PAGE 27 a PAGE 592 P. Life of Michael Angelo, by P. Duppa ......354,500 Parish Priest's Manual 540 and Studies of Mr. Park, Mungo, Travels into West, by J. Galt...... 500 the Interior of Africa 7 Pharmacopæias of the Lon don, &c. Colleges, by Dr. 324 Poet's Pilgrimage to WaterMadras Systen, Sermon loo, by R. Southey on the, by Fraser ...... 668 Polwhele, Rev. R. Fair .. 282 Isabel of Cotehele, 90 Pott's, Archdeacon, Conse 82 a Traveller cration Sermon. 211 Memoirs of the Life of T. Pottinger's, Lieut., Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde 481 Holcroft 98 Memoires de la Marchio Prisoner of Chillon, and ness de la Rochejaque other Poems, by Lord lein ... Byron.... ... 608 Prosody made Easy, by Dr. 105 426 Monthly List of Publica Q. tions 103, 221, 336, 441, 552 670 Quinze Jours à Londres... 371 R. W. Singer 205 Leicester 535 Residence at Tombuctoo, 190 Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, a Poem, Nares, Rev. R. Veracity of by F. Hemans 311 the Evangelists demon Roberts, Rev. P. Cambrian strated ... .. 391 Popular Antiquities.... 307 Narrative of Robert Adams 190 Rochejaquelein, Memoires de la Marquise de la 446, 558 0. Rogers, B. the Days of Ha rold, a Metrical Tale 318 Ode, Thanksgiving, by W. Russian Prisoner of War, by Wordsworth.. 313 Kotzebue 250 Old English Plays 172 Salisbury PAGE Songs and occasional Poems, by Captain Hall 320 Sonnets, Odes, &c. by Leftley and Linley 85 Southey, R. Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo ......... 27 Lay of the 40 St. Helena, Beatson's Tracts 71 Warden's Letters from .................... 592 Sumner, J. B. Treatise on the Records of the Crea-' 383, 465 System of Mineralogy, Jameson's 516 on ......... T. Salisbury Cathedral, Brit ton's History of ...... 108 Sancho, or the Proverbia list, hy the Rev. W. 216 Scottish Poems, Banna. tyne's Ancient 437 Sequel of an Attempt to discover Junius 106 Series of Discourses, by the Rev. R. Morehead 49 Sermon, Burney's, Consecration .... 200 Bird's Visitation... 550 Bushnell's Visita. tion 667 Chester, Dean of 544 Christ Church, 302 Fraser's, on the Madras System 668 Gardener's, before the Shrewsbury Committee ... 208 Irby's, Visitation 546 Morres's, at Leicester 535 Morehead's, Ordination 204 Nares's, at Hastings 548 Archdeacon Pott's Consecration 82 Sermons, Morres's, on the Trinity 1 by the Rev. J. Venn.............. 136 Shaw, Dr. Prosody made Easy 105 Shepherd, Joyce and Car penter's Systematic Edu- ...... 113 Simeon, Rev. C. Appeal to Men of Wisdom and Candour 631 Singer, S. w. "Researches into the History of Play- 265 Thanksgiving Ode, by W. Wordsworth ................. 313 Thomas, G. Freedom and other Poems ................ ...... 440 Thomson, Dr.Pharmacopæia 324 Tombuctoo, Adams's Resi dence at...................... 190 Tour into North Wales, by Dr. Johnson.................. 531 Tour through Istria, &c. by an English Merchant ... 237 Travels into the Interior of Africa, by Mụngo Park 7 in Beloochistan and Sinde, by Pottinger ....... 481 Treatise on the Records of the Creation, by Sumner 383 465 Minerals, by Jameson....... 516 ....... ........... ............ V. Valpy's Editions of the Greek Testament 402 Venn. Rev. J. Sermons 136 PAGE PAGE Voyage round the World, Wells, Dr. Essay on Dew... 127 Campbell's 325 West, B. Galt's Life and Studies of ...................... 500 Wordsworth, W. Thanks- 313 Y. Walter, Rev. H. Lectures on the Evidences of Chris- ....... 275 592 Year in Canada, a Poem, by A. C. Knight 92 THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR JULY, 1816. lu Art. I. Three Sermons on the Doctrine of the Blessed T'rinity, preached at the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, on Trinity Sunday, in the Years 1813, 1814, and 1815. By Robert Morres, M.A. Prebendary of Salisbury. 8vo. 52 pp. 2s. Parker, Oxford ; Rivingtons, London. 