hope to be as perfect in sense as in intellect, in our bodily organs as in our moral and spiritual faculties. We shall see even as we are seen, No evil can henceforth tarnish our purity, and no deformity mar our vision. There shall be nothing to hurt or offend our sight, or cloud from our view the increasing glories of the upper sanctuary, in all this holy mountain. How elegant and palpable, as well as figurative and spiritual, the draft or sketch an inspired Apostle gives of this high and holy place?" And the city, "had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for "the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light "thereof."

In a long note at page 103, is given a curious and entertaining narrative of the life of Newton, with fome anecdotes of that illuftrious man, which we do not remember to have read before.

FORTY SERMONS on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects Selected from the works of the Rev. Dr. SAMUEL CLARKE, for the Ufe of Families; to which is prefixed, a Sketch of his Life, by the Rev. SAMUEL CLAPHAM, M. A. Chaplain to the Earl Camden, &c. &c. Price 9s. Rivingtons.

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[N reviewing this volume of Dr. Clarke's Sermons, we cannot convey a clearer idea of its utility than by giving the fubftance of the Dedication to the Editor's patron, the bishop of Lincoln, with a part of his Preface.

Mr. C. fays that" thofe parts of the Theological Writings of Dr. Clarke which are most eafy of comprehenfion, having appeared to him peculiarly well calculated to direct the judgement and enlighten the understanding; that he might render them acceffible to the generality of readers, he felected what he conceived the useful of his moft numerous difcourses, hoping that the perufal of them would excite a defire in the reader to acquaint himfelf with the genuine doctrines of the Gofpel. One confequence, he trufts, will be that those who derive from it fuch fatisfaction, will become more zealously attached to the church, more reluctant in encouraging that spirit of fchifm and uncharitableness which is most active in the endeavour, and fuccessful in the açcomplishment

In the Preface Mr. C. fays, "Dr. Clarke conveys to his readers the clearest inftructions on the fundamental articles of Grace, Faith, the Atonement; and that he has endeayoured to comprize in this felection the best both of practical and doctrinal fermons contained in ten volumes, confifting of no fewer than one hundred and ninety one difcourfes." Dr. Clarke, it is well known, was a semi-arian, on which account his writings are lefs acceptable to the Orthodox reader, Mr. Clapham has judiciously obviated this objection; for he has, in a few inftances, made the Dr. fpeak a language very different from himself. "It may be proper,' he fays, to acquaint the reader, that I have, in a few inftances, changed the expreffion of the author; my conviction forbidding me to become the inftrument of promulgating a doctrine derogatory to the character and dignity of the Son of God, and the Spirit of Truth."

This volume is well adapted to answer the ends the editor had in view. It will attach men more ftrongly to the church; it will enable them, if it be read with common attention, to comprehend the doctrines of the Gofpel with more clearness; and it expofes, with full conviction, the falJacy of the dogmas, as well as thofe inculcated in the conventicle, as those in the church by the evangelical preachers. The Sermons which Mr. C. has felected are on the moft interefting fubjects, as, Of the Number of thofe which shall be faved. Of being the children of God.-Who are the true Church of God.-Of Election and Reprobation.-The Wif dom of God in the Redemption of Man.-Of Religious Melancholy. Of the Liberty of Moral Agents.-The knowledge of Sin is by the Law. That true Chriftians are free from all habits of Sin, &c. &c.

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Mr. Clapham has comprised the marrow and effence of Dr. Clarke's works in this felection, by which he has, in our judgment, done a most acceptable service to the church, in making difcourfes which were very generally neglected, at once instructive and popular. We recommend this volume as a proper companion to Mr. C's Abridgment of the bishop of Lincoln's Elements of Chriftian Theology.

In our next Magazine, we fhall give a critique on Mr. C's fermon preached at the Vifitation of Southampton, on the fubject of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Tranfactions of the Parifian Sanhedrim, or Ads of the Af fembly of Ifraelitifh Deputies of France and Italy, convoked at Paris by an Imperial and Royal Decree, Dated May 30, 1806. Tranflated from the original published by M. Diogene Tama, with a Preface and illuftrative Notes. By F. D. KIRWAN, Efq. 8vo. 334 pp. 85. Taylor.

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HE circumftance of a general affembly of the Jews having been convened at Paris, naturally excited univerfal attention, particularly among thofe who regard that people as providentially preferved amidft the wrecks of nations for purposes correfponding with the dictates of antient prophecy. The oftenfible defign of this meeting, was, indeed, nothing more than to correct fome abufes faid to be practised by the Jews, and to obtain diftinet anfwers to certain questions, relative to particular laws and customs among them. But, as the ingenious tranflator of this volume judiciously obferves," thefe queftions are moftly of a nugatory nature, and fuch as might have been eafily answered, without any recourfe to a Jewish affembly: others are evidently captious; and it is not without a motive, although not a very obvious one, that such a ftrefs has been laid on the obligation of defending the country, and on the organization of the Rabbinical body."

