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GENERAL INDEX.

VOL. XV. THIRD SERIES.

ABYSSINIA, journal of a residence in, see
Gobat.

Africa, South, see Gardiner and Steed-

man.

Antiquities of Athens, measured and de-
lineated by J. Stuart, and N. Revett,
430; contents, 430, 31.
Architectural antiquities of Rome, mea-

sured, &c., by A. Desgodetz, 176; par-
ticulars of the author, ib.; contents,
176, 7.

Argument drawn from scripture, to prove
the ministry of the gospel ought to be
entirely gratuitous, 286; it, however,
rather aims to shew that there is no
occasion whatever for pastors or minis-
ters, 299; the present writer substitutes
calumny for reasoning, ib.

Ball's holy scripture the test of truth, 181;
the Quakers and the Wesleyan Method-
ists in a similar position, ib.; in both
the authority of the founder is still para-
mount, 182; in every private society,
reason requires that the recognized rules
should be submitted to, ib.; origin of the
differences among the Friends, 185; re-
marks upon the attempt to substitute hu-
man authority for the scriptures, as the
test of truth, 186-89; our author's opi-
nion of Barclay and Penn, 189, 90; re-
ligious error always sets out with dis-
paraging the inspired rule of faith, 192;
extract, 193; the future character of
Quakerism hangs upon the issue of the
present crisis, 194; William Penn grew
wiser as he grew older; why should not
his followers? 197.

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Beattie's Scotland, 177; a cheap and beau-
tiful work, ib.

Biblical Keepsake, 237; contents, ib.

Canada, backwoods of; being letters from

the wife of an emigrant officer, 158;
this book invaluable to the wives and
daughters of emigrants, of the higher
class, ib.; specimens of the good sense of
the writer, 159; further extract, 159,
60; visit to an Indian winter encamp-
ment, 161-63; ' sleigh bells', 164; con-
cluding extract, 164, 5.

China. See Matheson.
Church of England, the, evils in, 167; rea-
sons for leaving, 197. See Hargrove
and Lee.

Church of Rome, guide from the, 513.
See O'Croly.

Copley's history of slavery, and its aboli-
tion, 325; contents of the work, ib.;
extracts, 326, 27. And see Statements
and observations, &c.
Copley's scripture biography, 470; spe-
cimen, 471, 2.

Cowper. See works of William Cowper.
Cox's, rev. dr., and the rev. dr. Hoby's,
Baptists in America, 480; America a
never failing object of curiosity in this
country, ib.; she has much to acquire,
and something she should rid herself of
for ever, 481; slavery in the United
States, 482; extract, 482-85; can
emancipation be expected from the Ame-
rican philanthropists? 485; the obstacles
to be encountered by the few willing to
obey the dictates of humanity and re-
ligion, 486; slavery as upheld and main-
tained by American christians, 487, 88;
there exists a great indifference to eman-
cipation, 489, 90; the authors vindicate
their conduct in not publicly protesting
against slavery, 491; treatment of the
coloured population, ib.; revivals in Ame-

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rica, 493, 4; female establishments, for
the purposes of education, 494-6; por-
traiture of a christian merchant', 497,
98; dr. Channing, and mr. Robert Hall,
498.
Crewdson's beacon to the society of
Friends, 181; an admirable work, 199.
And see Ball's holy scriptures the test of
truth.

Dale's poetical works, 212; contents, ib.;

the widow of Nain,' 213; extract,
213-15; tale of the flood,' 216-18;
'the anniversary,' 218, 19.
Dissent, anti-monarchical and democra-
tical in its tendency, 177; appropriately
commences with a passage from the in-
fidel Bolingbroke, 178.

Dissent exploded by Parrhesiastes, 177;

a paltry affair, 178.

Dissent unscriptural and unjustifiable. See
Lee.

Drew's chronological charts, 5F; in chro-
nological and geographical accompani-
ments to history, three desiderata pre-
sent themselves, 52; periods embraced
in these charts, 53, 4; the whole value
of such a work depends upon its accu-
racy, 55; extract, 56.