1816. NOVELTY is always attractive; but on theological subjects it should be examined with care, and admitted with reserve. these highly ingenious discourses there is certaiuly a striking degree of novelty ; but as it does not regard the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, nor, strictly speaking, the evidence of the doctrine, but merely the mode in which, as it is here suggested, that evidence was communicated to the world, whether the reader is or is not satisfied with the hypothesis proposed, he needs uot to be alarmed with it. The doctrine itself remains as it was before, irrefragably founded, as has been often shewn and seldom with greater ability than in these sermons, on the clear and infallible word of God. The principle laid down by Mr. Morres is briefly this: that utility to man being the motive by which the Almighty has regulated all his communications to mankind, therefore the declarations of his will, and particularly the revelations of his own Divine nature, were gradual, as men were prepared and were able to receive them; that, consequently, in the Scriptures of the Old Testament, intimations of a plurality of persons in the Godhead, rather than explicit declarations of the doctrine of the Trinity in unity, were to be expected; and that in the promulgation of the Gospel, the mysteries of the Divine nature would in like manner be revealed gradually, intimated in general, rather than asserted, by our Lord and the first writers and first preachers of the Gospel, but explicitly declared by the latest, as by St. John in the B priface VOL. VI. JULY, 1816. } preface to his Gospel, and St. Paul in his preface to the Hebrew's. But the merit as well as the importance of these discourses demands, that we should give a short abstract or analysis of thein. The first, on the celebrated test quoted by our Lord from Moses, Mark xii. 20, bas for its subject that foundation of all religion, “ The Lord our God is one Lord.” The second, John i. 1, 2. is on the divinity of the Word or Son of God. The third, John xvi. 13. on the Divinity of the Holy Ghost. In the introduction to Sermon 1. it is observed, that articles of faith have always been thought necessary in the Christian Church, for the admission of converts from other religions, and for the purpose of education ; but they should first, be clear and unquestionable ; secondly, should relate only to things of moment; and, thirdly, when any essential doctrine has been perverted, they should contain a denial of the errors concerning it. This third rule, not founded in the necessity of the thing itself, but originating in the circumstances of the times, fully justities the two later of the three Creeds adopted in our Liturgy and the Articles of Religion, in which are many particulars of this sort, in opposition to erroneous tenets which have prevailed. In confirmation of the principle assumed of a gradual revela. tion, several instances are adduced to shew, that this was the ordinary method of the Divine communicatiou to man. Thus the mystery, as St. Paul calls it, that the Gentiles should be partakers of the Gospel, was not in other ages made known unto the sons of men, as it was now revealed unto him and the other Apostles; (Ephes. iii. 3—6.) nor was the spiritual nature of the Gospel so plainly described by the prophets, as to prevent the Jews from the error of expecting a temporal kingdom of the Messiah ; and many truths were withheld from the Apostles by our Lord during his ministry, because, as he said, they were not able to bear them. “ In exact proportion as religion itself is momentous," so must it be to know the right object of religious adoration, that we may neither offend by omitting honour where it is due, nor by giving it where it is not due. It is rain therefore to say, that the catholic doctrine of the unity in Trmity and Trinity in unity, is not, if it is true, before all things, in order and importance, ne or ibis doctrine, that part which has been fully revealed from the beginning is, that there is one God. But this being declared solely in opposition to idolatry, to an acknowledgment of false gods and spurious objects of worship, it has no relation at all, much less opposition, to the equally catholic doctrine of the Trinity cessary to salvation. |
