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prophecy exhibited in St. Matthew,
203, et seq. ; and in the book of Daniel,
206; the word translated weeks in the
autborized version signifies sevens, ib. ;
Mr. Maitland's remarks on this point,
207; every book of the New Testa a
ment written with a specific object,
314; remarks of a specific intention
of the Revelation of St. John, 314, 15;
Michaelis on the Apocalypse, 315;
design of the prophetic warning of the
events that were shortly to come to
pass, 317; certain parts of the reve.
jation most obscure to us, were intelli-
gible to the early Christians, 317, 18;
the precise nature of the events fore-
told, designed to be concealed till in-
terpreted by the event, 319; further
desigo of the book of the Rerelation,
321 ; extract from a discourse, by
Christopher Ness, on Antichrist, 322,
3; question whether the dark parts of
the prophecy bave received any eluci-
dation froin modern interpreters, ib.;
discrepancies of their sentiments, 324;
remarks of Mr. Maitland on this point,
325, 6; weakness of the argument from
the modern interpretation, 327; on the
fashionable use of the sacred prophe-
cies, 328; tendency of such studies,
329; preaching the gospel thought of
less consequence than preaching the pro-
phecies, 330; remarks of Mr. Douglas
on the state of the Jews, 331, el sego;
character of Mr. Douglas's work on
the advancement of koowledge and
religion, 334 ; Mr. Stewart's practical
view of the Redeemer's advent, 334.

Nesogate, commitments lo, in 1826, 466;

increase above the prior year, ib.
Norris, extracts from his poetry, 79.
Offering, friendship's, 92, et seg.
Pall, the consecraled, Sleidan's explanation

of it, 547.
Paris's treatise on diet, &c., 97, et seq.
Passion-flower, slanzas on the, by Bernard

Barton, 234, 5.
Peggs's Sultee's cry to Britain, 550, et

seg.
Petion, character of his government,

572 ; his death, 573.
Philip's treatise on indigestion, and its

consequences, &c., 97, et seq.
Pitcairn, Dr., notice of bim, 454.
Poetry, sacred and serious, specimens of,

68, et seq.

Population, proportion of the, in London,

not attending any place of worship, 466.
Portugal, state, &c. of, 32, et seq. ; pic-

ture of religion, or popery in Portugal,
35, 6; state of society iu Lisbon, 36;
assassins go unpunished, 37 ; character
of the Portuguese peasantry, ib. ; the
celibacy of the priests a principal
source of the corruption of morals,
38; difference between the Spaniards
and the Portuguese, ib. ; population
of Purtugal, 39; and of its chief towos,
ib.; state of its ecclesiastical popu-
lation, ib.; lines of Cowper on Spain,

40.
Prophecies, Irving, Frere, and others, on

tbe, 185, el seg.; remarks of Howe on
the expounders of prophecy io his
day, 186, 7; Mr. Irving inclined to
believe in the inspiration of Mr. Frere,
187; his remarks ou the book of Esdras,
187, 8; he finds in it the twelve
Cæsars, Charlemagne, the French re-
volution, and Booaparte, 188; the
book of Esdras written probably by
one who had seen the New Testament,
ib.; conclusion of Mr. Irving's seventh
* Sylle,' 191, et seq.; he stales the design
of prophecy to be twofold, 195 ; distin-
guishes prophecy into two kinds, 196;
on the mode by which the designs,
&e., of prophetic revelation must
be ascertained, ib. ; distinction be.
tween predictions of a limited and tem-
porary interest, and those of a general
and standing nature, 196,7; promise is
nothing but prophecy, 197; remarks on
prophecies of a standing nature, &c.,
198, 9; Mr. Irving on unfulfilled pro-
phecies, 200; the two descriptions of