Edmonds's life and times of general Wash-

ington, 227; executed with ability and
judgement, 228; general Braddock's re-
pulse near Fort du Quesne, ib.; Wash-
ington's reflections on the affair, 229;
speech of Charles Townsend on the pass-
ing of the stamp act, 230, 31; reflections
on the American war, 232-35; sum-
mary of Washington's character, 235, 6.
Elucidations of interesting passages in the
sacred volume, 87; ancient mode of
redeeming, 88; high raised seats places
of honour,' ib.

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English scriptures, the, their first recep-
tion, &c., 433. See new testament of
our Lord and Saviour.

Establishment, reform of the church. See
Fundamental.

First book of geometry, 300; a nice little
manual, 303.

Fisher's juvenile scrap-book, 90; 'to my
godson,' 90-2; on Gainsborough's pea-
sant children,' 92, 3; to little red riding-
hood,' 94.

Forster's life of John Jebb, D.D., &c.,
454; Jebb's father, ib.; his career at
college, 455; is ordained a deacon, 456;
anecdotes, 456,7; reflections, 458; mr.
Jebb is presented to the rectory of
Abington, 459; anecdote, 460; Jebb's

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deportment towards his parishioners,
461 remarks upon the sources of the
national attachment to the popish faith,
462; his "sacred literature," ib.; an in-
surrection breaks out in Abington, 463;
the people pledge themselves to oppose
any attempt upon Abington glebe, 464;
Jebb is appointed to the see of Limerick,
465; the interchange of kindly feelings
between dr. Jebb and the Roman Ca-
tholic clergy, 466; he is summoned to
parliament as a representative Irish
bishop, 467; is attacked with paralysis,
468; his death, in 1833, 469; further
extracts, 469, 70.

Francœur's lineal drawing and introduc-

tion to geometry, 300; contents, 301;
extracts, 301, 2; the present translation
betrays negligence, 302.

Fundamental reform of the church estab-

lishment, 165; the bishop's power is both
too great and too small, 166, 7; three
great evils in the church, 167; extract,
167-70; simplicity of purpose and un-
compromising fidelity displayed in this
pamphlet, 170; extracts, 170-74; pre.
sent pamphlet a sign of the times, 174;
further extract, 175.

Gardiner's narrative of a journey to the
Zoolu country, 504; replete with novel
and curious information, ib.; extract,
505; language of the Zoolus, 506;
their objects of worship, 507; chief ob-
ject our author has had in view, 508;
interesting account of his attempt to
reach Cape Colony from Port Natal,
509, 10; 'waggon travelling in South
Africa,' 511, 12.

Girl's week-day book, 428; specimen of
the work, 428, 9.

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Gobat's journal of a three years' residence
in Abyssinia, 123; christianity has main-
tained its ground in this 'back country
of Egypt' through the lapse of twelve
centuries, 125; particulars of the Abys-
sinian branch of the Coptic church, 126;
mr. Gobat's interview with an Abyssi-
nian monk, 127, 8; specimen of Abys-
sinian justice, 129; sojourn at Gondar,
130, 31; the first lady in Abyssinia,'
132; our author's reflections on taking
leave of the Amharic capital, 183, 34;
his account of the Abyssinians is upon
the whole rather encouraging, 134, 5.
Groves's liberty of the ministry in the
church of Christ, 286; the labourer
worthy of his hire, ib.; if a pastor is
worth having, he is worth paying, 287;
whence comes the authority to minister in
the church of Christ? 288-90; the na-

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ture of ordination is the point upon which
all the disputes respecting church go-
vernment may be said to hinge, 290;
Hooker proves the lawfulness of lay-
preaching, 291; ordination, in the
church of Scotland, 292; our author
does not deny the propriety of ordination
in reference to office, 293; and recog-
nizes the distinction between that and
ordination to character, 294; no human
authority is needed to confer the abstract
right to teach or to administer the sacra-
ments, 295; and no bishop or pastor re-
quired for the purpose of consecrating
the elements, 296; our author speaks the
sentiments of the primitive nonconform-
ists, 298.

