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now printed for the benefit of the preacher's widow and family. This circumftance in fome measure blunts the edge of criticifm ;which, were the Author living, he might, poffibly, in fome degree, have felt.

Sermon I. is on the Nativity of Chrift. II. On bis Divinity III. and IV. On the Trinity V. and VI. On Prayer. VII. and VIII. On Reliance on God. IX. and X. On the Worth of the Soul. XI. On the Unjuft Steward. XII, XIII, XIV, and XV. On the Prodigal Son. XVI. and XVII. On Swearing. And, XVIII. The Folly of Mocking Sin.

In the first fix fermons, the Author's ftrong attachment to the orthodox principles of the established church is fully demonftrated; and the rest are all, more or lefs, marked with proofs of his zeal for the fame opinions. They are, doubtiefs, the productions of a pious man; who, had he meant them for publication, would certainly, in many places, have made no inconfiderable alterations in the flyle. Sentiments, which may be delivered from the pulpit with propriety, and be instructive to the hearers, will not always bear the clofe examination of attentive readers. Those who do not object to Mr. Jabet's tenets, and who look not for elegant language, but orthodox inftruction, will read the volume before us with advantage, and be edified by the piety and zeal of the preacher.

Art. 74. The Harmony or Agreement of the Four Evangelifts in their feveral Relations of the Life and Doctrine of Jefus Christ. Tranflated from the original Text, with Notes explanatory, &c. Part IV. By Richard Baker, M. A. Rector of Cawfton in Norfolk. 8vo. I s. 3 d. White.

The plan and character of this work was given when we reviewed the first part of it, in our 71ft volume, p. 397, to which we now refer our readers, informing them that Mr. Baker has uniformly purfued the method with which he began, and has, by this 4th part, finished his useful performance,

RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY.

Art. 75. An Addrefs to the Roman Catholics of the United States of North America. Occafioned by A Letter addressed to the Catholics of Worcester, by Mr. Wharton, their late Chaplain. By the Right Reverend Dr. Carrol. 8vo. Is. 6d. Printed at Anapolis in Maryland, and reprinted in London by Keating.

Mr.Wharton, a Roman Catholic Prieft at Worcester, left the church of Rome. He went to North America and there published his letter to the Catholics of Worcester, which was an apology for leaving them. (See Monthly Review, vol. Ixxii. p. 395.) Dr. Carrol, refiding in Maryland, thought it his duty to reply to Mr. Wharton's Letter, which was then circulating among the American Catholics; he therefore published the prefent Addrefs, in which he confcientiously defends his religious principles with erudition, and endea vours to answer Mr. Wharton's objections, with politeness. Art. 76. A Review of the important Controverfy between Dr. Carrol and the Rev. Mefrs. Wharton and Hawkins. By the Rev. Arthur O'Leary. 8vo. 1 s. d. Keating.

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Mr. Wharton's Letter was anfwered in England by Mr. Pilling, in his Caveat. (See Review, vol. Ixxiii. p. 476.) To this Mr. Hawkins replied in an Appeal to Scripture, &c. (See Review, vol. lxxiv. p. 412.). This controverfy is here reviewed by the able hand of Father O'Leary; who, in the prefent performance, introduces an ingenious defence of the conduct of Pope Ganganelli, for the active part he took in fuppreffing the Jefuits.

A Letter from Candour addreffed to the Right Hon. Luke Gardener, on his Bill for the repeal of a part of the penal laws against the Irish Catholics, is added to this pamphlet.

Art. 77. Reflections addressed to the Rev. John Hawkins. To which are added, an Expofition of Roman Catholic Principles, in reference to God and the Country. By the Rev. Jofeph Berington. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Booker.

Mr. Berington here defends the doctrines of Popery against the attacks of Mr. Hawkins, who, in his Appeal to Scripture, &c. cenfures Mr. Pilling's Caveat.

To enter into the particulars of this controverfy would be in a great measure to repeat what we have already advanced in the articles above referred to. We fhall therefore only add, that Mr. Berington feems to poffefs more liberal fentiments than the generality of his brethren. His tract is not, as he acknowledges, a reply to Mr. Hawkins's work, but it contains many obfervations on it, which fomewhat invalidate Mr. Hawkins's arguments.

