which Peter and the fons of Zebedee claimed to themfelves, from being the exclufive attendants of their bleffed Lord, and the felected witnelles of his transfiguration" (p. 49.) The letterwriter goes on to confider the reward promifed to the genuine difciples of Chrift, and to illuftrate their defcription : οι ακολουθησανίες μου εν τη πα 2yfig; which he understands to mean those who fhall have followed, with uniform attachment, a zealous, uniform imitation, referring wλylivox to renovation of principle, and not to that event when the Son of Man fhall fit on the throne of his glory. You, or thofe of you who fhall have followed me, imitated me, and conformed yourselves to me in that purity of mind, fpirituality of affections, and newness of life and principles, which I fo pofitively require of my true followers, fhall receive your reward in heaven, by amply fharing ny glory, and partaking the highest honours of my kingdom there." (p. 56.) Taλyfo occurs but once more, viz. in Titus iii. 5, Aoigov warıyfirviosas, the washing of regeneration; xa avaLKOSINTENS WHEUμalos aliou, and renewing of the Holy Ghoft which, fays the pious Doddridge, by its purifying influence, operates, at firft, to turn us to God, and bring us into the number of his children; and afterwards advances the happy work, by improving us more and more in the Divine life and image." (p. 57.) "Indeed, the whole, taken together (as has been obferved by Bishop Beveridge, vol. III. fermon XI.) is a clear explanation of our Saviour's highly fpiritual doctrine to Nicodemus, in the third chapter of St. John, refpecting being born again: Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; where the great doctrine itfelf, of purity and mortification, and particular words in which it is expreffed, and the Divine difpenfation, by which our Lord has impreffed and enforced its fupreme importance upon his new difciple, all tend, feparately and combined, to corroborate the fente deftined to be angels of the highest order in heaven, and entitled always to behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." "Perfevered in following;" which conAtruction, it is highly obfervable, the apoftacy of Judas feems to require." (p. 54) and connexion which I fuggest as re quifite in the words axoAcuénoævles # in wadyServerig: and no lefs, as I conceive, do they ferve to confirm the important revelation which I fuppofe intended in the particular paffage of Matthew in queftion." (p. 58.) 14: The Apoftolic reception of the great primary doctrine contained in Matt. xviii. S, 4, and 10, is confirmed by that advice of St. Paul to the Hebrews, xii. Follow holiness, without which no man shall fee the Lord." This plain and direct affertion, that "a high de gree of Chriftian purity and perfection in this life is pofitively required to qualify us to fee God in another, i. e. to be admitted into the kingdom of heaven," takes it palpably for granted, that fuch a qualification will not fail to obtain fuch a remuneration. This AfiaoMos is tranflated Sanctification, 1 Theift iv. 3, 4, 7; in the laft of which it is oppofed to Anafapora. Other paffages are, 1 Cor. i. 30 (mifprinted 36), 2 Theff. ii. 18, 1 Pet. i. 2. com "The other paffage is no lefs than the Sacrofan&t defcription and characterization (Rev. xiv. 4) of the " pany of the Lamb;" and the peculiar qualifications requifite for their being admitted into this angelic chorus, and being enabled to fing "before the throne" the unexpreffive nuptial fong. Thefe are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins: thefe are they which follow the Lamb whitherfoever he goeth: these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before the throne of God." "I would fubmit to your Lordfhip, if we may not fairly confider this Divine revelation as, in a certain degree at leaft, fhewing the actual accomplifhment of the promifes made to the Migos of the Gospel in the highest poffible degree of beatification, and a glorified approximation to the Deity being allotted to thofe, and permitted to thofe alone, in whom not only there is found no guile in their mouths, and they are blameless, but who are fo truly and exaltedly heavenly-minded as to have completely overcome and entirely merged from the more dangerous pallions that fpring with puberty in the highest degree of holiness, or divivinely-fpirited purity :—μέα γυναικων ουκ εμολύν Ongar: HAPOENOL yaş mızı. I might here here have referred to Matt. xix. 12, and perhaps allo to xxii. 30, in juftification of my here adducing this mot facred paffage of Holy Writ; and I might farther fuggeft the various places in the New Teftament, efpecially in the writings of St. Paul and the other Apoftles, which lav down the direct converfe of this Divine difpenfation, and in which fornicutors and unclean perfons, the anabaglos in general, and the wopo in particular, are, in fuch pointed and exprefs terms, repeatedly warned and threatened, and the oi waw of finners, against whom the doors of heaven are moft pofitively and rigoroufly barred, and the fevereft punishments particularly denounced." (p. 78.) Here then the writer clofes his defigu, "in humble hope and confidence that, in the courfe