lot at the end of the days." Where the believer now rests, in what bed matters little, for Jesus is the resurrection and the lite of all his people.' pp. 346-348. From among many passages equally pleasing, we take one more extract. "The manna ceased," pro an occurrence no less to be admired than its first production or its long continuance: it marked the special presence of God, and was an act of his omnipotence; for then only was it taken away when no longer needed. In the Wilderness it never failed one day of all the years they had it. Their portion had been as sure to them, and as regular, as the dawn of light. How strikingly did this evince the peculiar care of a covenant God extended over his Church! What occasion for exalted views of his goodness and power, and for joy in that relation in which they were owned to the Lord of the whole earth! Such indications of his presence and power were little less than visible manifestations of Deity. And thus had it been in all their journeyings: no supply was ever taken away a day too soon, nor did mercy ever come a day too late; want never pressed before relief stood ready at hand. Not more punctual to time and station the revolutionary systems of nature, than the course of the divine dominion in the dispensations of providence. What can so tranquillize the mind as the belief of this; or what duce such calm reliance and cheerful hope as the full persuasion, attended with an appropriating sense of God's favour? I might inquire, is experience a total stranger to a fact so well known in the Church of God? No believer, in retracing life through its varied scenes, and especially in the review extending back to the period when hope of interest in a covenant God first possessed his mind, but will own the special care taken in concerns infinitely inferior to those of another life. One source has not failed till another has been ready to open. The spring was near at hand when the water in the bottle was wasted. Often soul-distressing, and always God-dishonouring-the feelings when the occurrences of life are regarded as the effect of chance, or something little better, and not as the result of arrangements previously determined by one who, for the comfort of his peo ple, has said, "I will never leave thee, never forsake thee." If extraordinary supplies cease, we may feel assured ordinary ones will prove adequate. Our faith may fail in a moment of trial; but the covenant never can. Oh the mercy that they do not fail together! When apparently miracles have been wrought to supply the necessities of God's children, how apt have they been to conclude that such interpositions are too remarkable to be repeated, or that in their failing ordinary means will never meet their case. In all this, sight is lost of those covenant engagements to which the Lord has bound himself, and which comprehend both his own glory and his people's interests. O may it be my felicity to believe that no mercy shall ever cease in this time-state, this going home to God, that my real interest requires to be continued !' pp. 29-31. *Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the Press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if cons sistent with its plan. In the press, Sermons preached in St. John's Church, Glasgow. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Mr. Sharou Turner's valuable "History of the Anglo-Saxons," is under the Author's revision, the fourth edition of which will be published shortly. The long promised English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith, President of the Linnæan Society, is now printing. The English botanist will thus be furnished with an original and authentic guide to the study of our native plants, in his own language, free from all unnecessary technical terms, and according to the plan which the Author has long been studying to attain, of a classical English style, rejecting that barbarous, neither English nor Latin, phraseology, which so many writers have adopted. The laborious and intricate department of synonymes, hitherto copied without examination even by the best and most popular writers, will here be investigated throughout; the errors of the press, transcribed hitherto by one author from another, with multiplied errors, will be set right; and the essential characters and descriptions will all be re-considered, and corrected after Nature, The work will be enriched with practical information relative to the qualities and uses of the plants, and the subject of natural orders and affinities, hitherto not introduced by any popular writer. 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