At the end of this performance, Mr. Berington gives an epitome of the principles of the Roman Catholic religion, which treatise he fays he found in a volume of controverfial tracts printed about the middle of the reign of Charles II.

SINGLE SERMONS on the SLAVE TRADE.

I. A Difcourfe in favour of the Abolition of Slavery in the British Weft Indies. Preached in the Parish Church of Ware, Herts. By the Rev. W. Hughes, M. A. 4to. IS. Cadell. 1788. To this good and benevolent Sermon are added fome Notes, which ferve strongly to enforce the preacher's arguments against the flavery of the negroes under chriftian mafters. We are informed that' whatever profit may arife from the fale of this difcourfe, will be prefented, by way of fubfcription, to the London Society, inftituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

II. On the Subject of the Slave Trade; delivered to a Society of Proteftant Diffenters, at the New Meeting in Birmingham, by Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 1s. Johnfon. 1788. Dr. Priestley, with a manly freedom, and a boldness which characterizes moft of his compofitions, enters the lifts, both on religious and political ground, against the advocates for the negroe flavery; and as a chriftian, if not as a mercantile politician, we think his arguments irrefragable. With respect to his appearance in this new field of controverfy [for there is no fear that the sword of this literary warrior

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warrior will ever ruft in the fcabbard], he tells us, that he thinks himself peculiarly happy, that in recommending the relief of the diftreffed African Slaves, he can join heartily with every denomination of christians—the catholics, the members of the establishment, and the diffenters of all denominations: This,' fays he, is not the cause of unitarianifm, of arianifm, or of trinitarianifm, but fimply that of humanity, and our common chriftianity; and as I have frequently, and with peculiar pleasure obferved, all the articles on which we differ are trifling, compared to those with respect to which all chriftians are, and ever have been, agreed.'- Echoagreed.

III. An Occafional Difcourfe, preached in the Cathedral of St. Peter, York, Jan. 27, on the Subject of the African Slave Trade. By W. Mafon, M. A. Precentor and Canon Refidentiary of York. 4to. IS. Robfon, &c. 1788.

This animated declamation breathes the true fpirit of moral patriotism; an expreffion which the ingenous author has bazarded," and which he thus well defines: I would be understood to mean by it, that as patriotifm itself only fignifies the love of our country, fo, with this addition, the term indicates a love of mankind, under the idea of one common family. Natural religion teaches this, but reve. lation goes farther, it bids to love and do good to all men as brethren; to endeavour therefore to give slaves freedom, because they are our brethren, I denominate chriftian heroifm.' We approve this brotherly ftyle very much; but how differently would it be relished in the West Indies! poor Mungo himself perhaps, combining circumstances and fituations, would never be able to comprehend it.

IV. The Abolition of the Slave Trade, confidered in a Religious Point of View. Before the Corporation of the City of Oxford, at St. Martin's, Feb. 3, 1788. By William Agutter, M. A. of St. Mary Magdalen College. 8vo. Is. Rivingtons.

The well-chofen text of this animated difcourfe, will stand as a full answer to those who contend, that the negroes are an inferior fpecies,

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"God hath made of one blood all the nations of men, to dwell on the face of the earth.' As, xvii. 26. The preacher does not however enter into the difpute with fome naturalifts, on the point of confanguinity between the hairy and the woolly, the black and the white, diftinctions of men; but confines himself, as his title-page profeffes, to a religious view of his fubject, drawn from the Scrip

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V. Juftice and Mercy recommended, &c. Before the University of Cambridge. By P. Peckard, D. D. Master of Magd. Coll. 8vo. Is. Cadell, &c. 1788.

In this truly pious and fenfible difcourfe, the ufual arguments against our African Slave Trade are brought forward, and strongly enforced.

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Other SINGLE SERMONS.

I. Preached at Broughton in Lancashire, May 13, 1787, on the Anniversary of the Inftitution of Sunday Schools in that Place. By Jeremiah Gilpin, M. A. 4to. 1s. Bew. 1787.

The text is, "Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love." Sunday fchools have many advocates. Mr. Gilpin, perhaps, does not stand fo high in the lift as fome to whom we have had occafion to offer our tribute of praife;-but Eft aliquod prodire

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II. An Attempt to obviate the principal Objections to Inoculation. Preached in Hanover Square, Newcastle. By the Rev. William Turner, Junior. 12mo. 1 d. or 10 s. per 100. Johnson. 1787. This cheap Sermon is well calculated to perfuade the poor inhabitants of Newcastle to embrace the opportunity of having their children inoculated by the charitable inftitution established there for that purpose.

