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Nothing but the truth of God can be expected to purify the human heart, or convert the sinner from the error of his way. There are many gay writers of tracts, religious, moral, and entertaining, who are ambitious of pleasing, whom we would gladly place at the feet of Mr. Thornton, that they may learn how they may projit their readers.

A Treatise, touching the Libertie of a Christian, written in Latin by Dr. Martyne Luther, &c. &c. edit ed by Dr. Collyer, and dedicated (by permission) to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. 1817. 12mo. pp. 89.

WE are much obliged to Dr. ColIyer for republishing this valuable

most holy father, it booteth not for any man to hope for, unless he be desirous rather to have the matter to be more largely blown abroad." The concluding part is exquisitely tender: we can extract only a few lines.

"Inasmuch as I know that your holiness is troubled and tossed at Rome, that is to say, in the main sea, of all sides environed about with infinite dangers, and that you swim now in succourless in need of the meanest help of any waves miserably, as that you stand your poorest brethren; I judged it did lay aside the remembrance of a point of no great absurdity, if I your majesty for a time, until I had executed the duty of love."

tract, in which the celebrated Re-Fourth Report of the London Society

former discusses, with great warmth and unction, the important doctrine of free justification by faith, particularly as explained and defended by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians. "Notwithstanding the march of ages, the increased light of knowledge, and the liberal temper of the times since [Luther] wrote, Popery is always the same.' In this remark we entirely agree with the editor.

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Many readers will be surprised to see an epistle with this inscription, "To Leo the Tenth, Bishop of Rome, Martyne Luther sendeth greeting in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is indeed a very great curiosity. It is dated "at Wittenberge, the sixt of September, 1520," in which year Luther was excommunicated.

for the Improvement and Encouragement of Female Servants, by Annual and other Rewards, &c.

WHILE we are seeking the welfare of strangers on the other side of the globe, we cannot consistently neglect those "who nurse our own children-have the care of our own property. - dress our own foodkindle our own fires-sweep our own floors and are with us, more or less, every day and all day long." We rejoice to hear of the growing prosperity of this institution. The last general meeting was held at the City of London Tavern, Aprit 28, 1817. This Report gives the names of fifteen female servants who received two guineas each, having hved four years in the same service; seventeen servants who received one

He writes to Leo with great po-guinea and a half each, having lived liteness, with reverence, aud even with affection, while every part of the letter shows that stern integrity, and that vehement ardour in the cause of reformation which so strikingly characterized him. "How shall salt season (he exclaims) if it be not savoury? What availeth the edge of a sword if it cannot cut?"

He most urgently intreats Leo to interpose his authority for the promotion of peace-but it is peace, with truth and righteousness, which he seeks. "But to wish me to revoke that which I have written,

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three years in the same service; forty-two servants who received one guinea each, having lived two years in the same service. "A servant lately applied for a situation to the registry, and brought with her, as a proof of character, a silver milk jug, having a neat inscription expressive of the satisfaction of her master and mistress with her service of fourteen years! A service which she lost only through a diminution of the number of the family." Report, p. 7. The Registry is at No. 10, Hattongarden.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

In the Press.

Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Life, by M'Lean; to which will be prefixed, a Memoir of his Life, Ministry, and Writings, by W. Jones, author of the History of the Waldenses. In 1 vol. 8vo. 500 pages, with a portrait.

A Practical Treatise on the Laws of Toleration and Religious Liberty, as they affect every class of Dissenters from the Church of England; intended to form a compendium of the civil, political, and religious rights of all his Majesty's subjects as are, at present, affected by the profession of religious opinions; with an Appendix, containing the most important Statutes on the subject of Toleration, and forms of proceediugs by Indictment and before Magistrates for infractions of the Acts protecting worship, and other offences relating to religion by T. N. Talfourd, of the Middle Temple; 1 vol. 8vo.

The Journal of a Voyage to New Zealand in company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden; with an account of the state of that country and its productions, the character of its inhabitants, their manners, &c. by Mr. Nicholas, 2 vols 8vo.

