ART. PAGE IX. The Works of James Arminius, D.D. formerly Professor of Divinity in the university of Leyden, translated from the Latin: to which are added, Brandt's Life of the Author, with considerable augmentations; numerous extracts from his private letters; a copious and authentic account of the Synod of Dort, and its proceedings; and several interesting notices of the progress of his theological opinions in Great Britain and on the Continent. By James Nichols, author of " Calvinism and Arminianism compared in their principles and tendency." .. .... X. The Life of Erasmus; with Historical Remarks on the .... XI. An Essay on the Absolving Power of the Church; with .... 338 344 362 .. 367 Letters on Missions, addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches. By Melvill Horne, formerly Chaplain of Sierra Leone, West Africa. XIII. A Comment upon the Collects appointed to be used in the church of England, before the Epistle and Gospel on Sundays and Holidays throughout the year. By the Rev. John James, M.A. ... .... 374 XIV. The two Main Questions in controversy between the Churches of England and Rome, stated and discussed with reference to Dr. Doyle's assertion of the Practicability of a re-union; and in reply to the most important parts of Dr. Milner's " End of Religious Controversy," and J. K. L.'s Seventh Letter on the State of Ireland. By James Edward Jackson, M.A. .... 377 XV. A short History of the Church of Christ, from the close of the Sacred Narrative to our own times. Designed for the use of Schools, or of those persons to whom the size of the Church History of the late Mr. Milner (should that valuable work ever be completed) would be an objection. By the Rev. John Fry, B.A. 389 .... XVI. Botano-Theology, an arranged Compendium, chiefly from Smith, Keith, and Thompson. .. .... XVII. A Hebrew Lexicon to the Books of the Old Testament: including the geographical Names and Chaldaic 5 399 3 ART. versity of Halle. Translated from the German, by ........ PAGE 409 XVIII. The state of the Protestant Religion in Germany; in a series of Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge. By the Rev. Hugh James Rose, M.A. 423 XIX. Occasional Sermons, by the Rev. R. Morehead, A.M., the Rev. R. Parkinson, M.A. .... .. XXI. Sermons on various Subjects and Occasions. By the Rev. John Edmund Denham, A.M. ....... 438 445 446 B.D. F.A.S..... XXII. Sermons on various Subjects, by the Rev. John Hewlett, .. 50 Sermons, addressed to an Individual. XXIV. Two Discourses upon the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, preached in the Parish Church of St. Luke, Chelsea. By the Rev. H. Blunt, A.M. ... .. 459 NOTICES. A short Letter addressed to the House of Lords on the reported intention of Parliament to make a provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland. A Letter to Charles Butler, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn: containing brief observations upon his question, "What has England gained by the Reformation?" By a true Catholic. Observations on the Bill now in progress through Parliament, in support of the Spiritual authority of the Church of Rome. By a Senior Member of the University of Oxford. A Letter to Lord Calthorpe containing some observations on what has Taxatio Papalis; being an account of the Tax-books of the United An Authentic Review of the Principles, Measures and Designs of the The Bible prohibited: a Dialogue between a Roman Catholic Priest and a Roman Catholic Layman. ... .... 464 Proofs that the Holy Communion in both kinds was administered to the Laity within the Parish of Norham and Diocese of Durham, before the Reformation. A Letter to the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham. By James Raine, Rector of Meldon. The Word of God weighed against the Commandments of Men, in ... Catholic Emancipation, calmly considered. B. T. H. Cole, A.M. .... 464 473 Some Considerations on the Style of the Holy Scriptures. A Treatise A Brief Treatise of Bona Notabilia; together with an account of the ... 475 QUARTERLY THEOLOGICAL REVIEW. MARCH, 1826. Essays upon some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion. By RICHARD WHATELY, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, and Late Fellow of Oriel College. Pp. 285. 7s. London. Murray. 1825. THERE is in this volume so much that is both pleasing and instructive; so much that without, perhaps, being really new, acquires from the manner in which it is stated both the charm and interest of novelty, that we shall do great injustice to the author and to our readers, if we spend any part of the small space which unhappily is all that we can allow to it, in preliminary remarks of our own. We shall therefore state the subjects of Dr. Whately's Essays, and make such extracts as may shew the style of the writer and the nature of his work. Wecannot, however, pass by a sentiment expressed in the Preface, which we could wish to see carefully and diligently inculcated; for though the erroneous opinion which occasioned the remark has, in some degree, passed away with that "cold fit" in which, it has been said, the Church of England lay during part of the last century, when natural religion was frequently spoken of as the groundwork of that which is revealed; yet it has been succeeded among many persons by an undue respect paid to human reason-undue, because placing it in a seat of judgment where it has no right to sit, and expecting it to pronounce authoritatively upon subjects which do not properly come under its cognizance. "The study of natural religion," says Dr. W., "ought properly to follow, or at least to accompany, not to precede that of revelation. Our own speculations ought to be controlled and regulated by a divine NO. VI. VOL. III. U .... revelation, when it is once ascertained that a revelation exists: they should not be left to range unlimited and unassisted, on a subject on which God has himself decided that man is not competent of himself to judge rightly. It is sometimes complained, that the mind is unduly biassed in its judgments by continual reference to the authority of the Scriptures; and the complaint is just, if the Scriptures are not the word of God: if they are, there is an opposite and corresponding danger to be guarded against; that of suffering the mind to be unduly biassed in the study and interpretation of the revealed will of God, by the deductions of unaided reason." Preface, P. xi. It is highly necessary that reason should know its proper place. It is important likewise that the proper object and business of a Divine Revelation should be ascertained. Then the former will make the right use of the truths disclosed under the latter; and will bring all its natural powers, all the strength it has gained by reflection, and all the knowledge which it has acquired either from Scripture or from observation, to carry forward the work of God. Then, neither will the strength of man be overrated; nor will the divine communication be depreciated, as has sometimes happened, from an expectation of discovering in it that which does not fall within its province. The subjects of Dr. Whately's Essays are these, “I. On a Future State. II. On the Declaration of God in his Son. III. On Love towards Christ as a Motive to Obedience. IV. On the Practical Character of Revelation. V. On the Example of Children, as proposed to Christians." The first two of these subjects are well deserving of attention. Though we cannot exactly agree with our author in his view of the degree of knowledge respecting a future state enjoyed by the Church of Israel (a subject necessarily connected with his main inquiry;) and though we wish he had explained his notions of the belief entertained in the patriarchal age-upon which we fear we should differ still more widelyyet we gladly recommend the perusal of it to our readers. We pass by this, however, and the second subject likewise, as containing what is obvious to those whose attention is turned to sacred subjects; in order to dwell upon those parts of the volume which we have found more attractive, and which may therefore be more interesting to others. The object of the third Essay is to shew that the Gospel makes a continual appeal to the affections; and, by exhibiting the Messiah as God with us, awakens more effectually those feelings of pious and affectionate attachment, which it would be less easy to entertain towards God, considered as the invisible |