Guide from the church of Rome to the
church of Christ, 513; a temperate and
faithful exposure of Irish Romanism, ib.;
the convert to protestantism in Ireland
has small favour shown him by protest-
ants, 514; and by others is regarded as a
traitor to his country, 514, 15; image
worship, 516, 17; the alleged variety of
sects among protestants, 517-20.
Gurwood's despatches of field marshal the
duke of Wellington, 305; extracts,
306, 7.

Gurwood's general orders of field marshal

the duke of Wellington, 304; contains
a practical comment on military business
in all its departments, 308.

Hall's congregational reform, according to
the liturgy of the church of England,
97; extracts, 121, 2.
Hampden's inaugural lecture, read before

the university of Oxford, 308; what
originated the cry of heresy against our
author? ib.; Dr. H. shamefully used,
ib.; what are creeds but human inter-
pretations of revealed truths? 310; an
unqualified approval of all our author's
opinions, cannot be given, 312; he ad-
mits that the misconstruction put upon
his writings may not, entirely, be im-
putable to his critics, 314-16; his de-
claration of unwavering adherence to the
cardinal doctrines of the confession, 320,
21; and his proposed course and plan of
religious study, 322-25. And see State-
ments of christian doctrine.
Hancock's defence of the doctrines of im-
mediate revelation and universal and
saving light, 181; author cleaves to the
obsolete mysticism of Barclay, 197; but
advances some admirable sentiments, 198.
See Ball's holy scripture the test of truth.
Hanna's notes of a visit to some parts of
Haïti, 409; extracts, 409, 10.

Henningsen's most striking events of a
twelvemonth's campaign with Zumala-
carregui, 472.; the author writes in the
spirit of a partisan, 472; particulars of
Zumalacarregui, 473, 4; our author's
first interview with kim, 475; anecdotes,
476, 7.

Hargrove's reasons for retiring from the
established church, 411; 'Ireland given
in prey to the refuse of the English
church,' 411; the Quarterly Review on
the subject of the Irish clergy, 412-14;
a great improvement manifest in their
conduct, but not from the spirit of the
establishment, 414; the Christian Ex-
aminer on the home mission, 415-18;
the chief reason of our author's sepa-
rating from the established church, 419;
subject pursued, 419-22; the worldliness
of the establishment, 422, 23; it will not
recognize the ministry of the Spirit
without episcopal ordination, 423; God
never left his people under the power of
moral evil, for whom he did not make a
way of escape, 424-26; further extracis,
427, 28.

Hayti, visit to, see Hanna.

Hind's sonnets, and other short poems,
212; sorrow with hope,' 221; 'the
efficacy of faith,' 222.

Holland's cruciana, 237; contents, 238;
the festival of Holy Rood, 238-40; son-
nets, 240, 41.
Houlditch's hymns, adapted to the com-
prehension of young minds, 261; spe-
cimens, ib.

Howe, John, works of the rev., 353; and
see Rogers's life of John Howe.

Introductory remarks to a narrative of the
irruption of the Kafir hordes into the
eastern province of the Cape of Good
Hope, 77; an attempt to mislead the
public, 84. See Steedman's wander-
ings.

Irish poor. See Selection of parochial ex-
aminations, &c.

Jebb, bishop. See Forster's life of.
Juvenile forget-me-not, 90.

Kempthorne's church-regulating principle.-
a national safeguard, &c., 97; see Lee's
dissent unscriptural and unjustifiable.
Knowles's critical and facsimile pronounc-
ing and explanatory dictionary, 303;
makes no attempt at etymological de
duction, ib.

Koordistan, see Rich's narrative.

