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that faith which the Scriptures denoininate "dead, being alone," and which cannot save him.

But there is an Antinomianism which is still more common, and which calls, perhaps still more loudly, for the attention of THE CHRISTIAN OBSERVER. We now allude to that multitude of persons, who, though little acquainted 'either with the doctrines or practice of Christianity, nevertheless confidently lay claim to a participation of its eternal rewards, and assume that they are believers because they do not, with Infidels and Atheists, deny the authenticity of the Scriptures. We may be thought guilty of some inaccuracy in thus applying to the mixed mass of the vain, the thoughtless, the covetous, the ambitious, the dissipated, and the worldly Christians, of the present age, the name of Antinomians. We apprehend, however, that, in truth, there is no impropriety in fixing on them this appellation. Do they not take credit for being Christians, on the ground of an unproductive and merely nominal faith in Christ? Do they not account themselves members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven, while they manifestly and habitually disobey the precepts of the Gospel, and while some of them are utter strangers, and others are even declared enemies, to that life of purity and holiness which Christianity requires? They, nevertheless, indulge no small degree of hope in a Saviour. Has not Christ, say they, died for us? And are we not as Christians entitled to the benefits of his redemption?

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We feel exceedingly desirous of exposing this wretched and ruinous delusion; this too common but corrupt species of Christianity; a Christianity, if it deserves the name, which has in it nothing worthy of its author, nothing great or noble, nothing spiritual or holy, nothing raised above the world, nothing, in short, which sanctions its exclusive pretensions to a divine origin, or puts to shame the rival claims of infidelity. We wish to remind these thoughtless, and, we will add, these unbelieving men, whose case we are now contemplating, that it is not enough to admit the general authenticity of the Gospel; that it is not sufficient to have been baptized, to be a member of the Church, and on motives of reputation to pay some decent regard to morality. Their religion, if it carry them no farther than this, will prove utterly unavailing. A FAITH FRUITFUL IN GOOD WORKS-in works far exceeding, both in kind and degree, what they seem to have any conception of, IS THE ONLY TRUE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL.

In short, it is one great object of our work to give a higher and more scriptural tone to the Religion of every one of those who "name the name of Christ:" and we are disposed to defend the faults of no party. We certainly are of opinion, that the present standard of practice among the professors of Christianity is low. It may not, indeed, be lower than at many former periods, for corruption has too generally predominated in the world; but it is unquestionably very low when compared with that of some bright ages of the Church; very low also when compared with the obligations imposed on us by the sacred name which we have assumed: and it is even low, as we conceive, when viewed in connection with the proficiency of many in evangelical knowledge, and their taste for theological disquisitions.

But it has been also alleged, that we are no friends to the Church of England. Are we then her enemies because we would exalt the character of her sons; and point out the deficiency of a cold lifeless faith, and of a practice which is no better than that of many infidels? Are we unfaithful to the Church, because it is one tendency of our work to create a peculiar esteem for the more sound and pious part of it; and to discredit all its unworthy members, whether ministers or people? Is not this division of the professing Church, into "the good" and "the bad," "the tares" and "the wheat," the great division of which the Scriptures speak, and which our work tends to establish? Is not this the schism, and the only schism, which we are promoting? Indeed we have scarcely any object more strongly at heart than that of producing an union, a cordial union, between all the members of the Church, who are solicitous to advance the interests of solid piety, however they may differ from each other in some nicer questions.

There is another objection which may possibly be made to our work. We require, it may be said, an impracticable and unnecessary degree of strictness: we teach an austere religion not fitted for this liberal age: we would restore the reign of Puritanism. Whether we have afforded any adequate ground for this charge our readers must judge. It has been, and we trust ever shall be, our uniform endeavour to connect all the moral with all the religious duties; and to discourage that monastic kind of piety which is as little suited to the state of man in this world, as that mere morality which is unconnected with devotion. Partly on this principle it has been our plan to notice regularly all those public events which are calculated to interest us as citizens; and that we have also touched occasion

ally, (though, we trust, without any mixture of party zeal,) on the subject of politics. And if we have forborne to enter so far into the field of literature as some of our contemporaries, we have, at least, not shewn a contempt for learning. In short, it is our wish to represent Christianity, not merely as exalting the soul by setting our affections on things above; but also as rendering us useful members of society, obedient subjects, affectionate relatives, diligent in business, and, as our excellent Church expresses it, ready to do our duty in that state of life into which it has pleased God to call us.

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RELIO. COM...Evidence in Favour of E-

piscopacy...On Rom. vii, 14-25....On

Col. i. 15...On John v. 37...On Soame

Jenyns's View of a future State...Exclu

sion of Dissenters from Christian Cove-

nant...Want of Decorum in Public Wor-

ship....On a controversial Spirit...Mar-

gery's Charge against Boarding Schools

...Mutilation of the Lord's Prayer, p.

129-147.

MISCEL...Tour on the Continent...Rea-

soning Machine...White Female Slave

Trade...Discipline in the Church, p. 148

-154.

REVIEW OF....Dissenter's Vindication...

Overton's Sermon...Jebb's Sermon...

Lancaster on Education....Bean's Advice

to a new married Couple...Thirlwall's

Protest against Royalty Theatre...Win-

terbottom's Account of the Native Afri-

cans.....Bibliographical Dictionary.....

Monthly Review on Subscription...Let-

ter on exhorting unconverted Sinners

to fight

................................p. 155-172.

LIT. AND PHIL. INTEL...Great Britain,

Royal Institution, Society for bettering

Condition of Poor, Society for Sup

pression of Vice...France...Holland...

