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The Editor's Preface comprises a general survey of the former edition of Hooker's Works, with Historical Illustrations of the period. After which, follows the Life of Hooker, by Isaac Walton. Those articles occupy nearly two-fifths of the first volume of the English edition. His chief work succeeds, on the "Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity."

It commences with a lengthened Preface designed as an Address "to them who seek the Reformation of the Laws and Orders Ecclesiastical of the Church of England."

The discussion is divided into eight books, which include an investigation of the topics thus stated.

1. Laws and their several kinds in general.

2. The use of the divine law contained in Scripture; whether that be the only law which ought to serve for our direction in all things without exception; or whether Scripture is the only rule of all things, which, in this life, may be done by men.

3. Laws concerning Ecclesiastical Polity, whether the form thereof be in Scripture so set down that no addition or change is lawful: or whether, in Scripture, there must be of necessity contained a form of church polity, the laws whereof may in no wise be altered. 4. General exceptions taken against the laws of our polity, as being popish, and banished out of certain reformed churches; or the assertion, that our form of church polity is cor rupted with popish orders, rites, and ceremonies, banished out of certain reformed churches, whose example therein we ought to have followed.

5. The fifth book occupies two-fifths of the whole work, subdivided into eighty-one chapters, including all the principal topics which, in the sixteenth century, were the subjects of polemical disputation between the members of the Established Church of England and the Puritans. The character and extent of the research can accurately be understood from this general delineation. Our laws that concern the public religious duties of the church, and the manner of bestowing that Order, which enableth men, in sundry degrees and callings, to execute the same; or the assertion that touching the several duties of the Christian religion, there is among us much superstition retained in them; and concerning persons who, for performance of those duties, are endued with the power of ecclesiastical order, and laws and proceedings according thereunto, are many ways herein also corrupt.

6. The Power of Jurisdiction, which the Reformed platform claimeth unto lay-elders, with others; or the assertion, that our laws are corrupt and repugnant to the laws of God, in matters belonging to the power of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in that we have not, throughout all churches, certain lay-elders established for the exercise of that power.

7. The Power of Jurisdiction, and the honour which is annexed thereunto in Bishops, or the assertion, that there ought not to be in the Church, Bishops endued with such authority and honour as ours are.

8. The power of ecclesiastical dominion. or supreme authority, which with us, the highest governor or prince hath, as well in regard of domestical jurisdiction, as of that other foreignly claimed by the Bishop of Rome; or the assertion, that to no civil prince or governor there may be given such power of ecclesiastical dominion, as by the laws of the land belongeth unto the supreme regent thereof.

After those eight Books of "The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity," follow two Sermons, "The certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the elect; especially of the Prophet Habakkuk's faith ;" and "Justification, Works, and how the foundation of faith is overthrown."

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Next are introduced-"A supplication made to the Council by Master Walter Tra," and "Mr. Hooker's answer to the supplication that Mr. Travers made to the council." Then follow two sermons-" On the nature of pride,”—and a "Remedy against sorrow and fear."

Two Sermons on part of the epistle of the Apostle Jude, are next inserted-with a prefatory dedication, by Henry Jackson.

The last article in the works of Mr. Hooker is, a Sermon on Prayer.

To render the work more valuable and adapted for reference and utility to the Student, a very copious Topical Index is added.

The English edition in three volumes sells at $10 00. The American is an exact reprint, at less than half the price.

From Lowndes' British Librarian and Book-Collector's Guide.

"Keble's preface, like Walton's life, should precede every subsequent edition. "Hooker is universally distinguished for long drawn melody and mellifluence of lan guage, and his works must find a place in every well chosen clerical library."

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BURNET'S HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, by GILBERT BURNET, D. D., late Lord Bishop of Salisbury-with the Collection of Records and a copious Index, revised and corrected, with additional Notes and a Preface, by the Rev. E. Nares, D. D., late Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. Illustrated with a Frontispiece and twenty-three engraved Portraits, forming four elegant 8vo. vols. $8.00.

A cheap Edition is printed, containing the History in three vols. without the Records-which form the fourth volume of the above.-Price, in boards, $2 50.

To the student either of civil or religious history no epoch can be of more importance than that of the Reformation in England. It signalized the overthrow, in one of its strongest holds, of the Roman power, and gave an impulse to the human mind, the full results of which are even now but partly realized. Almost all freedom of inquiry-all toleration in matters of religion, had its birth-hour then; and without a familiar acquaintance with all its principal events, but little progress can be made in understanding the nature and ultimate tendencies of the revolution then effected.

The History of Bishop BURNET is one of the most celebrated and by far the most frequently quoted of any that has been written of this great event. Upon the original publication of the first volume, it was received in Great Britain with the loudest and most extravagant encomiums. The author received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was requested by them to continue the work. In continuing it he had the assistance of the most learned and eminent divines of his time; and he confesses his indebtedness for important aid to LLOYD, TILLOTSON, and STILLINGFLEET, three of the greatest of England's Bishops. "I know," says he, in his Preface to the second volume," that nothing can more effectually recommend this work, than to say that it passed with their hearty approbation, after they had examined it with that care which their great zeal for the cause concerned in it, and their goodness to the author and freedom with him, obliged them to use."

