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no ministers to seek, till you have first cast off your obedience to this order of things appointed by your Saviour, and have deserted your minister and your brethren. Did you ever hear of people seeking their father and mother? Is it not God Almighty that chooses your parents for you, sends you into the world just at what time he pleases, and causes you to be born of what parents he pleases? Just so does he in the Church

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Were he to say all this to Thomas Johnson; and then proceed to misapply to the parish minister, the passage in which St. Paul tells the Corinthians, that though they had ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet had they not many fathers, for he in Christ Jesus had begotten them through the Gospel; were he to represent the parish minister as the father in Christ, given him by his Creator, who had begotten him in baptism, and now possessed a father's authority over him, be his character what it may;-that sturdy sectary would respectfully inform Mr. Sikes, first, that the Apostle's language would not bear the gloss which his Reverence had put upon it; next, that St. Paul, who, in writing to these same Corinthians, thanks God that he had baptized none of them, could not have the same idea of regeneration as Mr. Sikes; further, that the title of a father in God or spiritual father, is awfully inappropriate to the great mass of bishops, rectors, and curates; and that the assertion, that the whole of this kingdom is well supplied ⚫ with proper teachers' in the Establishment, sounds so much like a great, that, had any body but Mr. Sikes said it, it could not have been believed. Then, as to his plea, that even a Judas is to be reverenced, if the Bishop has laid his hands upon him, because God hath "chosen the foolish things of "the world to confound the wise,"-Thomas Johnson would ask Mr. Sikes, whether St. Judas continued to preach and to exercise Apostolic authority after he was known to be a thief, and after he had betrayed his Master; for with men's undiscovered hypocrisy we can have nothing to do; and whether Mr. Sikes understands by "foolish things," wicked things, and that God chooses the wicked things of this world to confound the wise ones? If not, he is guilty again of perverting Scripture,-an art which the Church of Rome learned of the Devil; and he had need look to it lest he should be found betraying his Master. He tells us, indeed, that we are not to judge the character of a minister, but to look to his office.

He is placed there for the purposes of our reformation and salvation, to take cognizance of the people's manners and conduct, and to persuade, exhort, reprove, rebuke as occasion requires. But if the people reject him upon a pretence of vicious character, they reverse the order of things.'

We have heard of the Devil's rebuking Sin, but never before saw the office so distinctly attributed to him. A man of vi'cious character,' taking cognizance of the morals of his flock, and rebuking offenders, must be a most edifying spectacle. A most delightful order of things, which it would be impiety to reverse! A wicked man may, it seems, be a most efficient minister of the Church of England. Thank God, we do not belong to such a Church!

And now our readers know Mr. Sikes, and they will be able to account for his bitter abuse of the Gospel preachers in his Third Dialogue. The Gospel preachers and their followers,' he says, murdered Good King Charles, and preached the

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poor clergy out of their livings and themselves into them.' And the Gospel preachers of the present day, (meaning the evangelical clergy), are the same sort of men: their arguments, conduct, doctrines, and manners, are exactly the same as theirs.' 'We know,' he adds, by sad experience, what Gospel preaching then meant, and what it came to, and we should not like to be so taken in again.' Yet, guilty as these Gospel preachers are of palpable schism,' 'rebellion ⚫ against Church authority,' 'systematic slander and delusion,' cant,' pride,' 'love of lucre,' dishonesty,' and 'hypocrisy,' they are servants of Christ, fathers in God, and the rest of it, if you happen to live in the parish over which God Almighty has set any one of them; and Twilight is instructed to yield them, in that case, reverence and obedience accordingly.

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We have no room to notice the Vicar of Swaffham, but must leave him in the competent hands of Mr. Jarrom.The Address to Separatists is chiefly distinguished by its singular imbecility. If we should be thought to have bestowed too much notice on Mr. Sikes, we must beg our readers to remember, that six editions of this trash have been forced into circulation; and the Author is known to be held in high estimation in some quarters. One of the twelve Apostles at least, would, were he living, commend the labours of his Apologist

ART. XI. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION:

* Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the Press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan.

In the press, (dedicated to Lord Dacre,) Memoirs of the Rev. Thomas Brand, one of the silenced ministers in the reign of Charles II. By Dr. Annesley. Together with the funeral Sermon. A new edition, revised by the Rev. W. Chaplin.

Mr. Dunlop, Author of the History of Fiction, has a new work in the press, entitled, the History of Roman Literature from the earliest Periods to the Augustan Age, in two volumes octavo.

Mr. Montgomery, the Poet, will publish in a few days, a work entitled, a Songs of Zion," being imitations of the Psalms in verse.

Poems, by the Rev. Thomas Cherry, late Head Master of Merchant Tailors School, are printing in a quarto volume; selected and cdited by the Rev. J. W. Bellamy.