Lee's dissent unscriptural and unjustifiable,
demonstrated in a second and third letter
to dr. J. P. Smith, 97; language and
conduct of the established clergy towards
dissenters as haughty and intolerant as
formerly, ib.; portrait of a 'high-church-
man,' 98; 'what is high-churchism?' ib.;
'how stands the case with dissenters?'99;
author does not allow that the episco-
palians of Scotland are dissenters, ib.;
but the Scottish establishment makes
them dissenters, 101; no dissenters in
the United States, ib.; contents of the
present Letter, 103; the author labours
to prove that popery and independence
stand on the same ground, ib.; extracts,
104-7; specimens of the popery of
protestantism, 107; opinion of Stilling-
fleet before he had bartered his liberal
opinions for a mitre, 109; in things for
which man is accountable only to God,
the law of man ought to allow unlimited
liberty, 110; dr. Lee treats dissenters
as, at least in a moral respect, criminals,
111; dissenters are not in the practice
of proscribing any persons or any forms,
112; is there any text specifically pro-
hibiting a political establishment of Chris-
tianity? 114; the fundamental objections
against it enumerated, 115; our author's
present letter a reply to dr. Smith, but
no answer, 117; some considerations for
those who maintain dissent to be un-
seriptural and unjustifiable, 118, 19;
whence did the excited state of the dis-
senters, for the last two years, originate?
119.

Letter by Thomas Thompson to the author

of a work entitled "a beacon to the so-
ciety of friends," 181. See Ball's holy
seripture, &c.

Letters to the English public on the con-
dition, &c., of the national universities,
256; the caput, or governing body, the
greatest barrier against all reformation
in the university, ib.; present condition
of several of the professorships, 257, 8.
Literary intelligence, 95, 179, 262, 351,
431, 520.

Loudon's architectural magazine and jour-
nal, 261.

Masonry, Free, see Stone.

Matheson's present position and prospects

of the British trade with China, 346;
commerce and christianity mutually in-
debted to each other, ib.; extracts, 347-
50; author's object is to invoke a firm
and dignified interposition of the British
government, to protect British traders,
350.

Miller's day in the woods, 499; difficulties
under which the volume was written, ib.;
'the old fountain,' 500, 1; to the sky-
lark,' 501, 2; 'the dying widow,' 502-4.
Miller's gardener's dictionary, 261.
Ministerial congratulations and counsels;
being an address to the churches of
Christ, &c., 244; interesting circum-
stances which originated this publication,
ib.; extract, 244, 5; domestic religion,
245.

Morison's church; a manual, &c., 430;
cannot fail to be very useful to young
disciples, ib.

Moxon's sonnets, 260; extracts, ib.

New Testament of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, published in 1526, being
the first translation from the Greek, by
William Tyndale, with a memoir of
his life, &c., by G. Offor, 433; the re-
print of Tyndale's New Testament re-
served for a London publisher to under-
take, ib.; a life of Tyndale still remains
to be written, 434; Tyndale's birth, and
youthful days, 435; extract, 436, 7; is
domestic chaplain to sir J. Welsh, 437;
his zeal and boldness give offence, ib.;
lives in London, 438; completes his
translation of the Bible at Wittemberg,
439; extraordinary efforts made to sup-
press it, 441; all the copies on hand
bought up, 442; fines imposed on any
having copies in their possession, 443;
Tyndale's wanderings for safety, 444;
the thunders of the Vatican are launched
against him, 445; Henry VIII. places
Tyndale's New Testament among the
list of prohibited books, 445; the im-
potent efforts of that king to exclude the
light of the reformation, 446; Tyndale's
two letters to sir S. Vaughan, 447, 8;
toils laid to entrap Tyndale, 448, 9; is
condemned as a heretic, 450.

New Zealand, see Yates's account of.
Nightingale's oceanic sketches, 242; won-
ders performed in the way of moral re-
formation, by the despised missionaries,
242, 3.

O'Croly's inquiry into the principal points
of difference, real or imaginary, between
the two churches, with a view to religious
harmony or forbearance, 1; the Romish
church holds many of the orthodox doc-
trines which the church of England
holds, ib.; yet the present author has
been condemned for making the state-
ment, 2; the practicability of a union
between the two churches, 3; who would
surmise, from the language of the tory

