over of Passion Week...Nowell's Cate- chism...Evidences of State of Salvation. ...Religious Affections...Popular Objec- tions against the Church of England... Letter Mr. Walker to Mr. Adam...Ex- fract from Gurnall......... p. 325-346. MISCEL....Modern Characters, Eusebia.... Unpublished Tour, La Trappe...On the Poetry of the Christian Observer...All- ance between Virtue and Vice, p. 346 -357.
REVIEW OF.. F...Hayley's Cowper.... Blunt's Letters to Sharp... Paley's Natural The- ology...Scott's Evidences of Christianity. ... Findlay's Inspiration of the Old Tes- tament...The Anti-jacobin Review, p. 357-877.
Britain....Parliament....Stock-jobbing... LIT. AND PHIL. INTELL....Great Britain,
Duelling........
....p. 249–251.
OBITUARY....Advantages of early Piety.
..........Mrs. Newbold....Mrs. Venn...Deaths,
p. 252-255.
REVIEW OF...The Anti-jacobin Review, p.
256.
427.
LIT. AND PHIL, INTELL...Great Britain,
Mendicity, Royal Institution...France.
...Germany. Warsaw....Denmark....
Russia...List of New Books, p, 429-432. RELIG INTELLA..Baptist Mission in In- dia...Society for Suppression of Vice, p. 403-437.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS... Address to People...
France...Italy... Holland.... Hanover....
St. Domingo.... Sierra Leone Great
Britain, Parliament, Lotteries, Levy en Mass, Sunday-drilling, &c. p. 437-447.
OBITUARY...J. P Elliott... Rev. James
Glazebrook...Deaths...... p. 448-457.
A Family Prayer to be used during the
War.....
p. 492.
NUMBER VIII.
RELIG. COM...Leslie's Conversion and
Death of a Quaker...On 1 Sam. xvi.
and xvii. and 2 Pet. i. 19...On Dr. Kip-
fing's Exclusion of Calvinists from the
Church...Nowell's Catechism...Grace at
Meals...Union of the Ministry and Ma-*
gistracy...On a State of Probation...On
working out our Salvation, p. 453–473.
MisceL...Defeat of Armada...Unpublish-
ed Tour, Lyons...Poetry of Christian
Observer.......
p. 473-479.
REVIEW OF...Gleig's Sermons... Bates's
Rural Philosophy...Ordinaire's History
of Volcanoes...Defence of Mary Wol- stonecraft Godwin...Cecil's Sermons, p. 480-494.
LIT. AND PHIL. INTELL...Great Britain,
Patriotic Publications... List of New
Books......
....p. 498-502.
RELIO. INTELL...Mission Society to Afri-
ca and East...Ceylon...Tartary...Mis-
sion of Society for promoting Christian
Anowledge...United Brethren, p. 503
-506.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS...Duties of present Cri-
ala... Prayer suited to the Times...France.
....Portugal... Spain....Italy....Switzer-
land....Austria....Prussia....Denmark.... ...Sweden...Kussia...Turkey...East In- dies...West Indies... Great Britain, Ge- neral Reflections, Parliament, Volun-" teering, Occurrences...Ireland, p. 506
OBITUARY...Deaths...........
RELIG. INTELL...Otaheite...Cape of Good
Hope...Tartary........
p. 700.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS... France... Egypt...West
Indies...Great Britain, King's Speech,
&c......... ......... p. 700-701.
OBITUARY...Senex's Account of his Fourth
Child..... P. 702.
NUMBER XII.
RELIG. COM...Evidence in Favour of E-
piscopacy in the First Century....On
Mark iv. 11, 12. and Isa. Ixiv. 6...Dr.
Kipling's Demonstration of the Anti-
calvinism of the Church...Is Barclay
the authorized Expositor of the Quaker
Doctrines?...Doctrine of a Mediator...
