Among the Hints for fermons in this final volume, the 15th is ftriking. "The kingdom of heaven is like a net which was caft into the fea, and gathered of every kind.-Matt. xiii. 47.-Just fuch a ga. thering will there be at the laft great day: the net will be spread abroad, and a final feparation made. The name of Chriftian will then be a name of great confequence; and many will endea vour to fhield themfelves under it. Let us examine their fe. veral pretenfions :-The firft is the nominal christian. He has no thing to fay, but that he was born in a chriftian country, and was baptized in the name of Christ. Of the faith of a Christian, he knows little; and of the practice, ftill lefs. "The moral man comes next. He profeffes the Teftament to be a most excellent fyftem of morals; but he expunges from it the divinity of Chrift-his atonement for fin-the affiftance of the Holy Spirit; and, in fhort, all the comfortable doctrines of chrif. tianity. Why he acknowledges his Teftament to be good authority in one cafe, and not in another, is a queftion which may probably give him fome difficulty in anfwering hereafter. It may, however, rather be doubted, whether his contempt for the doctrines of chriftianity may not fomewhat interfere with his exactnefs in the practice of it. "Let us next take a view of the felf-righteous man. He acknowledges all the doctrines of Chriftianity; but he thinks he has not much occafion for them. Chrift died, he allows, for finners; but he does not conceive himself in that clafs. The little errors of his life are loft in the multitude of his virtues ; and he has no fear of appearing in the prefence of God, clothed merely in his own righteoufnefs. It is well for him, if he do not find his mistake hereafter.-How far God's mercy may extend to fuch prefumption, is not for us to fay; but we have no gofpel-ground to hope for God's mercy, unless we believe and truft in the merits of that Redeemer, through whom alone it is promifed. "The innocent man is queftioned next. He has no objection to christianity; indeed, he hardly ever thought about it. In a general view, however, he conceives the gospel to be a law againft wickednefs; and as fuch, chiefly, he receives it. He has the guilt of no great fin upon his confcience. He troubles not himself with motives, and what he calls, the refinements of religion; but hopes, a life free from great wickednefs will carry him to heaven. "The real Chriftian is the reverfe of all thefe. Through faith in Chrift, and a firm belief of all the doctrines of christianity, he converts his moral virtues into Chriftian doctrines; and though he may hope, that in fome of his works he may pleafe God, yet he prefumes not on any of them, acknowledging with contrition that he has no hopes of falvation through his own rightcoufness rightcoufnefs, but merely through the merits of his Redeemer. Of course, therefore, he thinks an innocent life is not all that is required; but endeavours to recommend himself to God, by devotion and prayer-by heavenly affections, and works of charity. "If a fet discourse should be taken from this hint, it might conclude with an exhortation to a congregation, to examine themfelves by the feveral characters fet before them; from which they might be inftructed, on proper motives, to imitate the best." (P. 377.) Other Chriftians might have been enumerated with effect, but all that is here faid is ufeful. When the career of fo ufeful a man as Mr. Gilpin is terminated, it is impoffible not to feel fome regret; but his courfe was honourable, and his works furvive to bear admirable teftimony for him. ART. XII. Mifcellanies. In Twa Volumes. By Richard Twifs. 8vo. 347 and 391 pp. 11. is. Egerton, &c. 1805. VA ARIETY and amufement may be found in thefe volumes, but very little that is original. The firft volume confifts principally of Eflays, the chief part of which, is tranflated, with fome freedom of omiffion, from "the Dutch Spectators, of Juftus Van Effen." Why Mr. Twifs calls them Dutch Spectators we know not. We have a Nouveau Spectateur François published by this author; our edition is dated 1742. Mr. Van Effen writes a very eloquent eulogium on the original English Spectator, and strongly cenfures the Spectateur François. There is alfo an effay on Matrimony, taken from one written in Italian, by Dr. Antonio Cocchi; a dreadful account of fome proceedings of the inquifition at Granada, taken from a French work: (p. 119.) An account of the Ruffian Horn Mufic, extremely curious, and more in detail than we have feen before, from a German book on the fubject, printed at Petersburgh in 1796, (p. 221.) This curious ftyle of mufic, of which we have feen a representation In a book of Ruffian coftumi, confifts of a number of muficians, each of whom plays only a fingle note, but who are fo trained as to execute difficult pieces, with great fpirit and correctness. It appears that it was invented by John Antony Marefch, about 1752. There are alfo, in this volume, maxims and aphorifms, which Mr. T. fays were collected from many books in various languages: the maxins, however, are of no great value or profundity. In the fecond volume Mr. T. continues his collections on Chefs, as fupplemental to the volumes he before published on that fubject. The mode of printing extracts fromí a variety of books, without order or method, is not very interefting; and accordingly, the remarks on Chefs have never been great favourites with the public. Similar accounts of Draughts are here added. The account of Phillidor's death is only given from a newspaper, with a few additional remarks. It happened August 24, 1795. The latter part of this volume is