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ter works them in Grub-freet to fome tune. Gafconado is the King of France; and two of the furies ftand for the Emprefs-Queens of Hungary and Ruffia: all fad devils, indeed, and fuch as an honeft British painter ought, doubtless, to draw them for the honour of Old England!

Art. 30. A Poetical Defcription of Mr. Hogarth's Election-Prints. In four Cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's fanction and inSpection. 4to. Is. Caslon.

If this defcription, as the advertisement prefixed to it fets forth, really hath received Mr. Hogarth's approbation, we have only to exprefs our concern for happening to differ from fo ingenious an artist, in any point of taste: either his judgment in poetry is much inferior to his fkill in painting, or we are equally incompetent judges of both.

Art. 31. A Poem on the Winter Season: or, Mr. Hervey's Winter-Piece paraphrafed. By Thomas Baker, Thatcher, in Wickham-market, Suffolk. Ipfwich printed, by William Creighton. 4to. 6d.

A Thatcher! likely enough! for any thatcher, or thresher, or ditcher, who can write at all, may make fuch verfes as Thomas Baker's. The favourable notice taken of the late Stephen Duck, has, we fear, fet many a poor mistaken clown to rhyming, instead of endeavouring to excel in more ufeful employments.

Art. 32. Kitty's Stream; a comic Satire. By Rigdum Funnidos. 4to. 6d. Moore.

Any fubject better than none, when a poor Poet wants to eat. Thus in a dearth of news or politics, a common ftrumpet may ferve to furnish a dinner to a common fcribbler. Kitty Fisher, however, will not, we apprehend, be vain of thefe verfes, unless her taste in poetry be as wretched as her poet's abilities.

MEDICAL.

Art. 33. Obfervations on Bathing, warm and cold: and the dif eafes it will cure without a Doctor. 8vo. Is. 6d. Cooper.

A new link of that curious chain of pamphlets, mentioned in our Review for February laft, p. 192, article 15. Can the intelligentReader defire a plainer hint?

Art. 34. The diftinct Symptoms of the Gravel and Stone explained to the Patient, &c. 8vo. Is. 6d. Cooper. Another link of the fame chain, vid. the preceding article.

Art. 35.

Art. 35. The Parent's Guide in the Management of Children in the Measles, &c. By a Physician. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Cooper. Another link ftill! the chain extends prodigioufly: where, or when, will it end?

Art. 36. A Short Answer to a Set of Queries, annexed to a Pamphlet lately published, pretending to be, An historical Account of the Rife, Progrefs, and Management of the General Hofpital or Infirmary in the city of Bath. By a Governor of the faid Charity. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

The bare mention of the titles of pamphlets, in fuch controversies as this, about the Bath Hospital, is fufficient in a Review of Literature. *See Review for January last, p. 85.

Art. 37. A Treatise on the Gout. By Charles Martin, M. Q. 8vo. Is. Caflon.

Quackery.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL,

Art. 38. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Elliot, A. B. Chaplain of St. George's Hofpital, Hyde-Park Corner, London; relating to his fermon preached at Chrift-Church, Spital-fields, Jan. 21, 1759. and fince published, entitled, Encouragement for Sinners, or Righteoufnefs attainable without Works,' &c. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

The Letter-writer's defign is to fhew, that by mifapplication of texts of Scripture, and by mifconftruction of the eleventh article of the church, and by false argumentations,' Mr. Elliot has laid down ⚫ affertions by way of conclufions, contrary to the true meaning of both, and productive of the most pernicious confequences, in the mischievous cause of Enthusiasm.'-Laudable, however, as our Author's intention may have been, we apprehend he had better let these enthufiaftic preachers alone; for there is fomething abfurd in reafoning with thofe who disclaim the power and use of reason

Art. 39. Sermons on practical Chriftianity. By Henry Stebbing, D. D. Archdeacon of Wilts, Chancellor of the Diocese of Sarum, and late Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grey's-Inn. 8vo. 5s. Davis and Reymers.

