, or, in other words, to do the moît substantial service to the community, as Teachers of religion.

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And therefore,' continues he, as all other methods of relief have failed, and all other practicable applications for it are • become vain and hopelefs; if fuch of you as cannot fatisfy yourfelves of the fcriptural rectitude of the conditions required for admiffion into the church, fhould declare for fome other profeffion, while you have time to look before you, and give this want of fatisfaction for the reafon of fuch declaration, I am 'perfuaded our fuperiors would not be inattentive to the effect fuch a lofs would have upon the church; and might very probably be prevailed with, by that confideration, to provide a remedy for it; that very remedy which fo many good men • have been fo long pleading and fighing for in vain.

'Imuft confefs,' (fays he, in a note on this part of his Dedication) that, at the first glance, appearances are against us. • The proverb fays, If one will not, another will. There are gentlemen who make no difficulty of undertaking each of them the duty of three, four, five, or fix important offices in the church, in cafes of need. And the number of candidates on 'all vacancies seems to promife, that the church will be well supplied with these choice fpirits for many generations to come. Undoubtedly the talents and capacities of thefe worthies are of the first magnitude. But it fhould be confidered, that the 'moft exalted genius, joined to the nimblest activity of body, • will not enable one and the fame man to operate, or even exift,

in two places at once. Even these great men must have their 'drudges and fubstitutes. And if this infection of fcruples 'fhould get among the herd, what might be the confequence? What indignity to the church, to fee the pompous Dean of ' a cathedral, or the venerable head of a college, riding poft to his country living, to bury the corps of a wretched cobler!'

After this our Author makes fome very pertinent remarks on the fituation and circumftances of fcrupulous clergymen, and offers fome reasons why they have not hitherto fought for relief by a public and formal application to the Legislature, and why, being precluded from feeking relief in a legal way, they do not refign their preferments, fince they are no longer in a condition to fulfil their covenant with the church.

In his remarks on Dr. Powell's Sermon, he has fhewn himfelf well acquainted with his fubject, which he has treated with fpirit and judgment. He has pointed out the futility, abfurdity, and inconfiftency of what the Doctor has advanced, in the cleareft and most fatisfactory manner. He makes it appear very obviously, that the Doctor's defence of the Subfcription required in the church of England, is conducted on fuch principles as manifeftly tend to confound the common ufe of language, fub

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