their confcience alfo bearing witness*. But it is by Him who came into the world to be the light of the world, that new and complete luftre was poured upon the moral law. That which was origi nally permitted to be lefs diftinct in it, he made clear. That which had been corrupted by traditions and commandments of men, he purified. By explanations, by comparitons, by parables, he illuftrated the bearing and operation of moral rules on the daily proceedings of common life; and by fhewing the application of the precepts to a variety of cafes, pointed out the method of ap plying them to all. Having come upon earth, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works: knowing that in himself dwelt all the ful nefs of the Godhead bodily; that in himself were hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; that, as the final meifenger of his heavenly Father, he was to establish a difpenfation which should endure to the end of time; he did not leave the execution of his purpofe incomplete. He fully inftructed men in every particular of their duty. Preffing upon them the infeparable connection be-, tween faith and obedience, between reverence of God, and right conduct towards man: he taught them to love the Lord their God with all their heart, and their neighbour as themselves; to live foberly, righteously, and godly in this prefent world; to cleanse themfelves from all filthiness of fieb and spirit, and to perfect holiness in the fear of God. Secondly, Chrift is the propitiation for breaches of mo rality. "For the violation of any moral duty the curfe of God is denounced. Curfed be he that fetteth light by his father or mother. Curfed be be that removeth his neighbour's landmark. Curfed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. Curfed be he that perverteth the judgment of the franger, the fatherless, and the widow: Curfed be he that fmiteth his neighbour fecretly. Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things, and confequently in all moral duties, no less than in all other things, which are written in the book of the law to do them. The neglect and the tranfgreffion of the duties of morality have formed, in every age, a large pertion of the mafs of human guilt. When Chrift, therefore, came to redeem us from the curfe of the law, by being himself made a curfe for us; it was in part to deliver us from the penal confequences which we had brought upon ourfelves by difobedience in points of moral duty. It was in part to atone for our breaches of moral duty that he laid afide the form of God, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likeness of man, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crafs. In every *Rom. ii. 14, 15. + Deut. xxvii. 16, &c. Gal. iii. 10. L.1 BRIT, GRIT, VOL. XXXV. May, 1810. Gal. iii. 13. itage ftage of his humiliation, in every pang of his fuffering, our breach of moral duty had its fhare. What a leffon has he thus delivered to us of the importance of moral obedience! What a fanction has he added to the obligation of moral duty! Behold in his humiliation and death for the immoral actions of men, a new teftimony that he is the corner-ftone of morality!" .P. 4. In addition to this, Mr. G. afterwards expatiates upon the following points. First, that "it is conformably to the example of Chrift that obedience to the precepts of morality is in every point to be rendered to God;" 2dly, that "fcriptural obedi ence to moral precepts can only be attained through the grace which Chrift fupplies;" 3dly, that it is only through the Lord Jefus, through the efficacy of his prevailing merits, that our moral conduct can be acceptable in the fight of God;" laftly, that "it is to please him, or in other equivalent words, to please God through him, that our views in the discharge of moral duties are always to be directed." Nothing can be more found and true than thefe pofitions, after inculcating which, the author, in the fecond discourse, very ably explains the evils refulting from falfe principles of morality; among which he properly mentions expediency, which he has more fully combated in another work. The remaining discourses are on the following topics. сс 3. On the Changes produced by the Coming of Chrift, in the Situation of Men as to the divine Law. 4. Juftification not attainable by Acts of Morality. 5. On living after the Flesh, or after the Spirit. 6. The Love of God with the whole Heart an Inducement to strict morality. 7. On Brotherly Love. 8. On the Love of Money. 9. On the Sacrifice of worldly Intereft to Duty. 10. On Chriftian Bounty. 11. On Difcontent. 12. On Worldly Anxiety. 13. On Chriftian Obedience to Civil Rulers. 14, 15. Chriftian Patriotism illuftrated by the Character of Nehemiah. 16. On quiet Diligence in our proper Concerns. 17. On Partiality. 18. On Sufpicion. 