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he should fee to be effectual, to bring him to a penitent fenfe of his crime, and to forfake it that he might not finally perish"To deliver fuch an one unto Satan, for the deftruction of the flesh, that the fpirit may be faved in the day of the Lord Jefus."

This prefent punishment of wicked Chriftians, by the extraordinary power of God, was of course confined to that first period of the gofpel, when alone fuch extraordinary divine interpofition took place. It is here ftyled, the delivering a man unto Satan, for the punishment of the flesh; according to the popular language, (fo Satan is faid to have entered into Judas, Luke xxii. 3.) and the vulgar notion, that a good God could not be the author of pain and fuffering: but that it proceeded from a being wholly evil, and difpofed to and delighting in nothing but evil; who had power to draw innocent creatures to fin, and to inflict difeafes and mifery on them. But a founder philofophy and more exact inquiry into facts, and into the fyftem to which we belong, has difcovered to unprejudiced minds, that there are no traces or appearances of any fuch evil being in the world of nature around us; but that there is a general benevolent defign, manifeft throughout all things, even in thofe that at first fight appear evil and mifchievous; and the whole universe is not unworthy of a Being perfectly good. And it might be fhewn, that the facred. writings, which reveal to us the mind and will of God, and the methods of his government, fall in with this able character of the great Creator, and of his vifible works: and moreover, that they give no juft countenance to the belief of any fuch evil being really exifting, whom we call the devil or fatan: but that when fuch a being is named, as he fometimes is named; the facred writers ufe the term, in conformity to the ignorance and prejudices of the times in which they respectively lived. Thus for inftance, Chrift and his apoftles, ufe the common language of the times, in fpeaking of fome particular difeafes, as if they were owing to devils, or dæmons, as it should be tranflated, i. e. the fpirits of the dead, poff ffing men's bodies, and tormenting them, although there never was any fuch thing as thefe poffeffions. But the whole took its rife from the idolatry and fuperftition of the heathens, who believed their deities, which had been formerly men, Jupiter, Apollo, &c. to be invested with fuch powers, after death.'

The libertine may probably congratulate him felf, that the power of the devil, or rather his very existence, is now abfolutely denied by fome learned and grave divines. But let him not be too fecure: there may be no occafion for any greater torment, than an eternal expulfion from the prefence of the Deity, and the anguish of an evil confcience. A wicked man, by the very order and conftitution of things, cannot be happy. Suppofe him in another world, in any dreary fcene of exile, during each filent interval of reflection, the voice of reason upbraids him; the gloomy image of guilt prefents itfelf to his thoughts; the immortal worm preys upon his heart; and wherever he exifts, he has hell WITHIN.

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FOREIGN ARTICLES.

Catalogue Raisonné de la Collection des Livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna, Negotiant à Amfterdam. 6 Vols. 4to. Amfterdam.

MR. R. Crevenna, a native of Milan, had originally confined himfelf to collecting books of Belles Lettres and Natural History; but his views foon expanded to a general collection. A complete, learned, and systematical knowlege, and a critical estimate of the intrinfic merit and value of books, is not to be expected from a mere dilettante. But under every head of his catalogue, we meet with a great number of scarce books; and his performance is highly valuable on account of the minute and accurate enumeration of the titles, alfo all the external circumftances, and the bibliographical notes and memoirs which he has fubjoined to the titles of almost every book.

The first volume contains books of Divinity; the fecond, thofe of Law, and other Sciences; the third and fourth, Belles Lettres; the fifth, Hiftory; the fixth, Additions and Supplements; ufeful Indexes; and Catalogues of the MSS. contained in the Collection; of Editions from the fifteenth Century; of those of Aldus, Giunta, &c. down to the editions in Ufum Delphini, & cum Notis Variorum, to thofe of Comino, and thofe printed by Baskerville; of that complete Collection of Italian Verfions of Greek and Latin Claffics, entitled Collane; of a very curious and fearce Collection of all the printed and MS. Books quoted by the Vocabulary della Crufca, as vouchers and authorities; and concludes with additional Supplements, and a minute Account of a Copy of the Canticum Canti

corum.

This voluminous Catalogue acquires an additional value from the infertion of feveral very fcarce, and many inedited pieces. Mr. Crevenna has, for inftance, republished the four Latin poems of Flaminius, which are generally omitted in the later editions of that agreeable poet; and has here printed, for the first time, a Letter from Erafmus to Cardinal Campegio, from 1531, and a number of Letters written by fignor Metastasio, and other eminent Italian writers of the eighteenth century. Mr. Crevenna's Catalogue will probably, in its turn, become scarce, as there were only three hundred copies printed of it.

