Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the Scriptures. MACKNIGHT. A Literal Translation of the Apostolical Epistles, 4 vols. 8vo. 21. 2s, 6 vols. 8vo. 31. 3s. with the original Greek, and old translation, STANHOPE. A commentary on the Epistles, 4 vols. 8vo. 21.2s. NARES. The Veracity of the Evangelists demonstrated by a comparative view of their histories, 8vo. 8s. JENNINGS. Jewish Antiquities; to which is annexed a dissertation on the Hebrew language, by Dr. Jennings, 1 vol. 8vo. BROWN. The Antiquities of the Jews, carefully compiled from authentic sources, 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s This is the most elaborate system of Jewish Antiquities extant in the English language. PRIDEAUX. The Connection of the Old and New Testament, by Dean Prideaux, 4 vols. 8vo. 1l 12s. Dr. Prideaux's Connections were bandied about, from hand to hand, among at least five or six of the most eminent booksellers, during the space of at least two years, to no purpose, none of them undertaking to print the work. It therefore lay in obscurity, until Archdeacon Echard, the author's friend, strongly recommended it to Tonson, It was purchased, and the publication was very successful. D'Israeli. LEWIS. A History of the principal translations of the Bible into For erudite philological criticism, consult Kennicott on the State of the Hebrew Text, Owen's Critica Sacra, and Modes of Quotation used by the Evangelical Writers. HUNTER. Sacred Biography, by Henry Hunter, 5 vols. 8vo. 21 2s. An excellent book. TRIMMER. Sacred History selected from the Scriptures, with annotations and reflections, by Mrs. Trimmer, 6 vols. 12mo. 17. 10s. Conversations on the Bible, by a Lady, 12mo. 7s. may be mentioned as a very suitable little work to put into the hands of youth. HALES. The Analysis of Chronology, by Hales, is the most elaborate system of Chronology extant in our language, 3 vols. 4to. 1809. C Works of Commentators and Writers on the Criticism of the Scriptures, WELLS. Geography of the Old and New Testament, 2 vols. 8vo. 14s. HARRIS. The Natural History of the Bible, with plates, by Dr. J. M. Harris, 12mo. 8s. A most instructive and pleasing little book. Scripture Atlas, 4to. 17. 5s. WYLD. A Scripture Atlas, by James Wyld, 4to. colored, 11. 16s. imperial 8vo. half bound, 11. 5s. SHUCKFORD. The Connection of Sacred and Profane History, by Shuckford, enlarged by Creighton, 4 vols. 8vo. 11. 12s. This work is introductory to that of Prideaux. DUTIES OF THE CLERGY. Dr. Johnson, in an excellent letter to a young clergyman, makes the following observations. Take care to register somewhere the authors from whom your several discourses are borrowed; and do not imagine that you shall always remember, even what, perhaps, you now think it impossible to forget. My advice, however, is that you attempt from time to time an original sermon; and in the labour of composition, do not burden your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself, at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Invent first, and then embellish. The production of something where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Set down diligently your thoughts, as they rise, in the first words that occur; and when you have matter, you will easily give it form. Nor, perhaps, will this method be always necessary; for by habit, your thoughts and diction will flow together. The composition of sermons is not very difficult; the divisions not only help the memory of the hearer, but direct the judgment of the writer; they supply sources of invention, and keep every part in its proper place. The advice of Dean Stanhope to a young Clergyman. The first care of a divine should be to make himself well skilled in the Bible; which is not to be done without the help of good commentators. But in regard to what Solomon says of books in general, is as true of Duties of the Clergy. this as of any other sort, that of many of them there is no end, and that much study of them is a weariness to the flesh, I will point you out a few in which you will find the substance of a great many. There are Bishop Patrick's Commentaries, which will lead you a great way, even from Genesis to Isaiah; Day upon that Prophet; Pocock on those of the minor Prophets which he has undertaken; Hammond and Whitby on the New Testament; and the incomparable Saint Chrysostom, both for his explications and moral improvements of the Scriptures. With these, and the help of Pole's Synopsis of the great Critics, for those parts of scripture not before named. It might be well to go through a whole course of the Bible with great attention and care, wherein it may be fit to take along with you Archbishop Usher's Annals; Prideaux's Connection of the Old and New Testaments; the works of Lightfoot and Mr. Mede. But in regard the Bible is to be a constant study, and it would be too troublesome upon every reading of it to turn to so many expositors, I advise, by all means, that you would get the Old and New Testaments in quarto, doubly interleaved with blank paper, a page for each column. Thus, as you go along, you may enter such remarks as you think useful, and such references to authors as may occasionally be consulted; which, when done, will save you the trouble of reading more than your own notes, as often as you shall go over the Bible afterwards. This I have found of great use to myself, and herein can speak of my own experience. As to other books