THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

GENERAL REVIEW.

VOL. XIX.

THIRD SERIES, VOL. I.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES BOWEN.

LONDON:

ROWLAND HUNTER, AND R. J. KENNETT, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

1836.

OF

VOL. XIX. - THIRD SERIES, VOL. I.

No. I.

ART. I.-Christian Ethics, or Moral Philosophy on the Princi-

ple of Divine Revelation. By RALPH WARDLAW, D. D.

From the Second London Edition, with an Introductory

Essay, by LEONARD WOODS, D. D.

ART. II. State of Religion in Germany.

ART. III.- Female Convents. Secrets of Nunneries Disclosed.

Compiled from the Autograph Manuscripts of Scipio de'

Ricci, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pistoia and Prato. By M.

DE POTTER. Edited by THOMAS ROSCOE. With an In-

troductory Essay and Appendix.

ART. IV. - A Memoir of James Jackson, Jr., M. D.

With Ex-

tracts from his Letters to his Father; and Medical Cases,

collected by him. By JAMES JACKSON, M. D., Professor of

the Theory and Practice of Physic in Harvard University;

and Physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

ART. V.- An Address delivered before the Ministerial Confer-

ence in Berry Street, May 27th, 1835.

ART. VI. - Lectures on the Doctrines of Christianity, in Con-

troversy between Unitarians and other Denominations of

Christians. Delivered in the First Independent Church of

Baltimore. By GEORGE W. BURNAP.

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ART. VII. - Trial of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher for Heresy.

Reported for "The New York Observer."

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE. Peabody's Springfield Collection

of Hymns for Sacred Worship.-Worcester's Comprehen-

sive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary. Memoirs

of a New-England Village Choir.

No. II.

ART. I.

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Review of the Argument in Support of Natural Reli-

gion. A Dudleian Lecture, delivered in the Chapel of the

University in Cambridge, May 13th, 1835. By JOHN

BRAZER.

ART. II. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sun-

days and Holydays throughout the Year.

ART. III.- - Johann Gottfried von Herder's Sämmtliche Werke

Zur Religion und Theologie. Herausgegeben durch Jo-

HANN GEORG MÜLLER. The Complete Works of J. G.

HERDER. On Religion and Theology.

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ART. IV. Specimens of Table-Talk of the late SAMUEL TAY-

LOR COLERIDGE.

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162

172

204

ART. V.- Report of the American Board of Commissioners for

Foreign Missions, read at the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting,

held in the City of Utica, October 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1834. 215

ART. VI. Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance, in

Two Parts. By HENRY TAYLOR, Esq.

ART. VII.A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches

by the Deputation from the Congregational Union of Eng-

land and Wales. By ANDREW REED, D. D., and JAMES

MATHESON, D. D.

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.

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The Western Messenger; de-

voted to Religion and Literature. - Records of a School:

Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture.-

Bigelow's Sermon at the Interment of the Rev. Pitt Clarke.

To which is added an Appendix, containing Extracts from

the Diary of the Deceased.

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257

269

No. III.

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273

ART. I. Whether the Deity of the Messiah be a Doctrine of

the Old Testament.

ART. II. Observations on the Influence of Religion upon the

Health and Physical Welfare of Mankind. By AMARIAH

BRIGHAM, M. Ď.

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302

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314

ART. III. - The Boston Book; being Specimens of Metropoli-

tan Literature, Occasional and Periodical.

ART. IV. - Sermons on Various Subjects, chiefly Practical. By

ROBERT ASPLAND, Minister of New Gravel-pit Chapel,

Hackney.

ART. V.-1. Songs of the Affections, with other Poems. By

FELICIA HEMANS.

2. National Lyrics and Songs for Music. By FELICIA

HEMANS.

3. Scenes and Hymns of Life, with other Religious Poems.

By FELICIA HEMANS.

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4. The Poetical Works of Mrs. FELICIA HEMANS: Complete

in One Volume. With a Critical Preface.

5. The Poetical Works of Mrs. HEMANS, Complete.

ART. VI. — A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. By ALPHONSE de

LAMARTINE, Member of the French Academy.

ART. VII. Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems. By WILLIAM

WORDSWORTH.

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362

375

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ART. VIII. A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, November

22d, 1835, the Sunday after the Funeral of the Rev. James

Freeman, D. D. By F. W. P. GREENWOOD, surviving Min-

ister of King's Chapel.

ART. IX. - The Balance of Scriptural Evidence on Trinitarian-

ism and Unitarianism. By FRANCIS KNOWLES.

NOTICES AND Intelligence. — Reprint of the early English Ver-
sions of the New Testament - Mr. Brooks's Discourse at
the Interment of the Rev. Jacob Flint. - The Christian
Connexion. Greenwood's Lives of the Apostles. -- Pris-
on Discipline Society's Report. -- Professor Follen's Inter-
linear Translation of Luther's Gospel of St. John.

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ART. I. Christian Ethics, or Moral Philosophy on the Principle of Divine Revelation. By RALPH WARDLAW, D. D. From the second London Edition, with an" Introductory Essay, by LEONARD WOODS, D. D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Boston: William Peirce. 1835. 12mo. pp. 380.

THIS is the very book which we have long wished to see. For we have long been convinced that there is a question connected with the Calvinistic controversy, more important than all others, going beyond all others, and that is nothing less than a question about the essential principles and grounds of right and wrong. What is rectitude? And what are the principles on which we are to arrive at the knowledge of it? These are the questions, which Dr. Wardlaw has undertaken to discuss in the work before us. And what now, do our readers suppose, is the legitimate theory of Calvinism on the subject of morals? Why, truly, that human nature, which has always been supposed to be both the subject of moral philosophy and its investigator, is neither one nor the other; that it neither furnishes the facts on which a just theory of morals can be built up, nor contains the power that is able to discriminate among any facts, so as to arrive at a safe conclusion. Human nature is totally depraved; therefore it furnishes no data for a moral theory. Its very conscience is perverted; the very labors of conscience in its own appropriate sphere, that of moral philosophy, have resulted in error; and in such serious, wide-spread, universal error, that it cannot be trusted, as VOL. XIX. - 3D S. VOL. I. NO. I.

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