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difpofitions of heart, we can be prepared for the felicities of a future

life.

Upon the whole, the Effays before us have many marks of a fenfible and devout mind; at the fame time they contain fome fentiments which indicate a strong tincture of enthufiafm; and that the Writer had not been always accurate in forming his judgment upon fubjects of religion.

Art. 10. Rules for bad Horfemen. Addreffed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. By Charles Thompson, Efq; J2mo. Is. 6d. Robson.

The Author of this piece pretends to no other merit, than that of defiring to establish common fenfe in the room of unexamined maxims, which generally mislead. The rules he lays down, and which appear to be very good ones, are not defigned for thofe who ride well, but for thofe only who are liable to difficulties and accidents, for want of common cautions; and who know not, that by leaving a horse at fome liberty, and avoiding to give him pain by a bad management of the bridle, he will go better and more quietly than under a bad horfeman, who lays all the weight of his arms on his horfe's mouth, and by fitting awkwardly, not only becomes an uneafy burthen to himself and his horfe, but rides in continual danger of a fall. We recommend this little fenfible tract, as one of thofe rare publications which are likely to be of fome ufe to the world.

Art. 11. An authentic Journal of the Siege of the Havanna. By an Officer. To which is prefixed, a Plan, fhewing the Landing, Encampment, Approaches, and Batteries of the English Army; with the Attacks and Stations of the Fleet. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Jefferys, &c.

Anticipated by the papers published by authority.

Art. 12. An authentic Account of the Reduction of the Havanna, &c. &c. 8vo. Is. 6d. Hinxman.

Industry feems to have been here at her old work; affifted by the news-papers, and Salmon's Geographical Grammar.

Art. 13. A Narrative of the most cruel and barbarous Treatment of Mifs Sarah Molloy, now in the Hofpital of Incurables, in the City of Dublin; who was kept confined by her Parents, and ftarved in a fhocking Manner, from the Year 1747, to January 1762;with all the different Letters and Affidavits published - on that Occafion. 8vo. 6d. Kearfly.

This horrid tale has been fufficiently unfolded in the newspapers.

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Art. 14. An Account of the Guild-Merchant of Preston, &c.
With a Lift of the Nobility and Gentry who appeared at the Balls,
8vo. Is. Stuart.
&c. Sept. 1762. 8vo.

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This folemnity feems to be fomewhat like that of riding the Franchifes in Dublin, but lefs frequently celebrated, and of longer contiThe Prefton-Guild is obferved once in every twenty years, and lafts two weeks; the Dublin Franchises return every three years, but continue only one day. This pamphlet affords but a very flight account of the Lancashire feftival, and was fufficiently anticipated by the news-papers.

POETICA L.

Art. 15. The Ghoft. By C. Churchill. Book III.* 4to. 2 s. Flexney.

Poetry, wit, humour, ridicule,, fatire,-ill-nature, grofs abufe, and low fcurrility, are the characteristics of the digreffive, incoherent production now before us; which may not improperly be termed a kind of Triftram Shandy in verfe.

This undifciplined, irregular Bard, this Pandour in Poetry, may, at the rambling rate in which he has hitherto proceeded, extend his no plan to the compafs of the Iliad, and give us as many books on the Impofture of Cock-lane, as Homer employed to fing the dire effects of the wrath of Achilles.

With a flight alteration, and fome latitude, the following lines, from the latter part of the prefent performancet, may be applied to the ingenious Author himself.

Here Cll's rough ungovern'd soul,
Difdaining DECENCY's controul,

Defpifing French, defpifing Erfe,

Pours forth the plain old English curse,

And bears aloft with terrors hung,

The honours of the vulgar tongue.

For the first and fecond Books (in one publication) fee Reviews, vol. XXVI. p. 313.

Alluding to the Naiads of Billingsgatè.

Art. 16. Ode to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Efq; By William Wales. Folio. Is. Kearfly.

A pompous nothing.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 17. Remarks on Dr. Chandler's Original and Reafon of the Inftitution of the Sabbath. By the Author of Religio Statica. 8vo. 6d. Hinxman.

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We fhall give our account of this little pamphlet in the Author's own words, taken from his preface; in which he is as clear as in almost any other part of his work.

"My opinion is, that the Sabbath was at first, fanctified by the creation of Adam on the feventh day, and not on the fixth, as is generally fuppofed; and that the morality or immorality of time depends wholly upon the action, or thing done, by a moral agent,in any given fpace or point of time.".

If the Reader does not fee clearly, from this Paffage, what our Author intends, we cannot help it; and fhall be obliged to say of him as he fays of Dr. Chandler, Now I have got him, I will keep him if I can. Here we have him again;—but, ftrange as it is,—there is no holding him,-he immediately flies off.