Philanthropy, and other poems; by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, A. M. author of the French Preacher lately published. 1 vol. 12mo.

The Memoirs of the late Miss Emma Humphries, of Frome, Somersetshire; with a scries of Letters to Young Ladies, on the influence of religion in the formation of their moral and intellectual character, and to parents, on the religious education and the bereavement of their children; by T. East. Published by subscription; 12mo. 5s.

Mr. Jacob Snelgar, of Hampstead, is printing a neat impression of four Discourses on the Divinity of Christ; by the late Rev. James Heivey, M. A. of Weston Favell.

The fourth edition of Miss Neulis' Sa, cred History, in two vols, with four maps. Also, a fourth edition of Brittannus and Africus, by the same author.

An Abridged Memoir of the Rev. A, Fuller, by Dr. Ryland, is in contemplation, and may be expected to appear shortly.

The fifth edition of the Young Christian's Guide; or, suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragements to the Believer on his first entrance into the divine life; by the late Rev. C. Buck.

An additional volume of "Studies in History," by the Rev. Thomas Morell; which will contain the History of England from its earliest period to the death of Elizabeth, and which, like the preceding histories of Greece and Rome, will be published both in 8vo. and 12mo. The concluding volume of the series, in which the History of England will be brought down to the present period, will follow as quickly as possible.

Part II. of Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, by the Rev. R. Hawker, D.D.

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Rowland Hill's Village Dialogues-No. 1 to 9 of a new edition of this admirable work are now published. The whole work is enlarged and considerably im. proved by the author; each Number is embellished with an appropriate design.

An Attempt to support the Diversity of future Rewards.

All the Elect children of God contemplated as Members of one body, &c, in a few familiar thoughts, by R. H. Carne, A. B.

The Dissenter's Reasons for separating from the Church of England, by John Gill, D. D. fifth edition.

A new edition, being the fifteenth, of the Protestant Dissenter's Catechism, by the late Rev. S. Palmer.

The Domestic Altar, a Six Weeks Course of Morning and Evening Prayers, by the Rev. W. Smith.

Vindication of a Review of the Bampton Lectures for the year 1815, inserted, in the British Critic, by the Rev. F Nolan.

Missionary Retrospect and Foreign Intelligence.

BAPTIST MISSION.

WE stated in our last, that a Report of the present state of the missions in the East Indies was read at the prayer meeting, held in White's-row, Spitalfields. We understand that that Report is now in the press; meanwhile, we are enabled to present our readers with the following extracts from it.

CUTWA.

"From Cutwa, the intelligence, though presenting no features of peculiar novelty, is highly satisfactory. Mr. Carey has had several additions from the natives around him, and expected shortly to bap; tize a person of some note, which created a great stir; hundreds had attempted to dissuade the new convert from his purpose, but in vain. A brother, who lately visited this station, remarks, Never was my faith in the mission raised so much as since I have been at Cutwa. All I see, and all I hear, tends to confirm me in the idea that Satan's kingdom in this country will soon be much diminished.' The inhabitants of this populous and extensive district are eager to obtain gospels and tracts; and from various quarters, Mr. Carey has received pressing applications for the establishment of new schools. His efforts in this depart ment have, however, been unavoidably restricted by a want of the necessary funds."

SERAMPORE AND CALCUTTA.

"IN consequence of political arrangements, the settlement of Serampore has reverted to the Danish government. This alteration, however, has not affected in the slightest degree the comfort or security of our brethren there. Towards the close of the year 1815, they were honoured with a visit from the Right Hon. Earl Moira, Lady Loudoun, the Bishop of Calcutta, Mrs. Middleton, with several other persons of distinction. The noble visitors inspected the whole establishment, and appeared particularly pleased when they entered the room appropriated to the learned natives em ployed in the translation of the holy scriptures. The sight of learned Hindeos, from almost every province of

India, employed in the work of preparing translations of this blessed book for all these countries, appeared greatly to interest his Lordship,Lady Loudoun, and the learned Bishop. When the Afghan pundit was recognized, he was immediately pronounced a Jew; and his own declaration that he was Beni Israel, confirmed the decision.

