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Daily Bread; or Meditations, Practical and Experimental, for every Day in the Year, by more than one hundred of the most eminent and popular Ministers of the last half Century, &c. T. Williams, Editor. Pp. 610. Simpkin and Marshall. 8s. 6d.

THIS book is what its title states it to be; and such a declaration is no mean praise. The names of Cecil, Pearce, Fuller, Jay, Mason, Ryland, and others, whose sermons are here given, are a sufficient proof that they are suitable for family and closet reading. We have heard of a lady who when asked her opinion of a Volume of sermons replied, They are very pretty, but they are not fit to read on a Sunday!" We can assure our Readers that the sermons which compose this Daily Bread," may be read with advantage on any day, and every day. We agree too with the Editor in his preface, that the publicamay be particularly useful to ministers and students, who will find examples of all the methods of treating a text, recommended in the celebrated Treatise of M.

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Memoir of Wm. Green, who died, aged eleven Years and five Months, at Hadleigh, Suffolk. By John Hayter Cox. 2nd Edition. 3d.

A boy who is eleven years old is capable of being very wicked, and therefore is capable of being very holy. But piety, and more especially eminent piety, is so rarely seen in childhood, that some appear to think it is impossible.

The Early History of a Sailor, &c. written by Himself. 2nd Edition.

THIS interesting work is designed chiefly for seamen and seaboys. The writer is entitled to very high commendation for the effort he has made to render his book as useful as it is entertaining. The style is a little inflated at the commencement, but assumes an air of greater simplicity as we proceed. The scenery of the ocean is well described, and we anticipate for this little book cordially recommend it to all our a widely extended circulation. We young readers, and especially to all those who have begun to feel an interest in the spiritual welfare of the long-neglected myriads of our countrymen who are destined to spend the greater part of their lives among the wonders of the deep.

Sixth Annual Report of the Baptist
Society for promoting the Gospel in
Ireland, &c. Read June 23, 1820.

In this little tract we have another striking instance of the importance and value of ministerial instruction by catechism. Mr. Cox THE rapid progress of this Sociehas written the memoir evidently ty, and the exertions it has made in with a strong and earnest desire to the short period of seven years, must be useful to those of tender age, fill every friend to Ireland with deand we think he will not be disap-light and astonishment, and will expointed. Many a child of Wm. Green's age may receive instruction, reproof, and comfort, from what is

here recorded.

cite feelings of the most lively gra
titude to Him from whom all bless-
ings flow. The sun is rising, and
the wild beasts retire growling to
their dens. We confidently hope
that neither this Society, nor any
other that has the same grand object
in view, will relax in its efforts.
Much has been done, but it must not
be forgotten that much more
mains yet to be done.
maineth yet very much land to be
possessed."

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An Essay on Unbelief; describing its Na-
ture and Operations, and showing its
baneful Influence in distressing awaken-
ed and renewed Souls. By the Rev.
James Churchill. Second Edition, en-
larged.
109 pages.
Simpkin and
Marshall, 1819.

We regret that this Essay should have remained so long unnoticed; but we assure the worthy author it was not intentionally neglected.

castle, in the chapel built at Newcross, so near to his residence, especially as he was not only the principal contributor to the erection of this house of God, but the principal supporter of the preaching of the Gospel, and of the instruction of the rising generation within its walls.

Mr. Purkis has taken his text from

Luke ii. 29, 50. whence the following observations are deduced. 1. "That An Essay on Unbelief is well calcu- the death of a believer in Jesus is a delated to excite the attention of the truly parture from his state in this life to a serious, who feelingly deplore the pain better in the heavenly world." 2. "That ful remains of the still lurking evil. In the servant of Christ, having finished deed it seems from the writer's preface, his master's work, though desirous to dethat the frequent" complaints" of pious part, is content to remain until disfriends" against this very injurious prin- missed in peace." 3. "That there are ciple," and their consequent enquiries two things which, when enjoyed, power"as to the evidence of it, its operations, fully tend to rejoice the heart of the becauses, remedies, &c." led to the com-liever in the immediate prospect of his position and publication of the work.

