1724 or 1725, without the author's name; and with fome enlargements in 1738. He continued fingle, and died fuddenly in a retirement near London, in 1759.

. His father by his first wife had a fon, Mr. Thomas Scott, a diffenting minifter at Norwich, who published feveral occafional fermons. This gentleman laft mentioned had, befides other children, two fons of confiderable note in the learned world, viz. Mr. Thomas Seott, a diffenting minifter at Ipfwich, author of a Poetical Verfion of the Book of Job, with critical notes, and fome other poetical pieces; and Dr. Jofeph Nicol Scott, who was firft a diffenting minister, and published two volumes of Sermons. He afterwards practifed phyfic in London, and was well-known by feveral ingenious and useful publi

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In this tract the author maintains the following fentiments : that our Lord exifted before his birth of the virgin Mary that he was formerly dilinguished by the denomination of the Logos; that the Logos by affuming a human body, became a real man; that our Saviour was and is a compound of no more than one fingle intelligent agent or fpirit and a human body; that he is a diftin&t perfon from the Father; and inferior to the Father with refpect to his original, and the natural endowments of his mind, his knowlege, His power, his will; that his miffion from the Father is an evidence of his inferiority to him; that his dominion and authority were derived from the Father, and are Jikewife evidences of his inferiority that the Son's own confeflion puts his inferiority paft. all difpute; and lastly, that the Father alone is properly God.

Thefe propofitions are fated with accuracy, and fupported in an able manner. At the fame time, the author treats the learned, from whom he differs, with an amiable spirit of candor, humility, and respect.

A Sermon preached at the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, ou Afh-Wednesday, 1779. By Robert Lord Bishop of London. 4to. Is. Cadell. I V

This excellent writer takes his text from Luke xiii, 1, 2, 3. There were prefent at that feafon fome that told him of the Galileans,' &c. and confiders fome of the reafons, upon which we may prefume this determination of our bleffed Saviour to be founded, that we are not warranted to infer from great and fignal calamities any great and uncommon wickedness in the fufferers."

1. We are directed to 'look upon thofe things only as really good or evil, which promote or obftruct our eternal falvation. 2. Were worldly profperity and affection the proper rewards of virtue, and the punishments of vice, they could not be applied and adminiftered confiftently with the prefent order and conftitution of things, ellablished by the will of God; because no man ftands fingle and alone; what greatly concerns one muft,

in fome degree, affect a multitude. 3. Providence administers and difpenfes the feveral evils of this life by different measures, and in various ways, as beft may anfwer his wife, his righteous, his good and merciful defigns, to try, to improve, and to perfect our virtues. 4. Granting, that great afflictions are chaf tisements of fin, we ought not to conclude, that the unhappy fufferers are more wicked than others; or that we, who escape, are more righteous than they. We all deferve punishment, and God, as a tender father, may correct them, and warn us. As a warning, the fufferings of the eminently righteous may have a better effect, than the punishment of the notoufly wicked. In the latter cafe, we may flatter ourselves, that we are not like them; but in the former we cannot but ask ourselves, if the righteous fcarcely be faved, where fhall the ungodly and the. finner appear ? and if judgment begin at the houfe of God, what fhall be the end of thofe who obey not the gospel?'

Having fhewn, that our Saviour difapproves of and rebukes the prefumptuous practice of interpreting God's vifitation of particular perfons, and uncharitably inferring, from fignal calamities, great wickedness in the fufferers, his lordship proceeds to the latter part of the text, in which our Saviour threatens the whole nation of the Jews with temporal judgments of the like kind, unless they should avert God's wrath by an imme diate reformation. This denunciation naturally leads him to confider the moral and religious ftate of this country, and the neceffity of a fincere humiliation and repentance.

A Sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1779. Being the Day appointed for a General Faft. By Beilby, Lord Bishop of Chefter. 400 15: Rivington.