"Brethren Lawson and Eustace Carey having been ordained co-pastors of the church at Calcutta, which required more personal attention than our senior brethren could possibly devote to it, appear to have entered on their work with right views of its importance, and of the means suitable to carry on their great design. To improve the minds of their younger members, they have instituted a select religious library; and to train them up in the practice of Christian benevolence, they have formed a society for visiting and relieving the poor, to be called the Juvenile Charitable Institution. Several additions have been made to their number, both of Europeans and natives, and the same system of incessant labour in publishing the word of life in various directions, principally by means of the brethren raised up in the country, appears to be continued.

"Of the effect of these exertions, in gradually leading the natives to discern the folly of idol-worship, our brethren mention one very remarkable instance. A very

rich brahman, resident in Calcutta, named Ram-Mehun-Raya, who is well versed in the Sungskrit, Persian, and English languages, has lately published, in the Bengalee, one or two philosophical works from the Sungskrit, in the hope of leading his countrymen to renounce idolatry. He has paid us, say our brethren, a visit at Serampore, and at a late interview, after relating an anecdote of Krishna, relative to a petty theft by this god, he added, The sweeper of my house would not do such an act, and can I worship a god sunk lower than my menial servantthe man who washes my water-closet? He is at present a simple theist, admires Jesus Christ, but is ignorant of his need of the atonement. He has not renounced his cast, and this enables him to visit the richest families of Hindoos. Since the publication of his translation of the Vi danta, several very respectable inta

bitants of Calcutta have declared them- |
selves pure Menotheists, and united in a
society, with a view to mutual assistance
in adopting a system of worship con-
formable to their faith. Surely it is not
presumptious to hope, that as they have
been led thus far in the paths of under-
standing, they will be guided into the
knowledge of the true God, and Jesus
Christ whom he hath sent. The language
used by the brahman already mentioned
in a late letter to brother Ward, will en-
courage such a hope, and deeply interest
every pious heart.
In the discovery of
truth, our faculties are of course to be
used; but at the same time we should
look up to God as our best guide, as it is
God that leads us on to his true way.
We, poor insignificant beings, feel very
often our dependence upon the supreme
Regulator, even in trifling affairs; this
sense of deficiency will, I hope, relieve
me entirely from self-sufficiency, and
induce me to call on God with all my
heart for his assistance.'

"To attempt particularizing the exertions which have heen made by Mr. Smith, and other itinerant brethren, would be inconsistent with the bounds of a Report. These will appear in course, in the Periodical Accounts suffice it to say generally, that the word is sounding forth in many directions; and instances not unfrequently occur, in which the impressions made on the minds of the hearers appear to be such as answer to its sublime and holy

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spends nearly all his salary in promoting the gospel; reserving scarcely any part for himself. He has composed a number of Bengallee hymns, which have been printed at Serampore, and which have excited considerable attention among the natives.

Very encouraging accounts have been received of the progress of the gospel among the Mug nation in the vicinity of Chittagong. Not less than fifty of these people appear to have made a profession of their love to Christ; and that under circumstances very painful and trying. Considerable persecution has been excited against them, but hitherto they have stood firm. One among them, named Khepoo, who had suffered very considerably, being asked, what he had gotten by becoming a Christian? replied by describing the great sufferings of Christ for him, and said that Christ would give him a hundred fold more than he had lost. Opposition, however, seems to have created additional interest in the gospel: one of the head-priests among this people had declared his belief in the scriptures, and that he would be guided by them. As one proof of his sincerity, he has cut down the sacred trees he formerly wor shipped, and made seats of them for people to sit upon and hear the word of the living and true God!"

JAVA.