of his fuggeftions and obfervations, he has done no differvice to the great caufe of our Holy Religion, of which he flyles his Lordfhip an eminent ornament and support, and of which he profelles himself an humble but fincere votary. While he has endeavoured to fhew that the Gofpel, in various places, fpeaks more fully and exprefsly than is commonly apprehended, to the particular point of a future bleffednefs, proportionate to vital purity, confitting, chiefly, as declared by St. John, in being made like unto God, and SEEING HIM AS HE IS--he can truly fay it is with a wifh to extend and enlarge, and thereby more generally to diffufe, that bleffed HOPE which, according to the words immediately following of the fame eminent infpired Apofile, He that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as HE is pure; for," continnes he, "I cannot but feel that blefled effects must flow from fuch devontly-pious confiderations; and that (to ufe the language of Seneca, in a truly fublime conclufion of one of his Epifles) HEC COGITATIO nihil fordidum animo fubfidere finit, nihil humile, nihil crudele. With thefe motives, my Lord, I have prefumed to fabmit to you what has occurred, in this refpect, to my mind, with the Scriptures before me, with but few illuftrative books of reference at hand, and without any confultation or communication with literary friends. I need not add, that, in theological exercitations and liblical criticifms, I am a mere TYRO. The foregoing part will have fo abundantly indicated this to be GENT. MAG. January, 1804. 5. Philofophical Tranfactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1803. Part II. ART. XI. "Account of fome Experiments on the Defcent of the Sap in Trees. In a Letter from Thomas Andrew Knight, Efq, to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart." In a former memoir, vol. LXXI. part II. reviewed in our vol. LXXII. p. 1033, Mr. K. inferred from his experiments, that "the fap, having been abforbed by the bark of the root, is carried up by the alburnum, or white wood, of the root, the trunk, and the branches; that it pafles through what are there called the cen tral veffels into the fucculent part of the annual fhoot, the leaf-fialk, and the leaf; and that it returns to the bark through the returning veffels of the leaf fialk. The principal object of this paper is to point out the causes of the defcent of the fap through the bark, and the confequent formation of wood. Thefe caufes appear to be gravitation, motion communicated by winds or other agents, capillary attraction, and probably fomething in the conforme tion of the vellels themselves, which renders them better calculated to carry fluids in one direction than in another. From the leaf all the defcending fluids in the tree appear to be derived." "When a tree is wholly deprived of motion by being trained to a wall, or when a large tree has been deprived of its branches to be re-grafted, it often becomes unhealthy, and not unfrequently perifles, apparently owing to the ftagnation of the defcending fap, under the rigid cincture of the lifeles external bark. I have, in the lat two years, pared off this bark from fome very old pear and apple trees, which had been re-grafted with cuttings from young feeling trees; and the effect produced has been very extraordinary. Mote More new wood has been generated above, from which the bark had been "In the operation of budding, the bark of trees being taken off readily unites itself to another of the fame or of a kindred fpecies. Laft fummer I inferted a great number of buds, which I examined in every progreffive ftage of their union with the ftock. A line of confufed organization marks the place where the inferted bud firft comes into contact with the wood of the flock; between which line and the bark of the inferted bud, new wood, regularly organized, is generated, poffefling all the characteristics of that from which the bud was taken, without any appa rent mixture whatever with the character of the ftock in which it is inferted. The fubftance which is called the medullary procefs is clearly feen to fpring from the bark, and to terminate at the line of its firft union with the flock." "Not only the exterual form of the tree, but the internal character of the wood, will be affected by the fituation in which the tree grows; and hence oak timber, which grew in crowded forefts, appears to have been miftaken in old buildings for Spanish chefnut. But I have found the internal organization of the oak and Spanish cheinut to be very effentially different. See a magnified view of each drawn by Baur, engraved by Bafire, in the plate acconipanying this memoir. The filver grain and general character of the oak and Spanish chefnut are alfo fo extremely diffimilar, that the two kinds of wood can only be mistaken for each other by very carelels obfervers. Many pieces of wood found in the old buildings of London, and fuppofed to be Spanith chefnut, have been put into my hands; but they were all moft certainly foreft oak." (note, p. 282.) Art. XII. Enquiry concerning the Nature of a metallic Subfiance lately fold in London as a new Metal, under the Title of Palladium." Forgeries occur