REVIEWS. Truth and Error Contrasted; being an Inquiry into the necessity for promot- ing the Reformation of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. In Seven Let- ters to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, in Reply to an Article in that Publication. To which is pre- fixed an Address to the Roman Catho- lics of Ireland; and subjoined, Re- flections on the Solemn Duties and Responsibilities of the Bishops and Clergy of the Established Church in reference to the Church of Rome. By the Rev. Robert J. M'Ghee .. Christiologia; or a Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ; by John Owen, D. D. And The True nature of Christ's Person and Atonement Stated, in Reply to the unscriptural Views of the Rev. Edward Irving "On the Human Na- ture of Christ." By the Rev. W. Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Query 137, 494, 668, 826 81 Religion and Science compared 108, 180 338 ply to Dr. Stewart 346 Religious Projector, the 607 R. D. to Mr. Faber 651 The Irish Pulpit; a Collection of Ser- mons by Clergymen of the Establish- A Letter to Thomas Spring Rice, Esq. M. P. by the Rev. James Doyle, D. D. And a Letter to the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley, in Answer to Dr. Doyle, by the Rev. Richard Authentic Report of the Speeches deli- vered at the Eighth Anniversary of Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth. By John Abercrombie, M. D. 453 Lay Helpers; or a Plea for the co-ope- ration of the Laity with the Clergy. By the Rev. T. Sims, M. A. Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennett, Esq. By James Montgo mery .. 380 461 471, 539 PREFACE. We have again to address our Readers on the close of the ELEVENTH VOLUME of our labours, and to express our gratitude to an all-ruling Providence for having enabled us to offer to him this weak and ineffective manifestation of our desire to glorify his holy name, and to contribute to the interests of his Church. Our last year has not been one of tranquillity and ease. As citizens, we have been partakers in the common agitation of the land, alarmed by revolutionary projects, and torn by civil discord. As Christians, we have had to mourn over the dissensions that separate believers, and the sickly taste that purveys for itself religious novelties; as Churchmen, we have shared in the regrets that have attended the appearance of hostility against our establishment, the obloquy into which, most undeservedly, our prelates have fallen, and the union of the radical, and the dissenter, and the infidel, against our Zion. We trust, that we have been found consistent in maintaining our principles, and holding fast the truth, in pursuing the even tenor of our way, as devoted, but not blinded friends of the Church, as rational lovers of civil liberty, but humble upholders of that freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. We pretend not to political foresight, but he must be blind indeed who does not see evil days for the Church before him, and is not warned by the "shadows of coming events," in another sense indeed than that in which the admonition was recently given, to "set his house in order." May that hour find the sons of our beloved Church at their post, "with their loins girded and their lamps burning;" and may they be enabled to glorify that God, who, while in justice he smiteth, in mercy has deferred the stroke, until he has opened his people's eyes to see and profit by the infliction. We trust that the stand we have occasionally been forced to make, for "the old way," though it may have offended some, will receive the approbation of the sober and the discreet. It cannot be supposed that we remain without opinions on the agitating questions of the present day, and we deem it our duty to state that opinion in love, whenever we see the probability of the prevalence of error, or think the discussion is of sufficient importance to demand our contribution. To controversy, carried on in a proper spirit, our pages have been, and shall be open; but our friends must have compassion on us if their controversial papers do not appear as speedily as they or we could wish;-the task of selection is frequently not an easy one, and the hurry of a monthly publication is subject to frequent inadvertencies, for which we trust our readers will make allowance. We lament that we have received so little assistance from the Irish Clergy in the department we think most useful, and most likely to meet their circumstances, we mean that of our Religious Communications. The babits of their minds, we had hoped would have rendered them willing assistants; and we do lament deeply the engrossing and controversial character of the topics of the present day, which have, we fear, turned to the thorny paths of polemics, many who are well qualified to lead others along the way that leadeth unto life. We commit our Miscellany to our Christian friends, in the humble trust, that the Spirit of our God will bless our labours, if they tend to his glory; and using with regard to our much calumniated Church, the language of the Psalmist, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem-they shall prosper who love thee." |