occupied by "entertaining chemical experiments," communicated by Mr. F. Accum: an effav, entitled "Natural Courtfhip," from the fame Dutch Spectator, and fome mifcellaneous poetry, in which Mr. Twifs claims no fhare, except in pointing out the fubjects to the authors. Many of them are tranflated from the Spanish, and the originals are printed with them. Three German fables of Gellert are given alfo in Dutch tranflations, by which the two languages may be conveniently compared, and in English imitations. The following by Mrs. Opie, is perhaps as well worth notice as any among them, though fome, which indeed are cafily diftinguifhed, are afcribed to the perfon who chooses to call himfelf Peter Pindar. "THE HAPPY MARRIAGE. Thanks Hymen, God of nuptial ties! Their hearts, grief's entrance could not fear, Bound by the facred marriage rite, Their faults from those they love conceal, 2 Na No fecret error came to light, Which love or art had veil'd from fight; And the laft kifs they gave and took, Bleft pair! they died then, did they?" "yes." When they'd been married just a week.. (Vol. ii. p. 342.) As this book appears to have been formed chiefly for the parpofe of inducing a few friends to become fubfcribers, we thall not offer any more critical strictures upon it. ART. XIII. A Claffical Dictionary, containing a copious Account of all the proper Names mentioned in ancient Authors, with the Value of Coins, Weights, and Meafures ufed among the Greeks and Romans, and a Chronological Table. By J. Lempriere, D. D. A new Edition. 4to. Price 11. 11s. 6d. Cadell and Davies. NY praife beftowed upon a work which has already paffed through four large editions may feem extremely fuperfluous, but we are anxious to demonftrate our efteem of this performance, and our refpect for the author, by bringing his elaborate and useful exertions more confpicuously to view, by announcing his Claffical Dictionary in this improved and enlarged form. Dr. Lempriere has employed the period, which has elapfed fince the appearance of his first edition, with commendable diligence, in collecting whatever might throw intereft on the characters which he has exhibited of antiquity, elucidate hiftorical facts, and give greater precifion and correctnefs to geographical defcriptions. We fubjoin a fhort fpecimen of articles either entirely new, or greatly extended and improved in this edition. "LITYERSAS, an illegitimate fon of Midas king of Phrygia, He made trangers prepare his harvest, and afterwards put them to death. He is reprefented as of fuch a gluttonous habit, that he daily devoured as much meat as might have been a fafficient Load for a beaft of burden. He was at laft killed by Hercules. Theoc, Id.--Sujith, apud Athen. 19. The fons of reapers were called called Lityerfes, either in honor of Ceres who prefided over corn, or in remembrance of the son of Midas. Pollux confiders the Lityerfes as fongs expreffive of forrow and mourning, and ufed to confole Midas for the lofs of his fon. The name was afterwards borrowed by the Greeks, and without allufion to the history of the Phrygian Prince, applied to the fongs which reapers fing during the time of harveft. Athen. 14.-Poilux. 1. c. 3.-Servius in Ecl. Virg. 8, v. 68.—Schol. Theocr. Idyll. 10. "Lucăria or Lucĕria, feftivals at Rome, celebrated in a large grove between the Via Salaria and the Tiber, where the Romans hid themselves when befieged by the Gauls. It was observed on the 1st of February, or in July according to others, and on that day the comedians received their falary, which was always paid by the government. Tacit. Ann. 1. c. 77.-Feftus de V. Sig.-Varre de L. L. 5, c. 3. Ovid. Faft. 2.-Gyrald. Calend. R. & Gr.Plut. in Quæft. R. 88. "L. LUCCEIUs, a celebrated hiftorian, author of an history of the Marfic war, and of the civil wars of Marius and Sylla. Cicero, who knew and admired his abilitics, requested him to give to the world an hiftory of his confulfhip. He favoured the caufe of Pompey, but was afterwards pardoned by J. Cæfar. Nothing of his compofitions remains befides a confolatory letter to Cicero on the death of his daughter. Cafar, B. C. 3, c. 18.Cic. ad Fam. 5, cp. 12, &c.- -Albinus, a governor of Mauritania after Galba's death, &c. Tacit. Hift. 2. c. 58. "Oftorius Scapula, a man made governor of Britain by Claudius, -He defeated and took priforer the famous Caractacus, and died A. D. 55. Tacit. Ann. 12. c. 31, &c.-Another, who put himfelf to death when accufed before Nero, &c. Id. 14, C. 48.Sabinus, a man who accufed Soranus, in Nero's reign. Id. 16, c. 33. Cic. ad "SCAPTIUS, a merchant appointed by the influence of Brutus, prefect at Cyprus. In his office, Scaptius vexed the Cyprians, and efpecially the people of Salamis, that he might recover fome money which his patron Brutus had lent to the people of the island, at an extravagant intereft. The fettling of this affair proved troublefome to Cicero in his pro-confulihip in Afia. Att. 5. ult. 6, 1, 2.-- -Marcus the brother of the preceding, was railed to the office of prefect by Cicero. Cic. ad Att. 6, ep. 1.Publius, a piebeian, by whofe teftimony the Romans unlawfully feized as their own, feme land for the fettlement of which they were appointed umpires by the people of Aricia and Ardca. Liv. 3, c. 71, 72. SCINIS, a cruzi robber who tied men to the boughs of trees, which he had forcibly brought together, and which he afterwards unloofened, fo that that their limbs were torn in an inftant from their body. He was fon of Polypemon, or, according to others, of Neptune, and he fixed his refidence on the ifthmus of Corinth, where Thefeus, going from Troczene to Athens, met him, and inflicted |