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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. XIV.

BEING FOR THE YEAR 1815.

NUMBER 1.

NUMBER III.

Page

RELIG. COM.-East-India Missions.... 1 Relig. Com.-Lessons from Death of

Authority of Josephus ............ 5 distinguished Individuals ..... 137

On Lute xxi, 32 ................ ib. On the Prophecies of Gog ....... 141

Extracts from Writings of Luther .. Importance of cultivating Holiness 143

Family Serison, on Matt. xxvi. 41... 8, On animadverting on Errors of good

Advice tu a Young Clergyman..... 13 Men........................ 145

MISCEL-Hint to Religious Parents... 20 On a contented Disposition ...... 148

Espenses of College ............. 21 Family Sermon, on Acts xi. 24. ... 151

British Critic ................... 23 MISCEL.-Independence of Mind.... 155

Gypsies........ ......... ..... ib. On Clerical Residence ..........162

State of Religion in France ........ 25 On the Expenses of College ...... 165

RET. OP-Venu's Sermons .......... 26 Rev. 0F-A brief Account of the

Marsh's Sermons ................ 46 Jesuits .................... 166

LIT. INTEL. – New Works; Oxford;

Bishop of Chester's Charge........ 177

Cambridge; Rain; Stone Coflin, &c. 59 LIT. INTEL.-New Works; Galvanism;
Germany ; France................ 60 Commerce ; " Athenian Society ;

Relig. ISLEL-Geneva; Abolition of

Deaf and Dumb and Blind, &c. 188

Slave Trade ; Episcopal Church; Relig. INTEL.--Distresses in Germany 191

Bible Society........ ........., 61 London Society for Jews ......... 198

Waldenses, their Sofferings ........ 62 Ceylon-Letter of Sir A. Johnston .. 200

PUB. AFF.-Congress; Spain ; France; PUB. APP.Corn Bill ............ 202

L'nited States.................. 65 Restoration of Bonaparte ...... 204

Haçti.......................... ib. Slave Trade Question ............ 205

Great Britain Joanna Southcoit.... 67 Treaty with United States ........ 206

OBIT.-Rev. Johu G. Thompson....... 68 OBIT.- Rev. Dr. C. Buchapan ...... ib.

Henry Thornton, Esq. ............ 72 ERRATA ....

.......... 208

NUMBER II.

- NUMBER IV.

RELIG. COM.-East-India Missions .. 73 Relig. Com.-Character of Lydia .. 209

Spiritual Contest with the World .. 76 On Interpreting Prophecy ........ 214

Family. Sermon, on 1 Peter ii. 1.... 86 Faults of Scripture Characters ... 216

Dr. Whitaker and Calvin ........ On Fear and Love in Religion...... 218

MISCEL-Theology of the Day .... Family Sermon, on Genesis vi. 8. .. 223

Use of Psalms and Hymns ....:

Miscel.-Errors of Dr. Marsh ...... 227

Society for Christian Knowledge .. Usber's Advice to Younger Clergy.. 231

Misrepresentation of Mr. Norris .. 98 Calvin against Antinoinianism .... 233

REV. OE--Thorp's Sermon .......... 99 On Jolin xxi, 15 ................ 235

Alison's Sermons ................ 109. Misrepresentation of Mr. Norris ... ib.

LIT. INTEL.-New Works........... 118 Rev. or-Chalmers's Evidence of

Cambridge; St. David's; Deaths and

Christianity .................. 236

Births in London; Restoration of Wilks on Conversion in Ministers .. 248

Noses ........... ...... 119 LIT. INTEL.-New Works; Germany,

Retic. IXTEL, Bristol Tract Society 121 Werner; Spain; France, &c..... 255

Southampton Bible Society........ 123 RELIG, INTEL, --Society for Jews.... 257

Bristol Missionary Association... . Hibernian Church Missionary Society 259

China-Letter of Mr. Milne ...... Tartary-Edinburgh Society ...... 261

Poz. AFP.-Congress ; American Fri India-- Abdool Messee, &c.; Dr.

gate; Perliament............... 126 . John's Schools ................ 262

Oeit.-Henry Thornton, Esq.

Madras ....................... ib.

Mr. Ricbard Barlow

Colombo Bible Society ........... 263
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Page

British and Foreign Bible Society .. 264 Termination of Neapolitan War.... 416

Religious Tract Society .......... 266 Holland Treaty wiib Great Britain ib.