It is divided into six chapters. The first of which contains "introductory observations." 2. "The nature and operations of unbelief particularly as leading to a rejection of the Gospel." 3. "On its causes." 4. "Its particular effects considered in reference to newly

awakened souls, and real believers." 5. "Remedies, and cautions against it." 6. "Concluding address," first to unbe lievers, lastly to believers.

In each of these divisions are many serious and excellent remarks, although

we confess we found much occasion for the following apology in the preface: "The reader will probably discern sometimes a thought before expressed somewhat in the same form, but which The trusts will be readily excused with other defects by a candid public, when he assures them that in general, not more than a page or two was written at the same time, and that occasionally weeks intervened before he could pro- ceed, owing to his being much occupied in the various duties of his pastoral office." We think also the work would have been more interesting and useful if it had contained fewer subdivisions.

This little volume, however, may be most unhesitatingly recommended as containing very many excellent remarks expressed in a plain and neat style. Nothing is more conspicuous throughout than the writer's aim that his work should be useful.

departure-viz. A clear view of salvation by Jesus Christ; and a lively expectation that this glorious salvation will be and will be received by all mankind.' made known to the ends of the earth, Under each of these heads we have plain good sense, and scriptural doctrine communicated in a right spirit. The character of the departed saint, as it appears in this sermon, is bright and beautiful. May all who read it approve and imitate it!

Education for the Christian Ministry.— A Sermon preached in the MeetingHouse, New Broad-street, London, June 23, 1819, at the Annual Assembly of the Ministers educated at Homerton Academy. By William Chaplin.

THIS discourse is founded on 1 Tim. iv. 15. It is an appropriate and good performance, well calculated to evince the importance of learning and knowledge to a Christian minister, and to excite and sustain ardent zeal in the cause of God. At the same time the neces sity of religion in the heart of the minister of the sanctuary is fully maintained, and the superiority of gospel sentiment to all other information is clearly set forth. This sermon should be read by the enemies of academical institutions that they may be convinced, that like Saul before his conversion, they also in this instance, are contending in ignorance-we do not say in unbelief, but, certainly, in disregard of many facts and sentiments which observation, read

The Prospects of the Dying Christian; a Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Jog, study, and scripture would supply. seph Hardcastle, Esq. By Isaac Purkis, It was natural enough that some one should improve the death of Mr. Hard-,

It should be perused by the friends of such seminaries, that in supporting them they may not relax in their wise und benevolent exertions.

Six Parts, with Two Essays: First on
Jonah's Gourd, or the Vanity of all
earthly Enjoyments; Second, on the
Pleasures of Religion. By Owen Mor-

The Leper; or an attempt at the Moral perform, is not able to give so much atImprovement of Naaman's History; intention to his mourning friends as he desires to do; and it is important that he should be able to recommend an appropriate, short, cheap, and well-written pamphlet, which, under the divine bless. ing, may supply his deficiency of serthe one now on our table as the best we vice. For this purpose we recommend have ever seen.

ris.

THIS is a very useful book; the style is pure and very perspicuous; a spirit of humility and kindness pervades it; and its sentiments are pious.

It abounds in pertinent, practical, generous, and holy remarks. Our author is a very skilful, moral, and religious extractor of good out of facts, and seems to have taken out of his stories all they contained capable of benefiting his readers. We think "The Leper" is the best part of this book; and while we commend it all for good tendency, we think the essay on the pleasures of religion too often informs us in a general way what religion will effect, rather than gives us the specific truths that will produce the good to which reference is made. This is an abounding fault in the productions of the present day. We have often heard preachers talk about religion and the gospel, informing us of much good they would do, without enough explaining their nature, or giving the principles that must produce these happy effects. We, however, would warmly recommend this work, especially to our younger friends, as entertaining and use ful, as not containing an expression or opinion they should not see, but as replete with sentiments they should ever remember, and perpetually use.