Free Agency of Man...Inscriptions com-
memorative of providential Judgments,
p. 709-725,
MISCELL...Denon's Accourt of the French
Expedition to Egypt...Carr's Stranger
in France...Modern Characters, Euse-
bia....Coroners' Certificates.... Frag-
ments, Imitation of Heathenism, Cal-.
vin's Harmony, Connexion of Impiety
and Fear, Botany, Irreligionists, p. 795-
-737.
REVIEW OF...A Bibliographical Dictionary
...Durham's Christianity the Friend of
P. vii. Linc 19, for we read The Conductors; and for our read their
P. 718. Col. 2.
P. 738. Col. 1.
IN THE 12TH NUMBER, VOL. II.
Line 19 from bottom, for Genoese read Genevese.
Line 19, and in the running title, for Biographical read Bibliographical Line 32, for Hammond's read Harwood's
Line 26 from bottom, for 8vo, read 12mo. Col. 2. Line 6 from bottom, for 203 read 205.
Religious Communications.
CONCLUSION OF THE ACCOUNT OF CLEMENS ROMANUS, FROM VOL. I. p. 768.
Here our readers an abstract of the Nour two last numbers we laid be-
valuable Epistle of this eminent Saint to the Corinthian Church. The corre spondent who favoured us with that abstract, has since transmitted a few reflections upon it, which we now subjoin, and which we trust will be frind neither unseasonable nor use, Lars.
As this excellent address ranks in point of antiquity and authority next to the inspired word, so it breathes in every line a spirit of meekness and simplicity not unworthy of an Apos- tle. But it is still more valuable, as it holds up to all future ages a vivid and interesting picture of that struggle be- tween nature and grace, which takes place, not only in the hearts of indi- vidual believers, but in all societies of men united for religious purposes. We know, from the history of the 4 nurch or Corinth at a still earlier period, that neither the presence and power of an Apostle, nor even the Erst and most abundant effusions of He spirit had entirely eradicated the remains of pride, contention, and e- mulation; yet the representation of this Church, as it had subsisted nearly to the date of the Epistle of Clemens, is extremely pleasing. The power of divine grace is richly displayed in that amiable catalogue of its fruits, with which the epistle commences: chari- ty, hospitality, contentinent, love of order and subjection to lawful supe- nors, together with a lively interest in the general welfare of the Church, were qualities which eminently adorn- ed the Christians of Corinth.
But human depravity never permits a state like this to be of long continu- ance: external circumstances, whose operation is suspended by the first fer- vours of religion, naturally regain their influence, and the enemy of souls ever on the watch, aids the col CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 13.
tious, blopp every serek into a flame, lision of opposite interests or inclina-
and too soon acquires, unperceived, much of that influence over the Church of God which he possesses in the world at large. Pride was the first bitter fruit of the fall; and this single principle, in its operation upon socie- ties, hath, from that time to the pre-, sent, been the moving cause of every rebellion in states, and of most sepa- rations in Churches. But the general principle adapts itself to particular circumstances, and what those cir- cumstances were in the Church of Corinth, though it was unnecessary, for Clemens to detail them in a letter to those who knew them better than himself, we may infer from the gene- ral tenor of his reproofs. A spirit of discord had evidently gone forth; some ancient and blameless Presby- ters had been deposed by the influ ence of a party, and the whole evil is ascribed to wealth and luxury on the one hand-to envy and strife on the other..
Corinth, as is well known, was a very opulent and dissolute place: and though the state of Christianity, at that time, forbids us to suspect that any thing like open profligacy of manners, or undisguised tyranny and insolence, was tolerated among be- lievers; yet, unless the power of reli- gion be great indeed, wherever there is a striking distinction of ranks and habits in a religious society, self-in- dulgence will gradually return upon the wealthy, and envy will be mista- ken for just oflence by the poor: a consideration, in all assemblies and all debates, beyond what is its due, will be claimed by worldly rank, and will be opposed by superior talents or eloquence in inferiors, with uniform, and often undue, pertinacity.
It seems probable, that the ejected. Presbyters of this Church had been chosen at a time "when not many wise, not many learned, were called
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