NEW PUBLICATIONS. A Complete List of Books on Theology and Morals, for July, 1807. A Portaiture of Methodi m; being an for the Education of the Poor. By impartial View of the Rise, Progress, James Parkinson, Hoxton, Is. Discipline and Manners of the Wesleyan Methodists. In a se ies of Letters addressed to a Lady. By Joseph Nightingale. 8vo. IOS. 6d. Jesus the Son of Joseph: A Sermon, delivered by A. Bennett, before the Annual Assembly of the General Baptists, at Worship Street, May 19, 1807. Is. The Use of Reason in Religion. A Letter addressed to the General Baptist Churches, by their Annual Assembly of May 19, 1807. Written by Richard Wright, 6d. An Examination of the Passages contained in the Gospels, and other Books of the New Testament, respecting the Person of Jesus: with Observations arising from them. By J. Smith, Gent. 8vo. 3s. A Sermon containing a Sketch of the char cter of the late Rev. George Walker, F.R.S. and Pres. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manchester. With Pracucal Reflections. Preached 30 May, 1807. Before the Society of Protestant Dissenters assembling on the High Pavement, Nottingham, By James Taylor. An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics. By William Parnell, Esq. 8vo. 56. A Letter, stating the Connexion which the Presbyte\ians, Dissenters and Catholics had with the recent Event, which has agitated and still agitates the British Empire; with Lord Grenville's Letter to Dr. Gaskiu. The System of Colonial Law compared with the Eternal Laws of God, and with the indispensable Principles of the British Constitution. By Grenville Sharp, 6d. The Romish Church or an Historical and Critical View of some of the leading doctrines of the Church of Rome. In a Se es of Discourses, preached at Bi-hopwearmouth, in the year 1806; being a compilation from Secker and others, interwoven with the sentiments and Remarks of the Preacher. By George Stephenson, M. A. 8vo. 8s. A Letter from an Irish Dignitary, to an English Clergyman on the subject of Tythes, in Ireland, Is. Remarks on Mr. Whitbread's Plan Moses conducting the Children of Israel to the Promised Land: A Prize Poem. Recited at the Theatre, Oxford. June 10, 1807. IS. A Thanksgiving Sermon, preached in the Chapel of the British Factory in St. Petersburgh, on occasion of the Victory of Trafalgar. By L. K. Pitt, A. M. The Fashionable World Reformed: being Reflections on Theatrical Representations. By Philokosmos. 8vo. 2s. 6d. sewed. Voyages and Travels of a Bible. By J. Campbell, 28. half-bound. Four Sermons, preached at the General Meeting of the Missionary Society, in May, 1807. By the Rev. Messrs. Newton, Jack, Griffin and Dr. Draper, to which is added, the Report of the Directors, &c. &c. 2s. 6d. Glorious Hope to 6d. a Lost World, Letters to a Person, baptized on Profession of Faith, 6d. Advice to Youth: containing a compendium of the Duties of Human Life in youth and manhood. By H. 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A Sermon preached at the Temple, and at Berkeley Chapel, upon the Con duct to be observed by the Etablished Church, towards Catholics, and other Dissenters. By the Rev. Sydney Smith, A. M. Is. CORRESPONDENCE. We are happy to announce that we have received a Letter for the Monthly Repository, from the Author of the Remarks on Stone's Sermon, written on the cover of a copy of that Sermon, in vindication of the Remarks from the Strictures of J. M. which shall appear in our next. Our wish is to provoke discussion, believing that di cus ion is a ways favourable to truth; and we rejoice in an opportunity of hewin that our profession of impartiality is not an empty boast, but the fundamental rule by which our work is conducted. R. «f Lewes is informed that a packet is left for him at the Printer's. His -dissatisfaction-with our judgment on one of his communications, and our delay in publi hing the others, we lament; but we have neither time nor room to discuss the grounds of it. We beg leave to decline all correspondence which is not left entirely to our deci ion, both as to insertion, and to the time of insertion. T. C. further Letter on Baptism was received, but was put by as containing Fothing new and important on the subject of the controversy. We are obliged to remind several of our correspondents, some entirely unknown to us, that we are not able to invite communications, except on the terms of their being post paid. We mich regret the necessity we are under of omitting several interesting artic es of Intelli ence, which shall come in, without fail, in the next number, together with some articles that have lain by us a long time, ខ (Addressed to the Young Persons who had attended his Lectures at the Gravel-Pit Meeting, Hackney, in answer to a Letter from them on occasion of his leaving England*.) MY YOUNG FRIENDS, THE HE satisfaction I have received from your affectionate address is only equalled by that which I have constantly enjoyed in my attendance upon you in our lectureroom, and this arose from my perceiving the real improvement you made there, and the freedom of our conversa tions on subjects of such importance as were continually before us. They are such as are indeed most interesting to men, as rational and immortal beings. The proper object of them was religious knowledge, but I am most happy to find you fully sensible, that the end of all knowledge is practice, and the end of all religious knowledge, religious and virtuous practice, and that the benefit you have received yourselves you are desirous of extending to others. To the satisfaction I have received from your improvement in knowledge, I therefore trust will be added the much greater satisfaction, that will occur to me from hearing of your good and exemplary conduct in life, which will secure our happy meeting in a state for which all instruction and all the