Mr. Geo. Downes will soon publish, Letters from Mecklenburg and Holstein, including an account of Hamburg and Lubeck.

. Dr. Meyrick has been many years collecting scattered notices of Ancient Armour, found in old writings; and the result of his labours will soon appear in three imperial quarto volumes.

Dr. Lucas is printing in an octavo volume, a Treatise on the Nature and Principles of Inflammation and Fever.

George Brodie, Esq. has in the press, a History of the British Empire, from the Accession of Charles I. to the Re storation, in four octavo volumes.

W. Wordsworth, Esq. will soon pub. lish, in a small octavo volume, a Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England.

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Mr. Wood is preparing for publication, Figures of all the known Shells, intended to illustrate his Index Testaceologicus. The Sixth Part of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana will appear carly in next month.

Sir Aubrey Devere Hunt, Bart. bas in the press, Julian the Apostate, a dramatic poem, in an octavo volume.

Sir Gilbert Blane is printing in an octavo volume, Select Dissertations on various Medical Subjects.

Mrs. Schimmelpenninck has a second volume of Biblical Fragments nearly ready for publication.

Mr. John Tuck, brewer, has in the press, in an octavo volume, the Art of brewing Porter and Ale, particularly adapted to the use of families.

To be published in a few days in 8vo. The Curfew, or the Grave of the Last Saxon, a Poem. By the Rev. William Lisle Bowles, Author of the Missionary, Letter to Lord Byron, &c. &c.

Speedily will be published, in 2 vols, 12mo. Hortus Anglicus; or, the Modern English Garden; containing an easy description of all the Plants which are cultivated in the climate of South Britain, either for Use or Ornanient, and of a Selection from the established Favourites of the Stove and Green-house; arranged according to the System of Linnæus; including his Generic and Specific Characters; with remarks on the Properties of the more valuable Species. By the Author of the British Botanist.

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Dr. Irving has made considerable progress in a new School Work on Roman Antiquities.

The River Derwent and other Poems, by W. B. Clarke, B. A. Jesus College, Cambridge, will appear next month.

Shortly will be published by subscription, with a portrait, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Alfred Stothard, F. S. A. Author of the monumental Effigies of 'Great Britain. With some account of a Journey in the Netherlands, by Mrs. Charles Stothard, Author of Letters written during a Tour through Normandy, Britany, and other parts of France.

Mr. Bourn has in the press, an enlarged edition of "A Gazetteer of the most remarkable Places in the World, with Brief Notices of the Principal Historical Events of the most Celebrated Persous connected with them."

Art. XII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

AGRICULTURE.

The Cottager's Agricultural Companion, comprising a complete System of Cottage Agriculture, intended to instruet the Poor of Great Britain in the best Arts of Cottage Husbandry. By William Salisbury, Author of the Botanist's Companion. 12mo. 2s.

ASTRONOMY.

A Celestial Atlas, comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens, in a series of thirty maps (beautifully engraved by Neele and Son) illustrated by scientific descriptions of their contents, and accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises. By Alexander Jamieson, A. M. Author of a Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy. royal 4to. half-bound, l. 5s. plain. 11. 11s. 6d. coloured.

CHEMISTRY.

The Use of the Blowpipe, in Chemical Analyses, and in the Examination of Minerals. By J. J. Berzelius, Member of the Academy of Stockholm. Translated from the French of M. Fresnel by J. G. Children, F.R.S.L & E.F. L. S. &c. With a Sketch of Berzelius's System of Mineralogy; a Synoptic Table of the principal Characters of the Pure Earths, and Metallic Oxides, before the Blowpipe; and numerons Notes and Additions by the Translator. With 3 plates. 8vo. 12s.

EDUCATION.

Elements of Thought; adapted to the Use of Schools, and especially designed to aid the Studies of young Persons who wish to supply the Lefects of a common Education. By Isaac Taylor, junior. 12mo. 4s. 6d.

GEOMETRY.

A Statistical, Political, Mineralogical, and Modern Map of Italy, (46 inches by 27). With the New Boundaries according to the latest Treaties; together with signs to indicate Capitals of StatesCities-Fortified Places-Forts-Market Towns Villages and Hamlets-Ruins Archbishopricks-Bishopricks-Capi

tals of Provinces-Post Stations-Post Roads regularly supplied with HorsesPost Roads not regularly suppliedRoads passable for Artillery-Foot paths or Bye-roads Distances of Posts

Boundaries of States-Boundaries of Provinces also signs of Quarries and Mines of Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Tin, Quicksilver, and Red lead; Foundries and Forges, Alam and Antimony, Sulphur, Mineral Salt and Mineral Springs, Marble, Coal, Hot Springs, Cold Springs, &c. The Map includes the Lake of Geneva on the North, and Marseilles and Avignon on the West; forming the most comprehensive Map of Italy that has ever appeared. Dedicated to the Emperor of Austria. By J. A. Orgiazzi. 15s. Canvas and Case.

