THE

CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER.

FEBRUARY, 1834.

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ART. I. An Address delivered on Laying the First Stone of the New King's Weigh-house, a Place of Worship intended for the Use of a Congregational Church. By T. BINNEY. London: Jackson & Walford. 1833. Pp. 24. 4to.

We regret that this production has come so late to hand that we cannot notice it at the length it deserves; but we would rather notice it briefly, than leave it entirely untouched. When we speak of its deserts, we mean nothing intrinsic; for a more contemptible composition cannot be, whether in respect of style, matter, argument, learning, or anything else that can confer value on literature. But this "Address" has acquired very considerable importance from its appropriation by the principal organs of Dissent; from its tacit adoption by the great body of the Dissenters, who, after such appropriation certainly ought to disclaim its language, unless they would participate its guilt; and by the entire recognition of its principles in a formal document put forth by what may be called the Sectarian Convocation (for, while we are deprived of ours, the Dissenters enjoy theirs in all its vigour and efficiency) in Redcross-street.

Of the folly and ignorance of the pamphlet before us we shall say little. Suffice it to observe that the Independents are represented as "unquestionably the first, who, as a body, advocated a generous and impartial toleration ;"* and, though Mr. Binney himself admits that