THE highest authority has informed us that pure religion and undefiled before God is this; to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction. And, not only the express command of the Lord, but the doctrines and promises of his word manifest it to be the duty of his ministers to bind up the broken hearted, and to comfort the servants of God. Many are the sorrows of man, and the afflictions of the righteons are not insignificaut nor few; but we never more need the kindly administered consolations of God, than when lover and friend are put far from us, and our acquaintance into darkness. The minister of the Gospel of peace, having in these times of unparallel ad activity so many important duties to

Messiah. In Twenty-four Books. By
Joseph Cottle. Part II, 234 pp. 12mo.
Boards, 6s.

THE first part was in royal 8vo. and
into twenty-four books. The prominent
was sold for 21s. This part is divided
charias and Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary,
personages, besides the Messiah, are Za-
Gamaliel and Nicodemus, Herod and the
Wise men, Chuza, Simeon, John the
Baptist, and Herodias and her daughter.
This part begins with the vision of Za-
charias, and ends with the commence-
The work is hereby completed.
ment of our Lord's personal ministry,

Memorial respecting the Diffusion of the Sacred Scriptures throughout the United Kingdom; particularly in the Celtic and Iberian Dialects. Edinburgh, 1819.

THIS memorial was originally presented, and is here inscribed to the committee of the Edinburgh Bible Society, who, after perusing the manuscript, solicited of the author, Mr. secretaries, its immediate publicaChristopher Anderson one of their tion, "as the facts" (to use their words,)

"Are such as should come before the eye of the public, and must be of service for some time to serve in regulating as well as increasing the zeal of those, who desire the general diffusion of the word of God throughout our native country."

After refuting the pretences of that selfish feeling, which under the name of charity still limits its views and exertions to home, and would leave the moral wilderness at a dis tance wholly uncultivated, forgetful that scattereth and yet increaseth," of the divine maxim, "There is Mr. A. proceeds to enumerate all the editions of the Scriptures which have hitherto been published in the

cumstances, as well as pursued with such noble ardour; the original printing of which has, in every instance, been marked by such a peculiar cast of disinterested and princely generosity on the part of inhas invariably been followed by such dividuals; and the circulation of which transporting consequences, would be strange indeed.

"No, the spirit of the present day renot the aid of argumentative eloquence, on an occasion such as the present; and I therefore conclude, under the impression, that nothing more was required, in order to secure all due attention to every reasonable want, than the humble yet powerful rhetoric of well authenticated fact."

our memorialist has diversified his
statement by a few pleasing biogra-
phical sketches. We will put our
readers in possession of an interest-quires
ing anecdote of the Rev. Dr. J.
Kelly, with reference to the Manks
version. He was afterwards Vicar
of Ardleigh near Colchester, and
tutor to the Marquis of Huntly. He
was engaged constantly in this work
for four years, and transcribed fair,
the version, from Genesis to Revela-
tion, for the press. In connection
with Mr. Moore, (Rector of Kirk-

Just Published.

bride in Man,) he revised the proof- LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. sheets and corrected the press; superintending the whole impression as far as the Epistles, besides the subsequent editions of the New Testament. During the progress of the work the following circumstance occurred.

"I began," says he "to revise, correct, and transcribe, the Gaelic (Manks) translation of the Bible on the 1st of June, 1768. The Pentateuch was soon also ready for the press, and we arrived at Whitehaven, wherethe work was printed, in April, 1770. On our next return from the island of Whitehaven, the 19th of March, 1771, with another portion, from Deuteronomy to Job inclusive, we were shipwrecked in a storm. With no small difficulty and danger, the manuscript was preserved, by holding it above the water for the space of five hours, and this was almost the only article saved!" Mr. Anderson concludes his interesting memorial in these words:

THE Power of God exemplified in the Employment of Human Agency. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the late Rev. John Martin, more than Forty Years Pastor of the Church meeting in Keppel-street, Russell-square, delivered May 7, 1820, at Keppel-street Chapel, By George Pritchard. To which is added, the Rev. T. Hutchins's Address at the Interment. With a Portrait of the late Rev. John Martin. 1s. 6d.

The Establishment of the Law by the Gospel. By the Rev. William Hamilton. 5s. boards.