in Science as well as in Commerce; and what wonder, when, even in Religion, the wolf affumes the sheep's cloathing; and, in Politics, the democrat the character of a patriot. Mr. C. has detected a forgery in chemifiry; and fhews us, by experiments, that mercury has a large fhare in the compofition of this metallic fubstance, fold by Mr. Fortiers, in Gerard-fireet; "I fufpected that young bark poffeffes, in common with the leaf, a power, in proportion to the furface it expofes to the air and light, of preparing the fap to generate new wood for a very minute quantity of wood was depofited by the bark, where it had not any apparent connection with the leaves. Having made two incifions through the bark round annual fhoots of the apple-tree, I entirely removed the bark between the incifions; and I repeated the fame operation at a little distance below, leaving a finall portion of bark unconnected with that above and beneath it. The buds in the infulated bark were fometimes fullered to remain, and in other inftances were taken away; but this, unless they vegetated, did not at all affect the refult of the experiment. I could, therefore, Art. XIII. "An Account of the account for the formation of wood in finking of the Dutch Frigate Ambufthis cafe only by fuppofing the bark to cade, July 9, 1801, near the Great poffefs in fome degree, in common Nore: with the Mode ufed in recoverwith the leaf, the power to produce ing her. By M. Jof. Whidbey, Mafier. the necellary changes in the defcending Attendant in Sheernefs Dock-Yard." fap, or that fome matter, originally Mr. W. does not apprehend there is derived from the leaves, was previoufly any thing new in the mode be adopted, depofited in the bark, or that a por-except the idea of removing the effect tion of fap had paffed the narrow space of cohefion, by two 18-inch cables Spliced fpliced together, with an anchor of 24 cwt. in a direction with the fhip's keel. On the end of the cable next the frigate a block was lathed; through which was rove a 9-inch hawfer, one end of which was made faft to the fhip, the other end was brought to a capfian on board the Broederfcap Dutch hulk, and hove on it as much as it would bear, with an intention to relieve the frigate from the powerful effect of cohelion. At about half flood the fhip drew an end, and fwung to the tide; and all the flings were confiderably relieved. At high water fhe was completely out of her bed. At the next low water, I hove all the purchafes down again. At half flood flie floated, and the whole group drove together into the harbour, a difiance of three miles, and grounded the frigate in the Weft fide of it. It took two tides more to lift her on the thore fufficiently high to pump her out, which was then done with eafe; and the fhip completely recovered, without the malleft damage either to her bottom or fide. "I have every reafon to believe that, if the fame principle had been acted on in the attempt made to fave the Royal George, it would have fucceeded." XIV. Obfervations on a new Species of hard Carbonate of Lime, alfo à new Species of Oxide of Iron. By the Count de Bournon. XV. "Account of the Changes that have happened during the laft Twentyfive Years in the relative Situation of double Stars; with an Inveliigation of the Caufe to which they are owing. By Dr. Herfchel." This is a feries of obfervations on double itars, to prove that many of them are not merely double in appearance, but must be allowed to be real binary combinations of two fars, intimately held together by the bond of mutual attraction. Thefe changes are afcribed to the revolutions and annual motion of the stars. of Mr. Ramfden by the Duke of Richmond, when Mafier of the Ordnance, interrupted by his death, was finifhed by Mr. Berge. Lift of Prefents, and Index, conclude this volume. 6. A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Richard De Courcy, late Vicar of St. Alkmond's Church, Shrewsbury; preached at the fame on Sunday, Nov. 13, 1803, and publifked at the Request of the Congregation, by Brian Hill, M. A. MR. Hill, from John xvi. 33, deduces the things which conduce to obtaining peace in Chrift, the tribulations which must be the portion of his difciples in this world, and the courage they derive from his having overcome the world; concluding with memoirs of Mr. De Courcy, who was a nativs of Ireland (where his mother, upwardof 90 years old, lives at Bandon); educated at the University of Dublin, ordained deacón 1767; was near thirty years vicar of St. Alkmond, where he died Nov. 4, 1803, aged 59, of a complaint on his lungs. He published feveral religious tracts, two fermons on the Fat-day 1776, two on that in 1778, and a fermon at Hawkftone chapel Sept. 26, 1798. It is propofed to publish a volume of his fermons by fubfcription, with his portrait. 