Oeuvre du Chevalier Hedlinger, ou Récueil des Médailles de ce célébre Artife, gravées en Taille-douce, accompagnées d'une Expucation hiftoriqueet critique, et précédées de la Vie de l'Auteur. Par Chretien de Mechel, &c. 2 Parts in small Folio. one containing 42 Plates, the other the Text. Price 72 French Livres. Bafil.

THE chevalier Hedlinger was one of the most skilful medallists in

Europe, famous for the beauty of his medals, the ingenuity of his reverses, the delicacy of their allufions, and the happy choice of their legends. Most of his medals being very scarce, the prefent publication will prove an acceptable prefent to the public. and to connoiffeurs. The plates were engraved under his own inspection and honoured with his approbation. They contain all his works from the year 1717, to the end of his life in 1771; and of course, not only the known and published medals, but allo thofe which

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were never published; others that were not finished, and fome fketches in wax and brafs, now carefully preferved in feveral cabinets. Most of these medals were engraved from the models and defigns drawn from Hedlinger's own cabinet. The whole number of the medals, &c. amount to one hundred and fifty.

Paris, le Modele des Nations Etrangeres, ou l'Europe Francoife; par l'Editeur des Lettres du Pape Ganganelli. 12mo. Paris.

M. Carraccioli feems to fuppofe that it is the real merit, or the agreeableness of French manners that has induced almost all Europe to adopt them. He difclaims every view of laborious, or profound enquiry, and has devoted his prefent performance chiefly to the amufement of the fair fex; whom he treats with no less than forty-four very short and unsubstantial chapters on the following fubjects:

Of Different Nations; Of the Changes that happen in States; Of the State of Europe at the Beginning of the laft Century; How Europe has changed; Why Europe has changed; Of Commerce; Politics; Jurifprudence; Philofophy; Philofophical Spirit; Spirit of Society; Education; Manners; Luxury; Reputation; Travelling; Readers; Pamphlets; Printing; Polite Literature; Tafte; Genius; The Prefent Age; Plays; Periodical Works; Walks; Tables; Songs; Good Humour; Coffee-houses; Elegance; Gaming; Levity; the Art of Infinuation; Liberty; Arts; Academies; Politeness; Fashions; Amusements; Petits-Maîtres; Converfations; Opinion.

Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi en 1771 & 1772, en diverfes Parties de Europe, de l'Afrique, & de l'Amérique, par M. M. de Verdun, de Borda, & Pingré. 2 Vols. 410. Paris.

THE voyage in question was undertaken at the recommendation

of the late minister of the French navy, M. de Boynes, for the purpose of trying and verifying time-keepers and marine watches, and for other purposes relating to navigation.

The prefent inftructive work contains a number of observations for the correction of charts; the determination of longitude; the variations of the needle; currents; foundings and tides; well drawn views of the most remarkable places by M. Ozane; and very accurate charts of the Atlantic and North Sea; accounts, and hiftorical and phyfical defcriptions of all the countries vifited by our voyagers; viz. Spain, the Canary-Iflands, thofe of Cape Verd, the Weft Indian Islands, Iceland, and Denmark. Our voyagers were accompanied by an able astronomer M. Merlais, who fince died on another expedition.

Sielanki Polskie z Roznyeto Autorow zebrane. I vol, 8vo.

Warfaw.

THIS fine collection of the best bucolic or rural poems by Polish poets, is dedicated to prince Adam Czartoryski, by whom its publication has been greatly encouraged; it is very elegantly printed, and adorned with feveral fine plates, engraved by Meff. Eisen and Longueil.

It opens with a fhort differtation on bucolic poetry and bucolic poets; and the firft rank among them is affigned to the Germans.

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The most eminent bucolic poets of the Polanders, we here find, are: I. Simon Simonides, a very popular poet; once the rival of the famous Sarbievius, to whom he has been, of late, even preferred by cardinal Durini. The chief merit of his twenty poems here inferted, is a beautiful fimplicity. To thefe his epitaphs on several animals have been fubjoined.

II. Simon Zimorowicz. His bucolic poems were firft published in 1663, and are here reprinted with his epigrams and eclogues.

III. Bucolic poems by John Gawinfki; in which the pleasures of a country life are delineated, and contrafted with the luxury of courts. To thefe are added fome epitaphs and eclogues by 'the fame author.