A vein of good fenfe runs through all thefe difcourfes, and they contain many juft and useful reflections on the conduct of human life. -The fubjects, which are treated in a clear, eafy, and fenfible manner, (though with little regard to order or method) are chiefly thefe following: The neceffity of urging the confideration of a future judgment upon the minds of youth; the comforts of a religious life;

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Sobriety and vigilance; doing to others as we would be done unto; Cornoctars; the diferente ben een the rich and the poor, in regard to the hopped of the preient lie; the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus; the obligation of fulfiling the duties of our respective fations, which are al aligned us by Providence; alms-giving; the duty of forgivenel; the devotional part of region; truft in God; the duty of taking up the crois, and bearing the reproach of Chrift; kreping conciences Vold of Fence toward God and toward man; the parable of the prodigal for lluirated; care and diligence in our heaverly calling, in view of the great account we are to reader at the day of judgment; the parable of the King fending forth his fervants to invite grafts to the marriage of hiion, explained and improved, &c.

Art. 40. Dimigrations of Religion and Virtue. In two dif 8vo. Is. Dochey.

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The Author's defign in thefe very short difcourfes, we are told in the preface to them, is to obviate the growing evils of fuperftition and eathalaim; to point cut the tre roles, and tree end of human life; and to promote the practice of religion and virtue, as the only means of attaining happines, both in the prefnt and in a future flate. Dif fatisfed with thefe Writers, who treat of virtue in abstracted and obfcure terms; and with those who make religion dependent on church-tradizen and church-authority, the Auther, it is faid, has endeavoured to express his thoughts in a more intructive manner, and to render bjects of the umot concern to all men, intelligible to all.

The words from which he difcouries are thefe: All my delight is uten the james that are in the earth, and juch as excell in vir ue. Pl. xvi. 3. In the first difcourfe he endeavours to explain what is meant by Virtue, and what thofe effential properties are which distinguish it from every opponite quality, from all afinity with vice. Virtue, he says, conuts in a conformity of action to the true rules of action, or in the exercise of a power imparted to all moral agents, a power to do fach actions as promote the common happiness of all.

In the fecond difcurfe he endeavours to fhew, that univerfal good is the end of all the works, of all the actions, and all the laws of God; that the good of mankind is the end of religion, or the end for which the divine will is manifeited to human undertandings, and for which God has infcribed laws on the minds of men, directing every human action to its proper end; that the practice of religion is the practice of virtue, ftrengthened by divine authority, and by motives fuggetted by God, the motives of reverence and honour, of gratitude and effeem, which oblige all inferior agents, and inferior minds, to yield obedience to the fupreme agent, and the fupreme mind.-Thete are the fubjects of which he treats, but he treats them in too general and fuperficial a manner; fo that what he advances, will not, we doubt, yield the Lighet fatisfaction to a difcerning Reader.

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Art. 41.

Art. 41. An Effay on preaching Chrift and him crucified. By Jofeph Stokes, A. M. Curate of Allhallows Steyning. 8vo. 1 s. Piers, Coopers, &c.

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This is a plain, fenfible difcourfe from 1 Cor. i. 23. But we preach Christ crucified-Mr. Stokes fhews, in a very clear and judicious manner, that it is the duty of every Chriftian teacher to explain and enforce Chriftian morality; morality as it fignifies obedience to the laws of Chrift; and frequently to make the duties, as well as the bleffings, of our religion, the fubjects of his difcourfes -Strange, that any minifter of the Gospel should ever have thought otherwise!

Art. 42. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Jones, Chaplain of St. Saviour's, Southwark. By Jofeph Stokes, A. M. Curate of Allhallows, Steyning. 8vo. 6d. Piers, Cooper, &c.

