the purpose of reading it throughout, we were surprised with a sentence which we will extract: our readers will, we think, agree with us in disapproving of such phraseology.

"There is, therefore, no truly religious disposition in the soul of any human being, until the Lord himself produces it by the power of his merciful disposition toward the soul. And while this does on the one hand show what the awful state of fallen man is by nature, it does on the other, beyond a scriptural doubt, most assuredly prove, that every godly disposed, sin and vanity-sick, praying soul, whatever be its feelings or its fears, is a subject of, and is under the saving conduct of divine mercy."

We paused and asked in our own minds, doth not the author, for whom from report we had been led to cherish an high opinion, doth he not believe in the divinity and agency of the Holy Ghost? We proceeded in the perusal; and on nearly the last page we were gratified to find this one sentence.

"Having now briefly described the various stages of christian knowledge and experience, by the diversity of seven progressive figures, let it be remembered, that the most advanced may have most consolation in God here, but the least have equal safety for eternity. Christ has completed eternal redemption, but the work of faith is still carried on by the power of the Holy Spirit in the individual members, in that way, and to that degree, that best accords with divine designs for the whole body. The dull uncomely foot that goes next the ground, is as much of the body, as the more elevated, active, comely hand, or as the beautiful, bright, and quick discerning eye. The church of God is compared to a company of horses in a chariot, Cant. i. 9.; and if the foremost are the most advanced, the hindermost are not the furthest off the occupier of the chariot. We are too apt to judge of our state by measure, and not by matter; whereas, the matter is grace to salvation, and the measure is but gift for various uses for time in the house of God."

But we tell our brother Foreman with much affection, yet with equal earnestness in such a day as the present, when God the Spirit is so openly mocked by one party, and so utterly rejected by the other, it behoves those who profess to believe in a Trinity of persons in Israel's Jehovah, in every publication, more especially in such an one as the present, to introduce earlier than in the concluding sentences, and more pointedly than with but one observation, so important a scripture doctrine. We were exceedingly grieved with the omission, as the Tract in other respects is most valuable, and contains within the compass of eighteen pages, more solid theology than many an octavo volume professedly religious, with which the press is teeming.

There is appended lines to an aged saint. Such a writer as Mr. Foreman cannot pen six pages without some good remarks in them; but the structure of these lines is so rugged, that it is difficult to come at the meaning. Let our respected brother keep to prose; and let him take in a christian spirit the admonition we have been faithful enough to give him, and we feel a full confidence that his next production we shall hail with unmixed delight.

A Narration of the Wonders of Grace: to which is added, a Poem on the Special Work of the Spirit in the Hearts of the Elect. Also Sixty-one Hymns, by Anne Dutton; a new edition, with preface; and Collected Memoir of the Author, by J. A. Jones, Minister of the Gospel, Mitchell Street. 8vo. pp. 113. London,

Bennett.

Mrs. Dutton's peculiar excellency lay in correspondence. Her numerous volumes of letters, which it is to be regretted are not more known and more easily to be obtained, are the outpourings of a soul in frequent and blissful communion with the Three-One Jehovah. A new edition of the whole series is a desideratum which cannot be too soon supplied.

This poetical work we have perused with some pleasure, but we do not consider it so valuable as her prose publications. The collected Memoir, drawn up by Mr. Jones, comprises some extracts from the last named, and they will confirm the reader we think in our opinion. We thank Mr. Jones very much for this brief account; brief as it is, it supplies information of the excellent authoress of which we, at least, were previously ignorant.

The poem on "The Special Work of the Spirit in the Hearts of the Elect," we deem by far the best; indeed, that can hardly be read by any awakened child of God without his profiting therefrom.

Zion's Memorial; or the Saints' Testimony concerning True Christians; a brief, true, faithful, and precious report, in verse, drawn up on Zion's behalf: by a Citizen. Recommended and published for the Author, by W. Allen, Minister of the Gospel, Cambridge. 12mo. pp. 97, Cambridge, H. Talbot; Bedworth, G. T. Congreve; London, E. Palmer.

THOSE Who can read poetry, and without regarding rhyme or metre, glean pleasure from the scriptural truths which are exhibited, will peruse this unassuming work with edification. We often regret that many who are evidently gifted to write so as that their fellow travellers Zion-ward will be profited thereby, should choose poetry to convey their ideas and their experience; and we should have been inclined to class the writer of this publication among those not talented for such composition, had we not seen his Hymns for the rising generation, which were really well adapted for their purpose. We would give an extract that our readers might form their opinion, but really the extreme length of each must be our excuse. "The Requisites for," and "The Description of a True Christian," are perhaps the most interesting pieces.

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Spiritual Magazine ;

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SAINTS' TREASURY.

"There are Three that bear record in heaven; the FATHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST: and these Three are One."

"Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

1 John v. 7.

Jude 3.

JUNE, 1833.

(For the Spiritual Magazine.)

GOSPEL LIBERTY.

"Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”—Gal. v. 1. (Continued from page 155.)

BUT the Holy Spirit, who is the divine agent in carrying on the work of grace in the heart, makes use of the law as a schoolmaster to bring the soul to Christ, the law-fulfiller; and by revealing Christ, makes him known, not only as suffering for sin, but in that suffering making the law of God everlastingly honourable, (which we had broken and dishonoured), and in that work liberating the soul from the thraldom of moral obedience, through the obedience of Jesus for us. The Holy Spirit, thus operating on the heart, leads the sinner to the enjoyment of the truth made known by the apostle when writing to the Romans, (ch. vii. 4-6.) " Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, ever to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." "But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in the newness of spirit, and not in the ōldness of the letter." For as the church possesses an eternal union to Christ, she is virtually interested in all the work which he accomplished on earth, and is now carrying on in heaven; for "he was made sin for us," "he offered himself without spot to God in order to redeem us," and he appears before the throne of God “ making intercession for us;" so that Zion's children have the liberty of using the apostle's lanVOL. IX.-No. 110.]

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