His lord hip makes fome obfervations on the fituation of our public affairs, and the ftate of religion amongst us; he then demonftrates the neceffity of a ferious and effectual reformation; the importance of a religious principle in all orders of men, from those who direct our public measures, to the lowest members of fociety; and the infinite advantages which would naturally flow from a general obedience to the laws of the golpel. A Sermon preached in the Church of St. Ann, Dublin, on Wednefday, Feb. 10, 1779, &c. By Thomas Leland, D.D. 4to. IS. Conant.

Dr. Leland takes his text from Ezekiel xxviii. 17, and from the opulence, the fplendor, the pride, the depravity, and the fall of Tyre, deduces a very feasonable leffon of instruction to the people of thefe united kingdoms.

A Sermon delivered to à Congregation of Proteflant Diffenters, at Hackney, on the 10th of February, &c. By Richard Price, D. D. 1. Cadell.,

From the deftru&tion of Sodom, and the adjacent country, the author takes occafion to inculcate this important inftruction,

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that the providence of God guides the courfe of nature; and that his love of righteoufnefs and hatred of iniquity are the fprings of all the bleffings enjoyed by nations, and of all the calamities which befal them. In the latter part, where he proceeds more immediately to the confideration of the text, Ĝen. xviii. 32. he fets before his readers the chief particulars in the character of thofe righteous men who are a bleffing to their country; and points out the neceffary dependence of the falvation of a country on fuch characters.

In defcribing the righteous citizen, he tells us, that the fovereignty in every country belongs to the people; and that it is a fad mistake to think, that private men have nothing to do with the administration of public affairs, or that there are myferies in civil government, of which they are not judges.'

Here we beg leave to ask, how the fovereignty of a country can properly belong to the people, when they have transferred it to the care and conduct of a fovereign? How a private man can immediately interfere in the administration of public affairs, when he has configned all his power to a representative in parliament? Or how every little factious politician in ordinary life, can be a competent judge of the great and extenfive operations of government, or expect to be made acquainted with the fchemes of the cabinet? If every man were to affume the seat of judgment, and take upon him the fuperintendence of public power, all order would be confounded, and every end of government defeated.

• In the last war, fays our author, I remember, that only the lofs of Minorca threw the kingdom into a commotion, which coft an admiral his life, and produced a change of measures. But now, though in a condition unspeakably worse, the kingdom is infenfible.... The fame measures go on; the fame minifters direct these measures."

In the first place, the state of the nation is not so desperate as this ill-boding augur pretends. In the next place, it must be allowed, that no human forefight can guard against the common errors of humanity; and laftly, there is not the leaft ground to imagine, that public affairs would be more ably conducted in any other hands.

The truth is, the crown must relinquish all claim to the do minion of America, before certain difaffected and difcontended patriots can be fatisfied. But it is to be hoped, that fuch a tame, fuch a cowardly, fuch an inglorious refignation, will never difgrace the annals of the prefent reign.

Thefe righteous patriots, it seems, hope to find a Zoar, or an Ark, from whence they may view the ftorm,' and escape from the ruin of this country, • Methinks, fays our author, the friends of truth and virtue may now look across the Atlantic, and entertain fome fuch hope.'

On this paffage we fhall only remark, that we wish them a speedy voyage to this happy afylum; that their departure,

before the commencement of the war, would have been no detriment to this kingdom; and that most probably we should not have envied their fituation, if America had obtained its expected independency.

A Sermon preached in Monkwell-Street, on the 10th of February laft, being the Day appointed for a General Faft. By James Fordyce, D. D. 8vo. Is. Cadell.

An animated reprefentation of the delufive and perfecuting fpirit of popery, and a warm admonition against the artifices of Romish priests and jesuits.

The Spoilers Spoiled; A Difcourfe delivered on Feb. 10, 1779, the Day appointed for a General Faft. By Peter Petit, A. M. 410. 6d. Baldwin.

