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EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES. Seeley.

A SMALL collection of comfortable passages from holy writ, with an appropriate Preface, and some scriptural hymns, in very large type, intended for the benefit of the aged and the sick. It is well adapted for the purpose; being also of light weight, suited to feeble hands.

MEDITATIONS ON THE LORD'S PRAYER. With Four Discourses on different subjects. By A. Bonnet, Author of The Family of Bethany,' The Translated from the French. By

Exile from Eden.'

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the Rev. W. Hare. Nisbet and Co.

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In this we indeed recognize the author of that lovely work, The Family of Bethany.' The same elegance of style, the same depth of spiritual thought, with an increased solemnity of direct application to the heart, conscience, and feelings of the reader, characterize these meditations. The Portfolio' department of that valuable paper 'The Record,' has of late drawn largely from M. Bonnet's work; and the volume as a whole will more than fulfil the expectations raised by a perusal of those detached beauties. The closing discourse, on The Last Enemy,' is peculiarly striking.

DIVINE MERCY; or the Riches of God's Pardoning and Paternal Love. By John Cox, Author of Our Great High Priest,' Word of Exhortation,'' Coming and Kingdom,' &c. &c. Nisbet and Co.

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A VERY Sweet subject sweetly handled, by one to whom the church of Christ is largely indebted for many valuable treatises. Mr. Cox always enters upon these subjects as one who well knows what it is to feed on Christ in the heart by faith. There is a liveliness, a richness, an unction evidently from above pervading his works, that savours strongly of the ripe old wine, in comparison with which our modern brewings are generally very thin and poor.

THE PROTESTANT'S ARMORY; being a collection of extracts from various writers on the church of Rome, chiefly designed to shew its apostate, idolatrous, and anti-christian character. Compiled by a Lay Member of the church of England. Seeley and Burnside.

THE thought that struck us most forcibly when turning over the leaves of this noble Armory,' was one of shame mingled with astonishment, that here, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the people of England should require such aid, not only to combat but actually to discern the unveiled form of the gigantic Antichrist in his most rampant position. Yet so it is: and the need being such, God, in his infinite, long-suffering compassion supplies it. This layman

has done more for the church than the great bulk of her ministers ever dream of doing; and we rejoice to see such a host of high authorities, ancient and modern, brought to bear on the subject. The volume is a most convincing one; and its intrinsic value at this crisis, unspeakable.

SHORT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE composed by the order of Pope Clement VIII. By the R. father Robert Bellarmine, of the company of Jesus, and Cardinal of the holy church. Revised and approved by the congregation of reform. ROME, 1836, Peter Aurelj; London: Seeley and Burnside.

HERE we have the full length portrait of the Great Harlot, not sketched by the hand of an enemy, but carefully painted by her own trusty and well-beloved son, the famous Jesuit, Cardinal Bellarmine; now re-published with fresh sanction from the Vatican and Propaganda. We are indebted for this translation to the Rev. Robert J. McGhee, who gives on the left hand page the original Italian, just as he received it from the seven-hilled city. It is a small book: the manual of Popery; the catechism principally taught in the schools of the National Board in Ireland. We recommend our readers to provide themselves with it and the preceding work together. We can promise them something to start at, and to start from too.

THE Religious Tract Society has been publishing some useful and pleasing books: among them we would specify Wellwood's Glimpse of Glory,' a

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valuable old treatise: Bible Geography: nitent's Prayer; or, Brief Remarks on the Fifty-first Psalm,' and John Bunyan on The Fear of God.' Nisbet and Co. have 'Communion Meditations,' extracted without abridgment from Mason, by the Rev. T. Missing. Two admirable Sermons to the Male and Female Chartists of Cheltenham, by the Rev. F. Close, are published by Hamilton and Co. The Reformation Society has a pamphlet just out, called 'Statistics of Popery in Great Britain and the Colonies,' with a map; of fearful interest. We have been delighted with three little Derby Tracts,' on the sinfulness of attendance at Popish ceremonies adapted to the humbler classes, but good for edification even in higher quarters than we will name. A solemn and beautiful Appeal to Christians upon the duty and necessity of public and private prayer for those engaged in the prosecution of liberal studies,' has been published in Edinburgh, and by Nisbet; it is a tract of a dozen pages, and we must earnestly press upon all our friends the perusal of a plea in which every one of them is, or will be in some manner, personally concerned.

THE PROTESTANT.

'What a blessed thing is Christian charity,' said my uncle, as with a sigh he laid down the recent number of a Church of England periodical. How sad are these contentions, springing as they do from the prolific root of pride, personal, spiritual, or ecclesiastical-sometimes all combined in one.'

'What has disturbed you now, dear uncle?'

'A very uncalled-for, and equally unwarrantable attack upon a body of Protestants, who have taken the lead among the dissenting denominations in placing themselves beside us in this fearful contest against the growing power of popery.'

"The Wesleyans?'

'Yes; there are points both of doctrine and of practice on which you and I differ from the standard left by John Wesley, and confirmed as the scriptural rule by his followers at this day, apart from questions of ecclesiastical polity; but I never could find an excuse for the acrimonious bitterness indulged in by a large portion of even the enlightened members of our establishment against them as a body. This unbrotherly spirit I utterly detest; and since one periodical of the episcopal church has thus sounded the toscin or fratricidal warfare, it behoves others to enter at least a quiet protest against it.'

It appears to me, that a section of our church are just now striving, at a most inopportune juncture, for what they would not at any period obtain—a perfect

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