Hayti-President Petion........... iba Great Britain -Parliament; Loan;
Pub. AFB.- Declaration of Congress; . Duke of Wellington; French Slave
Austria and Naples; FranceBor

Trade ; Register of Slaves; Catholic
naparte; Slare Trade, &c.; Peace

Claims; India Ships; Apprentices;

and War, &c. ............... 207 Mendicity .................. 417

Great Britain-Capture of Mobile; 1. OBIT.-Rev. William Jesee ....... ib.

Prince Regent's Message ; Slave P. S.-Abdication of Bonaparte; Ad-

Trade, &c. &c. .............. 272 vance of Allies to Paris ....... 420

NUMBER V.

NUMDER VII.

RiLIG. COM. Death of a Monk of Relig. CON-Life of Pascal 6.... 421*

· La Trappe .................. 273 Cuninghame on the 1260 Years.... 427

Usher on Satisfaction of Christ ...278 Moderator on the 196) Years.... 430

Faber on the 1960 Years ........ 281: Family Sernion, on Psalm Iv. 17. .. 489
Prevailing Theologica). Errors..... 983, Quiere respecting the Lord's Supper: 457

Family Sermon, on Prov. xii. 26 . 294 MISCEL.-Moral State of Paris 2.2.1,458

MISOBE. ---Humboldt on Slave Trade : 1999 Mr. Norris's Demonstrations in. 446

On Unity of Opinion'secréé...... 300 Rev. 07,--Brook's History of the Pus! su

On the State of the Waldenses o v. 304. ritans .. ......... ... .449

Prolanation of the Lord's Day i... 305 LIT. INTEL. – New Works ; í Steam

Rev.:01-Mrs. More's St. Paul.-6.0 306 Boat ; New Noses ; Weights and ; ;

Cooper' Sernions évo .. . 317 Measures ........wierres...472.

Smedley's “Jephthalı”.......d'ó328 Relig. Intel.-British and Foreign

LIT. I The New Works; · Bugs;

Bible Society: Eleventh Report 474

Arithmetical Mnebine; Penta-

Prayer-book and Homily Society • 479

teuch; Effects of Cold; Substitute

Bristol Society for Jews ....Tii..481

..fur Hemp, &ca...vivido... 386 Oxford Bible Society--- Annual Meet

RELAG, INTEL.-Anniversaries of Re-

ing; Speeches .......... 482

liginos Societies lo

s o .....'$8 PUB. Art.-Capture of Paris ; Resto

British and Foreign Bible Society .. 339 ration of Bourbons ; Sufferings of r'

Church Missionary Society..cro. 342 French; Abolition of Slave Trade;

Society for Jows ............... 843 Surrender of Bonaparte, &c. &c. 484

Prayer-book and Homily Society .. 345 Loss at Waterloo ; Congress; Ame-

Pue. Art.-Preparations for · War;

ricans and Algerines ....u w. 489

State of Feeling in France, &c.; Great Britain Parliament, Duke of
Education Italy, Defeat of

Cumberland ; Mr. Whitbread .. ib.

Murat; Spain...iii........ ib. OBIT. Mr. Tbomas Rock ........ 490

Great Britain Question of Peace or ERRATA .............. ...... 492

War; Slave Trade, &c.'.... 1348 P. S.-French Ordinance against Re-

bels, &c....... ......i, 'ib.

. NUMBER VI.
Relio. COM.Life of Pascal ...... 349

NUMBER VIII.

Witness of the Spirit ooiii.. 356 Relic.'Com.-Life of Pascal .1..7 493

Family Sernton, on Romans xiii. 10. 359 Cuninghame on the 1960 Years 1498
Mr. Penn's Views of Prophecy ... 365 Penn's View of Prophecy ro..io.v501
MISCEL.-Society for Christian Know

Dr. Marsh's View of Justification ... ib.

ledge ...dd. vivil.6.367 Family Sermon, on Heb. x. 20, ..'.* 504

Old Society and its Safeguards.ro'ib. Miscel. -Complaiot of a neglected

Abbé Sicaid and his Pupilo.so.. 371 Female ...............1:.. 508

On Perseverance video.do.blo.. 372: On the Practice of Norel.Rending: 512

REV.'0p-Remains of J. Tweddell'•374 Dr. Hunt respecting Tweddell's Re.

Brook's Lives of the Puritans...... 586 mains ...li..ilo.iiii.i.re.317

LIT. INTEL.« New Works; Oxford; Rev. or... Kirwan' Sermon's....... 518

Dean of Peterborough and Mr. Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies.dr. 542

Lingard"; Bishop of Lincoln and Lit. INTEL-NewWorks; Cambridge;

Bible Society .7..ibcrc..16.406 · St. David's ........

....... 549