This writer pursues the injunction, which was laid upon the Jewish prophet, Spare not,' with a warmth and earnestnefs, which fome of his more moderate readers will difapprove, efpecially in a fermon. But there is a great deal of truth in his reprefentations; and, without doubt, faults on every fide. If he ftigmatizes the treachery, ingratitude, and wanton cruelty of the rebellious Americans,' the perfidy of our inveterate enemies, the dangerous artifices of popish emiffaries, and the ungenerous, unnatural, and pernicious machinations of our falfe brethren at home, he condemns with equal feverity the general corruption and licentiousness of the age, and the crying fins of the nation.'

Thoughts on the Faft for the 10th of February, 1779. Svo. id. Rivingtons.

This fugitive piece feems to be written with a good defign, viz. to give the common people a notion of the temper and views, with which they were to obferve the day appointed for a general faft: though there are fome paffages in it, especially in the poftfcript, which make it appear an equivocal performance. 4 Sermon preached at the Afylum for Female Orphans, at the Anniverfary Meeting of the Guardians, May 19, 1778. By Robert Markham, D. D. 8vo. IJ, Rivingtons.

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"It is not the will of your Father, which is in heaven, that one of these little ones fhould perish." Matt. xviii. 14. courfing on these words Dr. Markham fets forth the importance of guarding the minds of youth from the contagion of bad examples, and the beneficial effects of an early inftruction in the principles of virtue and religion. He particularly inlarges on the wisdom and utility of an inftitution, which is calculated, not fo much to correct vice as to prevent it.

A Charge, delivered at feveral Vifitations of the Clergy held at York, c. in the Year 1778. By William Cowper, D. D. Archdeacon of York. 4to, 15. Cadell.

The author introduces this fcasonable and useful Charge with fome remarks on the depravity of the prefent age; he then fuggests a variety of important confiderations, calculated to put his

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clerical readers upon their guard, and induce them by their. learning, their pious labours, and their exemplary deportment, to endeavour, in their respective districts, to put a stop to those evils, which threaten no less than the entire fubverfion of every thing held good and facred among men.

Letters to Mrs. Kinderfley. By the rev. H. Hodgson, B. A. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie.

Thefe Letters were printed at different times in the London Chronicle, during the last year, and contain a proper and fpirited anfwer to the following obfervations in Mrs. Kindersley's Account of the Brazils, &c*: The negro-flaves are all made Chriftians as foon as bought; and it is amazing to fee the effect the pageantry of the Roman Catholic religion has upon their uninformed minds; it infpires them: with all the enthusiasm of devotion..... Gilded proceffions, myfterious rites, reverence of their ghoftly fathers, confpire to render them devout..... The plain good fenfe of Proteftant worship is much wanting in glare and fhew.'

CONTROVERSIAL.

An Efay on the Simplicity of Truth, &c. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Dilly. An excellent tract, on the pernicious confequences of church difcipline, carried beyond its proper limits; and the unreafon ableness of the Quakers refufing to pay tithes.

Though it is faid to be written by a Quaker, and is addreffed to the members of that particular fociety, yet the liberal principles, which are maintained in it, are well worth the attention of readers of every other denomination.

MISCELLAN E O U S.

The Life and Death of David Garrick, Efq. &c. &c. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Pridden.

The biographical account of Mr. Garrick is here very imper fect; but, to compenfate this deficiency, a detail is given of his funeral proceffion, and an abftract of his will; which are followed by prologues, epilogues, bon-mots, &c.

The Maritime Campaign of 1778. Folio. 65. Faden. This pamphlet contains a collection of all the papers relative to the operations of the English and French fleets with pertinent remarks upon the accounts publifhed in France, by order of the miniftry, of the engagement on the 27th of July. The narrative is illustrated by fix copper plates, exhibiting the refpective fituation of both fleets,

See Crit. Rev. vol. xliii. p. 439.