Radcliffe, Dr., the gold-headed cane's

account of bim, 453, el seq. ; bis claim
to be ranked among the benefactors of

mankind, 454.
Readings, various, on the nature of, 380, 1;

inferences to be drawn from them, 381.
Recensio synoptica annotationis sacræ,

by the Rev. S. T. Bloomfield, 348, et

seq.
Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, 114, et

seg.
Report, the second annual, of the society

for the relief of distressed widows, ap-
plying within the first month of their

widowhood, 85, et seq.
Relurn, the exile's, 156, et seq.
Reynolds, Dr., Lord Bishop of Norwich,

the whole works of, i, et seq.; his
temporising character, 1 ; short sketch
of his life, promotion, &c., 2 ; his un-
deniable piety, 3; remarks on his

treatise on the vanity of the creature,
3, et seq. ; insufficiency of the creature to
conser solid satisfaction, &c., 5, 6; ten-
dency in the creatures to corruplion, 6, 7;
beautiful example of confession and sup-
plication, 8, 9; caution against trusting
in the creature, 10, 11 ; on the magiste-
rial power of sin, 11, 12; three hateful
ecils in sin, 12; comments on the second
verse of the 102d Psalm, 13; the sacra-
ments shadows of expected glory made to
the senses, 14, 15; remarks on the au.
thor's sermons, 16, et seq. ; the course
of sin, 17, 18; specimen of his metaphy.
sical talenls, 18; of the felicity of his

illustrations, 19, 20.
Reynolds, Frederick, the life and times

of, 114, et seq.; specimen of the conver-
sation at the Theatrical Fund dinner, 115;
singular circumstances connected with the
death of the lale Lord Lyllleton, 116,

17.
Rolle's, the heart, with odes, and other

poems, 154, et seq. ; cowslips, 155, 6;
the exile's return, 156, et seq. ; lears,
159.

resistance of the princes, 542; excel.
leut remark of Seckendorf, ib. ; the
• Confession of Augsburg' presented
and publicly read, 542, 3; it fails to
procure a recognition of the rights of
the protestants, ib.; unconditional
submission required, 543; extract from
a letter of Luther 10 Pontanus, 544; the
author's remarks on the question, whether
it was lausul for the protestant princes,
&c., to defend themselves with arms
against their superior lord, 545 ; obser-
vations on these remarks, 545, 6;
death of Zuinglius, Oecolampadias,
and the Elector of Saxony, 546; short
account of Zuinglius, 546, 7; Sleidan's
explanation of the consecrated pall, 547;
on the character, &c., of Luther in
later life, 547, 8; his distinguishing qua-
lities, 548; concluding remarks on the

work, 549.
Scriptures, Holy, Carpenter's and Horne's

introductions to the study of, 254, et
seq. ; remarks on the subject of lite.
rary piracy, in regard to these two
works, ib.; contents of Mr. Carpenter's
volume, 260, 1; its merits, 260; some
observations on the execution, &c., of
Mr. Horne's work, 262, 3; his notice
of a series of discourses, by ike Reo. H.

J. Rose, 263.
Self-advancement, by Eliz. Strutt, 368.
Self-murder, remarks on, 561, 2.
Sermons, by the late Rev. J. Hyatt, 157,

doctrinal and practical, by the
Rev. J. Coleman, 553, et seq.

par Charles Scholl, 121, et seq.
Sherburne's life of Paul Jones, 341, et

seq: ; his rank, honours, and com-
mand, 341, 2; his birth-place, ib.;
remarkable achievements, 342; his
desperale engagement with the Serapis,
343; ils caplure, ib. ; his characle of
the English as a naval power, 344; ke
accuses them of a deficiency in signals,
345; commands a man of war in the
Russian service, 346; the author's de

scription of his character, &C., 346, 7.
Shipman's treatise on the disorders of

the stomach, &c., 97, et seg.
Sketches of Portuguese, life, manners,

costume, and character, 33, et seq.
Snodgrass's narrative of the Burmese

war, 179, et seq. ; the Indian gocera-
ment ignorant of the real feeling of the
Burmese and Piguers towards it, 179,
80; the military expedition against the
Burmese completely successful, 181; im-
portance of the ceded province of Te.

Salm-Salm, the prince of, historical ac-

count of his conversion from the Ro.

man Catholic religion, 456, el seg.
Sandys, extracts from his poetry, 72.
Scholl's sermons, 121, et seq.; the French

language very favourable to a public
speaker, so far as regards voice and
the ear, 121; the English system of
reading, and pronunciation, for all
higher purposes, superior to that of
any other people of Europe, 122;
qualifications of M. Scholl as
preacher, ib. ; specimen of his manner

of treating his subject, ib.
Scott's bistory of the church of Christ,

536, et seq.; the present work intended
to be a continuation of Milner's church
history, 536; the period treated of in
the present volume, 537; changes
and peculiar circumstances in the
Christian world about the era of the
Reformation, 538, 9; the art of print-
ing a most important instrument of
that period; Luther becomes the
leader of the numerous reformers,
539; the several diets of the empire,
540; the diet of Augsburgh, 540, 1;
the present history commences with
the transactions of this diet, 541; ac-
count of the entry of the emperor, ib.;
unpleasant situation of the Protestant
princes, ib. ; yoble firmness of the Mar.
quis of Brandenburg, 541, 2; unbending

el seq.

