THE

QUARTERLY

CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR.

CONDUCTED BY AN

ASSOCIATION OF GENTLEMEN.

Vol. II. 1830.

NEW-HAVEN,

PUBLISHED BY A. H. MALTBY;

NEW-YORK, BY JOHN P. HAVEN.

BALDWIN AND TREADWAY, PRINTERS.

BRI 93 ser. 3

v, 2

CONTENTS

OF THE

Quarterly Christian Spectator,

Vol. II. 1830.

ART. I. Review of Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral

Science,

> II. Review of Memoir of Mrs. Judson,

III. Review of Judge Story's Inaugural Address,

J IV. Review of Wilson's Lectures on the Evidences of

Christianity,

V. Review on the Varioloid and Small Pox; and on

the moral effects of prevalent Malignant Diseases,

VI. Review of Payson's Sermons,

No. I.

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43

61

70

85

tea IX. Review of Sir Humpry Davy's Salmonia,

133

X. Review of Dr. Tyler's Strictures on the Christian

Spectator,

147

No. II.

ART. I. Review of the Fourth Annual Report of the Prison

Discipline Society,

II. Review of Letters on Revivals of Religion,

III. Review of James' Church Member's Guide,

IV. Review of Grahame's History of Early Settlements

in America,

nd V. Review of the Lives of Mather and Henry,

VI. Review on Missions to China,

jart

VII. Review on the Early History of the Congregational

Churches of New-England,

*VIII. Inquiries respecting the doctrine of Imputation,

IX. Review of Cox's Sermon on Regeneration,

X. On the System of Instruction in the Fellenberg Insti-

XI. Review on Religious Liberty in Switzerland,

XII. Brief Notice of Dr. Tyler's Vindication,

No. III.

ART. I. Review of the Difficulties of Infidelity,

385

II. Review of True Religion Delineated,

397

III. Review of the Report of the American Sunday School

Union,

425

IV. Review of Memoirs of John Mason Good,

435

V. Review of Advice to a Young Christian,

449

VI. Review on African Colonization,

459

VII. Review of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Metho-

dist Episcopal Church,

483

VIII. Review on Penal Law,

505

IX. Review of Speeches by Hayne and Webster,

X. Review of Bellamy on the Permission of Sin,

XI. Review of Wood's Letters,

No. IV.

ART. I. Review of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Andrew

Fuller,

II. On the Fear of God, as an Essential Principle of

True Religion,

III. Letter from a Traveler on the Continent of Europe, 608

IV. Review of the Essays of Philanthropos on Peace and

VII. Review of Wheaton's Journal of a Residence in Lon-

don,

660

VIII. Review of an Address to the Citizens of Boston, and

an Historical Sketch of Watertown,

676

IX. Review of Butler's Analogy of Natural and Revealed

Religion,

694

X. Review of High Church and Arminian Principles,

720

THE

QUARTERLY

CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR.

VOL. II.---NO. I.

MARCH, 1830.

ART. I.-REVIEW OF PAYNE'S ELEMENTS OF MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE.

Elements of Mental and Moral Science; designed to exhibit the Original Susceptibilities of the Mind, and the Rule by which the Rectitude of any of its states or feelings should be judged. By GEORGE PAYNE, A. M. New-York: J. Leavitt. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 1829. pp. 450,

We opened this volume, with more than ordinary interest; hoping to find in it an able exhibition of the elementary principles of mental and moral science. Intellectual philosophy is now in that stage of its progress, which calls for a well arranged and compendious view of its leading truths. He who is desirous of possessing himself of its treasures, is at a loss to know where to commence his inquiries. He opens, perhaps, the attractive volumes of Dr. Brown, but soon finds himself embarrassed, for want of a familiarity with the opinions of preceding writers on the subject. If he turns back to the successive treatises of Dugald Stewart, he meets with frequent discussions of the positions of Reid, and Hume, and Berkeley, and Locke. So also he finds, that the works of Dr. Reid consist, in a great measure, of commentaries on the views of preceding philosophers. After perusing a few of those writers, he learns that, to conduct his researches with a fair prospect of success, he must reverse the order of his investigations; going back as far at least, as the writings of Locke; and following the chronological order, through some fifteen or twenty volumes of Berkeley, Reid, Stewart, Brown, etc. And when all this is done, will he have a clear, and consistent, and well digested system of intellectual philosophy in his mind? We fear he will not; unless he has carried along, with his reading, a laborious process of examining, comparing, modifying, and arranging, the heterogeneous VOL. II.

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