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Brahmins, in the College of Fort William. Indefatigably industrious; mild in his temper, and yet dignified in his manners, he seems admirably qualified as a minister of Christ, and an agent for the propagation of his holy gospel.

"The subscription has been nobly supported in this country. The Rev. Dr. Buckanan, a high churchman, and a clergyman of great integrity and ability, has so favourable an opinion of these missionaries, that he subscribed 5000 rupees towards carrying on their translation of the Bible.

List of New

A Letter to the inhabitants of the

city and state of New York; on the subject of the commerce of the western waters. By Agricola. New York. S. Gould. pp. 40. 12mo.

The Beauties of the Evangelical Magazine. 2 vols. 8vo. W. W. Woodward. Philadelphia.

The village Sermons, in two neat vols, 12mo. of about 350 pages each, price $2. Containing 52 plain and short discourses, on the principal doctrines of the gospel, intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instruction in country villages. By George Burder, D. D. of London. W. Woodward. Philadelphia.

The Arts and Sciences abridged, with a selection of pieces from celebrated modern authors, calculated to improve the manners and refine the taste of youth; particularly designed and arranged for the use of schools. By Charles Pierce, compiler of the American Citizen, Portsmouth Miscellany. 12mo. pp. 216. Portsmouth, N. H. Pierce & Gardner.

Elements of Useful Knowledge. vol. 3d. By Noah Webster, Esq. 12mo. pp. 300. $1,50.

A Sermon, delivered Nov. 3, 1806, rat the funeral of Mrs. Mary Yates, consort of the Rev. Andrew Yates, who died October 31st. By Abel Flint. Hartford. Hudson & Goodwin.

A Sermon, delivered Nov. 20, at the dedication of the brick meeting house, in the north parish in Dan

yers.

By Benjamin Wadsworth, A. M. Salem. Joshua Cushing.

The poetical works of David Hitchcock, comprising, The Shade of Plato, or a defence of religion, morality, and government; in four parts. Al

The society is wealthy, but I can venture to say that they devote their wealth to the purpose for which generous and pious men have deposited it in their hands. The missionaries live together at Serampore, and keep a school, which defrays their private expenses. I do sincerely esteem them as a body of men, and, being personally acquainted with some individuals, I know that the purity of their private lives accords with the sanctity of their public ministrations. They are anabaptists."

Publications.

so, The Knight and Quack, or a looking glass for impostors in physic, philosophy, and government. Together with, The Subtlety of Foxes, a fable. Boston. Etheridge & Bliss.

Genuine Religion, the best friend of the people; or the Influence of the Gospel, when known, believed, and experienced, upon the manners and happiness of the people. By Archi bald Bonar, A. M. J. How. Charlestown. 1807.

The Wanderer in Switzerland, and other poems. By James Montgome ry. 12mo. New York. S. Stansbury.

Love: A Poem, delivered before the E. E. branch of the non descript club. By the H. C. Newburyport. Feb. 1807. E. W. Allen.

Life of the Hon. Charles James Fox. Interspersed with a great number of original anecdotes. By B. C. Walpole, Esq. N. York. E. Sargeant.

The Christian Monitor, No. 4. Containing nine discourses on relative duties. And reasons for believing the truth of divine revelation. Munroe & Francis. Boston.

Sobriety, watchfulness and prayer, illustrated and urged, in a farewel sermon, delivered, Waterbury, Con. Dec. 21, 1806. By Holland Weeks, A. M. late pastor of the first church in said place. New Haven. Oliver Steele & Co. 1807.

PROPOSED FOR PUBLICATION.

A complete history of the Holy Bible, as contained in the Old and New Testaments, including also the occurrences of four hundred years, from the last of the prophets to the birth of Christ, and the life of our blessed Saviour and his apostles, &c. with copious notes, critical and ex

planatory, practical and devotional. From the text of the Rev. Laurence Howel, A. M. with considerable additions and improvements, by the Rev. George Burder, author of the Village Sermons, Notes to Pilgrim's Progress, &c. Conditions. 1. To be printed on a handsome type and good paper, in two neat octavo volumes and not three, as mentioned in the proposals. 2. To be neatly bound and lettered, and delivered to subscribers at $2,25 per vol. 3. Each volume to be delivered and paid for as published, and one copy given for every five sets subscribed for...If subscribers' names are sent forward by the 1st of July, 1807, they will be printed in the second volume. Woodward. Philadelphia,

A Theological Dictionary, containing definitions of all religious terms; a comprehensive view of every article in the system of divinity; an impartial account of all the principal denominations which have subsisted in the religious world, from the birth of Christ to the present day. Together with an accurate statement of the

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most remarkable transactions and events recorded in Ecclesiastical History. By Charles Buck.-Terms of publication. 1. To be printed with a handsome type, and on good paper, in two neat octavo volumes, and put to press when 300 subscribers are received. 2. To be neatly bound and lettered, and delivered to subscribers at $2,25 per volume. 3. Each volume to be delivered and paid for as published, and one copy given for every five sets subscribed for. If subscribers' names are sent forward by the 1st of May, 1807, they will be printed in the second volume. W. Woodward. Philadelphia.