nasserim, 181 ; characler of the Burman, Swan's idolatry, a poem, 439, et seq.; the
181, 2.

author's statement of his design in the
Society, Royal, of literature of the United present poem, 439, 40; change in the

Kingdom, transactions of the, 220, el opinion of certain persons respecting
seg. ; institution of the society, 220; the innocence of the heathens, 440;
plan for effecling ils objects, ib. ; the causes that have tended to weaken in
president, royal and honorary asso- the minds of persons the odious na-
ciates, 221; the first paper, a manu- ture of idolatry, 441; infuence of a
script, communicated by Granville classical education, ib.; and of the
Penn, 22; the subject, the dying de- antiquity of mythological vanities,'
claration of Henry Vth, that he had ib. s prevalence of an extreme senti-
intended to attempt the conquest of mental toleration of idolatry, 443;
Jerusalem, 222 ; some account of the existence of an unscriptural estimate
M.S. 223, 4; six papers, by Sharon of idolatry among the friends of Chris-
Turner, on the affinities and diversities tian missions, 444; extract on the true
of the languages of the world, and character of idolatry, 446, et seq. ; de.
their primeval cause, 224 ; remarks scriplion of the death-bed of a healhen,
on his theory, 225, 6; the eighth 449, 50; on the Romish missions, 450,
paper, Sir Wm. Ouseley's observations 51; apostrophe to the individual in
on the river Eupbrates, 227, 8; the

whose mind Providence originated the first
ninth paper, Archdeacon Nares's his. idea of the Bible Society, 451, 2.
torical account of the discoveries made
in Palimpsest M.S.S., 228; the tenth Tablets, Roman, by M. de Santo Do-
article, Todd's account of a M.S., by mingo, 32, et seq. ; design of the
Sir John Harrington, 228 ; epigramma. author to expose the corrupt state of
lical epitaphs on the queen of Scots, 228; society at Rome, 41; his defence of
the eleventh and twelfth papers, on his work before the tribunal at Paris,
soine ancient coins, 229; the thir. ib.; his remarks on the conduct of the
teenth paper, a description of a codex Jesuils, 42; on the religion of Rome,
containing several Greek M.S.S., 229; 43; Count Montlosier's reply lo M. de
the fourteenth, on political economy,

Bonald with regard to the Jesuits, 45,
by Mr. Malthus, ib. ; the fifteenth, an 6; character of the modern Roman cire
edict of Diocletian on a maximum of cles, 47 ; solemnities celebrated on
prices throughout the Roman Empire, Maunday Thursday, 48, et seq. ; por-
230 ; the sixteenth paper, on some

trait of the late king of Naples, 49, 50;
Egyptian monuments in the British profane spectacle exhibited at the Sestina
museum, 230.

chapel on Good Friday. 50; indifference
Society, the advancement of, in know- of the modern Romans to the solemnities

ledge and truth, by J. Douglas, 165, of their church, ib.; the three large pic-
314.

tures in the Sestina chapel, exhibiting the
Slanza, from Habinglon's Castara, 83, 4, principle circumstances of the massacre of
Stewart's practical view of the Redeem- St. Bartholomew, 51, 2; the baker's
er's advent, 185, 314.

shops, &c. the property chiefly of the
Strutt's, Elizabeth, practical wisdom, dignitaries of the church, 52, 3; in-
368, et seq.

jurious consequences of the celibacy
self-advancement,

of the Romish clergy on society, ih.
368.

Tale, the Widow's, and other poems, by
triumphs of genius

Bernard Barton, 231, et seq.
and perseverance, 368, et seq.; selec- Taylor's, Emily, poetical illustrations
tion of names, 368 ; apology for the of passages of Scripture, 154, et seq. ;
present work, 369 ; life of Heyne, 370, the hundred and third psalm, 159, 60 ;

Jonah, 160, 61 ; trust in God, 162.
Stomach and alimentary organs of the Tears, 159.

human body, Hare's view of the struc- Tenasserim, the ceded province of the
ture, functions, and disorders of, 97, Burmese, importance of it, 181.

