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    be called for , the author is bound carefully to revise his translation , in doing which he will find a good many errors , though less important than those which we have pointed out . The attention of the German scholars

    has lately been turned in an unusual degree to the subject of the institutions of Athens . No man of his time was more profoundly versed in one branch of this subject than our countryman Taylor ; but as his edition of Demosthenes and iEschines remained unfinished , much of his learning was lost to the world . Wolf by his edition of the Oration against Leptines , revived the interest of scholars in this subject , and threw

    a strong light upon many parts of it ; but he wanted the industry of Boeckh , who may be regarded as the founder of a new school . Several of his pupils ( as Schomann , C . O . Mtiller , and others ) have already distinguished themselves by their writings , and we augur that from what he has done or encouraged others to do in this department , he will acquire a much more durable fame than from all his researches into the metres of Pindar .

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    Art . IX . — The Nature and Extent of the Christian Dispensation , with reference to the Salvability of the Heathen : in a Reply to an Article in the Siseth Number of the British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review . By Edward William Grinfield , A . M . London . Pp . 60 .

    Three Questions proposed and answered concerning- the Life forfeited by Adam , the Resurrection of the Dead , and Eternal Punishment . By the Rev . Dr . Thorn . Longman . Pp . 110 . This is the age of discovery . It was not to be expected that religion , of more consequence to the human race than any other branch of knowledge , should be excepted from the general rule . And

    we have here an example from both the Established Qhurches of this island , of the tendency of educated and active minds to throw off the trammels of established authority , and to search for truth fearlessly , and in the use of the proper means . We are happy that in both these pamphlets the appeal is made to Scripture rather than to any Articles , professedly drawn up from them by mere human authority . What , after diligent and faithful investigation , may be es-

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    teemed to be the truth inculcated by the sacred writers ? That is the question . The first of these pamphlet * is the production evidently of a man of enlarged and cultivated mind , who had maintained the rational and heart-cheering doctrine of universal redemption , in a manner which has not approved itself to the author of a late article of the British

    Critic and Quarterly Theological Review , though he professes a general concurrence in the result . Against his animadversions our author , in good earnest , prepares for his defence : and if he be not equally successful in every argument from Scripture urged on behalf of his doctrine , ( uor is it uucommon to outdo the citation of proofs from the Bible , ) we have no doubt that the doctrine which he

    advocates concerning " the nature and extent of the Christian dispensation , " so far as it goes , is borne out by the express declarations of the Bible , interpreted not by a contracted , but by a cultivated understanding , aud not " in the gall of bitterness , " but in the expansive spirit of Christian benevolence . One single

    authority from the discourses of an inspired apostle might remove every doubt , and settle the controversy on this subject . ' In every nation , " says St . Peter , " he that feareth God , and worketh righteousness , is accepted by him . " Strange that the church which that Apostle in particular is thought to have founded , should have departed so widely from his truly Catholic spirit ! It is an awkward acknowledgment of

    the Reviewer , that " the patron of universal , redemption within the church is compelled , as it were , to look stern aud awful with one moiety of his visage , whilst he affects a mild and amiable aspect with the other . " On which Mr . Grinfield exclaims , " Commend me to $ uch an apologist for the Church of England \ " Our reflection is a devout congratulation towards our readers , that this description is utterly foreign from

    the Church of Christ . " We know that this is the Christ , the Saviour of the world . From this declaration , " observes our author , " I had inferred that if the faith of the Samaritans was accepted according to the circumstances in which they were placed , every merciful allowance would be made for the involuutary errors of heathen ignorance and barbarism . "—P . 34 . The inference is inevitable , and the doctrine in perfect consonance with the religion of the New Testament . ' The Reviewer considers u an appeal

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    434 Critical Notices .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/52/