which may fit you for the discharge of your duty,Mr. Hooker, Bishop Sanderson, Bishop Pearson, Stillingfleet, Dr. Jackson, and Archbishop Tillotson, cannot be read too often. Happy is the man that can form his style upon the last of these ; and in plain, practical preaching, upon the rational, instructive, and familiar way of the Whole Duty of Man. I had rather you should be told by any other person that the time may not be quite lost which is employed in casting an eye now and then upon my Boyle's Lectures, printed in 1700. I am sure, at least, that will be well spent which you bestow on Scott's Christian Life, Lucas's Inquiry after Happiness, and Sherlock's Treatises of Death, Judgment, and Providence. There is a French Testament, in four volumes, 8vo. the very book of Quesnel, which hath made such a bustle of late, by giving rise to the famous Bull Unigenitus, which, if you are not master of the French, may be had translated into English. This abounds with many excellent reflections, both devotional and moral. Your country, I know, swarms with Papists and Dissenters. For maintaining your ground against the former, I know not a shorter or more effectual way than to make yourself master of the tracts written against them in the reign of James the Second; and for the latter, beside Duties of the Clergy. Hooker and Sanderson, the London cases against the Dissenters, and Bishop Stilling fleet's Unreasonableness of separation, as to the discipline part; and as to the doctrinal, besides Dr. Jackson, Bishop Bull, of Justification, Clagett upon the Operations of the Holy Spirit, and the collection of tracts concerning Predestination and Providence, printed at Cambridge, 1719, are excellently good. I mention only these several authors above, as fit to be studied, without enlarging upon Ecclesiastical History, the Fathers or Casuistical Divinity, which will naturally hereafter fall into your way, because, at present, I design to recommend what may soon lay a sure foundation for a true Church of England Divine. George Stanhope. Theological learning is the Profession of the Clergy; and it may justly be said to every ignorant Minister of the Gospel,-Thou which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Bishop of Llandaff. BURNET, The Pastoral Care, by Bishop Burnet, 12mo. On the Thirty-nine Articles, 8vo. 9s. The Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles, 8vo. 8s 6d. SECKER. Eight Charges, by Archbishop Secker, 8vo. 6s. WELCHMAN Articles of the Church of England, with notes by various authors, by Archdeacon Welchman, 8vo. 6s. 6d. CLAUDE. An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, by Archbishop Claude, with notes, 2 vols. 8vo. 16s. SHEPHARD. An Elucidation of the Book of Common Prayer, by W. Shephard, 2 vols. 8vo. 16s. WHEATLEY. An Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, by J. Wheatley, 8vo. 10s. PEARSON. An Exposition of the Creed, by Bishop Pearson, 2 vols. 8vo. 15s. DAUBENY. A Guide to the Church, 2 vols. 8vo. 17s. HODGSON. Instructions for the use of Candidates for Holy Orders, and of the Parochial Clergy, by Thomas Hodgson, 8vo. 9s. Clergyman's Assistant; being a collection of statutes, ordinances, and forms, relating to the rights, duties, and liabilities of the Clergy; to which are prefixed the constitutions and canons of the Church of England, 12s. Clergyman's Instructor; a collection of valuable tracts on the ministerial duties, 10s 6d. MANT. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, interspersed with prayers, by Bishop Mant, 12mo. 5s. Duties of the Clergy. Statutes relating to the Residence of the Clergy, 8vo. 2s. Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, a new edition, with various readings, 1822, 8vo. 8s. Manual for the Parish Priest, 12mo. 5s. The following books on the English Liturgy may be consulted with advantage.-Lectures on the Liturgy, 1608; Four Sermons on the Excellency of the Liturgy, 1813; Review of the Liturgy and Thirty nine Articles of the Church of England, 1808; the History of Liturgies, Prayers, Ceremonies, &c.; the First Liturgy of the Church of England; Arguments and Proofs of the Excellence of the Liturgy of the Church of England, as by law established. CAMPBELL. Lectures on the Pastoral Character, by Dr. George Campbell, 8vo. 7s. ORTON. Letters to a Clergyman, by Job Orton, 2 vols. 12mo. 8s. The present learned Bishop of Salisbury, Burgess, spoke very highly of this book to me, one day, when in conversation with him. SHEPHERD. The Preacher, or Sketches of Original Sermons, 12mo. Il. WATKINS. Pulpit Oratory, by Dr. J. Watkins, 2 vols. 8vo. vols. In 1599 there was a book published called an excellent Method how to frame Divine Sermons, and to interpret the Holy Scriptures, according to the capacity of the vulgar people. One hundred skeletons of sermons, 1799.-A few lists for sermons intended chiefly for the use of the younger clergy, 1802.—Helps to Composition, or five hundred skeletons of sermons, 1809. Clerical Elocution, or an Essay on the delivery of Sermons, 1810. ON PREACHING, An Essay on Preaching, wrote in answer to the request of a young minister, 1771.-The Practice of Extempore Preaching recommended by a Clergyman of the Church of England, 1797, 8vo. 2s. -Discourses, or Preaching, by several eminent Divines, English and Foreign, 1801.-An Inquiry into the Tendency of Evangelical Preaching and Methodism, 1810.-Plain Preaching, or Sermons for the Poor and for all Ranks, |