press, that they could have anything in
common? 4; the tory aristocracy of the
reign of queen Anne very like our Eton
and Harrow gentry, ib.; no popery, in
the mouth of a churchman, means, no
dissent, 6; some danger to be appre-
hended from the engaging and fasci-
nating form that English catholicism as-
sumes, 7; the popery of protestantism,'
8; the church of England would prefer,
of the two, the romish religion, to fra-
ternizing with 'the sectaries,' 9; popery
represented as only the corruption of the
roman catholic religion, 9, 10; proceed-
ings against our author, 11; is a better
protestant than many an Oxford-bred
divine, 12; analysis of the contents of
the present work, ib.; infallibility a
mere chimera,' 13; unity of faith no
characteristic of the roman catholic
church, 14; on the subject of the mass,
our author expresses himself as a pro-
testant, 15; the doctrine of transubstan-
tiation, 16, 17; a full-length portrait of
Irish paganism, 18-20; the bishops and
rulers of the romish church are responsible
for the superstitions and frauds they con-
nive at and uphold, 21; has not vin-
dictive feeling given colouring to some
of our author's statements? 22; auricular
confession, 23; the romish church main-
tains the duty of exterminating heretics,
25; it is neither by conciliating nor by
aping popery that protestantism has ever
extended its triumphs, 28; strip roman.
ism of its power to persecute, and in its
most inoffensive form, it must still be
regarded as an awful corruption of chris-
tianity, 29.

Peale's graphics, a manual of drawing,
300; a clever book, 303.
Periodical accounts of the Serampore mis-
sion, 246; state of the mission in April,
1834, 247; Benares, 249; Allahabad,
250; Delhi, 251; Hurdwar, 252, 3;
further extracts, 254, 5; what are we
doing for the religious welfare of the
hundred millions of India? 256.
Popery, see O'Croly.

Quaker controversy. See Ball's Holy
Scripture, &c.

Ragg's martyr of Verulam, and other

poems, 212; extract, 220, 21.
Random recollections of the house of com-
mons, 66; extreme minuteness of our
author's observations, ib.; mr. Hume,
67-69; sir Robert Peel, 69-71; lord
John Russell, 72, 3; mr. O'Connell,

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Random recollections of the house of lords,
390; respect of the country for ancient
institutions has been greatly undermined,
391; what has contributed to diminish
the public respect for the proceedings of
the hereditary legislature? 892; 'som-
nolent peers,' 393, 4; the leading and com-
manding few of the peers are the new ones,
395; analysis of the house, 395, 6; the
moral and political strength of the peers
lies in the house of commons, 396; not
one liberal or popular measure originates
in the house of peers, 397; portrait of
lord Lyndhurst, 398-402; of lord
Brougham, 402-7; inaccuracies of our
author, 407; lord Holland, 408; the pre-
sent volume displays no ordinary talent,
409.

Rich's narrative of a residence in Koordis-
tan, and on the site of ancient Nineveh,
373; a very entertaining narrative, ib.;
brief sketch of the life of mr. Rich, 374;
is recommended by rev. Robert Hall to
sir James Macintosh, 374, 5; whose
son-in-law he becomes, 376; dies of
cholera, 377; contents of the present
volumes, ib.; extract, 379, 80; Suli-
mania and the Koords, 381; attachment
of the Koords to their chiefs, 383; the
principal Koordish clans, 383-5; the
town of Sinna, 385, 6; character of 'the
real Koords,' 387; the pasha of Suli-
mania, 388; speculations concerning the
Afghans, 389, 90.

Rogers's life and character of John Howe,

M.A., 353; Howe's injunction to his
Oson, ib.; present work contains many
hitherto unpublished letters, 354; Howe's
character eloquently portrayed, 354, 5;
his youth, 356; gives early proof of his
superiority to the petty prejudices of the
age, 357; marries, 358; is patronised
by Cromwell, 358-60; Howe's distaste
for the situation he is promoted to, 361;
is reduced to beggary, 362; the Act of
Uniformity, 362-65; Howe becomes
domestic chaplain to viscount Massarene,
365; is invited to London, 366; enters
into controversy with dean Stillingfleet,
367; his anonymous letter to lady
Russell, 368; and to the bishop of
Lincoln, 368; extract, 369; he fixes
his residence at Utrecht, ib.; delivers
an address of congratulation to king
William and queen Mary, 370; his last
illness, and death, 371; particulars of
his family, ib.; strictures on the style of
his writings, 372, 3.

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