the Figurative Language of Scripture, is one of the most interesting tracts that can be presented to the young Christian. He instituted the British Critic; and published a collection of treatises, entitled, The Scholar Armed. Having shone as a light to guide men to the divine Messiah, he breathed his last, appropriately, on the morning of the Epiphany, 1801.

Jortin was a chapel-preacher; and his sermons are tricked up in that flimsy texture, that pithless elegance, by which all such Sunday morning after-pieces to the drama, and second acts of the ballet, are emasculated. His Life of Erasmus is a plagiarism from Le Clerc; and his Remarks on Ecclesiastical History consist, mainly, of a few superficial notes. In a dissertation on Homer and Virgil's notions of the state of the dead, this triton of the minnows provoked the leviathan Warburton. On his death-bed, when a female attendant offered him refreshment, "No," he replied, "I have had enough of every thing." His epitaph in Kensington church was chosen by himself,-J. Jortin, mortalis esse desiit, 1770.

Respectful mention has already been made of Whitby, as expositor of the New Testament, and author of a treatise on the Five Points.

Thomas Balguy's Sermons, like those of his father JOHN, are remarkable for coldness and precision. After the death of Blair, the CHRO

NOLOGER, in 1782, were published his Lectures on the Canon of the Old Testament.

Warner is said to have written with one pen the whole of his Ecclesiastical History of England. He was rector of several churches in and near London; and published a compiled System of Divinity; an Illustration of the Common Prayer; a Treatise on the Sacraments and Rites; a Letter to Sion College, on the Maintenance. proper for Widows and Orphans of the Clergy; and an Inquiry into the Catholic Tendency of certain Passages in the Catechism. Among his miscellaneous works, we find a Treatise on the Gout; which personal experience in that complaint for thirty years, enabled the author to indite.

IV. Several eminent dissenters flourished at this period; and among these, Campbell, the principal of Mareschall College, is justly celebrated for his silencing answer, his blow of Entellus, to Hume's Essay on Miracles; and likewise by a translation of the Gospels; but his posthumous work on Ecclesiastical History is marked with much bigotry and prejudice, in favour of Presbyterian discipline.

Poetry, more than theology, distinguishes the Sermons of Logan; yet in this last quality, though not profound, they are still truly orthodox; and it is with much surprise, that we hears are

cent author classing what he terms the tinsel divinity of Logan with the cold morality of Blair. Our poet wrote several hymns and paraphrases used in the Scottish church. In the latter part of life, his habits became intemperate, and he died in London, A.D. 1788.

The two Fordyces were brothers. Both published works on the Eloquence of the Pulpit. James, the younger, wrote sensible Discourses to Young Men and Young Women; and his celebrated Sermon on unlawful Pleasure is printed in the Scottish Preacher. Ob. 1796.

A Hebrew and English Concordance, and a book on Original Sin, are the chief memorials of Taylor, of Norwich. He was superintendant of the famous academy at Warrington; that hot-bed of Socinianism and disaffection; and died 1761.

Enfield was another of those twinkling lights which glimmered in the Warrington academy. He died in 1797, and has left some paltry sermons; together with a History of Philosophy, which is only a translation from Brunck.

Of Harwood, and his Oriental Metaphors, we have already spoken. He lived till 1794: a bookstall hunter, and a dead hand at a title-page.

Farmer was a new light; a German divine, who maintained that our Saviour's temptation was a series of visions; and that demoniacal possession was only the effect of mental diseases. He died 1797.

V. To Ganganelli, as a Catholic author, we assign a separate place. Under this Protestant Pope, the Jesuits were suppressed. He opposed himself to ecclesiastical quackery, and gave an example of sober judgment, in his own sentiments and transactions. "Neither St. Paul, nor St. Francis," said he, "have taught me to dine splendidly." An example, which has been imitated by Pius VII. whose dinner was furnished daily, including wine, &c. for twelve paoli, or six shillings. "We lay aside charity to maintain faith," was noather of Ganganelli's aphorisms; "but if error must not be tolerated, neither must we persecute its author." This is sage doctrine, when applied to an inquisition, or to persecution in a noxious seuse; but it will not bear the extension for which false liberality would contend. Penalties must be inflicted on the authors of blasphemous errors, injurious to right principle, and to moral practice; and civil exclusions are proper for religious principles politically dangerous. All this is not persecution, for there is no other effectual way of opposing the error. The letters ascribed to Ganganelli are now allowed to be spurious. Ob. 1775.

VI. Our plan embraces lay writers, whose works bear upon religion. Of Dr. Johnson, as the literary Hercules of the eighteenth century, we may remark, that piety and orthodoxy breathed throughout all his compositions; but appeared

more conspicuously in many papers of the Rambler, and in his admirable Sermon on the Sacrament. "A vicious liver," said he, in conformity with this purity of his writings, "resembles a taper, which extends its radiance further than its heat, and burns only those who make too near approaches. But a line of wanton profaneness, or of low obscenity, deliberately sent forth into the world, can spread corruption to the farthest ends of the earth, and to generations yet unborn." Ob. 1784.

The learned Sir William Jones deserves the opposite niche in St. Paul's, as having contributed by his oriental researches to elucidate the Scriptural chronology, to reduce the wild cycles. of infidel sciolists, and to confirm the narrative of Moses, respecting the early history of mankind.

Soame Jenyns is the author of a poem on the art of DANCING; and of what a Methodist would pronounce a kindred performance, a Treatise on the Origin of Evil; though a punster, would rather bind up with it his Verses on the SouL; but his chief labour, if labour it may be called, is a small exceptionable tract on the Internal Evidences of Christianity. Ob. 1787.

Bower was a Scottish jesuit, who through horror at the inquisition, or, as scandal reports, after an intrigue with a nun, renounced the Catholic superstition, and joined himself to the Church of England. He gives an interesting