7. The Antiquity and Advantages of Church Mufic confidered, in a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1803, at the annual Meeting of the Three Choirs of Worcester, Gloucester, and Hereford, for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the poor Clergy of the Three Diocefes. By the Rev. H. A. Stillingfleet, of How Caple and Soilers Hope, Herefordfire, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lady Forfeiter. ALL former outdoings feem to have been outdone at this meeting of the three choirs, where Mrs. Billington XVI. "An Account of the Mea- was retained at the expence of no lefs furement of an Arc of Meridian, ex- than 1201.; and fuch a concourfe of tending from Dunnole in the Ile of company, that room was not to be Wight, Lat. 50 37′ 8′′, to Clifton, in found for them at the evening concerts. -Yorkshire, Lat. 58° 27′ 31', in Courfe The collection for the poor objects was of the Operations carried on for the ample, and the fewards not in the leaft Trigonometrical Survey of England. out of pocket. Mr. S. a lineal defcen1860, 1801, and 1802. By Major dant of the worthy and learned Bishop William Mudge, of the Royal Artil of that name who filled the fee of Worlery." Former parts of this vafi work cefter in the clofe of the XVIIth cen may be feen in the Philofophical Tranftury, has exerted with the greatest proactions for 1801, Part I. vol. LXX. priety every argument in favour of muart. XIX. The zenith fector befpoken fic and harmony from 2 Chron. v. 13. It appears," begins he, "to be a doctrine clearly implied by revelation, and altogether confonant to right reafon, that the ultimate end and defign of the Creator's works is the manifeliation of his own glory. Since the great fyllem of the univerfe muft doubilets be afcribed to the good pleasure of the Almighty as its primary caule, and the government thereof to his fovereign agency as its continual fupport; it is furely not irrational to conclude, that all things are directed eventually to promote and illuftrate the glory of the divine perfection. And although there may be circumftances in the economy of nature, of providence, and of grace, which to our feanty and limited apprehenfions may feem to militate againft fuch a reprefentation, yet we have fuf'ficient ground to believe, that in the day of final confummation it will be evident beyond difpute, that God hath made all things for himfelf, and that of him and through him and to him are all things, to whom be glory for ever and ever." The duty of praife and thanksgiving is hence inculcated, and the performance of it with a fuitable difpofition of mind," with well-tuned affections in unifon with well-tuned inftruments." A good fcriptural account is given of the antiquity of mufic, from its first invention by Jubal to its application to facred purpofes and the folemnities of the temple, continued down to the time of our Saviour, and countenanced by his attendance on the temple fervice, and the hymn at his laft fupper. The particular occafion which furnished the text fhews, that a grateful fenfe of national bleflings may be expreffed in a manner acceptable to God, and profitable to ourfelves, by the help of facred melody. The grounds of our national gratitude, and the obliga. tions which demand our praile, are pointed out in an impreffive manner, and the peculiar calls to liberal charity, on the occafion of the prefent meeting, and the application to the profpect of future and eternal praife. 8. An Examination of the Neceffity of Sunday Drilling, and the probable Effects of that Mafure on the Intereffs of Religion. By the Rev. Edward Cupper, Rector of Hamftall Ridware, in the County of Stafford, Chaplain to the Earl of Courtown, and late Fellow of All Souls College, Oxon. MR. C. hopes by his arguments that fome few at leaft of the advocates for 9. Britons Duty in the Prospects of a French Invafion; a Sermon preached Aug. 11,1803, in the Parish Church of St. Maryleport, Bristol, at the Opening of a weekly Evening Lecture on the Perils and Duties of the prefent Times, published by Request. By the Rev. Richard Hart, M. A. Vicar of St. George's, Gloucestershire, EVERY Minifter of the Gospel is certainly juftified in warning every man to awake and depart from his fins; that when we go forth to battle against the common enemy, no wicked thing may be found in the camp. Text, Malachi iii. 16-18. 10. The Duty of defending our Country; a Ser mon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, Aug. 19, 1803. By the Rev. Edward Drewe, LL B. Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Rolle, and Curate of Broadhembury, Devon. THIS is a truly animated difcourfe, from Pf. cxxxvii. 5, 6. The preacher fhews, that if the Love of Country is not inculcated by Chrift and his Apofles, it was becaufe, under the univer fal oppreffion of the Roman tyranny, no man had any longer a country. The feripture of the New Teftament being chiefly converfant with the duties and affections of private life, we must feek for examples and precepts of public virtue in the Old Teftament, where it is ftrongly exemplified and inculcated.. Animated by this view, the preacher calls on his countrymen, in emphatic ftrains of eloquence, to " refift the ac curfed yoke of a ferocious banditti, under a tyrant that hates us becaufe we are free, becaufe we have humbled his pride, and defeated his atrocious mercenaries; becaufe we alone fland Letween him and that univerfal tyranny to which his monftrous ambition afpires; becaufe innocent indufry, animated by freedom, and protected by jul |