Italy....Malaga. ..Germany....Prussia...

Norway...Denmark...Russia...North A-

merica...List of New Books, p. 172→

180.

RFLIC. INTEL... British and Foreign Bible

Society...Mission Society to Africa and

the East......

....p. 181, 182.

PUB. Affairs....France....Holland...Tur-

key...Algiers...East Indies...America...

Great Britain, Parliamentary Proceed-

ings............

..p. 183-185.

OBITUARY...Account of Lord Camelford's

Death...Account of Mrs. Newton...

Deaths

..P. 186-190.

NUMBER IV.

RELIG. COM... Character of Lady Carhe

ry...Injured Tests...On Rom, vij. 14→

25....On Isa. xiv. 6...Misconception's

and Misquotations of Liturgy and Ho
milies...Letter of Rev. T. Clarke on
bis Son's Death...On particular Revela-
tions...Promoting Religion among Poor.
....Apostolical Fathers ......p. 193–210.
MISCEL...Account of Theophilus...Stric-
tures on Godwin's Life of Chaucer...
Oratory...
...p. 211-218.

REVIEW OF...Gisborne's Sermons...Mend-

ham's Exposition of the Lord's Prayer

..Bishop of London's Charge...Savile's

Sermon......Serious Address to the Pub-

lic...Thompson's French Philosophy.....

British Critic
p. 229-235.
LIT. AND PHIL. INTEL...Great Britain...
France...Italy. Germany...Denmark...
Russia...List of New Books, p. 236–238.

RELIG: INTEL...Missions in Bengal...Cape

of Good Hope...Of United Brethren,

p. 244-246.

PUB. AFFAIRS... France....Switzerland...
Goree...East Indies...Great Britain,
Parliamentary Proceedings, Occurren
.....p. 248—252.

OBITUARY..., Dr. Priestly....Deaths, 'p.

252-236.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, p. 252.

POSTSCRIPT...State of Political Parties...

Re-capture of Goree...National Fast...

Hymns for Fast Day'.....p. 258-260.

ces.....

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NUMBER V.

RELIG. COM...Dying Behaviour of Col.

Penruddock...On Rom. vii. 14-25...

Injured Texts...On Gen. xliv. 5...Mi-

nisterial Faithfulness...A General Pray-
er...Causes of Increase of Dissenters...
On sitting during Prayer at Church...
Letter of Archbp. Tenison...Discipline
of the Church............... p. 261-277.

MISCEL...Tour on the Continent...Re-

monstrance of White Slave Trader...

Reprimand of Speaker of House of

Commons...Remonstrance of Working

Days in the Week...Fragments, p. 278

-286.

REVIEW OF... Cooper's Sermons ..Pott on

the Christian Covenant...Gisborne's Ser-

mons...Statement of the Question of the

Abolition of the Slave Trade p. 287-306.
LIT. AND PHIL. INTEL.... Great Britain ...
France...Italy....Germany....Holland...

* Denmark...Sweden...Russia...Turkey?..

List of New Books.......p. 310-313

RELIG.INTEL...France, Mission to China,
Pastoral Letter, Bishop of Amiens,
....East Indies, Death of Mr. Ge-
ricke...Great Britain, British and Fo-
reign Bible Society...........p. 314-316.

PUB. AFFAIRS....France...Switzerland....

Northern Powers.... Turkey....East In-

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MISCAL...Over-scrupulosity of a Wife...

Voyage in a Slave Ship...Fragments, p.

341-351.

REVIEW OF...Cooper's Sermons... Faber on
the Calvinistic aud Arminian Controver-
sy...Appendix to Statement of Question
of Abolition of Slave Trade...Anti-jaco-

bin's Review of Dr. Winterbottom...

Evangelical Magazine on Revival of Re-

ligion in America............p. 353–370.

LIT. AND PHIL. INTEL...Great Britain,
Stereotype, Jennerian Society, Royal
Institution, &c....France...Spain...Rus-
sia.... Turkey...List of New Books, p.

373-376.

RELIG. INTEL...Report of the Missionary

Society...American Methodists...Great

Britain, Bishop of London's Pastoral

Letter, Charity Children ... p. 378, 379.

PUB. AFFAIRS.....France.....Germany.....
Egypt...East Indies...West Indies...St.
Domingo... Great Britain, Parliamenta-

ry Proceedings, Domestic Occurrences,

p. 379-382.

OBITUARY...ACCount of Miss C. Y...Mrs.

Rogers
p. 383-388..

NUMBER VII.

RELIO. .Com...Account of the Life and
Death of Mr. John Smith...Remarkable

Occurrences in Mr. Boyle's Life...On

1 Cor. xi. 4....On Zech, iv. and Rev. ix.

...Duty of Hearers...Lawfulness of War.

...Extemporary Preaching...Prayer for

a Family...Charity Schools, p. 389-408.

MISCEL...Sect of Thalamists...Places of

Worship in London... Perfectibility...A

sober Religionist's Advice...State of E-

nemy's Preparations p. 408-414.

REVIEW OF...Sharp on the Hebrew Syntax
...The Opportunity...Daubeny's Vindi-
ciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicana...Honest Ap-

prehensions of a Layman, p. 415-434.

LIT. AND PHIL. INTEL...Great Britain,

Royal Institution, Buchanan's Prizes,
British Museum, Society for bettering
Condition of Poor, Ladies Society, &c.
...France....Germany....Russia... Persia
...India, College at Calcutta... America

...List of New Books.........p.435-440.

RELIG. INTEL... France...Mission to Chi-

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