ADVERTISEMENT. With the present volume, the labours of the undersigned as Editor of the Biblical Repository, close. As its Founder and Conductor, he has now for four years devoted his best time and talents to the work; and has been cheered in his progress by the high approbation of eminent christian scholars and divines in this and foreign lands. But this approbation has been won, and the work hitherto sustained, at an expense of time and labour, for which nothing in the shape of adequate remuneration has been received by the Editor,-farther than the consciousness of not having laboured in vain. Under these circumstances, and bowed down with broken health, he feels it to be a duty which he owes to himself, to his family, and perhaps to the churches, to withdraw from the station which he has hitherto occupied as the conductor of a public Journal. In thus retiring from this more public station, it is by no means the subscriber's intention to abandon the field of labour in which it has so long been the business and solace of |