IV. Ignatius Nagurczewski's tranflation of Virgil's Bucolics.

V. Three bucolic poems, entitled Polyphemus, Ulyffes, Orpheus; by Epiphanius Minafowicz.

VI. Six bucolic poems by a very popular poet, Narufkewicz; one of thefe, compofed on the death of the late prince Czartoryski, chancellor of Lithuania, and infcribed to his nephew prince Adam Czartoryfki: as is the laft, to count Potocki, on his marriage with princefs Lubomirska.

FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Lifty Patryotyczne. 8vo. Warfaw.

Patriotic, inftructive, and valuable letters, faid to be written by Mr. Wybicki, Fellow of the learned Society of Warfaw. They were addreffed to the Polifh ex-chancellor Zamoyski, when the digefting of the new code of laws was entrusted to that nobleman's care. They contain pathetic complaints on the actual state of PoJand; on a great variety of abufes, particularly in the adminiftration of justice; enquiries into their fources; and proposals of amendments; with a circumftantial account of the ftate of agriculture, trade, and population in Poland; and the impediments of the latter; especially that odious perfonal fervitude under which a very great portion of the common people is grievously oppreffed by private gentlemen. Thefe letters are highly and deservedly valued, and afford a great deal of political information.

De Ratione afimandi Felicitatem Hominum. Tubinge.

Three differtations by Prof. Boeck, containing a very comprehenfive and judicious philofophical eftimate of human happiness in this life; in which Bayle's, Maupertuis', and Robinet's affertions are accurately examined; and from as ftrict and minute an enquiry as the nature of the very complicated subject will admit of, good is demonstrated upon the whole to preponderate in the world, and the quantity of human enjoyments to tranfcend by far that of human fufferings.

S. Julii Frontini Libri IV. Strategematicon, cum Notis integris Franc. Modji, &c. curante Franc. Oudendorpio. Editio altera multo auctior et emendatior. 8vo. Lugd. Batav.

The first edition of this valuable claffic, by the late Mr. Oudendorp, appeared in 1731. From that year to 1761, the learned edi

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tor enriched his copy with many additional instructive notes; which are here inferted, together with fome fhort remarks by Janus Parrafius and Mr. Bouhier; and Mr. Herel's critical conjectures, extracted from Schwebel's edition.

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Von der Armut des Homer; or, of Homer's Poverty. By Prof. Fr. Chr. Exter, of Deux-Ponts. 4to. ` (German.) Deux-Ponts.

The author of this judicious enquiry confutes the abfurd tale of Homer's beggary, and give a plaufible estimate of his fituation in point of fortune, according to the manners and circumstances of the age in which he lived.

Traité economique & physique du gros et menu Betail.

Paris.

2 vols. 12mQ.

The firft volume of this compilation treats of horses; the second, of horned cattle, fheep, goats, hogs, alles, and mules; and their refpective anatomy, natural history, and management.

Gli Uccelli di Sardegna. 8vo. Saffari, in Sardinia,

An excellent natural history of Sardinian birds, interesting not only for the natives of that remarkable island, but for naturalifts in general, and illuftrated with fome good cuts and plates. Its author, fignor Francelco Cetto, whofe hiftory of the Sardinian quadrupeds has already been noticed in our Review, propofes to publish the remaining parts of the natural hiftory of Sardinia. La Vertu chancelante, ou la Vie de Mademoiselle d'Amincourt, dédiée au Roi de Pruffe. 12mo. Liege.

There is fomething original and naif in the thought of dedicating a ftaggering female vertue, or the lite of a young lady, to the king of Pruffia; as well as in introducing fuch a heterogeneous variety of topics, for inftance, agriculture, into a novel.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.

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De primordiis Civitatum Oratio. In qua agitur de Billo civili inter M Britanniam et Colonias nunc flagranti. Au&ore Jacobo Dunbar. 410. 1s. 6d. Cadell.

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N this difcourfe the author takes a general view of the origin of political fociety, after which he briefly mentions the war now fubfifting between Great Britain and America; and concludes with expreffing a defire, that we fhould endeavour to regain the dependency of the colonies rather by lenient than violent measures.

The difcourfe is marked with a claffical purity of language, and is dedicated to lord Camden, as the particular friend of the late earl of Chatham, whom the author thus celebrates:

Nil hic opus eft antiqua referre-nil opus eft de Cincinnato, de Camillo, aut de Papirio loqui. Nonne, labantibus fortunis noftris, intra memoriam noftram, uno viro, temporibus evocato, fefe fubitò erectam ac fublevatan Britannia viderit? Nonne eodem viro,