Thackrah's letters on digestion and
Subjects, biblical, Belcher's poetical diet, 197, et seq.
sketches of, 377, et seq.

Thirst, Dr. Paris on the sensation of,
Supper, as a meal, Dr, Paris's remarks on 268; M. Majendie's remarks on it
it, 285,

that it admits of no explanation, ib.

et seq.

Thomson's letters on the moral and re

ligious state of South America, 470, el seq. ; his sentiments and feelings on embarking in his enterprise, 471, %; his conversation with a Romanist on the subject of the pope's power to pardon sin, 472, 3; on the stability of the church in regard to her doctrines, 473, 4 ; ingenious jen d'espril in a Spanish paper at

Lima, 476. Tolley's paraphrase of St. Paul's first

epistle to the Coriotbians, 54, et seq. ; origin of religious controrersies, 54 ; remarks on the claim of the church of Rome to be considered as an infallible interpreter of scripture, 54, 5; truth is to be ascertained only by an examination of its evidences, 55 ; design of the present work, 55, 6; its pecue liarily erplained, 56, 7: the author's peculiar apprehensions of the commission, &c. of St. Paul, 57; be states that the full knowledge of the doctrine of salvation by faith was taught to the other apostles by St. Paul, 57; St. Paul considered inferior to the trcelue, ils cause, 58; the author's paraphrase of the second chapter, 59 et seg. ; his paraplırase of the apostolic for. mula respecting the Lord's supper, 61,2 ; his remarks on the term 'broken' as meaning p t lo death, 62, 3; observations

on them, 63. Tombs in the east, remarks on their

uses, 395, 6. Toussaint l'Oaverture, hin elevation to

power at St. Domingo, 565. Transactions of the royal society of lite

rature of the united kingdom, 220,

Lloyd's inquiry into the important

question of, &c. 481, el seg. Whitridge's memoirs and remains of

Joseph Brown Jefferson, 208, el seq. ; bis early pursuits, 208, 9; distribution of his time, 209; observations on bis supposed predilection for the church of Rome, 210,11; his object in desiring to become a minister among independent dissenters, 211, 19; extract from a ler ter by a fellow student to his biographer, 212 ; remarks on the senticients conveyed in it, 213; illness and death of Mr. Jefferson, 214; SORTces of the difficulty of understanding the scriplures, 215, et seq. ; extracts from a sermon on being baplised for the dead, 217, 18; subjects of his nine lectures on Hebrew prophecy, 219; extract from the lecture

on the prophecy of Balaam, 219. Widows, distressed, applying within the first month of their widowhood, the second anoval report of the society for the relief uf, 85, et seq. ; gene. ral design of the society, 86 ; its progress and present state, 86, 7; mude of affording reiirs, 87,8; slatenkat of one of the cases, 88, 9; insufficiency of pa. rochial relief, 89, 90; remarks on the operation of benefit societies, 90,

el seq.

et seq.

Trust in God, a poem, 162, 3.
Turner, Sharon, on the affinities and

diversities in the languages of the world, and on their primeval cause,

224, el seg. Turner's history of the reign of Henry

the Eighth, &c. 237 el seq.

Williams's cottage bible, and family

expositor, vol ii. 337, el seg, ; plan 1 of the work, 337 ; remarks on the word leasing, ib.; on the tendency of the third verse of the eighteenth psalm, 338; Mr. Hutchinson's system; 339 ; expusilion of the sixty-fifth psalm,

ib. et seq. ; notes to it, 340, 1. Wilson's selections from the works of Bishop Hall, 574,

from the works of Bishop Hopkins, 574. Wisdom, practical, or the manual of

life, 368. Wither, George, stanzas by, 81, 2. Works, the whole, by the Right Rev.

Edw. Reynolds, D.D. Lord Bishop of

Norwich, 1, el seq. Worship, places of, list of, in London, 466.

Various readings, on the nature of, 380;

inferences to be drawn from them, 391, Vaud, canton de, M. Gardes' declaration

contre l'intolerance du, 300, el seq. War, Burmese, Snodgrass's narrative of

it, 179, el seg. What it is to preach Christ ? &c.

Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Baber, me

moirs of, 501, et seq. Zobarites, Mayers's, brief account of

them, 477, et seg.

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