19. On doing Evil to produce Good. 20. On the Superiority of Moral Conduct required in Chriftians." P. xi. Every true friend to religion will rejoice at the appearance of fuch a volume from fuch a pen; and we are willing to hope, that it will conduce to diminish the contentions be tween those who either too much or too little insist on mere morality, and bring them all to a feeling of the truth as revealed to us in fcripture. BRITISH ART. II. BRITISH CATALOGUE. POETRY. Poems by Mary Ruffell Milford. Foolfcap 8vo. 160 pp. 7s. Longman and Co. 1810. Elegance of tafte, and livelinefs of fancy diftinguifh thefe effu. fions of a very young poetefs. In the first poem, which is a tale entitled Sybille she has imitated, but with fpirit and success, the ftyle of Mr. Walter Scott; and the ftory appears to be taken from the legends of her own family. The fmaller poems which follow are on pleafing fubjects, and fuch as naturally present themselves to the mind of fo young a writer: but the poem 66 on the uncertain fate of Mungo Park," rifes to a higher ftrain, and exhibits marks of vigour which might do credit to a much more practifed pen. After ftating the benevolent objects of Park's fecond expedition, she says, "For this the wand'rer went. And how he fell But fall howe'er he might, whether he died Of truth, of nature, and of Man the friend!" P. 56. We paufe here, though the poetefs does not, because we think the four concluding lines rather inferior; but the whole is a compofition of great merit. The following regular fonnet alfo deferves to be distinguished. 66 ON BEING REQUESTED TO WRITE ON SCOTTISH SCENERY. "Fair art thou, Scotia! the fwift mountain ftream Gushes with deaf'ing war, and whitening spray Or foar, undazzled, in the folar beam. But dearer far to me, be thou my theme, My native Hampshire ! thy fweet vallies gay Trees, fpires, and cots, that in the brilliant ray Confufedly glitter, like a morning dream. And thou, fair Foreft! lovely are thy fhades That wave refponfive to the nightingale." P. 72. We fhould not certainly have felected the political fubjects of two or three of the poems, but they are all creditable to the writer in point of ftyle, and form together a very pleafing volume. ART. 12. The Plants, a Poem; Gantos the First and Second; with Notes, and occafional Poems. By William Tighe, Efq. 8vo. 160 pp. 8s. Carpenter. 1808. The plan of this poem is fanciful. The author has felected four kinds of plants, each of which he confiders in an emblematical view, and thefe he makes the fubjects of his four books. The rofe he takes as the emblem of love, the Oak of Liberty, the Vine of friendship, and the Palm of religion. The Rofe and the Oak are here published, and the author propofes to proceed with the other two, probably according to the fuccefs of thefe. The evi dent difadvantages of his plan are, that the bafis is not folid; and that a degree of famenefs is produced by confining each book to one plant, which all his ingenuity, and he exhibits no small share of it, is not able to counteract. No inconfiderable quantity of various and elegant reading, and even of good learning, is displayed in the poem and notes, and we fhall fincerely regret if any deficiency in popular attraction fhould prevent the completion of such a com pofition. The following paffage, in celebration of a new fpecies of rofe, a native of the author's own country, may afford a very pleafing fpecimen of the poem. Remote, nor frequent, the libernian plant * And such are blessed; to whom the diftant roar "Rofa Hibernica, a new fpecies, lately difcovered in the north of Ireland by Mr. Templeton, figured and defcribed in the Tranf actions of the Dublin Society. It has pear.fhaped feed-veffels.” ̧ And And conflict of the earth, no more refounds A thornlefs bed, and shelters from the world." P. 14. A few fmaller poems fubjoined are pleafing, but not particu larly diftinguished. ART. 13. The English Mufical Repertory, a choice Selection of efteemed English Songs, adapted for the Vifcer Violin, and German Flate. 12mo. 288 pp. 8s. 6d. Crosby. 1809. No man can fail to find his favourite, among modern English Songs, in this little collection, and if he should not recollect the tune, here it is in mufical notes, neatly printed for him. ART. 14. The Remains of Hefiod the Afcrean, tranflated from the Greek into English Verfe; with a preliminary Differtation and Notes. By Charles Abraham Elton. 12mo. 390 pp. 125. Longman. 1809. It is not from want of respect, but want of room that we clafs this book among our minor articles; it deferves every kind of recommendation. We had not before any complete tranflation of the Remains of Hefiod, the Shield of Hercules not having been rendered even by Cooke, nor any very good tranflation of the other parts. The prefent verfion of the whole is written with vigour, fpirit and correctnefs; the preliminary differtation is learned, and in general fatisfactory. For the adoption of Mr. Bryant's fyftem reafons are given, which at least are fenfible and manly. The Theogony is rendered in blank verfe, as is also the Shield of Hercules; the Weeks and Days are given in couplet verfe for which difference fufficient reafons are affigned. The following fpecimen, from the battle with the Titans, will abundantly prove the vigour and fkill of the tranflator's blank verfe. "Nor longer then did Jove L1 3 With |