ART. IV-A Sermon preached at the Opening of the Unitarian Meeting House, Harleston, Norfolk, on Sun day the 7th of April, 1822. By Charles Valentine, Minister of the Unitarian Church, Diss. 8vo., pp. 40. Harleston, printed and sold by R. Cann; sold also by R. Hunter, London. 18.

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E hail these provincial publications as instructive "signs of the times." Unitarianism, which two centuries ago was considered in England as the doctrine of certain foreigners, and which until within this half-century was scarcely known by name out of our larger towns, is now become the faith of a considerable proportion of the people in all ranks, and structures are rising up in all parts of the kingdom for the accommodation of its professors in their social worship. The fact is abundantly verified by our own pages; yet Bishops and Dissenting Ministers, with a marvellous but comfortable ignorance on this subject, are accustomed to cheer their flocks with the assurance that "the Unitarian heresy" is every where on the decline!

We are not informed of the circumstances which led to the establishment of Unitarianism at Harleston; but presume that the event was brought about by the exertions of Mr. Valen

tine. His sermon is creditable to his talents and his spirit. One short passage comprises the substance of it, and the substance of the doctrines, feelings and expectations of Unitarian Chris tians :

"The Bible is our religion, our reason and conscience is our guide, and God is our Judge. These are at once our professions and our principles-here we rest the issue of every controversy-here we justify our conduct and ground our hopes of the Divine favour."-P. 12.

ART. V.-Thomas Johnson's Reasons for Dissenting from the Church of England. 7th ed. 18mo. 2d.

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ART. VI.-Thomas Johnson's Further Reasons for Dissenting from the Church of England: In Two Dialogues, &c. 18mo. 4d. Holdsworth. 1822.

HE former of these Tracts is

somewhat to the point: the latter confounds "Dissent" with Calvinism, on the ground, we suppose, of there being, according to the author, " very few that do not worship Christ." The real principle of Nonconformity is not sufficiently prominent in either of them, and the writer is encumbered with a Dialogue for the sake of which some things are said that otherwise would not have been: e. g.

"John. But your bishops are not appointed by the King.

"Thomas. Appointed by the King they are not; nor were the New Testa ment bishops appointed by the King. But if it will give you any satisfaction, John, our ministers are as lawfully ministers as yours. Yours are licensed by the bishop;

ours

are licensed by the magistrate. rive their authority from the King. So Both the bishop and the magistrate dethat the chief difference, after all, comes to this, that the clergy are paid by the state, our ministers by the people.

"John. Now, Mr. Johnson, now; you have such a way of putting things."P. 33.

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Tours, an ancient Nonconformist, on reading Mr. W. Clayton's Letter, was, "Well! This will do good." Phlegmatic as he appeared, there was sagacity in his remark. The ebullition of priestcraft and bigotry to which it referred, has been serviceable in drawing the attention of the Dissenters in Saffron Walden and the neighbourhood, to the principles of religious liberty. Of this, the pamphlet before us is a proof, the author of which seems to be imbued with the genuine sentiments of freedom, which he has asserted seasonably and with no little spirit.

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There is a land, a lovely land,

Where everlasting Summer reigns, Where all that's beautiful and grand Breathes from her mountains and her plaius;

Where placid seas in brightness sleep,
Around her gardens of the deep;
Her Eden Isles-for ever fair,

As when th' Immortals linger'd there;
Where columns, lonely, dim and dread,
Speak loudly of the mighty dead,
Whose fame, an everlasting gleam
Sheds over mountain, gulf and stream.

That land is Greece

Of Sage and Hero but the grave,
And birth-place only to the Slave;
Upon her sons, degenerate grown,
The mighty mountains seem to frown;
Her waters, as they wander on,
For parted glory make their moan;
Each ruin's sombre stern remains,
Mocks at the wretch who brooks his
chains;

Seems to rebuke the suffering slave :-
Yet now, fair FREEDOM's flag once more
Waves on her long-forsaken shore;
The patriot flame at last has burst
On Turkish Tyranny accurst;
But not a helping hand is nigh,
To strike for struggling Liberty !-

O England! in the cause of Kings,
Thy blood hath flowed from countless
springs;

And dost thou shun to lead the van,
In cause of Freedom and of Man?
And calmly see the Moslem Horde
Doom babe and mother to the sword?

(From the London Magazine.)

Were I a trembling leaf

On yonder stately tree,

After a season gay and brief, Condemn'd to fade and flee;

I should be loth to fall

Beside the common way,

Weltering in mire, and spurn'd by all, Till trodden down to clay.

I would not choose to die

All on a bed of grass, Where thousands of my kindred lie, And idly rot in mass.

Nor would I like to spread

My thin and wither'd face, In hortus siccus, pale and dead, A mummy of my race.

No, on the wings of air

Might I be left to fly,

I know not, and I heed not where,
A waif of earth and sky!

Or, cast upon the stream,

Curl'd like a fairy-boat,

As through the changes of a dream,
To the world's end I'd float.

Who that hath ever been,

Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

On, with intense desire,

Man's spirit will move on; It seems to die; yet like heaven's fire It is not quench'd, but gone.]