THE Eclectic Review. MDCCCXXVII. JULY-DECEMBER. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXVIII. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπι CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; SOLD BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, EDINBURGH; W. COLLINS, 1827. CONTENTS. PAGE 185 De Prati's Outlines of an improved System of teaching Languages | Der Zustand der Protestantischen Religion in Teutschland, &c. 34 Lee's Controversial Facts on Christianity and Mohammedanism Michaelis's Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the Four Evan- Orme's Defence of the Missions in the South Sea and Sandwich Islands, &c. Ottley's Collection of Fac-Similies of scarce and curious Prints, &c. Report of the Select Committee on Emigration, in 1826 Resolutions of the Reformation Society Roberts's, Emma, Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster Reflexions suggérées par l'Annonce du Concours qui doit s'ouvrir, pour la Nomi- nation de Deux Professeurs à la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de l'Acade- THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1827. Art. I. 1. The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany in a Series of Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge. By the Rev. Hugh James Rose, M.A. of Trinity College and Vicar of Horsham. 8vo. pp. 200. Price 8s. Cambridge, 1825. 2. Der Zustand der Protestantischen Religion in Teutschland, &c.; being a German Translation of the preceding. With a Preface and Annotations. Small 8vo. pp. 236. Leipzig, 1826. Price (at Treuttel and Würtz's, London) 5s. 3. Reflexions suggérées par l'Annonce du Concours qui doit s'ouvrir, pour la Nomination de Deux Professeurs à la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de l'Academie de Montauban. Par M. Stapfer, ancien Pasteur, &c. 8vo. pp. 45. Paris, 1824. Inserted in the Archives du Christianisme du XIX. Siecle. Septième Année. A GLANCE at the extent of human depravity, intellectual or sensual, may lead us to apply the proverbial question of Solomon," Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?" The newest objections and theories of infidelity are rarely any other than reproductions, in more modish dress, of older speculations. Voltaire, and his confederates on the Continent, forged their light missiles out of the heavy materials produced by the English deists, who had by a few years preceded them; and their arguments, as to general suggestion, and often as to specific form, may be traced to the Manichean Faustus, to Julian, or to Celsus. The early replies, also, of Origen and Eusebius were noble models to the best Christian advocates of modern times. In a word, the weapons which are employed to assail the cause of truth and goodness, and the armour by which it is defended, are, in all periods of time, substantially the same. The weeds of unbelief grow in the evil heart of man; they have always a character congenial to their soil; and they can never be eradicated till its nature undergoes a Divine change. VOL. XXVIII. N.S. B |