That the prefent ruler of France has a much more extenfive plan in view with regard to these people, is evident from the difcourfe addreffed by his commiffioner to the Jewish deputies.

"The purity of your law" says he "has no doubt, been altered by the crowd of commentators, and the diversity of their opinions. must have thrown doubts in the minds of those who read them. It will be then a most important service, conferred on the whole Jewish community, to fix their belief on those points which have been submitted to you. To find, in the history of Israel, an assembly capable of attaining the object now in view, we must go back to the Great Sanhedrim, and it is the Great Sanhedrim, which his majesty this day intends to convene. This senate, destroyed together with the temple, will rise again to enlighten the people it formerly governed: although dispersed throughout the whole world, it will bring back the Jews to the true meaning of the law, by giving interpretations, which shall set aside the corrupted glossés of commentators; it will teach them to love and to defend the country they inhabit; it will convince them that the land, where,

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for the first time since their dispersion, they have been able raise their voice, is intitled to all those sentiments, which rendered their ancient country so dear to them."

Who fees not in this partial developement of the plan, a defign of greater magnitude than the establishment of particular regulations for the civil government and improvement of a feparated body of men? It is not to the Jews of France and Italy alone that the new order of things, whatever that may be, is intended to apply; but all the defcendants of Ifrael even "those in hoftile countries" are invited by circular letters to give their affiftance to the Great Sanhedrim. The language made ufe of for this purpose deferves observation.

"Be not deaf to our voice, dear Brethren! Select among you men known by their wisdom, the friends of truth and of justice, and able to assist us in the completion of this great work. Send them to take their places among us, that their wise and enlightened views may conduce to general advantage.

"It must be a pleasing task to all the Israelites of Europe to concur in the regeneration of their brethren, as it must be glorious for us in particular, to have fixed the attention of an illustrious sovereign."

Here is marked plainly enough fome defign of a great change which is to affect the Jews at large, and not merely any particular regulation for those who live under the domination of Buonaparte. The most fuperficial and prejudiced reader of this volume will fee that the Sanhedrim, as it is called, is nothing more than an engine formed by the fangui nary ufurper for fome high object of his ambition. Now his views with regard to the Eaft have never been concealed; and though he has been hitherto baffled and covered with difgrace in that quarter, it is well known that a fettlement in Egypt is one of the favourite projects of his rapacious mind. Here we shall quote the remarks of the ingenious tranflator.

"The Jewish deputies say, that Buonaparte conceived the idea of their regeneration, or their political redemption in the land of Egypt, and on the banks of the Jordan. This we doubt not; and though we are almost ashamed to hazard the extravagant supposition, we feel a conviction that his gigantic mind entertains the idea of re-establishing them in Palestine, and that this forms a part of this plan, respecting Egypt, which he is well known never to have abandoned.

"No one will contend that this idea is too wild for his conception; it is, on the contrary, perfectly consonant with his love for extraordinary, dazzling enterprizes; he acts in this even with more than his usual foresight, by attempting to prepare the Jews

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for the new situation he intends for them. It is with this view that he encourages them to follow these professions which are necessary for men forming a distinct nation in a land of their own; for certainly, a body wholly comprised of merchants and traders could never exist as such.

"So far from blending the Jews with their fellow-citizens, the regulations forced upon them in this assembly, prove that the intention of Buonaparte was to separate them more than ever from the rest of Frenchmen."

"This will be evident" says Mr. Kirwan "on a mere perusal of them. It will be seen that the Israelites have separate elective assemblies, separate constitutions, and a seperate police, exercised by their own Rabbies, who are to inforce military service among them, keep an exact account of their members, and even interfere in their private concerns. In this they are indeed under the hand of government, but they are totally secluded from the mass of the people. Their actual strength, their several occupations, will be known accurately; they may be ready at a moment's warning.

"These regulations have another remarkable feature, common to all the recent politico-religious conceptions of the French government. The Rabbies are by them set as spies over the Jews, like the ministers of the Roman Catholic religion over the rest of Frenchmen. Nor does this part of the plan stop here; by means of the close union existing between the several Jewish communities scattered over Europe, the French ruler hopes to extend the system far and wide. Already deputies of all the synagogues have been invited to Paris, to assist at the Great Sanhedrim. An uniformity of doctrine will connect them more closely wtih those among the French Jews who are devoted to Buonaparte."

Whether this laft opinion be correct, time muft fhew. The tranfactions of the firft affembly previous to the meeting of the Great Sanhedrim, are given in detail in the volume before us, and therein we perceive a uniformity, lamentable enough; and that is "a uniformity in blafphemous adulation."

On the birth-day of the ufurper, this affembly of Jews went in proceffion to their Great Synagogue where "The cyphers of Napoleon and of Jofephine were prophanely blended with the unutterable name of Jehovah, and the Imperial eagle was placed over the facred Ark!"

In all the fpeeches of the deputies the moft fulfome and impious flattery to the tyrant prevails; and in the sermons, as they are called, delivered by the Rabbies on the above day, thofe fublime paffages of Scripture which relate only to the Melliah are without fcruple applied to Napoleon. The