A view of the economy of the church of God, as it existed in its primitive form, under the Abrahamic dispensation and the Sinai law; and as it is perpetuated under the more luminous dispensation of the gospel; particularly in regard to the cove nants. By Samuel Austin, A. M. minister of the gospel in Worcester, Massachusetts. Thomas & Sturtevant. Worcester.

Drdination.

On the 18th inst. was ordained over the church and society in Milton, Rev. SAMUEL GILE. The ecclesiastical council consisted of ministers and delegates from the Congregational churches in Andover, south parish, Danvers, first parish, Ipswich, first parish, Bedford, Charlestown, Dorchester, Roxbury, - Dedham, Quincy and Randolph. The exercises were performed in the following order. The introductory prayer by Rev. Thomas Thacher of Dedham; Rev. Samuel Stearns of Bedford preached the sermon from Rev. ii. 10. "Be thou faithful unto

death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. Jabez Chickering, of Dedham, made the consecrating prayer. Rev. Benj. Wadsworth, of Danvers, was moderator of the council, and gave the charge; Rev. Joshua Bates, of Dedham, gave the right hand of fellowship; Rev. David T. Kimball, of Ipswich, made the concluding prayer. The exercises were appropriate and impressive; and though the weather was very unpleasant, the assembly was large and respectable; and all things were conducted decently and in order.

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remarkably discriminating; blest with a mind uncommonly firm, and adorned with the graces of Christianity; she was admirably qualified for that sphere to which Providence had called her by marriage, and discharged the duties of it with singular fidelity and acceptance. Anxious for the character and usefulness of her husband, as a minister of the gospel, she assumed the whole burden of domestic affairs, which she conducted with great prudence and economy; and by her assiduous attentions to the people of his charge, contributed to gain him that high standing in their affections which he so deservedly holds. In her deportment she was dignified, condescending and complacent; equally acceptable to every class of that numerous and respectable religious society to which she was related. The poor loved her for her affability; the rich courted her on account of the peculiar charms of her conversation. Her attentions in company were so kind and unwearied, that all present received a share; and her manners were so admirable and captivating, that few left her society without being ready to unite in her praise. Persons of every description, in that large circle of acquaintance in which she moved, were delighted with this excellent woman, who could, with such facility, accommodate her conversation to their various tastes.

The sickness, which terminated the life of this invaluable woman, was long and painful. Alternately exciting hope, and awakening fear, as to its issue, it was calculated to try her faith and patience. Her pains, often severe, she bore with Christian submission and fortitude. During her last confinement, her views of herself were very humble and abasing; but

she was supported by a steady faith in the all-sufficient merits of Jesus Christ, and by a consoling confidence of having that love to God which is the sure product and certain evidence of genuine faith. At a time when her relatives and friends were flattering themselves with hopes of her recovery, in an unexpected moment, she, very suddenly, expired.—But they sorrow, not as those who have no hope. Under the greatness of their loss, they are consoled by an humble confidence that she fell asleep in Jesus, and that her spirit, in the mansions of blessedness, waits in joyful hope, for the resurrection of the body to immortal life. Assembly's Mag.

Ar Barnstable, on the 18th inst. the Rev. OAKES SHAW, pastor of the first church of Christ in that place, the duties of which important situation he discharged during the space of forty-six years, with the utmost degree of Christian pleasure, fortitude and zeal. His life was marked with the whole train of Christian virtues ; it was his comfort and delight to administer the balm of divine consolation to the afflicted spirits; ever present in the hour of distress, and ready at the call of sorrow, he was the messenger of hope to the despairing, of consolation to the sorrowful, and of heavenly light to those, who walked in darkness.-As his life was one continued scene of piety and devotion, so his death was calm and serene. It was not the struggle of dissolving nature, but the calm repose of peace; and secure that the Master he had served in life, would not desert him in death, he expired with a smile of pleasure on his countenance, after a pilgrimage of 70 years. At Cambridge, Mrs. MARY, wife of Rev. HENRY WARE, D. D.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Christian of the ancient school, is entitled to our warmest thanks for his two excellent and seasonable letters on the doctrine of the atonement of Christ. Seldom have we seen this fundamental doctrine of our religion explained and defended in a more clear and forcible manner.