HISTORY.

Illustrations, Historical and Critical, of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent, with an Appendix of With original and other documents. portrait, &c. By William Roscoe. 8vo. 14s. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d.

Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political, as connected with Public Affairs, during the Reign of George the Third. By John Nicholls, Esq. Member of the House of Commons in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Eigh teenth Parliaments of Great Britain. 2 vols. 8vo. 19s. The second volume, which is entirely new, may be had se. parately, 7s.

The History of Stamford, in the county of Lincoln; with St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, and Great and Little Wothorpe, in the county of Northampton: embellished with 10 fine engravings. demy 8vo. 11. 5s. demy 4to. with proof impressions, 2l. 12s. 6d.

MATHEMATICS.

Euler's Algebra, translated from the French, with the Notes of Bernoulli, &c. and the Additions of M. de la Grange. By the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D. F.S.A. &c. To which is prefixed, a Memoir of the Life and Character of Euler, by the late Francis Horner, Esq. M.P. 8vo. 15s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Broad Stone of Honour ; or, Rules for the Gentlemen of England. 12mo, 7s. 6d. fine paper, 9s.

The Inquirer; a Collection of Essays, Reviews, and Intelligence, on Subjects connected with the Improvement of Society, and the Interests of Mankind,

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Xenophon's Anabasis, newly translated into English, from the Greek Text of Schneider. By a Member of the University of Oxford. 8vo. 8s.

Julia Severa; or, the Year Four Hundred and Ninety-two; translated from the French of J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi, Author of the History of France -the Italian Republics of the Middle Age, &c. 2 vols. 12mo. 12s.

The Parish Poors' Rate Book, for Overseers of the Poor; being an approved and convenient Plan for the Assessment for the Relief of the Poor; and containing proper Directions for completing the Assessment, the adjusting of Disputes, and the Manner of proceeding to recover the Amount of the Rate by Distress, &c. By J. Ashdowne, Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, Author of the Churchwardens and Overseer's Guide, &c. post 4to. 3s. in red sheep.

Tales and Dialogues, in Prose and Verse. By Jeffreys Taylor, Author of Esop in Rhyme, &c. With 6 Engravings. 12mo. 3s.

Scenes in England, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers. By the Rev. I. Taylor. With 84 Engravings. 12mo. 5s, halfbound, 7s. coloured.

Le Musée des Variétes Littéraires. No I. 1s. 6d. (To be continued Monthly.)

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Congregations and Families. By A. L. 12mo. 4s.

Practical and Familiar Sermous, designed for Parochial and Domestic Instruction. Vol. VI. By the Rev. Edward Cooper, Rector of Hamstall-Ridware, and of Yoxall, in the County of Stafford. 12mo. 6s.

Lectures on the Gospel according to St. John. Part the Second. Delivered at the Parish Church, and at St. Margaret's Chapel, in the Parish of Walcot, Bath, on the Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent, in the year 1822. With Notes. By Charles Abel Moysey. D. D. Archdeacon of Bath, and Rector of Walcot. 8vo. 6s.

Oriental Literature, applied to the IIlustration of the Sacred Scriptures; especially with reference to Antiquities, Traditions, and Manners; collected from the most celebrated Writers and Travellers, ancient and modern. Designed as a Sequel to Oriental Customs. By the Rev. Samuel Burder, A, M. Late of Clare Hall, Cambridge; Lecturer of the United Parishes of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and St. Leonard, Fuster lane. 2 vols. 8vo. 11, 10s.

The Protestant Beadsman; or, á Series of Biographical Notices and Hymns, commemorating the Saints and Martyrs, whose Holidays are kept by the Church of England: to which is appended, a brief Review of the Scriptural and Traditionary Accounts of the Holy Angels. 12mo. 6s.

Sermons on the Public Means of Grace; the Fasts and Festivals of the Church; on Scripture Characters; and various Practical Subjects. By the late Rt. Rev. Theodore Dehon, D.D. Rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston, and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina. Together with some account of the Author, and a Sermon preached on Occasion of his Death. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 1s.

A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Youth; set forth in a Series of Sunday School Lectures, with a Catechism, or Preaching Conference, on the Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Christ, adapted to each Lecture; to which is prefixed, a View of Popular Education from the Reforma→ tion to the present Time. By the Rev. J. Trist, A. M. Vicar of Veryad, Corne wall. 4 vols. 12mo. 11. 4s..

An Essay on the Scripture Doctrines

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