4. Plain Reasons for Infant Baptism.

5. Statements of the Persecutions of the Protestants in the South of France. This publication first called the attention of the British public to those crimes perpetrated at Nismes and in its vicinity, which subsequent publications have more fully exposed.

6. The Cause of the French Protestants defended against the Attacks of the Christian Ob

server.

7. The French Preacher, one volume, 8vo.

8. An Historical View of the Reformed Church of France, 8vo.

9. Philanthropy, a poem, foolscap 8vo.

10. The Pilgrim's Fate, a poem, foolscap 8vo. 11. Parables in Verse, 18mo.

12. Grammar for Children, in which the Parts of Speech, &c., are illustrated by Cuts.

13. Georgiana, or Anecdotes of George III. 18mo.

14. Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Louisa Thom, prepared from the MSS. of the Rev. Dr. Thom, 1 vol., foolscap 8vo.

15. Hymns for Village Worship. A Selection. 16. Divine Songs for Cottagers.

17. An Address on the Duties of Church Members, delivered before the Devon Association of Ministers. This had only a local publication.

In addition to the above, Mr. C. was, for several years, editor of the Instructor Religious Newspaper. He also edited a new edition of Dr. Williams's Abridgment of Owen on the Hebrews, 4 vols., 8vo., in which, besides the errors marked in the Doctor's errata, he corrected about 200 inaccuracies in the Hebrew quotations, &c., which occurred from the Doctor's distance from the

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press through which it passed. wise published a number of anonymous small volumes, pamphlets, tracts, and books, for young persons, and Sunday Schools; and has edited, in whole or in part, five other periodical works, which we are not at liberty to name, in the pages of which he has written about two thousand articles. Mr. C. has just prepared for the press the MSS. of a memoir and discourses of the late Rev. Samuel Lavington, which will appear as a supplementary volume; of this work he is not answerable for the matter, but only for the accuracy. He has also announced for early publication SCRIPTURE SONGS; being a versification of the Psalms and other Poems.

CRITICAL REMARKS ON SCRIPTURE.
No. X.

ORIGINAL AND SELECT.

From the Interleaved Bible of a Deceased Clergyman.

GENESIS, CHAP. XLIX.

10. Gathering of the people. The Hebrew word is rendered, in the ancient versions and Jewish commentators, the expectation of the people-a known character of the Messiah. See Gen. xxii. 18. xxvi. 4. xxviii. 14. Esai xi. 10. Hag. vi. 7. Bishop CHANDLER's Defence of Christianity, p. 69.

Shall not depart. The meaning is not that Judah or the Jews should have a King, and be strictly a kingdom till the Messiah came, but that it should not cease to be a state, a body politic,

or commonwealth, having a government, and jurisdiction within itself, though under different forms, till the Messiah came. Under the captivity they were a distinct body, and preserved a shew of government, as may be seen in Ezra i. 5. and x. 14. and Haggai i. 1. COLLIER'S Sacred Interpreter, Vol. 1. p. 167.

And unto him shall the gathering of the people be; or rather the obedience of the people be. The meaning is, all dominion and rule, shall not entirely cease and utterly depart from Judah, till the Messiah not only come, but also till he take upon him the kingdom, and draw a considerable part of the heathen world under his jurisdiction and government, which is agreeable to our Saviour's Prophecy of the end of the Jewish state in Matt. xxiv. 14. WHISTON's Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecy, p. 174, and Mede.

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2. His servants the physicians. In Egypt each distemper had its proper physician, as Herodotus assures us, lib. 2. c. 84. therefore we shall not think it strange, that Joseph's household physicians are represented here as a number. WARBURTON'S Div. Legat. Vol. ii. p. 39.

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SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS,
Delivered at a Ladies Boarding School,
November, 1823.

BY THE REV. I. COBBIN.

Eccles. xi. 10. Childhood and Youth are Vanity.

Vanity is that from which we arc too often accustomed to hope much, but receive little; sɔmething which belongs to every thing this world

calls good and great, and which in the end disappoints our fond expectations.

The period-the pleasures-the beauty-the expectations of Childhood and Youth are Vanity. I. The Period of Childhood and Youth is Vanity. When a few years are gone, we shall go the way whence we shall not return. This may be said by the youngest amongst us, as well as the eldest. If our lives should be what are called long, we spend them but as 'a tale that is told, they are but a dream-a shadow-a vapour that appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away.' And what can be more vain. Of the longest life, when it draws to a close, it may be said, except of that part of it spent in the service of God, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity l' But, my dear young friends, we dare not say we shall live to be old; we may almost venture to say that many now present will never know what age is that they will never even live to grow up. Which of you are of the number? You do not know, but God does; but it would be presumption in any one to say, 'It is not I.' Yet children reckon upon growing up to be men and women, as though it were certain; and that notwithstanding they see many children, like themselves dying, and behold their graves, and their tomb-stones covering the church yard. 'So teach us,' O Lord, 'to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom!'

H. The Pleasures of Childhood and Youth are Vanity. Young people generally amuse themselves with trifles light as air;' they live to become grown people, they see how vain were their amusements, and they put away childish things;' they leave their toys for their younger brothers and sisters. It is very proper that they should

he cheerful, and forget their work and their learning for a while, that they may return to them with fresh vigour, but they should not always be at play. Would not you think it very ridiculous to spend a whole day, or week, or month at pushpin? And yet as simple are those children who would spend all their time in idleness or 'nonsense, doing any thing rather than getting wisdom, and, sad sign! most of all, backward to remember their Creator in the days of their youth. My dear young friends, whatever you do, do not forget God-be assured that to love and serve him is the most lasting pleasure. Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.'

III. The Beauty of Childhood and Youth are Vanity. Have you never seen the pretty flower opening its blushing beauties to the morning sun? But in the evening the blast swept over it and it was cut down and withered, and its delicate form delighted your eyes no more? O, so have I seen many a sweet child-many a pretty flower, suddenly wither before the blast of disease and death. Yes, and when all the dangers of childhood have past away, and life has just dawned upon the lovely young creature; then has the scorching fever, like the blast of lightning, suddenly smitten her in the sight of her affectionste friends, or the invidious decline like a worm in the bud,' preyed upon her beauty and her life! With such instances as these before us, surely we must admit that Childhood and Youth are vanity.' 'Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.'

IV. The Expectations of Childhood and Youth are Vanity. I would not, my dear young friends, throw a cloud over your hopes for futurity, but I