The occafion of this letter, we are told, was as follows-Mr. Stokes going on Sunday evening, Nov. 5, 1758, to St. Swithin's church, at London Stone, after prayers were over, found that Mr. Jones was to preach; who introduced his fermon with these, or such like, words

That it was certainly the duty of a minifter to confider his text, and what he was to fay upon it, before that time; but that for his part, he did not know his text till that moment, and that he had it immediately from God.'-Mr. Stokes, as well he might, was greatly furprized, when he heard him fay, that he had his text immediately from God; and accordingly, when he returned home, and reflected upon the fermon, he refolved to write privately to Mr. Jones, begging to know upon what warrant, either of fcripture or reason, we might expect fuch immediate affiftances from God. Mr. Jones, in his answer, which answer the Reader is here prefented with, defends his ufe of the expreffion, difclaiming all extraordinary affiftances of the Holy Spirit, and pleading for nothing more than the common influences of grace. Mr. Stokes's reply, in the letter now before us, is rational and judicious, and written with candour and moderation. In a word, Mr. Stokes appears to be a rational Chriftian; Mr. Jones, a presumptuous Enthusiast.

Art. 43. Three occafional Difcourfes delivered in the Royal Navy. By the Rev. Mr. Philipps, Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship Terrible. 8vo. 6d. Townihend.

The first of thefe difcourfes was delivered on board his Majesty's ship Princess Royal, on the Sunday after the declaration of war against France, in May 1756; the fecond on board his Majesty's Ship Terrible, on the coast of Cape Breton, on the expectation of an engagement with the French fleet, in September 1757; and the third on board his Majesty's fhip Terrible, going into Hallifax Harbour, in Nova Scotia, on the Sunday after the violent ftorm, that difabled a great part of his Majefly's feet cruifing off Louifbourgh, on the 25th of September, 1757

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The difcourfes are short and fenfible, and the fentiments contained in them very fuitable to the occafions on which they were delivered.

Art. 44. A Charge delivered to the Clergy, at a Vijitation beld for the Diocese of London, in the year 1759. By the Right Reverend Thomas, Lord Bifbop of London. 4to. Is. Whiton.

In this Charge his Lordthip confines himself to the consideration and enforcement of one point only, but a very important one, viz. the obligation Clergymen are under to a conftant attendance upon their several cures. This duty, he obferves, arifes by neceffary confequence from the nature of the office which they have undertaken, and and the effential part is a perfonal attendance upon the difcharge of it.

The provincial conftitutions of the church, we are told, and the laws of the realm, confider refidence as a perpetual duty; and every non-resident Rector, or Vicar of a Parith, is, prima facte, criminal in the eye of both laws, till he fhews a legal difpenfation to juftify or excufe himself. Now as thefe difpenfations create the whole difficulty of this cafe, his Lordfhip confiders them particularly, and enquires, First, In what cafes difpenfations are grantable, and by whom; Secondly, Upon what conditions they are grantable.

He treats his fubject with great clearness and accuracy, and what he has advanced upon it, deferves the serious confideration and attentive perufal of every Clergyman.

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SERMONS fince April.

T St. Laurence's church, near Guild-hall, London, April 26, 1759, before the Governors of the Magdalen-house. By the Rev. William Dodd. 4to. 1s. Davis and Reymers.

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2. Chriftian Stedfaftnefs; or St. Paul's affectionate Pleas with bis Converts at Philippi, to ftand faft in the Lord-On the death of the -Rev. Mr. Rifdon Darracott, at Wellington, Somerfetfhire, April 15, 1759. By Benjamin Faucett. 8vo. 6d. Buckland.

3. Self difclaimed, and Chrift exalted.-Preached at Philadelphia be. fore the Synod of New-York, May 25, 1758. By David Bostwick, A. M. Minister of the Prefbyterian church in New-York. To which is added, Peace and Unity recommended-Preached before the Synods of New-York and Pennsylvania, May 24, 1758. By Francis Allison, A. M. Vice-Provost of the College, and Rector of the Academy, at Philadelphia. 12mo. 1s. Field. Either fermon to be had separate. 4. Before the Sons of the Clergy, at St. Paul's, May 10, 1759. By Stotherd Abdy, M A. Rector of Theydon Garnon, Eflex. 6 d. Bathurst.

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