An Abbreviated Synopsis of the Four Gospels; wherein all the Passages are collated; and every Event or Saying, recorded by any one or more of the Evangelists, is briefly noted. 6d. boards.

Memoirs of the Life, Writings, &c. of John Owen, D. D. with Notices of the leading Events of his Times, and some of the most celebrated of his Cotemporaries. By the Rev. William Orme, Perth. One vol. 8vo. With a fine Portrait.

A Narrative of the Persecution of the Protestants of the South of France, during the Years 1814, 15, and 16. By the Rev. Mark Wilks. 8vo.

A Sermon on the Death of the Rev: J. Sibree. By W. Priestly. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

"Having thus briefly noted the most prominent features of the present condition of our Celtic countrymen, with regard to their possession of the word of life, I may be permitted to affirm that every argument which has been employed for the general circulation of the sacred volume will here apply with peculiar force and to these might be added, all that is powerful and tender in the love of country, and to many readers, the love of kindred. But to adduce arguments in favour of the multiplication A Vocabulary of Religious Terms, exof copies of these Scriptures, the trans-planatory of Words usually employed lations of which were undertaken under to describe Doctrines, Rites, Sects, and such unfavourable and discouraging cir- other Subjects.

The School Visitors' Assistant, in a collection of Prayers, in the most simple style. By Harriet Corp. 1s.

The Pious Thresher. 6d.

Annual Meetings.

BAPTIST IRISH SOCIETY.

Concluded from Page 300.

The Rev. W. Winterbotham then said,

destroy this pest of human society: and what means are so mighty for the accomplishment of this object as those resorted to by this Society?the appointment of persons to read the Holy Scriptures in the native language of that country, to which their efforts are directed. It is true, this is a very humble employment; but there is something about it that almost carries us back to apostolic times: and I am disposed to think, that men of a humble rank in life, and of holy zeal, devoted to the service of God, are, perhaps, more likely to effect the good which you wish to accomplish, than sending persons of superior talents. About two years ago I baptized a young man in a very humble rank of life, but with a great deal of zeal and desire to do good: he is a cripple, and can only walk with a stick; has had no advantages, but is just able to read the scriptures with some degree of ease. This young man, whose weekly earnings do not reach more than eight or ten shillings a week, goes from time to time to villages, and reads a chapter, first in one cottage, and then in another, and if he can get half a dozen families together, he sits down and reads to them for fifteen or twenty mi

"To take up your time by pleading for Ireland, is, I am fully persuaded, perfectly unnecessary; you have entered this room with the same feeling that I entered it my self-to sit, and mark, and rejoice in the progress of a cause that has had so many of our prayers, and, in some measure, our exertions; no other motive drew us here this morning. When I stood before you last year I ventured a prediction, though no prophet, and that was, that you would go on, and that you would succeed, and that you would prove not only the goodness of your object, but the success of it in all the branches of its operation. This prediction has been realized, and with pleasure I have listened to the Report, which has at least convinced me, as I doubt not it has you, that this is the cause of God, and must succeed. But the motion I have read calls upon us to reflect on the attempts which have been made during the past year for the spread of infidelity. To a body of Chris-nutes, making plain expository retians residing in London, the scenes that have been witnessed since we last met on these boards, must have proved to what dangers any country is exposed where these principles spread. In Ireland unhappily this has been proved as well as in England, and to the principles of infidelity, in a great degree, we have owed the anarchy and the confusion that have prevailed, and the blood that has been shed. When I reflect on the awful scenes that have been witnessed, the hardened dying avowals of infidelity that have been heard, I do feel that it must be the wish of every Christian heart to rouse every feeling of their souls to

marks as he goes on; and I believe he has been the means of doing more good in villages than any one stated Minister in the county of Gloucester. It is very affecting, but even England presents to our view parts to which we never could have got access, but through the means of the humble members of different churches of Christ, who are endeavouring to spread the knowledge of the Gospel.

The Rev. Mr. James, late of Grubstreet.-"I came here this morning, with the decided intention of remaining in obscurity, and being gratified by listening to the numerous addresses delivered on this occasion.