III. Preached at Whitehall Chapel, at the Confecration of the Right Rev. John Douglas, D. D. Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Nov. 18, 1787. By Browne Grifdale, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. 4to. Is. Cadell. 1788.

Dr. Grifdale has here fhewn himself to be an able advocate for the Christian virtue of moderation, without being indifferent to thofe claims of the Eftablished Church, which have been lately (as he obferves) attacked with acrimony, malevolence, and mifreprefentation, by a few factious leaders of mifguided fectaries.'

That our preacher is no friend to any degree of intolerance, will fully appear from the following short extract:

Refpect is due even to the weaknefies and the mistakes of the human mind. There is fo much uncertainty in things; fuch a difference in the fize of our understandings; in our habits of thinking; our modes of life and education; that it is impoffible our judg ments fhould be exactly alike. The advantage of permitting men freely to difcufs fpeculative points, and to form their own tenets thereupon, greatly preponderates over the inconveniencies. By exercifing the privilege of thinking for ourfelves, and of debating with one another the truth or falsehood of propofitions, we expand and improve our mental powers: and though, perhaps, we may fometimes dwell, more than might be wifhed, on questions dubious and obfcure; yet, by thefe exercises, the mind unavoidably grows more acute, and confequently more capable of difcerning the force of moral obligations. Vain is the pretence of bringing all Chriftians to a perfect uniformity of fentiments or practice, in matters of religion : this could not be obtained, even in the apoftolical days; nor can it be hoped for, till we come to heaven.'

So commendable a fpirit, and fentiments fo truly Christian, appear with peculiar propriety, in a difcourfe delivered at the confecration of a Prelate fo juftly diftinguished for his enlargement of mind, and for the liberality of his principles.

IV. On the Shortnefs and Inftability of Human Life. By William Waters. 8vo. 6d. Printed at Colchester. 1788.

A fenfible and animated discourse, from Pf. xc. 12.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A CONSTANT READER, being in doubt concerning the propriety of using the fubjunctive mode after conjunctions and adverbs, pays us the compliment of fuppofing us qualified to answer a questionon which fome of our best Grammarians have been divided in opinion. Adverbs have no government. Conjunctions have fometimes a government of modes. Our best writers have ufed the indicative and fubjunctive promifcuously. Whence then fhall we derive a rule? Let future writers univerfally ufe the fubjunctive mode after all Hypothetical, Conditional, Conceffive, and Exceptive Conjunc-. tions; and the indicative after thofe expreffing an inference, addition, or any thing which is pofitively or abfolutely afferted.

tt We can affure our Correfpondent, Mr. W. that he, and his learned friend, Dr. Beattie, are both wrong, toto cælo, about the number of femitones in the intervals of major and minor 3ds. For though a major femitone confifts of five founds, and a minor of four, as no note can be faid to be an interval to itself, the given note is never counted: as there must be two different founds to conftitute any interval whatever. Two unifons are not intervals. Ergo-a minor 3d is only three femitones above the bafe, or lowest found, and a major 3d four. There must be two founds to form one femitone; three to form a tone; four a minor 3d; but neither practical mus ficians nor theorists reckon an interval of one femitone, two femitones.

Our Correfpondent is defired to look in Rouffeau's Dic. de Mufique, D'Alembert's Elem. de Mufique, and Dr. Smith's Harmonics, for what is faid on the fubject of Intervals; and likewife in Chambers's Dictionary, Art. Major 3d, and he will there fee that both himself and Dr. Beattie have been mistaken in their calculation.

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* We are very much obliged to Philonemos for his friendly letWhat he recommends to us, is perfectly agreeable to our own views and defigns; but, in order to a lefs public explanation of a private hint, the Editor wishes for the favour of an interview with our prefent Correfpondent.

SA Friend to Literature" is entitled to our beft thanks for his anecdotes, &c. The continuance of his correfpondence will be very acceptable.

St We are under the neceffity of declining an infertion of Mr. V. D.'s Effay on the prophecy of Haggai, on account of its extraordinary length. This ingenious and learned Correspondent is, however, requested to accept our thanks,

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