The present edition of this great work has been edited with laborious care by Dr. Nares, who professes to have corrected important errors into which the author fell, and to have made such improvements in the order of the work as will render it far more useful to the reader or historical student. Preliminary explanations, full and sufficient to the clear understanding of the author, are given, and marginal references are made throughout the book, so as greatly to facilitate and render accurate its consultation. The whole is published in four large octavo volumes of six hundred pages in each-printed upon heavy paper in large and clear type. It contains portraits of twenty-four of the most celebrated characters of the Reformation, and is issued in a very neat style. It will of course find a place in every theologian's library-and will, by no means, we trust, be confined to that comparatively limited sphere.-N. Y. Tribune.

BURNET ON THE XXXIX. ARTICLES.

An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. By GILBERT BURNET, D. D., late Bishop of Salisbury. With an Appendix, containing the Augsburg Confession, Creed of Pope Pius IV., &c. Revised and corrected, with copious Notes and additional References, by the Rev. James R. Page, A. M., of Queen's College, Cambridge. In one handsome 8vo. volume. $2 00.

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Mr. Newman's Sermons have probably attained a higher character than any others ever published in this country. The following are a few of the recommendatory notices of the press, received by the publishers:

"It would be rather late now to praise sermons whose reputation is so well established as those of Mr. Newman; and it would be unpardonable vanity to suppose that any thing we might say could add to the very high commendations they have received from some of our Right Reverend Fathers in God. We quoted last week the strong language of the Bishop of Maryland: the Bishop of New York says, "for simplicity and godly sincerity, for humble and child-like reliance on the word of God, and for close, pointed, and uncompromising presentation of the truths and duties of the gospel, I know not their superiors." The Bishop of New Jersey thus speaks of them, in a letter to the publishers: "I have looked and longed for an edition of these sermons, as your noblest contributions to the sacred literature of the times. Mr. Newman's Sermons are of an order by themselves. There is a naturalness, a pressure towards the point proposed, an ever salient freshness about them, which will attract a class of readers to whom sermons are not ordinarily attractive:"-and the Bishop of North Carolina writes, "I do not hesitate to say,-after a constant use of them in my closet, and an observation of their effect upon some of my friends, for the last six years,-that they are among the very best practical sermons in the English language; that while they are free from those extravagances of opinion usually ascribed to the author of the 90th Tract, they assert in the strongest manner the true doctrines of the Reformation in England, and enforce with peculiar solemnity and effect that holiness of life, with the means thereto, so characteristic of the Fathers of that trying age."

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The Sermons of this Divine are much admired for their plain, yet chaste and elegant style; they will be found admirably adapted for family reading and preaching, where no pastor is located. Recommendations might be given, if space would admit, from several of our Bishops and Clergy-also from Ministers of various denominations.

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The Introduction contains a brief view of the origin, use, and advantages of the various festivals and fasts of the Church; and to the sermons are appended notes from the writings of Hooker, Barrow, Taylor, Pearson, Chillingworth, Leslie, Horsley, Hobart, and other standard divines, illustrating and enforcing the doctrines contained in them. The book is well adapted to the present distracted state of the public mind, to lead the honest inquirer to a full knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, and to give a correct view of the position occupied by the Church.

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"Having great confidence in the qualifications of the Rev. Jesse A. Spencer for pastoral instruction in the Church of God, from a personal acquaintance with him as an alumnus of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and as a Deacon and Presbyter of my Diocese, it gives me pleasure to learn, that in his present physical inability to discharge the active duties of the ministry, he purposes publishing a select number of his sermons. Nothing doubting that they will be found instructive and edifying to those who sincerely desire to grow in the knowledge and practice of the gospel, I commend them to the patronage of the Diocese; and this the more earnestly, as their publication may be hoped to be a source of temporal comfort and support to a very worthy servant of the altar, afflicted, at an early period of his ministry, with loss of bodily power to be devoted to its functions."

and finds no home within thine arms? Who hath put his note upon thee, to have "a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts," to be strange to thine own flesh, and thine eye cruel towards thy little ones? Thine own offspring, the fruit of thy womb, who love thee and would toil for thee, thou dost gaze upon with fear, as though a portent, or thou dost loathe as an offence;-at best thou dost but endure, as if they had no claim but on thy patience, self-possession, and vigilance, to be rid of them as easily as thou mayest. Thou makest them "stand all the day idle," as the very condition of thy bearing with them; or thou biddest them be gone, where they will be more welcome; or thou sellest them for nought to the stranger that passes by. And what wilt thou do in the end thereof? . . . Scripture is a refuge in any trouble; only let us be on our guard against seeming to use it further than is fitting, or doing more than sheltering ourselves under its shadow. Let us use it according to our measure. It is far higher and wider than our need; and it conceals our feelings while it gives expression to them. It is sacred and heavenly; and it restrains and purifies, while it sanctions them.

And now, my brethren, "bless God, praise Him and magnify Him, and praise Him for the things which He hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise God, and exalt His Name, and honourably to show forth the works of God; therefore be not slack to praise Him." "All the works of the Lord are good; and He will give every needful thing in due season; so that a man cannot say, This is worse than that; for in time they shall all be well approved. And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and mouth, and bless the Name of the Lord."

"Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; flee from evil, and do the thing that is good." "Do that which is

*Tob. xii. 6. Ecclus. xxxix. 33-35.