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Art 18. Sermons on various Subjects: With an Hymn, adapted to each Subject. Defigned to affift the Devotions of the Family and Clofet, By Thomas Gibbons, M. A. 8vo. 4s. Boards. Field, &c.

"To preach grace practically, and duty evangelically, fays Mr. Gibbons in his preface, according to the example of the apostles and first minifters of the Word, is, I truft, my governing aim in all my miniftrations; and perhaps there is fcarcely a fingle fermon I ever delivered, but what has contained an union of privilege and precept, of faith and practice.

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According to this model are formed the Difcourfes here offered to the public view; and whoever perufes them, will find that I have neither omitted the great and glorious doctrines of christianity, nor been negligent in the improvement of them, for the most valuable important purposes of an holy temper and conduct in the hearts and lives of their profeffors, faith as the feed, and holiness as the fruit, I find united in the facred writings; and a prevailing regard to both will, I think, evidently appear through the feveral pages of this volume."

To this account, which the Author himself gives of his fermons, we need only add, that they are plain and practical difcourfes; and that a fpirit of ferioufnefs and piety. breathes through the whole of

them.

Art. 19. Annotations on a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, on Sunday June 7, 1761, by George Horne, B. D. Fellow of Magdalen-College, and published at the Request of Mr. Vice-Chancellor. 8vo. Is. 8vo. Is Fuller,

Mr. Horne fays, that works wrought thro' faith are a neceffary condition of our juftification; this Annotator tell us, that if works are conditions of the Gospel Covenant, it is no Gospel at all, we are fill undone, farewel Salvation! no Sinner will ever enter into life.-Farewell ANNOTATOR!

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Art. 20. A Treatise concerning religious Affections. By the late Rev. Jonathan Edwards, A. M. and Prefident of the College of New Jersey. 12mo. 2s. 6d. bound. Field,

The defign of this treatife is, to fhew what are the diftinguishing 1 figns of truly gracious and holy affections; and what are not fo. The defign is ufeful; in many refpects it is well executed; it would have been much more fo, had there been lefs myfticifm, and a greater attention to that plain, but fubftantial, maxim of our Saviour in the Gospel, by their fruits ye shall know them.

Art. 21. A Differtation on Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. By Richard Parry, D. D. Author of the Defence of the Bishop of London*. 8vo. 1s. Whifton.

We have fome learned and ingenious conjectures in this performance; which having been published a confiderable time, tho' it did not happen to fall in our way till very lately, it may therefore be now thought too late for us to enlarge upon it; otherwife it is not unworthy our more particular notice.

See Review, vol. XXIII. page 256.

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SINGLE SERMONS.

HE Believers Triumph; or the Sting of Death taken away. On the death of Mr. Joshua Reyner, and publifhed for the encouragement of weak and tempted Chriftians. By R. Elliot, A. E. formerly of Bennet college, Cambridge. Dilly.

2 Good Men difmiffed in Peace -On the death of the late Rev. David Jennings, D. D. Sept. 26, 1762. By Samuel Morton Savage. To which is added, an Oration at his interment; by William Ford, Junr. Buckland, &c.

3. The Wisdom and Goodness of God in the Vegetable Creation farther confidered* -at St. Ann's, Black Friars, Oct. 2d, 1762, before the Company of Apothecaries. By William Dodd, M. Á. Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Davids. Brillow.

This is the Author's third Sermon on the fubject.

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MONTHLY REVIEW,

For NOVEMBER, 1762.

Medical Commentaries, Part I. Containing a plain and direct Anfwer to Profeffor Monro, Junior. Interfperfed with Remarks on the Structure, Functions, and Difeafes of feveral Parts of the human Body. By William Hunter, M. D. 4to. 4s.

fewed. Millar.

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HOUGH we have feldom entered deeply into the controverfies of Physicians or Anatomifts, yet, as there appears in thefe Commentaries fomething fo decifive of a former anatomical difpute, (which we had curforily reviewed) between our present Author and another Gentleman, of the fame profeffion, we think we shall need no apology to our medical Readers, for prefenting them a brief fummary of this fenfible and well-digefted performance, which feems, to us, to preclude all farther pertinent debate on the fubject. The two principal points, the difcovery or property of which are litigated between Dr. Hunter and Dr, Alexander Monro, junior, (whose father became, in fome mcafure, a party in the difpute, by a Letter, re-printed in thefe Commentaries) regard the prior injection of the Epididymis, and of the convoluted Tubuli of the Teftis with mercury; and of the prior difcovery of the lymphatic veffels being a system of abforbing ones with the publishing, not the printing, of that discovery.

After a concife Introduction, Dr. Hunter afferts, and confirms his affertion by fix reputable witneffes, that in his autumn Lectures, 1752, he produced a preparation of the human Teftis, in which he had compleatly filled the Epididymis and the tubes compofing the body of the Teftis with mercury, VOL. XXVII. X

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