discipline of this life are intended to form us. Wherever I go, and whatever befals me, such accounts as these will give me a pleasure of which nothing can deprive me. The address to which this letter is a reply was published by Dr. Priestley in the Appendix to his farewell Sermon entitled, "The Use of Christianity in difficult Times," as "The Address of the Young Men and the Young Women who attend the Lectures on the subject of Natural and Revealed Religion." Not doubting you will receive as much improvement and satisfaction from the lectures of my successor as you have done from mine, provided you give equal attention to them, I am, my young Friends, Clapton, Your late affectionate Pastor, PARALLEL PASSAGES OF MR. WELLBELOVED'S AND BISHOP TAYLOR'S. SIR, To the Editor of the Monthly Repository. WHEN I first perused Mr. Wellbeloved's excellent " Devotional Exercises," a book which I should wish to see in the hands of every young person, I was particularly struck with the following important observation, which, if duly impressed upon youthful minds, would surely engage them to turn with horror from the commission of a crime, which, in the present state of society is, alas, too often considered as a venial offence. "Some crimes cannot be committed by an individual alone: many vices must have sharers in the guilt they produce; and can repentance remove the criminality of having been instrumental to the destruction of others? Can any tears on our part wash away the stains we have impressed upon the character of those whom our vices have ruined? Repentance cannot extend beyond the individual: it may bring me to a right way of thinking, and recover me to a conscientious adherence to virtue: but can repentance give perfect case to a mind which is conscious of having diverted others from the path of virtue into that of sin; and enticed them into that evil conduct, in the midst of which, perhaps, they have been arrested by death, or in which they continue to proceed without any apparent hope of refor. mation? If our influence have been very extensive, our sorrow will be proportionably more severe when we come to reflection; and may perhaps accompany us into the other world, and interrupt our en joyment there. If we retain the remembrance of what we have been and done here, we must be grieved, even in the presence of God, that through our means some are excluded from those happy regions, and lamenting their connexion with us in scenes of darkness and despair!" p. 56. This very important reflection is, I know, an original thought of the amiable author; but he will not, I am persuaded, be displeased to see that the same thought had occurred to the venerable Bishop Taylor. And your readers will, no doubt, be much struck with the following extract from his 'Sermon on the Last Judgment; expressed in language too strong, perhaps, to be ventured upon by a writer of the present day. "But there is a worse sight yet than this, which in that great assembly shall distract our sight and amaze our spirits. There men shall meet the partners of their sins, and them that drank the round, while they crowned their heads with folly and forgetfulness, and their cups with wine and noises. There shall ye see that poor perishing soul whom thou didst tempt to adultery and wantonness, to drunkenness and perjury, by power or craft, by witty discourses or deep dissembling, by evil example or pernicious counsel; and when all this is reckoned up, and from the variety of particulars drawn out into a formidable sum, possibly we may find enough to scare our confidence. For however we may now make light account concerning it, assuredly it will be a fearful circumstance, to see one or ten or twenty souls despairing, miserable, fearfully cursing thee as the cause of their unspeakable sorrows. Thý lust betrayed and rifled her weak unguarded innocence; thy example made thy servant confident to lie or to be perjured; thy society brought a third into intemperance, and the disguises of a beast; and when thou seest that soul with whom thou didst sin, dragged to its deserved punishment, well may'st thou fear to drink the dregs of thy intolerable potion. For since very many sins are sins of society and confederation, such as fornication, drunkenness, bribery, and many others, it is a hard and weighty consideration, what shall become of any of us who have tempted our brother or sister to sin and death. And though God hath spared our life, yet they perhaps are dead, and their debt-books are scaled up till the day of account. Thus the mischief of our sin is gone before us, and is like a murder, but more execrable; the soul is dead in trespasses and sins; and thou shalt see, at doom's day, what damned uncharitableness thou hast done. That soul, that cries to those rocks to cover her, if it had not been for thy perpetual temptations, might have followed the Lamb in robes of white; and that poor man who is clothed with shame, might have shined in glory, but that thou didst force him to be a partner of thy baseness. Of all the considerations that concern this part of the horrors of the last day, nothing can be more formidable than this to those whom it doth concern. And truly it doth concern so many, that most mercifully hath our Lord interwoven in the fearful circumstances of his second coming this one comfort relating to this, which, to my sense, is the most fearful and killing circumstance, Two shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken, the other left; two shall be in a bed, the one shall be taken, the other left; that is, those who are confederates in the same actions may yet have a different sentence. early and active repentance may wash off the black account; and though it ought to make us doubly diligent, careful and penitent, hugely penitent as long as we live, and if it do so, when we shall An |