W. on the affinity between the languages of Europe and Asia, is learned, ingenious, and evinces deep research into ancient and modern languages. It shall enrich the Miscellaneous department in our next number.

We have not yet received from our esteemed correspondent Z. his promised sketch of the life of Rev. William Cooper. Our biographical correspondents are requested to forward their communications early in the month. J. C.'s Thoughts on Gal. iii. 19, 20, are received and on file.

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DR. MANTON was born in 1620. In 1635 he was placed in Wadham College, Oxford; where he made such proficiency, that he was ordained, at the age of twenty, by the excellent Bishop Hall; who took particular notice of him, as likely to prove an extraordinary person. He himself, however, ten years afterward, lamented his entrance on the ministry so early, as a rash intrusion. The times were then perilous, and he was confined in Exeter, when it was besieged by the king's forces. After being sometime unsettled, he was chosen at Colyton in Devonshire to preach a weekly lecture; and was much respected. On coming to London he was soon noticed, and frequently employed. His first settlement was at StokeNewington in 1643. Here he continued seven years, and was often engaged not only in preaching, but on other affairs in the city. The second of the ser.mons before the sons of the clergy was by him. He delivered several before the Parliament, in which he discovered great prudence, particularly in that preached after he had borne his testimony against the death of the Vol. II. No, 10.

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This, however, gave great offence, and some in the house talked of sending him to the tower, when his friends advised him to withdraw; but he never flinched, and the heat abated.

Mr. Sedgwick of Covent Garden, London, being disabled for his work, several persons were proposed to succeed him, but he would not resign, till Dr. Manton was mentioned, and then he readily yielded. He was presented to this living by the Duke of Bedford, who esteemed him highly to his dying day. In this situation he had a grand and numerous audience; among whom frequently was the excellent Archbishop Usher, who used to say, "he was a voluminous preacher;" not that he was tedious for length, but because he reduced the substance of volumes of divinity into a narrow compass. Dr. Manton had a great respect for Mr. Love, who was beheaded in 1651 for assisting the royal family, and attended him on the scaffold. The government, finding that the Dr. intended to preach his funeral sermon, expressed displeas ure, and the soldiers threatened

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to shoot him. But he was undaunted, and preached at Mr. Love's church, in St. Lawrence Jury, to a numerous congregation, though without pulpit, cloth, or cushion. Though he was far from courting the favour of that government, they professed to esteem him; and Cromwell sent for him to Whitehail on the morning of his installment, telling him, not before he came, that it was to pray on the occasion; and when he begged to be excused, urging the shortness of the notice, he said, that such a man as he, could not be at a loss to perform the service; and put him into his study half an hour to premeditate. The protector made him one of his chaplains. He was also appointed one of the committee for trying ministers; and he seldom absented himself from that troublesome service, as he was heard to say, that he might do all in his power to prevent matters from running into extremes. One instance of his kindness is worth recording. A clergyman of respectable aspect, somewhat in years, appeared before the commissioners, when Dr. Manton called for a chair; at which some were displeased. This minister, after the restoration, was preferred to a bishopric in Ireland; and he retained so affectionate a remembrance of Dr. Manton, that he charged Bishop Worth, when he went to London, to visit the Dr. and tell him, that, if he was molested in his preaching in England, he should have liberty to preach in any part of his diocese in Ireland undisturbed. His interest with the protector, which was very great, he never applied to

any sordid ends of his own, but for the benefit of others, royalists not excepted. Accordingly he applied for the life of Dr. Hewit, who was condemned for a plot against the government; and, had it not been for the peculiar aggravations of guilt in the case, the protector declared he would have yielded to the Dr.'s intercession.

In 1660 he was very instrumental, with many other Presbyterian divines, in the restoration of Charles II. He was one, who waited on the king at BREDA, and was afterward sworn one of his chaplains. He was also appointed one of the commissioners at the Savoy conference, being the first to receive the commission from the Bishop of London, who wrote him a most respectful letter on the occasion. In the interval between the restoratian and the fatal Bartholomew day he met no molestation, being well respected in his parish. He was also greatly esteemed by persons of the first quality at court. Sir John Barber used to tell him, that the king had a singular respect fo him.

Lord chancellor Hyde was highly obliging to him, and gave him free access to him on all occasions; which he improved, not for himself, but for the service of others. But after the Dr. refused to conform in 1662, so fickle is the favour of the great, that he fell under his. lordship's displeasure, who accused him to the king of some treasonable expressions in a sermon. On which his majesty sent for him, with an order to bring his sermon. On reading the passage referred to, the king asked him, whether, upon his

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