"THE mention of Java will bring to the recollection of many the loss which the society has sustained in the course of of our brother Trowt, at Samarang. The the last year by the lamented decease ardent zeal which he felt for the souls of millions of heathens around him, impelled him to an assiduity and intenseness of application, which, in a climate so adverse to exertion, undermined his health, and brought him to an carly grave. Though he had resided on the island but two years, and had been much of that time disabled by sickness, he had attained sufficient fluency in the Malay to address the natives in that language; and had also made such progress in the Javanese, as to justify the hope that, had his life been prolonged, he would have been permitted to gratify the dearest wish of his heart, in giving that interesting people the scriptures in their own tongue. But though the alle wise Disposer of events has seen fit to remove this brother, there is reason to hope that others may derive such assist, ance from his manuscripts, as to proceed in the same path with far greater ease

and rapidity. The station at Samarang will, for the present, be maintained by our brethren Bruckner and Phillips; the former of whom had united himself to brother Trowt shortly before his decease, and the latter sailed from

England with the intention of joining

him there.

Brother Robinson has met with various difficulties at Batavia, but continued to preach, as opportunity offered, to the native Christians, and had made some progress in translating the New Testament into Malay. Part of this version has been received in this country, and is highly spoken of by competent judges."

After noticing the various stations in their order, the Report proceeds to describe the progress made in the translations of the holy scriptures, as follows: I. “The whole Old and New Testaments is translated, printed, and extensively circulated, in the languages of Bengal and Orissa; the population of which two provinces, on a moderate

estimate, exceeds 30 millions.

III." In 16 languages a commencement has been made in printing the New Testament. In some of them considerable progress has been made, though we are not enabled to state how far each distinct 'translation is advanced.

out this year, and others are preparing to follow.

"Every circumstance, in fact, connected with the mission, calls upon us to enlarge our operations to the utmost possible extent. We most earnestly entreat you, say our brethren, in a recent communication, to turn your thoughts to sending out more missionaries. The Lord will no doubt bless you in proportion to your exertions: in the great work of spreading the gospel it is, that the words of the prophet are fully verified, the liberal devise liberal things, and by thus devising liberal things they really stand.' In pointing out to you opportunities for thus extending the mission, we cannot be remiss, while the necessities of the heathen are so pressing, and so full in your view. Every kingdom and province, into the language of which we are translating the sacred word, ought to have one missionary brother at least: nor ought you to rest satisfied till this be accomplished.

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II. "The New Testament is printed and circulating in five other languagesthe Sungskrit, Hindee, Mahratta, Punja- tion of no less than nine stations of great bee, and Chinese; in the two former, importance, to which our attention is one half of the Old Testament is printed directed, and for which assistance is earalso; and in the remaining three consi-nestly implored. Hitherto, we with thankfulness, we have not appealed derable progress is made. to the Christian public of Britain in vain ; nor do we anticipate it now. Still the necessities of Pagan millions are pressing as ever; the value of the soul is as great, and the encouragements to hold forth the word of life as many and as glorious. The promise of the Father, to give the heathen to Christ for his inhe ritance, has not been recalled; the blood of the Redeemer has not lost its efficacy; nor have the influences of the Spirit become weak and powerless. You are come hither to day to testify your cheerful belief of this, and that your hearts' desire and prayer to God for the inhabitants of India is, that they might be saved. Our great Lord still occupies a station over against the treasury, and marks the donations which are made for the support of his cause. May your offerings this day be acceptable in his sight, and abound by many thanksgivings to his glory. Amen! amen!"

IV. Preparations for translation and printing, in a greater or less degree of forwardness, are made in 14 additional languages.

be added the seven V." To these may languages in which the New Testament has been printed, or is printing, at Serampore, on account of the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society; which will make the whole number amount to 44.

“We have great satisfaction in stating, that by accounts very recently received, Dr. Marshman has been enabled to complete the translation of the whole Bible into the Chinese language. Thus, by the blessing of a gracious God, the persevering labours of eleven years are brought to a happy conclusion, and upwards of 300 millions of our fellow-iminortals have a version of the holy scriptures prepared for them in their own tongue."

The receipts of the past year are stated to be about 10,000l. and the expenditure 11,500; eight persons have been sent

Extract of a letter from Mr. W. H.

Pearce, dated ship Ganges, Friday morning, six o'clock, May 16, 1817, opposité Lisbon, lat. 39° 15′ long. 15° 45'.

"HAVING escaped the dangers of the Irish Sea, St. George's Channel, the Bay

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